Yep. What with the general approval of cars and Britishness around the forum, I give you: Project Binky....in COLOUR!

"Make the NOISE!"

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The Quinn Martin/Police Squad! opening is a nice touch.

Also,

"Can't be done."
"Can't be done."
"Can't be done."

"They said it can't be done."

heehee

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"Which we'll call home for however many months"
At the moment, 51 and counting.

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"I do love him, but sometime's he's a colossal f██ktrumpet."

--G.
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LAST EDITED ON Nov-30-17 AT 05:14 PM (EST)
 
My, you have gotten a fair ways into it already.

"We'll solve that with this tidy bush!

...huh. Makes sense. Made in Brazil!"

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My favorite part of Project Binky is the absolute and utter _lack_ of insanity in the finished project.

If I remember my numbers correctly, Binky is going to end up being an ultralight all wheel drive rally car with somewhere around three hundred horses - at the wheel.

SURE, that's a considerable number. Even a large number - but it's not an insane number. With a proper ECU that works both at partial and full throttle, it would even be street drivable.

The worksmanship is brilliant though - and I'm not sure if I'm referring to the videography or the carsmithing.

Ummm...no. No, Binky is very specifically NOT going to be a rally car, but a dedicated street car. Admittedly, there have been plates included for the potential of adding a cage, but that's just there because it would be foolish not to add them. Everything else makes it rather obvious that it is NOT meant for rally.

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>Ummm...no. No, Binky is very specifically NOT going to be a rally car,
>but a dedicated street car.

Counterpoint: all OG Minis are rally cars at heart.

--G.
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>Counterpoint: all OG Minis are rally cars at heart.

Well, ok, yeah, this is certainly true. But for Binky to meant to be USED as such, there are a lot of things that aren't there, and a lot more things that shouldn't be but are.

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>Well, ok, yeah, this is certainly true. But for Binky to meant to be
>USED as such, there are a lot of things that aren't there, and a lot
>more things that shouldn't be but are.

There are different grades of rallying, though. I mean, there's the full-dress Subaru Impreza STi WRC GT4 ANSI PBJ EIEIO lunatic level, sure, but there are also classes that use... well, road cars.

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Oh, absolutely, but even those cars are modified for rally conditions, with various safety features that aren't there in Binky.
Of course, I don't doubt that Brunning & Blackhurst could GET such features, they race both rally AND track, after all, but I don't think they could easily install them into Binky, without a LOT of further modification.

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I've been thinking all day today about Binky's Transbelvian cousin, Объект Бинкачевић ("Objekt Binkačević").

--G.
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>I've been thinking all day today about Binky's Transbelvian cousin,
>Объект Бинкачевић ("Objekt Binkačević").

Oh, boy...I think I sense a very interesting Mini story coming? Or, well, Belv story, rather?

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>I've been thinking all day today about Binky's Transbelvian cousin,
>Объект Бинкачевић ("Objekt Binkačević").
>
>--G.

Someone decided that powering one with Getter Reactor (Or Neuroi Core, depending on factors) would be fun?

Also, how last letter ("ć")should sound? Same as middle one, "č", or similar to zz in pizza?

>Also, how last letter ("ć")should sound? Same as middle one, "č", or
>similar to zz in pizza?

I think it's something like "binkatsevich", but I'm not 100% on my Serbian diacriticals. (possibly the other way around? binkachevits?)

--G.
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While I am no expert, as I remember and know from second hand, both. "tchevitch", as it were.

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>I think it's something like "binkatsevich", but I'm not 100% on my
>Serbian diacriticals. (possibly the other way around? binkachevits?)
>
>--G.

Give me ten hours and I drop you sound bites with both pronouncements. They kinda both feel valid-ish in Russian...

>>I think it's something like "binkatsevich", but I'm not 100% on my
>>Serbian diacriticals. (possibly the other way around? binkachevits?)
>
>Give me ten hours and I drop you sound bites with both pronouncements.
>They kinda both feel valid-ish in Russian...

FWIW, the only example I can think of offhand is in the name of the Serbian seismologist Mohorovičić — Wikipedia has a link to an IPA help page which specifies the first c-squiggle as the "ch" in "church", and the second as the "ch" in "cheese".

I think I just sprained my larynx.

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First, I just learned what's with Moho Mine in TA.

Second, I can't hear difference between two sounds ad you described them.

Third, https://nhorus.no-ip.biz/sounds/ four possible pronouncements based on how I understood problem correctly, two_ch.mp3 is the one that should sound the same as in Mohorovičić.

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>Second, I can't hear difference between two sounds ad you described them.

TBH I don't hear a lot of difference either. I suppose it depends on whether your ear's attuned to the dulcet tones of ISO Standard Received Pronunciation (a.k.a. BBC English), or some flavour of American English.

On the gripping hand, half the time I can't figure out how to pronounce the various IPA squiggles either (see above re. sprained larynx)...

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>Wikipedia has a link to an IPA
>help page which specifies the first c-squiggle as the "ch" in
>"church", and the second as the "ch" in "cheese".

