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Post by The Real Exile on Mar 2, 2024 21:14:49 GMT
Dunno about the cars, Mrs Fangled Hybrid goes as flat as a witches if it is left more than 2 days, teeny battery which just for fun is in the boot which can only be opened electronically 🤣 airport car parks are gonna be full of flat hybrids, leave them 2 weeks nay chance. My old Civic would be fine for weeks. I left my hybrid - a Ford Puma - at Almeria Airport for 3 weeks when we went to South America and it started first time upon our return. We just couldn't get out of the car park coz I'd f*cked up the date we got back!!! 😲🤣 Must be the CHR then, we did actually try to buy the Puma ST but Ford in Ashton were taking the piss, for me you do the deal x for your car in px up front, this lot wanted to take your deposit, wait til your car was ready then agree the px value.... erm nope!
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Post by malc on Mar 2, 2024 21:30:44 GMT
I left my hybrid - a Ford Puma - at Almeria Airport for 3 weeks when we went to South America and it started first time upon our return. We just couldn't get out of the car park coz I'd f*cked up the date we got back!!! 😲🤣 Must be the CHR then, we did actually try to buy the Puma ST but Ford in Ashton were taking the piss, for me you do the deal x for your car in px up front, this lot wanted to take your deposit, wait til your car was ready then agree the px value.... erm nope! Our car - a Puma ST as it happens - has been absolutely fantastic but the process and the time it took to be delivered was bloody ridiculous. We didn't get many things of the spec of car we ordered should have had and it was almost a year until it was all resolved. I'm very less than impressed by Ford dealerships as a result.
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Mar 2, 2024 23:31:57 GMT
And you don't need a wank mag anymore. 😆 Kids nowadays have it too easy. They'll never have the experience of hanging around outside the newsagents making sure the coast is clear before they go in & make a grab for the top shelf, plonking the mag on the counter whilst the newsagent gives them a knowing look of shame or 'I know what you'll be doing in 15 minutes' then just as the purchase is being made the girl you've fancied for ages or your mum's best friend walks in Just used to find them in the bushes.. looking back, then I wonder who put/left them there?
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Post by Durango95 on Mar 3, 2024 1:54:53 GMT
Just used to find them in the bushes.. looking back, then I wonder who put/left them there? The porn fairies. That was difficult times. God bless the internet!
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Post by timberwolf on Mar 3, 2024 10:17:11 GMT
And cars that start when you ask them too. Public loos (if you can find one) are generally much better these days too I think. Mind you i for one prefered the old stinking bogs because at least they were there unlike they are now. I always have to stop off at morrisons on the way to games now just to avoid going into a pub for a piss as there are no toilets open in Edgeley anymore.
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Post by Henry Pratt on Mar 4, 2024 13:13:22 GMT
I mean... everything? Or virtually everything, as I'm sure someone would point out something that was better*. Buggered if I can think of anything, though.
If I have to narrow it down, smartphones. You've got almost the entirety of human knowledge on a device that fits in your pocket. It's also a video camera, a stills camera, a HD movie player, a GPS system, a games console... the list goes on. It also plays virtually every piece of music that's ever been written, and you can use it to buy stuff. It's a video phone, calculator, clock... Think of all the crud you used to have to buy even 15 years ago, and it's all now in your pocket.
*I'll do it myself, as someone else has pointed out above. Yep, lack of public bogs, which is probably down to the second thing I can think of - a perception that public services aren't needed as much as tax cuts.
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Post by tgttiw on Mar 4, 2024 13:17:05 GMT
More of a one for older fans who remember some sort of past For me its the extra choice we now have for eating both at home and outside. Once a chippy was just fish and chips and that was it. Even a small cafe only served take it or leave it at dinner time{ lunch is for southerners} with very little choice if any. Most of them round here still only do fish and chips. #thankfully not living in Yorkshire it doesn't apply
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Post by Count de Stockport on Mar 4, 2024 13:20:17 GMT
I mean... everything? Or virtually everything, as I'm sure someone would point out something that was better*. Buggered if I can think of anything, though. If I have to narrow it down, smartphones. You've got almost the entirety of human knowledge on a device that fits in your pocket. It's also a video camera, a stills camera, a HD movie player, a GPS system, a games console... the list goes on. It also plays virtually every piece of music that's ever been written, and you can use it to buy stuff. It's a video phone, calculator, clock... Think of all the crud you used to have to buy even 15 years ago, and it's all now in your pocket. *I'll do it myself, as someone else has pointed out above. Yep, lack of public bogs, which is probably down to the second thing I can think of - a perception that public services aren't needed as much as tax cuts. Everything, apart from The Originals. I'm so sick of the current nostalgia-fuelled glut of remakes, reboots, remasters (although I hear FF7 Remake was actually amazing..?)
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Post by des on Mar 4, 2024 15:51:13 GMT
Jimmy Savile’s not in it.
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Mar 4, 2024 20:52:08 GMT
Jimmy Savile’s not in it. Or Hitler and Maggie Thatcher.
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Post by timberwolf on Mar 5, 2024 10:26:17 GMT
Even todays grey politicians if you compare them to many in thatchers cabinet.
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Post by Cale Green Hatter on Mar 5, 2024 11:56:38 GMT
Even todays grey politicians if you compare them to many in thatchers cabinet. Cecil Parkinson? Geoffrey Howe? John Major? Kenneth Baker? Willie Whitelaw? Lord Soames? Francis Pym? Norman St John Stevas? John Gummer? John Biffen? Nicholas Ridley? Douglas Hurd? amongst other. Perhaps you meant Thatcher's Gold Cider.
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Post by hedleyverity on Mar 5, 2024 12:46:14 GMT
Even todays grey politicians if you compare them to many in thatchers cabinet. Cecil Parkinson? Geoffrey Howe? John Major? Kenneth Baker? Willie Whitelaw? Lord Soames? Francis Pym? Norman St John Stevas? John Gummer? John Biffen? Nicholas Ridley? Douglas Hurd? amongst other. Perhaps you meant Thatcher's Gold Cider.  Sir John Nott, I nearly poisoned him once with some half cooked chicken but it doesn’t seem to have done him any lasting damage, still going at 92. Anyone else nearly killed an ex cabinet minister from the early 80’s?
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Post by malc on Mar 5, 2024 12:57:21 GMT
Jimmy Savile’s not in it. Or Hitler and Maggie Thatcher. I owe my life to Adolf Hitler. It's extremely unlikely my Mum would have met my Dad if Hitler hadn't invaded Guernsey causing 17,000 locals to be evacuated a lot of whom came to Stockport.
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Post by herbiedumplings on Mar 5, 2024 13:00:27 GMT
Cecil Parkinson? Geoffrey Howe? John Major? Kenneth Baker? Willie Whitelaw? Lord Soames? Francis Pym? Norman St John Stevas? John Gummer? John Biffen? Nicholas Ridley? Douglas Hurd? amongst other. Perhaps you meant Thatcher's Gold Cider.  Sir John Nott, I nearly poisoned him once with some half cooked chicken but it doesn’t seem to have done him any lasting damage, still going at 92. Anyone else nearly killed an ex cabinet minister from the early 80’s? Now that is a niche claim to fame!
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