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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 26, 2021 12:39:32 GMT
Well it's back from North East Accident Repair and I have to say they've done an excellent job, the X3 is looking brand new again. Hopefully, I'll have it for a few days to enjoy before any more misfortune.
The hire car I had from Enterprise was a new Mercedes CLA 220d - looked quite good, went very well and delivered an astonishing 74.3 mpg up and down to the Hartlepool Riviera. Lots of tech and some fancy screens but just didn't feel solid like a Merc should, and for a 21 plate had a couple of rattles and tinny "twangs" when you shut doors and boot. With the tech and the multiple options for interior lighting that can make it look like a nightclub inside I can see why the young lads like them but I think I'm happier with my 4WD high chair.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 26, 2021 12:07:27 GMT
I suppose it stops the confusion between the 5 & 7 series.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 26, 2021 10:10:11 GMT
My grandad was a brickie and I think he'd be pretty pleased with that.
Was there no lintel over the door?
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 25, 2021 7:52:13 GMT
I could have saved money because of Martin and I didn’t, I bought a BMW X5 owners manual when I could have just asked Martin for the info instead! He does save a lot of Googling and flicking through manuals. He’s like an Alexa for BMW questions.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 23, 2021 16:30:55 GMT
He’ll be on Instagram and doing tik tok videos as a lifestyle guru next.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 22, 2021 15:54:53 GMT
I've never heard of anyone getting hassle for wearing a mask indoors, or anywhere for that matter.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 21, 2021 12:47:08 GMT
I would like to think that any attempt to impose further lockdowns will be met by mass civil disobedience.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 21, 2021 10:13:09 GMT
Hey. What the nonsense you have written. Hello, Yoda's in.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 20, 2021 16:24:27 GMT
I've got to say, if I had the spare cash I'd be very tempted by one of these. Ticks a lot of boxes.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 20, 2021 16:20:41 GMT
I was quite pro masks but then, as someone earlier pointed out, wearing a pair of jeans doesn't stop the smell of a fart.. and I realised they are the comfort blanket chipbutty says.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 19, 2021 14:08:19 GMT
Swastika might raise a few eyebrows. Hitler was very good at brand marketing. But very bad at brand positioning. To be fair to him he was the originator of the idea of a united Europe.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 19, 2021 12:56:08 GMT
I sort of get the Welsh and Scots ones a bit more. But bothering to put the cross of St George on your plates always seemed correlated to driving like a bit of a dick to me. Ah right, pride in your country is not seen as nationalism if you're Scottish or Welsh but is if you're English? Got you. The beauty of this country is that you can be British, Scottish, English, Welsh, Irish, or a mix of all of them, of all different heritages from around the world. You're wife is Italian, if I saw her driving her car with an Italian flag on it I wouldn't automatically assume she was more right wing than Mussolini or drive like the Italian stereotypes. I think you're thinking far too much about this.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 19, 2021 12:47:38 GMT
We still have some people using the face shields and when you go to talk to them they lift the mask so they can talk to you!
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BMW i4
Jul 19, 2021 11:39:41 GMT
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 19, 2021 11:39:41 GMT
Hydro electricity, in the ESG world, is usually termed "brown" rather than "green" because it often has other significant negative environment impacts. What do they class as green then? Solar and wind and that's about it? And nuclear
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 19, 2021 11:38:12 GMT
Looks exactly the same to me? But if you’re referring to the Union flag can I ask why you’re embarrassed by the flag of your country but happy to fly the flag of a European Federalist state? My plates are just ordinary plastic plates the same as they’ve been for years. Partly, because I've always thought that having an English/Scottish/Welsh flag on your numberplate was indicative of being a bit of prick, and it reminds me of that. But also I just think it looks designed in three seconds on the back of a fag packet - surely a bit of effort could have gone in to produce something a bit smarter-looking and a little less aftermarket. My plates are also whatever the dealer put on the car. I just can't get triggered by a flag on a numberplate - EU or whatever. I might consider the flag of Northumbria on mine though.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 19, 2021 11:34:26 GMT
Well I noticed a difference. Last week everyone on the tube was wearing masks. Today a noticeable number of people weren't even though it is actually mandatory on the tube. Inch. Mile. I'm extremely dubious of the efficacy of anything short of a properly fitted N95 mask. I can just about get on board with one of the blue, three ply surgical masks, again properly fitted but as to the cloth snoods, cloth branded masks, face shields - all the ones produced by a friend's mum, little cottage industry things etc, people are wasting their time. In fact I would argue that the cloth ones you see people using are actually worse than nothing as they're not washed after every use, allowing the virus to grow and concentrate before being blown through the fabric onto anyone nearby.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 16, 2021 23:20:36 GMT
Looks exactly the same to me?
But if you’re referring to the Union flag can I ask why you’re embarrassed by the flag of your country but happy to fly the flag of a European Federalist state?
My plates are just ordinary plastic plates the same as they’ve been for years.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 16, 2021 17:39:10 GMT
Still can’t get my head around £79k for a second hand 3 Series estate. Just does not compute….
