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General Discussion Area / HPi checks.

« on: 11 June 2011, 10:09:57 »

Just a thought but why isn't HPi part of a government run site that is free to use by us innocent punters?

having been the victim of car theft on several occasions and on one the car was ticketed by a traffic warden in some distant city where it had been abandoned. A few days later it was towed away following complaints from locals. ONLY then did anyone make the stolen car connection.

Here is an idea Mr Cameroon for your Big Society. Put the stolen car database in the public domain. Let Joe Public when he sees a car seemingly abandoned in the street check on the police run records and advise them where it is.

As for cost of such a scheme, well it could be funded by money recovered from car thieves - impounded property etc. I would ban them from driving/owning a car for a period of time. If that caused hardship, they could work in my "government run workhouse" smashing big rocks into small ones to make East Coast defences etc.

Just todays great idea..............

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General Discussion Area / An Irishman abroad tells it like it is !! NWS lang

« on: 09 June 2011, 11:12:00 »

Found this, hope I can paste the link properly.

 http://youtu.be/koY6kXhQDQo

Well said that man.

<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/koY6kXhQDQo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

How hard can it be to do it properly! ?
 
http://youtu.be/koY6kXhQDQo

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General Discussion Area / Google earth X rated images

« on: 10 June 2011, 12:39:33 »

Fantastic, I wish we had thought of this prank at school. We just did stuff like an alarm clock going off in the rafters during final assembly and it lowering a giant pair of red bloomers behind the head teacher!

http://www.news.com.au/technology/schools-giant-cock-up-for-world-to-see/story-e6frfro0-1226071650963

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General Discussion Area / Southern Cross and Old Folk homes

« on: 01 June 2011, 12:12:53 »

I in keeping no doubt with other forum members have a number of relatives in old folk homes. I am not impressed generally with them - certainly not for the money they cost the punters and the taxpayer each week.

This latest scandal - for that is what it is with Southern Cross beggars belief. Despite creaming VAST amounts of money over the years , they are in financial difficulty. Who is behind it all? A HEDGE FUND that has been gambling on rents. These folk have now found new areas to exploit since they ruined us all with their banking schemes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13611766

Where is the FSA in all this? Well they are now going to hold an investigation into why the RBS failed by asking the ex directors some 66 months after the event. That says it all. Still no one has gone to prison for it.

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General Discussion Area / Libya - next phase?

« on: 27 May 2011, 22:17:32 »

I see we are now committing Apache helicopters to the task (whatever the task is).

http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=157862824

I bet privately the Nato heads are furious that they have failed to accidentally elimate the Gadafi family before now.

Like quite a few of us said months ago, just what is our exit strategy? 

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General Discussion Area / Bee story

« on: 25 May 2011, 17:47:11 »

No wonder there aren't many bees left!

Yesterday my parents discovered a bees nest in their compost bin. The neighbour had seen the swarm on Sunday on his garden fence. Since then they had built nearly six inches of honeycomb in 3.5 days.

My Dad rang the council. "We have a swam of bees. Do you know any beekeepers? No but we can come out and kill them all for £45." No thanks. He rang a bloke up the road who knows everyone and 20 minutes later a 71 year old beekeeper turned up with a cardboard box. Extracted the queen and most of the bees and had a cuppa while he waited for the ones out foraging to come back. They all went in through a small hole. If you don't wait the stragglers die when they get back. It was the second swarm he had collected that day.

Now wouldn't you have thought the council would have his phone number to hand......................   

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General Discussion Area / Scarborough NBR miniature railway 80th

« on: 25 May 2011, 17:37:47 »

My Dad went on this the week it opened 80 years ago with his Dad! I always try to go on it each time I go (back) to Scarborough. Anyone else?

http://nbr.org.uk/80th.html

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General Discussion Area / Competition to design a new Electric pylon

« on: 23 May 2011, 17:31:55 »

Saw this on the news this morning and immediately submitted my idea. Bury the new stuff under the ground. Perfect. Costs a bit more but preserves what little countryside we have left.

I won't win of course but it isn't very GREEN to put up more of the damned things. Of course the competition is just a thinly veiled ploy dreamt up by some marketing youth straight out of Uni at the direction of Huhne no doubt to soften us all up.

