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Since they introduced this I used to get strip searched at the till regularly at Aldi, and I'll admit I did used to find it a bit embarrassing , maybe I look dodgy . Since then I just stick my shopping bags on the conveyor belt with my stuff and they have not checked them since. As for maybe carrying a can of vagisil or something, just stick it in your sky rocket.

Never had any problems with paypal and find it very secure. It sends me a code to my phone when I log in or purchase anything, been using it for nearly 20 years. Sounds like a cockpit problem.

Petrol pumps are generally a bit leaky after completion, best way is a little shaking as you have mentioned, then at the earliest moment when removing, try and tilt it back. Jobs a good un, no fuel down your paintwork.  

On 07/11/2023 at 23:31, The_DADDY said:

 However I'm told that if the crack isn't in your eyeline then it won't necessarily mean a failed MOT.

Happy to be corrected though. 

This is correct." You should only fail the windscreen if the view is significantly affected. If only the driver’s view of the sky or the bonnet is affected, it should not be rejected" pulled from the testers manual.

I'm a class 4 MOT tester before someone accuses me of being some sort of armchair expert  

I'm leaving threads are childish. Just log out and stop posting. If you stopped going to a restaurant you had been going to for years would you announce it to everyone on your last visit?  All the best but a leaving thread? No need.

Get as much rest/sleep as you can, keep hydrated, keep warm, paracetamol on an empty stomach up to 4 times a day (Save one for bedtime) some nice hot baths (Sweat it out of you) Hot water bottle in bed, and some nice hot soups. Works for me.

It's a pity normal law abiding electric bill payers have to pay extra to fund these scumbags nicking electric  

2 hours ago, Bargepole23 said:

My thoughts are that if I was the seller, I wouldn't be handing over keys, V5 and any other paperwork until the money had arrived in my bank account. Anything else would be stupidity on the sellers part.

Agree.

When selling a car, I also ready type up, and print 2 copies of a receipt for payment for the vehicle.

It goes along the lines of-

Receipt for payment of car x

Registration x

This vehicle is "sold as seen" and comes with no warranty or guarantee.

I get them  to sign both and keep one myself.

It did come in handy one time when about 2 weeks after a sale, a buyer returned to my house to inform me one of the door handles had stopped working and would I be prepared to do anything about it.

I reminded them the car was "sold as seen" and comes with no warranty or guarantee, showed them the receipt they had signed, and I never saw them again after that. 

WHSmith also own funky pigeon. That probably helps to keep profits up.

10 minutes ago, Longcol said:

 

Who was then - royalty in a boozer in the middle of Brum?

I've just told you, there was a problem with the warning message. It was scare mongering that went drastically wrong.

26 minutes ago, Longcol said:

Can''t think of a "fancy pant royal event" taking place in Birmingham on 21 November 1974 when pub bombs killed 21 people. Just normal folk going out for a drink.

Civilians were not the intended target in that event, but there was a problem with the warning message.

48 minutes ago, Longcol said:

Don't panic dearie. I worked in a city centre bar during the IRA bombing campaign  in 1974. Never felt remotely threatened.

And why would you have needed to feel threatened during that campaign working in a sheffield city centre bar? I would bet my last quid that a place like that was way off the radar unless there was some fancy pant royal event or something taking place. 

No going back now, governments world wide are pushing for EV's and car manufactures have spend billions developing them. I once met a training guy who specialised in bike mechanic training, used to develop for Kawasaki. He told me there was a massive problem in Germany with house fires due to people charging their cars with dodgy extension cables etc.

33 minutes ago, melthebell said:

in anti vax world how am I still succestible to death by vaccine?

There is no long term data on this vaccine, who knows what might happen in 5,10 years time . The last time I looked, the tetanus vaccine was launched in 1967, its 100% effective and has killed 48 people in all that time.  

2 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

I’ll guess that your guess is just a guess. 

Correct, no flies on you fella. Cant' find any data because its all suppressed, wonder why.

1 hour ago, Baron99 said:

You go into hospital for even a minor op that needs a general anaesthetic & beforehand you'll be given a booklet explaining the dangers of the anaesthetic & that 1 in 100,000 die on operating table from it. 

