Nothing In Particular

[Paul Barker]

I had an ex tax inspector doing book keeping in a job i had 3 or 4 decades ago. He said he was “A pretty damn fine all riund good egg” probably at the IR in those days they sat around watching David Niven films.

[jack]

Saw this on the tube this afternoon.

Plainly advertisers have no idea at all about the realities of tool ownership...

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Made me think though. I can't even remember how many drills I have, but it's certainly *way* more than 2.8

[Nick]

Plainly advertisers have no idea at all about the realities of tool ownership.

No, but if that’s true, they may have a better idea of the concept of average.

[jack]

Plainly advertisers have no idea at all about the realities of tool ownership.

No, but if that’s true, they may have a better idea of the concept of average.

The logic in that advert is soooooo flawed

[Nick]

Vodafone to bring back roaming charges from January

Yay, another win

[Cressy Snr]

Never mind, we’ve got blue passports now.

[andrew Ivimey]

Designed in France & made in Poland.....

err.

[jack]

Never mind, we’ve got blue passports now.

Some of us have red ones as well

(I was looking for the "Smug Git" "baise les Anglais" Europhile emoticon and that was the closest I could get...)

You all realise that after many many years of sitting around #4 or #5 in the list of World Exporting Countries, in the last couple the UK has dropped to about #14. We're also recovering exports far slower than our competitors after Covid...

Thanks Brexiteers!

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https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/brexit-vo ... ortunities

Put simply, older, white and more economically insecure people with low levels of educational attainment were consistently more likely to vote for Brexit than younger people, degree-holders, minorities and the more secure middle- and upper-classes.

[jack]

Removed

[andrew Ivimey]

Doomed! Global warming is here today.

And what will the human race do? ...

[Ray P]

Panorama could be an interesting watch this week

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58149765

Some of it beggars belief - financial experts indeed, it all seems a complete fraud to me.

[andrew Ivimey]

Yeah but fat Dave says it's a private matter and he didnt do anything illegal .... ....

[Ray P]

The DC story is almost just a sub-plot to the antics of Greensill, even if it's not illegal it just seems so contrived as to be stupid.

And guess who'll likely end up paying for the mess!

[andrew Ivimey]

Well presumably Rishi Sunak told him to fuck off but yep, we'll be paying.

[pre65]

When I changed the CRV diesel fuel filter a while ago, the connecting pipe (to the engine) O ring was not in the filter box, so I left it as was.

Recently, there has been a slight hesitancy on cold start up, and I wondered if the fuel filter was sucking in air past the O ring, there being no signs of fuel leakage.

So, I contacted my regular Honda parts supplier to order one, but it's a non stocked item with a minimum order quantity of 25 @ £5.86 each.

Fortunately, the Honda parts list gives the O ring size as 9.8mm X 2.4mm. I checked on Ebay, and I got a packet of 25 for £3.85 inc postage. I ended up changing the O ring on the engine side of the pipe as well, as a precaution.

I'll have to wait till tomorrow to know if this job has cured the problem.