We had a visit from the Police following a complaint from neighbours that we were always looking out of a Velux™ at them. It was a life-sized cardboard cut-out of a Cyberman in our son's bedroom. I resisted the urge to give it eerily pulsing red LED eyes.
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23rd Apr 2022 9:30 am
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
Location: Newcastle
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Yep, you just give up. I rarely look out of the bedroom window, but it was a nice day. Shouldn’t matter either way.
The guy purchased the house some years ago and would have seen my house and the fact I’ve got dormer windows upstairs. If he didn’t like that, he should have bought his house and gone and got something where there’s no one near him.
It’s all a bit immature, particularly as he’s in his 50’s. I won’t stop looking, why should I?
23rd Apr 2022 10:13 am
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: Wiltshire
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Effing Brexit! I know there is a thread for this, but just trying to send a pair of my daughter's cycling shorts back to Assos requires four signed documents!!!
One for the outside in a bag - that was a pain finding one and taping it on the box!
One inside the box.
One for the courier.
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23rd Apr 2022 11:01 am
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
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HWN wrote:
We had a visit from the Police following a complaint from neighbours that we were always looking out of a Velux™ at them. It was a life-sized cardboard cut-out of a Cyberman in our son's bedroom. I resisted the urge to give it eerily pulsing red LED eyes.
Could always make some cardboard binoculars to put on ur cyber man
23rd Apr 2022 11:49 am
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8052
Lorry drivers thinking they are the upholders of law on the roads......
We have had long and extensive roadworks on the A46 heading from Coventry towards the M40 junction 15. Major surfacing and cables, etc. on a rolling process along the length of it.
Its now nearly complete but for a few weeks there has been a bottleneck at the Warwick junction. Right where traffic wants to get onto the A46 at a busy island junction the A46 goes from two lanes to one quite soon after the junction (having gone from standard three lanes to the now two-lane section about a mile earlier).
More often than not cars carry on the outside lane and tuck in just after the traffic island junction, probably the best 'zipping' actions I've seen this side of the channel, its not knobs bombing down the outside and cutting in one car from the cones. This means more traffic can join comfortably off the island as still two lanes of traffic on A46.
Lorry drivers seem to dislike this, so often they block the outside lane 3/4 of a mile before it goes into one lane. This now means that the A46 is bumper to bumper on one lane, starts tailing back much further and means traffic coming off the island is now shut-out and you get the aggression of joining traffic 'pushing in' and in turn 'you're not coming in here mate'......
You can tell when a lorry has decided they make the rules about 1.5 miles further back as traffic congested if a lorry(s) decided to do this and free flowing traffic if they haven't.
How will the small-minded minority (and it is a tiny minority of truckers), the self-appointed "knights of the road", cope when driverless cars are more common? Because this kind of zip merging is exactly what they will do due to it being the most logical and efficient way to keep the most traffic moving through the pinch point.
That will blow their tiny little minds.
Oh wait, they won't have a job as their truck will be driverless too. Some may argue that's already the case
(Edit: typo)I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
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28th Apr 2022 12:13 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23367
Merging in turn or zip merging is sadly an alien concept to the majority of U.K. motorists. Which I find intensely annoying.
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28th Apr 2022 12:24 pm
Dave T
Member Since: 03 Jul 2009
Location: Glasgow
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The NHS and dentists in Glasgow
I went to the dentist in June of last year, I had to join a waiting list for a very simple filling…….I am still waiting, 3 or 4 months more they say.
I also tried to get my Hep A and typhoid jabs for travel at the end of June……….told by the doctor “ sorry we don’t do them any more”
WTF is going on.Joined the BMWX5 45e group
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28th Apr 2022 1:42 pm
Trailered Movements
Member Since: 16 Jan 2020
Location: East/West Sussex Coast Borders
Posts: 1198
Sorry to say, Queen Nicola is responsible for the NHS north of the border, one to remember come the independence vote.
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28th Apr 2022 2:11 pm
Dave T
Member Since: 03 Jul 2009
Location: Glasgow
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Absolutely…..Joined the BMWX5 45e group
1994 Defender 90
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28th Apr 2022 2:13 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23367
My GP still has an in-house “travel clinic” service. Some jabs/vaccinations are free, others come at a cost, in England at least.
The alternative is a private travel clinic, of which there are a few in Glasgow. Including Boots, assuming the service is the same North of the border. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
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28th Apr 2022 2:17 pm
Dave T
Member Since: 03 Jul 2009
Location: Glasgow
Posts: 6902
So it appears they have moved all travel vaccinations to two central locations. So they make it as hard as possible to drive in Glasgow and the low emissions zone comes in next year but now want everyone to go into town for travel vaccinations……..joined up thinking……. Joined the BMWX5 45e group
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28th Apr 2022 3:42 pm
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 1487
I go private for the Dentist, so the problem doesn’t arise. He does have a habit of bunging in a scale and polish at every 6 monthly check ups. The upside is I can get a next day emergency appointment for fillings etc.
The last time I did that, he didn’t tell me exactly what he did. I just got presented at the reception with a £400 plus bill for 40 mins of root canal work. I did wonder what the whisps of smoke were, but you can’t exactly ask him when he’s got his fingers in your mouth.
28th Apr 2022 4:31 pm
Rescue01
Member Since: 14 Jan 2008
Location: Aberdeen
Posts: 2432
I find it highly unlikely he carried out a surgical procedure on you without your consent. A serious charge against him!Its not the height of the fall but the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts!!
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Yep, you just give up. I rarely look out of the bedroom window, but it was a nice day. Shouldn’t matter either way.
