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15 hours ago, Empty It said:
Looking to get 6 tyres fitted (4 on one car and 2 on the other) how much should I be looking at to get a local company to fit these, balance and dispose of the old ones if I supplied the tyres?
In my area, £20 is the max I've been quoted.
I gave that a miss, and went for the £12.50 quote from another place. Next time, it had gone up to £15.
Last time, it was back down to £12.50.
Phone around.
And for 6 tyres, I'd go for the haggle. My embarrassment threshold is usually around 10% in a face to face encounter.
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15 minutes ago, scottsdad said:
I'm with OVO energy. tried to submit my meter readings online - the website is being upgraded so cannot do that until the end of the year.
Installed the app. Opened it, and it says this version of the app is no longer in use.
Instant chat messaging is unavailable.
Emailing is unavailable.
Phoned them, on hold for 12 minutes and got cut off.
Any of the above telling you that it's long past time to leave .... ?
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2 hours ago, FreedomFarter said:
That was USA's stance too, hence they publicly rebuked the Kosovan government and suspended Kosovan forces from local NATO training exercises. Russia's interest is in Belgrade not Pristina.
Serbia is basically an unreconstructed rather nasty country, where underlying attitudes are little changed from when they were committing genocide at Srebenica in the 1990's. The ongoing support in Serbia for all of that, and it's associated war criminal leaders is very much the reason why people like Mladic were so long in being handed over for appearance at The Hague.
The lesson here , now, is that in Russia there is broad support for the assault on Ukraine. There is no liberal minded opposition as we know it.
Which is why Russia must be defeated, and seen to be defeated over Ukraine.
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19 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:
Presumably he would be doing deals before setting foot in any other country. The question is, what would he have to offer.....
Not much, other than calling in a few favours. Places lke Saudi seem to welcome deposed dictators and the like.
I did wonder if Lukashenko stopping his plane at Moscow was to offer Putin a lift.
I guess he must have refused.
"Whaaaaat ? Spend the rest of my life in some desert shithole, drinking from a dried up wadi,
not a drop of vodka in sight. No fanks....".
There's always his chum Assad in Syria, I suppose..?
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6 hours ago, 101 said:
CNN reports -
"Painter was shot after falling off his lader into a neighbouring property the homeowner acted in self defense"
A few years back, when Donald Trump was talking about "... shithole countries...", he was looking in the wrong direction.
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5 hours ago, Dev said:
Supporting Russia and interfering with rail users in the UK. Russia supporters would be quite happy with that. It's nothing at all to do with standing up for rail workers.
Take your anti-union rant sh*te somewhere else.
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12 hours ago, ICTChris said:
During the Wayne Couzens trial it came out that he showed up to the leaving do of one of his colleagues accompanied by a prostitute (the other policemen brought their wives/girlfriends). He also had a prostitute show up at his station saying he owed her money - he went to a cash machine and gave her some money.
None of his colleagues ever reported concerns about him due to this. Even if hiring a prostitute isn't technically illegal then it is definitely something that a police officer shouldn't be doing. If anyone had done that in any of the jobs I've had in my life then they'd have been sacked or faced a serious disciplinary.
You'd hope that this sort of thing would be a big part of the Mets follow up but I wouldn't hold out much hope.
The new guy at the MET is not up to the job.
Nothing will change there until the modern day version of Robert Mark is brought in to go through the organisation like a flamethrower.
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1 hour ago, Cosmic Joe said:
It seems ever other day, a horror story is coming out. The outgoing Police Scotland chappie admitting the force is institutionally racist, homophobic and mysogynist.
Today a Met copper is convicted of multiple rapes.
It's absolutely shocking stuff.
Why ... ? Unless you've had some sort of rose tinted, misty eyed view of the police.
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When I was a kid in the early '60's, my family lived in Milngavie , just outside Glasgow. For major household purchases
there would be an expedition into the city. The go to place was Lewis's department store in Argyll St. I well remember all those
(seeming ) hours being dragged around the various floors as choosing minds were made up, then changed, and finally it was
time for lunch.. The cafe restaurant on the top floor ( as I recall ) was great. Fish and chips brilliant.
Another big department store was Coplands in Sauchiehall St.. Not a regular destination for the family, but around 1970 I did buy some
stuff there when I went in on my own. As my clothing choices were more on the lines of John Lennon glasses, purple loon pants,
tee shirts etc, Coplands wasn't really my style. But I needed some socks. For payment, they had a marvelous system.
You'd give your money to the counter assistant. She, always a she, would put the money and receipt, into a cylindrical capsule.
She'd then put the capsule into a system of pipes that whooshed the capsule up to the accounts dept. They'd mark up the sale, put
whatever change was due into the capsule along with receipt, and it would all whoosh back down to the counter. It was wonderful.
