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General Car Chat / Re: Oil colour...
« on: 19 May 2018, 16:07:10 »
Yes, if your Mondeo tit is a diesel.... 
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General Car Chat / Re: Anybody used one of these?
« on: 18 May 2018, 16:55:24 »Are you hand polishing the engine bay like you used to on the 2.2?
And the tailpipe
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General Discussion Area / Re: Skip Hire
« on: 17 May 2018, 17:09:54 »
The skip company I am using claim they recycle approx. 95% of what goes in the skip....
Its 50 years of accumulated junk.....out of my mums and dads bungalow.....not that they were hoarders, just never threw anything away...the contents of the garage and shed will fill that skip I imagine.....more skips needs for the bungalow.....
Its 50 years of accumulated junk.....out of my mums and dads bungalow.....not that they were hoarders, just never threw anything away...the contents of the garage and shed will fill that skip I imagine.....more skips needs for the bungalow.....
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General Discussion Area / Skip Hire
« on: 17 May 2018, 16:57:16 »
Has gone up massively since I last hired a skip, probably 5/6 years ago..... 
I think the cost of the last skip was around £130.....
Ive just paid £265 for a 6 yard skip
That doesnt include a road license either....
Phoning about other companies were much the same price....
What are skip prices in your area like ??
I think the cost of the last skip was around £130.....
Ive just paid £265 for a 6 yard skip
That doesnt include a road license either....Phoning about other companies were much the same price....
What are skip prices in your area like ??
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General Discussion Area / Re: Well you all know...
« on: 17 May 2018, 06:47:40 »Thanks RogRog? Not awake yet, Dave?
Just been looking at renewing my home insurance.....went on topcashback....The insurer ive been looking at will give £50 cashback for the insurance I wanted....makes it a tad over £100 now
Ooppss
I blame it on my spell checker that changed Chris to Rog 
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General Discussion Area / Re: Well you all know...
« on: 17 May 2018, 06:09:07 »
Thanks Rog 
Just been looking at renewing my home insurance.....went on topcashback....The insurer ive been looking at will give £50 cashback for the insurance I wanted....makes it a tad over £100 now
Just been looking at renewing my home insurance.....went on topcashback....The insurer ive been looking at will give £50 cashback for the insurance I wanted....makes it a tad over £100 now
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General Car Chat / Re: Unusual one with the Zaf this morning
« on: 15 May 2018, 10:00:17 »No idea, clutch pedal has zero resistance, goes straight to the floor without doing anything
I had the same on the trafic I had....it was the slave cylinder.......
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General Discussion Area / Re: Pensioners....get yer wallets out
« on: 12 May 2018, 13:25:16 »Reduce the population, shoot any child who has 2 older siblings (that means shooting myself). Shoot anyone who is a financial drain on society, pensioners excluded.
The country needs to be cheaper to run, as we've run out of rich people to pay for it all.
Once again we are in a recession since the referendum (though figures are only just starting to catch up), and many small businesses just throwing in the towel as greedy landlords and greedy authorities keep bumping up rents and business rates, and nobody is spending.
Toys R us, Maplin and House of Fraser (now saved, temporarily) are just the start of this one, and there a few big names according to the retailer rags that are lined up to follow.
The millennials think online retailing is the answer, but that will only push prices up, and you can bet free postage/free return will soon become a thing of the past, and remember its horrifically expensive for a mail order company to process returns.
Obviously all this will reduce money raised by taxation, so time to vote me in as President
No point if you are going to shoot yourself
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General Discussion Area / Re: RIAT 2018
« on: 08 May 2018, 15:24:32 »Yes, will be there on the Saturday with the Uni boys (lads camping)
I thought the nearest you get is a local pub
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General Discussion Area / Re: RIAT 2018
« on: 08 May 2018, 12:56:50 »Anyone going this year?Err - The main RAF celebration flypast is Friday only. This is also the day that The Queen is to inspect the RAF, and to make matters worse, Trump is in the UK that day too. The schedule hasn't been confirmed yet, but the spotters jungle drums think Trump and the Queen will watch the flypast together from Windsor, and the flypast will continue to Fairford afterwards. Currently supposed to be 50 aircraft including the BBMF. Gonna cause chaos at Heathrow!
As its the 100th year of the RAF, I'd thought id make an effort and just booked my ticket for the Sunday (as Sunday is still at earlybird price)
I just hope its a nice day, otherwise its a bloody expensive day to get pished on
Yes and a reason why I didn't want to go on Friday. The place will be packed out, I don't want to wait in a queue for an hour or so, just to see something or other. I'd rather go on, hopefully, a quieter day.
Plus depending on how the flypast approaches Fairford, it may come over Swindon
I've been to IAT/RIAT every year since 1979. Saturday is always the busiest day, with anything up to 100K visitors. This is the first year of a full Friday display though, so no-one is sure how that will affect things. I recon it'll be the quietest - most people have to go to work. Crowds are lower now than back in the 80's and 90's due to the advance booking requirements, so there are no on the day tickets - They say they limit attendance to 80K per day.
