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General Discussion Area / They are watching us!
« on: Today at 18:56:04 »
Ring are looking at a service for lost dogs . Using our Ring cameras

How long before facial recognition comes in for us humans  ;D

I have three of them and a fourth I cannot currently get to work…….

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General Discussion Area / Trump board oof peace
« on: 22 January 2026, 17:54:01 »
Money making scam?

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General Car Chat / Predictive cruise
« on: 28 December 2025, 19:40:54 »
General question.

Where does predictive cruise obtain what it thinks is the prevailing speed limit? It isn’t from sat nav as not a paid for option. ( unless it is still there but invisible?)

Mostly it is correct but sometimes has spurious figure. I also note differences  sometimes between car and maps ( both google and Apple)

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General Discussion Area / Ukraine peace stalemate
« on: 04 December 2025, 15:48:17 »
So we have the pro Russian yanks negotiating with Russia without Ukraine or for that matter Europe present.

This despite Europe now bankrolling the war effort. Europe does have a leader ( VDL) who could get the none EU leaders onside and agreeing. However they cannot even agree on how to use the seized assets , mostly held by Brussels let alone how to get peace. Meanwhile Russia is waging cyber war and drone intrusions here in Europe.

Anyone else feel that the war will grind on and on until Russia gets Ukraine and Europe absorbs the displaced Ukrainians?


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General Discussion Area / Latest Ukraine Peace deal
« on: 21 November 2025, 23:12:04 »
Comprehensive plan.

Seems very pro Russia. What the hell has Putin got on Trump ? Why didn’t Trump just use more sanctions ?

Ukraine has till Thursday. Do you think they will go for it?


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General Discussion Area / Nathan Gill
« on: 21 November 2025, 15:37:44 »
Nathan Gill, 52, pleaded guilty earlier this year to eight counts of bribery between December 2018 and July 2019.

Prosecutors said Gill, a former member of the European Union legislature who also led the Reform UK party in Wales, was tasked by former Ukrainian politician Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset, to make statements in return for money.

 :o

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General Discussion Area / Uninsured driving
« on: 10 November 2025, 08:18:20 »
Shocking item on Sky News today showing the high level of uninsured drivers and the high number of accidents each day. The article even highlights the worst areas in the country.

Here is an idea, why don’t the police mount “ Spanish like campaigns” and impound and crush offender’s vehicles.?

It would be fairly easy to do as the traffic moves so slowly anyway.  ;D

Here they even do it on Motorways. I have mixed feelings about that as encountering three lanes of stationary traffic at 85 mph isn’t fun ( but I guess happens regularly in the UK) . They have a large turnout of cop cars. One on the hard shoulder with blue hazards on warning about the problem ahead. Then about  five or more vehicles ahead. They have personnel with stingers ready to be deployed. I suspect they use the process to look for drugs on the move to Northern Europe to triple their value.


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General Discussion Area / Scrap wheels and metal
« on: 19 October 2025, 21:25:33 »
I ‘ m having a big clearout. 

Found a local metal processor. Amazingly it is just a lock up with a weigh bridge in the floor. At the back is machine with a grab. Someone had just dropped about half a ton of assorted metal. Presumably they have a truck which they take regularly to a large processing plant.

Anyway I have 7 alloys, six of which have tyres. I think the going rate is a tenner a wheel. However they won’t take them with tyres on!  If I take them to a garage by the time I have paid for removal and recycling there will be no margin!

Anyone got experience of weighing in alloys?

I might be better listing them on Spanish eBay. The Six are Omega Elite mini facelift. I don’t think they were ever sold here so might be undesirable even though they are homologated.

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General Discussion Area / Channel4 Trump untruths
« on: 15 September 2025, 14:25:51 »
All Wednesday evening! CH 4 devotes the whole evening to exposing his untruths.

I wonder if Trump will have a word with his mate Starmer to get it shut down as fake news?

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General Discussion Area / China
« on: 04 September 2025, 18:16:06 »
I am surprised no one has commented or about gps jamming on planes.


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General Car Chat / ADAS and ISA on newer cars.
« on: 07 August 2025, 20:09:35 »
I am thinking of changing our car for something newer.

I like adaptive cruise control - great for the miles of open motorways here. Not a great fan of all these “ interlocks” like pull up , open the door to lean out and throw a dead fox off the road and the electric handbrake comes on.

Are the gifts that come post July 24 in the form of ADAS and ISA a pain?

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General Discussion Area / Illegal boat immigrants
« on: 06 August 2025, 14:46:33 »
Problem here in Spain too of course. https://www.surinenglish.com/andalucia/costa-tropical/immigrants-disembark-broad-daylight-castell-ferro-beach-20250805081939-nt.html

Slightly different approach. This specific incident has been the main subject of every conversation, TV shows etc. Like in Britain, folk are fed up of migrants turning up paperless and getting accom, benefits etc.

I cannot for the life of me understand why Britain just doesn’t put the boat people back onto a naval landing craft and guard them on the French beach until handed over to the authorities for “ Processing at first country of entry”. Clearly having come from a French beach, they are not the responsibility of Britain

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General Discussion Area / Daylight!
« on: 17 June 2025, 21:45:00 »
It is still light in England but dark here in Spain.

It is hot as hell here but cooler in England despite apparently being nearer the sun and having longer days!

Answers on a postcard. Prize is ice cold beers.

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General Discussion Area / Drought measures
« on: 17 June 2025, 20:26:26 »
My dad was old enough to remember how their house was built. Each house on the estate was built with a soak away ( amazingly). Very few if any inhabitants know. He successfully claimed a reduction in water rates by proving rainwater goods waste did not appear in the street distribution. Just a few quid.

Scroll on and the property is up for sale. I have reinstated the down pipes as that is what normal people do ( saves spalling) and the water company have spotted house is up for sale and want a meeting………

I would love to be there and ask “ what about the umpteen sewage discharges per year?”.  That ain’t going to happen. Water rates for new owner will conform , water rates will continue increasing and sewage dumping will continue unabated.

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General Discussion Area / Pigeon or pterodactyl?
« on: 08 June 2025, 19:44:04 »
Question on Radio 1 this afternoon.

A cricketer hit what with a ball? Pigeon or Pterodactyl? Err I will say pigeon as never heard of a Pterodactyl. Correct!

What on earth do youngsters actually learn at school nowadays? 

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