All done by vacuum.
Elon Musk, and his Hyperloop, definitely did not get there first.
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10 hours ago, FreedomFarter said:
I doubt it too but he very much could if he wanted to. Russian workers have no trade unions as they're illegal so the only resistance would be spontaneous individual acts that'd be hammered instantly, long before they were allowed to catch on. I linked a page ago to a Ukrainian academic giving a class analysis of Russia's actions. This is a line in it:
"The conflict now being resolved in Ukraine by tanks, artillery, and rockets is the same conflict that police batons have suppressed in Belarus and Russia itself".
Tbf, it doesn't take much here for the police to produce the batons and tazers.
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On 19/05/2023 at 16:14, charger29 said:
I've got a 3 door '07 VW Polo with a few issues with the driver side door and now central locking.
A couple of months ago the key stopped turning on the driver side door to unlock it (no key fob btw). I could still lock the car from the driver side after unlocking from the passenger side.
Over the past week, when I unlock from the passenger side, half of the time the central locking doesn't unlock the driver side door or the boot. I have to open the passenger door and stick the key in the ignition, at which point everything unlocks correctly.Any ideas what could be causing the central locking issues? Loose wiring? Lock actuator issues on the driver side door?
On a car that age..., Live with it, or spend a lot of attention, and substitutions working out which items are ****ed. VAG ( Volkswagen Audi Group ) are notorious for their older cars having electric problems. A few years ago I had a 2002 Golf TDI. It had done moon mileage ( 238,000 +), and the engine and mechanicals ( brakes, suspension ) were fine..., it never burned a drop of oil, but the electrics had minds of their own..., faulty door lock modules, central locking module, comfort (climate control) module, ABS, traction control electrics, air bag lights...., You name it. .
I gave up in the end, and got rid.
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Spangles...., particularly the Old English flavour.
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13 hours ago, TxRover said:
No, Russia at that time included things like modern Ukraine and Finland, areas that were NOT included in the armistice, so the Bolshevik’s had the power and authority over a portion of Russia…and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk specifically only covered Bolshevik “Russia” as the other areas of Russia had already reached a peace with the Central Powers.
Still muddying the water....
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3 hours ago, TxRover said:
You put the Bolshevik’s in charge of Russia in Oct 1917, they took control in 1922…sorry if that offends you. The Bolshevik’s, under Lenin, controlled Petrograd and a good portion of the army and navy…sufficient to negotiate an armistice with the Central Powers. Meanwhile, the armistice allowed the reconstituted Red Army to move against the Ukrainians and other separatists in the Don region. At that point the Ukrainians established a separate peace agreement with the Central Powers in early 1918, at the same time the Bolshevik armistice with the Central Powers collapsed. The Bolshevik’s then concluded a much less favorable peace treaty with the Central Powers (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk). This allowed full concentration of the Red Army on the various White forces…but the final victory wasn’t until 1922.
I suggest that if you want to present an incorrect summary point as factual, you join the Tories.
The only person talking about Tories is you. The Bolsheviks had the power and the authority to make a peace deal with Germany, and they did so at Brest Litovsk.
An armistice is not a peace deal, it's a cessation of active hostilities. A truce.
And if you had paused for a few moments, rather than trying to muddy the water, you' might have discerned that my comment was that the guys referring to 1917 seemed to have overlooked that the aftermath for Russia, of 1917, was in reality the acknowledgement of what was in effect military collapse, as measured by the very harsh terms imposed/agreed at Brest Litovsk.
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1 hour ago, TxRover said:
Let’s not overstate…the February revolution brought a new government and overthrew the Czar…the October revolution gave the Bolsheviks control over a significant portion of the army and government, sufficient to make peace with Germany, but the Russian Civil War lasted until 1922, when the Bolsheviks really came to power,
Sorry my comment doesn't quite fit into the narrative you wish to present. It is though a clear statement of fact.
I suggest that you not try to deny, diminish or divert from that.
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58 minutes ago, welshbairn said:
Prigozhin's Wagner group and his sworn enemy Igor Strelkov's Club of Angry Patriots are close to openly calling for overthrowing the Kremlin, Igor repeatedly referring to the 1917 revolution.
Interesting interpretation of history. There were two revolutions in Russia in 1917. The first was in February .
In the conflict with Germany, Russian soldiers were demoralised, refusing to fight, and running away
when the enemy attacked. The country, and its people were tired of war. The Minister of War ( soon to be leader ),
Alexander Kerensky, decided that the war would continue. In the July offensive, more humiliations followed.
This was very much instrumental in bringing about the October 1917 revolution. The Bolsheviks came to power
and promptly made peace with Germany.
