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General Discussion Area / Re: Net Zero
« on: 16 June 2019, 17:09:54 »
Elliot Gould and James Brolin ya lazy bugger. ;D You can tell i,m stuck indoors due to the shitty weather. :D

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 16 June 2019, 17:04:53 »
It,s such hard work reaching up and adjusting the mirror with our poor old and tired arthritic arms. :D

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If it,s when warm that the problem is worse could it be some sensor issue? They tend to throw up other weird issues too. I,m sure someone with far more knowledge than me will be along soon. Oh, and it,s French. ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: tinternets gone up again
« on: 16 June 2019, 14:26:12 »
I,m with Talk Talk, formally AOL, and my monthly tariff is now close to £30 too. Don,t really think it,s worth switching to save a few pennies, IF, your,e satisfied with what you have. :-\

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General Discussion Area / Re: Net Zero
« on: 16 June 2019, 13:04:07 »
I'm beginning to wonder if anyone has bothered to look at the UN report I linked  to.  ::)

I did so Tigger, and it makes all the points being echoed by the scientific community in general, and we are witnessing in how this World's climate is changing. Various reasons are the cause of this, such as the natural processes of life on Earth.

However, certain individuals, such as Rod who has some political agenda and is claiming conspiracies, dictatorship, mis-information, let alone absolute censorship by all the main political parties everywhere, let alone news agencies like the BBC  in everything, has ridiculed those of us who are taking note of serious commentary right across the Globe as though we are fools and acting like sheep, completely ignores the facts that show man's activity is dragging us all down. Common sense, let alone intelligence drives people like me and I think most of you to believe it would be best that we change our ways, which regardless of the arguments makes sense and is logical to us without some political drum to beat.

But Rod, old fella, do you really think the age of coal should return? Do you think the Clean Air Act of 1956 should be abolished as the reasons for it were, and still are, political manipulation and is not necessary.  Did you never see the smogs in London, did you never end up with soot all over your body that your mum had to wipe off?  Did you not suffer from respiratory issues due to the pollution in the air?  Do you still think that men should still go down into sweaty, highly dangerous, and hot mines, contracting serious illness as a result, to provide a fossil fuel that all noteworthy scientists knows kills humans and destroys the environment? Do you not believe in cutting health endangering fossil fuel pollution and giving our children a cleaner, safer, and brighter future, or should our cars still push out the emissions that were prevalent in the UK major cities in the 1950's? Perhaps even smoking tobacco products is not dangerous to our health as the medical, scientific, and political have claimed and are,  as we are so stupid that we have allowed ourselves to be dictated to by ' the politicians', and we, the working classes, should just carryon killing ourselves for the profits of a few as it all is an illusion?!

For such an obviously intelligent man you certainly can come out with some crap at times, and then insult the majority on here, as you have in this post, as we know nothing!

For God's sake just go back to attacking Russia and Putin, oh, and everyone else with a different political viewpoint than you ::) ::) ;)

Mr Rods will respond just as soon as he has debunked the 'moon landings'........ ;)

50 years ago in July. :y.........or was it all filmed in a secret location in Ohio? ::) ::)
Always thought that Capricorn 1 was a very good film. Yes, i know it was about a Mars landing, or not. ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: US 2020 presidential election
« on: 16 June 2019, 12:56:57 »
See he has had another go at Sajid Javid this morning, he really doesn,t like him does he. ;D Sorry, meant  Sadiq Khan. DOH

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General Discussion Area / Re: Wheel of misfortune
« on: 16 June 2019, 12:52:53 »
I suspect part of the issue is that dads no longer know how to open the bonnet, and thus never teach their kids.

Take tunnie's mates at work - whom I don't know at all, so making assumptions based on tunnie's age - I would wager none of them know how to do basic maintenance.  I think as millennials go, tunnie is quite unusual in being able to do this.

In fact, taken a step further, as everyone knows, I work "in IT" (whatever the hell that means), and because my generation were playing on their Spectrums and C64s, I reckon in my office only a couple of people could do a basic service.


One of the convoy going over to France was a young, bright teenage lass who had not been driving long.  As we got off the ferry in France, I noticed one tyre was way down on pressure and the 2 fronts were very borderline tread. So as I was putting air in (it was 18psi, car was fully loaded with 3 adults and luggage/booze for 10 days), I asked her what prep she had done. "Kissed the bonnet and tapped the steering wheel" was the reply.

I suspect that car, like so many others, gets a £99 "service"/MOT annually (ie, an oil change), and no other work. 
Got the same sort of reply from one of my granddaughters when i asked her about how she maintains her car. Even worse Quikshite did the MOT. ::)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 15 June 2019, 18:49:59 »
Franco Zeffirelli, composer and film director. 96 is a good innings.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Oil Tankers Bombed - Iran vs USA
« on: 14 June 2019, 19:53:03 »
The fact that these tankers were Japanese strikes me as a very interesting factor. Could be coincidence of course, but the Japanese Prime Minister has made a point of meeting up with the Iranian leader, to request they stop all nuclear development, and wants a meeting with Kim Jon to pursued N. Korea to stop nuclear development, whilst re-itterating the close ties to the USA with the Trump visit who trying also to stop those countries developing nuclear weapons. Interesting.

All players in place, so light the fuse?  By whom, and why we may never know, with even Putin setting up this game to create an international incident in that part of the World to suit his intentions and play against the USA.  ???

Complicated conjecture yes, diplomatically a possibility, well yes, and remember how 'The Players' of the time all did not work together diplomatically, when they were wanting a fight, after the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the excuse to start WW1.
Wasn.t one of them Norwegian?  :-\

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General Discussion Area / Re: It's official
« on: 13 June 2019, 16:33:08 »
Yay, well done.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Oil Tankers Bombed - Iran vs USA
« on: 13 June 2019, 16:29:49 »
Also read Tiggers "Blame and Denial" thread a bit earlier. :y
Nah.....read Baza's instead.
:-[ Ok, will do.  :y ;D Well, he did reply to it.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Oil Tankers Bombed - Iran vs USA
« on: 13 June 2019, 15:42:05 »
Also read Tiggers "Blame and Denial" thread a bit earlier. :y

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General Discussion Area / Re: Wheel of misfortune
« on: 13 June 2019, 15:32:17 »
I've never been told by any tyre company to check my wheel nuts after X miles - not even kwikshit, who will deny responsibility for anything. However, there is a tyre-cum-breakers near Wareham (Trents) who display large signs with big red letters advising tyre customers to bring the vehicle back after 50 miles to have the wheelnuts checked. This puts the onus on them and not the customer for the safety of the vehicle - which is exactly where it should lie.

Ron.
My local tyre fitter of choice has always had the advisory on the invoice to check the tightness of the nuts/bolts after a few miles and most of the guys also verbally remind the customers as well. :y

But I would challenge the legality of that as it is not reasonable, or practical, to expect a member of the public to do that, or remember to get a garage to check them, when, if the tyre fitter was doing his job properly and tightening the bolts correctly for long term use, then it should never be necessary, as, I would submit in legal argument, wheels do not regularly fall off when most motorists never carryout that re-tightening procedure.  It is an unreasonable obligation being placed on the consumer as a "Get out Clause" to inhibit potential legal action against the tyre fitter if anything goes wrong.  Motorists drive regularly 1,000's of miles between tyre changes, often on business, let alone domestic use,  without re-checking those nuts, without any incident transpiring.  That can be evidenced with the testimonies of millions of drivers, but can it be proved that the non-re-tightening of wheel nuts if done after 50 miles, or higher mileages, causes such a massive loss of a wheel, if the tyre fitter did his job correctly in the first instance?  Can that actually be evidenced?

Just my thoughts, which may seem mad to some, but such practices by retailers and suppliers should be legally judged for their reasonableness, and questioned for their practical application, and not just an attempt to avoid legal action when they get it wrong.  In other words nothing should not be questioned in law. ;)
It,s surprising how many times that advisory or comments from MOT testers came up that wheel nuts were missing or loose. This was when i was looking for a car to replace the Desmond and was checking the history.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Oil Tankers Bombed - Iran vs USA
« on: 13 June 2019, 15:17:22 »
You won,t be able to carry on driving your gas guzzling Omega then Lizzie. :-*

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Runners and Riders!
« on: 13 June 2019, 14:21:40 »
After the last one perhaps it,s no surprise. Joking aside, anyone who steps up is inheriting a right royal ballsup. :)

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