stackmonkey

I have just purchased an Atom Supercharged and it is rather quick.. Anyone need a lift from Dore to the city center in less than 4 minutes ??

Assuming you're on the level, I wouldn't try that 4 minute run in the wet - they get a bit 'lively' to say the least.

Think you're missing the point here really.

 

Rear end shunts ARE caused by following too close which means they are going to fast. The whole point of slowing down is so that stopping distances are reduced. In other words there won't be so many rear end shunts if drivers slow down and keep a safe distance away from the car in front. The two key words are SLOW DOWN.

No, Keith, I'm afraid you've got it entirely wrong.

I can see where you're coming from, but it's wrong nonetheless

as cyclone pointed out, the two key words in your post above are actually SAFE DISTANCE.

If motorists merely slow down, but maintain the same time gap (eg 2 seconds) then what happens is that the physical distance between vehicles is reduced. The accidents will still happen, but at a reduced speed.

If you educate people into maintaining a safe distance (and paying attention), whatever the speed, then they will have enough time AND space to avoid a collision.

Cases in point are my last 3 accidents. In all 3 I was hit by another driver from behind (and all 3 admitted their fault, I should point out)

In the 'fastest' accident, I was virtually stationary and the other driver was doing no more than 20mph (in a 30mph limit). he admitted he simply wasn't paying enough attention.

In the other 2 accidents, I was again virtually stationary, but crucially, the other driver was also doing no more than walking speed (we were at junctions) and again, this was down to them not paying attention and being too close, the speeds really couldn't have been any slower.

Can we just be clear on one particular point here, folks?

These are NOT squirrel FLAVOURED crisps,

They are squirrel FLAVOUR crisps.

For something to be labelled and described as 'flavoured' it must contain the actual ingredient to which the flavour refers and derive most of the taste from that.

If it is labelled and described as 'flavour', it does not have to contain ANY of the relevant ingredient.

It is

I had the chimney at mine swept when I first saw the fire..

it hadn't been cleaned out for several weeks by the previous house owners and had obviously been used to burn any kind of rubbish, including plastics, rubber material, metals stuff including foil crisp packets etc, so was piled several inches high and took hours to clean out.

So I took some good advice from my then employer (the Environmental dept. at CPL) on lighting fires, best fuels (and brands ), chimney sweeping etc and the rest is history, lol.

Let's put it this way; remember prince harry/william in the Nazi costume?

There's a very fine line..........

If i was using my fire more, or had a solid fuel appliance as such, I would have the chimney swept more often, as you suggested, but it's not worth it for my usage at the moment.

Good advice JL, esp for the OP.

I have my CV on a few.

For example, on Monster, I have it set to confidential so my cv is visible to employers, but not my contact details.

when I had it as public, i had loads of agencies call me to get me on their books, with 'ghost jobs' a plenty.

Now i only get emails about genuine jobs because it's too much trouble for them to email me without an actual job to back it up.

Mine barely gets used an average of once a month, with clean fuel - I'll take the risk. :-)

I don't think it matters which way you eat your food with a knife and fork, in the same way as it matters, say, writing or using a spoon. You still use both hands to do an equal amount of work. The knife hand might need more strength (in cutting), but the fork hand needs more dexterity (stabbing and aiming for the mouth).

 

An interesting video on why lefties need different left-handed scissors:

 

I use Knife and fork right handed, but spoon and fork left handed.

I use right handed scissors (lefty ones weren't available when i was at school).

if the blacking up is obviously being done for a particular event, you should be OK, although some will see it as racist.

It would be VERY funny if say, (I'm assuming you're white) you blacked up and a black friend of yours whited up and you went as a duo? (paul McCartney and STevie wonder?)

Back on topic - depends on circumstances. I had an ex of mine live with me as a lodger for a few months and it was no problem when i started going out with someone else at the time.

we had split up years previously though.

Cardio-vascular exercise will help you reduce weight and reduce the fat. Using weights or other strength building exercise will tone up your muscles.

This is like those who want a six pack stomach though. Reducing fat on its own won't work because the muscle isn't there and doing lots of strength exercises on their own won't work unless the covering fat is taken care of.

Depending on how often you use an open fire, and the cleanliness of the fuels, you will need to have your chimney swept at least every 2 years, and possibly up to every 6 months. I've yet to pay over £25.

Having heating on 24/7 is no more expensive because the walls stay warm, and this is where you tend to lose most heat in an old detached house, new houses with good cavity wall insulation retain the heat for much longer, so are more efficient on a timer.

Installing double glazing can have a long pay back period (up to 30 years) so get some quotes and do the maths for your house. It may be better to have secondary glazing put in (a second 'frame' within the opening) for a fraction of the cost and most of the benefit, especially as you want to retain your original frames.

If you're in the industry, it's relatively easy to work out.

Large factories tend to already know their carbon footprint because they already have to collect the necessary data for environmental and energy reasons. This just needs to be apportioned down for quantities (toilet rolls start off at several metres wide, over 2 metres tall and weigh several tonnes)

Distribution and warehousing footprints can then be added onto to that of the supermarket itself and similarly apportioned.

When they make contact, you give them a deadline before which they must pay and collect. Make it a relatively short deadline at that.

Good Grief!

So many pillocks on here who seem to believe that teaching children about homosexuality is virtually teaching them to become gay, or that teaching about something is automatically promoting it...

Similarly for those who believe that homosexuality is a choice; it's isn't. Nor it is learned.

There is masses of evidence from history and in nature that homosexuality has existed for both humans and other animals for thousands of years. It is natural, not common, but as natural as being left handed instead of right handed.

Those who are arguing about 'Lifestyle choices' should realise that love isn't a lifestyle choice and the love of gay people for each other in a relationship is just as valid in every way as that of straight people.

I grew up in a time when section 28 was in operation, in a catholic family, where homosexuality was never mentioned at home or at school in any kind of positive way, if at all. I certainly didn't learn it, nor about it, yet here I am.

I do wish I had been taught about it at a much younger age than I taught myself; I could have got so many aspects of my life sorted so much sooner, and been happier in my life.

Ignorance brings fear and with that comes discrimination, and unprovoked physical attacks, and so much more unpleasantness.

To those who ask if others would want their children to be gay and presumably teach their own that being gay is wrong,

what would you do if your child comes out as gay? or it physically assaulted for being gay? or, the child is actually straight but is assaulted because some idiot thinks they are gay and that is worthy of abuse?

No, it just saves time, haircut and teeth brush at the same time

you just have to remember which hand you have which implement in....

I know - weird. They're usually the last people to see the light!

Yeah, it's cos the niqab was loose and fell over their eyes, so they had to lift it back up to see properly again.

What the 2 above have said...

My house is a detached pre WW1 and i have done all the above, with the exception of the open fire.

My open fire has a lined chimney (which i get swept) that has a good 'draw', which is good for the fire, but is also a heat sapping draught at other times....

so when the fire is not in use, and is cold I use a specially made wood panel and an old sheet to cover it up and stop virtually all the draught.

If you have no cellar, improve the insulation in your floors, without preventing ventilation.

It's still an expensive place to heat though compared to a similar sized new house.

In winter, I found this year that keeping the heating on 24/7 at 18.5C used no more gas than on timer at 20C and the house was comfortably warm all the time rather than just when the gas was on.

Write down all the allegations, and the nature of them and the time made etc.

Also write down any evidence/proof you have (to back up your word) that they are false.

eg. If an allegation is made of excess noise at 3am on a particular night, and you were away, then make a note of that too..

Good, then he's more likely to improve his behaviour. I suspect that while you disapprove of the drinking, it's really the behaviour that bothers you? If that is the case, then tell him that too.

Bago,

A friend of mine came to me with an 'issue' similar to yours.

Yorkshire born and bred, he'd qualified as a doctor in new york, got a job as a GP on his return but found he was constantly rubbing his staff up the wrong way when he told them to do various tasks as part of their normal duties and asked me for some advice.

After some gentle questions I established that he was very direct in how he did this, without being rude, but with a distinct lack of 'British Manners'.

All i suggested was that he seriously up the 'please' and 'thank you' count and phrase his commands as questions. i.e. asking them rather than telling them, but with authority.

1 month later, problem solved..

You don't HAVE to throw him out, you just have to make him believe that you will.

He's my son and usually a very nice lad. I.... would do anything for him.

 

but I can't tell him to move out because I don't want him to move out.

Loving your son and putting up with his drunk alter ego do not have to go hand in hand.

and your statement that I have selectively quoted above? Doing the best thing for him might just include making him move out of the family home if his behaviour doesn't improve.