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Well I swore I wouldn’t but…..
Yes they (Tories) are f*cking it up left, right and centre, and are in danger of squandering a massive opportunity to preserve some sort of country for our kids/grandchildren and beyond.
May’s vanity in assuming her snap election would strengthen her position was staggering and has led to the dirty alliance with the DUP and the shambles of an exit negotiation so far.
One thing remains unchanged. The existing, unregulated levels of migration from the EU in to the UK were and are unsustainable. If it hasn’t bitten your part of this country on the @rse yet then it would/will (depending on how long this shambles takes). I promise you that. I am now outside the catchment area of the school my kids went to 20 years ago (less than half a mile away)……have a wild guess why.
There are sensible arguments both ways but unfortunately a lot of bigotry to – much of it on MM – and sadly now creeping on to forumite via this post.
“and keep a few people happy in a dream world of an isolated island, where we only let in/out the ‘right’ people”
Nice, balanced stuff.
Firstly – the majority of those who voted – chose to leave so hardly a “few people”. Secondly, this assumption that there is only either “free movement” or “zero immigration” is beyond ridiculous. A sensible, controlled, immigration policy is entirely possible – but only outside the EU….we cannot influence it at all if we had stayed – plain fact.
An awful lot has also gone wrong economically while inside the EU since it crept – undemocratically, by stealth from a trading block in to its current, bloated form……much worse than we have it now in fact .
Many people have been getting poorer since well before the referendum – the pressure on housing, education, health and public services is due in no small part to the hundreds or thousands being added on to the population every year (more than half of which is from the EU).
The majority of countries in the world manage to exist outside the EU – it should be a relatively simple process to transition from “in” to “out” – and if it isn’t then you have to question what sort of club the EU is in the first place.
You could have held the referendum on “free movement” and there would have been a landslide, but unfortunately that would have been pointless – the only way to stop that was to get out all together. This doesn’t mean selecting who can/can’t come based on fear or discrimination, it means working out what the country needs, how many people we can accomodate, and making sure that above all we don’t sacrifice the futures of our own people for pan-European federalism (which incidentally someone else thought of a few decades ago). People have come here and conributed pre-EU and they will post-EU…all that will (or should) change is the open gate with nobody checking or counting.
Duke may well be right about if it happens at all, but if that happens then we are looking at a total betrayal of democracy in the UK.
Well done Ed you got a bite.
that’s the most useful thing for a CD slot these days! Duke the removable air-vent mounts are a fiver-ish on ebay if your car logistics would support it…mine is like this (but not this one exactly)
On the battery, do you mean run a normal dashcam (not a phone app) so you could film your street even when car is parked and you are not in it? I’d have to check my batteries – got loads of them and never thought to use like that.
There’s a few apps like this but been playing around with this app for Dashcam functionality. I’ve been using it with the phone (as usual) mounted on an air-vent holder – normal position for me for satnav. It (my car anyway) is just the right height to peep over the dashboard and record what’s in front of you. It can record footage in the background, so you can still run satnav/speed cameras or anything else on the phone screen. The default recording split of 2 minutes is a little low as it beeps at each split – but easily adjusted.
I know a lot of people have a dedicated in-car camera, but if not, or if you just want the feature on holiday this (and I’m sure others) looks like a a decent DIY solution.
Got confirmation that Dave’s recommendation all went AOK. They had to enter the product key to run the installer, and then again to activate. There was instructions to activate by phone if needs be, but it sailed through online so happy days.
Thanks for the advice!
Is the Echo significantly better than the Dot? Considering getting one for the house as we use the Dot for music – just thinking that we could move the current Dot to the bedroom and then use the Echo within the front room. The plug could then go to my dad for Christmas…
Its a horses for courses job really – the speaker in the Echo s a lot better than the dot – but then you can’t plumb it in to your audio setup (no audio out). I recently got a battery base (black friday) for my echo (the old tall one) and it is great as you can move it around. There’s battery bases and battery/speaker bases for the dot. If I could have found a battery/speaker base for a dot that sounded as good as the Echo then that would be the perfect, post flexible solution – but I couldn’t.
The “Echo Show” is pretty limited by the look of it – hopefully will improve but YouTube has gone due to a spat with google, no playback of your own local media – easy video calling is about all it brings to the party beyond the echo/dot.
Blimey that “soup” looks like its been drained out of deep fat fryer! Interesting stats on the views though.
I want one of those curry sausages!!
[without de-railing last few years had exposure to the “craft beer” explosion in Colorado USA and also Moscow] very odd having “English” type beers in those locations, although wish they didn’t serve Ales at lager-cold temperatures]
Cheers Dave – got there in time – all done.
Search words noted if I need it again – appreciate it – ta.
I don’t like the ribbon – but ubit sorts that out. At work I have to lump the ribbon and still find it a real chore. I’ll sit tight for a bit and see if anyone has a recent recommendation. Some look dodgy(er) than others (lifetime/academic licence etc)
cheers both – Duke your bloke doesn’t appear to be selling either.
Duke I’ve found playing the stream directly in MX or BS player to be better (for me) than the TS or Tunein apps – works much better with satnav/speed camera apps as the radio sound doesn’t cut out when there is a voice instruction or speed warning (you hear both). MX and BS also have the advantage that with the SW encoder and pre-amp selected you can get the radio station volume much higher relative to the satnav (Google I don’t think lets you switch the voice off completely just soft.loud/normal).
