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Omega General Help / Re: Late model powersounder wanted
« on: 13 November 2020, 22:27:19 »
Yep. It would be tragic to lose an example like yours to a fire over a poxy powersounder.

  Is there a guide for removal ?


and is there a trick to stop it making a noise as soon as its unplugged ? 8)



In order:


undo whatever attaches it to the car... and..... Unplug it,


Massage it with a club hammer.

FTFY ... quieter option !! (but only slightly)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Boris adviser clearout
« on: 13 November 2020, 13:17:11 »
So the "media" have decided that because a bloke says in January that he is leaving "by December", that when he actually says, in November, that he's going by Christmas , he has been "pushed out" in some huge conspiracy theory!!

Lead from the front by the epitomy of balanced reporting ... Laura Kuenssberg

Desperation to stir the shit or what ???

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General Discussion Area / Re: US Election
« on: 13 November 2020, 10:15:31 »
Interesting website ..... well worth a read ...

https://www.cisa.gov/rumorcontrol

This is a USA Government website, a part of the Dept. of Homeland Security, staffed by folks appointed by the President, not a press, twitter or facebook link to be seen.

His answer to their integrity and honesty ?? Demand the resignation of the Deputy, and rumour has it, the Director as well ... how does the saying go .."Never let the truth .......  ??? 

Edited for smelling pistakes ....

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General Discussion Area / Re: US Election
« on: 12 November 2020, 19:57:54 »
Apparently Trump inherited $413,000,000 from his father, (2018 figures) and HIS WHOLE FAMILY is now worth $200,000,000 (2020 figures)

It appears his personal net wealth cannot be estimated due to the many interlinks to internal family affairs and the large amount od debt he holds.

I CBA to post links as they will instantly be decried as "false", "unbalanced" or "biased" - Google will find no end of them for you........ and they can't all be wrong ... unless you are either paranoid or it is a conspiracy .......

Not what I'd describe as "succesful" ...  losing over $200,000,000 ... most "successful" businesses "make" money ....

:)

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General Car Chat / Re: Invitation
« on: 11 November 2020, 14:08:23 »
The new one is more capable than the old one, it does seem odd to be doing 120mph on the track in a Defender whilst having a conversation  :y :y

I assume here you describe a tarmac test track ... and not a track across the Plain !! 

20mph on some of those rattles your teeth that much speech is impossible, 120mph and bits would be flying off everywhere !!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Greg Clarke racist bastard.
« on: 11 November 2020, 14:03:30 »
While everyone leaps aboard the outrage bus, it is important to step back slightly and actually UNDERSTAND why what he said is so upsetting to many.

I accept is is extremely difficult to find a single word that describes those footballers (and any one for that matter) of other than "caucasian" heritage that does not offend someone .. but the use of the word "coloured" is certainly offensive to a great number ... why you might ask ??

It simply harks back to the days of legal segregation, mainly in the USA, but also in places like South Africa, where the whole basis of segregation was not based on "white/non white" - which would have been bad enough - but on "white/coloured" - where "coloured" = "non white" - and that is how things like buses, drinking fountains, shop queues, entrances to hotels, and a thousand other places/things were labelled ....

"Whites" were free to enter at will, "Coloured" were pointed away/banned/refused ... so the term "Coloured" came to mean "2nd class citizen" or worse, as it implied that "whites" were somehow "superior" beings... it is that element that makes the word so upsetting.

You may not like it, and may argue it is just a word to describe a "non-white", however the phrase "white" in itself is inaccurate .. we all have some sort of skin colour/tone so are all "coloured" to some extent, but we were never oppressed to the same degree, simply based on our skin tone.

Greg Clarke should simply have known better, and has rightly gone, it now matters that his replacement actually thinks before speaking.

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General Discussion Area / Re: US Election
« on: 11 November 2020, 11:20:07 »
There was a statement yesterday from Georgia that clarified the nature of the software errors both in Georgia and Michigan, (they use the same software), but that doesn't alter the issues being formally challenged.

Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona are pretty much counted but are, along with Wisconsin and possibly Nevada, close enough to trigger a recount.

Pennsylvania is a whole separate issue, and warrants much closer judicial/independent/bipartisan investigation.

A couple of points that are worth repeating are:

1. Biden is categorically NOT the President Elect until the States all certify their results AND they have been verified by the Electoral College. He certainly shouldn't be presuming that he is, nor publically acting like he is. And I wonder if that the constant media repetition calling Biden 'President Elect' is worthy of a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission. :-\

2. For all the 'speculation', it is a matter for the relevant courts to assess and decide any allegations and evidence and NOT the media.

It's worth noting that the only mainstream media outlet to be openly questioning the situation is Sky News Australia. All the other reporting in anything like a balanced way are is by small independent media companies both here and in the US.

If that is the case then why have spent 32 pages tellling us that you are right and the rest of the world is wrong ???

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General Discussion Area / Re: US Election
« on: 10 November 2020, 23:49:43 »
Some of the rhetoric and refusal to see the obvious is getting boring now .... along with the wild claims ... perhaps these might help a wee tad ...


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54811410

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/54562611

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General Discussion Area / Re: CV 19 vaccination
« on: 10 November 2020, 11:48:46 »
Interesting offering. Under 50s might not even be offered it Tigger.


But.. does it stop you get CV19 and passing it on or does it just stop you being ill?

