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Graham that is saved in my Downloads for further consumption later. A quick glance tells me that, although it is full of useful information, I shall need some peace tomorrow to try to understand it. More later.
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I'm out.I’m a bit confused as to why anyone would want to leave the Motability scheme, Robin. If the award is indefinite (as mine is) then I don’t see the problem. Even if I were to win the Euro millions and become stinking rich, the payments will continue and I could use them towards a more expensive car, many of the luxury models including Merc’s are available. Appears to be morally wrong I know, but the payments are because the user has a disability, regardless of financial circumstances. On the other hand, there are small cars with either manual or auto ‘boxes available, some with less than the Total Allowance.
I had a neighbour who had Motability payments and would not take a car from the scheme. Instead, he bought second-hand crapmobiles and paid out for servicing, tyres and insurance. I proved to him that this was a false economy by taking everything he spent on the wheeled shed he bought, adding it up and contrasting it with my Motability lease. He would not budge: “It’s not yours!” – “No – but the difference is that mine will start every morning, I don’t pay for anything but fuel, and on the rare occasion of a breakdown (1 in 22 years) or RTC, (3 in same period, none my fault) it is recovered and repaired, although there is a £100 excess for a Repair.”
I am very grateful for my own Motability car every 3 years, which incidentally can now be stretched by 6 months or <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>in exceptional circumstances</span>, another 3 years. the other day I was told that the British Taxpayer pays for my car. No, it does not: Motability is a charitable organisation that exists solely by donation from industry, private donors and its own fundraising efforts. I save a little bit every month for 3 years in order to be able to put down a good deposit on a decent ride. SWMBO and I have delicate constitutions ? ? and very painful spinal problems, comfort is a priority. This year all deposits have risen, thanks to the state of the GBP.
I have always found RSA to be helpful on the few occasions I have needed them, and managed to get a good Home Insurance deal by asking via the RSA site, not the Motability site, they take a cut but I already fundraise for them, that’s enough blood for now thank you. :scratch: :negative:
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I'm out.The Hull supporter has lived here for a few years and has had to get used to the rest of us comparing his team to a Yo-Yo.?
Have to give him a bit of leeway, all season others in the Close have been telling him that they are going back down. Again. I don’t criticise his team much, though: Forest have not lost for 3, but I genuinely thought we were headed for League One at one point. I have been wondering why they have not played Academy lads: the younger teams are all playing well. Then the useless French manager gets the chop (that’s 8 since December 2012*) and they come back for Gary Brazil, Academy manager, as caretaker for the second time. He puts 3 kids in and a 17 yo scores the winner last night. And for the second time, under Gary Brazil, they start winning again. Somebody should draw up a graph for Al-Hasawi the owner.
He has stated that he will not sell the club. I have a mate on the Ground Staff there and he has told me what he knows about a proposed takeover by some American billionaire whose family originally came from Nottingham. “The talks broke down” was Al-Hasawi’s comment. Unofficial explanation of that from my mate, is that A-H wanted all debts paid off and they laughed at him. Mate says the Yank and 3 mates had been walking around the car park eating fish and chips and talking to fans, after one of the games they went to. If they get the club, maybe A-H can stop selling our best players for peanuts.
*When Brian Clough took over in 1975, he was only the 15th manager since 1897. That’s 15 in 96 years. Since Clough resigned in 1993, we have had 26. That’s 26 in 27 years. Bloody revolving door. We must be the most loyal and patient fans in football. :unsure: 🙂
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I'm out.As a result the Subcontinent ‘gentleman’ just used her surname to search the Yahoo password dump and made her life (and mine in passing) hell for three months until she dumped her old BT email account and used a brand new email account instead. Luckily I had coached her never to use the same password twice and to distrust on-line banking (before the days of wide-spread two factor), so the collateral financial impact was zero.
Ed, same happened to 2 of my neighbours, both ladies with new laptops who innocently used their FULL names as an email address. One: “But I thought no one would know who I was, if they didn’t see my name.” Imagine how long an explanation that was. The daft thing was, the first one was a big friend to the second one and warned her about using her name. Second one’s explanantion: “But I didn’t use her name, I used mine!” Talk about taking words out of context! I had sorted out the first one, reinstalled everything and advised her to remove her details from the Electoral Roll (as mentioned by Steve, we have not been on the Roll for many years) and showed her how to set up an address that would have no trace of her ID. Then I had to do the same with the second. Explaining the Electoral roll bit was another trial: “But how will I pay my Council Tax?”
Sometimes I regret having helped the first computer user in the Close…Now I am a ‘go to’ for every kind of tech problem they have. Some are in their 80’s and 90’s and have never used a PC before, it’s a nightmare. Yesterday it was a 87 yo bloke with a new TV, couldn’t use the Remote to start it. TV was not plugged in… I dread the time when one of them buys a Smart TV. I know I am only a few years behind them, and they can’t help it, but it does nothing for my own declining faculties. And I am too settled in a lovely spot, to move, unless those 6 numbers come up.
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I'm out.And Google rules the mobile device world now:
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I'm out.Sunny and quiet here in God’s Country…
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I'm out.Plenty of Porpoises and Dolphins just off the coast from his Welsh village. I fear for them… :scratch: 🙂
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I'm out.Steve I knew what “Pussers” meant right away, my much-missed big bro was on the battleship HMS Nelson. When they scrapped it, he was expected to go to a minesweeper, saw it as an insult and bought himself out. He was 17 years older than me: when I came here to the Close in 2003, there was an old guy who had the same birthday as me, also 17 years older. He served on a Carrier during the Korean War, but had met and remembered my bro on the Nelson before being posted to carriers. Unfortunately brother passed in 1988, Albert wanted to meet him again, was disappointed. He passed in 2014. Tea ready, more later.
