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General Car Chat / Pissed off being ripped off for insurance
« on: 14 March 2025, 21:02:40 »
So just renewed with Go Skippy for £240 less than my renewal from LV. I'm insured, don't care about the niceties.
- 19 March 2025, 02:50:07
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General Discussion Area / Albs
« on: 25 February 2025, 17:57:04 »
Sent you a pm but you never acknowledged it, you miserable bastard. I hope everything goes well tomorrow 
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General Car Chat / Getting a bit desperate now
« on: 24 February 2025, 16:36:42 »
Picked my son up from the train station to take him for a dental appointment. On the way there is a steepish hill from a roundabout, the speed limit goes from 30 to 60 and everyone accelerates up the hill in a show of relief. I noticed the engine was revving higher than usual and didn't seem to want to change up. I pushed it into manual and the arrow on the dash was telling me to change up from 4th to 5th, but it wouldn't. Just revving away in 4th. Once we got back on the flat, it seemed to behave normally, it just felt like it was slipping going uphill.
I'm not prepared to spend money on a gearbox service, so do I footle around until I'm ready to buy something different or do I bite the bullet?
There is nothing decent, diesel and auto, around for around £10K, which is all I want to spend
I'm not prepared to spend money on a gearbox service, so do I footle around until I'm ready to buy something different or do I bite the bullet?
There is nothing decent, diesel and auto, around for around £10K, which is all I want to spend
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General Discussion Area / Bedtime reading for you
« on: 09 February 2025, 22:22:16 »
Sweet dreams 
"An Albanian criminal was allowed to stay in Britain partly because his son will not eat foreign chicken nuggets, The Telegraph can reveal.
An immigration tribunal ruled that it would be “unduly harsh” for the 10-year-old boy to be forced to move to Albania with his father owing to his sensitivity around food.
The sole example provided to the court was his distaste for the “type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad”.
As a result, the judge allowed the father’s appeal against deportation as a breach of his right to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), citing the impact his removal might have on his son."
"An Albanian criminal was allowed to stay in Britain partly because his son will not eat foreign chicken nuggets, The Telegraph can reveal.
An immigration tribunal ruled that it would be “unduly harsh” for the 10-year-old boy to be forced to move to Albania with his father owing to his sensitivity around food.
The sole example provided to the court was his distaste for the “type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad”.
As a result, the judge allowed the father’s appeal against deportation as a breach of his right to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), citing the impact his removal might have on his son."
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General Car Chat / Think I might buy an actual French Renault at the weekend
« on: 05 February 2025, 20:30:54 »
I believe Albs swears by them. My astra is very tatty, and I'm bored with it. Cheap Kadjar might be the way to go, it's only for transporting muttley.
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General Discussion Area / I really can't believe this shit
« on: 25 January 2025, 20:09:45 »
Top universities including Oxford and Cambridge have been given the green light to move away from “traditional” exams in a bid to boost the grades of minority groups and poorer students.
The elite British institutions could move towards more “inclusive assessments” such as open-book tests or take-home papers instead of in-person, unseen exams in an effort to close the grades gap.
However, the plans have been criticised for potentially “dumbing down” university courses for students.
The approach was unveiled under proposals, known as Access and Participation Plans, which universities must release each year as per their registration conditions to show how they are helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Under the proposals, the University of Oxford’s APP states it will “use a more diverse and inclusive range of assessments”, which would help to “improve the likelihood” of students from “lower socio-economic backgrounds” achieving better grades.
According to the University of Cambridge’s plan, “assessment practices” may be to blame for “awarding gaps” and it hoped to “improve outcomes” for Black-British and British-Bangladeshi students.
The document also references research by its own academics which describes traditional exams as “threats to self-worth”.
The Office for Students has now backed the plans, which are also being looked at by other Russell Group institutions.
It comes as universities face pressure to close the gap between the number of firsts and 2:1 degrees given to white, middle-class students compared with other groups.
