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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited August 2022
    pansyface said:
    This story on the beeb news website has made me more than curmudgeonly ..

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62539485

    Just because the public can't heed the warnings to view the walrus from afar it would seem that the only solution was to kill it.

    Speechless ... just speechless.

    Bee x
    Whether it’s a walrus or a wasp, the answer has to be to protect human beings’ stupid lives first.
    In this case the stupid human beings who consider themselves " animal lovers "
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Pauline 7 said:
    Kili said:
    "Prices are all for manufacturer parts, not 3rd party."

    All manufacturer service items are "3rd party". No car manufacture makes the service parts anymore these are sourced and rebranded literally from the same producers who sells them at a third of the price aftermarket.




    I work where they make filters for vehicles,  mostly lorries, but also cars, and I can assure you that all brands are the same inside. Just different colour and branding.

    What I meant was that the prices aren't for some potentially dangerous imported knock-offs.
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    Pauline 7 said:
    Kili said:
    "Prices are all for manufacturer parts, not 3rd party."

    All manufacturer service items are "3rd party". No car manufacture makes the service parts anymore these are sourced and rebranded literally from the same producers who sells them at a third of the price aftermarket.




    I work where they make filters for vehicles,  mostly lorries, but also cars, and I can assure you that all brands are the same inside. Just different colour and branding.


    I know, that's why I said....

    "All manufacturer service items are "3rd party". No car manufacture makes the service parts anymore these are sourced and rebranded literally from the same producers who sells them at a third of the price aftermarket."

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    What … like only importing stuff conforming to strict standards agreed by a group of countries all working together? What a good idea that would be 🤔 

    @Dovefromabove I just love your sense of irony. Although you could have said another benefit of B$%^&*

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Bet the owner feels more than a little curmudgeonly 
    https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/crime/suffolk-all-four-wheels-stolen-from-bmw-9209498

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I'm really pleased it rained last night.  However, it rained and hailed so hard that I doubt I'll be able to scythe the beaten-down meadow - I hurt my back a fortnight ago, but it's sufficiently pain-free now for me to have planned a scything session this week.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    The forecast here last night was 80% chance of rain for 2 hours this morning.  Checked this morning and that had been changed to 70% and 40% for the same 2 hours.  Reality - a shower for about 20 minutes.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The App says it’s drizzling here …. It lies 😖 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited August 2022
    Probably for the best - backwise. I know it doesn't seem like it now😢 @Liriodendron
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    pansyface said:
    Within the last couple of hours the Met Office weather forecasting website has gone from quite a sophisticated looking series of hour by hour radar images to those Michael Fish little Velcro jobbies that they used to stick on the wall chart  and which occasionally fell off onto the floor.

    Bloody progress. Why can’t things just be left alone when they work?
    One of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV was a weather forecast where the letter F kept falling onto the floor, only to be replaced with another which did exactly the same. 
    After running out of Fs, the presenter just left the word OG on the chart. 
    As he finished the forecast he uttered the immortal line " Sorry about the F in fog " 
    Devon.
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