Author Topic: Down the pub - the thread about nothing and everything (Read 135975 times)

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #400 on:** 24 October 2020, 05:17:18 pm »

I’m pretty confident that they don’t advise cruising at 50mph on a motorway in 2^nd gear!

Next you’ll be lecturing me on push pull steering and not trail braking into corners.

mtread · « **Reply #401 on:** 24 October 2020, 05:37:31 pm »

I never advocated cruising in 2nd.

Trail breaking before corners is fine

Try reading Roadcraft. It might help. Either that, or just write your own book.

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #402 on:** 24 October 2020, 05:42:14 pm »

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I'm sure I'd be causing more pollution doing 50 in second gear than 70 in sixth

mtread · « **Reply #403 on:** 24 October 2020, 07:38:50 pm »

No mention of the word 'cruising'. Most appropriate gear, not always 6th.

Anyway, no wonder you trail brake in corners if you're going round them at 50 in 6th all the time

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #404 on:** 24 October 2020, 08:17:38 pm »

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No mention of the word 'cruising'. Most appropriate gear, not always 6th.

Just that is what we were discussing, that’s all. Whatever gear you fancy bud.

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Anyway, no wonder you trail brake in corners if you're going round them at 50 in 6th all the time

You know what, I’m struggling to think of any time ever trail braked on a motorway.

Oldgit · « **Reply #405 on:** 26 October 2020, 05:55:22 pm »

Ah wish we could go down the pub, all closed up here in Darkest Scotlandshire.

Grahamm · « **Reply #406 on:** 01 November 2020, 05:27:25 pm »

Well, with the Lockdown running until at least the 2nd of December, there's one piece of good news...

No non-stop medley of foccing Carols and the Little Drummer Boy and Merry Xmas Every Body and Stop the Cavalry in every damn shop for the next month!!!

Gnasher · « **Reply #407 on:** 02 November 2020, 09:25:36 am »

Quote from: Grahamm on 01 November 2020, 05:27:25 pm

Well, with the Lockdown running until at least the 2nd of December

Anyone taking bets it won't end on 2nd $:\$

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #408 on:** 02 November 2020, 09:35:10 am »

Lockdown to the 2nd?

YamFazFan · « **Reply #409 on:** 02 November 2020, 11:05:15 am »

fazersharp · « **Reply #410 on:** 02 November 2020, 11:47:50 am »

Quote from: YamFazFan on 02 November 2020, 11:05:15 am

Quote from: Gnasher on 02 November 2020, 09:25:36 am
Anyone taking bets it won't end on 2nd $:\$

Whilst schools and universities where the infection spreads like blight through a potato field remain open?.

Nope, don't think you'll find a bookie anywhere that'd be daft enough to offer odds on that one.

It will last until the week before Christmas, declared a success by the Gov science stooges so that everything can be allowed to open. The conservatives do not want to be for ever stuck with the label -- the party that cancelled Christmas.

YamFazFan · « **Reply #411 on:** 02 November 2020, 12:08:22 pm »

mtread · « **Reply #412 on:** 02 November 2020, 12:18:01 pm »

Panic buying again in the supermarkets today

fazersharp · « **Reply #413 on:** 02 November 2020, 12:23:07 pm »

Quote from: mtread on 02 November 2020, 12:18:01 pm

Panic buying again in the supermarkets today

Just got back from Asda and it was wasn't busy and did not see any evidence of panic buying, plenty of everything on the shelves.

agricola · « **Reply #414 on:** 02 November 2020, 01:17:23 pm »

Capitalism collapses for the second time in 12 years?

YamFazFan · « **Reply #415 on:** 02 November 2020, 01:43:53 pm »

YamFazFan · « **Reply #416 on:** 02 November 2020, 01:56:48 pm »

mtread · « **Reply #417 on:** 02 November 2020, 05:55:46 pm »

Wickes today for some lightbulbs. Queue out of the door. Builders filling their vans with enough materials to see them through the next 4 weeks. Van suspension in serious trouble! Reminded me of the old Calais booze runs

robbo · « **Reply #418 on:** 02 November 2020, 06:20:50 pm »

My local Wickes, no turps or white spirit, also no brilliant white Dulux satinwood paint. The paint section looked quite sparse of stock in general.

YamFazFan · « **Reply #419 on:** 02 November 2020, 06:28:26 pm »

Grahamm · « **Reply #420 on:** 02 November 2020, 06:41:59 pm »

I have a regular weekly delivery slot from Asda on Tuesdays mornings.

Today I get an e-mail from them saying that they don't apply over Xmas and the New Year, so I spent ages trying to get into their delivery booking system to put in an order and check it out just to make sure we'd have food over the holiday period!

dazza · « **Reply #421 on:** 02 November 2020, 08:21:36 pm »

Quote from: Grahamm on 02 November 2020, 06:41:59 pm

I have a regular weekly delivery slot from Asda on Tuesdays mornings.

Today I get an e-mail from them saying that they don't apply over Xmas and the New Year, so I spent ages trying to get into their delivery booking system to put in an order and check it out just to make sure we'd have food over the holiday period!

Outrageous, isn't it

You might actually have to go food shopping. What's the world coming to ?

Grahamm · « **Reply #422 on:** 03 November 2020, 12:32:03 am »

Quote from: dazza on 02 November 2020, 08:21:36 pm

You might actually have to go food shopping. What's the world coming to ?

Hilarious.

My girlfriend has severe asthma. She was one of the ones who had to Shield during the first lockdown.

I've seen her in hospital on an oxygen mask twice in the past, because her asthma has flared up so badly she could barely breathe.

There are too many idiots out there who won't wear masks or think that they don't have to cover their noses or refuse to socially distance etc etc etc for me to want to risk going shopping in Asda and contracting the Virus and then, somehow, having to work out how to stay away from her for a fortnight (at least) in the SAME FOCCING HOUSE!

Yes, dazza, really FOCCING HILARIOUS.

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #423 on:** 03 November 2020, 10:12:17 am »

My butcher has just posted on social media that due to the lockdown in England and a massive surge in orders that there may be delays and some shortages over the next week or so!

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #424 on:** 03 November 2020, 10:28:12 am »

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My local Wickes, no turps or white spirit, also no brilliant white Dulux satinwood paint. The paint section looked quite sparse of stock in general.

Oh oh. Decorating my living room this week. Off to buy paint for the walls this afternoon. Always hate picking the colour, never sure if I’ll get it right. But no issues up here so far, but then a big surge in purchases in England could affect stocks across the UK.

I always use Dulux or Crown Trade Gloss and Trade undercoat if required. Hard work, and it absolutely stinks but great finish.