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General Car Chat / Re: Clutch .
« on: 18 August 2025, 22:27:53 »
Mmm.... Haynes manual says 216.mm on 2.0 engined cars .
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General Car Chat / Clutch .
« on: 18 August 2025, 21:05:49 »
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Can anyone confirm that the clutch is 220mm dia with a 14 tooth spline ?
Can anyone confirm that the clutch is 220mm dia with a 14 tooth spline ?
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 30 July 2025, 22:46:33 »Cleo Laine 97. she was a "doobe doobee doo" jazz singer if you didnt know.
Slow response but we went to their Club " The Stables " in Wavendon twice mid 90's and have to say that they were superb ,captivating " old school " entertainers . The venue had an incredible intimate ambience and although their musical genre wasn't really mine I thoroughly enjoyed both occassions .
In and around that time we so very fortunate to see them both , Acker Bilk , Humphrey Littlton ,Georgie Fame and Kenny Ball at various summer evening picnic concerts . They were all real entertainers .
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 23 July 2025, 00:31:34 »
I just looked back over the Apollo Glasgow website and realised that I saw Sabbath in January 1972 . 
I do remember being absolutley underwhelmed by them .......
Ozzy was another one of those celebs from way back then that seem to follow you through your life and he was much more than entertaining .
I thought his statement at the gig at Aston recently was very touching when he tearfully thanked all their fans for letting them live such a wonderful life .
Very sad that he went so soon after his swansong .
He'll be missed .
I do remember being absolutley underwhelmed by them .......
Ozzy was another one of those celebs from way back then that seem to follow you through your life and he was much more than entertaining .
I thought his statement at the gig at Aston recently was very touching when he tearfully thanked all their fans for letting them live such a wonderful life .
Very sad that he went so soon after his swansong .
He'll be missed .
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 23 June 2025, 23:46:49 »Mick Ralphs 81.I pulled out a couple of Mott The Hoople albums earlier after reading this .
Guitarist and songwriter with Bad Company and Mott the Hoople.
Quite a lot of his music was the soundtrack of my youth. And I still listen to Bad Company regularly. They were a great band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJTSmLqg6iE
It never ceases to amaze and convince me that that era of music and musicians will never be surpassed . Age seems now to encourage me to listen closely to the genres that I never paid attention to at that time and the quality of just about everything is incredible .
Another one gone .
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General Discussion Area / Re: Potty Mouthed Pensioners - AI generated but funny.
« on: 23 June 2025, 23:33:07 »Saw a brilliant A.I version of Kier Starmer on Facebook offering financial services , actually very convincing and very spooky , shockingly easy to get duped by this technology
Many vids that have popped on any of my feeds have been pretty easy to identify as AI but there have been a couple that took me a little time to realise that they were fake .
What concerns me is that if you use the mobile phone anology we are just beyond the Motorola Brick phase in AI ....just look at your "phone " now .
Facinating but frightening .
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trump has gone to the top .
« on: 23 June 2025, 23:24:25 »
I'm curious as to why , with all the aerial bombing that has been going on over Iran as a whole, that there seems to have been no ordinance dropped on the Naval base adjacent to the Straits of Hormuz.
I'd have thought that to ensure that IROI could not mine the international sea routes therin they would have obliterated the base and it's supply and storage facilities.
The US carrier groups sailed through The Straits just prior to the US becoming involved so would it not makes sense that as soon as the first MOP dropped through the ceiling at Fordo the US and /or Israeli air force would have destroyed any Iranian ability to mine the straights.
China is one of the biggest consumer of oil passing through that route and I ask myself who else would benefit , and not necessarily financially , from a global shortage of oil especially if they were a self sufficient producer themselves ....Number one and number three perhaps ?
Methinks that we, the minute pawns in this game of global power retention (and even distribution)
, may have to dig deep(er) into our pockets very soon .
I'd have thought that to ensure that IROI could not mine the international sea routes therin they would have obliterated the base and it's supply and storage facilities.
The US carrier groups sailed through The Straits just prior to the US becoming involved so would it not makes sense that as soon as the first MOP dropped through the ceiling at Fordo the US and /or Israeli air force would have destroyed any Iranian ability to mine the straights.
China is one of the biggest consumer of oil passing through that route and I ask myself who else would benefit , and not necessarily financially , from a global shortage of oil especially if they were a self sufficient producer themselves ....Number one and number three perhaps ?
Methinks that we, the minute pawns in this game of global power retention (and even distribution)
, may have to dig deep(er) into our pockets very soon .
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 02 June 2025, 12:28:14 »
Sad . She owned a lovely house not 250 yards from me .
Haven't seen her about our little town for some years now but she was recognised and liked by all .
