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General Car Chat / Re: Renault Scenic Intermittent Starting Problem
« on: 17 June 2019, 20:47:20 »
The delights of having a French car, if only for one day, are seared on my memory. 
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General Discussion Area / Re: The Runners and Riders!
« on: 17 June 2019, 20:44:02 »
I heard a report today that Nick Hancock is endorsing Boris. The fact that Hancock voted remain shows that he only has eyes on a top job under Boris and not sticking with his principles. Am i surprised, no.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Top Gear
« on: 17 June 2019, 20:24:48 »Watch out for the wall.Not very entertaining in my opinion, prefer the programme about the classic car auctions in Yorkshire down to earth & proper people.Going up to Thornton-le-Dale again in August. I checked that there were no auctions during the week we are there. It might be nice to watch on the telly, but it's mayhem on the day.
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General Car Chat / Re: Renault Scenic Intermittent Starting Problem
« on: 17 June 2019, 20:16:34 »I think you will find that the fault can be traced all the way back to when you decided to purchase a French carServes him right really then.
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General Car Chat / Re: Spotted
« on: 17 June 2019, 20:14:59 »
Silver,of course, estate leaving Felixstowe dock viewing area at 2ish this afternoon. Was too far away from it for my tired, cataract ridden old eyes to see the reg. 
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General Discussion Area / Re: Net Zero
« on: 16 June 2019, 17:09:54 »
Elliot Gould and James Brolin ya lazy bugger. You can tell i,m stuck indoors due to the shitty weather. 
You can tell i,m stuck indoors due to the shitty weather.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 16 June 2019, 17:04:53 »
It,s such hard work reaching up and adjusting the mirror with our poor old and tired arthritic arms.
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General Car Chat / Re: Renault Scenic Intermittent Starting Problem
« on: 16 June 2019, 14:32:32 »
If it,s when warm that the problem is worse could it be some sensor issue? They tend to throw up other weird issues too. I,m sure someone with far more knowledge than me will be along soon. Oh, and it,s French.
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General Discussion Area / Re: tinternets gone up again
« on: 16 June 2019, 14:26:12 »
I,m with Talk Talk, formally AOL, and my monthly tariff is now close to £30 too. Don,t really think it,s worth switching to save a few pennies, IF, your,e satisfied with what you have. 
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General Discussion Area / Re: Net Zero
« on: 16 June 2019, 13:04:07 »Always thought that Capricorn 1 was a very good film. Yes, i know it was about a Mars landing, or not.I'm beginning to wonder if anyone has bothered to look at the UN report I linked to.
I did so Tigger, and it makes all the points being echoed by the scientific community in general, and we are witnessing in how this World's climate is changing. Various reasons are the cause of this, such as the natural processes of life on Earth.
However, certain individuals, such as Rod who has some political agenda and is claiming conspiracies, dictatorship, mis-information, let alone absolute censorship by all the main political parties everywhere, let alone news agencies like the BBC in everything, has ridiculed those of us who are taking note of serious commentary right across the Globe as though we are fools and acting like sheep, completely ignores the facts that show man's activity is dragging us all down. Common sense, let alone intelligence drives people like me and I think most of you to believe it would be best that we change our ways, which regardless of the arguments makes sense and is logical to us without some political drum to beat.
But Rod, old fella, do you really think the age of coal should return? Do you think the Clean Air Act of 1956 should be abolished as the reasons for it were, and still are, political manipulation and is not necessary. Did you never see the smogs in London, did you never end up with soot all over your body that your mum had to wipe off? Did you not suffer from respiratory issues due to the pollution in the air? Do you still think that men should still go down into sweaty, highly dangerous, and hot mines, contracting serious illness as a result, to provide a fossil fuel that all noteworthy scientists knows kills humans and destroys the environment? Do you not believe in cutting health endangering fossil fuel pollution and giving our children a cleaner, safer, and brighter future, or should our cars still push out the emissions that were prevalent in the UK major cities in the 1950's? Perhaps even smoking tobacco products is not dangerous to our health as the medical, scientific, and political have claimed and are, as we are so stupid that we have allowed ourselves to be dictated to by ' the politicians', and we, the working classes, should just carryon killing ourselves for the profits of a few as it all is an illusion?!
For such an obviously intelligent man you certainly can come out with some crap at times, and then insult the majority on here, as you have in this post, as we know nothing!
For God's sake just go back to attacking Russia and Putin, oh, and everyone else with a different political viewpoint than you
Mr Rods will respond just as soon as he has debunked the 'moon landings'........
50 years ago in July..........or was it all filmed in a secret location in Ohio?
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General Discussion Area / Re: US 2020 presidential election
« on: 16 June 2019, 12:56:57 »
See he has had another go at Sajid Javid this morning, he really doesn,t like him does he. Sorry, meant Sadiq Khan. DOH
Sorry, meant Sadiq Khan. DOH
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General Discussion Area / Re: Wheel of misfortune
« on: 16 June 2019, 12:52:53 »I suspect part of the issue is that dads no longer know how to open the bonnet, and thus never teach their kids.Got the same sort of reply from one of my granddaughters when i asked her about how she maintains her car. Even worse Quikshite did the MOT.
Take tunnie's mates at work - whom I don't know at all, so making assumptions based on tunnie's age - I would wager none of them know how to do basic maintenance. I think as millennials go, tunnie is quite unusual in being able to do this.
In fact, taken a step further, as everyone knows, I work "in IT" (whatever the hell that means), and because my generation were playing on their Spectrums and C64s, I reckon in my office only a couple of people could do a basic service.
One of the convoy going over to France was a young, bright teenage lass who had not been driving long. As we got off the ferry in France, I noticed one tyre was way down on pressure and the 2 fronts were very borderline tread. So as I was putting air in (it was 18psi, car was fully loaded with 3 adults and luggage/booze for 10 days), I asked her what prep she had done. "Kissed the bonnet and tapped the steering wheel" was the reply.
I suspect that car, like so many others, gets a £99 "service"/MOT annually (ie, an oil change), and no other work.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 15 June 2019, 18:49:59 »
Franco Zeffirelli, composer and film director. 96 is a good innings.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Oil Tankers Bombed - Iran vs USA
« on: 14 June 2019, 19:53:03 »The fact that these tankers were Japanese strikes me as a very interesting factor. Could be coincidence of course, but the Japanese Prime Minister has made a point of meeting up with the Iranian leader, to request they stop all nuclear development, and wants a meeting with Kim Jon to pursued N. Korea to stop nuclear development, whilst re-itterating the close ties to the USA with the Trump visit who trying also to stop those countries developing nuclear weapons. Interesting.Wasn.t one of them Norwegian?
All players in place, so light the fuse? By whom, and why we may never know, with even Putin setting up this game to create an international incident in that part of the World to suit his intentions and play against the USA.
Complicated conjecture yes, diplomatically a possibility, well yes, and remember how 'The Players' of the time all did not work together diplomatically, when they were wanting a fight, after the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the excuse to start WW1.
