BristOli

A monkey in an apes world. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

It has been suggested that the Bristol Aeroplane Company didn’t make interesting planes, which I find sacrilegious.

So it started with the Boxkite Britain’s first mass produced aircraft, used to train the majority of British WW2 pilots and prove aircraft’s worth in war.

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[BristOli @OliMerrick]

Me when considering another classic car

[Bart 🌊⚓️ @BartGonnissen]

1/x On June 2, 1944, just four days before the Normandy landings, what was occurring on that day? Well, the planners of Operation Neptune (the naval side of D-Day) faced a major problem: how to guide the first waves of landing craft accurately to their beaches in the dark?

[Bennie🕊️ @Bennieeexyz]

A customer at the library asked me a question I wasn't prepared for.

Customer: Excuse me.

Customer: Why does this machine require flesh?

Me: ...what?

Customer: This machine.

Customer: I am touching it, but it does not work.

Customer: Is because... flesh?

At this point I was trying very hard to figure out whether I had accidentally wandered into a horror movie.

Then she held up her hands.

She was wearing gloves.

Me: Oh!

Me: The touchscreen.

Me: Right.

Me: Yeah, it probably can't detect your fingers through the gloves.

Customer: Ah.

Customer: Okay.

Customer: Sorry to bother.

Me: No, no.

Me: That's the best thing I've heard all week.

She laughed.

The machine worked.

And I thought that was the end of it.

It was not.

Now whenever one of our library computers stops working, someone inevitably says:

Staff: It requires flesh.

Staff: The machine must be fed.

Another staff member: Who's volunteering?

So thanks to one perfectly innocent question, our library now sounds like a cult every time the self-checkout freezes.

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

#Bristol and Rolls-Royce well represented! Lovely to see a Bristol Freighter in formation with a Concorde!

See both types @BristolAero

[Captain Brent 🇬🇧 @Birdseed501]

Heathrow Airport is 80, and today marks the 30th anniversary of this unique air display commissioned to mark its 50th birthday.

In 1996 normal ops were suspended for 30 min for this incredible fly past of types associated with LHR over its history.

A truly unrepeatable event.

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

I love this stupid thing. It’s a big boy toy, it’ll never be as important to me as my late fathers Lagonda which I also love but it’s, deliberately a different but equally interesting beast. #ClassicCars #petrolheads

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

@Richard63568237 @I_amMukhtar Toucan play at that gamgam

[Mike’s Old Tat 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stockotrader]

Bristol Fighter and Spitfire at the Shuttleworth Wings and Wheels Show.

[Marcos Cars @marcoscarsuk]

Built, designed & owned in Britain. Made exclusively in-house in the Marcos Cars factory in Wales under ex F1 engineer Tony Brown. Material & labour sourced locally.
The Marcos Manticore is a 200mph supercar that is designed to slay the giants.
Coming soon
#MadeInBritain 🇬🇧

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

@LadelaBackup @theiaincameron Excellent info! Thanks from a Merrick

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

@ariadotwav They’re busy changing things

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

Cheerio @Google you were good for many years.

[Gabriel Merino @gabrielmerino1]

El mapa chino de proyección vertical, oficializado en 2013, tiene varias cosas interesantes. Por supuesto, ubica a China en el centro del mundo, en lugar de Europa. Hasta ahí, lo habitual de toda cartografía soberana, cuyo principio es mirar el mundo desde donde nos ubicamos.
El mapa logra reforzar de forma contundente el par conceptual Norte Global - Sur Global , clave en la narrativa y perspectiva de la política exterior China. Además, divide Norte América de Sur América, mostrando a las "Américas" en posiciones opuestas en el mapa. El océano Índico aparece en el centro y en su margen sur la Antártida cobra un notorio protagonismo.

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

@UKDefJournal 😢

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

@cb_doge They have, grow up.

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

@cb_doge Bollocks

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

@cb_doge Rubbish

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

@autocar What’s the GTI injecting?

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

To the Steam show and then back to the pub! A successful day for two idiots!

[BristOli @OliMerrick]

I’m not a #Eurovision person, I’ve never watched it but Sam Battle aka #LookMumNoComputer is an engineering geek right up my street! So I wish him the best of luck and I’m watching for the first time ever.

https://t.co/UTmCy9rs0O