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General Discussion Area / Man guilty of burning poppies at Armistice Day

« on: 07 March 2011, 18:51:15 »

£50 fine  :-? :-? :-?
That'll teach him! Not repentant at all!!!! I wonder how an act like that would go down when he 'goes back home'?
HTF is a paltry fine like this a deterrent? £5000 would have been more like it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12664346

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General Discussion Area / cheap petrol .....

« on: 21 February 2011, 23:22:50 »

 ...... at Tesco! 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-12526271

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General Discussion Area / Dresden

« on: 14 February 2011, 23:05:10 »

Jeremy Vine this afternoon. SWMBO heard it at the time & said I should hear it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00yj1gg/Jeremy_Vine_14_02_2011/ 1hr 9mins to 1hr 25

Make you think.

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General Discussion Area / Not for Hi-Viz/hard hat wearers

« on: 13 February 2011, 22:36:45 »

Just saw this on 'That Sunday night Show' 

Childish ........ but amusing!

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwYW_RGWSmM[/media]

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General Discussion Area / yet more lessons learned

« on: 02 February 2011, 22:36:21 »

it seems that social services have even more lesson to learn ............ 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12340093

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General Discussion Area / Loan sharks

« on: 10 January 2011, 17:23:43 »

I've been watching Top Gear repeats on Dave. There was a glossy advert for QuickQuid ..... just borrow till next pay day etc etc Have  you seen the APR?
[size=22]2278%[/size]
 

Talk about kicking people when they most need help!

(Assuming things have got that bad people feel that a loan shark is the only place left to borrow money from.)

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General Discussion Area / Man United vs Liverpool

« on: 09 January 2011, 14:06:29 »

I'm no football supporter and besides the supporters of anyone but (Man) Utd ....... Kenny Dalglish isn't getting off to a good start. 1 nill down in the opening minutes & Gerard sent off. 

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General Discussion Area / 1 down .....

« on: 07 January 2011, 18:14:05 »

 ..... Chaytor

He was my local MP, and the only time we ever need his help was over getting our daughter in our choice of school - the same as her older brother. He was initially full of promises but then actually hampered our case cos it went against the party line.
He was in it for only himself, and am delighted at the result. Apparently he could be out by May though.

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General Discussion Area / Britain's fattest man

« on: 05 January 2011, 23:16:06 »

Anyone watching this (Channel 4 +1)? At only 56st  he's having his gastric by-pass. It's not his fault though  ....... apparently!  :-? :-? :-?

It costs (us) £700+ to look after him! 

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General Discussion Area / any cyclists here?

« on: 03 January 2011, 18:17:11 »

2nd one down Danny MacAskill 'Way back home' 
He must have gonads made of steel! Either that or he's just as mad as a hatter!! 

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/bikeradars-top-5-videos-of-2010-28735

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General Discussion Area / t'internet .....

« on: 24 December 2010, 21:42:39 »

 ...... can be so handy. SWMBO shouted me to say that her washing machine had broken. It was showing a fault P-05, a quick Google suggested it was a 'blocked filter'. As the washer lives in the garage I wondered if the cold might have something to do with it, delving behind it I could feel that the waste discharge pipe was solid. A quick defrost with the heat gun & sorted. 

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General Discussion Area / I counted them all out .....

« on: 20 December 2010, 11:36:54 »

 .... and counted them all back.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/20/brian-hanrahan-bbc-foreign-correspondent-dies

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General Discussion Area / tipping (at a restaurant)

« on: 18 December 2010, 19:17:09 »

My daughter works at a local Pizza Express. There was a party of 50 in there last night which I would think would require a fair bit of effort to keep them topped up with drinks etc, so at the end of their meal, the bill came to over £1000 - not too difficult to get that much, around £20 each. The party of middle aged women then ask for the service charge  to be remove which often happens & is perfectly acceptable, no gripe there, in general the girls prefer it cos they're more likely to be tipped cos it won't then be going through the till.
The tip they then left was .....................






the equivalent of [size=16]10p[/size] each!
A miserable £5 from a table/group of 50



and no, it wasn't my daughter that waited on the table.

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General Discussion Area / DC Amp meter

« on: 08 December 2010, 12:38:39 »

Would a cheap clamp type amp meter record DC current?
The spec on this implies it does ......  :-/ :-/

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General Discussion Area / Anyone for pizza?

« on: 07 December 2010, 12:47:49 »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336085/Black-footballers-Pizza-Hut-race-row-Theyre-told-pay--whites-not.html  :-? :-? :-?