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  On 13/04/2019 at 01:40, captain_70s said:

The Grand Tour smashing up an Allegro estate. :(

 

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The joke was that May and Clarkson's Dad's had Fords, which are really great, and Hammond's Dad had an Allegro, which are shit...

 

I just don't get how it's supposed to be entertaining?

Entertaining would be smashing a Pagini Zonda to bits.

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Those three buffoons smashing up cars was one of the things that put me off the OG Top Gear, a programme ostensibly about loving cars.

 

I think it was the Marina episode that finally turned me away from it.

 

Twats.

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Seconded. Every time they had a car I found interesting you just knew it was going to be fucked up pretty quickly while they have a joint wank over some horseshit two hundred grand sports car.

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Your car, your rules though...that's how it is...

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Doesn’t mean it’s an enjoyable viewing experience, certainly not one I intend to revisit

 

It’s the millionaires version of ‘will it blend?’

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Fucking unbelievable.

 

Took two of my sons to the cinema earlier. Went to pay for my Pic n Mix - only to be told they don’t accept £50 notes. Had to give her two twenties and a tenner instead.

Posted
  On 12/04/2019 at 18:31, somewhatfoolish said:

Billy Connolly is quite firm on the matter, excreting is pleasurable. 

 

The excretion is fine. I didn't think the additional erection report was necessary.  :mrgreen:

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Diagnosis my family didn't want to hear delivered Friday, parents told me yesterday when they visited.

 

Nan has the start of Alzheimers and dementia.

 

Arses.

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  On 14/04/2019 at 13:13, dozeydustman said:

Diagnosis my family didn't want to hear delivered Friday, parents told me yesterday when they visited.

 

Nan has the start of Alzheimers and dementia.

 

Arses.

Ah shit, sorry to hear that. Take time to talk to the experts and the help from the charities. There are s9me things that can be done to help to a degree and prepare for the future. We went through it with my Nan and it was the support that made it bearable.
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  On 14/04/2019 at 14:04, Tamworthbay said:

Ah shit, sorry to hear that. Take time to talk to the experts and the help from the charities. There are s9me things that can be done to help to a degree and prepare for the future. We went through it with my Nan and it was the support that made it bearable.

 

My granddad (with this nan) and my other nan both had dementia, the family really was hoping not to go through it all again.

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I sold a load of kids tomy toy trains on ebay, she's had them a week now wants to return them, only she just wants to send 1/2 of them and get 1/2 a refund , only if I do that Ebay will refund all the postage both ways

 

So she gets to cherry pick the best ones pay 1/2 the money and get free post , like fuck , all or nothing

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^^^ludicrous! If it comes to it it will be an interesting test case to see exactly how pro buyer they are, regardless of the situation at hand.

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Buyers can't pick and choose and Ebay should support you in this. I've found when issuing a return label (following unjustified complaints and demands for more stuff free of charge to "compensate" them) I never hear from them again. 

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Daughter has managed to break the screen on her laptop. Oh well, that’ll be a wee job for Tuesday after work when the replacement part arrives.

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Just been out to a movie. That was actually fine. Didn't even have the usual idiots talking on their phones through half of it.

 

The grump is regarding the latest company car to join the household (mercifully not mine or I'd go insane), an Audi A6 with some numbers and letters after it, no idea and frankly couldn't care less. They're all horrible bloody uncomfortable things I try to spend as little time in as possible. Was seriously bloody glad we needed two cars to get to Scotiacon last November as the thought of spending a five to seven hour trip in whatever German torture chamber on wheels we had at the time was enough to bring me to tears. Thankfully we had enough people to need two cars, so got to take the Xantia instead.

 

The A6 is full of stupid, pointless tech that serves no useful purpose...as with many "premium" cars these days.

 

The kicker though? The flipping DOOR HANDLES are electronic (yes, both interior and exterior). Like an electronic boot release...and we all know how reliable those are long term.

 

Apparently it's to make the action of opening the door feel smoother...just feels cheap and nasty to me!

 

The fact that a computer has control over whether I can open my door makes me deeply, deeply uncomfortable.

 

Not just because I know how reliable these things are, but because what happens if you have a flat battery? I've played the game of trying to get to the utterly flat battery in the boot of a car where the only way to open the boot is electrically operated before. It's royally annoying.

 

Annoying is one thing...but what the actual hell do I do in the event of, oh...I don't know...a major car accident where the battery has wound up a couple of hundred yards away from the car?

 

It actually made me feel unsafe. Not that the emergency brake assist always threatening to get us run over didn't already do that (we've had it trigger utterly randomly mid-overtake in the outside lane of the M6 before - thank goodness there was nobody behind us).

 

Totally aside from that, it's just such a blatant example of what's wrong with cars these days - it's just utterly pointless technology being crammed in there for absolutely no good reason. How much extra must that lot weigh? I thought we were striving to get every millimetre per gallon of fuel these days...this doesn't seem to be the way to do it!

 

Really hope I can avoid having to travel in that thing again before it geta replaced by something probably equally hateful in four months...

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My son in law currently has an A5, newish but not new - he wouldn'y buy a new car.

I found it quite comfortable and pleasant, although it was admittedly overloaded with lots of lights.

Isn't keyless entry as I first thought.  Just as well.

My daughter hates it when she has to take it, prefers to Zoom zoom in her MX-5 or her Mk II Escort cabriolet.  Bling-free area :)

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  On 14/04/2019 at 16:04, Zelandeth said:

Just been out to a movie. That was actually fine. Didn't even have the usual idiots talking on their phones through half of it.

