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The amount of fucking about it would take to get those headlights to even power up when not attached to the car is quite significant. You'd need a CANbus emulator and a significant amount of programming knowledge. back when that story was new, the equipment would have cost at least a grand, which is a lot more money than an equivalent powered actual grow light setup. Nobody is stealing LED headlights to grow weed with. It might come as a shock to some people on here, but it appears that the sun is publishing a load of bollocks again

A bloke I sort of knew charged his i3 up for a few years at my old business centre doing similar. He rented a tiny 10x10 office (bills included) for £200 a month and slung an extension cable out of the window. Inside the office he had a rack of computers mining bitcoin which more than paid for the rent. He only got found out about the charging when they cut all the bushes back and found his hidden cable

I don't really want to say much more on a public forum, there's an ongoing police investigation and the staff member is suspended while we investigate gross misconduct. However their phone was confiscated by the police so they didn't get the message about being suspended, and they turned up to work this morning and I had to tell them to sling their hook! 🙄 Running a business is a ballache at the best of times - I could really do without copping for the fallout of someone else's incredibly ill conceived get rich quick schemes!

Also, a grump from me. I ended up with the police waking me up the other night because of the breathtakingly idiotic actions of one of my employees. They've made it look like we're doing something dodgy in the eyes of our neighbours and the landlord too. A shitload of paperwork, drama and apologising profusely awaits me this coming week. FFS

I watched this, and it seems he was basically an arrogant prick who doesn't understand that someone rushing a tyre 90 minutes out to fit it to your car on a fucking hard shoulder will cost a LOT more than getting the same tyre fitted at "Rubberz N Rimz" on a Thursday afternoon. I'd also guess there's a lot of projection going on - EG he would deffo have someones pants down of the roles were reversed, so he's expecting someone to do that to him. When people are quick to accuse you of something, it says more about them than it does you. I would also be willing to bet that the price quoted was actually a quite a bit less than if he got a taxi from the hard shoulder with his wheel and took it a similar distance to get a tyre fitted himself somewhere!

Abarth really are scraping the bottom of the barrel nowadays, trying in more and more half-arsed ways to drag a few more years out of the ancient design. I thought they'd reached nearly the bottom of it 8 years ago when I bought my "Abarth 595 Yamaha Racing special edition" which basically had a yamaha sticker and an incredibly loud exhaust on. I don't think I've ever actually belly laughed at a picture of a new car before this: Fucking pea shooters 🤣 Looks like a giffer mod done by someone with 4 of those chrome tailpipe trims you could get from motorworld.

There is no new car on the market that I could dream of lasting for 15 years, other than old relics designed 20 years ago like the fiat 500 etc.

Just a sprinkling here yesterday. It was so bitterly cold overnight that we didn't get any more. At 5am it was -9.8c INSIDE my well insulated van.

If things operate in a similar way to when I worked there and they first upgraded to this new computer system, then web orders poll directly from the stockfile of the store, then they pop up on a screen in store for someone to pick the parts off the shelf. Stores will have targets to meet on picking time etc, so someone will have just blindly "confirmed" the order as picked, even when it wasn't. They'll then actually pick it when they get a minute. In most cases this procedure works OK, ish, unless the stockfile is inaccurate or the stocks are very low and something sells out in between you ordering it and coming to collect. I'd put a small wager on the fact that the missing items off your order are something that would be easily stolen? for these things, the stockfile is usually miles off because nobody in the store has time to go and do proper stock counts, so the system things there's a dozen on a peg but in reality they've all been nicked. For every pair of mountain bike gloves we sold, we'd get ten stolen.

When we were in Scotland just after xmas, I was driving along some A roads with a 50MPH limit, and a similar sort of thing happened to me. I was doing 50-53 ish following traffic. Some X5 police car came up behind me and was genuinely so close as for me to not be able to see their headlights, I was waiting for some blue lights and a fucking PIT manouver!! They carried on for a couple of miles like this, then I got fed up of being purposefully intimidated by some copper with a chip in his shoulder so I indicated left and pulled over to force him to either pass me or come and have a word with me - there were plenty of places he could have overtaken if genuinely in a hurry so I presumed I was going to get pulled over for something. He passed me, and went on to do the exact same to the car in front, aggressively tailgating for miles, til the car turned off at a junction and then he did the same to the next car. I'm really not some kind of "fuck da police" meathead but it was clear this guy was really trying to intimidate and distract people into making some minor driving error and if he'd pulled me over, it would have taken all my self control not to strangle him.

