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Whitey Grandad

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  1. Ah, this sounds like 'if you're innocent then you have nothing to fear'. It is the difference between a police state and a free society. Many years ago my wife and I went to Elland Road and whilst sitting in the stand we had a video camera pushed up our noses. Now I have no idea what made the copper decide that two old white-haired citizens were potential trouble-makers, but my dear wife was so annoyed by it that I had to stop her from starting a riot.
  2. Stick with it if at all possible. Can you change your course mid-stream? One of my fellow students did a 3 year engineering course and at the end decided that he really wanted to do law so our tutor found him another grant (those were the days!) and he then did a 2 year law course and became a barrister, wig and all that. Until you're about 21 you don't really know what you want to be doing for the rest of your life. I will say that there are precious few opportunites for graduates in 'media studies' of any sort.
  3. First check the contract.
  4. And we all thought that Alexander's tomb was in Alexandria.
  5. If we don't sell out it will be because of the restrictive travel arrangements.
  6. How dare you call these people whingers and moaners. This police action is completely over the top and treats everybody like a convicted criminal. Illegal immigrants and sheeep to the slaughter are treated better. We are responsible adults in a free society and should be treated as such.
  7. Mine is similar, but nowhere near as bad as yours. A wrist support may help and you can try Ibuprofen gel and steroid injections but I think that the only solution is another operation with maybe an implant. Back to the quack.
  8. It's very tricky getting the acceleration out of the aircraft to be as smooth as possible. I read the biography of the test pilot who worked for Martin-Baker (sorry, can't remember his name) and he used to demonstrate them at air shows from the back of a lorry. On an early test he was severely injured and bruised all over because there was a slight delay between the initial ejection and the firing of the rockets. My wireman was in the FAA and tells of an aircraft that returned after the pilot had pulled the ejector handle but the hood had not released, so he had to come back to the carrier anyway. They couldn't lever the hood off because as soon as they did so the seat would have fired. He had to be cut out very, very slowly.
  9. Sounds dodgy to me. Except that all dealings would be to your email address so unless somebody has hacked that and intends to change details later it's difficult to see what they could gain.
  10. What a load of b*ll*cks. (and where in Winchester is the 'statue of the man on the horse'?)
  11. What do you expect? International weekend so no footie and bugger-all else going on.
  12. Private sale between consenting adults. Nothing much happening here, move along please.
  13. As others have said, I think it's something to do with the way that the smoke particles give the moisture in the air somewhere to nucleate thus causing a sudden dense smog.
  14. Nor seat belts...
  15. What I can't understand is, if it was foggy, why have a fireworks display? And It can't have been a coincidence, the fireworks were only about 100m from the pile-up.
  16. I believe, I really believe!
  17. The OP said later that the car was sold 'outside Ebay' so the first statement may not have applied to this sale. You're quite right to talk about being naive. I'm sure there's a lesson there for all of us, whether selling or buying.
  18. Not necessarily. The gearbox may have been sound to the best of the knowledge and belief of the seller. The buyer may have crashed the gears all the way to the nearest motorway, or hit a raised drainhole cover, or may just have been unlucky. Mind you, in my early days there was talk of putting sawdust into the gearbox to keep it quiet.
  19. Surely, everything that has been posted has only been an expression of opinion. We are not privy to the discussions that took place at the time of sale so I would suggest that we cannot venture an opinion as to the description of the vehicle that was made at this time. The only true test of legality is in front of a judge. I would say that driving away in a vehicle that you had just bought and knew to be unroadworthy was definiteley not kosher, unless you were taking it for a pre-booked MOT test at a reasonably local test station by the most direct route, which would be pretty stupid if you knew that it was going to fail anyway. I don't suppose it would bhave been insured either.
  20. I fully agree.
  21. What law would that be, exactly?
  22. Look, according to the seller this trade was not made through Ebay so that description does not apply. All that matters is what took place at the time of the sale/purchase. Earlier descriptions of the vehicle are out of date. It is up to the buyer to satisfy himself as to the condition of the goods that he is buying. This is a private trade between two individuals so consumer law does not apply. After the latest MOT the vehicle has been found to be unroadworthy, but according to the statements above it was never described as such. The only dispute that I can see is to the amount that would need to be spent in order to make the vehicle roadworthy again, and that will be what was discussed at the time of the sale. Any earlier descriptions on Ebay are out of date irrelevant. As I said above, the law says 'caveat emptor' - 'let the buyer beware' - which is a basic principle in commerce where anything is sold without a warranty. (All in my humble opinion, of course.)
  23. Is she fit?
  24. Caveat emptor, I say.
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