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A modelling grump. Spotmodel emailing me a newsletter and in it are a load of cracking decal sets. The problem being that they are for Tamiya bike kits that aren't in production anymore and only available from ebay for about 3 or 4 times their usual price.😭😀

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1 hour ago, Ade H said:

"FOR SALE: One set of 3-series indicator lights, as-new condition, never used. Also avaliable: one complete set of mirrors, surplus to requirements." 😁

I still maintain BMW has a spelling error on their standard car lease forms, where they've typed EGO instead of ECO.

 

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Gripe:  Ads. 

I mean.... 

 

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Really?

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14 minutes ago, Ade H said:

And I bet that they're not cheap decals either. I just looked up a set from a different retailer for a 911 GT3R: £36. The kit was only £25!

They're not actually that stupidly priced but do I buy and hoard them in the hope that Tamiya re-release the kits or just hope they are on the market for a long time. (I could just not buy stuff I don't need of course.😀)

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Day before we go on holiday for 9 days with extended family, we have a phone call/txt advising of a fraudulent transaction on the wifes debit card! 

 

Turns out that in the last few days, the wifes card has somehow been cloned, and they decided to avail themselves of Netflix! Might have gone un-noticed if it was not for the fact that we now get our Netflix through our Sky account and thus no longer pay a separate monthly fee, nor the fact that (according to our bank) we don't live in The Netherlands, which is where the transaction originated from! Sadly her debit card has now been cancelled (and shredded) and a new one has to be issued. Due to the amount of scam texts that come through, I managed to stop her ringing the number that was on the text and just (and I mean just...) before she gave out any personal information as they asked her for her bank account information! She decided to hang up, and re-dial using the number on the back of her bank card instead! Turns out the text was legit as the bank confirmed they sent the text, but in my book - better to be safe than sorry! Just an absolute pain in the posterior that we now have to rely on my debit card for the whole week (we have separate bank accounts not joint thankfully!) due to this.

 

I have a feeling that this was a "fishing" exercise to see if they got away with it, and if they had we would have been stung with a much larger purchase. Thank goodness for the bank being on the ball with their online security! 

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I'm no great lover of banks, especially the four that have a death grip on the Australian market, but I have to say that they seem to be pretty good on the scam detection. A couple of times in the last ten years or so the bank that issues my credit card has detected "irregular" activity on my card and cancelled it immediately, subsequently refunding any defalcation and issuing me with a new one. Although it was a pain in the vicinity of the sitting-down area at the time (I was without a credit card for about a week or ten days each time) in the longer term it was very satisfying to know that some low-life out there wasn't living the life of Riley at my expense!

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1 hour ago, Admiral Puff said:

I'm no great lover of banks, especially the four that have a death grip on the Australian market, but I have to say that they seem to be pretty good on the scam detection. A couple of times in the last ten years or so the bank that issues my credit card has detected "irregular" activity on my card and cancelled it immediately, subsequently refunding any defalcation and issuing me with a new one. Although it was a pain in the vicinity of the sitting-down area at the time (I was without a credit card for about a week or ten days each time) in the longer term it was very satisfying to know that some low-life out there wasn't living the life of Riley at my expense!

The banks in the UK will (most of the time) refund if you are a victim of fraud. Our bank has already started the ball rolling to get the refund sorted. As I said, it was literally a piddly little amount £6.38, but because they knew straight away with the transaction being in The Netherlands, and us being resident in the UK, that it was dodgy. Not only that, the wife had just been to the local shop 5 mins prior. So get from our address to Holland in 5 minutes that would be some speed record!

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20 hours ago, Black Knight said:

Watching the bus I wanted to get driving past the bus stop

4 minutes early

I was only about 10 seconds from the bus stop and the bus was early

Due at 10.52 it went by at 10.48

Have to wait till 13.40 for the next one

To continue the grump; when I got the 13.40 bus I checked my watch time with the driver's. My watch was exactly 5 minutes fast. Its the same driver wot does the 5 runs each day.

Therefore the earlier bus was 9 minutes early

That was yesterday

Today is another day and I don't need the bus today

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9 hours ago, Swamp Donkey said:

Replacing all my CD’s with vinyl…what’s going on there?

