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Old 19-06-18, 10:40 PM   #5891
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Oh yes.
And he only lasted a month too!
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Old 20-06-18, 12:03 PM   #5892
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I seem to recall Red Herring challenge one of these tickets, as these are designated as 'Rest Areas' he did what you did and had a kip in his camper van. That's the whole point of motorway rest areas, it's for tired drivers.

Let them take you to court.
Not particularly relevant to the above, But:

Were the 'terms & conditions' signs fully readable in the early hours of the morning ?
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Old 20-06-18, 06:41 PM   #5893
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dont worry you can vote him out in another 3 years and even if he does get in again he can only serve two terms.

dont put all the blame on trump, its the republican party you need to put the blame on. name one recent republican president that has not been a moron.
Pretty much all the legislation on immigration (including the so called musl1m ban ) was bought in under democrats, in fact original list used by Trump was compiled by Obarmy, it is only when trump actually applied the laws that crybaby democrats threw their dummies out the pram. The legislation to prosecute illegal border crossers also predates trump, adults can be prosecuted for illegal entry but not children, so they have to be split. The easy answer is, if you don't want to be separated from your kids, stay on your side of the border and apply through the proper channels. We have moved country several times and filled in a mountain of paperwork each time, as well as medical and criminal checks.

Australia solved their massive 'boat people' problem by not letting them set foot on Australian soil ( the minute they do they are hard to get rid of because the do-gooders employ lawyers to allow them to remain, but strangely will not let them live in their houses). Since they diverted all economic migrant boats to PNG the boats have stopped.

Italy has now stopped accepting economic migrant taxi ships run by NGO's from Libya so they will be shipped to Spain and France now. Italy said ' you may not mind 600, but wait until 660,000 get delivered to you. The NGO's are just aiding and abetting the people traffickers by running a marine taxi service from North Africa to Europe WTF! how can they justify that when some boats are only 5 miles off the coast of Africa when they pick them up, why not take them back to dry land in Libya, vast majority are not fleeing war zones but are pure and simply economic migrants (illegal), mostly male under 25.
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Old 20-06-18, 09:30 PM   #5894
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Travelling down to London from Kington Herefordshire for two days to see Pearl Jam at the 02 only to find out it had been cancelled once we got there.

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Old 20-06-18, 09:48 PM   #5895
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Travelling down to London from Kington Herefordshire for two days to see Pearl Jam at the 02 only to find out it had been cancelled once we got there.

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Old 21-06-18, 08:04 AM   #5896
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"DPD: Your estimated delivery date is Thursday,

Update: they've now given me a 1 hour window, sorry for doubting you DPD
DPD have always given me a 1 hour window, but only at about 8am on day of delivery (once their van is loaded and its route sorted out). Some companies will only tell you when parcel has been delivered ( ie. Royal Mail) after paying extra for tracked delivery...
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Old 21-06-18, 09:53 AM   #5897
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Ouch.

Burn of the Day award goes to...Teejayexc

Sorry about your concert, DomP, why was it cancelled?
Miserable old fart!

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Old 21-06-18, 12:53 PM   #5900
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Aaaargh!
I need a new battery for my Dad's B&D drill, it takes an A14 NiCd 14.4V which are no longer available from B&D.
I order one from "topbatteries" in Portsmouth (allegedly). They eventually say they don't have an NiCd - how about a Ni-MH for another £12. No, I say, my charger doesn't support metal hydride batteries - please refund me (still waiting on that).
Meanwhile, I order this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/14-4V-2Ah...53.m2749.l2649

which clearly states NiCd.
They sent me a Ni-MH.

I did check on the difference, a NiCd charger will generally undercharge a Ni-MH battery. IF it does charge it properly it will take a lot longer (according to http://www.greenbatteries.com/nimh-battery-charger-faq/).

So now I'm waiting to see if the ebay vendor just made a mistake or tried to slip one by me. Ultimately, it looks like I need a new charger and it will be one of those decisions I hate - a £10 Chinese charger or a £45 bought-in-UK-but-made-in-China-charger.
You're probably better opening the batteries and replacing the individual cells. Plenty of guides on youtube
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