IMV No chance the flypast will overfly Swindon, though you may be able to see it in the distance from there. The route will be published by NOTAM in advance, but will likely be over Abingdon, Fairford and out to South Cerney or Kemble. If holding is needed it'll be over Brize.
We usually go on Saturday - leave Yeovil at 5AM, in the car park for 6:30AM, and gates open at 7AM. We then bail out between 15:30 and 16:00, over to Brize and then down to Farnborough on trade show years. If you don't join the queue to get in till 8AM, or try to leave between 5PM and 6PM then expect a looonnnnggg wait. If you live in Swindon, then seriously consider the Shuttle bus - it uses the (closed) back roads through Hannington Wick.
I do and I am
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General Discussion Area / Re: RIAT 2018
« on: 08 May 2018, 07:53:54 »Anyone going this year?
As its the 100th year of the RAF, I'd thought id make an effort and just booked my ticket for the Sunday (as Sunday is still at earlybird price)
I just hope its a nice day, otherwise its a bloody expensive day to get pished on
Err - The main RAF celebration flypast is Friday only. This is also the day that The Queen is to inspect the RAF, and to make matters worse, Trump is in the UK that day too. The schedule hasn't been confirmed yet, but the spotters jungle drums think Trump and the Queen will watch the flypast together from Windsor, and the flypast will continue to Fairford afterwards. Currently supposed to be 50 aircraft including the BBMF. Gonna cause chaos at Heathrow!
Yes and a reason why I didn't want to go on Friday. The place will be packed out, I don't want to wait in a queue for an hour or so, just to see something or other. I'd rather go on, hopefully, a quieter day.
Plus depending on how the flypast approaches Fairford, it may come over Swindon
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General Discussion Area / Re: PC gone mad
« on: 07 May 2018, 16:07:29 »
Another PC gone mad storey! You couldn't make it up
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/956263/mr-men-little-miss-books-sexist-university-lincoln-study
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/956263/mr-men-little-miss-books-sexist-university-lincoln-study
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General Discussion Area / RIAT 2018
« on: 07 May 2018, 15:12:05 »
Anyone going this year?
As its the 100th year of the RAF, I'd thought id make an effort and just booked my ticket for the Sunday (as Sunday is still at earlybird price)
I just hope its a nice day, otherwise its a bloody expensive day to get pished on
As its the 100th year of the RAF, I'd thought id make an effort and just booked my ticket for the Sunday (as Sunday is still at earlybird price)
I just hope its a nice day, otherwise its a bloody expensive day to get pished on
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General Discussion Area / Re: Mortgage Brokers
« on: 07 May 2018, 11:49:22 »I noticed that with a brand of coffee in the above mentioned store quite a while ago. Buying a 200g jar was more expensive than buying 2x100g jars! Sometime later they got pulled up buy a consumer program about it and other products, where the same thing was happening. The shop's response was 'Its a pricing error and will be corrected". But going by Shack's experience, its still going on!
Some people just assume buying a larger packet will be cheaper!
But, as you allude to, some (the majority?) people are either too thick or too lazy to even check. And a fool and his money are easily parted. I don't really do supermarkets, but last time I was in, I'm sure everything also have a smaller label about £/kg or £/l to make it easier for the mongs... ...not that the caluculations are in any way taxing.
And WTF are all the consumer groups getting all worked up over. A shop should be allowed to price and goods at any price they want, and the consumer should make decisions upon that. Obviously, if said shop is then uncompetitive, then they are likely to lose customers.
Top marks to Tesco - it seems they understand the intelligence/industrious levels of the majority of their customers, and exploit it. I applaud them, and others, for fully grasping their customers.
I think somebody or three had written into Watchdog....who then took it up with the supermarket....
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General Discussion Area / Re: Mortgage Brokers
« on: 07 May 2018, 09:13:44 »Why wait until tomorrow if you can have it today?
I had some new tenants a few years ago and the fella offered me his old style CRT wide screen TV as he wanted a newer flat screen model. As they were on benefits I queried how they could afford a new TV, sensing troubles down the line with the rent if they were spending their money on TV's and stuff.
He showed me a brochure from a company which would supply the TV and fit a coin meter that they had to feed to watch TV and that money paid off the loan. I pointed out that the APR was horrendous and he would end up paying about three times as much for his TV.
Sigh...
Singularly off topic now, but I pointed out to a customer by me in Tesco's (other brands are available) the other day, that the price per 100g for the large item he was buying, was dearer than that per 100g in the smaller packet of the same thing. "Huh?" was his puzzled response.
Fortunately, as TB has mentioned, young Tunnie has a smarter head on his shoulders.
I noticed that with a brand of coffee in the above mentioned store quite a while ago. Buying a 200g jar was more expensive than buying 2x100g jars! Sometime later they got pulled up buy a consumer program about it and other products, where the same thing was happening. The shop's response was 'Its a pricing error and will be corrected". But going by Shack's experience, its still going on!
Some people just assume buying a larger packet will be cheaper!