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| gilarion Member Since: 05 Dec 2013 Location: Wales Posts: 5111   
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Royal Mail Parcel service biggest joke on the planet. I have been waiting for a parcel posted twenty miles from where I live for seven days. Royal mail, more expensive than any other carrier and they give a service that is absolute
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I have a tracking number and for six days now all it has said on the website: Latest update: Good news, your item is progressing through our network and is on its way. For those who like Welsh Mountains and narrow boats have a look at my videos and photos at.. http://www.youtube.com/user/conwy1 |
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3rd Jun 2016 3:47pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20573 
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Bloody people who drive too fast in rural lanes.
Had one today flying down a hill on a bend, no where to go. I'm stopped he's driving far to fast slams the anchors on and skids and slides straight at me on wet and grit. 
Really thought I'd had it and he was on his way into the front of me sideways.
Luckily he just controlled it by hitting the bank sideways. It really was madness and was about a 2012 Ford Focus. No damage to me or mine thank god but he had a car no older than 4 years now damaged. 
If only the fool realised that he should keep his speed down, that there is oncoming traffic with no room to move and that there is grit, mud, and water in patches then he wouldn't have done damage to the car. So silly... Not to mention very very dangerous... |
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3rd Jun 2016 10:17pm |
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| Happyoldgit Member Since: 14 Sep 2007 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3471 
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Agreed, a lot of people just bowl along without thinking what could be around the next bend or take into account slippery conditions, gravel, mud, wet leaves etc. It could have been a pedestrian, horse rider or carriage driver or cyclist they encountered. 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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4th Jun 2016 1:31am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20573
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Horses *cringe* easily break their legs and have the rider off too.
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4th Jun 2016 11:17am |
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| Muddybigdog Member Since: 11 Apr 2014 Location: Suffolk Posts: 1027 
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When a speeding muppet going way too fast glares at you for being on your own side of the road on a narrow lane, or worse you back up a single lane so someone can pass and not put their hand up or even recognise what you have done, I just want to boil their heads. Jumped ship to reliability - Mitsubishi L200
Puma 90 XS - Sold D3 - 2.7 S x2 (both Sold) Freelander 2 HSE - Sold Freelander 1 - Sold Disco 2 - Sold |
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4th Jun 2016 1:13pm |
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| Retroanaconda Member Since: 04 Jan 2012 Location: Scotland Posts: 2680 
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Equally frustrating are those who think it's okay to pootle along at 35 on wide open country roads where the safe speed is easily 50-60. Usually old biddies in little cars.
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4th Jun 2016 2:00pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20573
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Yeah, slow on the highways, fast in the country.
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4th Jun 2016 3:16pm |
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| Fatboy Slim Member Since: 04 Feb 2008 Location: Bridgend Posts: 1006
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And the absolute beauts that I seem to get stuck behind that do 40 in a 60, 40 in a 50 then 40 in a 30 past our local infant school.
 need to be dragged out of their cars and publicly flogged |
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4th Jun 2016 4:42pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17536 
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Very grumpy at the moment.
Just spent 4 hours removing two setscrews from my Patriot rack - why oh why did the designer decide that is was a good idea to use coutersunk hex socket head stainless screws in tapped holes in an aluminium rack? After a few years it is utterly impossible to remove them since (a) the head design provides the least possible torque rating, (b) they 'weld' themselves into the aluminium , and (c) they can't even be drilled out successfully because they're A2 stainless! To add insult to injury there is not a single fixing on the rack where an unthreaded hole and nut couldn't be used, and in most cases conventional decent hex head setscrews could be used instead of the abhorrent csk hex socket head. There is also no need for stainless, which has no place on any road vehicle imo. Stupid, pointless, and b*****y annoying. The one serious flaw with an otherwise excellent product. |
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4th Jun 2016 10:14pm |
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| GREENI Member Since: 22 Aug 2010 Location: staffs Posts: 10383
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^^^ that's where a genuine LR rack is best, by the time you're done with it, it's already rusted off as a whole and you're left with a lightweight tube made of powder coat
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5th Jun 2016 5:38am |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069 
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Cyclists 2 abreast on a busy dark twisty road, no lights and completely oblivious to the dangers they put themselves in .. But I guess the gene pool will sort that.
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5th Jun 2016 5:48am |
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| agentmulder Member Since: 16 Apr 2016 Location: Outer Space Posts: 1324 
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People who, once they've seen some situation they don't like on the road*, STOP - right in the freakin' middle of it.
It's like target fixation or something. * someone doing a U-turn, a truck on an angle, a two car wide gap, a cyclist, a pot hole, a corner ... Solved the bowel problem, working on the consonants... |
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5th Jun 2016 6:31am |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897  
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Telecommunications have all this wonderful technology yet they still can't transmit a signal with accurate lip-sync.
It rarely happened in the analogue TV days. 
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8th Jun 2016 10:45am |
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| Happyoldgit Member Since: 14 Sep 2007 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3471
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^^ The lips on those little red faces aren't moving in sync with your text
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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 Jun 2016 12:35pm |
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