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General Discussion Area / Re: Trying to keep myself ‘purposeful’

« on: 20 February 2026, 18:35:58 »

Swmbo has been requesting one of those mixer things for about 40 years.
I must remember to buy her one, one of these days. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: So.....Starmer has u-turned..

« on: 20 February 2026, 18:33:51 »

Disappearing up his own arris.
Makes a change from an Eastern European rentboys arris I suppose. 

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General Car Chat / Re: New calipers... What colour?

« on: 20 February 2026, 18:31:31 »

Easyjet orange is quite appealing. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Andrew arrested

« on: 19 February 2026, 17:19:56 »

They shouldnt have sent a young WPC to arrest him. Rumour has it he thought she was a birthday stripogram and things got a bit embarrassing. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Andrew arrested

« on: 19 February 2026, 11:44:58 »

The misconduct charge carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
It seems its not connected to the Epstein stuff but what he got up to when he was a trade ambassador ?
Mandy did have a similar type of job at one point I think ? so maybe he will have his collar felt on similar charges.
Time will tell I suppose.

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

« on: 18 February 2026, 20:30:32 »

Same here. The road into our village has to be seen to be believed.
People are sticking traffic cones in them as a warning, so people can weave around them instead of wrecking their cars.
Two emergency Ambulances got seriously held up the other day because of it.

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General Car Chat / Re: Stellantis to bring back diesel

« on: 18 February 2026, 11:39:23 »

Planet killing soot chucker's should meet the same end as the dinosaur.

Nothing used to hear me up more when I was in the Battlebus - before DTM fixed it - of lifting then flooring the throttle, covering the car following too close behind in a cloud of soot.

I always used to chuckle


Wasn't half as much fun after DTM made the Battlebus work properly, but was a damn site quicker

Pah, for real fun you need to be running on WVO obtained from the local curry house. I used to larf my arse off when sat at traffic lights, looking in the rear view mirror, lip reading the driver in the car behind saying to their passengers " Whats that farkin smell ?"   
First time I took it for MOT he said, "Get that thing out of here. Its a workshop not a farkin chip shop. Come back when you have some proper fuel in the tank". 

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

« on: 14 February 2026, 14:45:25 »

Nothing a strip of gaffer tape wont put right. 

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General Car Chat / Re: I wish

« on: 11 February 2026, 21:12:47 »

I dont suppose theres a local OOFer who could help ?
That price seems obscene to me. 
As for TPMS. I would pull the fuse and just use my tyre pressure gauge, same as I have done for the last 50 years. 

Madness. If you cant be arsed to check tyre pressures once a week you shouldnt be allowed a licence. 

All done in the name of "progress".  TPMS, rain sensitive wipers etc, all done so many don't have to properly look after their cars. Just be reactive instead of proactive.

Funnily enough, I have a VW99 relay on its way to me, so I cand get rid of that useless "feature" on my Omega. 

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General Car Chat / Re: Another MOT pass

« on: 11 February 2026, 21:07:47 »

Probably, but finding where they are stashed is another matter. 

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General Car Chat / Re: I wish

« on: 11 February 2026, 12:52:33 »

Madness. If you cant be arsed to check tyre pressures once a week you shouldnt be allowed a licence. 

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

« on: 11 February 2026, 12:51:27 »

Cant get the airbag light to stay off on Sons Civic. Pretty sure its connected to a dodgy connection in the seat belt buckle which means the seat belt reminder on the dash doesnt always light up when the belt is unplugged.
MOT is due Friday, so Ive dismantled the clocks, and found the airbag light isnt removable and soldered into the board.
Carefully bent the little bulb out a bit and stuffed a bit of tissue paper down the hole it sits in to block out the light. 
Should be an advisory for not illuminating rather than a fail for being illuminated. 

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General Car Chat / Re: I wish

« on: 11 February 2026, 12:24:46 »

I dont suppose theres a local OOFer who could help ?
That price seems obscene to me. 
As for TPMS. I would pull the fuse and just use my tyre pressure gauge, same as I have done for the last 50 years. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 11 February 2026, 00:32:14 »

I think it can take several minutes. Bleed to death internally really.

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General Discussion Area / Re: The latest Epstein case files...

« on: 10 February 2026, 13:36:43 »

Jesus wept !