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12 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

Got a coffee at a drive through today.  I was halfway down the motorway when I took a sip, and it was only half full. 

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Good job. Imagine if it was full, you hit a bump on the road and spill boiling hot coffee over your lap, making you accidently slam on the brakes and skid across the lanes hitting a van full of school children, causing a 17 vehicle pile up and 12 deaths. All over a coffee.

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35 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

Got a coffee at a drive through today.  I was halfway down the motorway when I took a sip, and it was only half full. 

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Could have been worse, it could have been half empty.

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23 hours ago, sugna said:

There's a high chance that it's the keyboard that's affected. If you can lay your hands on an external USB keyboard, it would be worth giving that a quick go.

9 hours ago, BFTD said:

A warm, dry area like an airing cupboard might be safer! Next to something that absorbs moisture, like a bowl of cat litter.

People have had success repairing circuit boards with a quick blast in the oven, the theory being that it melts the solder and fixes dodgy connections, but they need to be stripped down as plastics aren't keen on high temperatures!

Cheers for the replies. Took it in and it's fucked. It's not allowing it to charge and it's the logic board that's the problem. and I'd already put it near the dehumidifier to see if that would sort it out. They don't make the parts any more, and have none sitting about, but the cost of getting it sorted would just take a good chunk out of getting a new one. I'd been considering getting an upgrade sometime soon anyway. 

And for clarification it wasn't tractor porn.

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6 hours ago, tamthebam said:

A women once did this to me when I was on my bike. Ended up going arse over tit and scraping my hand. I was going to give her a full invective about her actions but she had her wee daughter in the car. Anyway she let me clean up in her house. 

 

 

Unfortunately that's as far as it went. There's just no justice in the world. 

Sadly you're kind of at fault here. Granted motorists should be opening their doors with their left hand so that they're forced to look behind them and can react quickly to oncoming traffic, but you need to be riding in the middle of the lane (or at least a third of the way in) when passing parked cars. 

Sorry it didn't end the way you wanted it to amigo.

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1 hour ago, velo army said:

Sadly you're kind of at fault here. Granted motorists should be opening their doors with their left hand so that they're forced to look behind them and can react quickly to oncoming traffic, but you need to be riding in the middle of the lane (or at least a third of the way in) when passing parked cars. 

Sorry it didn't end the way you wanted it to amigo.

That's not always practical for a car or a bike. It's definitely down to the person opening the door without checking.

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27 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

That's not always practical for a car or a bike. It's definitely down to the person opening the door without checking.

I agree that it should be down to the person opening the door, and it isn't always practical to drive that far away from a car. I was meaning bicycles. I think I remember that liability in this case is down to the cyclist. Certainly it's the safer option to ride a bit out. I've rarely found it too materially difficult to do this, often I just have to get over the psychological hurdle of having a driver up my arse.

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3 minutes ago, velo army said:

I agree that it should be down to the person opening the door, and it isn't always practical to drive that far away from a car. I was meaning bicycles. I think I remember that liability in this case is down to the cyclist. Certainly it's the safer option to ride a bit out. I've rarely found it too materially difficult to do this, often I just have to get over the psychological hurdle of having a driver up my arse.

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8 hours ago, DiegoDiego said:

How untargeted the adverts are on P&B. Self-defence classes in Henley?

I've never heard of Henley being used for self defence.

Karate, judo and even the Lancashire art of Ecky Thump but not Henley 

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2 hours ago, velo army said:

Sadly you're kind of at fault here. Granted motorists should be opening their doors with their left hand so that they're forced to look behind them and can react quickly to oncoming traffic, but you need to be riding in the middle of the lane (or at least a third of the way in) when passing parked cars. 

Sorry it didn't end the way you wanted it to amigo.

It was in Lower Grey Street, a narrowish street in South East Edinburgh. Any further out and I would have been in the opposite lane! 

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45 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

It was in Lower Grey Street, a narrowish street in South East Edinburgh. Any further out and I would have been in the opposite lane! 

Then in that case people shouldn't be parking there. You should have cycled over the cars tbh. I often want to do that when they're parked on a bike lane tbf.

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24 minutes ago, Bert Raccoon said:

I've always had my suspicions about golfers but each to their own. Good luck 

Working in a golf club, it's the ones who can take a three wood club end  not shaft end that impresses me....

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