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Added 2023-04-16 17:01:01 +0000 UTCIn pictures this week we start with Jonny sporting a textbook curtain hairstyle in the ‘90s. The other kid on the motorbike is his German exchange partner. Note the purple Champion trackie bottoms. Then we have a gunty 1 Series, the curvy sill of a mk1 Range Rover, Craig David and his very thin facial hair, Jonny in his prime mascara pencil beard era (while driving Goldie Lookin Chain’s Chavalier in 2004), and Shaun Ryder being the high priest of Curtonia. Now, some links…
Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s cover of True Faith
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I had an MB5 back in the day.. 3.3bhp an man alive it was slow, fast forward 40’years and I have a near identical bike that I’m fitting a Honda H100 engine too, it’s almost a direct fit, I have this vision of me being like Rossi in the two stoke 500 era… but slower.. and I’m fatter but in every other way it would be difficult to tell us apart…
Peter Stevenson
2023-04-24 18:01:54 +0000 UTCJohnny Smiths’ excavates lakes show?
Tim
2023-04-22 10:35:24 +0000 UTCHi guys! Was disappointed to hear that Jonny is not a fan of fastback SUVs. Surely the AMC Eagle SX/4 is right up his street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfqXYuTCGCk There's a lovely 4 door saloon version that just showed up near me in New Orleans.
Matt Kyte
2023-04-20 15:07:53 +0000 UTCMagnet fishing: https://youtube.com/shorts/5qZJsJfZRQQ?feature=share
Andy Pinchock
2023-04-20 13:22:38 +0000 UTCJust signed up to Patreon after binging on your podcast, currently on Santa Pod Sleepover
Peter Stevenson
2023-04-20 07:29:26 +0000 UTCPS: I got this (2001 new) Bravo in 2008, and it only came with two blue keys. I contacted the first owner who said didn't have a red key. It was originally his company car, but his after retired so I suspect the red key, if ever was one, is lost somewhere in their filing system. Mind you, have not yet needed it and apparently they can make blue from blue these days...
Robin Capper
2023-04-18 11:11:34 +0000 UTCYour grounding talk reminded me of something I saw last year. Returned to my car and this (see photo link below) in an otherwise empty carpark at the end of a rural cycle trail. There were random rocks placed, to reduce chances of skidpan use I presume, but this one combined with a front 3/4 blind spot (A pillar + below guard) and having a ramp'ish profile caught out a poor driver. Spoke to them before they went to a nearby house to await a tow truck. More memorable as got into my car, totally forgot about a much smaller rock in front of it and (thankfully) only nudged it as the clutch took up resulting in a scratched number plate... The ramp rock car https://flic.kr/p/2mVR97e My new plates to replace the scratched white one... https://flic.kr/p/2nNYxzf
Robin Capper
2023-04-18 10:51:29 +0000 UTCJonny has a solo Youtube channel. It's called the Ferromagnetate Lake show, in which he fishes motorcycles and firearms out of various freshwater bodies with powerful magnets. If that's not to your taste...
Brendan McAleer
2023-04-17 20:47:55 +0000 UTCThat’s the one
Chris Taylor
2023-04-17 18:20:46 +0000 UTChttps://youtube.com/shorts/5qZJsJfZRQQ?feature=share By happy coincidence, this came up on YouTube today! Ever caught a bike Jonny?
Stephen Hollingsworth
2023-04-17 16:59:27 +0000 UTCBut would you buy a newer car with only one key? I'd be suspicious it would magic itself away one dark night.
Martin Stephenson
2023-04-17 16:42:23 +0000 UTCIn the Berb skirt?
Richard Major
2023-04-17 13:16:34 +0000 UTC“Harry Mag-calfe”
Richard Major
2023-04-17 13:10:16 +0000 UTCThe should bring out the Skoka Kojak, with a very shiny roof and a lollipop holder. The advertising copy writes itself: "who loves ya baby?"