Bloke in the Close is a Hull supporter, wants to pass on his condolences. :wacko: :negative:
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I'm out.Steve they were doing PRC’s when I joined up. At first I couldn’t get the knack of “curls” – lifting onto a bar, they were telling me I would have to go to the APTC at Blandford Forum. Then I suddenly found it, daft because I could run any distance, lift weights, climb ropes etc. To this day, I can even shock my gdaughter by doing it at the local play place, have done that with all of them. It embarrasses them of course, which is what granddads are for. B-) :yahoo: Strangely, I did go to Blandford eventually, for athletics, Aikido and Judo. Jacked the Judo, kept the Aikido as more useful in NI with a baton.
I have to see if I can contact my gt. nephew and his sister, both RAF. Gt niece is a nurse I believe, have not see her since she was about 10. We are a far-flung family, scattered everywhere and many in or have been in, the Forces.
Good luck in the new job, Chris.
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I'm out.Happy belated birfday Steve!
The higher the numbers get, the less you enjoy them, unless it’s a big one. I enjoy all the family birthdays, good excuse to have a ‘Do’. Not that my lot needs much of an excuse, as long as granddad is footing the bill. 😥
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I'm out.Jason:
thank you, found one of the many YouTube videos, stripped it down and found that the charging port and cable are both u/s, ordered parts from Fleabay.. Great info, I should also be able to find bits for my own Hudl2 and sell it on. This morning I have been given another one with a u/s board, should be able to do some more cannibalisation. I enjoy tinkering with stuff like that.
Doc, I am frsh out of war stories atm and don’t have time to go to the coast today. Granddad’s Taxi is on duty. Very happy to be able to entertain you occasionally though! :yahoo: 😉
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I'm out.When did a thread on MM or Forumite ever stay on Topic for long? (Guilty as charged, m’lud.) 🙂 😉
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I'm out.Sorry, Bit of an Hijack there.
Didn’t see it as a Hijack Lee, more as an answer to your Linux tablet Server Plan. :yes: :unsure:
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I'm out.It’s a Plan… :good:
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I'm out.My car is fixed, I parked it on my hill, which is quite steep, gave the throttle a good ASBO inducing threshing and a tiny stone shot out and hit my eldest girl in the shin.
Oh dear, more parental abuse!!! :scratch: :yahoo:
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I'm out.Thanks Jason, looking into that. The problem is the state of my hands, with the Rheumatoid they don’t work like they used to. But if I can get it working I would be pleased, the neighbour is a very nice lady on her own who will help anyone.
Lee, is it worth the hassle? Maybe go to Cemax, ebay or Gumtree for a cheap used tablet to play with? Plenty on Gumtree, I was looking this morning for a mate.
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I'm out.Defo keep that to ourselves! My lad is built like me but bigger and broader, a real heavy lifter. His son my No.2 gson, is a monster, looks like he could bend people in half, but is a quiet, gentle lad, unless pushed too far. Only trouble he had at school was 2 older bullies who pushed him until he snapped. One had to be hospitalised and the other ran off. Gs was suspended for one day, lots of his mates went to the Head and said that they had all been bullied by these 2 thugs. Three good things to come out of that: 1- he was never bothered again. 2- he got confidence in himself. 3- he never became a bully himself. One bad thing: granddad was blamed by grandma for teaching him how to defend himself.
I think that when your son becames more like a mate, you have a great relationship.
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I'm out.Steve, I only heard of Discovery and Sky settling their argument, online at BBC yesterday morning: Last night my Sky sceen filled up with Discvery and other documentaries, Nature, Science, all kinds of stuff, all free. Some old, but some of that I like, such as Walking With Dinosaurs, Walking With Beasts, I like all that stuff.
No need to be sorry, it’s FF should apologise, they should have informed users before they migrated the site. All OK now anyway.
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I'm out.2 Para had a hard few tours in NI Steve. I know that 1 Para were involved in Bloody Sunday (reports of which were and are a farrago of lies.) But 2 Para had a lot of bad scenes to deal with, it just happened that they were on the streets where some big ones blew. I know what that’s like from just one experience, your old fella might have seen more. It affected blokes in different ways, took me a while to get over NI as opposed to other places. I think that’s because it was so much like the mainland yet so different, civilian victims looked like your own relatives. Same shops, streets looked the same if you ignored the artwork on the walls. I also know guys who went to the Falklands job and some of them had a hard time. 2 Para of course, had a major situation at Stanley.
Don’t mean to excuse your dad, using your fists on the family is not right, but there are always reasons. The drink was probably for a reason as well. I can relate to the break up myself, after having to leave one family behind and then leaving the Army soon afterwards. I went on a bender for months, until my old man gave me the ultimatum: stop, get your job and mind right, or leave. My dad only ever got serious like that when he meant it. I straightened up and started running for a bit again, got sorted.
I never got violent at home, but had a few scrapes whilst out. I was lucky, met my missus and a new family. Decided I was too old for all that. Then one night my lad decided to become Top House Dog, big mistake, only trouble I ever had with him. You will know what I mean. We get on fine now, have for years since then, I love the lad.
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I'm out.Have you not seen Star Wars, Bob? The Golden rule is – Never annoy the Wookie ?
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But while I’m on the subject of Sky, here’s one for Duke Steve, it seems that Sky and Discovery Channel have made up after their spat:
Quite chuffed about that, I like Discovery. Well, most of it – some American comentary is very “Goshdarn, willya lookatthat!” Perhaps we’ve been spoiled by the great Sir David.
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