Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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Do you think this was ready or should I let it do a few more 1000 miles?
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Blimey, is that a cabin pollen or engine filter?
Poor design somewhere, not deflecting the dirt.
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Cabin pollen filter.
I'm guessing that it never been changed. There wasn't a deal of airflow into the car, no wonder looking at that. :)
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
That's a used BBQ isn't it?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
Slack jawed yokel neighbours standing around looking at an air ambulance in a field. Have these people not seen a helicopter before?
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I thought it was a fancy doormat.
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Meh, I go out and have a look if I hear a helicopter, especially a gyrocopter or a Chinook.
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And Osprey VTOLS.
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There is a yellow electric grid maintenance helicopter that flies around a fair bit, gets nice and low.
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Oh and paragliders.
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Balloonist
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As a heavy coffee drinker (4-5 a day) the elixir like properties of coffee for your bowel health, and in this instance, bowel cancer recovery, still blows my mind .
What I found particularly interesting is that the effect was dose dependent - the more coffee you drink, the better your chances were against a recurrence.
I had terrible virus induced IBS for about 7 months last year and the Dr prescribed loads of proper yoghurt and coffee and since recovering I have stuck to that - I've never been so complaint free down there ever since.
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Maybe they'll distil the essence into a pill that'll suck the joy out of drinking it.
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Cake is just weakness entering the body0 -
You consider 4 or 5 a day as heavy? 😳
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Did they specify whether decaf would work as well? I drink gallons of tea but have enough insomnia as it is without that much caffeine.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
A friend of mine with a house in Brittany only just realising today that you need a passport that was issued less than ten years ago to get into France, however many months is left on it before it expires, unaware of the rule change at Brexit. Looks like their Easter break won't be happening.
I start to realise how so many women missed the news about the change in pension age.
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Are they after compensation from the government?
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I mean, as people owning property in the EU, I'd have thought they might have followed developments at a very basic level of "How might this affect us?"
Is there anyone on CS who wasn't aware of the 10-years-from-date-of-issue issue?
Your passport must be:
- issued less than 10 years before the date you enter the country (check the ‘date of issue’)
- valid for at least 3 months after the day you plan to leave (check the ‘expiry date’)
Sorry tales of people being turned back at the entry gate have been doing the rounds in the press since it kicked in back whenever. Lordy knows what they'll do when ETIAS is needed. Obviously I don't like it, but ignoring it isn't a sensible plan.
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All the adverts for the diesel emissions compensation claims. Yes, there was fraud by the manufacturers but I'm struggling to see what loss the owners of the vehicles have suffered. They still got their VED at the rates based on the claimed lower levels and company car tax would still have been based on the claimed emissions. The main loser financially was the Treasury and the planet missed out due to emissions being higher than possibly well meaning buyers expected.
I would have thought claimed fuel efficiency would be a better target.
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We had an emissions claim payout for my wife’s car. I struggle to imagine any loss to us, but it’s a very easy couple of grand.
2020/2021/2022 Metric Century Challenge Winner0 -
Feels like the morally right thing to do is to claim it, so the manufacturers don't do it again.
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First post in the thread for me I think...
Driving home for Easter (and grandpa raver's funeral RIP) and it is absolutely sh1tting it down with snow on Dartmoor/ Plymouth.
Now with no arrogance implied I have a lot of experience of driving in the snow and I'm pretty meh about it but this was genuinely, big flakes, hard,"magic eye" snow, challenging!!
The flipping daffodils are out!!!
We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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You probably won't have winter tyres which makes quite a bit of difference.
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"documents obtained by the BBC reveal how the "dash for diesel" was encouraged by presentational considerations.
The shift to promoting diesel vehicles under the last Labour government can be seen as a textbook example of the law of unintended consequences.
In 2001, the then Chancellor Gordon Brown introduced a new system of car tax aimed at protecting the environment. In actual reality it fostered a popular move towards highly polluting diesel cars - a trend which according to some experts has been associated with thousands of premature deaths a year.
New light is shed on how this happened by records received by the BBC,"
The point is people were encouraged to purchase diesel car off a false premise. The cars were more efficient but it turns out the pollution was pretty dire when not fudged. Incidentally, when a Adblue diesel goes by I can't smell any orrible old pollution smell now with that they seem OK. The downside is they also put pollution back into the oil which results in more frequent oil changes.
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We bought the diesel car essentially as it was the car my wife wanted from an aesthetic/style perspective. The bonus was the fuel efficiency for her commute. It was an early adopter of the stop/start function and as a result came with just £30 per year VED - so for the less aware consumer, it was fair to say it was sold as an 'eco' car.
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This ad from twitter. Who clicks?
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The fact it is Temu is enough reason not to.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
That the only way to adjust brightness, gamma, saturation etc on the (W10) laptop webcam is by installing Skype and using the video settings in the app.
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I went for a walk in Richmond park today and there's a temporary dot matrix sign saying 'car parks full' with a chap in his viz manning it. One road only leads to a car park, yet he is waving people through. He waved 3 cars through, but none came out of that road as I walked by.
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