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Due to aforementioned car problems I was moving my car stereo from one car into another.

All connected fine, and I was getting the radio, but as soon as I went to push it into the car (and it made contact with the cage) all sound conked out.

Now I'm getting virtually nothing from it at all - no radio, no display etc. - but curiously when I press the eject button for the CD it still whirrs, so it's clearly getting power somehow.

Any thoughts?

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Due to aforementioned car problems I was moving my car stereo from one car into another.

All connected fine, and I was getting the radio, but as soon as I went to push it into the car (and it made contact with the cage) all sound conked out.

Now I'm getting virtually nothing from it at all - no radio, no display etc. - but curiously when I press the eject button for the CD it still whirrs, so it's clearly getting power somehow.

Any thoughts?

You sometimes get a fuse or two on the back of the set, double check thats not blown.

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Surely if a fuse was blown, there wouldn't be any power getting to it?

I'm not very good with electricity :(

Bleh. Sometimes you get a power fuse and a display fuse.

Defintely sounds like something earthed and blew though, either that or a wire dislodged itself when you forced it in the hole.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Cant be long, though?

I came into the living room yesterday to find my (4 year old) daughter standing at the window shouting "Pest off cat, get out of our garden".

He's a big fan of the Super Mario games on the Wii U and like to look up videos on YouTube of how to find the stars/star coins that he can't find. We've found a few channels that are perfectly safe for children but now and again one slips through the net. As a result, he's been known to call his dad "You f**k!" once or twice.

Proud moment for me. I only think it or mutter it under my breath. What a boy.

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Anyone have any good experience and advice about job agencies in Edinburgh? Are any of them not total clown car operations? Need a bit of extra part-time work, over the next few months.

Tried going through a few of them a while back and it was a monumental pain in the arse.

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Anyone have any good experience and advice about job agencies in Edinburgh? Are any of them not total clown car operations? Need a bit of extra part-time work, over the next few months.

Tried going through a few of them a while back and it was a monumental pain in the arse.

Recruitment agents are, without exception, ocean going c***s.
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Anyone have any good experience and advice about job agencies in Edinburgh? Are any of them not total clown car operations? Need a bit of extra part-time work, over the next few months.

Tried going through a few of them a while back and it was a monumental pain in the arse.

If you're looking for more work, you should apply for hotel work. We're always needing staff for functions (obviously of no help to you, but I can imagine a lot are) and regularly have to employ agency workers to fill in the spaces. You'd probably be able to get a shift or two a week from them if it's a busy hotel.

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Has anyone been to Fonab Castle in Pitlochry? The missus and I are away there for the weekend as a Christmas gift from her parents.

I have. It's ludicrously expensive for what you've get. I've stayed in far better hotels for half the price

Christmas ruined

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Anyone have any good experience and advice about job agencies in Edinburgh? Are any of them not total clown car operations? Need a bit of extra part-time work, over the next few months.

Tried going through a few of them a while back and it was a monumental pain in the arse.

They used to be ok, used them a lot in London and Amsterdam, and a bit in Aberdeen. Your pay was comparable with the full timers, and sometimes better. To get a job I'd hand over my CV and sit chatting with the girls for a while drinking free coffee, biscuits and in Amsterdam a big jar of free rolling tobacco. It would've been rude not to have given me the job when an appropriate job came in. Never took more than a day or so touring round the agencies. Seems to be all online now so it's probably a cv lottery on who gets work.

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