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19 hours ago, velo army said:
I didn't take it that you were. I wasn't responding defensively.
Said he, defensively.
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4 hours ago, deegee said:
I watched it all yesterday as I am quite interested in history and find these pageants fascinating. It’s incredible to think a lot of the formalities and ceremonies date back many hundreds of years.
Having said that, I think I preferred the funeral last Autumn. Better music and not as drawn out.
I found it rather gross. Maybe it's my somewhat puritanical upbringing, I don't know.
As for history, some product designer hasn't studied much....
https://woodbridgekitchencompany.co.uk/product/best-of-british-cardboard-cakestand/
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3 hours ago, deegee said:
10 years ago, she made this speech to parliament.
tbf, cock welfare is very, very important.
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1 hour ago, TxRover said:
Looks more like an effort to discredit a particular report as biased and not transparent. Given the number of reports they issue without such a ruckus, it calls for some scrutiny of both the report and the claims.
On the contrary, in those circumstances I'd prefer to accept the general thrust of what was reported. It was a Press Release, not a line by line
description of what, why, where and when events happened.
There's far too many countries and political powers involved in supporting and supplying Ukraine, with skin in the game of proving,
or at least reassuring the various publics, that Ukraine only kills the baddies..... not to question what exactly prompted the
the motivations of those who forced the further investigation.
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19 hours ago, ICTChris said:
Once again, seems like Russia are pressing Ukraine out of Bakhmut. Latest maps have shown 90% of the city in Russian hands. Ukraine stopped Russia encircling the city and they went to a slow press through the main part of the settlement. It's now pretty much completely destroyed, both by Russian assaults and by Ukraine blowing up buildings as they retreat. It's hard to work out whether this course of action was worth it - depends on the balance of casualties and a load of other factors.
The Ukrainian counter offensive is again subject of a lot of discussion. There's a new podcast from Kofman out where he speaks about how to assess it and what it tells us and what we don't know. For all the predictions there are loads of unknown factors - we don't know how the newly formed Ukrainian brigades will be able to fight offensively, we don't know how well the Russian troops dug in in defensive posture will be able to defend, it's hard to know what success or failure realistically looks like. Sweeping across the entire country and liberating it in a few weeks would clearly be a success but that's hugely unlikely. People have often compared the Kherson and Kharkiv offensives and wondered which of these the upcoming fight will most resemble - Kharkiv was a rapid series of victories that saw Russian lines break but Kherson was more of a press and ended with liberation of the city but Russia managing to escape with most of their weapons and forces intact, which had a significant impact on the war subsequently. It's impossible to predict as we don't even know where the offensive will be - Kherson? Zaporhizia (Ukraine has actually made some small gains there in recent weeks)? Donbass?
In other news, an internal report has been leaked that criticses Amnesty International's report from last year that concluded Ukrainian forces had breached international law and endangered civilians. Five indepdendent international humanitarian law experts reported that Amnesty's conclusions that Ukraine had violated international law were not substaniated by the evidence. The full report was not published by Amnesty but was leaked to the New York Times, you can read it here - https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/revised-final-report-of-legal-review-panel-amnesty-international-ukraine-press-release-02-02-2023/35ae76eaaa90405e/full.pdf
It's pretty damning. In the aftermath of the report at the time and now with the publication of this report quite a few of the reporters and correspondants on the ground spoke about how Amensty staff behaved, how arrogant and ignortant of basic facts some of the authors of the initial report were. Amnesty have also faced criticism for their coverage of the war in Karabakh, where they were accused of 'both sides'-ing the targeting of civilians and settlements.
Also, Russia has launched a missile attack on Kyiv, the first to hit the capital in nearly two months. Other missiles have killed civilians, including children, in Dnipro and Uman.
Quite an effort being made to discredit Amnesty International.
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I'll stand by what I said. It all seems slightly odd.
Aside from, obviously, direct political opponents who would gain,
are there others with a significant interest in all this ?
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Must say, I think it's all rather odd the way people are being put under arrest. Nothing there about 'assisting police with enquiries',
or inviting people to show up at police station to discuss things. It's not as if they're very llkely to flee the country.
The faint thought that this is all a bit like a right wing coup, and a wonder as to who it is that is driving the heavy handedness of
all that's being going on....... has crossed my mind ?
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1 hour ago, MrFizz said:
Sheesh. Didn't expect that result yesterday. Only 4 on the bench and no sub keeper as well. Still looking over our shoulders.
When was the last time we had such a heavy defeat? I remember 8-0 against Rangers late 80's, and some heavy ones in the old first div mid-90's, but not this bad.
The last one that I recall was against Stirling Albion, 10+ years ago.
8 goals conceded, and immediately after the game the manager, Derek Ferguson, walked.
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