I had a new Renault Clio 172 sports. Whilst under guarantee, the front bulb went on the offside, for/spot light.
I took it back to the main dealer and they had to strip ALL the front of the car off, and remove god knows what to get the bulb out.
I asked the mechanic what it would have cost me if it hadn’t been under warranty, and he went and asked admin, came back and said, ” about £600.00″ needless to say the car went when the warrantee had nearly expired.
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Yes, I’ve seen this happen in my works car park. 3 lads stripped it as you describe, took them 45 minutes and a lot of head-scratching. Pathetic design. I think it was an ordinary Clio too.

Don’t know much about soccer, but aren’t Man United rather good……;)

Unfortunately yes.
But, the FA cup is always full of upsets and drama. Little Crawley may very well do it, like the Chess Champ being beaten by fools mate, and all that.

Seeing the acts listed above as barbarism is parochial. The world, like it or not, is a diverse range of cultures and attitudes – it is arrogant to see Western values as those which should be the standard. I do not condone any act of barbarism or cruelty per se, but I do accept that there are those who have entirely different cultural values and they cannot be wrong. It is what they are.

No. I think you will actually find, that Western standards do tend to be correct in most ways. The cultural values of these sorts of people might be OK to them as they have not been educated in the long term damage and so on. Most of these cultures add very low value onto life, even of their own kin so we cannot expect them to consider an animal/fish. But, no matter how hungry they are, or how many millions of $ the practice brings or how different their culture is, it’s wrong. It’s probably wrong in the eyes of their own God or Gods FFS!
I for one do not respect the diversity of cultures on this sort of thing.

Have now sorted through my late father’s collection – here’s 3 I’ve scanned in.

This Jetstream seemed to be in the UK throughtout the 70’s. As soon as I saw it I recognised the reg.

…Trident Man. I “Must” know you from Ringway. I used to knock about with Phil Lines, Golly Ball and his younger brother, John Theobald, the Pearson brothers and a lad called Swifty. Oh, and some Deaf lads from Huddersfield…..they came over on Saturdays on the Express Bus, sometimes kipping in the departure lounge and going home Sunday.

Court Line. Mother company was Clarksons Holidays. They went bust, whilst I was on holiday with them! Having flown out on a Court 1-11, we got an extra week holiday (Free) and facility was made for us to have £100. Some of which (Not much) we had to pay back. The total benefit was that we got flown back on the God of conventional speed. A Coronnado, owned by Spantax. There were two of us, landed at Ringway within 30 mins.

I really must dig out my negs. of those days.

I’ve not seen the film PeeDee so can’t say, but the TV series was in the mid to late 80’s and is a classic. BBC DVD is out there, quite poorly transferred to DVD IMHO with some severe episode “jumps” where it just stops and says “Load next disc” but Bob Peck is at his best, it’s very 80’s but a classic with a superb ending.

I am reverse. Missed series.

Funny that, Grey accuses News of the World of phone tapping. NotW also owned by Murdoch. An opportunity arises to make it easy to sack. Conspiracy!!!!!!

However, “A microphone is always on”, and so many ppl have been caught out by it.

Extracted from the only independant paper left, The Daily Mash.
THE offside rule is so simple even a female human could understand it, experts have confirmed.

As Sky Sports launched some dreary investigation into the brains of Andy Gray and Richard Keys, experts said it would be impossible for a woman to not understand the offside rule because it is one of the rules of football.

Professor Henry Brubaker, of the Institute for Studies, said: “Of all the non-American sports, football is easily the most childishly simple.

“This is not Fermat’s Last Theorem. It is a game designed specifically for low-grade morons who have to be told when to go to the toilet.

“Claiming you don’t understand the offside rule is just one of those things people say at parties, because if they really didn’t understand it they would be either a potato or a bar of soap.”

Helen Archer, a woman from Stevenage, said: “Yes, that all seems perfectly straightforward. And I assume when you say two opposing players that would obviously include the goalkeeper? Okay, that’s fine.

“Now, what really concerns me about this whole offside thing is what happens to the player who has been caught offside. He’s going to be very upset and I really hope his teammates are there for him.

“Do they all go for some pasta and a glass of wine and just let him cry it out? Or do they spend the afternoon going mental in John Lewis trying on stuff they can’t really afford?”

She added: “If I was caught offside I’d probably just stay in with my best friend and a big tub of Chunky Monkey and stare at Colin Firth’s chin until I cream myself.”