For pressures as low as this you'd probably be best off with a weighted overpressure regulation system like a pressure cooker. You'll waste some air but you'll be able to wander off without having to babysit the airflow. Alternatively about a 70cm column of water will do the same.

you are totally within your rights to ram it out of the way as far as I'm concerned

Does limp home mode make it better on fuel? If life gives you lemons etc etc

A week away round Scotland, after 1000 miles covered in universally horrendous weather we get home, offload all our stuff then I jump in the van to drop my bike off at work, it's only a few miles. 500 yards away from work, the rear screen explodes totally at random - nothing touched it, the bike is miles away from the glass. So bizarre! Thank fuck it waited until now to do that, otherwise it could have made a mess of our holiday. Not ideal, I'll end up having to wait til new year to get a new screen (still not sure whether to just do it myself @ £170 or invoke my insurers) but the van is parked in my unit for now, and it gives me an excuse to get the T25 back out for a few days!!!

100%, it does my head in so much, I'm overly polite and avoid confrontation to an absolute fault, but this sort of thing is what will really get me throwing volleys of fucks at people. We had two whippets (now one, sadly) and Pearl was just so reactive to other dogs. We tried training it out of her, but she had terrible recall and if a dog came up to her when she was on a lead, she would kick off - her only defence would be to run away and she couldn't do that on a lead so she felt mega vulnerable. Her kicking off would then set our other dog off and we'd have a right carryon of whippets tangling leads up, yelping, snarling etc, all while we'd get some lass wandering round the corner shouiting "its ok he's friendly" FUCK OFF! Just today we were out near Loch Lomond with the remaining whippet. He's on steroids and has an immune condition so were not able to walk him - I have to carry him around in a flipping baby carrier when were away from home to minimise his chances of picking anything up. Put him down for one minute to rest my back, and all of a sudden three stinking springers come bounding up, surround him and fucking tag team the poor old lad, he was terrified.. "They just want to play!" Fuck off!!!

Balquhidder / Loch lomond ish, I just went for a random mission. Going to try Comrie Croft or maybe go up to Fort William on 27th to some proper trails rather than just veering off up some logging trails.

I've never been to Scotland (properly) til now. I live in the peak district which I absolutely adore, but this place absolutely wanks all over it in. I hit the M6 yesterday morning and my satnav said "in 187 miles, keep right onto the M80", and I did everyone one of those miles on cruise control at 72mph. Flipping magnificent. ) It's pissing down and blowing a gale, perfect weather for it. fuck me, what a landscape. I've ever heard wind roar through the hills like this, it's intimidating. I'm a few miles off "home" sat in an old abandoned railway hut keeping out of the rain for a bit, I'll set off back once I've finished my flask of tea.

Yup, there's a little bakery near work that makes absolutely beautiful sourdough, focaccia and stuff, but the owner has to warn new customers that it won't last after she got a few snotty google reviews "£5 for a focaccia and 4 days later it's totally stale! this place is not selling fresh produce like they say" etc. I feel a bit bad for them actually, they make everything fresh from the best ingredients and people give them grief for charging £2.50 for their pastries that are often still warm, fresh from the oven One tight miserable bastard left a review saying "I went in here with my wife and we asked for 2 coffee and 2 croissants, they wanted £10.00!!! we told the owner this was extortionate and just walked out"

I used to know a bloke in Rotherham who was the laziest MOT tester in the world, he'd give clean sheet passes to people when he couldn't be arsed to do the test. The car will literally be in his yard and he'll not even bother putting it on the ramp. It wasn't a criminal enterprise, he was just bone fucking idle! I'd done him a favour with a tricky wiring problem on a T4 so he owed me a couple of hours knock for knock, I was a soft lad back then and never wanted to ask people for actual payment for work like that. I rang him up to "prebook an MOT" on a mk3 golf gti I was going to buy to break for the engine and needed to drive home from Leeds. A few hours later I got a text off him "Congratulations, it's passed!" Best bit was I didn't even end up buying the car - the engine was knocking its head off.

A bloke from openreach or whatever came to our house at 8am to fiddle with the phone socket to make the internet work. According to my wife who was home at the time, he was a very pleasant bloke apart from the fact that he stank to high heaven and then asked to use our downstairs loo and left our house smelling like unwashed genitals. ten hours later, I've just walked through the door and our house still stinks like pickled testicles. It's fuckin lousy!

I'm severely jealous, after owning nothing but vans for years I really do need a small buzzy french hatchback in my life.

10PM last night I'd had a few pints and I was hungry and fancied a "little snack" . Ended up eating a full family bag of tortilla chips and did in an entire jar of incredibly spicy, imported mexican salsa that was in the fridge, that I opened about three months ago and was definitely "on the turn". I knew I'd regret it, but not as much as this 😭 I don't want to be too crude, so I won't go any further with my description.

that's lovely, and seems a good price. An original non rusty one is ten times as good as one that's been "restored". If you don't like it, I'm sure you won't have a problem selling it on (probably to me 🥵)

I'm sure if you talk to the sellers they would happily post them. We send stuff to europe with Fedex and in most cases it'll arrive the following morning. It's about £30 for a number plate sized parcel though

plenty of places on ebay will make a plate up without any docs and if you cross their palms with silver I'm sure they'd send one UPS express or something. I've ordered plates at 5pm and had them arrive at 8:30AM the following morning!