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How do (did) Top Gear get around this - did they get all their chimera vehicles DOT tested and certified?
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The answer to that is yes I would think. I'm not lucky enough to have a job on the Top Gear production team so this is only a useless guess
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This is very much down to the opinion of the Police officer and the ability of the car owner to argue.
For example, had the Thomas car had its cylinder made from a big plastic drum, the owner could argue the car posed no danger to pedestrians (this is the only failing of the car so far as I can see) and been right.
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It cones down to argument, and a reasonable position.
Top Gear have the weight of fame behind them though, so they can argue pretty much whatever they want. Take their Eagle iThrust, with the square aluminium bonnet. Sharp, but made of a soft material.
Generally you can pretty much do what you want with cars in the UK though, and use them on the road. I have certainly had fun doing so over the years!
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Seems harmless compared to Brutus[^].
But that would not get caught on public streets.
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I would certainly prefer the Il Tempo Gigante from: Flåklypa Grand Prix (The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix)[^]
The animation movie (using dolls, not digitally generated) was made using a small size model, but as the YouTube movie shows, a full scale car was also built. I believe that the radar on the trunk is actully operational.
The car was on several tours through Europe during the 1980 and 90s, and caugt some attention. Today I believe that the car is located at the museum dedicated to the works of its creator, Kjell Aukrust.
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Well I didn't vote for him.
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Sorry - can't tell - his voice is muffled from behind the shrubbery.
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And we demand ... a shrubbery !
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I'm not sure IT can be done.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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The thoughtful quill strainer was lacking direction. (7)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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PENSIVE - Thoughtful
PEN -> Quill
SEIVE -> Strainer
-E (East) -> Lacking direction
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You are up tomorrow, sir!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've always been extremely careful not to become the butt of jokes while communicating with my team. And I would really watch out for the words that could potentially toss the meaning/context out for a joke.
We've been dealing with a feature that has this word "Shift". Like "Shift-Resource".
One poor freaking day, Today. It's already 30 mins that I sent the message & it's guaranteed everyone read it to the final ".".
Now I'm scrolling back in Slack & finding it read "SH*T-Resource".
"I'll take care of this Sh*t Resource" 
I could hear that freaking giggles all over. Just edited & corrected the typo, but no use in defusing a bomb that's already blown off you see. lol  
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
modified 15-May-17 2:03am.
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I mostly end up typing retards instead of regards. But that is in emails so I can correct it. I don't think I have sent any mail with that typo yet.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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- Retards,
lol
Emails or Messaging or any other way , if you could spot it out before sending, it's good.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Once, I typed "Thanks and Regrets" instead of "Thanks and Regards". Luckily, caught it before sending.
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Amarnath S wrote: "Thanks and Regrets" instead of "Thanks and Regards"
 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Years ago we had a secretary who typed up the emergency instructions as "In the case of fire, do not leave the lift" - so it's not just us...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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A colleague of mine made one that wasn't a typo, but caused by language problems. Norwegian and Swedish are so close that they might be compared to dialects in other languages, so we never 'translate', but undertand the other directly. There are some orthographic differences, such as Norwegian spelling 'economical' with a slashed o, 'økonomisk', while the Swedes us an (unslashed) o: 'ekonomisk'.
In the days of 7-bit ASCII only email, there was not room for the 'ø', and rewriting it as 'oe' in emails. We did a development project with a Swedish company, and my colleague wrote an evaluation of three different alternatives, concluding that one of the alternatives were clearly the most economical, 'økonomisk', 'oekonomisk'. Now the problem is that in Swedish, 'o-' as a prefix is like 'un-' in English, and the Swedes objected strongly to the identified alternative being the most un-economical...
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Freud has not left the building.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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