The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Its a hell of a long time since I had to anchor up this hard. I dont like it. Probably does the brakes good though ocasionally.
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I had an 09 Corsa 1 litre some years ago from a customer, I can't honestly remember anything "spectacular " regarding the braking.
Low mileage dealer serviced, valves stuck in head whilst driving on Motorway causing plastic inlet manifold to melt, known fault, Main Dealer salesman tried to steal it off them at the same time as sell them a new car, owner sold it to me at a fair price then left Vauxhall and bought BMW Minis.
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Sunak thes pineless. Words fail me. There are so many things that can and should be done around the use of personal transport and what does this cretin do....... Im not toally convinced about the seemingly mindless drive to electric cars but this government seem not to care about the climate and have no considered policy at all.
Sunak seems to spend all his time flying around the country on jets and helicopters, it is a bit hypocritical to tell everyone you need to buy an electric car and save the planet when he can't buy a pint of milk from the shop without taking the helicopter to get there. So this is clearly a measure to take the heat off some of his more questionable personal habits.
Also there has been chronic underfunding. and P1ss poor planning as far as the national grid is concerned. Maybe not helped by giving billions of pounds of public money to their Tory doners and personal friends for PPE during covid, instead of planning out the future demands and needs of the country.
So really the decision is two fold to cover up their own incompetence as usual. Thing is, if they get decimated at the next election, then the next government could just go back to the previous policy
One thing is for sure he has angered an awful lot of people and is likely the government will be sued and lose.... again, and have to reverse the decision anyway.
A screwed up parcel delivery.
Didn't know when it was coming as received no notifications. Arrived home to find a postcard from UPS, have delivered it to local "Access Point".
Delivery instructions are to leave in a designated safe place, that seems to have been lost from the delivery instructions.
Trundles around to local convenience store (designated "Access Point"), to find it closed down. Shut, no longer in business. Peering through the front window, there's little stock, all in a bit of a mess, but a few parcels in a pile. Can't see mine, but no way to access anyway.
Phoned UPS. Like all such companies, they don't like actually talking to anyone, preferring automated options, none of which relate to a non-existant Access Point. Eventually fought the system and got through to a human. Sadly, in a country far away, and with an accent that allowed me to hear one in every three words. She could not, for some time, grasp the concept of a closed down store not being a useful access point. It is not an access point if it cannot be accessed.
Eventually, case passed to escalation team, they will call back in less than one hour.
90 minutes later, I call back, and again fight the phone system. A little quicker this time, local depot was contacted and tasked with finding the parcel, and calling me back.
Almost a result.
Only 10 minutes, got a call from the local depot. Driver mustn't answer phone while driving, so have messaged him to call back and explain.
30 minutes later, depot called again, driver not called back, and now logged off.
Promised that parcel will be delivered tomorrow, to my safe place.
A second parcel, delivered by FedEx, was just left on the doorstep, in full view of everyone passing, but luckily we're in a quiet area, and parcel still there. Strut top mountings might be a disappointment to a package thief, but doubtful they'd return them.
Didn't know when it was coming as received no notifications. Arrived home to find a postcard from UPS, have delivered it to local "Access Point".
Delivery instructions are to leave in a designated safe place, that seems to have been lost from the delivery instructions.
Trundles around to local convenience store (designated "Access Point"), to find it closed down. Shut, no longer in business. Peering through the front window, there's little stock, all in a bit of a mess, but a few parcels in a pile. Can't see mine, but no way to access anyway.
Phoned UPS. Like all such companies, they don't like actually talking to anyone, preferring automated options, none of which relate to a non-existant Access Point. Eventually fought the system and got through to a human. Sadly, in a country far away, and with an accent that allowed me to hear one in every three words. She could not, for some time, grasp the concept of a closed down store not being a useful access point. It is not an access point if it cannot be accessed.
Eventually, case passed to escalation team, they will call back in less than one hour.
90 minutes later, I call back, and again fight the phone system. A little quicker this time, local depot was contacted and tasked with finding the parcel, and calling me back.
Almost a result.
Only 10 minutes, got a call from the local depot. Driver mustn't answer phone while driving, so have messaged him to call back and explain.
30 minutes later, depot called again, driver not called back, and now logged off.
Promised that parcel will be delivered tomorrow, to my safe place.
A second parcel, delivered by FedEx, was just left on the doorstep, in full view of everyone passing, but luckily we're in a quiet area, and parcel still there. Strut top mountings might be a disappointment to a package thief, but doubtful they'd return them.
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Are you SURE you were talking to human. Some of these firms are run by spiders with big webs.
I work a lot with National Grid, and the barely have enough funding to keep the grid alive, never mind future stuff.
National Grid is purely a middle man between supplier and distribution companies, they get a tiny percentage of transferred power cost to maintain themselves. This was why re-nationalising National Grid would have no impact on the energy crisis.
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Grump of today are people who advertise a car for sale on Facebook market place, so you message them, and they don't reply, then drop the price presumably because they want it sold. Message again and still nothing.
Do they not get how this works you do have to reply to people if you want to sell it.
Do they not get how this works you do have to reply to people if you want to sell it.
