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General Discussion Area / BT takeover?

« on: 11 December 2021, 16:44:51 »

Anyone following Drahi?

Could be a tricky time for the government between Monday and the end of December..

Whatever the outcome, should be good news for medium time holders.

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General Discussion Area / F35 recovered from Med

« on: 08 December 2021, 09:14:17 »

Well done recovering the F35 from the depths of the Med.

Apparently a mile deep. Some operation.

138

General Discussion Area / Ukraine-Russia, NATO, USA

« on: 04 December 2021, 14:39:30 »

Russia has been massing 90,000 troops on the Ukraine border. Also using the same rhetoric used before annexing the Crimea. Another 90,000 on the way.

It will be interesting to see what ( if anything) the West does when it all kicks off in the New Year.

Might give the news channels something else other than Omicron to analyse to death.

139

General Discussion Area / Boycott Chinese goods

« on: 30 November 2021, 22:11:23 »

We have a weekly Group Skype. One guy stunned us by announcing his household is now boycotting Chinese goods. We all had a good laugh and wished him luck as everything comes from China one way or another. He is however serious. Not because of the China Virus but because of their human rights record and not signing up to cutting use of coal to name two things. His view is governments ought to do more but people can do more.

We have some good Spanish friends who never knowingly buy Chinese and have done so for years. A sort of buy Spanish campaign like our faded buy British campaign.

Anyone else following boycotting Chinese goods? If so how are you managing?

140

General Discussion Area / CBD advert

« on: 25 November 2021, 19:31:48 »

Doesn’t make any claims. I guess punters have to google.

Anyone a fan?

141

General Discussion Area / Black Friday

« on: 23 November 2021, 10:24:02 »

Never ending. I honestly thought it was last week such is the hype but it is this week. I suppose it would have helped if I was a Thanksgiver.

How long before it has a more neutral name in the future?

142

General Discussion Area / Qatar F1 may cntain spoilers

« on: 20 November 2021, 19:23:19 »

Had to wait to see quali on poor mans tv ( CH4).

Well done Lewis.

What the hell happened to Perez even after listening to post quali interview.?

More sour grapes from Jos Verstappen! Mercedes and Hamilton are doing something illegal apparently.

I wonder how Max will fare in front of the stewards on Sunday for failing to slow during yellows forGasly incident? 3 place grid drop? A fie for Lewis?

Bring on the race.

143

General Discussion Area / Meta

« on: 29 October 2021, 22:18:33 »

Hats off to Facebook for coming up with the name Meta .

Great word regardless of whether you like the company. Buy the shares if you can!

144

General Car Chat / Sat nav Golfmk7 v tom tom

« on: 28 October 2021, 22:06:46 »

Our car sat nav has gone awol. Screen message saying something like data unavailable. A lot irritating as we use it a lot on our jaunts from Spain to UK and back . We are currently in Bordeaux.

A bit of investigating via google suggests that they stop working after 7 updates ( including first use at factory) and or the licence expires after 7 years. I shall go to the local dealer to us back in Spain and no doubt they will fix it for a couple of hundred euros. Strangely, we never had an sd card when we got the car . I believe the card is unique to your car.

Anyone else heard of this “ expiry” concept?

Makes for an expensive sat nav compared to a tomtom which gets free updates for life and costs peanuts. Fortunately we have a tom tom which i updated in Scarborough only a couple of weeks ago. Also plenty of sat nav type apps on mobile phones that are good.

145

General Discussion Area / Squid Games

« on: 20 October 2021, 07:49:36 »

Argh! Can you believe children are playing this sort of games. How long before that is reality ( China already has widespread facial recognition) what sort of humans are we creating.

146

General Discussion Area / NI Brexit row

« on: 13 October 2021, 20:42:33 »

Olive branches from EU today.

What about the ECJ?

I wonder what Lord Frosts red lines are?

147

General Discussion Area / Polexit ?

« on: 09 October 2021, 20:00:19 »

More trouble for the EU.

Poland challenging EU rule of law.

Gas availability and price might be an issue too.

148

General Discussion Area / Russia, F1 might contain spoilers!

« on: 25 September 2021, 20:47:38 »

Really enjoyed the quali today.

Great British prospects in Lando and George.

Shame it looks like a dry race but should be interesting nonetheless. It will be interesting to see where Alonso is after the first corner. Then we have bumper car man who will be carving through!

149

General Discussion Area / Natural order

« on: 19 September 2021, 09:05:25 »

Just reading about CO2 shortage will affect Christmas. Used in food production, ready meals, Bernard Mathew turkeys etc.

The pandemic has upset deliveries, shortage of workers. Shortage of computer chips. Driving up through England I kept seeing gantry signs saying no diesel at services.

Worldwide shortage of containers and container ships but a reluctance to invest in new super ships while climate change movement could render the engines obsolete.

Went to local corner shop and freezer cabinet was nearly empty!

Is all this a portent of the post pandemic future?  Short term problems or with us for next ten years? What do OOFers think?

150

General Discussion Area / Advice Technics separates

« on: 07 September 2021, 15:27:15 »

Time has come to do something with my Hi Fi.

I have a Technics SUV460 amp. CD with remote, Tuner and double tape deck. They have been packed away for 19 years. Got power leads, connecting cables, manuals even.
 We have moved on musicwise and just listen to streamed music on a bluetooth speaker.

Question is; Is there a market for them? We are coming over to England next week with the car. Ebay? Postage would be hefty.