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General Discussion Area / Re: have you a phobia?
« on: 21 February 2008, 15:07:23 »
Dentist!!,..... It's the only near Homosexual encounter I'm ever going to have.....I hold his 'dangle berries', while he Drills my teeth.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Interesting discussion on Omega car seats
« on: 21 February 2008, 14:38:26 »Quote
" My dad had chronic back problems when he had his 2001 V6 Omega. Not sure if it was from constantly leaning into the engine bay to see what had broken down or all the time he spent in the cab of an AA recovery truck."
My backs ok, just get ear ache in the left ear.
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General Discussion Area / Re: I can't believe this
« on: 20 February 2008, 01:44:27 »
My Father (now retired) spent pretty much most of his Career as a Diplomat, being posted every 3 or 7 years overseas somewhere (which was good for me as from 7 yrs upwards I get to go somewhere different for my summer holidays, but that’s another story).
I seem to remember that before the introduction of an International Licence, It was required that for him to drive in another country that he would have to take a test and pass enabling him to drive in that said country (I'm going back a few years now!). As a diplomat the Embassy would apply on his behalf for a provisional licence for that country and the said State would endorse the application with a Full Driving Licence (providing he had a Full licence of his diplomatic country) some sort of Gentlemen’s agreement within the diplomat world.
All this was supposed to come to a end with the introduction of the International Licence, but for Diplomats it didn't, simply because some Countries (purely for example only, Russia, the Police would target Diplomatic Number Plate drivers, and at Gun Point would ask the drivers to produce there Papers (Passport, Dipo ID and Driving Licence, which by international law was required) and then under Russian Police Road Law would then threaten to confiscate the Driving Licence unless a fixed fine for (say) $1000 was paid, under the new International Driving Licence Rules that could feedback back to the Driver being disqualified in his own Country.
The other side of the story is that if a Diplomat gets disqualified in his own Country then he could in theory get a brand new clean licence in another country which would enable him to drive anywhere.
My bet is these guys are using this loophole for this purpose, (i.e., with the right documents).
I seem to remember that before the introduction of an International Licence, It was required that for him to drive in another country that he would have to take a test and pass enabling him to drive in that said country (I'm going back a few years now!). As a diplomat the Embassy would apply on his behalf for a provisional licence for that country and the said State would endorse the application with a Full Driving Licence (providing he had a Full licence of his diplomatic country) some sort of Gentlemen’s agreement within the diplomat world.
All this was supposed to come to a end with the introduction of the International Licence, but for Diplomats it didn't, simply because some Countries (purely for example only, Russia, the Police would target Diplomatic Number Plate drivers, and at Gun Point would ask the drivers to produce there Papers (Passport, Dipo ID and Driving Licence, which by international law was required) and then under Russian Police Road Law would then threaten to confiscate the Driving Licence unless a fixed fine for (say) $1000 was paid, under the new International Driving Licence Rules that could feedback back to the Driver being disqualified in his own Country.
The other side of the story is that if a Diplomat gets disqualified in his own Country then he could in theory get a brand new clean licence in another country which would enable him to drive anywhere.
My bet is these guys are using this loophole for this purpose, (i.e., with the right documents).
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General Discussion Area / Re: calling all you 43 year olds....
« on: 17 February 2008, 17:01:29 »
Im 43+VAT, and I cant even remember going to school let alone reading something.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Painting robbery
« on: 20 February 2008, 01:56:37 »
Damm it, been sussed again!
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General Discussion Area / Re: Anyone tried this chip?
« on: 20 February 2008, 02:04:23 »
Got a SuperChip in my 3.0 MV6, cant honestly say it makes a lot of difference, going to revert back soon and see what happens!
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General Discussion Area / Re: broadband speed
« on: 19 February 2008, 01:46:16 »Quote
QuoteQuoteRemember, you pay for the bandwidth of the pipe (i.e. 8mb), at no point do they commit to actualy send 8mb down said pipe....
Yea, but the Vodafone Broadband Signal comes through the window! from the nearest Radio Site, so if they tell you its XYZ Mbps then it should be XYZ.
Makes no odds, the radio setups do much the same as wifi, they back the speed off as the signal quality drops (BER rises).
No, sorry disagree, The whole idea of, when it was lanched GPRS (2.5G, 56kbps) was it was a Radio signal version of ISDN, so you ever get it or not. when 3G was lanched (384kbps) it was on a different carrier signal, so again you get it or you revert back to 2.5G (56kbps). Now we have 3.5G (HSDPA) which is a compressed version of 3G but still on a different carrier (Vodafone currently run a Max of 7.2Mbps) but its still Radio ISDN (although they call it Broadband), the point is, that thier advartising 7.2 Mbps but only supplying 3.5 Mbps, if the signal is crap it will revert back to a lower carrier of 3g or worse case gprs (2.5G).
