What do points make? A mockery of the driving licencing system.

The "get of gaol free" excuse of "I need the car for (insert reason here)" is just cocking a massive snook to the system.

Why?

Yorick wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:45 pm I only needed one, but I love a bargain

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So, I assume you won't be needing the USB ports on the more expensive lead then?

From Auntie Beeb - Parked electric Mercedes explodes without warning A mother said her family was "lucky to have got out safely" after their parked electric car exploded and engulfed their house in flames. Georgina Bayliss from Spratton, Northamptonshire, said their Mercedes EQA had been p...

Reason to watch this advert for poncy perfume. 1. Margot Robbie II. Motorbike C. Margot Robbie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo4LLux-tfM But really, what bike is it? I'm guessing a proper old Norton 850 Commando? Now I know that Margot Robbie's enough to addle anyone's brain, but to voluntarily r...

A Velocette (and Lucy Worsely) -

What's with the dead cat scoop in front of the rear wheel?

Bonus point for a yellow Civic?

Came across this video about upgrading your Japanese bike licence so that you can ride bikes bigger than 400cc. Not sure what the real world benefits would be but it's how they do things in Japan -

Curtilage - In common law, the curtilage of a house or dwelling is the land immediately surrounding it, including any closely associated buildings and structures, but excluding any associated "open fields beyond". In feudal times every castle with its dependent buildings was protected by a...

What ever happened to the plural of "sign" not being "signs" anymore?

weeksy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:47 pm You tried it with a mobile device using 4g/5g?

Yes, tried that. We have a 4G mobile device. The only link is that our home broadband and the 4G dongle are with the same provider - although with separate accounts.

Welcome back Thanks for that, but the problem still persists. I tried the exact same reply that I'd tried that caused the problem - BitNinja page blocking access to RTTL. And got the exact same result even though I was using a VPN. I didn't think that this was possible. Had to disconnect the VPN an...

Testing, testing.

One of these might be useful too. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Solder-Sucker-Desoldering-Desolder-Remover/dp/B07JZF2MKD/ref=asc_df_B07JZF2MKD/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=697243793419&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10565210089852137526&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=...

You might want to have a look at this youtube video from Paul Carlson (Mr Carlson's Lab) https://youtu.be/X8N9O3a9jiM?si=lzSVguVsnNkCph7f I suppose giving this technique a go on a scrap surface mount PCB would give you a tad more confidence. Every PCB, these days, is populated with surface mount com...

Wassat then?

Biden steps down as candidate in US presidential election US President Joe Biden has announced that he is dropping out of his re-election battle with Donald Trump, in a historic move that plunges the already turbulent 2024 White House race into uncharted territory. "It has been the greatest ho...

OK, how about this - your bike outside a pub/restaurant/cafe that has a bird in the name.

Oops! Crowdstrike and Microsoft: What we know about global IT outage A mass IT outage has caused travel chaos around the world, with banking and healthcare services also badly hit. Many flights have been grounded, with queues and delays at airports. Cyber-security firm Crowdstrike has admitted that ...