That's...

OK, for one thing, there are two ches in church, but more importantly, they're all three the same sound, I mean... aren't they? Please? Is my whole life a lie?

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Well, at least we now know that it must be written as "Объект Бинкачевич" with Cyrillic.

>Well, at least we now know that it must be written as "Объект
>Бинкачевич" with Cyrillic.

I took the Cyrillic spelling I used from the Wikipedia page for... I forget, someone whose last name else ends in -ačević... and a spot check of other, similarly-named individuals' pages indicates that the "-ачевић" ending isn't a typo there; so I guess you'd have to take that up with the Serbs, not me. :)

Now, why they use the Serbian version of Cyrillic in Transbelvia, that's a valid question, and one to which I don't really have an answer. :) I think it would be more sort of to the north of Romania than over by Serbia if it really existed, but, who knows.

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>Now, why they use the Serbian version of Cyrillic in Transbelvia,
>that's a valid question, and one to which I don't really have an
>answer. :)

Wasn't it rumoured that the designer of "Objekt Binkačević" was extradited from the Serbian Mini Fan Club out of self-defence? Looks like Transbelvia was the only place he tried to get into that didn't toss him right back.

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>Wasn't it rumoured that the designer of "Objekt Binkačević" was
>extradited from the Serbian Mini Fan Club out of self-defence? Looks
>like Transbelvia was the only place he tried to get into that didn't
>toss him right back.

Extradited? What, like he was charged with a crime by the Teesside Yesteryear Motor Club while he was a member of the Serbian Mini Fan Club, and the Serbian club forced him to go back to Middlesbrough to face trial?

Actually, that's not entirely implausible under the circumstances, though it still doesn't really address how he ended up getting asylum in Transbelvia. :)

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>>Wasn't it rumoured that the designer of "Objekt Binkačević" was
>>extradited from the Serbian Mini Fan Club out of self-defence? Looks
>>like Transbelvia was the only place he tried to get into that didn't
>>toss him right back.
>
>Extradited? What, like he was charged with a crime by the Teesside
>Yesteryear Motor Club while he was a member of the Serbian Mini Fan
>Club, and the Serbian club forced him to go back to Middlesbrough to
>face trial?
>
>Actually, that's not entirely implausible under the circumstances,
>though it still doesn't really address how he ended up getting asylum
>in Transbelvia. :)

In a random wander-through, the answer to this question just occurred to me.

After a visit to Italy on some other form of business, he had three sets of western blue jeans to trade.

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>>Wikipedia has a link to an IPA
>>help page which specifies the first c-squiggle as the "ch" in
>>"church", and the second as the "ch" in "cheese".
>
>That's...
>
>OK, for one thing, there are two ches in church, but
>more importantly, they're all three the same sound, I mean...
>aren't they? Please? Is my whole life a lie?

No, your whole life is just in English rather than in (most dialects of) the Serbo-Croatian languages.

The first "ch" in "church" (or the "ch" in "chip", if the two "ch"s in "church" are confusing) is made by putting your tongue up against your alveolar ridge. The "ch" in "cheese" has your tongue against your gum line.

In English these two sounds are considered the same phoneme, but if you spoke Serbo-Croatian you'd distinguish them. Allophones are fun!

>The first "ch" in "church" (or the "ch" in "chip", if the two "ch"s in
>"church" are confusing) is made by putting your tongue up against your
>alveolar ridge. The "ch" in "cheese" has your tongue against your gum
>line.
>
>In English these two sounds are considered the same phoneme, but if
>you spoke Serbo-Croatian you'd distinguish them. Allophones are fun!

"Tell me honestly," Waterhouse said, "can you tell them apart over a noisy radio?"

>Is my whole life a lie?
>
>No, your whole life is just in English rather than in (most dialects
>of) the Serbo-Croatian languages.

The examples are English words, yo.

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>>Is my whole life a lie?
>>
>>No, your whole life is just in English rather than in (most dialects
>>of) the Serbo-Croatian languages.
>
>The examples are English words, yo.

Right, so the short answer is they're actually different sounds, but in English, you don't care.

>>Is my whole life a lie?
>>
>>No, your whole life is just in English rather than in (most dialects
>>of) the Serbo-Croatian languages.
>
>The examples are English words, yo.

If you cay the two words and very carefully pay attention to how you are saying them and how they sound, there is a slight difference. At least there might be a sound difference depending on your accent¹.

The most noticeable difference to me is what way the tongue moves: With church it flexes up towards the roof of the mouth, with cheese it slightly flexes down and falls away.

1: Accent differences can result in amusing calls to the CBC about a "rural rout" being farmers fleeing and many bemused people in a newsgroup reading the statement "raze doesn't sound like raise, it sounds like rays."

But.....I've just done it a bunch and your - well, my, at least - tongue is the same whether you're(I'm) saying church, cheese, or chip.

>But.....I've just done it a bunch and your - well, my, at least -
>tongue is the same whether you're(I'm) saying church, cheese, or chip.

