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    Quote Originally Posted by ruaphu View Post
    Driving about 700MW of electrickery



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    Very cool!

    I used to know a bloke who managed a lift at an ore mine in AU. He had to ring the local power station and warn them before he started it up: "OK just hang on until we start number three turbine..."

    The power!!!!
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    Yeah when you see what the exploding voltage transformer did to 16mm steel beams it puts your hard hat and hi-vis into perspective

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    Hyundai iload. Its fucken brilliant!
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    Quote Originally Posted by jato View Post
    So thats about 940,000 HP - You wouldn't want to crash that...
    many years ago (operating a hydro station)i had 112MW short to earth (for some milliseconds) due to a fail in a CVT - buckled steel,shards of porcelain and trees on fire all around the switchyard... gives you a renewed respect for electrickery
    Fark that, bet that made for an entertaining few seconds, followed by a change of undies,


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    Quote Originally Posted by Honest Andy View Post
    Very cool!

    I used to know a bloke who managed a lift at an ore mine in AU. He had to ring the local power station and warn them before he started it up: "OK just hang on until we start number three turbine..."

    The power!!!!
    Lol, hard case.


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    Occasionally the bosses Honda Fit.

    A more bland and useless rollerscate impersonating a real car, would be impossible to find.
    It has less "get up & go" than an old, arthritic, labrador laying in the sunshine.
    I'm genuinely thinking of leaving it at a scrapyard next time I have to use it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    Occasionally the bosses Honda Fit.

    A more bland and useless rollerscate impersonating a real car, would be impossible to find.
    It has less "get up & go" than an old, arthritic, labrador laying in the sunshine.
    I'm genuinely thinking of leaving it at a scrapyard next time I have to use it.
    If you play Bryan Adams on the stereo it will seem ok?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Laava View Post
    If you play Bryan Adams on the stereo it will seem ok?
    The "stereo" does not work. Some spastic fitted an eco-veganist conector that even that cunt steve jobs would be confused over.
    Meaning, it does not produce any sounds whatsoever.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    The "stereo" does not work. Some spastic fitted an eco-veganist conector that even that cunt steve jobs would be confused over.
    Meaning, it does not produce any sounds whatsoever.
    Holy fuck man! That leaves you with only one last option and you're not going to like it! You will have to sing Coldplay songs and by that I mean sing the words you do know and then wail, like a heartbroken widow on the funeral pyre, the words you are not sure of.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Laava View Post
    ... the words you are not sure of.
    You are 100% correct on that one.
    Who is a "coldplay" and why would anyone want one?
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    A Ford Focus, or a Ford Kuga, or a Toyota Hilux, all of which are quite acceptable. Occasionally a CVT Toyota Corolla wagon, unaffectionately referred to as the turtle, which is truly horrid.

    But mostly driving a laptop plugged into multiple screens, herding the cats to have my people at whatever location in the south island they need to be on any particular day.
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    o16 hilux, ......

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    Quote Originally Posted by ruaphu View Post
    Driving about 700MW of electrickery
    When I saw that photo I thought it looked like an Operations centre. (I used to work at ECNZ, Twizel).
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