FFS......why bother making them sit exams at all? Just take their money and give them the diploma.
The elite British institutions could move towards more “inclusive assessments” such as open-book tests or take-home papers instead of in-person, unseen exams in an effort to close the grades gap.
However, the plans have been criticised for potentially “dumbing down” university courses for students.
The approach was unveiled under proposals, known as Access and Participation Plans, which universities must release each year as per their registration conditions to show how they are helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Under the proposals, the University of Oxford’s APP states it will “use a more diverse and inclusive range of assessments”, which would help to “improve the likelihood” of students from “lower socio-economic backgrounds” achieving better grades.
According to the University of Cambridge’s plan, “assessment practices” may be to blame for “awarding gaps” and it hoped to “improve outcomes” for Black-British and British-Bangladeshi students.
The document also references research by its own academics which describes traditional exams as “threats to self-worth”.
The Office for Students has now backed the plans, which are also being looked at by other Russell Group institutions.
It comes as universities face pressure to close the gap between the number of firsts and 2:1 degrees given to white, middle-class students compared with other groups.
FFS......why bother making them sit exams at all? Just take their money and give them the diploma.
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General Discussion Area / That'll learn them
« on: 19 January 2025, 07:52:28 »
How to change the Left’s minds on migration
No doubt about the week’s most entertaining story. Last month in Paris, a Left-wing theatre group decided to host a special conference entitled “Reinventing the Welcome for Refugees in France”. And, in a noble demonstration of solidarity, the group offered free tickets to 250 mostly African migrants.
After the conference had ended, however, the migrants point-blank refused to leave. They occupied the theatre – and five weeks later, they’re still in there. Indeed, their numbers have now swollen to over 300, as more and more migrants rush to join them, undeterred by the overcrowding and increasingly unsanitary conditions. As a result, the theatre now faces financial ruin.
From my favourite right wing newspaper
No doubt about the week’s most entertaining story. Last month in Paris, a Left-wing theatre group decided to host a special conference entitled “Reinventing the Welcome for Refugees in France”. And, in a noble demonstration of solidarity, the group offered free tickets to 250 mostly African migrants.
After the conference had ended, however, the migrants point-blank refused to leave. They occupied the theatre – and five weeks later, they’re still in there. Indeed, their numbers have now swollen to over 300, as more and more migrants rush to join them, undeterred by the overcrowding and increasingly unsanitary conditions. As a result, the theatre now faces financial ruin.
From my favourite right wing newspaper
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General Discussion Area / Bah humbug
« on: 27 December 2024, 21:11:21 »
This, on Facebook, tickled me:
I can't believe it, there's 364 days to go until Christmas and some people have got their decorations up already
I can't believe it, there's 364 days to go until Christmas and some people have got their decorations up already
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General Discussion Area / Merry Christmas
« on: 25 December 2024, 07:03:28 »
.......to you all. I hope you have an enjoyable, stress-free day whether at home or work. 
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General Discussion Area / I feel like triggering someone....
« on: 16 December 2024, 19:59:33 »
Opti, read this:
From the Telegraph
"A convicted terrorist is suing a pub called The Saracen’s Head Inn over its “deeply offensive” sign.
Khalid Baqa, who was previously jailed for distributing jihadist propaganda, is claiming £1,850 over the depiction of “a brown-skinned bearded Arab”.
Saracen is a term used to describe an Arab or Muslim, particularly at the time of the Crusades."
From the Telegraph
"A convicted terrorist is suing a pub called The Saracen’s Head Inn over its “deeply offensive” sign.
Khalid Baqa, who was previously jailed for distributing jihadist propaganda, is claiming £1,850 over the depiction of “a brown-skinned bearded Arab”.
Saracen is a term used to describe an Arab or Muslim, particularly at the time of the Crusades."
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General Discussion Area / Christmas Day weather where I live
« on: 16 December 2024, 07:33:29 »
11°C and sunny. Hmmmm......there might be something in this global warming theory