John Hammond
2023-04-17 12:00:04 +0000 UTCI’ll try to tweet it to Smith & Sniff…
Peter Heamon
2023-04-17 10:36:16 +0000 UTCPerhaps the ‘no jeans’ rule enforced by bouncers in nightclubs of the 90s/early 00s was to protect the wearer from mopping up spilled drinks and splashed piss, and taking on too much lower down weight that the wearer’s drunken state could not handle.
Ed Storer
2023-04-17 09:45:51 +0000 UTCI want to see this!
Ed Storer
2023-04-17 09:42:54 +0000 UTCWell at least cars have their names on them. I have to this day no clue which iPhone I have. I was given mine for work and since there is no way to know without going through some model number shenanigans I simply don't know: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208200
Andy Pinchock
2023-04-17 09:39:25 +0000 UTCWho could lose a spare key - we currently have a Polestar 2, which can use your phone as a key. We both use our phones for our keys (house and car), so I’m anticipating that losing the actual keys is going to be very possible.
Richard Major
2023-04-17 09:27:07 +0000 UTCThis week’s episode has LOTS of tummy grumbles in it. “Raaaar-raaawaaarrr”
Richard Major
2023-04-17 09:23:55 +0000 UTCI have 3 things to tell you: Don't worry - i am from Czech and we're all confused by the different Skoda SUV mutants as well. "Kamiq" is an outdated teen slang for a friend. None of the other names make any sense or make it easier to distinguish between the different sizes. I once managed to loose one of the spare keys to my car. I've been on a autumn dog walk at our cottage outside of town. It must've fell out of my pocket during some stick throwing. I had to admit defeat after 3 hours of searching. Had the spare key shipped to me. 6 months went by, including a tough winter with constant snow-cover of 2,5 meters. A local guy approached me while i was doing something in the garden and handed me the spare key. He found it during the snow melting season and been trying it on all Renaults he came across in the village. Still works! On a recent trip to Portugal i've picked Ford Puma online, months in advance (on a vague recommendation of Johnny in a past episode). Ended up with a "or similar" VW T-Cross. I've had a constant urge to drive from one of those masive ocean rocks. So dull the hire place would probably not notice anyway...
Jan Kordovský
2023-04-17 08:28:05 +0000 UTCI don't think the Stone Roses were Curtonian, they were definitely from the period of Wellends (see the GLC shanty 'Wellerman'). Curtonian was more a feature of sensitive boybands. The lead singer with his little curtain adjustment to reveal the glint in the eye stare into the camera and the reach out to you dance moves.
John Hammond
2023-04-17 08:10:58 +0000 UTCLove the old Pickfords pic, my grandad worked for them back in the day
LeeHall
2023-04-17 06:45:21 +0000 UTCIf you ever end up magnet fishing in the Thames, my dad lost the keys to a Mercedes truck whilst on a delivery for work in the Thames. They're probably still in there.
Aiden Cameron
2023-04-17 05:57:01 +0000 UTCA modern curtonian is that euro-person Guy Verhofstadt. He was at Goodwood this weekend, wearing Aston Martin racing overalls. (can send photo proof if required!)
Peter Heamon
2023-04-16 20:49:12 +0000 UTCOne of the most memorable jobs I've done as a recovery driver is taking a certain Chavalier with duff alternator and a Jonny (with trendy beard) back home following a photoshoot with GLC in Nottingham City centre. We got a few looks on the way back!
Sam Houghton
2023-04-16 18:43:52 +0000 UTCOh my word, I too had the “Craig David” beard in the very early 2000’s
Adam
2023-04-16 18:33:25 +0000 UTCI’ve never quite been sure if that’s Chops on the bonnet
Chris Taylor
2023-04-16 18:27:03 +0000 UTCI'm going to disagree and say this is actually quite an interesting fact. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2023-04-16 18:20:24 +0000 UTCSmall uninteresting fact. On the canal boat video @17 seconds with the small bost under the bridge. The white house until recently was lived in by Mathew Corbet of of 1980s Sooty fame. (Its in lymm cheshire)
craig webster
2023-04-16 17:27:15 +0000 UTC
