June 9, 2007: British nuke sub nose rolls down the street

[Undertoad]

The BBC offers this item. How do you get the constructed nose of a nuclear sub to where it needs to be assembled? Roll it right down the middle of the street. I'd like to be there if just to see the double-takes of nearby pedestrians.

The sub looks happy, though, doesn't it? Yay I'm rolling down the street!

The nose of a UK Astute class nuclear submarine rolls through the streets of Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria. The first 7,000 ton behemoth will be launched in early June.

[freshnesschronic]

Aren't European streets very narrow?
Or at least that's what the media has told me through movies and stuff.
Not even so much as a guiding team in front either, eh?

[monster]

Originally Posted by freshnesschronic

Aren't European streets very narrow?
Or at least that's what the media has told me through movies and stuff.
Not even so much as a guiding team in front either, eh?

If the guiding team were in shot, wouldn't they be too close to be of any use?

And yes, most streets are very narrow by US standards, but they do strange things over there like research the course beforehand....

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

The sub looks happy, though, doesn't it? Yay I'm rolling down the street!

yep. Big grin. BIG grin!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Happy until a rising bollard impales him, with lightning speed.

[TheMercenary]

Great pics!

[milkfish]

Did they really name a class of submarine the "Astute"? And does the average British submariner like that name?

I can see that lasting about five milliseconds here among the Pentagon types who have to think up this kind of thing. Of course, over here we have dropped the r in arse.

[monster]

Originally Posted by milkfish

Did they really name a class of submarine the "Astute"? And does the average British submariner like that name?

Why wouldn't they?

[milkfish]

Originally Posted by monster

Why wouldn't they?

Oh, the indignity:

Beans, beans, the musical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot.

Though in its current form, the sub is missing its ass entirely, and thus cannot toot.

[monster]

Originally Posted by milkfish

Oh, the indignity:

Beans, beans, the musical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot.

Though in its current form, the sub is missing its ass entirely, and thus cannot toot.

OK. A lesson for ya. We don't pronounce it like that. It's Aschoot

And "toot" is not the most common term for farting either, although it is used.

Here's how the rhyme goes....

Beans, beans good for the heart,
the more you eat.....

We're a lot cruder in general

[CharlieG]

Back in the 70s-90s, Grumman Aircraft on Long Island used to build the Radome of the E2C out in Calverton LI (on the borth fork just beyond the split) - but the rest of the airplane was made in Bethpage, and the radome was shipped by truck down the Long Island Expressway - now you have to picture - it's way more than one lane wide, the highway is 3 lanes - I was waiting to enter the highway (entrance closed) when the truck, with it's police escort came flying by (pun) - I entered after them, and got up to 70 mph - and they were pulling away

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by monster

OK. A lesson for ya. We don't pronounce it like that. It's Aschoot

For clarity, I'd break it up into ass-choo-t
(but then I was trying to prove a point about the different pronunciations of hurry and blurry the other day, so what do I know?)

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by milkfish

Did they really name a class of submarine the "Astute"? And does the average British submariner like that name?

I can see that lasting about five milliseconds here among the Pentagon types who have to think up this kind of thing. Of course, over here we have dropped the r in arse.

Ase?

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Ase?

They dropped the e too, and added another s to the end. Ass.

[tulzscha]

Originally Posted by milkfish

Did they really name a class of submarine the "Astute"? And does the average British submariner like that name?

It's not quite the same degree of unintentional humor as the Curtiss XP-55 Ascender.