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Jamie Rank: Renault 16

Jamie

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  On 14/11/2021 at 08:34, GrumpiusMaximus said:

We had some kids playing chicken in the road last summer.  About 15 of them and I'm guessing ages ranged from about 5 to about 14.  There were quite a few close calls as I could see it all from my office window.

After a couple of hours, four or five Police turned up, lined them all up at the side of the road and read them the riot act.  After about 5 minutes most of them slowly walked off (presumably home).  Then the older kids had the riot act read to them again for a further 15 minutes.  Probably got the telling off of their lives.

It's been nearly 18 months and I haven't seen anything like it since.  Evidently it worked!

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Hmm hopefully it'll work with these little shits. They seem pretty relentless though as they are there every night and use the old 'we've nothing else to do' line. 

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GrumpiusMaximus Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

GrumpiusMaximus

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  On 14/11/2021 at 08:43, Jamie said:

Hmm hopefully it'll work with these little shits. They seem pretty relentless though as they are there every night and use the old 'we've nothing else to do' line. 

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Maybe telling the old bill that they're jumping out in front of cars and playing chicken would help.  When there's a danger to life...

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MikeR Rank: Lancia Gamma

MikeR

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Stood by this pond in the woods , took me a while to realise what was missing , no crisp bags, ciggies, lolly sticks etc .....

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  On 14/11/2021 at 12:28, MikeR said:

Stood by this pond in the woods , took me a while to realise what was missing , no crisp bags, ciggies, lolly sticks etc .....

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It a bit deer around here. 

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  On 14/11/2021 at 08:39, Unlucky Alf said:

Agreed, I used to have a company 120d sport with xenon auto dipping headlights. The auto sensing stuff just didn’t work quick enough, I would end up manually overriding it and in the end I turned the auto shit off. It was a PITA. 
 

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The auto dip function works reasonably well in my Astra J. I've still turned it off. 

artdjones Rank: Lancia Gamma

artdjones

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Cadillacs offered auto dip in 1952, the Autronic Eye. You might expect that the modern day equivalents would work better after 70 years of development.

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Spiny Norman Rank: Lancia Gamma

Spiny Norman

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Do people nowadays know the difference between dip and main beam? 

"My headlights are much better when I move the stick to make the extra little blue light come on in the speed thingy"

cobblers Rank: Isuzu Florian

cobblers

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My wife's mate complained that her headlights were shit and really dim.

Turns out, they'd been turned off (usually automatic) since her MOT two months prior. She'd been commuting 40 minutes each way with no lights on in the dark every day and hadn't noticed the people flashing her etc.

High Jetter Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

High Jetter

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  On 14/11/2021 at 14:40, cobblers said:

My wife's mate complained that her headlights were shit and really dim.

Turns out, they'd been turned off (usually automatic) since her MOT two months prior. She'd been commuting 40 minutes each way with no lights on in the dark every day and hadn't noticed the people flashing her etc.

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Here's a Christmas gift idea for her:

 

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Stanky Rank: Isuzu Florian

Stanky

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  On 14/11/2021 at 14:40, cobblers said:

My wife's mate complained that her headlights were shit and really dim.

Turns out, they'd been turned off (usually automatic) since her MOT two months prior. She'd been commuting 40 minutes each way with no lights on in the dark every day and hadn't noticed the people flashing her etc.

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Snap, my mother in law brought her car over, having been stopped by the rozzers for driving through town at night with just her DRLs on. 'the headlight bulbs must have blown'

I went out to it, turned the headlight switch on and walked round to see which other lights were out. Except none of them were out, including the headlights, they all worked fine.

So I came back inside to ask which ones were blown, because I thought she'd said the headlights but they definitely worked...

She came out to look and was amazed. She asked what I'd done and I showed her the 'on' switch above the drivers right knee. 

'oh, I never knew that was there, I thought they came on automatically?'

Ummm no. Hand over your licence now, you have proven you are not trustworthy in charge of 1200kg of moving car.

It had been like this for months, following her last mot. Luckily she rarely drives far but still. FFS people

 

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robinmasters Rank: Renault 16

robinmasters

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Someone passed me on the motorway in the early hours of Saturday, just sidelights and fogs on. Probably doing about 70. 

NorfolkNWeigh Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

NorfolkNWeigh

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I got in my old Merc the other day and thought “ Why isn’t the dash lighting up and why is it so dark in my street”  My excuse is that I  swap from ‘97E Class  to ‘14 E Class  depending which one is easiest to get out. I haven’t managed to get further than my own street with no lights on, yet!
 

