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| leeds Member Since: 28 Dec 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 8582  
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EU budget down by 3.7%
UK contribution UP, due to Tony Blair. UK still second net contributor to EU after something like 2/3rds of our money being returned to us under Maggies rebate. Now EU budget DOWN but UK contribution UP So who are the winners? NOT the UK! Now which country/ies are paying less???? Brendan |
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8th Feb 2013 10:19pm |
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| leeds Member Since: 28 Dec 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 8582
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Been a bit foggy recently.
Interesting I reckon somewhere between 5 to 10% of vehicles have defective front lights. That is from those who have their lights on. Then you have the drivers of silver and light colour cars who expect other drivers either to have ground radar or super doper eyes which can penetrate the fog and detect them. Brendan |
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8th Mar 2013 8:20pm |
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| GUM97 Member Since: 05 Feb 2012 Location: Cheshire Posts: 3555 
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Much to my annoyance, I passed 4 cars on the way home with only one headlight! Surely they must notice  An engine to TDi for!
"Land Rover- Proudly turning drivers into mechanics since 1948"  |
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8th Mar 2013 8:24pm |
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| leeds Member Since: 28 Dec 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 8582
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How much is a replacement bulb or headlight?
Bulb £5-10? Sealed headlight unit? £100 - £200 including fitting? Have an accident and what is typical insurance excess? £100-£250? Then there is time involved? Get pulled by the police? Minimum £60 fine plus possible points and then impact on insurance premiums? Brendan |
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8th Mar 2013 8:41pm |
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| Happyoldgit Member Since: 14 Sep 2007 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3471 
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Foggy & wet = no old f@rts in their hi viz and their pointy, pointy radar gun stalking the village today, they are strictly warm weather vigilantes. Steve.
Owned numerous Land Rover vehicles of all shapes and sizes over the decades. Current Defender: A non tarts hand-bagged Puma 110 XS USW. [Insert something impressive here such as extensive list of previous Land Rovers or examples of your prestigeous and expensive items, trinkets, houses, bikes, vehicles etc] http://forums.lr4x4.com I used to be Miserable ...but now I'm ecstatic. |
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8th Mar 2013 8:53pm |
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| bm52 Member Since: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Kent Posts: 2189 
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Rain...................... BM52
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8th Mar 2013 9:02pm |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069 
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sounds like we are up for some snow Sunday / Monday
 ... trouble is only us defender drivers know how to drive on it |
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8th Mar 2013 9:13pm |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897  
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Corrected for accuracy.  |
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8th Mar 2013 10:30pm |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069
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Thanks Laurie
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9th Mar 2013 8:03am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20661
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People (Outsiders) ignoring the village speed limit and driving like a bat out of hell on narrow poor view minor roads and nearly going in my front. Also making me reverse too as a thank-you. Needless to say the window went down and I gave him a piece of my mind)
Needless to say his buddy following in a van looked confused.  TheThunder Rollsπ¬π§πΊπΈ
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28th Mar 2013 9:52pm |
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| leeds Member Since: 28 Dec 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 8582
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Well Steve our local roads are nice and quiet at the moment.
Some of the people who use our local roads as rat runs still have not got their cars back. Some of them are still under snow a week later! 
They will be under snow for a few more days yet. Might teach some of them to engage brain before getting behind the steering wheel. Brendan |
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28th Mar 2013 10:01pm |
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| Pam W Member Since: 25 Oct 2011 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1169 
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I was standing looking at some flowers on the flower stand at the supermarket today. No trolley, just a hand basket. No room between me and the stand at all but about 2 metres of aisle behind me. Some women with a trolley came up the aisle and basically pushed her trolley so it was nearly touching me. I turned to look at her and she just stared at me, wanting ME to move. Not sure why she couldn't just go round me, as I say there was plenty of room.
More grumpy at myself than her though as I stupidly and very Britishly said 'sorry' and walked all the way round to trolley to get out the way so she could continue her journey... Our blog - http://landytravels.com/
Yorkshire Off Road Club - http://www.yorkshireoffroadclub.net |
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28th Mar 2013 10:05pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20661
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And they'll likely have a flat battery too don't you reckon? It annoys me how people drive in the countryside like it's a motorway never thinking that it can be muddy and poor view and a whole combination of things. Saying that the DSA driving test and modern learning to drive techniques are a shambles so that plays a part. The community on here (except Killer
 0 would do a better job at learning someone to drive IMHO than a lot of driving instructor out there who are only in it for the money. TheThunder Rollsπ¬π§πΊπΈ
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28th Mar 2013 10:06pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20661
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Hindsight can be a wonderful thing. Never works out that way though does it.  It annoys me in a shop when there's one single area of items you want to get and it's crowded around so you can't even get near. You wait for it to clear and before you can get there some other ..... or more than one person slides in and then you still cannot get there. TheThunder Rollsπ¬π§πΊπΈ
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28th Mar 2013 10:09pm |
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