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    Luckily, I don't use many painkillers... I get the very odd headache (usually when I haven't eaten or drank enough), so take a couple of Paracetamols, and that's about it. I'm lucky if I go through half a packet in a year!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Luckily, I don't use many painkillers... I get the very odd headache (usually when I haven't eaten or drank enough), so take a couple of Paracetamols, and that's about it. I'm lucky if I go through half a packet in a year!

    Marco.
    Always said I would not use them but needs must now alas.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Lol... Trouble is, today's kids are tomorrow's adults!

    Marco.
    That kinda reminded me...... I often think that when I was growing up kids were always trying to behave and dress like their mums and dads, ( I'm going back a bit mind), whereas now all the silly mums and dads are doing their best to emulate stroppy teenagers in dress and behaviour..... You gotta get a childhood somehow I suppose

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    Quote Originally Posted by Len Co View Post
    That kinda reminded me...... I often think that when I was growing up kids were always trying to behave and dress like their mums and dads, ( I'm going back a bit mind), whereas now all the silly mums and dads are doing their best to emulate stroppy teenagers in dress and behaviour..... You gotta get a childhood somehow I suppose
    That reminds me. I know a bloke (my old work colleague Bob) who wears a tweed flat cap, brogues, plain trousers, a knitted waistcoat, plain shirt and tie and a tweed jacket. Now that may not look too bad on him these days, as he's pushing seventy (but slightly younger than me), but I've known him since he was in his twenties and he's always looked like his grand dad. When all the rest of us turned up looking like something from a rock festival . I'm pretty sure his mum used to buy his clothes when he was young. Nice guy though. Known him over forty years. (I still dress like a bum though )
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    Cars with proper handbrakes I.e. A big clunky metal handled job that you can grab hold of and give a good yank. My latest car just has a piddly little electronic switch, which is all the rage these days I'm told. Easy to forget to apply it, like I did once only to find the car had rolled away down the drive and crashed into the gatepost- that was lucky actually, if it had made it through the gate God only knows what might have happened. It detects when you are stopped facing upwards on a hill too and applies itself giving you a couple of seconds from releasing the footbrake before it disengages so that you can take off smoothly. This is also a pain to judge, I usually kangaroo-leap forward at high revs with the brake linings smoking or stall and roll backwards - so if you see me on a hill keep your distance, you have been warned!

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    Cars with a "start" button - what's that all about? I think you still need to fit and turn the key.

    Apropos handbreaks, when I park my car in the garage, after switching off the engine I put it into gear and disengage the handbreak. That way I don't have problems with the brakes 'binding'. Of course I have to remember to put the gear into neutral before I start the engine. But I always check whenever I get into the car, regardless of where it is parked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    Cars with a "start" button - what's that all about? I think you still need to fit and turn the key.

    Apropos handbreaks, when I park my car in the garage, after switching off the engine I put it into gear and disengage the handbreak. That way the I don't have problems with the breaks 'binding'. Of course I have to remember to put the gear into neutral before I start the engine. But I always check whenever I get into the car, regardless of where it is parked.
    i leave mine in 1st without brake on drive for that reason. its flat and wont go anywhere
    Regards,
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    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Default Stuff you can't get anymore and things you can (at the moment).

    It seems it is becoming a lot more difficult to find lighter fluid, which is what my Zippo drinks.
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