Old Nick
Legendary Knight
I so empathise with you Marty
What's Boiling Your Pi$$ Today?
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chas
Legendary Knight
Not that I've ever driven in Edinburgh but every urban centre seems the same. The Missis works in Canterbury and it's only our strict gun control laws that have stopped a sharp cull in deliveroo riders.
MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
Glasgow seems to have kept it's 30mph limits last time I was there but everywhere I went in Edinburgh it was 20mph, loads of speed cameras and cycle routes painted on the road which the cyclists seem to believe actually are meant to be kept clear of by cyclists. I also found that drivers in Edinburgh are not what you would call courteous. Waiting to try and get out of a side road onto a busy road with lights about a hundred yards down from me and I sat there for over ten minutes because not one bugger would pause for a second or two to let me out. If there hadn't been a temporary lull in traffic in both directions I would still be feckin' sitting there! I wonder if the traffic restrictions are partly to do with all the 'new Scots' who are unfamiliar with motorised vehicles and so need to be protected from them. I was in the south side of the city tootling around between Meadowbank down through Liberton to Fort Kinnaird (long story) and it would have made for a good game of 'spot the white man'.
Foxy
Legendary Knight
Evidently Sheffield has bin given a few million quid to "upgrade" our transport links. A large portion of it is to improve cycleways, and encourage cycling. Any fucker who's bin to Sheffield knows it's full of hills, and it's hard enough walkin up some of em, ne'er mind cycling up em!
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
The beauty of Edinburgh is the regularity with which the tram tracks eat cyclists.
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
It’s biblical here! Yesterday when it got a bit brighter.....
Taken from a minor farm road because the main run down the valley was 2’ under.
Taken from a minor farm road because the main run down the valley was 2’ under.
Don the Don
Legendary Knight
Does that include signs in english that everyone else can understand and not just the yokels
Foxy
Legendary Knight
They are ungrateful c#nts with a very short memory!
We should have let the Germans have France & all the spineless w@nkers that inhabit the place
BBC News - Fishing row: UK warns France it could retaliate over threats
We should have let the Germans have France & all the spineless w@nkers that inhabit the place
BBC News - Fishing row: UK warns France it could retaliate over threats
Fishing row: UK warns France it could retaliate over threats
The environment secretary says "two can play at that game" as dispute over fishing rights escalates.
www.bbc.co.uk
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
It’s still 🌧
Don the Don
Legendary Knight
Don the Don
Legendary Knight
FooKin, slug munching Bastids, Don't buy anything french sod em, as for that Turd Macron:They are ungrateful c#nts with a very short memory!
We should have let the Germans have France & all the spineless w@nkers that inhabit the place
BBC News - Fishing row: UK warns France it could retaliate over threats
Fishing row: UK warns France it could retaliate over threats
The environment secretary says "two can play at that game" as dispute over fishing rights escalates.www.bbc.co.uk
Fuck knows which genius let the white flag waving twats have control over a large chunk of our energy supply.They are ungrateful c#nts with a very short memory!
We should have let the Germans have France & all the spineless w@nkers that inhabit the place
BBC News - Fishing row: UK warns France it could retaliate over threats
Fishing row: UK warns France it could retaliate over threats
The environment secretary says "two can play at that game" as dispute over fishing rights escalates.www.bbc.co.uk
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
It goes back to 1997 & the dying days of John Major’s government knowing they would lose to Blair. They publicly said the decision on renewing our nuclear power stations should fall to the incoming government. Blair and every government since has ducked the only rational but poitically awkward decision every since - and here we are. How many punters know EDF Energy Ltd is a British subsidiary of the French state owned EDF ( Électricité de France)?
chas
Legendary Knight
I'm not quite Keynesian hardwired but it *did* always strike me as sensible to have the things like water supply, power generation, transport infrastructure under public control rather than 'lowest bid wins' out to tender.
But back in those days we presupposed a level of competency in public life which is notably absent for quite some time.
Lots of big words
Is the short version, f#ck those cheese eating, surrender monkey, French b@stards?
You'll need to bear with me on this rant. As it isn't really designed for you guys. It's designed for future Google searches for the same issue.
I needed to replaced the batteries in my Panasonic wireless headphones. That I use to watch telly (due to me being a cloth earned f#cker)
The original batteries are what I thought were a regular pair of 1.2v AAA rechargeable batteries? So the obvious choice was to purchase a pair or Duracell rechargeables with the same spec.
However, they wouldn't charge & neither would Energisers or cheap Llytrons?
The base station/charging station didn't play ball & wouldn't charge the headphones with the Duracell's or any other type of AAA' s inserted?
Yet charging the batteries in a standalone charger would result in the headphones working fine
Long story short...
After 90 minutes on the phone/live chat to Panasonic & getting absolutely nowhere!
I discovered this & with zero thanks to them!
Check out these photos
Looks normal enough doesn't it.
Now look just below the red dot in my edited photo
You'll see a small metal tang sticking out. Just above the spring contact for the negative end of the AAA.
Now look at the "genuine" Panasonic battery. Priced at £12 for 2!
That 5mm of exposed metal needs to make contact with that strip shown below my red dot in photo number 2. Otherwise the charging station doesn't recognise the presence of the headphones
5mm of tin foil to make that contact has solved the built in problem courtesy of Panasonic
I'm a big fan of Panasonic products. But this "only OUR batteries will work Sir" scam has really annoyed me
To further assist Google searches . The "genuine" part number is HHR-4AGE
I needed to replaced the batteries in my Panasonic wireless headphones. That I use to watch telly (due to me being a cloth earned f#cker)
The original batteries are what I thought were a regular pair of 1.2v AAA rechargeable batteries? So the obvious choice was to purchase a pair or Duracell rechargeables with the same spec.
However, they wouldn't charge & neither would Energisers or cheap Llytrons?
The base station/charging station didn't play ball & wouldn't charge the headphones with the Duracell's or any other type of AAA' s inserted?
Yet charging the batteries in a standalone charger would result in the headphones working fine
Long story short...
After 90 minutes on the phone/live chat to Panasonic & getting absolutely nowhere!
I discovered this & with zero thanks to them!
Check out these photos
Looks normal enough doesn't it.
Now look just below the red dot in my edited photo
You'll see a small metal tang sticking out. Just above the spring contact for the negative end of the AAA.
Now look at the "genuine" Panasonic battery. Priced at £12 for 2!
That 5mm of exposed metal needs to make contact with that strip shown below my red dot in photo number 2. Otherwise the charging station doesn't recognise the presence of the headphones
5mm of tin foil to make that contact has solved the built in problem courtesy of Panasonic
I'm a big fan of Panasonic products. But this "only OUR batteries will work Sir" scam has really annoyed me
To further assist Google searches . The "genuine" part number is HHR-4AGE
MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
Oh that is a definite 'sneaky bastard' trick there. Can you not trim back the plastic cover on the other batteries to expose the metal capsule of the battery?
Another trick I have noticed occasionally over the years is to make the 'own brand' (expensive) batteries with a slightly longer positive centre pin so that anyone elses re-chargeables won't make the connection at that end.
Another trick I have noticed occasionally over the years is to make the 'own brand' (expensive) batteries with a slightly longer positive centre pin so that anyone elses re-chargeables won't make the connection at that end.