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    Car advice

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    20 hours ago, thistledo said:

    Audi Q5, I'd like to point out I don't drive like a dick, can use my indicators and usually go out my way to be a very courteous driver as I know how many utter wanks own Audi's. Didn't even want to get the car, needed something bigger for the family though and I actually love it now. 

    Parts were all Brembo, they seemed to be the most reasonably priced parts and a brand I know usually make good brakes. 

     

    8 hours ago, Loonytoons said:

    I'm pretty slow a car maintenance but I'd be able to do front pads in an hour with shite tools, double checking my work and having to jack up a corner at a time.

    Correct tools and know-how and £96 sounds about right in the non-ripoff market.  Guessing that's £37.50p/h plus vat and 2 hours work.  That's what my garage charges anyway.

    In the ripoff market you're possibly well north of £150 per hour plus VAT.

    Phone local independents for quotes and see if you can get positive reviews from friends and associates.

    I am also an Audi driver and use a local Audi / VW specialist (AVW Autocare, Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh).

    They charge £55 per hour plus VAT, but they are excellent, have done some things FOC for me as well as saved me a pile of cash on items like the (fucking shitey) Audi Pre Sense faults.

    Not the pads, but another big job - last year I got charged £550+VAT for supply and fit of the Timing belt / Water pump kit. Based on what I know is the Main Dealer cost, that was pretty reasonable.

    Main dealers are daylight robbery.

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    Jakes on a plane

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    1 hour ago, JS_FFC said:

    It’s 100% true. Here’s what happened last year. Mental.

     

     

    I know they are knuckledraggers supreme, but that is just incredible.

    The only saving grace is that - based on the amount of body fat on show - a lot of them wont be making the 2024 version.

    What a fucking embarrassment to the country.

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    The Terrible Journalism & Tom English Thread

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

    Posted

    16 minutes ago, AndyM said:

    Totally and @VincentGuerin is correct on this.

    I was down there after I finished University for 2 years in the mid 1990s. Worked and live in North London. Used to go watch Barnet regularly and occasionally trips to White Hart Lane which was more expensive on a grad's salary. Scottish Football was not on the radar. Only time I reconnected was when I'd sometimes buy a Sunday Mail and read inevitably about Rangers and Celtic.   It's really easy to lose touch with it. 

    Nobody was interested. My local boozer had two tvs, SkySports was gaining traction and it was always on and they just didn't bother with even the Old Firm game. Why show that when Watford v West Brom was also on?

    None of that is untrue, and it reflects my experience when I go to visit my Sister who stays in the west country.

    They have no idea (except my brother in law, who does actually follow scottish fitba as well and comes to ER when he is up here).

    But I think part of the point is that the likes of the BBC will give more coverage to the Womens Super League where ( apart from Arsenal who are a massive outlier ) their crowds are pretty small than Scottish Football.......except for the usual "Rangers won, or Celtic drew with" etc.

    I dont think that they are genuinely reflective of "the nation" and its regions relative interest in football.

    I get that Scotland is a small country relative to England, but I dont need to be a maths whizz to know that the relative amounts spent on football coverage dont add up.

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    Jakes on a plane

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    16 hours ago, Molotov said:

     

    🤦 

    This guy should never ever be allowed to fly again……

     

    What a horrible arsehole.

    Theres kids on that flight scared by this tit.

    Lets hope he is dealt with "appropriately" by the local police.

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    The Official Liz Truss no longer PM but still a Clusterfuck thread

    in The Politics Forum

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    8 minutes ago, strichener said:

    Don't want to be seen to appear to backing her up over her clusterfuck of a time as PM but it is actually correct that she was not responsible for people's increase in mortgages.  The mortgage rates were increasing before she took office and after she left office.  Unless we are claiming that developed world interest rates are based on the decisions of the British PM then we can dismiss this notion.

    Pensions are an entirely different matter and one that can be laid bare at the door of her and her chancellor.

    The issue with the Bond market (where the BoE had to intervene re pensions) caused mayhem in the UK Gilts market - in isolation that could be explained away, but there are knock on impacts for anyone remortgaging.

    Gilt Yields are used to determine the cost of Fixed Rate Mortgages, and because of their actions anyone remortgaging was struggling - because not only did rates go up, many providers pulled rates entirely because of the uncertainty.

    While its true to say that worldwide interest rates were rising, her and Kwarteng were pretty much responsible for average UK 2 and 5 year Fixed Rates jumping almost 2% in a month.

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    The Hibernian Thread

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

    Posted

    Just now, D Angelo Barksdale said:

    Heard on the grapevine this morning...

    Monty's hoose in Haddington is up for sale th02.png.000431989c35d13ae2652fcc330f742b.png

    Malky MacKay being considered th06.png.f28f3818cdda458cb06d49f1ea1ff6ff.png

    Malky lives in Edinburgh (I think)

    He has been at Easter Road a few times recently...........

    I heard it might be for a different role, not manager.

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    Semi Final: Aberdeen vs Celtic

    in Domestic Cup Football

    Posted

    1 minute ago, RandomGuy. said:

    He can make no decision, stop play as it's come to a natural stop anyway with players appealing/there's a player injured in the box, and review the entire thing thanks to VAR. He made the decision to make sure the review process stopped at the earliest point possible.

    Refs do have latitude to allow play to move on a bit (we see plenty times where play is brought back for a foul that ultimately didnt result in any sensible advantage).

    But surely you are not advocating that when he has seen an incident, the ref should just keep waiting until there is some "natural stop", NOT make a decision and just throw everything to the VAR box?

    Matches would be about 120 minutes long without added time !

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    The Terrible Journalism & Tom English Thread

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, KirkieRR said:

    You think a dramatic cup semi like that would get noticed? Think again.

    Just watched the sports bulletin in BBC Breakfast. Practically wetting themselves over extended coverage of a one-goal English Cup semi. Then more gushing over the Moneybags Premiership with interviews etc. Then a brisk mention of the Scottish semi where we saw the winning penalty  and nothing else, moving swiftly on to extended, lovingly-described coverage of England's women's rugby mismatch v Ireland.

    They really don't care any more, do they?

    Although the 5 Live sports news this morning described it as an epic cup game, talked about the twists and turns until Celtic finally won it on pens.

    I dont disagree with your point, but I guess it probably depends on the quality of the journalist.

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