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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 09 January 2026, 11:31:22 »

I can understand that. Dad,s been gone over 10 years but I can still remember his number off the top of my head.

I don't know anyone's number, I use their name. If I lost my phone, I'd be knackered 

I rarely use the contacts list in the phone, I still dial them manually for most of my friends and family.  It's only those people I call rarely, and never remember their numbers that I dial from contacts

Very old man-ish

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 08 January 2026, 19:42:54 »

I can understand that. Dad,s been gone over 10 years but I can still remember his number off the top of my head.

I don't know anyone's number, I use their name. If I lost my phone, I'd be knackered 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 08 January 2026, 11:45:01 »

Thanks Steve and Andy. Been hunting around the house for 'funeral clothes'. Haven't needed to wear anything like that for years now, I'm always out with the dog. Got a decent coat and a shirt and tie. Plenty of shoes tucked away, but all of my trousers seem to have shrunk around the waist. Don't know how that happened 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Proof that Trump is insane

« on: 07 January 2026, 20:18:35 »

I wonder if Donald would consider taking up residence in Downing Street for a few months. Kick out all the illegals, blow up all the boats crossing the channel, calling them invaders or something. Get all the lazy bastards who refuse to work off their arses by stopping their benefits. Lots more please, Donald.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Proof that Trump is insane

« on: 07 January 2026, 12:11:22 »

Size of population is irrelevant. Its the principle of self determination that matters.
It has been the bedrock of governance of the free world for a long time, and why the UK sent its forces to take back the Falklands, for example.
If the U.S. throws that in the bin it becomes another rogue state like Russia, Iran, Libya etc. etc.

We can always hope the Donald loses his majority in both houses in the mid terms.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Proof that Trump is insane

« on: 07 January 2026, 11:51:11 »

Greenland has a population of around 56,000, mostly Eskimo. There is no army.

Trump doesn't need to invade.

I believe there is a small US military base there.

He can simply walk in and have a nice cup of tea.

The question is what would assorted European countries do if he did this?

Bomb MacDonalds

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General Discussion Area / Re: Proof that Trump is insane

« on: 06 January 2026, 21:29:42 »

But they werent invaded then conquered for keeps.
They were just very stupid wars started by very stupid men.
Thee couldnt be any possible moral justification for Trump annexing Greenland.
A strategic one, maybe. But not a moral one.
Even if it was purely a strategic one, it would be proof positive that he doesnt recognise Nato at all.

Perhaps, but it's not exactly a new idea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failed_proposals_for_the_purchase_of_Greenland_by_the_United_States

Would a simple transfer of control really constitute a moral issue?

It would constitute a moral issue if the present occupants didn't want to transfer control. Ask any Ukrainian.
Transfer of control......funny way to describe an invasion.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Proof that Trump is insane

« on: 06 January 2026, 21:15:56 »

But they werent invaded then conquered for keeps.
They were just very stupid wars started by very stupid men.
Thee couldnt be any possible moral justification for Trump annexing Greenland.
A strategic one, maybe. But not a moral one.
Even if it was purely a strategic one, it would be proof positive that he doesnt recognise Nato at all.

The man is a megalomaniac, a narcissist and not very nice. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: A.I.

« on: 06 January 2026, 16:03:07 »

Showing my age now but in my day A.I. stood for artificial insemination , very popular in farming 

A lot of things changed

I.C.E use to In Car Entertainment.

Naturally Aspirated used the be car fitted with carbs but now fuel injected

Just an observation, not a criticism but, Naturally Aspirated (NA) was air drawn in by piston vacuum, as opposed to forced induction via turbo/supercharger, and was not relative to the way the fuel was supplied.   

Sounds like a criticism to me. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Proof that Trump is insane

« on: 06 January 2026, 16:02:18 »

Sort of fake news.

Yep. Fake noos combined with Trump derangement syndrome 

Funny how it's normal behaviour when it applies anywhere else, but as soon as Donald is mentioned it becomes Trump Derangement Syndrome 

The consensus seems to be that it's ok to covertly break into Osama Bin Laden's house and shoot him in the face, but you can't overtly arrest a former dictator and extradite them to face trial.

I wonder if the US strategy is actually quite clever, if somewhat left field...

By making Venezuela a criminal state, it allows for some form of sanction or punishment to be imposed. Much like invading Iraq.Twice. The unspoken motivation is obviously energy control rather than drug trafficking, and in a world where China has effective control over everything else, is it really such a surprise?

Greenland is a very different proposition as it's purely a strategic defence concept and is effectively a barren wasteland that's being used for subsistence farming and military development testing. Transferring it from Denmark to the US would save Denmark a fair amount of cash without upsetting the status quo within NATO, yet the media seems hell bent on the mere suggestion becoming a declaration of war.

You do talk absolute shite sometimes. Trump derangement syndrome in reverse.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Faster internet....finally.

« on: 05 January 2026, 16:29:11 »

I thought you were a scouser, so surely its around 13-15 years?

24, which is more than enough to see this world come to an end. Putin, Trump, global warming.........Yes, 24 is more than enough 

24 years perhaps, but about 22 of those years you'll be dribbling into a beige cardigan with wooden buttons......while a young carer scrapes the bulk of your dinner from your lap.

And the bulk of the previous nights dinner off his arse. 

When I start impaling myself on gardenalia, I'll start worrying 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 05 January 2026, 14:46:45 »

Thanks all. Everyone's experience is different, we've been expecting mum to go for a while and, in the end, it was a merciful release.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Faster internet....finally.

« on: 05 January 2026, 14:44:27 »

I thought you were a scouser, so surely its around 13-15 years?

24, which is more than enough to see this world come to an end. Putin, Trump, global warming.........Yes, 24 is more than enough 

24 years perhaps, but about 22 of those years you'll be dribbling into a beige cardigan with wooden buttons......while a young carer scrapes the bulk of your dinner from your lap.

You seem to be well informed about these things. Forward planning? 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Faster internet....finally.

« on: 05 January 2026, 12:05:55 »

I thought you were a scouser, so surely its around 13-15 years?

24, which is more than enough to see this world come to an end. Putin, Trump, global warming.........Yes, 24 is more than enough 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Rip Off Brittain

« on: 04 January 2026, 17:06:00 »

Old money to decimal currency was  a BIG com..

As a kid we used to get our pocket money and wander off to the sweet shop - one of my favs were the chocolate mice for 1/2d each.

so old money 20 bob x 12d =240 then x 2 (1/2d) so 480 mice to £1

wasn't long once decimal the mice were 1/2p each and losing 280 mice per £

Since then the mice just got smaller like Quality street tins and Toblerone/wagon wheels etc

The so called 'big purple one' is now more like the medium size purple one.

That's just your age, Opti, it shrinks as you get older.