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  1. Chris Wilson

    The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

    I have said in several threads that the left nowadays seem to have no nuances, no shades of grey, they speak as one, individualism seems hard to find. It's probably shunned and seen as a weakness in the world of group speak. ANY opinion from someone considered right leaning is to be vehemently...
  2. Chris Wilson

    The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

    And these artificial intelligence machines won't be being distracted from their "profession" by the apparent burning need for throwing dye on dinosaur bones in support of the Just Stop Oil oiks, won't be going on protests for even more money or going on strike in times of this country's sick...
  3. Chris Wilson

    God I sometimes hate the eletronics in new cars

    I'm a glorified mechanic, I work on high end, complex cars, I understand how they work and how to fix them. But I loathe them and although I am fortunate enough to be able to afford a fancy car should I want one I have chosen not to go there, for many years. Why? Because I daily see the...
  4. Chris Wilson

    Not using your car because it's too nice

    Just hope they hate it soon, as costs soon start to rise exponentially, as I am sure you know :) I take it they're both young men? It's probably no better with girls, if they get into ponies and horses. As my pal who is a vet says, burning £20 notes every weekend is much cheaper than having a...
  5. Chris Wilson

    Not using your car because it's too nice

    A Ah, kart racing! Wonderful sport, I still raced 125 Open whilst running in National F3, gearbox karts run competitively are frankly harder work to drive than an F3 car. I loved experimenting with different set ups, especially in the wet. Still have my hard earned "GP" plates hung up in the...
  6. Chris Wilson

    Not using your car because it's too nice

    Having a beautiful car is like having a beautiful wife, nice to behold and look at, gets envious stares but ultimately a potential source of expensive heartache and grief :) As my mate used to say, if you yearn for something flash that's fast, flies, floats or *****, rent it.
  7. Chris Wilson

    HMRC to crackdown on side-hustles

    What amazes and angers me is the number of UK based Ebay sellers with hundreds of thousands of sales yet they provide no VAT receipt. I tend to buy a lot of stuff from eBay as I am out in the sticks away from large conurbations, yet being VAT registered I have to be very selective where I buy...
  8. Chris Wilson

    Any recommendations for a cat tracker?

    If you get a tracker that allows you set the recipient server to what you like you are then able to use either your own server (a bit tricky to set up if like myself you aren't 100% computer savvy, but perfectly doable, check out Traccar), or a free server which can be totally reliable and...
  9. Chris Wilson

    Don’t ever go round this ladies house for dinner!

    Is the case mushrooming?
  10. Chris Wilson

    General Courier Moans Thread

    Fair play to the guy though, the things weigh a ton and are difficult to handle in a mid size van..... :)
  11. Chris Wilson

    virgin Atlantic lets male pilots and crew wear skirts to 'express their true identity'

    Of which of these "various cultures" were the skirted men pretending or wanting to be women? I think that's the salient point, rather than local or historical fashion....
  12. Chris Wilson

    "Just stop oil"

    Has the escalating European cost of living crisis not impacted the amount of petrol and diesel bought by the average motorist, rather than a mass change to battery and hybrid powered cars?
  13. Chris Wilson

    Today's mass shooting in the US

    And I'll bet poor old Ralph Nader never even got so much as a nod of gratitude.
  14. Chris Wilson

    virgin Atlantic lets male pilots and crew wear skirts to 'express their true identity'

    Yes, no doubt, but it was supposed to land in Zurich....;)
  15. Chris Wilson

    virgin Atlantic lets male pilots and crew wear skirts to 'express their true identity'

    It appears mrwong has (very sadly to me, I liked his posts and his presentations of them, given I suspect English was not his native language), been banned, but for sure men in women's clothing "creep" me out. I'd expect a male pilot to be be something like a WW2 squadron leader, moustached...
  16. Chris Wilson

    do you guys deliberately not take your car to some places?

    Most are probably "working" from home still! :)
  17. Chris Wilson

    What "man jobs" have you done today?

    It would be fiddly but you could remove the plaster on the interior top part of the arch between the buttresses and sand blast the whitewashed bricks as a "feature", leaving just the rest plastered.
  18. Chris Wilson

    What "man jobs" have you done today?

    Stripped the Stihl MS390 chainsaw I bought cheap off Ebay last week, after removing the silencer to see if it had a scored piston, which it did. Put all the parts in the grease eater and left to stew, then rinsed off and blow dried and now awaiting a new piston and barrel, little end needle...
  19. Chris Wilson

    do you guys deliberately not take your car to some places?

    Just getting the plates made up and the ferry booked ... ;)
  20. Chris Wilson

    "Hundreds" of Met Police armed response officers hand in the weapons after colleague charged with murder - Chris Kaba Shooting aftermath.

    I think next time GoFundMe is used to benefit police sacked over what many donators consider specious "woke" issues there should be a charitable foundation set up, so donators like myself can deduct it from their tax and perhaps the recipients can get it all tax free :)
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