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#9976 Re: Nothing In Particular

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#9977 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Mike H wrote:Hence the 'user instructions' say 2WD must only be used on slippery surfaces.
You can't use 4WD on the jeep when on tarmac because the transmission gets "wound up" - you have to be on a loose surface e.g. sand, mud or gravel.
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#9978 Re: Nothing In Particular

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jack wrote: Fri Nov 16, 2018 8:47 pm
Mike H wrote:Hence the 'user instructions' say 2WD must only be used on slippery surfaces.
You can't use 4WD on the jeep when on tarmac because the transmission gets "wound up" - you have to be on a loose surface e.g. sand, mud or gravel.
I have read that some BMW X series suffer from "wind up" problems, particularly if front/rear tyres are different makes, or tread depths.

I thought that was why 4x4 had centre diffs ?
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#9979 Re: Nothing In Particular

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On Sunday, supposed to be going to desert with a mate to recce new campsites ..

He just sent me this:
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Someone else videoed it happening... My mate had let an (inexperienced) friend have a go...

https://nick.desmith.net/Shack/VID-20181116-WA0005.mp4

Basic error on easy sand... Friend is paying for repairs...
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#9980 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Oh dear! :shock:

Looks expensive.
 
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#9981 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Just been talking to my ex (she looks after my dog) and she mentioned she’d been in a coffee shop and was reading out the menu to her friends. At the table next to them was an author who was having a meeting with a chap from Audible about his new book. The author was so struck with her voice he begged her to audition to read his new book, so she is doing so in the next couple of weeks. The title of the book?

“Microwave tubes and circuits” :mrgreen:
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So, will there be an English language version too or just the Scotlanderish edition?

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#9983 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Fab. :D
 
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#9984 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Dave the bass wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 1:15 pm So, will there be an English language version too or just the Scotlanderish edition?

(I'll boil my own head)! :)
Good, that’ll save me a job. :D
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#9985 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Isn't nature wonderful. :)

Scientists make a breakthrough on how Wombat poo is cube shaped. :lol:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-46258616
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"We opened those intestines up like it was Christmas," said co-author David Hu, also from Georgia Tech, according to Science News.

Interesting how Christmas traditions are different around the world.

It does make you wonder how a wombat might tackle a Rubik's cube though .
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#9987 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Got a text message last night at 12.30 from the bank asking me if a transaction was me or not. A fiver to oxfam. Lucky i saw it i was just going to bed.
No i replied, then got another message saying ok we have blocked this transaction and i would get a phone call from fraud.
I called them this morning and apparently another transaction for 81 quid had been attempted to book a travelodge a few hours after.
Again they had blocked it.
Because the transactions were oddities in the view of the bank automated fraud system it had picked them up and queried them.
So, card has been cancelled and another one issued.
Bastards didnt get anything.
The fraud guy could even tell me that the transactions had been done on an ipad from a completely different ip address to mine and even the internet provider. I dont have an ipad and am on a different provider to the one used
He said the details will have been got from either a website ive put card details into or from a card skimmer on cash machine ive used. Ive only used one website to buy anything regularly in this manner in years as i usually refuse to put my card details into websites so i'll get in touch with them

I think i'll stick to using the old fashioned telephone to make payments from now on
I aint got much, and ill be damned if some theiving scrote is going to get it!

So have a think before using the web to make payments.....
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#9988 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Took my phone into a local shop Friday before last to have a new screen fitted. Theo broke it and I was rather unimpressed.
Got it back yesterday and the new screen is far from right.
Getting the screen to respond to unlock takes a couple of goes, pressing the side button to re lock it and trying again eventually works.
Writing text on the keyboard misses letters, or inputs letters on the other side of the keyboard. swiping between screens is unreliable.
I did a complete factory reset on it after I got what I wanted off the phone and onto the mac to eliminate the possibility of it being a firmware issue
I am rather unimpressed.
So it is going back tomorrow and they will be fixing it properly.
Its an Xperia z3 and is about 4 years old, but other than the screen there was nothing wrong with it. I bought a fairly cheap LG k8 to put me on until I got it back, but I need the good camera on this one. The LG one is rubbish compared to this one.
Its as if the did only a very cursory test on it if they tested it at all once the new screen had been fitted.
Why is nothing ever simple....
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#9989 Re: Nothing In Particular

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:(

That was one of my dad's favourite phrases, "Why is nothing simple"
 
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My bad news:

My uncle has been in and out of the doctor's recenty, and then hospital having scans and tests, because of a "digestive problem".

Got the final diagnosis back, pancreatic cancer. It's pressing on a tube that connects to the liver, thus causing the "digestive problems". They've put a stent in to hold it open for the time being, whatever that will be. Won't operate to try removing cos he's well into his '80's. Will be 89 next month, if my calcs are right.

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