RANT THREAD

Just need to watch out if you see a pair of oxy-acetylene bottles in the corner 🙂

Isn’t it Turkish barbers who have a somewhat fiendish way of dealing with hairy ears?

You’ll have to speak up a bit because the other day I went to a Turkish barber and you’ll never guess what he did…

…he took two small clumps of cotton wool and…

Has anyone else noticed a rash of hairdressers breaking out on their high street ?

I commented on the sudden outbreak of Turkish Barber/Hairdressers to Mrs Moggy this very weekend on one of our rare visits to the metropolis.

Moggy

Isn’t it Turkish barbers who have a somewhat fiendish way of dealing with hairy ears?, the procedure (so I’ve been informed) is take two small clumps of cotton wool, dip into methylated spirit or similar, set fire to said cotton wool, then slap the damn things into both ears together, I am reliably informed that this does not result in internal combustion or heart attack and certainly clears hairy ears.

Has anyone else noticed a rash of hairdressers breaking out on their high street ?

Better than a rash of bookies, McDonalds or pawnbrokers I suppose. :highly_amused:

Turkish barbers will offer to sort out your eyebrows or shave the fine hairs off your ears. They will also give you a shave, though apparently you need to find a really good one if you want to go through with that sort of thing.

Clearly there is a demand otherwise the businesses would have failed. Intriguing……;)

I wonder why ?

Come to North Kent, Alan – there must be more per linear High Street metre than anywhere else!! 😀

Talking of hairdressers. Although I have lived in Benfleet for the last 31yrs, I still think of my home town
as Rayleigh. (Essex)
For many years, we’ve had about three hairdressers in Rayleigh. Now we must have five, with another about
to open, a Turkish hairdresser. (god only knows what’s different about them ?)

Has anyone else noticed a rash of hairdressers breaking out on their high street ?

kinda puts one off women,

Jim
Lincoln .7

bloody hairdresser

Highly commendable but I wonder why they wait a year…….

Here in Lux a year after passing your test you have to go on a compulsory skid pan driving course where they simulate wet, snow and ice conditions.
Being somewhat cosmopolitan in composition of population (48% non natives) that still leaves a large proportion of folk driving who have never seen snow until they try and drive in it.
It is illuminating and quite depressing to see the proportion of drivers who can’t grasp that perhaps the lower torque offered by second gear in circumstances where first is spinning up a treat and they are going nowhere, or worse sideways, may be the solution to their immediate problem.

They don’t even deal with the the theory let alone the practice……:(

Or in heavy rain or in snow and/or ice or on motorways or winding country lanes or etc etc…..none of which I guess is covered by the Driving Test.

Bit difficult unless the test involves waiting for each set of weather conditions to occur.
When I was learning there was a six month wait for a test – my instructor took me for one lesson and advised me to apply to take my test; one really bad winter later (when the instructor decided to show me hill starts on snowy slopes and how to recover from a slide and spin in a frozen car park!) and I was taking my exam on a lovely, foggy, spring day…
Passed though.

That may be the case, but I swear most people have never actually been taught how to drive in fog.
Moggy

Or in heavy rain or in snow and/or ice or on motorways or winding country lanes or etc etc…..none of which I guess is covered by the Driving Test.

I’m now wondering if the set up of the main lights and fog lights and perhaps age per different car designs plays a significant role

That may be the case, but I swear most people have never actually been taught how to drive in fog. Then three-quarters of them can’t drive on a summer afternoon.

Mine (Jaguar S-Type from about ten years back) will only allow you to use the fog lights properly by turning the main switch to the parking light setting, and then operating BOTH the front and rear fog light switches.

It will allow the use of front fogs and dipped beams for no particular reason I can discern. I still can’t see what turning your fog lights on when it is clear enough to use dip without dazzling yourself achieves.

I’d certainly never set out in truly dense fog, but particularly here in East Anglia you can sometimes get caught away from home by a fast descending fog. It’s happened to me maybe three times in seventeen years.

Were I you SNAFU I’d get a minor rewiring job done.

Moggy

PS everybody and their dog stops with the foot on the brake over here, I swear some people have never put the handbrake on when parking the car let alone when stopped in traffic.

I conducted a little experiment yesterday having chewed over Moggy’s thoughts on fog lights and dipped headlights.
Fog in Lux yesterday evening was the heaviest and densest I’ve ever seen here.
Interestingly my car will only allow the fog lights to be turned on when the main lights are either manually on or set to automatic (in both cases dipped as main beam results in blindness as anybody with a brain has noted).
Thus the option of running with only fog lights and no main lights at all is not available.
As per the previous night running along with dipped and fog lights was perfectly fine at a reasonable speed, certainly not normal speed but not 10kph either. More importantly for the purposes of the experiment the fog lights and dipped mains did improve vis versus just dipped main lights.
As Lincoln says if the vis is so bad that you have to do 10kph should you really be driving at all?
I’m now wondering if the set up of the main lights and fog lights and perhaps age per different car designs plays a significant role in the observations Moggy has versus mine.

The obvious answer to fog lights etc, if it’s that bloody bad, dont drive in it.
Jim
Lincoln .7

It’s worse around here as the US Servicemen import their huge great SUVs which are invariably automatic transmission, so sit in D with their foot on the brake.

It’s almost worth the aggro for the F15s and Ospreys they bring though.

Moggy