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General Discussion Area / Re: Speculate on wheat?

« on: 07 August 2010, 11:47:24 »

Here is the plan. Anything you normally buy that is made from wheat, go out and buy extra before the price goes up following the crop failure in Russia. Then when the price goes up you have saved money.

Here is a suggested list.

Beer
Vodka
Pasta
Pizzas
Bread
Hen food
Breakfast cereals
Meat
biscuits
noodles

If you have more money to spare then warehouse stuff and sell it to neighbours later.   

I know you're jesting, V, but we need to look out for hoarding, which is guaranteed to make a relatively small problem much, much, bigger.

Anybody remember the days when sugar suddenly went into short supply due to hoarding? 

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Remember it! I still have over a 1000 bags of sugar from when it was in 2lb bags. 97 were from when my aunt died in 1980 . open to offers

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General Discussion Area / Speculate on wheat?

« on: 07 August 2010, 11:14:47 »

Here is the plan. Anything you normally buy that is made from wheat, go out and buy extra before the price goes up following the crop failure in Russia. Then when the price goes up you have saved money.

Here is a suggested list.

Beer
Vodka
Pasta
Pizzas
Bread
Hen food
Breakfast cereals
Meat
biscuits
noodles

If you have more money to spare then warehouse stuff and sell it to neighbours later.   

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General Discussion Area / Re: Greetings from a foreign place!

« on: 09 September 2010, 10:48:08 »

I doubt anything will change regarding seizure of property. It must be a nice little earner for someone.

I thought there was a great business opportunity a few years ago when the mother in law had a manicure set seized in security. Fortunately we were there and took it away. The business opportunity was for "flat rate" pre postega paid envelopes. There was a bin half full of penkives and scissors etc.

The rules are totally daft. Mrs Varche brought an electric slow cooker back from England packed with bags of hard to get over here spices in her on plane bag. It clearly showed up on the Xray including the electric circuitry and the bags. The operator called over his supervisor and they put it through again and waved it on. No bag emptying!!! 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Greetings from a foreign place!

« on: 14 August 2010, 14:08:00 »

This has all the makings of a commercial for TV.

Hope you have a good holiday.

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General Discussion Area / One for The Boy or an Admin

« on: 09 September 2010, 13:39:31 »

No doubt you have something in place but as I and no doubt many many others rely so much on the forum for technical stuff,  do you keep a secure off site backup of the help and maintenance guides etc in the event of the unthinkable!?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Halfords spanners

« on: 02 September 2010, 12:14:18 »

Glad I mentioned it.

Don't be put off by me living in another country. It will be easy enough for me to hire a box van (or two) to collect my booty inheritance. Car as well? Again going to an enthusiast.

Would you like mine too? I have no heirs for my rather large tool collection.
I'll give them to someone when i retire :)

Yes please! You haven't got an olive tree shaker in your collection by any chance? Mine is about tatered and probably beyond economic repair.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Halfords spanners

« on: 01 September 2010, 20:21:05 »

Glad I mentioned it.

Don't be put off by me living in another country. It will be easy enough for me to hire a box van (or two) to collect my booty inheritance. Car as well? Again going to an enthusiast.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Halfords spanners

« on: 01 September 2010, 20:09:53 »

I would hate to think what my tools have cost me over the years, full wallets of metric, AF and whitworth spanners in small and large sizes, then all the BA nut spanners etc calipers, micrometers, loads of socets and sets, full set of quality adjustables from 4" to 18", hammers, chisels, sheet metal snips all now sat in 2 3 draver chest doing nothing in the garage, then a further 3 tool boxes, plus the zillions of screwdrivers, torx and screw driver bits that get replaced every tear of so because I cant find the old ones.

Then theres all the power tools, chop saw, mitre saw, circular saw, linisher, grinder, aligator saw, sanders, biscuit cutter, drillls.

Bloody hell, I am getting a headache thinking about it, I need a lie down.....

Leave them to me in your will. please. I will put them with my plastering tools, building tools, plumbing tools, woodworking tools, gardening tools, olive farming tools. No wonder the Spanish come round here to borrow tools!!!

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General Discussion Area / French take to the streets !

« on: 07 September 2010, 12:19:08 »

Don't you just love the way the French protest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11204528

Interesting they are thinking of raising the age you can retire from 60 to 62. with state pensiion remaining at 65.  Quite right in my view that they should protest.

