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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 07 May 2025, 19:03:11 »

My Samsung telly. Neo N95. It really is a complete crock of shite.

First world problems 

Indeed, and I'd normally just shrug my shoulders over it. But it really is a piece of shit.  Completely unresponsive for the first minute or 2 after turning on, not even volume, so late at night it wakes everyone up.  The apps are crap, which means every time I have to restart a stream on ITVX - like every ad break - I have to sit through the same ads again.  It constantly renames the input sources based on god knows what, and doesn't list them as HDMI1/2/3/4, but decides to call most of them PC, nor are they in order, so you have to keep trying each one in turn (bearing in mind they change their positions in the list as well).

I fikcin' hate the piece of shit.

I recognise the unresponsive bit. We've got a 32" 3 year old one on a shelf in the kitchen, I turn it on to watch the six o'clock news while I'm out there at teatime and it takes ages before the remote actually does anything.
I get round this by turning it on at five to. 
And.....I always remember to turn the volume down on the one in the living room before we go to bed. She gets up at 5:20 and I don't fancy being woken up at that time by breakfast tv at full volume.

.. and we're back to letting them "warm up" like we did in the valve days.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Knob Trump!

« on: 05 May 2025, 08:57:14 »

I agree although I think he’s a prick as well👍

I wish I could still find the meme I saw. Essentially, it was along the lines of:

Weatherspoon
Sports
Hogg
Vance.

Examples of things where just prefixing it with "JD" doesn't stop it being cr@p. 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 27 April 2025, 22:45:58 »

I have actually been entertaining the thought of a Motorhome recently.
I really am getting old ! 

Well, err, I was toying with hiring one next year and doing a 2 week tour around the top of Scotland.

I'm pretty certain camper vans ain't for me, so I suppose if I tried one for a holiday I'd know either way.

 Let's guess, going to do the fabled "500" with all the other wannabe Rob Roys, and try a bit of Haggis and have a wee dram..

 It isn't for you TB, trust me, all the tinkers bumbling along at 50mph, stopping without indication, O and you wait till they see anything bigger than a fly coming towards them.

I purposely wanted to avoid the 500, though any route covering that area is obviously going to follow bits of it.

Ironically, when I was up in the highlands last month, getting about was easy and fairly quick, despite a lack of roads.  Everyone drove at the speed limit, or pulled over after a mile or 2, bar the odd camper van.  That ease of getting about, added to the fact the scenery is breathtaking, is why I half considered a passion wagon for a trip up there again.  The area is too vast to have a single base to do day visits out.

The alternative would be being organised to have hotels booked and a strict itinerary, but that's not how we holiday.

Altnaharra and straight up to the Kyle of Tongue should avoid the worst of the west coast traffic No shortage of guest houses and camp sites around that end of the world and Orkney is well worth a few days of your time whilst there.

Oh, yes, if you want driving roads the inland bits of Sutherland are fantastic. The coast roads making up most of the NC500 are single track with passing places im many areas, full of pikeys and delivery lorries and aren't much fun, although the views are fantastic.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 26 April 2025, 20:28:31 »

I have actually been entertaining the thought of a Motorhome recently.
I really am getting old ! 

Well, err, I was toying with hiring one next year and doing a 2 week tour around the top of Scotland.

I'm pretty certain camper vans ain't for me, so I suppose if I tried one for a holiday I'd know either way.

You need one of these for that route. 

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General Car Chat / Re: Cylinder Head Question.

« on: 25 April 2025, 15:43:25 »

It's a moot point.

.. as long as the 2nd hand head turns up perfectly flat. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Experiments to 'dim the Sun' to be given green light by UK government

« on: 25 April 2025, 07:10:27 »

It's the wrong end of April for this sort of news, surely?

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General Car Chat / Re: Cylinder Head Question.

« on: 25 April 2025, 07:08:34 »

I've lost count of the number of engine manuals I've read that say the head can't be skimmed. It's just @rse covering, surely?

I the face of F-all to lose I know what I'd do.

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General Car Chat / Re: Mercedes S500 Ongoing "Project Upgrade"

« on: 15 April 2025, 21:24:03 »

A feature I would REALLY like on the Jag - both of 'em - is a clock that can adjust itself. Every other bloody car has been able to since the 1980s.  No idea what JLR were smoking when they suffered CBA to implement something so simple.

.. a clock that kept decent time and didn't lose a few minutes every month or so would be a start.

.. and one that updated on the display when you're early for a meeting and parked up outside the chip shop with the radio on instead of just freezing until you're late...

Still, the XE will be nice when the firmware's finished.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Fire

« on: 13 April 2025, 21:32:21 »

Secondly it looks like a VW Passat estate. It might be hybrid, but it's no EV.

Alternative headline: "VAG car in "being a bit shit" shocker!". 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Prison attack

« on: 13 April 2025, 09:18:01 »

I've been out of the Prison Service since 2020 after 24 years,to say that it is now out of control is an understatement, human rights are now the biggest problem that they have to deal with, also the accelerated promotion scheme which sees morons with a degree being promoted way above their capabilities . Glad to  be out of it & enjoying the pension I risked life & limb for.

I fail to see why, when the inmates are there to have the latter removed, and many don't fit the former category either.

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General Car Chat / Re: Enough to get even Lord Opti's heart rate up

« on: 01 April 2025, 19:40:45 »

Looks adequate to me.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Cheap Flights

« on: 24 March 2025, 22:31:20 »

If you want to add accommodation and car hire/transfers most airlines will offer to add these to a booking

Don't bother if you're booking with the Irish git, though, because they'll take your money then the car park will try to charge you £245 on your return. 

In fact, just stay in the UK or drive. Much less of a PITA.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 24 March 2025, 22:27:27 »

I drove an Audi Q7 with cameras instead of door mirrors. The screen for them was positioned at the edge of the dash by the A pillar. At the end of the journey I still hadn't got used to them as I constantly instinctively glanced where the original door mirror would have been - I think they would take a lot of getting used to, and I don't get the point of them? More to go wrong I guess....

Aerodynamics? Fuel saving?

 Fuel saving is about 1 egg cup full a week. I haven't spoken to any HGV driver who has said Cameras are Good,

All undone in about 3 seconds of driving like a merchant banker. (It's an Audi, after all).

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 20 March 2025, 07:32:56 »

His engineer, who I've met a few times through another common interest, wasn't a 100% fan either. (21:00 onwards)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJbnx660OI

In fact, I recall he wasn't quite as complimentary off the camera.

Lovely bloke whose stories I could listen to for ages. I got talking to him about record players at a Hi-Fi show and he talked about designing suspension for turntables and then casually slipped in "I later applied the idea to F1 cars when I was Technical Director for Williams".

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 18 March 2025, 18:31:30 »

I know, those police drivers.  They get up my arse, flashing wigwam lights and blues and twos, then when I stop to let them past, the also stop and get out, and start with "Evening Nigel Mansell....."

Christ, how long ago did he stop you? It's not even Lewis Hamilton anymore, more like Lando Norris. 

None of them had that many punctures, though...

Mind you, Mansell's were mainly self-inflicted.