MEADOWXI Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 1 hour ago, hk blues said: Maybe she thought you mean Aberdeen, Hong Kong? It's an island. As I had provided the postcode makes her a bigger idiot than I first thought 1 hour ago, coprolite said: Maybe she was on Thanet or Wight? Bristol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 4 minutes ago, MEADOWXI said: Bristol Nork 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 1 hour ago, coprolite said: Maybe she was on Thanet or Wight? I’d rendezvous with Janet, quite near the isle of Thanet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 1 hour ago, TheScarf said: I used to work with someone in Inverness who got all her parcels delivered to her sister who lived in Grantown-on-Spey as it has a Perth postcode so gets cheaper delivery. She goes down once every couple of weeks to see her and collect them all. Bit of a bugger when she orders a pizza, I'd have thought. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oystercatcher Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 People taking to social media in this cuntry to moan about politics or the cost of living and finishing off by saying, we should be more like the French and take to the streets. Get off bloody twitter then and start it 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 7 hours ago, hk blues said: Yep, as I said I suspected what I had read was BS. Not having owned a car for almost 20 years I was a bit surprised at the remote locking/unlocking system as anybody could nip in behind you and open the door and grab whatever was on the seat. That said, I've worked out the operating distance is about 3m so they'd need to be pretty nippy to get in and away in that time. Caveat. With a pair of devices the car can be stolen is very limited circumstances. If you have the keys laying around while the car is somewhat nearby, a pair of thieves can get close enough to the fob to pickup its passive unlock signal, transmit that signal to a second thief with a receiver/amplifier, and the second thief can use that device to unlock and start the car like the key is present. Once the car is driven away, it cannot be restarted or locked/unlocked until the fob signal is redetected or a bent shop reprograms the car. This is easily defeated by storing the key fob(s) inside a faraday cage…there are simple bags or boxes sold for this purpose, but it’s almost exclusively a high end vehicle issue. 6 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Why am I not surprised? Because they used the 351 Cleveland on a few tank like vehicles? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 2 minutes ago, TxRover said: Caveat. With a pair of devices the car can be stolen is very limited circumstances. If you have the keys laying around while the car is somewhat nearby, a pair of thieves can get close enough to the fob to pickup its passive unlock signal, transmit that signal to a second thief with a receiver/amplifier, and the second thief can use that device to unlock and start the car like the key is present. Once the car is driven away, it cannot be restarted or locked/unlocked until the fob signal is redetected or a bent shop reprograms the car. This is easily defeated by storing the key fob(s) inside a faraday cage…there are simple bags or boxes sold for this purpose, but it’s almost exclusively a high end vehicle issue. Because they used the 351 Cleveland on a few tank like vehicles? I should've guessed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Oystercatcher said: People taking to social media in this cuntry to moan about politics or the cost of living and finishing off by saying, we should be more like the French and take to the streets. Get off bloody twitter then and start it Would that be the same people who moan about Just Stop Oil blocking roads and interrupting sporting events? Edited July 28, 2023 by Soapy FFC 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 20 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: I should've guessed. It was in the Sun…but not on Page 3, so you probably missed it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 14 hours ago, TxRover said: Caveat. With a pair of devices the car can be stolen is very limited circumstances. If you have the keys laying around while the car is somewhat nearby, a pair of thieves can get close enough to the fob to pickup its passive unlock signal, transmit that signal to a second thief with a receiver/amplifier, and the second thief can use that device to unlock and start the car like the key is present. Once the car is driven away, it cannot be restarted or locked/unlocked until the fob signal is redetected or a bent shop reprograms the car. This is easily defeated by storing the key fob(s) inside a faraday cage…there are simple bags or boxes sold for this purpose, but it’s almost exclusively a high end vehicle issue. Too much trouble for a Toyota Raize I'd imagine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wile E Coyote Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 Bid for an item on ebay. It has a starting price of £10 and a buy it now price of £70. I was the first bidder. Message comes up saying reserve price has not been met. So the seller has set a reserve price above the £10 starting price but the bidders can't see what it is. Nobody's got time for that shit. Just put the starting price at the minimum you want to sell it at and stop wasting my fucking time. Can't see how to block a seller either 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 3 hours ago, Wile E Coyote said: Bid for an item on ebay. It has a starting price of £10 and a buy it now price of £70. I was the first bidder. Message comes up saying reserve price has not been met. So the seller has set a reserve price above the £10 starting price but the bidders can't see what it is. Nobody's got time for that shit. Just put the starting price at the minimum you want to sell it at and stop wasting my fucking time. Can't see how to block a seller either Bet the reserve is £69.99 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 3 hours ago, Wile E Coyote said: Bid for an item on ebay. It has a starting price of £10 and a buy it now price of £70. I was the first bidder. Message comes up saying reserve price has not been met. So the seller has set a reserve price above the £10 starting price but the bidders can't see what it is. Nobody's got time for that shit. Just put the starting price at the minimum you want to sell it at and stop wasting my fucking time. Can't see how to block a seller either Unfortunately, it's a feature that's carried over from meatspace auctions. I don't get the point of it either, but I get the impression it's supposed to be for people who are selling art for millions of pounds and are worried that bidders will conspire to hit the minimum price and go no further. Not for Tam selling his sport socks at two furra pound. At an old job, someone came up with the brilliant idea that I should set reserve prices to prevent items for selling for less than their value, as I was required to set a starting price of £10 and everything had to go to auction. All that happened was that we had a bunch of stuff that didn't sell at all, and I was inundated by messages asking what the reserve price was. Genius. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 The reserve price should be the minimum amount accepted for a bid Shirley? Otherwise the item doesn't sell, the buyer misses out, the seller is left with the item, and eBay just pocket the listing fee. Oh wait I see why they do it now! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 12 minutes ago, Swarley said: The reserve price should be the minimum amount accepted for a bid Shirley? Otherwise the item doesn't sell, the buyer misses out, the seller is left with the item, and eBay just pocket the listing fee. Oh wait I see why they do it now! Isn't that the same as any auction, though? Doesn't it cost more to list items on ebay with a reserve price, and more so the higher the reserve too? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 2 hours ago, Swarley said: The reserve price should be the minimum amount accepted for a bid Shirley? Otherwise the item doesn't sell, the buyer misses out, the seller is left with the item, and eBay just pocket the listing fee. Oh wait I see why they do it now! The seller can go to the bidders after auction on ebay and say "I see you offered X, I'd like to accept that bid". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 3 hours ago, Todd_is_God said: Isn't that the same as any auction, though? Doesn't it cost more to list items on ebay with a reserve price, and more so the higher the reserve too? True. I was reading the earlier post that any bids below reserve, and no one actually knows what the reserve was/is, are rejected or a waste of time but Derry Alli's post clear up my confusion. As you were. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 6 hours ago, BTFD said: Not for Tam selling his sport socks at two furra pound. Used to be three furra pound. There's inflation for you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 6 minutes ago, GordonD said: Used to be three furra pound. There's inflation for you. Pair for your feet and a free willie warmer? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 No sure if its a PTTGOYN but the amount of "slightly older" women in Edinburgh who have had their skin creosoted and lips inflated to look like a rubber doll is beyond a joke. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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