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Cazoo
Jul 16, 2021 13:39:50 GMT
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 16, 2021 13:39:50 GMT
Cinch are just the online arm of British Car Auctions. I believe Cazoo was set up by the bloke behind Zoopla.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 16, 2021 13:35:50 GMT
There is some fundamental difference between the USA of today and the one my parents lived in throughout the 1980s. I’m not sure if part of it is the rise of instant and social media highlighting excesses that always existed to a wider audience but I don’t recall this much conversation and debate over firearms as a teenager - and they lived in TX. I also suppose that weapons development over that 30-40 year period had a bit to do with it: a shotgun, a .38 Colt and a hunting rifle were the staple diet as opposed to semi automatic weapons that can cut a school class in half with a single magazine. The issue is, of course, that the genie is long out of the bottle and as with alcohol restrictions there will be decades of being able to hop across the state line to buy weapons in one state that aren’t available to purchase in another due to different state legislation. You're probably right; in the 50s and 60s it was not unusual for children to take their rifles to school so they could go shooting after class.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 16, 2021 12:40:44 GMT
Rimac is an interesting one as I like the background story more then then car itself. As for the Tesla, I've only ever seen one Tesla ever giving it the beans which was rather impressive but seems a total waste of time as the acceleration in this Plaid must be a rather horrible experience. Dead Men Drive Plaids.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 16, 2021 12:35:08 GMT
So, our entire office got "pinged" by the NHS Test and Trace app today, including myself, which told us all to isolate for 9 days. Needless to say Company Policy is now to ignore the app and only isolate if contacted by phone or text. Why have you got it switched on? I'd forgotten all about it.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 16, 2021 12:11:31 GMT
So, our entire office got "pinged" by the NHS Test and Trace app today, including myself, which told us all to isolate for 9 days.
Needless to say Company Policy is now to ignore the app and only isolate if contacted by phone or text.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 16, 2021 7:35:31 GMT
I solved the castor shimmy issue on those trollies You should go work for the supermarkets, you'd become a millionaire. I remember being offered a job by the makers of those things.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 15, 2021 22:08:35 GMT
You do have to ask who comes up with this tripe. The condition of the various RM vans delivering the post in our area is something else. Lately its a 05 plate Vauxhall Combo van with paint so faded it was pink and dents in every panel. What does moving a few managers of a certain grade or above do to your carbon footprint as a business. Our postie drives round in a battered combo which is also an 05 plate and sounds like a bag of nails. Must be about time they invested in some newer vans. Maybe being in a rural area they don't have so much pressure from local councils to have cleaner vehicles. Our postie got a brand new 70 plate last year. Peugeot I think. Quite right too, can't have him lowering the tone of the estate.
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BMW i4
Jul 15, 2021 15:59:41 GMT
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 15, 2021 15:59:41 GMT
You did. I'm just clarifying that this position is utter nonsense. Try telling a Tesla apostle this. They’d sooner kill you, their kids, their family and a member of the clergy than admit that mining rare metals, producing aluminium and shipping around the globe is in any way polluting. All vehicles contain rare earth metals and aluminium. Where the Tesla and other EVs score is that, as power generation moves to ever more cleaner sources, particularly renewables, their car gains an even greater environmental advantage over an ICE one. Your Tesla owner in Norway is running his car on 100% hydro electricity.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 15, 2021 15:53:25 GMT
I suspect companies justify the miserly 4ppm EV rate by pointing out the almost free car employees are given use of.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 14, 2021 17:13:19 GMT
I helped my mother to replace her ancient Samsung Galaxy with a new one over Easter - she now has an A52 I think - it was whatever Which? recommended from the Samsung range in the circa £300 range and is 5G enabled, which given how long my mother keeps her phones seemed sensible forward-planning. Having played around with it to set it up, Android does seem not vastly different from IOS but I'm not clear how it might be significantly better. Strikes me as little benefit in changing from the known path (be that from Android to IOS or IOS to Android). I don’t think there’s much difference, I just find the notifications better from Android and the navigation more straightforward.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 14, 2021 8:29:05 GMT
I shall have the joys of arguing with mother as to why she hasn't had a/c fitted as we agreed last year! As we're there a bit longer this time I'll sort it out whilst we're there. There's an ageing Bosch portable unit which still does enough in one area but a decent split system is long overdue and will do her well into her 80s. My friend's mother has a small place out in Tenerife but she's notoriously tight. After arguing with her for ages to install A/C she finally conceded and told him she'd had it fitted last time she was out there. He and his wife went out a few months later and found that she'd installed coin operated A/C - 1 Euro a shot! He went out and managed to purchase a key that fitted the coin box so he now just uses the same Euro coin over and over and tells her they don't run when they are there.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 14, 2021 6:33:37 GMT
Much as I don’t like him it does make me chuckle that he keeps winning and the left just can’t get their heads round it. It's fairly easily explained by the fact that he's not particularly small "c" conservative. Most of this right-wing stuff is almost certainly just expeditious pandering to the ERG tendency who after all got him the job. You do realise that most of the people who keep voting for and supporting Boris would have no idea what you're talking about?
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