Unlike WiFi which sets its speed on error bit checking which it feels comfortable with.
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General Discussion Area / Re: broadband speed
« on: 16 February 2008, 18:42:21 »Quote
Remember, you pay for the bandwidth of the pipe (i.e. 8mb), at no point do they commit to actualy send 8mb down said pipe....
Yea, but the Vodafone Broadband Signal comes through the window! from the nearest Radio Site, so if they tell you its XYZ Mbps then it should be XYZ.
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General Discussion Area / Re: broadband speed
« on: 16 February 2008, 18:28:33 »Quote
Quote3768 Kbs, thats not bad for a Vodafone Datacard.
The site is a free web version of www.Speedtest.net you can host it for free on your own web site, might be a idea for OOF.
zirk
so it is, been using that one for ages
managed 3390kbps download & 360kbps upload tonight
ok but not great considering we still get charged for "up to" 8mb
True, the 7.5 Mb is mainly in Central London and Airports, but should be rolled out in High Population Areas latter this year.
Still not bad for £15 a month though.
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General Discussion Area / Re: broadband speed
« on: 16 February 2008, 18:15:30 »
3768 Kbs, thats not bad for a Vodafone Datacard.
The site is a free web version of www.Speedtest.net you can host it for free on your own web site, might be a idea for OOF.
zirk
The site is a free web version of www.Speedtest.net you can host it for free on your own web site, might be a idea for OOF.
zirk
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General Discussion Area / Re: eBay
« on: 19 February 2008, 02:08:26 »
AIR FILTER, for Omega, astra, vectra, corsa series A B and C, BMW 320,325, 330, 5 series and 7, FORD all models, Saab, Merc all models except 1972, SMART, not paddle change, Audi up to 1994, all Audi after 1994, Porshe all models except Turbo, VW only if Estate, Skoda all models below 1.2 and above 4.6.
Sicssors and Stanley Knife supplied for that Custom Fit.
Sicssors and Stanley Knife supplied for that Custom Fit.
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General Discussion Area / Re: eBay
« on: 18 February 2008, 18:10:52 »Quote
Shame the other 5 I put on at the same time were pulled by ebay
Looks like someone's taken all your eBay feedback away TB!, wasn't someone on here?
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General Discussion Area / Re: I got 36.5mpg out of my mig today :)
« on: 17 February 2008, 22:28:29 »Quote
QuoteI get high 30s mpg at 3 figure speeds. Apparently.QuoteQuote56 Mph is the magic figure, aparently thats the one (90Kph) that Manfactures use for the best MPG spec figs of the Car, and the ECU burns lean at that speed.my tractor is best at around 70 - 75mpg, mid/high 50mpg
Tried it once with my MV6 3.0 on a run to Norwich (was having sad day) 56 MPH plus Cruise most of the way, 39.3 MPG, just couldn,t get the bugger to do more than 40MPG.
Tried it again on the next trip, same place in the Meggy Van (2.5TD manual Estate) got 53 MPG, never seen that before and prob never will.
That's impresive, mine Miggy Van won't do more than 38 MPG at that speed, funny'ly enough I PM'd Omegatoy today about his TD Chip thingy, but understand he won't be back till late march, so guess I'll have to wait unless anyone else has got one lying in a draw somewhere.
Hopefully not across a field!, by the way my local mechanic (when his sobber) reckons the best thing for BM TD lumbs (appart from oil change) is to almost fill them up with diesel then add 2 gallons of Parafin, he reckons it will clean any crap out, never had the b*ll*cks to do it mine as its used every day for work.
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General Discussion Area / Re: I got 36.5mpg out of my mig today :)
« on: 17 February 2008, 22:12:10 »Quote
Quote56 Mph is the magic figure, aparently thats the one (90Kph) that Manfactures use for the best MPG spec figs of the Car, and the ECU burns lean at that speed.my tractor is best at around 70 - 75mpg, mid/high 50mpg
Tried it once with my MV6 3.0 on a run to Norwich (was having sad day) 56 MPH plus Cruise most of the way, 39.3 MPG, just couldn,t get the bugger to do more than 40MPG.
Tried it again on the next trip, same place in the Meggy Van (2.5TD manual Estate) got 53 MPG, never seen that before and prob never will.
That's impresive, mine Miggy Van won't do more than 38 MPG at that speed, funny'ly enough I PM'd Omegatoy today about his TD Chip thingy, but understand he won't be back till late march, so guess I'll have to wait unless anyone else has got one lying in a draw somewhere.