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Where else can you get a desirable* motor car for six or seven quid?

Come to Cannock,you'll be in with a fair shout I reckon......

 

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Regarding my respitory problems. Blood tests reveal I have an allergy.

 

However, beyond pollen, house mites the NHS cannot test for anything else - and it's none of those.

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I'm an asthmatic, and the following 4 chemicals are the ones I have to avoid:

 

102 tartrazine

202 sodium sorbate

223 sodium metabisulphite

621 MSG

 

202 in particular is the worst of the lot - by far.  And the hardest to avoid.

 

Just my 2p worth.

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Where else would someone who you've never met, treat you like an old friend and not judge you because your a bit weird

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We are but a bunch of lunatics! Even the ones who aren't.

 

Things ebb and flow, we get comfortable, sometimes people prod our buttons a bit too much whether deliberately or otherwise, and sometimes we get uncomfortable, but rarely does that happen. This little piece of insanity is probably the most sane corner of the internet and I love it. I wish I had something I could actually contribute with.

 

And to Skizzer, I've followed your threads for a good while, certainly from before I actually signed up, and I enjoy the variety in your fleet too, possibly because it's very difficult to see what you will acquire next. If you do take a leave of absence I really hope it isn't for very long. Also, the Excel wizardry in the off-topic last week was brilliant too!

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Autoshite isn't about cheap old cars.

 

Autoshite is about odd cars.

 

Price/envy/misery is irrelevant - it's the stuff that stops you in your tracks and makes you awkwardly fumble with a camera phone.

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Seeing this kind of thing in the street is Autoshite. Personally most mid 90's and newer stuff that's been posted lately has no interest to me what so ever.

 

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I'd love to do a thread about my old crap but who wants a thread that involves pictures of me opening garage door and burying the car in more old junk?

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I'd love to do a thread about my old crap but who wants a thread that involves pictures of me opening garage door and burying the car in more old junk?

 

Me, it will make me feel better about doing the same.

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I've been on loads of forums over the years, often with tens of subforums and hundreds of thousands of members and 99% of the stuff I'm not interested in. Even entire subforums. But I just don't read them.

 

This is the only place I've been where there's regular moaning about content, but it's even duller to read than the shite. There's also what is acceptable to some irritates others, I notice that there's quite a lot of pointless threads but I just don't look at them or don't contribute. There's only two subforums here with a pretty small user base, the open forums can even be completely ignored if it's not your bag, it doesn't take long to scan 2 or 3 pages of threads.

 

FWIW, I never post pictures of my cars but literally no one would be interested. I do try and help out with technical stuff if I've encountered it before/have sensible suggestions, of course there is a bit of banter, but my post count is pretty low for how long I've been here - I try not to post too much irrelevant shite.

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Grump today was that I broke another spoke on the way to work, and then having cycled home and dropped the wheel off to be fixed in the car I must have accidentally hit the cloaking device button in the Merc.

 

No less than three cars pulled out on me on the a30 between sunningdale and windlesham. It's a 50 limit and the first one turned right from the opposite side and it would have been fine if they'd accelerated but they just 30, so I overtook them, then half a mile later a large black discovery turned left straight in front of me without slowing, indicating or even having lights on. I got the abs working as I was only the other side of the junction when they swept out. They then slowed and turned right into the petrol station. Then another idiot pulls out in front about 30 ft from me, at least he doesn't dawdle but there was absolutely nothing behind me so no problem for him to wait.

 

I think now a lot of people see standard headlamp bulbs and think you're in an older car and so going slowly. If I didn't like it so much I'd be very tempted to ram some of them.

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Bastard Fucking Superglue !

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As you were, chaps.

That reminds me, I need to bring a bottle home from work. Mine has dried up. I presume you know that it was originally developed as a battlefield surgery glue? That's why it sticks skin together better than anything else.

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i'd seen that on some film, that super glue was invented for sticking GI's guts back in during the vietnam war, is that true?

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i'd seen that on some film, that super glue was invented for sticking GI's guts back in during the vietnam war, is that true?

 

It wasn't invented for that, and it's been around since the 40s. Researchers at Kodak were trying to create a thin film coating for lenses, and accidentally made something that sticks to almost anything instead. A related cyanoacrylate is used to stick wounds together, and was used in 'nam however.

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I'm pretty certain it's not you who's pissed him off.

Only just seen all this...

Hope it isn't me either! I do post some tripe now and then, but mostly try to keep ' within the rules' .

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Proper grump today.  The modern blob has been hinting for a few days about giving an FTP moment, and has  finally followed through.  Naturally this is the only car MrsR is insured to drive, therefore it's the one we need tomorrow if I'm going to collect my beautiful* Saab from Moog Acres.  Have I been able to phone the garage to get Martin out to it?  Have I heck.  I even had to use the MG so MrsR could do her bit of shopping in Aldi.  She naturally complained about the filthy interior and the smell.  (Was it previously owned by a very heavy smoker?)

 

So the youngest, most expensive member of the fleet is the deadest at the moment...

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Ebay appears to have another FTP today...

Spent ages typing out an ad, uploaded a dozen photos and listed. Listing has no photos and hardly any content! Gah...

Tried to edit listing etc but no joy. Ended early just to remove the useless ad with no photos... FFS.

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In A&E, because I fell off my bike earlier. There's a plastic orange fence over a missing utility cover, and a pile of mud on the cycle path left by a double wheeled vehicle doing an illegal turn on what was a blocked off side road. In wiggling through this I ran out of room and ran onto the grass, then hit the tarmac pretty hard.

 

I'm sore all down my right side, and my right shoulder is hurting like buggery, but I cycled home.

 

So why am I in A&E? The wife insisted I phone the doctor, who said go to a&e once she'd heard I'd ridden home once I'd straightened my glasses out and the double vision had cleared. I've brought the helmet I was wearing to the hospital...

Bastard phone stuck this in the wrong thread! Home now, no driving for 48 hours... :-(

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Can I please amputate my right leg as it hurts like a twat. Even more so than usual. Fuuuuuuck. 

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Bastard phone stuck this in the wrong thread! Home now, no driving for 48 hours... :-(

bloody hell, hope you are alright, I've taken a few tumbles off the bike this year and it flipping hurts.

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Can I please amputate my right leg as it hurts like a twat. Even more so than usual. Fuuuuuuck. 

 

No

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i'd seen that on some film, that super glue was invented for sticking GI's guts back in during the vietnam war, is that true?

Dog soldiers ! FTW
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Fucksticks.

Can life get much worse ( well yes it could - I know this)

 

At home getting under the wifes feet - she is getting pissed of with me, pain wise in rather a lot at the moment - leg looks like something from the bubonic plague.

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Recent weight loss of 2.5 stone ( intentional) means that my wedding band is lose - I had it cut off after a bike accident 7 years ago and made bigger at the time for my fat fingers.

 

Today as well as pissing the wife off I have lost my wedding band - had it 20 years - not worth a lot (£39.99 from Argos when bought) but just pissed off I cant find it. Just sentimental value.

 

Wheelie bin emptied, sofa turned upside down, usual stuff.

 

Arseflaps.

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Fucking housemates. Bollocks. 2 blokes live there. One just collared me and gave me rad parcel. He then said I best be careful because I'll get reported to housing. Why says I, well you now got 3 cars on street. Ok,all 3 are legal. Nothing can be done and one is being returned at earliest convenience. Well says housemate,guy upstairs not happy u put the broken vectra outside the house. I said it's been there 4 days now and if he has a issue then he can come tell me rather than fucking bitching behind my back. Times like this I wish I could store bloody vectra.

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