In BS player you can just use http://radio.talksport.com/stream
and in MX player it needs the longer URL http://radio.talksport.com/stream?aisGetOriginalStream=true
(the urls work in any android/desktop browser too. Just change “/stream” to “/stream2” for Talksport 2.
I use the url with website shortcut to launch the url instantly from the home screen.
Cheers for that – this podcast link is a good addition to that lot – each link takes you in to an archive of all the shows – which are refreshingly advert free.
The soundcloud link is a new one so I have bookmarked that – ta!
Very odd Duke – your right, TS is on MW, DAB and internet – no FM. I get News and Sports News every 30 minutes (on the hour news is longer than the half hour) and traffic at quarter past and quarter to the hour. I hear bits of songs, but when they talk about them it always makes sense what they are referring to.
I’ll be doing a couple of long stints Wednesday (morning and evening) so will pay attention to what happens with news and songs. I don’t think I get your symptoms on MW or DAB though.
Not noticed that Duke – an I listen to the same station for the most part. I get TalkSport and Talksport London (same content) – think I’m using London – but will keep an eye out for it. Next Long drive is Wednesday so should spot it then. Even on Medium wave I don’t remember them playing a full song though – just a bit of it?
BL, I check all the alternatives of some product that I am looking to buy: in this case, a DAB audio head unit. As I find a “possible” I click the Pocket icon at top right of Firefox Toolbar. This looks like 4 small black vertical lines, the RHand one leaning against the others, as if they are books on a bookshelf. Or I click the Pocket icon at Rhand end of the address bar. This looks like a small black shield, with a white arrow, pointing down. It’s only present in the address bar if I have just used Pocket. If using the “bookshelf” icon, I log into Pocket via Google, or FFox accounts, then the Pocket icon opens in the address bar, if it’s not already been used and is open. Click on this icon when on a website page and “Save To Pocket” appears. Click that and the web page is saved in Pocket List. To view every thing saved in Pocket list at any time, go back to the “bookshelf” of 4 black lines, click it and click “View Pocket List”.
Thanks Bob – that had passed me by I will have a play – sounds useful
Cheers.
Can’t tonight I’m afraid – having got up at 3am (for no good reason as it turns out) to watch the boxing I’m off for a kip shortly – happy to help in the week though if that is of any use?
I’m sure that’s right Ed – I’m in a very “green” (good) area and so are most of my regular destinations. I made sure the unit I got had AM as well as DAB and FM, and there is the option of streaming internet radio from phone to bluetooth. The latter is what I’ve been doing for anything approaching Kent/Sussex, but DAB is good all the way down, just a couple of “dark” seconds as I get near the coast, but otherwise AOK.
The DAB rollout doesn’t seem to have been thought through properly or implemented well at all. Indoors I’m Internet Radio all the way – don’t bother with DAB at all.
So far (with my windscreen aerial) I can’t tell a difference (from the loan car with a “proper” rooftop DAB aerial). My gym has an underground car park and with both you briefly lose DAB on the way in then it finds itself again. There is no AM reception down there at all. Be interesting to see how the windscreen aerial performs when I go further than 70 miles from London.
The daft thing is the AM reception on talk stations never bothered me at all till I heard DAB, no doubt I’ll get used to it (DAB) and forget that it is any better. Bloody technology.
Had to google it – appears to be a high-gain indoor digital TV antenna. Can’t see it being much use to be honest – unless you can’t get an aerial connection any other way. The blurb sort of implies you’ll get a load of cable /premiumchannels free – but you won’t – especially in the UK. There’s a lot of similar/clone devices on Amazon/Ebay so if you want to try one I’d go with an Amazon-sourced one with easy returns.
Well I can confirm that listening to West Ham beat Chelsea while driving home definitely sounds better on DAB!
Duke – by sore neck I meant looking down at a double-din multimedia head unit, rather than looking at your phone. A lot of the head-units with a DVD player also include the (touch-enabled) screen to play them on. I can’t imagine any way that would b comfortable. I also watch more TV on my phone than my telly, and the 5 – 5.5″ screens are fine for that.
Bob – what do you mean by the DAB audio web pages – just curious – ta.
Sorry to hear that Bob – hope things work out as well as they can. Same symptoms can have lots of different causes so hope there’s an easy/favourable explanation.
…back on the radios – why would you want a DVD player in a car stereo – I know they make them and a lot of the android ones have built in multimedia players too – but why would you want one? You can’t watch a film when you are driving and even if parked up and waiting the head-unit would give you a stiff neck. If it is for storing more music then a usb nano-drive can wipe the floor with a DVD.
The other features like bluetooth, AUX, USB could probably be called mainstream now and a decent DAB head unit (or non-DAB for that matter) would probably include all of them.
I’m driving a Vauxhall combi rental van all weekend – so back to medium wave for a couple of days!
Richard – for me the main station I listen to was MW/AM only – and the difference in quality with DAB is BIG. There are also many. many more stations on the DAB spectrum than AM/FM so choice really. The only really benefit of pranging my car and a £350 excess was hearing DAB – and deciding I wanted it!
I always thought coverage would be awful with DAB – but from limited experience the opposite is true.
The comparison with FM is probably different and I’ll have a tinker when time permits – but I don’t generaly listen to music stations so it may be a while!
The fairly brutal cut-over to freeview/digital TV hasn’t been replicated with radio and no sign that it will – so I think DAB is still very much an option based on preference/location.
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