I do lots of miles whilst driving for work. Only about 150 today, but that's long enough to send you down some very bizarre roads when it comes to choice of music.

So I ended up listening to, and realising I know most of the words to this:



Which set me off down the road of old TV theme tunes.

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Sadly, I then ended up at this:

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And, departing from the TV themes, I ended up here:

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YouTube have given me a TeeSpring store which is nice, No idea at all how it works, will have to set the Mrs to task on that one.

What's made me smile ? Donald Trump. You really couldn't make it up.

"We will announce a substantial reciprocal action on Macron's foolishness shortly. I've always said American wine is better than French wine!"

Asked about the issue in the Oval Office later, Mr Trump, who is teetotal, said: "I've always liked American wines better than French wines. Even though I don't drink wine. I just like the way they look."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49131301

chr1s said:

What's made me smile ? Donald Trump. You really couldn't make it up.

"We will announce a substantial reciprocal action on Macron's foolishness shortly. I've always said American wine is better than French wine!"

Asked about the issue in the Oval Office later, Mr Trump, who is teetotal, said: "I've always liked American wines better than French wines. Even though I don't drink wine. I just like the way they look."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49131301

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One of the true visionaries of our time...Children will learn how he was the bigliest and most winning..and how he inspired a racist, blonde haired, labrador half-breed in the UK.

Always up for a bargain, among other sites I peruse Gumtree now & then, it's a habit more than anything else. Can't believe the prices put up by some for certain things far too high to say the least. Came across something in the section that would be handy for me (not going to divulge too much, just in case) so looked up the item, wow he was wanting about five times the price of a new one. This was a few years old but as stated in very good condition. He didn't have the thing cleaned for the photo shoot.....

You got to laugh.

Overpriced stuff in adverts, you say?

This had me falling off my chair.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-Cinquecento-ABARTH/202723128747?hash=item2f333d75ab:g:2pIAAOSwdS1dGkAP

Depending on how bad the lacquer peel is, that's not a bad price for a rare, low mileage modern classic.

Schumi2001 said:

Overpriced stuff in adverts, you say?

This had me falling off my chair.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-Cinquecento-ABARTH/202723128747?hash=item2f333d75ab:g:2pIAAOSwdS1dGkAP

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Gotta be suspicious of someone who doesn’t appear to know what they are selling, given it’s a seicento not a cinquecento, no wonder they can’t find another on Google.

They’ve taken this to mean it is super rare and therefore plucked a value of of thin air.

Not to put a spanner in the works so to speak, vehicles are a different pan of fish... The likes of your local Gumtree for instance, people are more often than not getting rid of stuff in some cases where I'd just bin. Not only that but asking unrealistic prices. One springs to mind a wee while ago, a couple of kitchen stools I recognised the same we had from the 70's, just fit for firewood & they were asking eighty quid for the pair, aye & not willing to split.... I'd split the whole lot for kindlers.

I did some laughing today.... The manual for my new Panda is in ITALIAN! Only Fiat! Hahaha

jimboy said:

Not to put a spanner in the works so to speak, vehicles are a different pan of fish... The likes of your local Gumtree for instance, people are more often than not getting rid of stuff in some cases where I'd just bin. Not only that but asking unrealistic prices. One springs to mind a wee while ago, a couple of kitchen stools I recognised the same we had from the 70's, just fit for firewood & they were asking eighty quid for the pair, aye & not willing to split.... I'd split the whole lot for kindlers.

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Tbf with gumtree there is a decent chance the stuff came off freecycle.

StevenRB45 said:

Tbf with gumtree there is a decent chance the stuff came off freecycle.

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Not up here, in my neck of the woods it's a small community & people know what's going on & it's pretty evident that they've had the said item for some time, you just know.

Schumi2001 said:

Overpriced stuff in adverts, you say?

This had me falling off my chair.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-Cinquecento-ABARTH/202723128747?hash=item2f333d75ab:g:2pIAAOSwdS1dGkAP

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Here's a standard yellow Sei sold for 1/3 of the above asking price.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/fiat-seicento/192994197356?hash=item2cef59bf6c:g:H9YAAOSwTaFdLI5t

SB1500 said:

I did some laughing today.... The manual for my new Panda is in ITALIAN! Only Fiat! Hahaha

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Ay Yoo, wheresa da benzina go?

StevenRB45 said:

One of the true visionaries of our time...Children will learn how he was the bigliest and most winning..and how he inspired a racist, blonde haired, labrador half-breed in the UK.

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Could be worse...

SB1500 said:

Could be worse...

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How is that worse?

You'll get a internet cookie if you can get through the explanation without conflating socialism and communism or mentioning terrorism.

I suppose we could criticise him for antisemitism..but given Borises track record a saying regards glass houses comes to mind.

We could criticise Diane Abbot..but well Dominic Raab redefined ineptitude after the radio incident.

I'm not a huge believer in Magic Grandpa but I prefer my politicians to actually pretend to want to make the world better.

StevenRB45 said:

How is that worse?

You'll get a internet cookie if you can get through the explanation without conflating socialism and communism or mentioning terrorism.

I suppose we could criticise him for antisemitism..but given Borises track record a saying regards glass houses comes to mind.

We could criticise Diane Abbot..but well Dominic Raab redefined ineptitude after the radio incident.

I'm not a huge believer in Magic Grandpa but I prefer my politicians to actually pretend to want to make the world better.

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If you're from my part of the world, then this is sufficient for 'How it can be worse'.. unfortunately, terrorism here is a big deal :bang:

SB1500 said:

If you're from my part of the world, then this is sufficient for 'How it can be worse'.. unfortunately, terrorism here is a big deal :bang:

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Good news is the current no deal situation risks the good Friday agreement Corbyn helped broker (which is why this photo exists given he met key figures during the struggles to try and end it).

Next.

StevenRB45 said:

Good news is the current no deal situation risks the good Friday agreement Corbyn helped broker (which is why this photo exists given he met key figures during the struggles to try and end it).

Next.

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Nothing like taking a photo out of context to suit your own narrative

On the flip side at least the current government isn’t reliant on the DUP which also has terrorist roots, as well as extreme view, Christ imagine what a mess things would be if that were the case

I'm unsure if either of you can understand the perspective of people here beyond what you see on the news, so I wouldn't expect you to enter into a discussion about it.

Still, could be worse than Boris / Trump... could be Corbyn. Yuck.

Edit: you can both message me privately to discuss any of your strong viewpoints and get rapid responses rather than hijacking these threads beyond the odd comment ;-) Welcome on my end, anyway!