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Also, connections to external sites at work are working painfully slowly.

 

This is due to some people in the fluids labs apparently transferring 'large amounts of data' to the point that our firewall is completely bricking it. The dickheads are doing it over lunch and have locked up their lab and fucked off for lunch themselves. It's well above my paygrade, but you'd think that a 5-6 figure piece of enterprise-level networking equipment would have some sort of safeguard against this in place. Instead, the entire university's external internet connection is on its knees at the moment. FFS.

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A few days ago were were warned for snow and freezing temperatures.

 

Instead we have had rain of biblical proportions- so much so the carpets in the A6 are wet due to a blocked plenum. When I poked the drain through it was akin to pulling the bottom hose off a rad that much water came out. Well done VAG.

 

Instead of cutting police, fire NHS etc get rid of the met office - I could do a better job with tea leaves and fir cones.

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Not sure if this is a grump or a grin

 

A quote from the Wall Street Journal but I can't link it because it's subscription, about Students who are upset about the outcome of the election so have had to have a "cry in day"

 

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“People are frustrated, people are just really sad and shocked,†said Trey Boynton, the director of multi-ethnic student affairs at the University of Michigan. “A lot of people are feeling like there has been a loss. We talked about grief today and about the loss of hope that this election would solidify the progress that was being made.â€

 

There was a steady flow of students entering Ms. Boynton’s office Wednesday. They spent the day sprawled around the center, playing with Play-Doh and coloring in coloring books, as they sought comfort and distraction."

No wonder the world is going to hell in a handcart with these soft cunts...cry in days and therapy dogs, fuck me, now I really do fear for the future

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  On 10/11/2016 at 16:52, Bren said:

A few days ago were were warned for snow and freezing temperatures.

 

Instead we have had rain of biblical proportions- so much so the carpets in the A6 are wet due to a blocked plenum. When I poked the drain through it was akin to pulling the bottom hose off a rad that much water came out. Well done VAG.

 

Instead of cutting police, fire NHS etc get rid of the met office - I could do a better job with tea leaves and fir cones.

 

Even better is the designers of this "premium" car also put the convience control unit in the front footwell under the carpets !

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Just to add the absolute wankery lever of driving skills* recently this evening one driving instructor was almost touching the bumper of the car in front at 50mph and another had (presumably) a learner driving with the fog lights on.

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I saw a driving instructor using his phone while driving last night. I really need to get another dashcam.

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  On 10/11/2016 at 22:07, Cavcraft said:

....... another had (presumably) a learner driving with the fog lights on.

When the Corsa came out the fog light illuminated the switch only BSM had so many that when they complained that a warning light was put on the dash.

 

Sorry for the useless Vauxhall info.

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Yesterday the Wife's water pump on her Multipla died a rattly watery death, Today the PT cruisers front brakes seem to be sticking on when reversing, causing a horrible juddering. No idea what could be causing it unless crappy aftermarket pads are getting stuck or something.

 

Busy weekend ahead and I'm already fully booked with family shit.

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New (to us) car buying and child car seats.

 

[Parental health and safety angst]

 

WHY aren't things that are legal requirements STANDARDISED???!

 

In some cars Megan's Britax seat will fit. Some it won't. I can get my head around that. But, some cars it can go in rear facing or forward facing (which is why we bought this chair), in others it will only go in forward facing.

 

Huw's seat is fitted slightly differently and with this chair the stumbling block is seatbelt length. Who knew seat belts were different lengths? Who knew that some popular family cars have rear seat belts that are too short for use with some child seats?

 

Then there is something about the child seat not touching the seat belt buckle, which seems to be vitally important but not really known about.

 

I'm sure it'll all work out I'm just panicking that I'm going to spend a shed load of money on a car and then find we are stranded because the seats don't fit and then have to spend a further £200 or £300 on child seats.

 

[/Parental health and safety angst]

 

 

In my day we slid around on or got stuck to the skin melting vinyl and enjoyed it etc etc :P

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  On 11/11/2016 at 11:05, Louise2cv said:

In my day we bounced around in the back of a 1967 Mini van and enjoyed it etc etc :P

 

"I am considerably older than yow", etc. etc.  ;)

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Mentioned on social media that I have this Astravan coming in on Monday - guy keeps messaging me about it.

Told him it's here on Monday and the price is firm, he can see it on Monday once I confirm it's here

 

Messaging me every hour or so with stuff like "can you let me know the address so I can pick up on Monday m8" 

"what's the engine size"

"how long is the MOT"

It's like a heartbeat to check that I'm still alive!

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  On 11/11/2016 at 11:05, Louise2cv said:

New (to us) car buying and child car seats.

