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General Discussion Area / Re: Amazon

« on: 08 January 2021, 15:12:17 »

I have family abroad and normally use Amazon to send gifts, however any non-UK delivery addresses were not available for Christmas. Don't know why.

The workaround I eventually found was to log into the Amazon site in the destination country (existing account should work) so long as you can grasp the language enough.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Capitol Hill

« on: 08 January 2021, 01:50:59 »

Then again, it looks like the Donald just jumped before he was pushed...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Capitol Hill

« on: 08 January 2021, 01:26:48 »

FWIW, my take

- don't see impeachment happening, although the GOP might want to think about removing Trump as a purgative
- excusing the wrongdoings of others via police failure tastes bad. Most of the protestors were grown adults who should have known better. There is such as thing as personal responsibility.
- quite liked Mitt Romney's take

https://youtu.be/MFj2Br8nxoc

 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Capitol Hill

« on: 06 January 2021, 23:41:05 »

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

- Lindsey Graham (May 23 2016)

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Omega General Help / Re: omega idling problem

« on: 06 January 2021, 23:12:48 »

What happens after a successful jump-start?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Capitol Hill

« on: 06 January 2021, 23:08:27 »

This shouldn't be what anyone wanted to happen, but I'm (cautiously) hopeful it may cause most republicans to come to their senses and realise the damage Trump is doing. Which probably includes losing them control of the senate.

The tweet he made about an hour ago is, for the most part, disgraceful.

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General Discussion Area / Re: I'm going to take a punt on this.

« on: 29 December 2020, 00:58:05 »

FMDO: I think so yes. In truth, it needs a 6th gear, which later models have. I've got my beady eye on a decent 2019 with 10k miles just now.

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General Discussion Area / Re: US Election

« on: 29 December 2020, 00:52:41 »

DG: Hmm - John Dean has other thoughts and has some experience of difficult presidents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dean

On a related theme and apologies if this has been linked previously:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxF_CDDJ0YI

Worth an hour of free time - some of his 2016 views were uncanny previews of 2020 (mainly at 39m15s)

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General Car Chat / Re: Battery Failure - Great AA

« on: 27 December 2020, 23:51:12 »

If you have CCR2006, you can also disable the code. I did mine recently when I got fed up resetting it.

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General Discussion Area / Re: I'm going to take a punt on this.

« on: 27 December 2020, 23:42:47 »

I've had a 2008 1300 for 10 years - very competent and reliable bike. Think they ended production this year unfortunately.

Would that be an FJR 1300?

shiny thing 2 by xh535, on Flickr

It would

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General Discussion Area / Re: US Election

« on: 27 December 2020, 23:40:22 »

I'm not sure what result Trump expects by failing to sign the Covid relief bill. There's probably more mileage in why he's trying to stop the National Defense Authorization Act.

https://twitter.com/JohnWDean/status/1343000911610712066

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General Discussion Area / Re: I'm going to take a punt on this.

« on: 27 December 2020, 15:05:24 »

I've had a 2008 1300 for 10 years - very competent and reliable bike. Think they ended production this year unfortunately.

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General Discussion Area / Re: The side of Trump I like

« on: 24 December 2020, 08:01:13 »

Aside from the Pelosi hate-fest, does anyone want pardoned for anything they've done just now?

It seems like they're available for just about anything.

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General Car Chat / Re: Battery Failure - Great AA

« on: 23 December 2020, 20:51:06 »

........
The audi has not turned a wheel for 4 weeks, but the battery is in tip-top condition, as it has a "smart charger" connected to it for 48 hours  every 14 days. Modern cars with all the anti-theft devices and other stuff quickly run down a battery, .......

Whilst we are on the subject of batteries, any recommendations for a smart charger for AGM Start/Stop batteries. Mine doesn't go far now so I'm thinking it should get a little charge now and again. I was looking at the Halfords Smart Plus but no idea if it's any good or not. I have two of the standard battery chargers but they're no good for AGM type I believe.

Reference the AA and batteries, I drove over 300 miles in one go in the Omega, parked up, went to move it twenty minutes later and it was completely dead. Well, 8V actually, but may as well have been dead. The AA turned up, did the checks for parasitic drain and fitted a new battery. He was a pleasant guy who was only too happy to check for battery drain, so a thumbs up from me. 

+1 for Ctek - compact and charges in the best specific way for what battery its connected to. Can recognise and sometimes recover fully-discharged battery.

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General Car Chat / Re: Battery Failure - Great AA

« on: 23 December 2020, 08:24:08 »

AC Delco was taken over by Delphi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACDelco