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3501
« on: 28 January 2012, 01:12:03 pm »
octavia is a stretched golf innit? Based on the golf. Same as Golf, Jetta, A3 and Seat equivalent (Leon?). I'd have one tomorrow.
3502
« on: 28 January 2012, 01:08:51 pm »
I seem to recall not so long ago that Mr Murray made a huge point of saying he would support any team that were playing against England Hardly making a "huge" point, just stating the obvious. 
3503
« on: 25 January 2012, 08:05:00 pm »
An investment banker, a Daily Mail reader and a welfare claimant are sitting round a plate with 12 biscuits on it.
The Investment banker takes 11 biscuits, then turns to the Daily Mail reader and says - "Watch out - that fucking scrounger is after your biscuit"
3504
« on: 24 January 2012, 07:24:56 pm »
She doesn't get the cash. The landlord does.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. I am a landlord. So you have all my tax money!  The bulk of the cash is intended for the Landlord. How it gets there, or doesn't, I never commented on. But what we have is tax payers forking out for inflated rents paid to people with money invested in property. This all comes back to Maggie selling off the council stock, the privatisation of the welfare state. Meanwhile non of you care or want to do anything about the big money, the 100's billions pounds evey year that rich people avoid in taxation every single year. The kind of money that can get this country out of the mess that's it 's in. And here's another thought for you all. There was a nice picture of Crazy Dave Cameron at Asda's head quarters in my paper today surrounded by Asda staff. Apparently Asda is spending 500 million on an expansion programme and creating 6000 jobs. Great news what? Now I'm wondering what this expansion is, but assuming it's within their usual retail business model, well that means 6000 low paid jobs, just above the minimum wage but below the living wage. Therefore it's another 6000 jobs that the tax payer will have to subsidise with welfare payments. Why the hell do we continue to put up with subsidising the wage bill of stinking rich national and international companies? Is it not about time people in full time employment were paid a living wage, particularly when they are employed by a multi million/billion pound business. The whole system is fucked, and nobody has any intention of doing anything about it. Delboys manifesto......... And yes one government policy for pulling the wool over our eyes is to run the agenda. Favourites are welfare, immigration, human rights, anything that with the help of the rich press barons will keep us from wising up to how the economy really works, and who it works for. Divide and rule. In the "bad" old days, if you had a child outside of marriage or an unexpected pregnancy it was socially frowned upon and the mother and child had to live with the parents and make do............................. = deterrent In the bad old days girls that got pregnant outside of marriage were considered to be mentally ill, after the child was taken from them at birth they were then placed in mental asylums were many remained for the rest of their lives.
3505
« on: 24 January 2012, 12:48:52 am »
Tax dodging, billions upon billions of pounds of it, is legal in the UK. And that ain't gonna change. A saving of 250 million, which is somewhat optimistic, by comparison, is a drop in the ocean. it wasn't fair my taxes should keep her in a house that looked a lot nicer than mine cos she doesn't want to move away She doesn't get the cash. The landlord does. Good old Tory policy. Your taxes go straight to the rich Tories. And that, my friends, ain't gonna change. Foc off you sponging twat. Np foc off you Tory sponging bastards.
3506
« on: 23 January 2012, 07:40:42 pm »
This is quite an interesting one.
As the people who will be financially effected are generally rich Tories. I wasn't convinced they would actually go and do this, because it hurts their own, though of course by the time it's been voted down a few times and amended it won't really make any difference, but the Tories will get applauded for making populist noises. It's a non event, very clever posturing though.
The reason we have this mess comes back to Maggie and the council houses. There's foc all council houses any more.
I know guys at work who have DSS empires. They buy a ropey flat for 30 grand, spend 5 - 10 grand making it meet the regs and then get some DSS in. Every 3-6 years you make your money back on it. My foccing tax money handed over, not to the unemployed, disabled or needy, but rich dudes with little rental empires.
Apparently, this legislation, if it does through, could save up to 250 million a year. Well foc me ain't that a fortune!
Meanwhile crazy Dave is still to scared to do anything about the bankers bonuses, you know the guys we bailed out with a trillion quid or two who are throwing billions about in bonuses. The non-doms and other rich tax avoiders (the more you earn the less you pay tax in % terms). All the failed bankers on their state backed fat pension deals.
All the UK companies, operating in the UK but registered abroad, so they can skip on 100's of billions of pounds of tax.
That's where the money is folks.
But hey don't expect the Daily Mail and the Express to let the obvious truth get in the way of a good story. And you lot, just like the rest of the country swallow it whole. Never mind who's really screwing you, just get that poor foccer on the benifits.
3507
« on: 22 January 2012, 12:24:58 pm »
the electronic handbrake is one that comes up regularly I mean who needs an electronic hand break? FFS. Why do manufactueres keep giving us this shit. Anyway a small motor (similar to what you find in a drill driver) drives the piston in on the rear caliper to apply the hand break. When you release it on a hill a computer calculates the angle of the car and the torque required to hold the car and releases when the required torque is applied, so I'm told. Fella at work had one. He parked it on a hill across from a petrol station. He applied the hand break, got out and locked the car. A few mintes later the car rolled down the hill, across the road and crashed into the petrol station. He got it all fixed up, but 6 mnths later the brake fault lamp was back up and the hand break doesn't work again. Owners manual now advises to park in gear with wheels turned towards kerb. Good hand-break huh? VW quoted 400 quid to fix. Basically 400 quid for the bit with the motor that bolts onto the calliper. After having loads of trouble with the car he just wanted rid of it. He brought the motor bit into our workshop to see if we could fix it and get rid of his fault lamp. What happens is part of the casing splits down the side, shit gets in and it seizes up. The gearbox ratio is crazy in it, so you can't turn shaft that drives the calliper in to try and free off the sealed motor. You can actually strip it, clean it all and rebuild but you may destroy it in doing so. Anyway we just stuck it in a vice, filled it with tri-flow and left to soak. Stuck a De-Walt 18v battery on the end of it, big flash and away it went again (forget bench power supplies etc. you need a powerful battery to drive it) A bit of super glue down the crack, he bolted it on and the hand break works again. The Passat was traded in 4 days later. Anyway has nobody mentioned Skoda? Octavia is same platform and running gear as the Golf, but stretched out a bit - bigger. Decent sized car, looks good too, drives like any VAG group car. Petrol VRS would be my choice, but 170BHP diesel VRS version is ideal for bigger milages. 140BHP diesel L&K version very nice too. Forget Audi, silly prices for much the same thing.
3508
« on: 22 January 2012, 12:01:58 pm »
Rear wheel bearings in mine failed at about 18,000 miles.
They might do 10,000 miles, or they might do 100,000 miles, who knows.
Just don't put pressure washers anyway near bearings.
3509
« on: 22 January 2012, 11:59:03 am »
The standard seat on the Gen 1 is fine when new, but after a few thousand miles it becomes hell. I got a replacement from P&P with Gel insert. Tis good. http://www.ppseat.co.uk/default.asp
3510
« on: 20 January 2012, 10:46:48 pm »
but in so many ways predictable given the stupid price of todays bikes....the manufacturers are pricing themselves out of business. It's called the exchange rate. The pound has plummeted.
3511
« on: 17 January 2012, 06:59:41 pm »
Entitled - People are awesome (Don's version) High def extreme sports footage if anybody is wondering, and yup worth clicking on.
You'd think they'd come up with a better title considering the great footage that they have.
I guess that rock climber is dead. Crazy.
Surprised to see footage shot on Raasay. That's the old cable railway for the iron mine.
I'm sure I've seen that Red Phone box before, can't quite work out where it is.
3512
« on: 03 January 2012, 01:46:10 pm »
Fitted a titanium Scorpion to my bike when I got it in 2004. It's fine.
3513
« on: 31 December 2011, 12:54:08 pm »
7dayshop Laura. I get all my cards from there, no fakes as far as I'm aware. 7dayshop is great for a lot of stuff. I used to spend a fortune there when I was still shooting loads of film. I did buy some CF cards from them years ago, but I sent them all back. Often 7dayshop stuff comes removed from the OE packaging and unsealed. They weren't keen to take them back but I quoted the manufacturers advice (cards should always be supplied in complete and sealed packaging) and got my money back on em. Same thing with OE printer cartridges, I returned them and got my money back. 7dayshop told me they were removed from the packaging to cut costs and storage and postage. Now I ain't saying that the 7dayshop stuff wasn't genuine, but the seal is part guarantee of a genuine card and I can take the chance of rip off crap. Also bear in mind that much of what 7dayshop sells is grey market. So your guarantee is with 7dayshop only. 7dayshop always sorted out any issues I had, if a little reluctantly on a couple of occasions. Used to be great when they sent literally everything VAT free, but they play by the rules now.
3514
« on: 31 December 2011, 12:37:45 pm »
Not got one on mine.
When I fitted my K-Tech shock a few years ago I was gonna get one. I asked the technician what he thought of huggers. He reckoned they did little to protect the shock and just made getting the wheel out and in more a fiddle.
So that and considering that I don't really like the look of em, well I never bothered.
3515
« on: 30 December 2011, 03:40:40 pm »
Still using my Nokia 1100.
They sold a quarter of a billion of them.
3517
« on: 16 December 2011, 08:14:39 pm »
That sort of thing happens all the time, 2 days is excessive though.
Alzheimer's, can be a real problem. One loads of folks have it and two many don't yet know that they have it. By the time they do know they have it they often don't fully understand what it means.
And even once a consultant has advised that a driving license be removed, well that's all very well, but don't expect the patient to remember that they are not allowed to drive.
3518
« on: 16 December 2011, 12:40:31 am »
There should really be a cut off point for elderly drivers.
How on earth do you do that?
3519
« on: 15 December 2011, 09:54:11 pm »
The couple of times I've had cars coming straight towards me on the motorway, one of them on realising their error doing a full swooping slow u-turn across 4 lanes of the M8. Total chaos. Old fellas both times.
3520
« on: 10 December 2011, 12:15:26 pm »
As far as I am aware, tyres don't generally go for about 4,5 or 6 years.
One contributing factor is UV, so if the bike is stored away in a garage that generally helps. Though UV isn't the only thing that ages tyres.
So if you are going to only ride the bike now and again, go for something softish, plus I assume you won't be riding it on cold winter days when softer rubber can struggle to get up to operating temp. Otherwise you'll end changing the tyres due to ageing (usually shows up as cracking on the side walls) rather than wear and tear.
One wee tip is to make sure you turn the tyres now and again, plus keep correctly inflated. With bikes that sit stored away for long periods the tyres can go off round, all that weight sitting on the same bit of tyre all the time. Just turn the tyre a bit every few weeks. You'll know if the tyre goes off round as the bars will vibrate and the bike will shake it's head hard now and again if you pressing on. It usually works it's self out after a while though but not fun till it has done.
3521
« on: 08 December 2011, 06:29:09 pm »
Yes I would dearly love one of those Flextight scanners.
I might never shoot digital again if I got hold of one of those.
Ach well, hoping I get my old darkroom re-built in the next couple of years.
3522
« on: 07 December 2011, 07:12:52 pm »
You might be best asking on a photograhy forum.
A lot of it depends on what quality you want.
I've got a Nikon LS40 which I bought in 2003. I originally bought a Minolta Dual Scan, that lasted a month and went pop. Got replaced with the Nikon that has now been repaired once.
It's a 135 format scanner and the results are top notch. It takes about 5 minutes to do a scan, then I'll spend more time working on the scan in photoshop. I've had nice prints from it including ones up to 30 inches.
Sadly Nikon no longer make scanners. The Minolta and Nikon scanners were way ahead of the other offerings.
Another option is to buy a flatbed scanner with a film hood. It'll scan all formats up to 10x8 inch. The problem with flatbeds is they were generally considered too soft for 135 scans (though again what quality do you want). One advantage of the flatbed option is you can easily batch scan with 135.
Technology has moved on, as have some of the scanner manufacturers sadly, I don't know anything about the quality of the current crop of film and flatbeds.
Another possibility is using a slide duplicator (fits on the end of your lens) and a lightbox. Quick and easy, but again it all depends on what quality you are after.
As for scanning 100's of negs. That's a nightmare, or a very long term project, unless you invest 20 grand in a proper lab scanner which will give ultimate speed and quality.
3523
« on: 05 December 2011, 11:56:02 pm »
That verse does however contain threats of violence which is a different thing altogether. Can we agree that such 'songs' and ancient history/politics really have no place at a football match?
3524
« on: 05 December 2011, 08:19:53 pm »
In other words, where does this end and also, who's deciding what is offensive, what isn't and who is being offended and who isn't offended? I would have thought that football should be about, well football. The problem is that some matches are about pure hatred, and in the case of the 'old firm' a stupid religious bigotry that should have been put to bed many years ago. Now I wonder if you could tell me what is inoffensive about the following; Hello, hello, we are the Billy boys,
Hello, hello, you'll know us by our noise,
We're up to our knees in Fenian blood,
Surrender or you'll die,
For we are the Brigton Derry boys.
There are many other such songs and chants. Hardly lends itself to a nice family day out, now does it.
While many revel in the hatred and inevitable violence (not to mention cost to the tax payer) that follows old firm matches, many others are sick of it, and it's about time football became just that, football. A great many fans understand this and want it, but if those so called 'hard core' fans can't behave, well then yes, it looks like Scotland is gonna make em behave.
3525
« on: 03 December 2011, 11:12:18 pm »
Sounds reasonable to me. Live ammunition has been replaced with paintballs to reduce the risk of anyone getting hurt and to cut down on the number of compensation claims. I guess progress has to be step by step. Eventually we'll get rid of the guns, and hopefully the stupid boats themselves. But hey it takes time for common sense to prevail and folks to wanna to stop throwing big shells around, blowing each other to shreds etc.... The Union Flag had already been discarded. Well with a bit of luck in a few years time, after our referendum, it'll be obsolete anyway. It's gotta go. Her first deployment will be to escort boat loads of illegal immigrants across the channel to ports on England's south coast.
I've always wondered about that strange tabloid term "illegal immigrants". Let face it borders are there to protect inequality and exploitation. But overall good news I'd say.
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