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Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
£131 for a new headlamp. I dont think it was me that broke the adjuster but its bust and it looks like it has been partly broke for a while. One last hope for a quick fix. Im going to flatten a nail and trimit down to fit, then heat it red hot and shove it into the end of thenadjuster shaft. May be it will then work enough to get an MOT finished giving more time to get the new one fitted. at leisure. Now relying on S4P for speedy supply. The brakes are transformed since the rears have been cleaned and adjusted, but part delays mean the new calipers and hoses not fitted so its rebooked for that. I just hope I can do the headlamp without my old bodywork failing..... The rest of the car passed with no other advisories so that;sa good thing. Cars. Who wants them!
I find that with almost anything for sale with Facebook, to the point i've given up messaging people
The cutting down of the sycamore tree on Hadrian's Wall .
I'm not a tree fan ,I didn't know this tree existed , I didn't know it was a tourist attraction in it's own right ,I didn't know it featured in Robin Hood prince of thieves movie .
But what possible motive can there be to cut it down ,in the middle of the night ,by a 16 year old ? and who helped him to get the chainsaw up there to the middle of nowhere ?
Is he insane ? or was it done for a TikTok vid or for fame on Instagram ?
It's just first degree vandalism but seeing as he is a minor a slap on the wrist and a £5 fine is probably all he'll get .
It didn't take long for an arrest so after bragging about it ,someone grassed on him ,which is a good thing .
Sad !
I'm not a tree fan ,I didn't know this tree existed , I didn't know it was a tourist attraction in it's own right ,I didn't know it featured in Robin Hood prince of thieves movie .
But what possible motive can there be to cut it down ,in the middle of the night ,by a 16 year old ? and who helped him to get the chainsaw up there to the middle of nowhere ?
Is he insane ? or was it done for a TikTok vid or for fame on Instagram ?
It's just first degree vandalism but seeing as he is a minor a slap on the wrist and a £5 fine is probably all he'll get .
It didn't take long for an arrest so after bragging about it ,someone grassed on him ,which is a good thing .
Sad !
Growing up we all came across the guys that were bad or just plain evil. Dont think the world has changed, and people seem to stick their heads in the sand and not acknowledge bad people exist.
It's like Alfred telling Bruce Wayne about the indian jewel theif, I always found that was a surprisingly honest story for a modern film, hollywood cant cope with people just being bad and no justice shown.
Probably down to "mindless vandalism", but it does make you wonder.
Down our way there was a large very old tree, a well known landmark locals used to use when giving directions etc. as in "go along the main road and turn right by the big tree".
The authorities decided it was dying and had it cut down amid much protest, leaving the bottom ten feet or so hacked in to faces? with a chain saw as artwork. Even years later you can see shoots trying to grow from the top so I wonder how much of it was dying and how much was to appease some developers of a nearby block of flats.
Down our way there was a large very old tree, a well known landmark locals used to use when giving directions etc. as in "go along the main road and turn right by the big tree".
The authorities decided it was dying and had it cut down amid much protest, leaving the bottom ten feet or so hacked in to faces? with a chain saw as artwork. Even years later you can see shoots trying to grow from the top so I wonder how much of it was dying and how much was to appease some developers of a nearby block of flats.
On today's episode of "Driving a soft roader marks you out as someone who during the 80 and 90s would had driven a Volvo 340dl in beige with a sprig of heather in the grille."
It looks like I came flying up behind him..I didn't the speed limit would be 100kph as seen on the dash cam..I'm doing less than 30mph.
Such a concentration of cluelessness on one road... every time they meet each other "must jam the brakes on or I might accidentally go off road".
It looks like I came flying up behind him..I didn't the speed limit would be 100kph as seen on the dash cam..I'm doing less than 30mph.
Such a concentration of cluelessness on one road... every time they meet each other "must jam the brakes on or I might accidentally go off road".
Must be frightening for their passengers. Either a careful drunk or has beer bottle glasses.
The Ford is annoying but the Honda coming the other way is just as bad...you can tell by the fact he's got a C3 picasso that well known rocket ship stuck up his chuff.
That and every one of them coming the other way was doing the same, watch the Kia dive into a layby at the bottom.
Also I feel like that dash cam makes things seem faster and obviously it's in metric due to being french. The main thing to do while watching is bear in mind 50km/h is 31mph. Then look at how often he's braking despite the fact a push bike would be accelerating away from him even if he didn't..
That and every one of them coming the other way was doing the same, watch the Kia dive into a layby at the bottom.
Also I feel like that dash cam makes things seem faster and obviously it's in metric due to being french. The main thing to do while watching is bear in mind 50km/h is 31mph. Then look at how often he's braking despite the fact a push bike would be accelerating away from him even if he didn't..
Down our way the driver would be described as "Couldn't drive a stick up a cows behind!", clean license, never had an accident, but caused a few.
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Been visiting Sister in law in Devon for many many years. Driving the lanes takes a bit of getting used to. Locals are amazing in how well most of them know exactly the width of their cars and how big a gap they need to get through - and if they decide it's big enough they go for it at frightening velocities. We're often down there around Easter and there are a lot of "visitors" around at that time - Sister in law used to do well with the B&B over those two weeks - You can always tell local's cars in the car parks because they are the ones with scratches along the N/S body panels (from the sunken lanes) and mud on the N/S wheels from swerving into the ditches when they've slightly misjudged it!Down our way the driver would be described as "Couldn't drive a stick up a cows behind!", clean license, never had an accident, but caused a few
We work on the theory that a N/S mirror is cheaper than an O/S wing
Ha, Ha! But some of them will loose mirrors from both sides!We work on the theory that a N/S mirror is cheaper than an O/S wing
