This isn’t entirely meaningless. Used when success in some endeavour is easily obtained, it is thought to have originated in the 1800’s when the Prime Minister Robert Cecil appointed his nephew Arthur Balfour to the role of Chief Secretary of Ireland. This was thought to be simply because Cecil was his Uncle and, so the theory goes, the saying “Bob’s your uncle” was born.
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Agreed. Personally is unneeded when talking about yourself, eg “ personally I think…” .
Perhaps the trains were on time but the clocks were inaccurate 
Was Robert Cecil married to Fanny?
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Britain when I was a kid - not sure if it was quite perfect timing, but certainly my memory from a fair bit of train travel in the 1960s, was not one of significant delays. Punctuality and reliability gradually deteriorated through my adult life, and seemed to get worse after they changed the terminology - I think they thought it would make things improve by calling us customers not passengers…!
No, but he did have a daughter called Fanny. Hopefully, that is just coincidental!
Logically, you are right. However, people learning to ski invariably lean back into the slope, rather than down the slope, because (in their minds), that means their bodies are closer to Mother Earth, and therefore safer. Leaning away from the slope is actually safer, which is counter-intuitive to learners (and to a lot of more advanced skiers too).
As to overcoming friction, gravity does that - there is no need to lean anywhere. I speak as an experienced ski instructor.
I have only skimmed through the thread so apologies if I have missed these:
Traffic calming - damaged suspension, damaged wheels - nothing calming about this!
Radio and tv intereview responses commencing “So,…”
“Like you say” - but I didn’t say anything like the viewpoint expressed!
Peter
I used BR quite a lot in the 1960s (travelling between Ashby-de-la-Zouche and Newmarket of Cambridge. My memory of that was dirty, uncomfortable, unreliable trains. During the lat 60s and early 70s I travelled between Liverpool and Cambridge - and invariably found it faster and more reliable to hitchhike than to use the train. Not an option these days, of course - hitchhicking seems to have died. But the train journey was awful.
I’ve read many times in Hifi reviews that a component is ‘forgiving’ !!! Ha!
It may deter people from going too fast the next time?
Unfortunately that is not my experience where I live. You could argue that it controls average speed along my residential road however, what we see is the speed jockeys accelerate hard and brake hard between the urban obstacles of speed humps. For the residents this translates into increased noise; increased pollution from hard accelerating cars and vans; increased vibration as vehicles impact the ramps at inappropriate velocities; and a less predictable environment where some idiots carry out lunatic overtaking stunts before jumping on the brake pedal for the next ramp.
Not much of a calming experience in a 20mph zone. I’m not a fan.
Peter
What is too fast? Near where I live tgere is such a section of road. It has a sensible 20 MPH speed limit. If you drive over the humps at anything more than about 10 MPH in most normal cars there inevitably will be contact between the underside of the car and the hump, as well as a violent jolt. A low-slung sports car might not be able to pass at all. And the first time I encountered it was on a pushbike, when I was nearly tgrown from the bike encountering it coming round a bend at probably about 10MPH. Speed humps should be tied to speed limits - if they want a speed limit of 5MPH (about the max safe speed on the aforementioned hump), the road should have a speed limit of 5.
Re-purposed. Ie re-used, but for a different purpose.
At the moment, I’ve only heard it used in connection with structures and electro-mechanical equipment by the AAIB.
But next week, who knows, YOUR boss might identify YOU as re-purpoed
I have no choice but to crawl over the speedbumps local to me. Pisses off buses and taxis. Audis obviously overtake at speed.
I wouldn’t dare take my Audi over them at speed!
Meanwhile speed bumps do nothing to slow car thieves, who couldn’t care less the damage they do maybe even relish it- and they’re the drivers of greatest risk to other road users…
I thought there were standards (height, width) to which the local authorities had to conform.
There is I expect but it doesn’t make it any easier to get my car over them with catching the underneath.
One would imagine so, though if so it does not translate into consistency - but my point is that the speed limit should be matched to the suitability of the road, so if speed bumps are designed to damage cars exceeding 5 MPH (or whatever), the speed limit should be that (or less).
That stands to reason.