October 2009
Just heard on the local news that Essex County Council or police (sorry couldnt remember which one) are running Anti Congestion Patrols.
I can just imagine it, "sorry sir, you must pull into that field as if you carry on there will be congestion".
How else do they expect to control congestion?
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The salt mountain, in the big shed by the M62 at Ferrybridge is heaving, as rock and table salt gleam in the moonlight. The seasonal werewolf of winters discontent - the consumer of the under-body and silver veins of fluid induced to flakes of brown red.
Degeneration of the great and good, the sustaining body.Time flows convincingly in linear flow - as stardust briefly forms flakes of red ochre.
The decay, as rancid as the rotting crocodile - in the mangrove swamp of far away. Out of sight and out of mind, in the tea party of polishing the upper paint.
The roof and bonnet, the doors and wings. The pearls of passion in the search of shells for the one true gleam - the sheen of polish on polish and exotic wax. The counterpoint of the final layer - bridging the sun and moon with a shine of pure opulence - and the everlasting honour of application on gilded cloths.
The rotted crocodile down below - the underbody. teeth agape in the putrefaction of neglect - oozing and encrusted in the pipes and frames. The skeleton leaching salt and losing fluid from pipes once pristine and silver.
Oh, for a touch of Castrol LM waterproof grease and a brush... Read more
I am not that good at writing although I can drum up the odd grumpy letter when required! I am sorry the deadline for this excellent competition was set so short. The Booker prize entrants have a minimum of a year!
Can i return my lease car with remould tyres on. The tyres are almost at 1.6mm on the edges and may be border line by the time the car is returned to the lease company. Does anybody have any experience/knowledge of this scenario?? thx in advance Read more
I have to admit that I still need some convincing that the cost saving represents a reasonable trade-off with my perception that they're less safe and a false economy on passenger cars (admittedly based on media articles over the past 15-20 years).
Does the structure (banding, fabric etc) of passenger car tyres not have a 'design life' and does this really exceed the tread wear in a world where everything is engineered to be 'just good enough' ?
Hello folks. Having owned a citroen xsara 1.9 diesel(non turbo) I sort of expected this 2.0 hdi model to have a bit more oomph!! At 70mph it feels as if it doesnt want to go much quicker but does get to 90. The car has done 118,000 miles. Is this just a big slow boat?! Thanks Read more
I suggest you have the cambelt checked
Hi all
My car has just failed it's MOT due to a steering joint issue. The Dealership has sent it back with the RED Failed certificate and it is marked as dangerous. It's still under warranty but they don't have the parts in stock (at the main dealer) to do the repair.
If I go past a police car with the automatic number plate recognition will this flag up that I do not have an MOT? No MOT means no insurance too right? So i'm now about to drive a car home with no insurance?
Bit annoyed they've put me in this situation, the car feels fine to me?
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Just to finish this one off, my car is back on the road with a cosher MOT now BMW have changed the steering parts.
Thanks for everyone's advice and tellings off :-)
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Sounds good and seems to have significant abilities
Chick magnet? Certainly has some pulling power at the end of the video :-)) Read more
the garage has told me that my car rover 400 needs a new gearbox ,and has quoted me £800 cant afford that and is it really worth it , car good and low mileage 4000 . it makes strange sounds when i take my foot of the accellerator no problem with gears apart from reverse sometimes , any ideas would be grateful Read more
Meant to say the first and cheapest thing to do is check the oil level in the box.
......... purely so that I can suppport my local Post Office. Use it or lose it. I've just received my reminder. Read more
Thats why I'm flogging the "Focus".
Love
Herman. ;-)
Had an email checking if my car was still available yesterday. Replied today saying it was.
Just now got this email back (note i have removed part of the link to disable it):
Hello,
I am interested to buy your car but I am a bit confused because I have seen same car with the same photos on www.autotrader.co.uk, but at another seller and price.
Here is the link where you can see it: h://autotrrader-co-uk.110mb.com/www.autotrader.co.uk/www/
Awaiting your response
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I clicked the link and it came up with an autotrader login window. Blindly and rather stupidly i entered the details. Immediately on doing this i realised it was a phishing link and i had just been a muppet. Normally good at spotting this sort of thing. Failed miserably today :(
within 30 seconds had changed my password.
Just to make everyone aware - i thought i was too clever to get caught by this sort of thing, but because i had the qualifier email yesterday, i was blinded.
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yes, forwarded on all the details.
I still keep kicking myself about this, whenever its on the news about phishing scams I always think to myself "what sort of numpty gives out their details?" Me i suppose.
The only question mark is what could they gain by getting access to the account? Maybe I will find my way onto a suckers list now.
I go into a thread, and it comes up pretty quickly, but within a second or 2 Firefox 'locks up' for a number of seconds - between 5 and 10 I would guess. This isn't every time - I haven't spotted a pattern, but it's often enough for me to have noticed it and for it to be annoying. It only seems to have started happening recently, perhaps this week.
I'm running FF 3.0.14 under Linux (CentOS 5) - I know there's a FF 3.5, but I'm on a work laptop and if I want support from the IT department I can only install official CentOS updates; 3.0.14 is the current release.
During the lock-up, the top command shows that Firefox is using >90% of the CPU (hence the apparent lock-up), although I don't know what it's doing. The status bar just says 'Done' - nothing about loading an advert etc.
I've also been seeing this when posting a reply - I hit the 'quote original message' (or whatever it's called) button, then start deleting part of the quoted message, and it locks up.
Anyone else experiencing this, either on FF/Linux or anything else? Read more
But is anyone seeing Shockwave Flash ads in the forum at the moment.... I suspect not.
EDIT: And I'm seeing page load times of up to 10 seconds. Without the Shockwave Flash adverts.
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I think it was His Tongueincheekedness himself, the Right Horrible JC, who proposed that contraflows, rather than having a lowered speed limit, should have a mandatory minimum speed limit of 100 mph.
No logjams then.......
;-)