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The Classic Marque

I haven't used AI for the bbs archive up to now but I would if I couldn't find what I wanted. It's a tool to help you navigate (in this case). What you might question is Google AI's direct answers which it has concocted by scraping the Internet for data. It might be good, accurate information or it might not. I've used it directly several times. Sometimes it tells me something that I suspect t...

The move away from gas boilers to heat pumps may be more of a concern.
According to Electric Insights, an average heat pump will use 4000kWh whereas a typical EV uses 3000kWh.

12 months into EV ownership and I charge with a granny cable and EV rated 3 pin socket, so that's a mere 2kWh.

Didn't Frontline market a Toyota based 5 speed conversion kit for the Midget before they marketed a Ford Type 9 kit (using bell housing from the Morris Minor Centre Birmingham)? If they did it was without using the Australian Dellow bellhousing that was originally imported to the UK by Rooster Racing but by using a backplate. I might even have an old leaflet that shows that (among lots of other ...

As it happens, Anam, he is left-handed but he plays right-handed.

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"The 90s saw a move to white boards with solvent to inhale instead of chalk." 😅😅. -- No wonder glue sniffing took off in the 90s. Lol.



" --- though he does enjoy restoring proper acoustic guitars." Is he a lefty? I habe a LH Takamine that is effectively new and never used. Would he be interested?

--- "For my own part, I try to trawl the BBS archive before ...

I started teaching during the chalk era of the seventies when it was reckoned teachers inhaled the equivalent of a stick of chalk per year. That was on proper black black boards.

In the 80s I moved to a more modern school with posh green boards.

The 90s saw a move to white boards with solvent to inhale instead of chalk.

Interactive white boards are now relatively old hat...

Makes me chuckle. People huffing and puffing about using an on line tool (AI) to search an on line database/archive.

If you don't want to use AI automatically, then DuckDuckGo offers the choose to engage AI or not in your search.

Ray, sorry to hear about your rotator cuff injury, they are painful but keep up the suggested physio and you should be good to lift those chairs again - ma...

My grandaughters both use a lot of paper exercise and homework books. They also access a lot of online sources and are both (10 and 13 year olds) very proficient with 'proper' use of computers, spreadsheets, graphic design and so on. Much more so than I ever could!

The secondary school embraced the fact that all their pupils had mobile phones and used them for issuing homework, school tim...

Me too Guy. Individual chalk boards. I'd compleyely forgotten that. A pleasant memory. 🙂.

Tactile. A touch screen is all very well, but there's nothing like a nice piece of paper, or an excercise book, or a writing slate even. A touch screen can't come close to the satisfaction of what we used to have.

Modern kids? Is it really true that what they never had/have, they'll never...

Guy, never ever heard of H&S concerns over chalk dust. Again although I have used whiteboards in the workplace it never occured to me that schools would use them in place of blackboards. Crazy really when you think about it but I had never ever thought about schools ditching the blackboard. I must be becoming a dinosaur!

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