Haven't seen her about our little town for some years now but she was recognised and liked by all .
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General Discussion Area / Re: EU UK reset
« on: 23 May 2025, 22:17:00 »
Maybe she didn't want anyone to see the rug she was munching .........
And don't get your hopes up .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14279655/Nicola-Sturgeon-luxury-flat-author-Val-McDermid-split-husband-Peter-Murrell.html
And don't get your hopes up .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14279655/Nicola-Sturgeon-luxury-flat-author-Val-McDermid-split-husband-Peter-Murrell.html
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General Discussion Area / Re: EU UK reset
« on: 22 May 2025, 23:13:49 ».Ursula von der Leyen seems to get whatever she wants from British Prime Ministers, so I can only think that she must give an amazing blow job!
I hear he is not 'overly attracted' to women.
Well now you mention it, it is curious how a 21 year Ukrainian man knows so much about him. The house he owns, the flat where he used to live and the car he used to own.
Even curiouser, a 26 year old Romanian man has been arrested in connection with the arson attacks. I wonder how Starmer knows these young men from Eastern Europe.
Even curiouser still.... Why are the media showing zero interest?
Can only hope that some "sleaze" comes to light about the scumbag Starmer , I would pay good money to watch him squirm his way out of those accusations.
Won't happen Rangie , the "D" Notice took care of that .
Much similar to the Super Injunction that Nicola Sturgeon is believed to have used to prevent the Press speaking about her sham marriage and lesbian affairs .It was blatently apparant that she was presenting a lie to the public to bolster her public personna as a happy wife in an idylic marriage , but the SJ ( that was reputed to have cost a quarter of a million per annum and paid by whom .....) effectivly gagged the press .
IMO that quisling starmer is up to his anus in gay relationships , which if made public could be compared to The Profumo Affair .
The revolting stench of sleaze and depravity that follows him like a puppy dog is not an unfortunate coincidence .
He's a vile creature that has no compuction about staring the camera square on and telling bare faced lies and in all my years I cannot think of another politician that I have felt such loathing for .
I truly fear for the state of the UK in the near future .
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 18 May 2025, 20:42:12 »
Getting the closure we sought for the loss of a a dear friend under the most grisly of circumstances .
What has this world become .?
What has this world become .?
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trump, JD, and Zelenskyy.
« on: 08 March 2025, 16:19:32 »
I'm finding it impossible to understand the motifs behind his decisions and directives other than the obvious .
As has been pointed out every announcement , action and speech has been to the whole and sole benefit of russia the country who only weeks ago threatend to lauch a hypersonic nuclear missle at America.
I'm stunned at the openly hostile approach to Ukraine and the willingness to allow civilian and military deaths to increase by the withdrawl of all the assistence that they had up to recently given.
It wildly reported that trump holds a grudge like no other person known and I keep coming back to the inciident where Ukraine refused to covertly investigate Biden at trumps behest .
If this has any bearing on his vile and repugnant approach to the way he is seeking to " stop all the killing of young men" then he is a warped and seriously demented individual.
I am deeply saddend that America , the country that I have warmed to all my life , has almost overnight turned into the antithesis of all that I hold high.
I was at best ambivalent towards him '17 -'21 but find him truly loathsome now .
I wonder how the American miltary machine feels at suddenly being ordered to stop assisting the foe of russia and turn to assisting their own foe of 75 years .
As has been pointed out every announcement , action and speech has been to the whole and sole benefit of russia the country who only weeks ago threatend to lauch a hypersonic nuclear missle at America.
I'm stunned at the openly hostile approach to Ukraine and the willingness to allow civilian and military deaths to increase by the withdrawl of all the assistence that they had up to recently given.
It wildly reported that trump holds a grudge like no other person known and I keep coming back to the inciident where Ukraine refused to covertly investigate Biden at trumps behest .
If this has any bearing on his vile and repugnant approach to the way he is seeking to " stop all the killing of young men" then he is a warped and seriously demented individual.
I am deeply saddend that America , the country that I have warmed to all my life , has almost overnight turned into the antithesis of all that I hold high.
I was at best ambivalent towards him '17 -'21 but find him truly loathsome now .
I wonder how the American miltary machine feels at suddenly being ordered to stop assisting the foe of russia and turn to assisting their own foe of 75 years .
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trump, JD, and Zelenskyy.
« on: 01 March 2025, 15:56:41 »
Putin is totally behind the devious machinations here , there is no other explanation.
Trump and that little c***sucker vance have alienated and thrown into confusion NATO , every western democratic country ( except Hungary ) , the EU as a whole, and the UK whilst at the same time humiliating Ukraine and Zelinsky on the world stage and also giving russia a seat at the big table again whilst espoucing the belief that poor russia is the victim in all of this .
