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General Car Chat / Re: Oils

« on: 24 July 2014, 22:37:44 »

If only there was an informed member in the trade who would offer to answer questions on oil-I'm sure you'd find the info you needed in no time. 

(No harm intended)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Advice with dealing with a neighbour please?

« on: 24 July 2014, 19:25:49 »

CCTV seems the way to go. This coupled with a diary of when incidents occur can gradually build up a file to be presented to the housing association and police when you have enough to demand action.

CCTV can be connected to a local recorder without the need of internet, and rather than have your MIL record the diary ask her to call you or another family member after any incident and you keep the diary. This will have the added benefit of letting your MIL feel supported and give her the opportunity to vent-these situations often seem worse when kept to ones self, especially when elderly and inclined to 'not want to bother others'.

Obviously distance for you is an issue in getting stuff set up, but if it helps, and your MIL is in London I'd be happy to spare an afternoon to stick a CCTV system in.

It may also be worth seeing if friends or family can pay more frequent visits-the extra presence may be enough to dissuade the scum that it's not worth the Agro as they're not just dealing with a single elderly lady on her own.

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General Car Chat / Re: What have you hated today?

« on: 24 July 2014, 19:15:28 »

So today brought a familiar hatred to the fore-that of drivers who should by all rights never be allowed near the road.

Driving at a steady 22mph, slowing to about 15mph when an oncoming car approaches.
Alternating between veering towards the kerb, or halfway across the white line, somewhat like a pinball, and braking to a near standstill for no reason whatsoever.

The only time they resemble a real driver is when you decide to think about an overtake, which prompts the to drive straight and speed up to a staggering 30mph.

This is on a national speed limit country road.

One had a kid bouncing around the back seat and one looked like they were still asleep.

Oh to have a death ray on the car!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Gruesome

« on: 24 July 2014, 08:39:24 »

Who cares, its a very bad person who has inflicted mass pain on his victims

Couldn't agree more.

Would anyone have any qualms if it was a convicted peodophile/child murderer?

There was another story from America recently about a father who walked in on an 18 year old abusing his child-it had apparently been going in three years. The father beat him unconscious, then called the police and told them to come and collect the 18 year old.

The police pressed no charges against the father-saying he was defending his child and did what an father would.

A somewhat brutal punishment, but not one many normal people would argue with.
Was nice to see the police using common sense for once.

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General Car Chat / Re: rolling coal.

« on: 23 July 2014, 07:29:25 »

I had to google the term.
Now I know what it means I just have to figure out why any normal person would want to do it.

I would imagine an attempt at this in London would probably end up in a friendly chat with either the police, or the end if a baseball bat-whichever stopped you first!

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General Car Chat / Re: What have you hated today?

« on: 23 July 2014, 07:22:49 »

Today brings a hatred for driving two hours to a site to get there on time, only to find the onsite contact hasn't arrived, as their 15 minute journey is clearly too much for them

I think next time I'll stay in bed and follow dr.optis lead

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General Car Chat / Re: What have you hated today?

« on: 22 July 2014, 09:55:11 »

I also now hate tiny phone screens that cause you to start threads in the wrong section. 

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General Car Chat / What have you hated today?

« on: 22 July 2014, 09:53:20 »

Today, I have mostly been hating celeron processors since 5.30am.
I expect this hatred to last at least another two hours.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Indian food...

« on: 20 July 2014, 21:22:53 »

I've made a few from here that turned out pretty well.

Turkey is great in them too.

http://www.curry-pot.com

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General Discussion Area / Re: Best and Easiest way to Send Large Files through Titernet

« on: 13 July 2014, 10:29:05 »

An alternative to google drive that is meant to have better speeds. Not sure how client side setup is though.

http://www.bittorrent.com

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General Discussion Area / Re: Spotted this

« on: 01 July 2014, 10:23:11 »

Possibly a missing apostrophe on the 'its number' since the its could be possessive.

What's the prize by the way-do I win the internet?

Apostrophes on "it's" are always an abbreviation of "it is", and are wrong for possessive cases. It should have been "we'll" rather than "well".

I agree. I was taught that it's considered possessive if it belongs to something or someone, not a word!
My sister in law-a teacher-argues this with me, which is why I said possibly.

She also disputed the existence of an Oxford comma, completely unaware of it until I told her what it was.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Spotted this

« on: 30 June 2014, 07:29:18 »

Possibly a missing apostrophe on the 'its number' since the its could be possessive.

What's the prize by the way-do I win the internet?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Spotted this

« on: 29 June 2014, 21:33:57 »

While i was at a customers during the week,see if you can spot the mistake 

Well not we'll?

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General Discussion Area / Re: wanted. ddr

« on: 27 June 2014, 19:53:01 »

Had a check today and I have 2 512 sticks and one 256.

You're more than welcome to them but I'm fairly sure the 512 sticks were removed as one was knackered -this was some time ago, from what's now a close to ten year old dell latitude.

As TB said, second hand ram is always a gamble (not one I'd take, unless it was ram I'd removed from another machine myself, and knew it was good) and I definitely wouldn't pay for it.

If cost is an issue but you want something that will work or can be returned, then something like this May do the job at £6.99 a gig
http://www.misco.co.uk/product/173161/Simply-Saver-1GB-PC2-5300-DDR2-SODIMM
You'd need to double check compatibility though- that's just an example.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Got a deep pounding yesterday

« on: 26 June 2014, 22:32:41 »

Dr Stemo will be disappointed when he sees this thread... the title looks right up his, er, street

Haha. 

If he saw me when it's bad-the only comfortable stance is bent over, leaning On a kitchen work top-he'd not know what to do with himself ( or his little feller [vomiting smiley here])