Has to be the latter, a vaccine builds immunity and immunity can only act on something you have.

Now if the virus can reproduce to a level that effective onwards transmission is possible before the immune system does its stuff, remains to be seen.

But has to be a good thing, particularly for the old and infirm isn't that right STEMO  ;D :y

Not strictly true .. the whole purpose of a vaccine is too "fool" the body into "thinking" you have the virus, it then organises its defences to fight that virus. When you actually get exposed to the "real" virus the defences kick in straight away, rather than having to learn what to do, so the virus is defeated early within your body, hopefully before you have any level of "infection".. ... that is what gives you "immunity"..


edited for smelling pistakes

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General Discussion Area / Re: BBC Diana Interview
« on: 09 November 2020, 17:44:26 »
Why has it taken her brother 15 years to make his complaint ??? Was he waiting for Bashir to be in a position where he can't respond ???

Whole thing stinks to me ..... and the left wing luvvies bend over backwards to "prove" something that really isn't proveable .. should have told him to wind his neck in, his time has passed.

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General Discussion Area / Re: US Election
« on: 08 November 2020, 17:44:55 »
Not to mention the fact that in the face of Twitter and Facebook actively censoring established press, it is easier to go with the leftist narrative than to report what is actually happening and risk being cancelled for not towing the party line.

Getting to be predictable now .... when you don't like the question, or the answer,  change the target to one that suits you .....

This WAS a discusion about the TV networks decision to cut trumps speech .. nowt to do with hie twitter posts being labelled although for exactly the same reasons

102
General Discussion Area / Re: US Election
« on: 08 November 2020, 17:36:50 »
The TV stations did no "simply" cut off Trumps "speech" .. they actively corrected it, or tried to.

It would appear that 7 major stations all did the same , with only CNN and Fox showing the whole "speech"

As an example, MSNBC anchor Brian Williams actually said "'Here we are again in the unusual position of not only interrupting the president of the United States but correcting the president of the United States. There are no illegal votes that we know of, there has been no Trump victory that we know of.'

USA Today, editor-in-chief Nicole Carroll, "President Trump, without evidence, claimed the presidential election was corrupt and fraudulent. We stopped the livestream of his remarks early and have removed the video from all of our platforms. Our job is to spread truth not unfounded conspiracies."

A little research can find further examples of the networks explaining why they took the actions they did.... if they had let the "broadcast" go they would be accused of inciting/supporting false allegations ..

Damned if they do, damned if they don't ... all depends on which side you support ... and I've only seen rampant "Trumpophiles" complaining that he was not allowed to complete his rant. I only wish I had been watching one of the stations that pulled it, instead I had to suffer the whole 17 minutes from the whitehouse livestream .......

As for "freedom of speech" .. a far wiser man than I once said "with freedom comes responsibility" .....  something Trump most certainly does NOT understand .. and he was NOT stopped from saying anything .. its just that his comments were not forced down the throats of viewers ..... .. his "Freedom to speak" was still there ....

I'm not going to dispute that Trump talks crap 99% of the time.

What worries me is that these 'self appointed guardians' who make up the media decide 'they know best' and therefore they will take total control of what Trump can and can't say.

They don't have to agree with him but it seems disrespectful to cut off  a sitting President like he is a naughty school boy.

I also agree it is a worry, but what do they do .. a dispassionate and well put piece can be found here ... IMHO it is well worth a 3 minute read .... (note .. written by an Australian !!)

https://theconversation.com/to-stay-or-cut-away-as-trump-makes-baseless-claims-tv-networks-are-faced-with-a-serious-dilemma-149628

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General Discussion Area / Re: US Election
« on: 08 November 2020, 17:28:31 »
"Freedom of speech" does not equal "forced to listen" .. there is no god given right to have your speeches transmittesd simply because you want them to be ... if you speak to an empty room, you have still had the right to speak ...

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General Discussion Area / Re: US Election
« on: 08 November 2020, 17:22:34 »
The TV stations did no "simply" cut off Trumps "speech" .. they actively corrected it, or tried to.

It would appear that 7 major stations all did the same , with only CNN and Fox showing the whole "speech"

As an example, MSNBC anchor Brian Williams actually said "'Here we are again in the unusual position of not only interrupting the president of the United States but correcting the president of the United States. There are no illegal votes that we know of, there has been no Trump victory that we know of.'

USA Today, editor-in-chief Nicole Carroll, "President Trump, without evidence, claimed the presidential election was corrupt and fraudulent. We stopped the livestream of his remarks early and have removed the video from all of our platforms. Our job is to spread truth not unfounded conspiracies."

A little research can find further examples of the networks explaining why they took the actions they did.... if they had let the "broadcast" go they would be accused of inciting/supporting false allegations ..

Damned if they do, damned if they don't ... all depends on which side you support ... and I've only seen rampant "Trumpophiles" complaining that he was not allowed to complete his rant. I only wish I had been watching one of the stations that pulled it, instead I had to suffer the whole 17 minutes from the whitehouse livestream .......

As for "freedom of speech" .. a far wiser man than I once said "with freedom comes responsibility" .....  something Trump most certainly does NOT understand .. and he was NOT stopped from saying anything .. its just that his comments were not forced down the throats of viewers ..... .. his "Freedom to speak" was still there ....

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.
« on: 08 November 2020, 13:40:14 »
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