No comparison. If you needed a life or death operation, you have got nothing to lose by risking a general anaesthetic. People were coerced into having these vaccines by the threat of covid passports, limited travel and losing their jobs. I'll guess a fair % of these didn't really need it, and suffered consequences. Other posters on here have told you this till they are blue in the face 

I do find it bizarre that some of you die hard believers don't even smell the slightest rat with all of this, origins of the virus, excessive lockdowns and control, the vaccine. I don't like to go into the origins of the source of the virus because it just becomes a conspiracy to most, but I will say the Wuhan laboratory has been experimenting with bat viruses for years and people make mistakes at work, or maybe it wasn't a mistake 😉, nuff said . While I don't always agree with tops and Daddy's stance on stuff (Mainly wearing sneeze/cough guards in public areas) they do have some valid points, and I do get their scepticism on stuff. Maybe some people need to be a bit more open minded on things.

The best thing car manufactures can do is ditch diesel only models as soon as possible, encourage people into petrol hybrids (This technology is well established and been around since the late 90's) and encourage people into full electric cars where possible. This then gives them 12 years to develop and fully refine electric car batteries to hopefully make them more affordable to the masses. This also gives the government more time to get a decent charging infrastructure in (Don't hold your breath with that sentiment though) 

I always carry my latest insurance certificate in my glove box and have done so for years, don't know why and it is the only document I carry. Never needed it, but when I read stuff like this, I think maybe it's a good idea after all.

11 minutes ago, top4718 said:

I can refuse by not wasting my time answering, if they haven't took the hint from the hundreds of texts and emails they've sent that have been ignored that's their problem.

Fine, go for it, continue your life limiting paranoia, and be frightened of saying  no to someone on the phone. Makes no odds to me.

1 hour ago, Prettytom said:

Nowadays, I do what I like, at a speed that I choose. I’ve still got some rules though. I’m always up by 7:30. I always walk five miles, or more each day. I’ve a couple of allotments too and they keep me busy. 
 

Other than that, I do a crossword a day. I meet friends as often as I can and I read a lot.

 

Just keep busy. Do things that you like to do. And stay active.

This is good advice. Walking is a fantastic form of exercise and good for the mental health, for me it includes seeing seasonal wild flowers blossom and species of birds you don't see in the garden very often. Every walk I do is unique even though its within a ten mile radius.

Keeping the brain active and getting up early as well (Best part of the day), 100% recommend that. 

36 minutes ago, top4718 said:

I must have had 10 phone calls from my supplier since last Thursday, I assume it's to try to fit one of those so I don't/wont answer.

If you had answered you would know. Paranoia can be a life limiting illness, you can say no thank you. 

1 minute ago, top4718 said:

25 years ago was 1998, I think you need to go to bed.

Been already, proves my point on diesels though 

14 minutes ago, top4718 said:

So how does a badly worn mask with huge gaps round it keep it to a minimum, they are also totally ineffective if the person has heavy stubble or a beard, you really don't know what you're talking about at all do you?  I never had a diesel car until the day I got a company one 25 years ago, the company was obviously gullible.

 

Complying with absolute nonsense is more frightening.

The government push to get everyone in diesel cars was 1992/93 ish.

36 minutes ago, top4718 said:

If a mask won't stop visible dust how do you think it will stop microscopic virus particles, do tell?

Its not about breathing microscopic virus particles, you have been doing that since the day you took your first breath. Its about the amount of them you breath in, and keeping it to a minimum. 24/7 you are breathing diesel particulates, fibre glass particles, asbestos particles and a whole host of other nasties. Did you fall for the "get a diesel car" the Tories were pushing in the early nineties? I bet you did, you do seem quite gullible. All hush hush about the damage they have caused to the environment over the years and peoples health. Petrol cars create a fraction of the nasties diesel's do, but because of the big cover up, petrol's are being banned too (granted they do create a little more co2, not alot else though through the catalytic converter) So how did your diesel work out? Diesel particulates and NOx have created more cancer and lung diseases and the planet is still on fire, and you worry about having to wear a face covering in a public place to maybe help protect someone who maybe a little vulnerable, frightening.  

1 minute ago, top4718 said:

Not tricky ridiculous, no one wants a hail of spit and mucus in their face which is why it's common practice not to sneeze in anyone's face and except in possibly the odd extreme instance it doesn't happen, I wouldn't want someone wearing a mask to prevent such a rare instance.

 

 

Sneezing and coughing is, and can be very uncontrolled, do you need telling things like that? We live in a society were no one can think for themselves anymore, look around you, The amount of people who need telling everything is astonishing. Peoples stupidity creates legislation, and has created the monster we live in today.