All of this because he didn't get his share of the mineral rights and Zelensky didn't wear a suit ?
No , the speed and intensity of all of this is because putin is desperate and needs trump to pony up now .....right now !
There is no diplomacy or etiquatte being displayed here , just brutal coertion .
It's conceivable that at a swipe of a pen trump will sign an exectutive order ceasing supply of all weaponry , ceasing sanctions ,musk switches off starlink and the satellite info closely guarded by America will be unavailable to ALL parties .
I hope that Mr & Mrs middle America are utterly disgusted with what trump has done allowing their long term enemy to control their direction in the world stage .
This will get worse , quickly .
Trump and that little c***sucker vance have alienated and thrown into confusion NATO , every western democratic country ( except Hungary ) , the EU as a whole, and the UK whilst at the same time humiliating Ukraine and Zelinsky on the world stage and also giving russia a seat at the big table again whilst espoucing the belief that poor russia is the victim in all of this .
All of this because he didn't get his share of the mineral rights and Zelensky didn't wear a suit ?
No , the speed and intensity of all of this is because putin is desperate and needs trump to pony up now .....right now !
There is no diplomacy or etiquatte being displayed here , just brutal coertion .
It's conceivable that at a swipe of a pen trump will sign an exectutive order ceasing supply of all weaponry , ceasing sanctions ,musk switches off starlink and the satellite info closely guarded by America will be unavailable to ALL parties .
I hope that Mr & Mrs middle America are utterly disgusted with what trump has done allowing their long term enemy to control their direction in the world stage .
This will get worse , quickly .
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trump, JD, and Zelenskyy.
« on: 28 February 2025, 20:09:09 »
I think the lights will burn brightly in the corriders of power all across Europe and beyond tonight .
I'm now beyond confinced that putin has trump well and truly under his control.
In trumps first tenure russia was flying high awash with rubles and dollars so the demands were tolerable and largly unnoticed .
russia is in a perilous state economically and not winning the war against a smaller neighbour .
This time putins demands were simple and desperate in that trump had to dance from day one to allow him to defeat Ukraine and frighten NATO into believing that it was all powerful again....or else .
My belief is that what we witnessed was also fully planned to completely embarrass Macron and Starmer( and that oaf lammy ) who basicaly waved a piece of paper in their hand when they got home stating " I have in my hand ........" They should rightly feel utterly humiliated.
Special relationship ? ... that was erased tonight .
I wish I could figure what the people of America feel tonight after watching that utterly unedifying spectacle .
I truly believe that we are more than one step closer to a European war now with an emboldend russia ,probably within 5 years , and possibly armed civil unrest in America .
It's like reading the history of the events leading to WW1 and 2 .
None of us will win from this .
I'm now beyond confinced that putin has trump well and truly under his control.
In trumps first tenure russia was flying high awash with rubles and dollars so the demands were tolerable and largly unnoticed .
russia is in a perilous state economically and not winning the war against a smaller neighbour .
This time putins demands were simple and desperate in that trump had to dance from day one to allow him to defeat Ukraine and frighten NATO into believing that it was all powerful again....or else .
My belief is that what we witnessed was also fully planned to completely embarrass Macron and Starmer( and that oaf lammy ) who basicaly waved a piece of paper in their hand when they got home stating " I have in my hand ........" They should rightly feel utterly humiliated.
Special relationship ? ... that was erased tonight .
I wish I could figure what the people of America feel tonight after watching that utterly unedifying spectacle .
I truly believe that we are more than one step closer to a European war now with an emboldend russia ,probably within 5 years , and possibly armed civil unrest in America .
It's like reading the history of the events leading to WW1 and 2 .
None of us will win from this .
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General Discussion Area / Re: Ukraine peace deal
« on: 20 February 2025, 23:46:27 »The only obstacle to peace in Ukraine is Russia.That's actually true of Zelenskyy in equal measure. And as it goes, targeting sites deep into Russia is an escalation of its own as it takes the whole muddy mess far beyond the border skirmish that it actually is.
They could end this stupid futile war instantly by calling a ceasefire and withdrawing their troops.
Instead, in recent weeks we have seen them increasing the number and intensity of their attacks, especially on civilian targets.
It's the equivalent of England occupying Offas Dyke and Wales bombing Norwich 'in retaliation'.
Three years in and nobody has lost or gained anything noteworthy.
Is that how you really see it ?
skirmish
(ˈskɜːmɪʃ IPA Pronunciation Guide)
noun
1. a minor short-lived military engagement
2. any brisk clash or encounter, usually of a minor nature