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A shower cubicle based car using Stirling type technology to provide energy to the power-train.
One wall of the cubicle acts as the power piston with the hot shower water raising the pressure inside the cubicle. After the power stroke, hot air is vented and ambient air pumped back in ready for the
next power stroke.
Of course, you'll need a getaway driver or chauffeur.
London escalator etiquette explained.
http://entertainmen.../article6883065.ece
[AbsintheWithoutLeave, Oct 21 2009]
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As if the morning trains aren't already full of people who
demonstrably haven't finished their breakfast yet, taking
onto the train those moronic metal baby-teether cups
of coffee to
sip on at intervals while thoughts attempt to occur to
their heads on the way in. |
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I doubt anyone eats or drinks in the shower, but I guess the singing could be amplified to entertain fellow commuters. |
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As a progression of the concept of arriving on the train
in a completely unready state for work, what about
storing clothes at the station, so you don't even have to
put any on until during the journey? |
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Of late [IT], I don't know whether you are intellectually reinventing society in a post-post-modern existential kind-of-way or whether you're just being a complete arse. |
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I'm standing on the left of the escalator of life. |
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//I don't know whether you are intellectually reinventing society in a post-post-modern existential kind-of-way or whether you're just being a complete arse.// I think that's rather funny. |
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//I'm standing on the left of the escalator of life.// And this bit is too. |
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There was a bit on Top-Gear last night where they filled the Boy's (British Leyland) cars with water and had a competition to see how far they could travel before the water leaked out. That was quite funny too - but it demonstrated very much more of a bath rather-than shower paradigm. |
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// standing on the left of the escalator of life//
Really ought to be [marked-for-tagline] |
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What kept me from taglining that remark was concern that the random convention of "stand on the right, walk on the left" might not be universal. And I'm a little puzzled that it exists, to begin with. Why isn't it stand on the left, walk (overtake) on the right, like British streets? |
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It exists because commuters, like kittens fixate at the kitten stage in domestic cats while they're in the presence of humans, while acting out the role of adult vicious hunter when nobody's looking, are fixated at the stage of schoolchild. The stand on the right thing is not a law, merely a suggestion, and everybody has to do as they're told and behave in case the headmaster walks by and gives everyone detention for standing on the left. It's never questioned. In fact, it's become a mechanism to trap the new kids in the school. Many times I've seen someone standing on the left of a busy escalator, and witnessed people actually leaving their position standing on the right, in order to - feeling the sudden need to - quickly run up the left side because they're now in a hurry and they have to commute quickly to work and nothing must hold them up, and there's a clueless person in the way, and there's every excuse to turf them out of their position and push past rudely, because it's allowed. I've even felt the compulsion to leave my standing position in order to join in giving the visitors the bumps. You can get away with it - it's allowed. You don't even get detention. |
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My school had a DO stand on the left thing (I attended school in England) |
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You know, before Tindale stood in the slow lane, I thought this idea would really catch on. Maybe its because I didn't pedantically specify the water was heated with a convential fuel. Come on people, its a shower powered car ! |
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[Tindale] - yes, you - see me afterwards. |
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Hulllabllloon at the E-Z Park It
At the rock & roll supermarket
Muzak music make me feel so funny
I went and spent all my money
We're riding on the escalator of life
We're shopping in the human mall
We're dancing on the escalator of life
Won't be happy 'til we have it all
We want it all
Escalator of life - up and down
Escalator of life - round and round
There's 111 choices
Don't listen to those little voices
I don't let the guilty feeling shake me
You can have croissants and eat it baby
We're riding on the escalator of life
We're shopping in the human mall
We're dancing on the escalator of life
Won't be happy 'til we have it all
Hey girl, I'm a personal friend of Jutta Degener
I got all the gold in the world around my neck
Come ride the steel dinosaur
Run wild in the jungle
Its a Zulu Nation
Seduction, sacrifice, a new sensation
Nothing ever changes
We're riding on the escalator of life
We're shopping in the human mall
We're dancing on the escalator of life
Won't be happy 'til we have it all
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(With apologies to Robert Hazard and Jutta) |
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I'm sorry, but am I missing something or are commuters now
punched into their employers' timeclocks while riding the train?
Why should they have to be in a ready state for work until
they're *at* work? |
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