BLUE DIESEL...is it the answer?

[Greenheart]

Sorry, it's not the answer. I don't have an answer. Just sick to death, of reading about red diesel.

I'll have a look in 24 hours, to see how many other readers were so keen for any change of tune, that they looked here...

I'd actually welcome a Brief Guide to Red Diesel Threads, which would sideline all the crud (like this one) and reduce the whole tedious tangle into three or four brief points, principles and possible resolutions.

That's my p.o.v. on the matter: Blue Diesel. Shorthand for no bull, just clear significant comment. I won't hold my breath...

 

[capnsensible]

Tartan diesel, coming soon.

 

[Greenheart]

I like it. Or maybe heliotrope diesel? I guess we can expect that anyway, if we dilute red with enough clear...

 

[prv]

Just sick to death, of reading about red diesel.

So why start another thread on it?

Why not revive your Westerly gaff schooner with scary backstays or something? That was much more interesting.

Without playing down the importance of the diseasel dilemma, I too wish it could be confined to a single thread instead of splattered around all over.

Pete

 

[RAI]

White diesel is the answer - white contains all colours.

 

[nigelmercier]

So why start another thread on it?

Quite! Enough already!

Perhaps a kind moderator could move them all to the Fuel Price Forum?

 

[Greenheart]

Maybe there ought to be a colour called 'diesel'...

...a sort of boring, mouldy, oily ochre-greyish-brown, named after exactly the amount of fun it generates on the forum.

Thanks Pete, back to gaffers now. Envisaging a centreboard gaff schooner, in ferro. I'll call her 'Lady in Ferrocement'...

...wow! I just Googled that, and nothing came up! Amazing.

 

[Tidewaiter2]

SARUMAN?

white diesel is the answer - white contains all colours.

'the white light can be broken' lotr:d

 

[PhillM]

Chip fat - could that be the way forward?

 

[Greenheart]

Presumably that would be yellow diesel?

 

[SHUG]

GREEN diesel is already available

 

[Greenheart]

Let me guess, GREEN diesel is actually the sweat generated by rowing instead of motoring?

 

[lenseman]

Tartan diesel, coming soon.

and it has one drip longer than the other just like a Haggis and also allows sailing on a broad reach in a Force 6!

 

[Greenheart]

...and it has one drip longer than the other just like a Haggis...

Dare I ask what you mean?

 

[prv]

Dare I ask what you mean?

Haggises (some people call them haggi when alive, though that's obviously wrong as the ancient Scots didn't talk Latin) have one pair of legs (front and back) longer than the other pair, so that they can stand on the side of a hill and remain level. Because clearly this means that any particular haggis can only face in one direction on the hill (otherwise the longer legs would be on the uphill side and it would roll over) you have two distinct species of haggis - clockwise and anticlockwise. Interbreeding between a clockwise and an anticlockwise haggis is biologically feasible but practically problematic.

Pete

 

[Greenheart]

I knew I shouldn't have asked.

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Haggises (some people call them haggi when alive, though that's obviously wrong as the ancient Scots didn't talk Latin) have one pair of legs (front and back) longer than the other pair, so that they can stand on the side of a hill and remain level. Because clearly this means that any particular haggis can only face in one direction on the hill (otherwise the longer legs would be on the uphill side and it would roll over) you have two distinct species of haggis - clockwise and anticlockwise. Interbreeding between a clockwise and an anticlockwise haggis is biologically feasible but practically problematic.

Pete

Load of Foxtrot Zulu, stuff 'em in a tin, n chop the legs orf if they stick out.
Dawn Sarf, our village butcher and Waitrose stock haggis even away frae Burns Nicht- big ones too- fried inthe morning- ideal winter boat food with a mug of Gunfire(Woods 100% natch)!!!
Shame about the arteries, but you can always have a Perrier afterwards

 

[electrosys]

To be serious for a moment: if anyone's 'sick and tired' about reading threads about red diesel - well, here's a reminder: it ain't compulsory to read 'em.

So - do yourselves a favour - ignore them and stop whingeing. Simples.

 

[Greenheart]

To be serious for a moment... it ain't compulsory to read 'em.

Thanks, electrosys. Nor was it necessary to remind us!

Your dusty dryness is certain to be welcome on the (snore) RED diesel threads.

This one was only for light relief. Distinguishable as such, by discussion of haggis and chip-fat.

Sorry, I'd thought that was clear.

 

[ffiill]

Haggises (some people call them haggi when alive, though that's obviously wrong as the ancient Scots didn't talk Latin) have one pair of legs (front and back) longer than the other pair, so that they can stand on the side of a hill and remain level. Because clearly this means that any particular haggis can only face in one direction on the hill (otherwise the longer legs would be on the uphill side and it would roll over) you have two distinct species of haggis - clockwise and anticlockwise. Interbreeding between a clockwise and an anticlockwise haggis is biologically feasible but practically problematic.

Pete

-and of course if you want to trap the wild haggis all you have to do is find its trail which follows the height contour around the hill and wait as sooner or later it will get back to where it started!
A slight digression(well big)in that it reminds me of a classic scifi story about creatures that had evolved on a white dwarf star-cold but almost infinite gravity and intense magnetic fields such that creatures could only move north south along the field lines and with extreme difficulty move sideways-described as being very flat-a couple of molecules high and a few inches wide.
Better than red diesel anyway!