I know! All my "indestructable, lasts for ever CDs" are long gone. Why? Just never played them. My kids got me a turntable a 3 years ago, and I've been buying vinyl ever since ... and playing it - almost every day. The sad thing is 35 years ago I had a decent vinyl collection - but a house move led to them being sold off on the grounds that I'd never play them again as they would be replaced by CDs

 

I'm not going down the what sounds better rabbit hole. I enjoy playing vinyl, didn't enjoy playing CDs. But I do have a totally unfounded theory that the 'soul' of any media lies in the space between the bytes 😁

 

My grump is that during the 80s I bought a lot of great CDs some of which do not appear to have ever been released on vinyl - or if so, in such small numbers that current prices are prohibitive. There are also some definitive 70s albums which are very hard to get - e.g. Steely Dan's 'Can't Buy a Thrill' - I can't believe this hasn't been remastered and re-released. My other grump is that the music industry has conned me into buying the same titles 3 times - but that's my own fault!

 

Cheers

 

Colin

 

 

 

 

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17 hours ago, Stef N. said:

A modelling grump. Spotmodel emailing me a newsletter and in it are a load of cracking decal sets. The problem being that they are for Tamiya bike kits that aren't in production anymore and only available from ebay for about 3 or 4 times their usual price.😭😀

 

Yes I wish it was easier to get hold of some of their early bike kits. I had quite a few but got rid and would love to do them again.

 

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Yep, a Yamaha YZR-M1 from several years back would be nice. But not at eBay prices.

 

As it seems always to be the racing kits which disappear quickly, I have an entirely unresearched theory that Tamiya's licensing agreements for sponsor logos may have a time limit in them. Just my own pondering on it.

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1 hour ago, Ade H said:

Yep, a Yamaha YZR-M1 from several years back would be nice. But not at eBay prices.

 

As it seems always to be the racing kits which disappear quickly, I have an entirely unresearched theory that Tamiya's licensing agreements for sponsor logos may have a time limit in them. Just my own pondering on it.

The YZR-M1s were the ones I was looking at. Well over £100 with one over £200. I like them but not that much. 

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Idiots behind you at a roundabout who lean on their horn when they decide your not moving fast enough when your waiting for a gap to enter. They can't see what i can see and i'm not prepared to cause a potential accident or injury to myself or others just to satisfy them. The roundabout in question can be a tricky one at the best of times without some prat in a clapped out Toyota Yaris up your tail pipe! 🤬

 

Regards,

 

Steve

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13 minutes ago, fatfingers said:

Idiots behind you at a roundabout who lean on their horn when they decide your not moving fast enough when your waiting for a gap to enter. They can't see what i can see and i'm not prepared to cause a potential accident or injury to myself or others just to satisfy them. The roundabout in question can be a tricky one at the best of times without some prat in a clapped out Toyota Yaris up your tail pipe! 🤬

 

Regards,

 

Steve

If you have a manual gear box just wait for a suitable sized gap and deliberately stall the engine :wicked:

 

 

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12 hours ago, alt-92 said:

it wasn't me, honest! 

Turns out the Dutch link is abit of a red herring I think.

 

This morning we received a text from Netflix advising the that regular payment had been set up (erm I don't think so) and that it was for a regular NGN6300! We had no clue what this currency was so did a quick google search. Turns out it's the abbreviation for the Nigerian national currency. The Dutch connection comes in as Netflix have their European HQ in Amsterdam. So Nigerian payment goes to Amsterdam - converted to Euros. Transferred to our bank converted to Pounds Sterling. Appears to us as if it originates in The Netherlands.

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6 hours ago, fatfingers said:

Idiots behind you at a roundabout who lean on their horn when they decide your not moving fast enough when your waiting for a gap to enter. They can't see what i can see and i'm not prepared to cause a potential accident or injury to myself or others just to satisfy them. The roundabout in question can be a tricky one at the best of times without some prat in a clapped out Toyota Yaris up your tail pipe! 🤬

 

Regards,

 

Steve

Hah! 

You're lucky!