 

The grump is regarding the latest company car to join the household (mercifully not mine or I'd go insane), an Audi A6 with some numbers and letters after it, no idea and frankly couldn't care less. They're all horrible bloody uncomfortable things I try to spend as little time in as possible. Was seriously bloody glad we needed two cars to get to Scotiacon last November as the thought of spending a five to seven hour trip in whatever German torture chamber on wheels we had at the time was enough to bring me to tears. Thankfully we had enough people to need two cars, so got to take the Xantia instead.

 

The A6 is full of stupid, pointless tech that serves no useful purpose...as with many "premium" cars these days.

 

The kicker though? The flipping DOOR HANDLES are electronic (yes, both interior and exterior). Like an electronic boot release...and we all know how reliable those are long term.

 

Apparently it's to make the action of opening the door feel smoother...just feels cheap and nasty to me!

 

The fact that a computer has control over whether I can open my door makes me deeply, deeply uncomfortable.

 

Not just because I know how reliable these things are, but because what happens if you have a flat battery? I've played the game of trying to get to the utterly flat battery in the boot of a car where the only way to open the boot is electrically operated before. It's royally annoying.

 

Annoying is one thing...but what the actual hell do I do in the event of, oh...I don't know...a major car accident where the battery has wound up a couple of hundred yards away from the car?

 

It actually made me feel unsafe. Not that the emergency brake assist always threatening to get us run over didn't already do that (we've had it trigger utterly randomly mid-overtake in the outside lane of the M6 before - thank goodness there was nobody behind us).

 

Totally aside from that, it's just such a blatant example of what's wrong with cars these days - it's just utterly pointless technology being crammed in there for absolutely no good reason. How much extra must that lot weigh? I thought we were striving to get every millimetre per gallon of fuel these days...this doesn't seem to be the way to do it!

 

Really hope I can avoid having to travel in that thing again before it geta replaced by something probably equally hateful in four months...

They are not uncomfortable at all, in any way, I am regularly a passanger in one and its a really nice place to sit and travel in, nothing wrong with the spec either, some people are just stuck in the 70's it seems :D
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One of the big issues I have is that the seats are very firm. Fine if you happen to be exactly the same shape as the Industry Standard Human that they have shaped them to fit.

 

I'm not - so I tend to find any VW group car made this century to be horribly uncomfortable. The other issue I have is that my back is stuffed, and something which makes it hurt more than anything in the world is cars with bone-jarringly harsh ride.

 

Which every single one of these company cars has. Especially being a company car they're specced up to the hilt with all the "styling" packs which seem to invariably feature 57" wheels and "sports" suspension...so the wheels may as well be off a train bolted straight to the seats.

 

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I had to move one a couple of cars ago across the drive. I actually had to request help as I couldn't figure out how to get it to move.

 

Turns out you need to have the seatbelt on before it will release the parking brake.

 

I'm 34...and that made me feel about 90.

 

I also felt like I was in a bloody submarine given how little you could see out of it.

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selling stuff is pants ... just rid of a load of stuff in the spring clear up

 

not the " help the animals " shops  .... cant park there with out some council jobsworth eyeing you up .

 

not the local online offline whatever pulls a sale shite spot ...

 

just skipped it ...

 

last time I tried to sell somat , they wanted it dropped off 20 miles away ..... and cheaper !!

Posted
  On 14/04/2019 at 15:56, C1am said:

Buyers can't pick and choose and Ebay should support you in this. I've found when issuing a return label (following unjustified complaints and demands for more stuff free of charge to "compensate" them) I never hear from them again.

Its complicated by the fact it's a business account so they automatically approve the return as it's covered by the distance selling regulations , I've been polite telling her all or nothing so I'll see if I get anything back

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Accosted by couple of mime artists.

 

They did unspeakable things to me.

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Car boot sales do my nut in, did one today, you have to give stuff away , I had an Audi parcel shelf , said £10 to a few people who looked at me like I was mad because they'd have to club together to come up with so much cash

By 10am I'd took a picture and chucked it in the car, 11am it was on Ebay, 4pm sold it for £50

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  On 14/04/2019 at 18:26, Wack said:

Car boot sales do my nut in, did one today, you have to give stuff away , I had an Audi parcel shelf , said £10 to a few people who looked at me like I was mad because they'd have to club together to come up with so much cash

By 10am I'd took a picture and chucked it in the car, 11am it was on Ebay, 4pm sold it for £50

My wife did one at Winwick last summer - told her I would sooner set fire to my own bollocks than participate.

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That's where I was today

 

5am - 7am all traders looking for Ebay stock

7am-8am nobody

8am -10am mostly eastern Europeans (but the fit girls usually wear lycra once it warms up so a bonus to pass the time)

10am-noon pensioners have woken up

Noon - 1pm scavengers, you haven't sold that £40 item all day so will you take £1

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Reminds me of the last time I went to a car boot sale. Literally had people swarming around you like vultures trying to get prices as you put things down. I told my wife to stand guard while I emptied the boot as I didn't trust people who were grabbing stuff to then walk away with it when I turned my back.

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I've done a few, I just get out of the car take the tables out to mark my territory then lock it up and walk around until they've all moved on to new victims

 

Last year this woman and her daughter , about 45 & 20 started setting up but had no idea how much pressure they can put you under

 

After about 5 minutes she started screaming at everybody to go away then just threw it all back in the car and shot off spinning the wheels as she went

 

Last year I did one in the big field on the east lancs road at tyldesley, it's more more relaxed than winwick

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