Iceni

I have no idea what other Sat Navs do but mine just tells me when I am approaching a camera or zone - not the position of it/them. John

[quote user="woolybanana"] [quote user="AnOther"]Frankly I can't quite see how a ban on GPS warning devices can work. Firstly Sat Navs are so common now that the sheer numbers make it an impossible task to check everybody just because they are using one. Secondly most if not all Sat Navs can be PIN code protected so if switched off, something easily accomplished even during the process of being pulled over, how is a Gendarme going to prove that you have been using one with a warning device, a new offence of failing to switch it on when requested perhaps ? [/quote] Having the capacity to.... will be enough for the gendarmes, but it is difficult to see how they can enforce it with so many about. [/quote] Easy enough - just book the ones you stop and get around to the others if/when you stop them. Surely that's the point of "stop and search"? John    

[quote user="Cathy"]When you are trying out the sweetness of the grapes in the supermarket, where do you put the pips? [/quote] Inside a pomegranate with all the others. John

Insufficient time for the cheque to have bounced so who knows? Or cares? John

[quote user="woolybanana"]Buy and weigh one item at a time?[/quote] Good idea - after I have weighed my first tomato it is easy to remember the number to punch for next 10. Bit slow though? And uses so many more bags. Or I could buy on a market stall where I just have to select, bag and hand over. John

Sadly, Ben Jamin, that is of little use when the man in my local CT station say I gotta have one. John

The saga continueth. My faith in M-B was misplaced. Despite an e-mail from M-B confirming that an attestation from my local garage would be acceptable M-B Homologation France eventually said no. This delay plus my being on holiday means that the English MoT has expired and I cannot get a CT locally without a CoC. Happily (?) M-B GB has promised me a CoC with a warning that it may not be acceptable at the Prefecture (but it should suffice for a CT - ever the optimist, he said). As Cahors Prefecture has set a precedent (do they exist in France?) by accepting a CoC in Italian for my Postman Pat Fiat, who knows? There must be a moral here somewhere. John

[quote user="krusty"]Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, has sent a simple message to Britain: "Get ready for higher interest rates."[/quote] Good - low interest rates only benefit people who borrow money and we don't. John

[quote user="just john "]  and who sang him Happy Birthday, lastly of course his assassination. [/quote] and hers as well. John

[quote user="woolybanana"]  "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion, without the discomfort of thought." [/quote] Sums up christianity pretty well. John

[quote user="Cendrillon"] The money will go to charity. [/quote] Her mother? John

To my mind there is no doubt that the right decision was made when killing Bin Laden. Is this a rare occasion where the US have learned from their mistake in not killing Saddam Hussain when it would have been oh so easy? john  

[quote user="woolybanana"] But, say you were in Hong Kong, would you accept Indian English, Chinglish or UK or US English? [/quote] Hopefully my standards remain constant wherever I happen to be. 21st century English as spoken/written by the natives is evidence of a  reduction in quality as they seem to know no better - or are too lazy to bother. Probably the latter. Probably A. Snob

[quote user="Mr Coeur de Lion"] I'm doing a course in web design next semester and one of the assignments is to find three sites with good design and three with bad design. [/quote] CdeL - have you moved seamlessly from Australian English to American English ? John  

[quote user="Hereford"] Any suggestions gratefully received (and "no" we don't have a gun although we do like rabbit to eat...) [/quote] Snares ? John  

I think we all know what happened, it is why that is uncertain. However for me knowing where our rain has gone and when we will get some is much more important. John

[quote user="Polly"] Do not however forget that a toddler can drown in a few inches of water. [/quote] Other people's children are other people's problems. Glad to see that I don't have to fence off my planned pond - thanks for that news. John

[quote user="JK"] A breathy big girl with the most unlikely hair. [/quote] "Yeth and I'm only thixteen" - I wonder what happened to them ? John

How would one perform a naming ceremony for a snake, particularly one that looks not much larger than an earwig? In these straitened times wasting a bottle of champagne would seem a tad OTT as well as not doing much for the snake. You may care to ponder this on Friday instead of wondering why Willy is too tall for his hair. John

Suggest that you search UK Yellow Pages for JRHartley. John

Googling with the words "Ford France" offers you an option to "contact us" which yields an address for Customer Relations in France. I have no idea whether this is what you want. John  

[quote user="sweet 17"] Edit:  sorry, Coops, I now know you are in the Lot cos I've just read your thread about lunch with the Icenis.  Give my best to Mr Iceni, will you?  He has made me laugh on lots of occasions. [/quote] How sweet, sweets - I know just how wonderful I am but most of the time others refuse to see it. John

[quote user="idun"] Interesting you blokes whose wives point out the jobs and you do them. Hmm not quite like that chez moi. I would hate to give the impression that nothing gets done, it does, but not necessarily in the order that I would find most important or 'logical'. [/quote] You have 3 options - find someone else's OH to do it, do it yourself or stop finding fault. I suspect that the greatest hurdle to be overcome when retiring (to France or anywhere) is the prospect/fear of so much time together after a lifetime of separate bliss.  John  

I need a CofC for our UK-reg S***t car and so far, Mercedes France has been v helpful. I have to produce a letter confirming French lights and a KPH speedo but it seems that the local garage will do so I do not have to travel halfway across France to a Merc dealer. But time will tell. John

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