The worse auto-dip I’ve encountered is , inevitably , on modern Range Rovers . Unbelievably slow witted.

Fumbler Rank: Lancia Gamma

Fumbler

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I am noticing more and more people with their full beams on coming towards me- more than on Friday. Must be a Sunday driver thing.

jakebullet Rank: Renault 16

jakebullet

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Ma in old person not listening to you mode tonight.

I've been going thru this bank statement, and the energy bill is EIGHTY POUNDS. And it's normally £55.

Yes, that was the month I put a reading in, as you've not bothered and it's been estimated since January. The next one will be £55 again.

But it's EIGHTY POUNDS! Look on the computer thing and make sure the next one isn't EIGHTY POUNDS!

It's not. It's £55.

So why is this one EIGHTY POUNDS?

'Cos you owe them a couple of quid each month from estimating for the best part of a year.

But it's EIGHTY POUNDS!

Argh!!!!

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Stanky Rank: Isuzu Florian

Stanky

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Why does Autotrader have a sort by 'relevance' as the default option in the dropdown?

You literally set the specific car make and model you want, what spectrum of 'relevance' is there is addition to that? I want a Lexus GS300 please, sorted by relevance?

"Please see this GS300 sir, its over 27% more Lexus GS-like than the next listing"

All the results are for Lexus GS300s, so its not like ebay where you search for a hammer and as you scroll through, you eventually end up finding results for toasters and all sorts of other shit. If it went on to similar cars then maybe, but really guys?

WTaF?

robinmasters Rank: Renault 16

robinmasters

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Christmas adverts have started. 

Obviously there's the Facebook dickheads declaring Christmas has started because they've seen a Coke advert, but there's more. 

I've just seen a John Lewis advert with an alien in it. Probably meant to illustrate something about the real meaning of Christmas, but tells you fuck all about the shop.

All it says to me is that they've got far to much money to spend on adverts, so their prices are probably high. 

I'm not even sure this is actually a grump now. 

Pieman Rank: Renault 16

Pieman

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I've seen that one (only once) and what fucks me off the most is that they've yet again used some really shitty cover of a popular song on it just like 99% of all other ads.  Chris de Burgh recorded a Christmas song about an alien visiting earth, why couldn't they have just used that?

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Tadhg Tiogar

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  On 14/11/2021 at 20:11, robinmasters said:

....the real meaning of Christmas...

... money....

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Think you've answered your own question there....

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gm Rank: Lancia Gamma

gm

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three different christmas adverts using the work “baubles” as an expletive - for some reason this really, really annoys me :( 

Wack Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

Wack

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  On 14/11/2021 at 20:11, robinmasters said:

 

Obviously there's the Facebook dickheads declaring Christmas has started because they've seen a Coke advert, but there's more. 

 

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The truck is touring the UK , they've upped the game this year , I think Nick Cage is driving 

The holidays are coming, the holidays are coming

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mintwth Rank: Renault 16

mintwth

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At most there are 12 days of Christmas and they're not meant to start till Christmas Eve.

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High Jetter Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

High Jetter

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  On 14/11/2021 at 20:28, Pieman said:

Chris de Burgh recorded a Christmas song about an alien visiting earth, why couldn't they have just used that?

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They did. Ad nauseam. Please, no more.

High Jetter Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

High Jetter

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Sod Christmas, today is my birthday. All plans ruined, cos Covid, for second time. Least I haven't got it, so far.

PhilA Rank: Lancia Gamma

PhilA

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  On 14/11/2021 at 22:01, gm said:

three different christmas adverts using the work “baubles” as an expletive - for some reason this really, really annoys me :( 

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Why must there even be expletives in a commercial, censored or otherwise?

What's the net gain? It just makes the advertising there look crass for no reason other than the attempted shock value.

Phil

paulplom Rank: Lancia Gamma

paulplom

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BBc radio Newcastle played Stop the cavalry yesterday. 

 

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sierraman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

sierraman

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I don’t want to hear the Xmas music until December, I like Xmas but when it becomes a 3 month extravaganza it’s waters it down. Fairly sure when I was a kid at this point in the year we’d not even thought about Xmas. 

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anonymous user

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  On 14/11/2021 at 22:16, Wack said:

The truck is touring the UK , they've upped the game this year , I think Nick Cage is driving 

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See, if you up the wages enough you can get drivers

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