 

[Parental health and safety angst]

 

WHY aren't things that are legal requirements STANDARDISED???!

 

In some cars Megan's Britax seat will fit. Some it won't. I can get my head around that. But, some cars it can go in rear facing or forward facing (which is why we bought this chair), in others it will only go in forward facing.

 

Huw's seat is fitted slightly differently and with this chair the stumbling block is seatbelt length. Who knew seat belts were different lengths? Who knew that some popular family cars have rear seat belts that are too short for use with some child seats?

 

Then there is something about the child seat not touching the seat belt buckle, which seems to be vitally important but not really known about.

 

I'm sure it'll all work out I'm just panicking that I'm going to spend a shed load of money on a car and then find we are stranded because the seats don't fit and then have to spend a further £200 or £300 on child seats.

 

[/Parental health and safety angst]

 

 

In my day we slid around on or got stuck to the skin melting vinyl and enjoyed it etc etc :P

The newborn car seat we have had for both kids just about fits in the Meriva, as in the front seat has to go right forward, and the seatbelt just reaches around and clicks in.

 

He's not far off outgrowing it now thankfully so we can get rid of it!

 

I had to push it into the seat foam of the first ZX I had with Eva in it to get it to fit, it's fine once the belt is on but it has to go over the back bit when balloons out before it thins out where the belt clips in.

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Child seats can be a proper nightmare. When I was a shop monkey for Halfords, kids seats were the bane of everyones working day. I got sent on a training course about them, so it always fell to me to be the one dragging the display models out to the carpark to try in peoples cars. The range of vehicle seats, seatbelt lengths and locations is boggling and the difference between the way the same kid seat fitted in different cars was massive.

Apparently the buckle shouldnt touch the seat frame due to it possibly exerting forces in the wrong direction on the buckle in the event of a crash. Dont be afraid to get a little violent when fitting, some required a knee on the seat (remove child first) and full adult bodyweight to press it into the seat foam before fastening the belt in order to get them to hold tightly.

Ah, the joys of wrestling 4 different seats into the back of somebodys 3-door Punto on a rainy saturday afternoon, trying not to trail muddy water all over their carpet and rummaging around amongst the crayons, half-sucked sweeties and fluff down the back of seat cushions to find belts and buckles......

 

I think ISOfix is intended do solve this but I got out of the game before it became common so dont know anything about it.

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We went paranoid parent extended rear facing so have extra hurdles of tether straps and props, neither seat is iso-fix because iso-fix seat only go up to 18kg but kids have to be in seats at weights up to 25kg

 

The other annoying thing is that they have a recommended use of 5 years which is annoying when you buy something that boasts of "being the only chair you need, ages 0 to 7!"

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  On 11/11/2016 at 11:49, Kiltox said:

Mentioned on social media that I have this Astravan coming in on Monday - guy keeps messaging me about it.

 

Told him it's here on Monday and the price is firm, he can see it on Monday once I confirm it's here

 

Messaging me every hour or so with stuff like "can you let me know the address so I can pick up on Monday m8"

 

"what's the engine size"

 

"how long is the MOT"

 

It's like a heartbeat to check that I'm still alive!

I get that quite a lot and when they finally take me, I either tell them to FRO or just block them

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Louise, not sure how old your kids are but there's been something on the BBC news this morning about babies in car seats.

Posted

Ta Cav, the lady in the shop mentioned this, I think it's for new babies but I'll look it up, cheers :)

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  On 11/11/2016 at 14:06, Cavcraft said:

I get that quite a lot and when they finally take me, I either tell them to FRO or just block them

Arseholes the lot of them.

 

Also got someone that keeps just messaging me a lower price now and again for the heap they're desperate to shift

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  On 11/11/2016 at 13:12, Louise2cv said:

We went paranoid parent extended rear facing so have extra hurdles of tether straps and props, neither seat is iso-fix because iso-fix seat only go up to 18kg but kids have to be in seats at weights up to 25kg

 

The other annoying thing is that they have a recommended use of 5 years which is annoying when you buy something that boasts of "being the only chair you need, ages 0 to 7!"

We got a cheap forward facing seat from Asda when Eva was big enough to go in it, then 6 months later a different seat from the same range was recalled, which got Amy all paranoid and she wouldn't use it.

 

So £170 was spent on some dodgy mothercare finance thing on a quite nice adjustable britax thing, and I had the Asda seat for my very occasional use in my car.

 

Then Eva outgrew the cheap asda one so that got binned, and Amy came home with a Graco one that was £40 in asda, which adjusts all the way up until she's 33 or something. That sits in my car now, unless it needs to be borrowed (now we can walk to school, Eva rarely goes in my car).

