Thats what they want you to think…

If its FlightRadar24…I have frequently found aircraft icons that have stopped moving – not at an airport, several thousand feet up and still indicating airspeed – despite others still travelling on that screen. Also there are always aircraft, say, travelling across the Atlantic Eastbound to LHR with the info giving that it is flying from LHR…

Some people don’t read all the thread, and some admit (coff!) to not even reading all the post they reply to.

Quote Originally Posted by charliehunt
Doesn’t quite square with your criticism of your teacher….

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Not sure what you are on about. Explain?

Still not totally sure what you are digging at here. Did you mean headteacher?

They are like Marmite,one either loves them or hates them. As long as I am happy, that’s all that matters. To each his/her own.I had a 1960 Mini and no way, from whatever angle would you have thought it was an Aston.

I didn’t say 1960s Mini…[/rolls eyes severely]
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Ok, I meant a DB5…
And I meant the estate version (or whatever they call it) although the Countryman is still ugly. The hinges actually are a carry over from the old design!

I suppose it’s the “a pet is not just for Christmas” syndrome.

If you are careful it can last all the way to the new year.
Boxing Day sandwiches, 27th curry, 28th roast, 29th stew…;o)

Gary, I have spoken to friends who have pets, and we all say it’s the worst year anyone can remember for pets catching Fleas. Where do they come from?

Well, a mummy flea and a daddy flea who love each other very much…;o)

Initially its irresponsible pet owners who don’t practice anti flea measure themselves that help fuel the problem. We have cats (waits whilst you bu@@ers howl and spit) and in the early spring we had a problem because the feral morons next door ignored the fact that their cats (started off as one female, but since she is on her third litter I’d hazard a guess that she hasn’t been spayed) were infested. Our vet keeps banging on about the fact that fleas take little time to become immune to the latest medication, but by simply putting cheap flea collars on the cats (not the fleas before someone says it) we managed to cut down the numbers to something close to manageable.
Not sure about dogs, but if you have foxes in your locality (if the local hunt hasn’t ‘accidentally’ eradicated them) then they could pass the fleas on (indirect transfer).

As for vets bills… I could tell you a tale (best not name anybody) about a very well known national radio DJ’s dog that was well on the road to recovery from some problem that I can’t remember, who wasn’t charged for the treatment so that he would appear on the vets client list, who one day simply decided he ‘wasn’t interested anymore’ and (despite apparent pleas that the hound was going to be fine, or even that they could find another home for it without problem) asked for it to be put down immediately.
Sticks in my craw…
Other owners were being charged five figure sums for treatment to their dogs, and yet he was not interested anymore.

Doesn’t quite square with your criticism of your teacher….

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Not sure what you are on about. Explain?

By the sound of it, at least snafu went to an “Approved” school….:D

Nope, nothing ‘special’ about it…

I agree with all of those statements, although some of them are not necessarily bad.

Maybe you better specify which ones are not bad, in case we start believing that you think the oppression, eradication, or exploitation of others is good…;o)

Are there no believers who want to come out to play? :dev2:

Oh and as to Mini hating – I agree!
The hinges on the back of the topless one wouldn’t look out of place on the side of a safe, and the Countryman(?) just looks plain ugh!
The early BMW Mini front on always reminded me of the Aston Martin DB7 (or whatever), but the more recent ones don’t.

Step away from the handbags, it works better that way.

You MUST NOT cycle on a pavement.

Erm, they turned most of the pavements round here into joint cycle/pedestrian paths most places except residential. Safer that way.

And don’t forget, Beemer driver or Ferrari driver, it’s the one behind the wheel who is the culprit for bad driving.

Thatsa maybe, but innit funny how they all seem to drive Beemers, be they brand shiny new or 15-20 years old. Used to be Ford Orions or Vauxhall Novas but they always moved up to a Beemer, first an ancient one then a bit newer…

We have one in our village. Pretty useless it seems to me. Whatever speed I go through it, it still tells me I am doing 30 – so no need to slow down then :stupid:

Maybe its telling you the max speed you should zip through the village?

It’s just a flashing 30mph limit repeater.

Ah. Um..?

Top Gear? Rubbish of the worst kind (IMO)

Ooh, strong words. Leaves little room to pass judgement on the spate of ‘audience votes for the xmas #1 record as long as Simon Cow gives his blessing’ and ‘dancing with celebs’ rubbish.
Make it your signature, why don’t you…;o)

Top Gear, was great when the new format started, now it’s just boring and repetitive, attempted schoolboy humour that tells you nothing about cars or driving.

You must be older than I thought – back when Noel Edmonds, Angela Rippon, Peter Purvis were presenters for half an hour on a weekday evening on BBC2, you mean?

I’ve been forced to watch it occasionally and the phrase rubbish of the worst kind springs to mind, but the presenters appear to play their cartoon characters way too closely and there is quite a bit of casual racism that is always dismissed as just being a joke, but it still feels lazy and, on the whole, uninformative. Still, my mind drifts back to when the high court decided that Top Gear was not an information prog, but rather just entertainment, which sort of allows them to play silly bu@@ers in public, I suppose.