Big Society? [size=8]Little minds[/size]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Pylons-Chris-Huhne-Launches-Competition-To-Change-Design-Of-Electricity-Pylons/Article/201105415997131?f=rss

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General Discussion Area / DRS Monaco F1?

« on: 11 May 2011, 15:49:24 »

Where (if anywhere) will DRS be used at Monaco?

In the tunnel ?  !!!!!! overtaking on the outside in the tunnel!

Run up to St Devote?

It might just make Monaco interesting.

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General Discussion Area / Spare a thought for the postman!

« on: 10 May 2011, 12:49:21 »

We live really in the sticks in Spain. We recently had an improvement in our post by having deliveries once a week (if the postman has enough mail) to our new post hut where everyone has a postbox and a key.

Our address is Loja (main nearest town) and Granada (nearest city and county).

Generally our post gets to us without too big a time delay. We have had examples of huge problems or no shows.

Recently three separate organisations ( a UK housing association, a UK bank and a local UK council) all decided to arbitrarily change our address to GrEnada. They took a month to get here having been to the spice isles first! Of course in the meantime we are wasting time and money on follow up phone calls and letters. Muppets.   

The muppet of the year award goes however to an Australian credit card company that sent a letter confirming their recent account query had been settled in their favour to one of their customers addressed only as:

Surname

Loja.

No street, postcode or country. It had been to Ecuador first. We sent the Oz credit card company an Email explaining the situation and didn't even get a reply.

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General Discussion Area / Million Pound Drop comedy show

« on: 08 May 2011, 12:14:25 »

I haven't laughed so much for ages.

What did Roger Bannister do in 1954?

One option was "left the toilet seat up" and was a plumped for answer!

What programme did BBC show recently. Lambing live, Dogging live

How did Vince Cable describe the Tories today after the AV vote........

Are the contestants screened before hand for their lack of knowledge? 

Maybe this is the outcome of years of dumbing down the education in Britain. 

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General Discussion Area / Anyone an expert on 3G Internet ?

« on: 05 May 2011, 11:54:08 »

Anyone know what causes issues with Internet traffic via 3G?

I am currently being driven insane by my Spanish supplier who is part of the Orange badge.

What happens is that I connect at 3G fine and can work perfectly OK for 3,5 maybe 10Meg of traffic and then the connection is still live but goes "dead". You click on a page and it comes up server not found,check address, check computer, Try Again.

I can normally connect at GPRS for really urgent work but that rather defeats the purpose of paying a whopping £40 a month for the service. Today I couldn't even connect at GPRS for over 30 minutes in the morning. Clear weather conditions so not wrong kind of clouds, etc.

I have just spoken to a non technical call centre bod who is going to investigate with a technical person and call me back. His suggestion was that "they have been having problems with operating system upgrades" I am running XP and do apply the altest critical updates from MS but haven't had any for a few days. I think that is a standard yarn.

Is this sort of issue one of too many customers on a node and rather than fail on an operating target of connecting every customer on demand they are connecting us knowingly to a dead connection.?

There are also times when the schools break for the day when the Internet just grinds to a halt. I have long since learnt not to use during those times.

Anyone know anything about how it works?   

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General Discussion Area / Mad bid

« on: 30 April 2011, 15:20:07 »

Anyone else seen this advertised on TV.?

I have just spent an entertaining 10 minutes analysing their business model as it all sounded too good to be true. e.g. a Brand new Mini for £804.64p (assuming you were the winner)

In my view it is a very clever "scam" bit of Internet marketing. I wonder if it is regulated by the body that oversees Gambling in general. Lovely how your £1 credits are devalued to1p. Don't let my view put you off trying it though. Someone has to "win".

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General Discussion Area / Do you like real bread?

« on: 24 April 2011, 17:32:23 »

Yonks ago, I worked in a bakers. The dough was prepared in the afternoon, proved and then baked in the night for deliver first thing at the shops. Sour dough took 48 hours.

Nowadays most bread from supermarkets is frozen part baked delivered dough that is then "baked off" at the throw of a switch. Some of it can be frozen for up to 12 months !

Fortunately the EU has passed a rule saying that such bread has to be labelled soon.

If you want to find real bread this website can tell you your nearest baker.   

http://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/    

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General Discussion Area / Voting - irony

« on: 26 April 2011, 13:18:38 »

Have to smile.

In Britain we are debating what kind of vote we want and being forced to give the vote to prisoners.

In Australia they can get sent to prison for not voting