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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I bet they're now wishing they'd kept some of that bottled sunshine.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    https://tinyurl.com/mvy474pd
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Many years ago I said the same thing about the cheap money coming from the ECB and inflating the property bubble in Ireland. In my opinion, there should have been multi-tiered loan rates, with nobody outside of of governments getting the cheap money and only then when it was for useful...
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    Pedelecs frum makes me feel sick

    Why quote that article? It's got nothing to do with the point under discussion in this sub-thread portion.
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    Roll over Bethoven.

    Food: The difference between getting some or being some may depend on being able to accurately discern and identify background noises.
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    Roll over Bethoven.

    "I dip my hand into your pocket then you put your hand in mine I take your wallet, give you crumbs and you then show some gratitude." Still, it's better than war-war.
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    Crazy cheap prices on ebay out of Hong Kong

    Years ago, I read that the Chinese government were subsidising small packet mail costs. If you tie that in with the Postal Union arrangements, it's not surprising that stuff gets here (and I mean UK / Ireland) for next to nothing, or indeed, nothing. However, things have changed on the...
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    The Gasman Cometh...

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    Ronseal diamond hard paint.

    Look on ebay for some genuine old-fashioned paint stripper - dichloromethane. You can buy it by the litre or less. It's what Nitromors used to contain before it was made safe and useless by EU edict.
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    A total bummer

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    The lost Malaysian airplane

    It'll turn up on Wheeler Dealers.
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    The lost Malaysian airplane

    In foreign flights, there are some nights You really find appalling But never mind, you shortly find The ocean floor a-calling
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    Bit of a bummer.....

    When you wake up from the anasthetic, watch your language. It might tend to lower your swearing barrier.
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    The lost Malaysian airplane

    https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13cv1gohsmbv5jmy221vrfyiz3vdhbop04
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    Dont ignore crashed cyclists

    I stopped at the side of the road to help a van driver. Bled the diesel pump and got him going. Ungrateful fecker was disappointed I didn't do a full service for him.
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    Dont ignore crashed cyclists

    I recall a BR employee telling me of a simlar incident thirty years ago. I thought it a load of hogwash at the time, but you never know.
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    The lost Malaysian airplane

    Fire in cargo hold - pilot heads for nearest airport, fire interferes with comms connections or hull integrity, possibly leading to sudden depressurisation, crew rendered unconscious but plane already on a southerly heading to nearest airport. Plane flies on and on, with unconscious (later...
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    Solar Panel repair

    You'll find the maker's claim is wildly optimistic, of course. Having said that, I had great success with a fixed (ie, not flexible) but portable panel set up in the windscreen of a car I'd just put off the road after I'd bought a new (expensive) diesel battery for it. It sat for four years...
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    The lost Malaysian airplane

    I suspect the producers of 'Lost' have teamed up with 'I'm a Celebrity Big Brother' and we'll find it's all a publicity stunt gone horribly wrong. Even now, the plane is on Gilligan's Island, being attended to by a legion of dwarves in Savile Row suits.
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    Do you do your own car servicing?

    There's a Halfords near me, but the local Motor Factor can often beat the snot out of them. I later discovered that, by going back and not bothering with the car make a whelk of choice opened up. Get lured into the car model route and it's a hell you don't want to be stuck in.