I am underwhelmed by the prospect of being robbed of at least one if not more years of state pension having made my contributions. After tax that is about £75 a week for however many years just because of (bankers) greed.

I can't see us Brits protesting in the same way!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Does anyone know how to calculate;

« on: 07 September 2010, 12:01:01 »

Easy enough, work out the volume (2m x 1.5m x 1.6m) and multiply by 1000Kg (one cubic meter of water is equal to one metric ton at 4degC which is the temp at which water is densist)

So your answer is 4800Kg or 4.8 metric tons.....so a lot

Thanks Mark, the question was not for me, but just got me thinking as well, our fish tank must weigh a [size=14]couple of Tonnes[/size][/highlight], no wonder the unit it is beginning to bow...

How big's yer fishy tank?

60cm wide x 60cm high x 36 cm deep, 130 Litres I believe , less a couple of big lava rocks

130Kg so not to bad

 

Well it looks bigger ......does size really matter anyway....

With hindsight, I think I was getting my feet mixed up with meters.... :-[

Just as well Britain isn't in the EU! You had me worried about a tank that big in a loft. We have a 5 foot high five foot in diameter water tank outside that must  hold over 2000 Kg of water . That is on a concrete base.

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General Discussion Area / Re: At last...

« on: 06 September 2010, 14:38:27 »

I quite agree.  I'm more than cheesed off with the tripe masquerading as legitimate service broadcasting that currently blights our screens.

The disturbing fact is there seems to be a market for this trash.  What the hell are people thinking about?

I fear we’ve degenerated into a nation of half-baked gawpers incapable of any form of rational independent decision making ability all too ready to accept the spoon-fed nonsense dealt up by these people.

And no, I certainly do not feel better after this.

What the hell are people thinking about? "Hello magazine, getting smashed on Friday night, Neighbours and Big Brother (TV not state)

I fear we’ve degenerated into a nation of half-baked gawpers incapable of any form of rational independent decision making ability all too ready to accept the spoon-fed nonsense dealt up by these people. Spot on. Easier to keep people happy being drones. They aren't likely to take to the streets and complain about anything. (If they do -= Blair book signing, Green talks, Carbon emmisions etc they get vilified by the press and described as lefties, Trots, anti social beings etc)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Meltdown

« on: 06 September 2010, 13:45:38 »

Fantastic. That has cheered me up no end!

Only another 64 years before you draw your pension , That will be something to look forward too.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Guess who?

« on: 02 September 2010, 22:28:28 »

Hi Fin

Good to have you back. I was olive back in the early days of OOF until someone mistook my farming occupation username for a womans name. So changed it to Varche which is definitely masculine - El Varche.

You and one or two others inspired me to great? things and I have since done cambelt change, 2 gearbox change (with help from that nice Omegatoy man) ABS ECU, passenger side ex manifold etc etc,etc

sorry to hear about your health issues,

V

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General Discussion Area / Re: Council employees taking the pee!

« on: 03 September 2010, 12:40:28 »

Nice to see someone agree with me. I think the wheelie bins work really well as do the recycling stations. It would be good for Britain to have a similar system - who ever heard of doorstep collections!( A neighbour could help elderly neighbours. It wouldn't work in Britain as there would never be agreement over the location of said bins oh and no one would help the elderly.

Know Puente Genil and Lucena well. Water we pass ends up there! I can see the Genil from our window.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Council employees taking the pee!

« on: 02 September 2010, 23:10:18 »

What an appalling tale. ONLY in Britain.

I can tell you right now that this sort of nonsense has nothing to do with the EU. That is just a giant SMOKESCREEN by people who need something to blame this sort of nonsense on instead of taking responsibility for it.

The culprits?. Why it is YOU. Yes YOU the people of Britain. YOU have let this sort of Nonsense proliferate and haven't taken to the streets to get things changed. Instead YOU write on car forums. The powers that be do not read OOF to check whether what they are doing is acceptable.

I can tell you that I see stuff being done here in Spain by workmen EVERY DAY that would cause Britain to be shut down. e.g. Angle grinding slabs in the street with no goggles, ear defenders etc.

I don't condone unsafe practices but believe me this isn't "FROM the EU" rather from YOURSELVES. That is why Britain has the most CCTV, daftest rules on what can/can't be done etc etc etc.

Rant over, but please take to the streets