At least you guys know how to use a round-about. (well, mostly) We invented the friggin' things but nobody over here has ever seen one until fairly recently and no one has a clue how to use it!  

Spoiler

(exaggeration for humourous purposes only, no person or persons were unintentionally insulted. All rights reserved.  Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.)

 

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Stuck in traffic on the A68 at Lauder everyone stopped to allow the “famous” Tour de Britain cyclists through. 
counted around 14 police motorcycles escorting

No warning signs

No diversions

On the only major Scotland England route in the part of the Borders

Had anyone mentioned it I could have used another road for my journey but going back would involve adding 30 mins and 20 miles so sit tight?

Still nice to see everyone for miles inconvenienced for this essential event :tumble: 

I must organise my next local footie match or whatever and get the road closed so we can play it

 

 

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another batch of police escorts and road support vehicles now. What’s this costing the taxpayers. Hope it’s like football when clubs have to make some pay out

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Called at my bank yesterday to pay one of SWMBO's bills.  Bank closed and two of the staff hanging around outside.  Apparently there had been a security incident, so no service until the following morning when the bank would be open as usual.  Okay, I have an old account with another bank, so walk around to the branch, queue up and get to the counter.  To pay the bill I will have to pay the cash into my account, and then pay from that account.  Right, seems a bit convoluted, but go ahead.  Pay the money in, cashier fiddling about with the computer.  'Have you got another account with us?'  No, just that one. 'This account is a savings account, you can't pay a bill from there'  Sigh, okay, withdraw the money I  have just put in and leave.  Go to the post office I can pay there.  Wrong.  The bill doesn't have a bar code, so can't be paid at the post office.   :wall:  Go home and pay the bill online as I should have done originally but SWMBO likes a receipted bill from the bank.  

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Now that the covid restrictions are easing, there seems to be a rash of weddings taking place, and unfortunately, I live opposite the Salle de Fete (village hall to those of you in the UK). There was one last week and it was so good to listen to some scroat and his girl friend having a slanging match at 1am. Oh, it was a real hoot to hear each car when it left, blow it's horn just to let everyone within earshot know that it worked, regardless of the time.

And because we enjoyed it so much, there's another one taking place at the moment. They all met up outside the main building and were entertained (I use that word cautiously) by some wandering minstrel. He only seemed to know how to strum two chords, and when it came to reaching high notes, let's just say that he was found wanting. He did a wonderful job of murdering Ring of Fire, so much so that I swear that I could here JC turning in his grave. Thankfully, he's now packed up his kit and left. I don't know how much they paid him for his services, but I'd have willingly paid him twice as much NOT to sing.

We're now looking forward to the rest of the evenings delights. Thank God for ear plugs.

 

John.

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On 9/7/2021 at 3:01 PM, bentwaters81tfw said:

The problem is 'new-build'. Not worth the cardboard boxes they are made from. Probably takes a full ground-up refurb to make them acceptable, considering the complaints home owners have been making.

 

A cardboard box would be positively roomy compared to some new-builds !

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2 hours ago, JohnT said:

Stuck in traffic on the A68 at Lauder everyone stopped to allow the “famous” Tour de Britain cyclists through. 
counted around 14 police motorcycles escorting

No warning signs

No diversions

On the only major Scotland England route in the part of the Borders

Had anyone mentioned it I could have used another road for my journey but going back would involve adding 30 mins and 20 miles so sit tight?

Still nice to see everyone for miles inconvenienced for this essential event :tumble: 

I must organise my next local footie match or whatever and get the road closed so we can play it

 

 

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another batch of police escorts and road support vehicles now. What’s this costing the taxpayers. Hope it’s like football when clubs have to make some pay out

Sorry you were so inconvenienced.

 

I live in Stow, which is on the A7 six miles from Lauder and the Tour of Britain come through the village. There have been signs posted all along the route for weeks (although you were not to know that) but they don't have many diversions in place as they use rolling road closures and within minutes of the convoy going through the road is opened up again. The main cause of long delays today was the lazy Peleton bimbling along seven minutes behind the leaders.

 

BTW, most of the "Police" motorbikes were actually volunteer Race Marshals.

 

Dave

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