 

The plan with Charlie is Eva's current seat in Amys car goes from 1 year to 7 years or something (it can be fitted backwards, stuff folds out/pushes down etc) will go to him and hopefully be the end of it, and the seat that is currently in my car will go in Amys, then we will just swap around as and when. Luckily Charlie is quite small for his age so has a few months of use left in his little baby seat yet.

 

I don't understand it, my only pre-requisite with any car I buy is no front passenger airbag, so the kids can sit in the front. We screwed up there with the Meriva as you cant turn it off, although there have been a few hospital dashes with Charlie in the front as Amy had to go on her own, as I had to stay with Eva at home, and I didn't want her leaning to the back to do whatever whilst driving to the hospital, I just told her not to crash.

 

I need to read up on the rules etc as Eva is 4 1/2 now, so must be nearing the age where she can sit in the front of an air-bagged car with a booster seat or summat, a bloke at work gave us a hardly used (same situation as me, it was 'his' which was used rarely whereas the one in his missus's car was battered to death over the years) very nice booster seat that his kid outgrew a few years ago, so we can use that hopefully.

 

I'm too young to remember not having seatbelts etc, although my Grandad tells me that when my cousins were born (early 80's), he got a bar welded into the boot of the Ford Escort they had at the time and fitted a seatbelt kit from halfords to it.

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My kids are 5 and 6 but nothe very tall. I am talking about good five inches smaller than their class mates. Anyway they used to have booster seats. Then apparently the law is going to change again ? Research has shown that with just a booster seat kids have no head , neck protection from a side impact. So I had to go out and get new bigger seats for them what they don't like cos they are for babies. The fact that they undoe each others seat belt and fight so therefore have no protection in a crash is irrelevant.

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When my elder niece was born, 10 years ago now, I bought a Britax seat for her. Would it "Go in the back of the Rover 25 easy peasy mate"? Would it BOLLOCKS. Two-person job to fit, requiring the removal of the parcel shelf so that one person could hold the seatbelt at it's full extent while the other person manoeuvred the belt through 617 clips and guides. Then, you had to try to push the seatbelt back into the reel so the seat didn't flop about, and the inertia reel worked.

 

The OMG AMG Mercedes branded one I got for the S Class was a pain in the butt as well, despite being ISOFIX: you had to use the belt as well, because of the way it was designed. 

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The police poking around a very mangled looking Mk1 Renault 5 dumped on a building site - driven through the hoarding from the look of things. Then, round the corner, more police looking at a very out of place looking 16 plate Audi R8 dumped at the side of the road.

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Last time I was at my mum's house she asked me to go in the loft and fetch a car seat for one of my sisters kids. I found the huge modern thing easily enough, but behind it was a tiny red Britax one that used to be mine when I was being ferried around in a Morris 1100 or a Mini Clubman.

 

I'll get a photo next time I'm there.

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When transporting kids I just shove them in a bag and hang them from the little coat hook things by the rear grab handles.

 

They're restrained*, safe* and there is no need for any special seating* because they aren't using the seats at all. Boom, job done, sorted.

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When kids reach 3 years old, just get a 1970s* car with vinyl seats. If they whinge, just start by telling them "when I was your age..."


(Junkman will point out that they didn't have to fit rear seatbelts until after 1986)
 

Posted

When I was a kid I remember traveling from Leeds to Scarborough on the back shelf of my dads viva.

 

Or sat on a coat over a spare wheel in the back of a transit.

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I managed to get the MacBook I spilt whisky into fixed on my home insurance . I got it back today and they'd replaced the keyboard and up case, power input and mother board.

That's not why I'm grumpy . I got home from work hoping to give eBay a good fapping and realised I'd left it on my desk at work.

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today i have bought my mam's xmas present.

 

but that isn't the grump.

 

it was expensive, 2 tickets to see the Spanish Riding School, but its something that my Mother, who has always loved horses,  will enjoy, 

 

so that isn't the grump either.

 

and i wouldn't mind seeing them myself, but there are not that many tickets left, plus there is the cost and the issue that Kerry isn't all that bothered,

 

that isn't the grump as well.

 

or the fact that each ticket was subject to "administration costs" and a "facilitation charge" which added another tenner to the cost (here's an idea lads, just stick the extra 10 quid on the ticket price to start with, wankers......)

 

that, strangely isn't the grump either.

 

no, the grump is that it took an hour and a half pissing about on the interweb trying, before apparently succeeding to buy tickets when 10 minutes speaking top someone would have done  just the same.

 

bastard fuckin' wank bag computers and shit bag pile o' crap websites, that are making our lives so much* easier*

 

why oh why oh why cannot just speak to some one!!!!!

 

please??

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