If I pay attention to the tip of my tongue, I notice a difference in location - it's near the roof of my mouth for "church," near my lower front teeth for "cheese," and in between for "chip."

In terms of sound, I can't hear it; my ear isn't educated to detect the difference. Even if I deliberately force the wrong position, I don't notice anything.

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Haha! I was actually about to make a small comment to the effect of "WOW that went well off topic", not that that is unusual OR wrong.

Wouldn't mind me a tyre-stuck-out-gauge, but what I REALLY want is an official "Make the NOISE!" t-shirt. Unfortunately, they're not made in proper sizes. Sadness.

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>Wouldn't mind me a tyre-stuck-out-gauge, but what I REALLY want is an
>official "Make the NOISE!" t-shirt. Unfortunately, they're not made in
>proper sizes. Sadness.

"we've lost the noise. nooooooooo"

--G.
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New "Outtakes" video:

Level is placed on the car. Car is in fact NOT level. No noise is made.
"Wank!"

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"And it's this, more than anything, that lead to HUGE Mini sales in Third Dynasty Egypt."

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LAST EDITED ON Jan-02-18 AT 11:14 PM (EST)
 
My local Subway recently installed a new credit/debit card reader at the register. It has the mildly annoying feature that there is a laser scanner mounted on the side of it, function unknown (the cashier doesn't use it to scan anything you might be buying; I guess maybe if you had a coupon or something with a bar code on it? anyway), which is situated in such a way that it directs its laser at the highly reflective stainless steel counter next to the keypad.

That isn't what this post is about, though. This post is about one of the device's other odd features, which is that it has a slot for chip-bearing credit cards in it, but it doesn't like the customer to put a card into the slot before a certain specific point in the checkout process. If you put your card in too soon, it screws the entire process up and the cashier, with much heavy sighing and rolling of eyes, must void the transaction and start over. Instead, you must wait until the device instructs you to put your card in. It does this with a screen message (INSERT CARD NOW) and a quiet, unassuming beep.

So, given the thread I'm posting this in, you probably know where the rest of the story is going. I have now developed the habit of telling the machine, "Make the noise—!" before it gets to INSERT CARD NOW.

The staff find this bemusing. I assume they have never watched Project Binky.

--G.

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>So, given the thread I'm posting this in, you probably know where the
>rest of the story is going. I have now developed the habit of telling
>the machine, "Make the noise—!" before it gets to
>INSERT CARD NOW.
>
>The staff find this bemusing. I assume they have never watched
>Project Binky.

Oh, goddammit. Now I'm not gonna be able to resist doing this myself.

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I get the feeling that my work here is even more complete than I suspected.

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If it helps, at all (or even if it doesn't), I do that to the cat. MAKE the NOISE! *pet* *PRrrbt!*

Only works on the one, mind. Of the other three, one bites, one claws, and one remains fat when petted.

There is a new Q&A video out vis-a-vis Binky, where-in it is completely confirmed that no, he will never be anything other than a road-car, and no racing is foreseen to take place.

Which, you know...but, at least that's the plan.

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"That's actually three questions, you greedy bastard."

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"Rex Hamilton is dead. Sorry."
"So's Abraham Lincoln. Newsflash."

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-- We both try to work out what happened to the past three months.
"...CALENDAR!"

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>-- We both try to work out what happened to the past three months.
>"...CALENDAR!"

Just in case that's not clear enough, there's a new episode.

Finally.

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.

>-- We both try to work out what happened to the past three months.
>"...CALENDAR!"

I have to admit, I wasn't expecting the duck.

--G.
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"A lot of the time, Nik is a colossal helmet."

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"I've had this wiper motor in more positions than are shown in the Kama Sutra. I've then sat and stared at the situation for at least an hour and half more than would be considered polite."

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I haven't been following along with these, but I randomly decided to watch the latest, and about half way in I was thinking, does Nik use an angle grinder to cut everything?

In the very next scene, he's cutting something on a band saw.

>I haven't been following along with these, but I randomly decided to
>watch the latest, and about half way in I was thinking, does Nik use
>an angle grinder to cut everything?

Yes. Everything.

>In the very next scene, he's cutting something on a band saw.

Grinder was broken, new one hadn't been bought. As proven by the voice-over. "SOD the band saw!"

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The man goes through grinders like bags of chips.

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Blackhurst is CRUSHED...there's a BOUGHT bracket. There is also battery, and cables, and power, and, well...episode 19.

"NEW TOY ALERT!"

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Those people are mad engineers and we love them for documenting their descent through madness into nice car.

Madness, I tell you! And witchcraft!

A mere MONTH after the previous, there is a NEW Binky-episode! And not only that, but also yet ANOTHER one slated for the next couple of weeks! Must be something wrong. Still...make the NOISE!

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Time to get the funk out.

Michael C. Fortner
"Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

While removing several American cubit yards, no less!

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So, not only is there a new Project Binky video... sort of, it's double the normal length!

Introducing Howie Did It, an extended discussion on the mechanics and construction of a particular piece of friend Binky from your friends at Bad Obsession Motorsport.

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