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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#5821 Post by Pontius Navigator » Fri Dec 17, 2021 7:06 pm

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RiS!! Have you been borrowing PN's phone and predictive text?? Please explain last part of last sentence. There's a good lad.

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#5822 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Dec 17, 2021 7:07 pm

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RiS!! Have you been borrowing PN's phone and predictive text?? Please explain last part of last sentence. There's a good lad.

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#5823 Post by Rwy in Sight » Fri Dec 17, 2021 7:20 pm

Rossian wrote:
Fri Dec 17, 2021 10:23 am
RiS!! Have you been borrowing PN's phone and predictive text?? Please explain last part of last sentence. There's a good lad.

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All those movements (pro-immigration, black lives matter etc) are providing excellent salaries and living conditions for a lot of people. I still remember the late Cape mentioning how top executives from an organization set-up to help kids in Africa insisted on travelling First or Business even if the ticket was several times higher.

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#5824 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Dec 17, 2021 7:37 pm

Rwy in Sight wrote:
Fri Dec 17, 2021 7:20 pm
Rossian wrote:
Fri Dec 17, 2021 10:23 am
RiS!! Have you been borrowing PN's phone and predictive text?? Please explain last part of last sentence. There's a good lad.

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All those movements (pro-immigration, black lives matter etc) are providing excellent salaries and living conditions for a lot of people. I still remember the late Cape mentioning how top executives from an organization set-up to help kids in Africa insisted on travelling First or Business even if the ticket was several times higher.
But surely (don't call me Shirley), African lives matter, like Greeks, the **** Turks, even the "English!" :-o

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#5825 Post by 1DC » Fri Dec 17, 2021 9:15 pm

Remember reading some years ago about two Australian council "Execs" from Victoria (I think) refusing to fly back to Melbourne from L.A. because they didn't have extra large pyjamas in Qantas First Class. The couple went back to their posh hotel for another night until Qantas got the right sized pyjamas for them. Their fit of pique back fired on them because they arrived home to find that they were headline news and the people of Australia wanting to know why they were flying First Class anyway. It was a while ago but that is the gist of the story.

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#5826 Post by Rwy in Sight » Sat Dec 18, 2021 5:07 am

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Fri Dec 17, 2021 7:37 pm
Rwy in Sight wrote:
Fri Dec 17, 2021 7:20 pm
Rossian wrote:
Fri Dec 17, 2021 10:23 am
RiS!! Have you been borrowing PN's phone and predictive text?? Please explain last part of last sentence. There's a good lad.

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All those movements (pro-immigration, black lives matter etc) are providing excellent salaries and living conditions for a lot of people. I still remember the late Cape mentioning how top executives from an organization set-up to help kids in Africa insisted on travelling First or Business even if the ticket was several times higher.
But surely (don't call me Shirley), African lives matter, like Greeks, the f*cking Turks, even the "English!" :-o

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Yes all lives matter hence that specification (Black lives matter) is mainly political.

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#5827 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:24 am

Rwy in Sight wrote:
Sat Dec 18, 2021 5:07 am
TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Fri Dec 17, 2021 7:37 pm
Rwy in Sight wrote:
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All those movements (pro-immigration, black lives matter etc) are providing excellent salaries and living conditions for a lot of people. I still remember the late Cape mentioning how top executives from an organization set-up to help kids in Africa insisted on travelling First or Business even if the ticket was several times higher.
But surely (don't call me Shirley), African lives matter, like Greeks, the f*cking Turks, even the "English!" :-o

;)))
Yes all lives matter hence that specification (Black lives matter) is mainly political.
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#5828 Post by 4mastacker » Sun Dec 19, 2021 6:37 pm

There are some arseholes in this world.

Junior daughter managed to get a booster jab appointment for this morning at a village a few miles from where she lives.

Went out to her car and noticed a flat rear tyre.

On closer inspection she spotted this:
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After she got to a tyre repair shop, they pulled out this:
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That 4" screw had penetrated some 3" into the tyre and there's absolutely no sign of any scuffing, distortion or abrasions on it. Another neighbour had the same problem today. I don't for one moment believe it was picked up whilst she was driving and that it was just bad luck. Told her to report it to plod as criminal damage.
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#5829 Post by G-CPTN » Sun Dec 19, 2021 7:16 pm

Unusual that it was on the inner wall of the tyre - difficult to achieve.

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#5830 Post by Boac » Sun Dec 19, 2021 7:34 pm

Nail gun?

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#5831 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:06 pm

A$$holes! ~X( [-X X( L-)

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#5832 Post by 4mastacker » Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:44 pm

G-CPTN wrote:
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Unusual that it was on the inner wall of the tyre - difficult to achieve.
Here's a photo taken as she found it. From the angle of the screw, I don't believe it was possible from that to be picked up from the road. Someone deliberately screwed that in there.
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#5833 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Dec 19, 2021 9:45 pm

Nail guns don't fire screws like that.

You say in a village. Some villages experience parking issues and some prats deliberately attack strange cars.
That said, one of our parish councilors has had her tyres done 4 times. Her car is immediately off the High Street and she has a troublesome neighbour. No proof yet.....

Definitely tell the police.

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#5834 Post by Boac » Sun Dec 19, 2021 9:56 pm

https://ffx.co.uk/Product/Get/Paslode-1 ... -Fuel-Cell

Just a thought - it is EXTREMELY difficult, if not impossible, to drive a screw into an (inflated) tyre manually, especially as shown.

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#5835 Post by 4mastacker » Sun Dec 19, 2021 10:29 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Sun Dec 19, 2021 9:45 pm
Nail guns don't fire screws like that.

You say in a village. Some villages experience parking issues and some prats deliberately attack strange cars.
That said, one of our parish councilors has had her tyres done 4 times. Her car is immediately off the High Street and she has a troublesome neighbour. No proof yet.....

Definitely tell the police.
The car was parked right outside her house. Her neighbours have checked their CCTV but it didn't quite cover where her car was parked - buggah!
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#5836 Post by Wodrick » Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:18 pm

You say another was also done, what connects the two ?
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#5837 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:37 am

4ma, could it have been done elsewhere? Good piece of metal like that might have given a good seal with just a slow puncture.

My last car had a screw in the spare tyre when I got it. Never deflated in 5 years.

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#5838 Post by Rwy in Sight » Thu Dec 23, 2021 8:47 am

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#5839 Post by Woody » Thu Dec 23, 2021 10:48 pm

This could really go on to the Coronabollocks thread, Leeds United have persuaded the Premier League to postpone their game against Liverpool on Boxing Day due to an outbreak within squad, nothing to do with them being battered 4-1 and 7-0 in their last two matches.
This was going to be my first game in three months and now I’m spending the day with the wife’s family :(( :((
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#5840 Post by 4mastacker » Thu Dec 23, 2021 11:55 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:37 am
4ma, could it have been done elsewhere? Good piece of metal like that might have given a good seal with just a slow puncture.

My last car had a screw in the spare tyre when I got it. Never deflated in 5 years.
It was very recent. A few days before, daughter had taken that very wheel to the tyre shop because it kept deflating and she thought it was a slow puncture but the tyre was sitting badly on the wheel and after cleaning and re-seating it was fine. If that screw had been there, it would have been spotted at the time.

She reported the incident to plod and has had a call from some PCSO asking if she still has the screw - they've had reports of a number of similar incidents.
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