Forum: Idle Banter
29-05-19, 11:54 AM
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Forum: Idle Banter
26-03-19, 11:52 AM
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Forum: Idle Banter
25-03-19, 03:16 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Also a useful skill to learn when you drop it and break off the peg.
Other options being riding it everywhere in first. It redlines at well over 50mph :cool:
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Forum: Idle Banter
14-02-19, 11:20 AM
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Forum: Idle Banter
07-02-19, 06:54 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Might well be more to do with the compression applied from whatever source you use. Visible banding in dark scenes is unlikely to get improved with a better or newer TV.
Obviously TVs in shops use...
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Forum: Idle Banter
01-02-19, 04:24 PM
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Forum: Idle Banter
24-01-19, 09:27 AM
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Forum: Idle Banter
17-01-19, 09:17 AM
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Forum: Idle Banter
16-01-19, 10:05 AM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Heaters are all considered 100% efficient, near as makes no difference. Fan heaters have a fan to drive, but it's a tiny proportion of the power used.
Everything I read when I was buying said...
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Forum: Idle Banter
07-01-19, 10:37 AM
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Forum: Idle Banter
04-01-19, 02:35 PM
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Forum: Idle Banter
03-01-19, 04:25 PM
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Forum: Idle Banter
03-01-19, 01:59 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Glad they've learned over the years. We used a business line from PlusNet when I worked in Yorkshire, long before they became a nationwide operator. They were bl**dy awful. We had another (slower)...
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Forum: Idle Banter
03-01-19, 10:24 AM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Sounds about right. It's more about how good an engineer you can get on the case - and if he "owns" it or it just keeps getting passed around to new people. Most businesses just fob you off.
Our...
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Forum: Idle Banter
02-01-19, 04:35 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Sounds like BS to me. The line isn't your responsibility. The outputs are buffered and should have no impact on any other user whatsoever.
I get that for a short period a stable slow speed is...
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Forum: Idle Banter
02-01-19, 02:12 PM
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Forum: Idle Banter
19-11-18, 12:02 PM
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Forum: Idle Banter
29-10-18, 11:25 AM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
I get to fix all the legacy systems that break when the clocks change.
Everyone else gets an extra hour. I get to work all night.
But it's paid overtime at least.
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Forum: Idle Banter
24-10-18, 12:48 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Pretty sure the Highway Code deals with this reasonably explicitly. I'm actually appalled that in some cases the "flasher" has been held partly to blame. The law has become woolly and this makes...
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Forum: Idle Banter
24-10-18, 12:44 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
polite? no, no-one has ever accused me of that, and they irritate the *bleep* out of me too.
but...
if you're gonna point the finger, point it in the right place. Root cause.
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Forum: Idle Banter
24-10-18, 08:45 AM
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Forum: Idle Banter
22-10-18, 10:18 AM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Completely agree here. You can be nice for a while but when you're taken advantage of every single time, you have to stop, as it becomes self-inflicted injury when you know very well what will...
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Forum: Idle Banter
16-10-18, 08:27 AM
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Forum: Idle Banter
15-10-18, 12:41 PM
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Forum: Idle Banter
12-10-18, 03:56 PM
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