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18 hours ago, menthe said:
Guterres the Secretary General of the UN for making perfectly balanced speeches, representing fairly both sides of the Israeli and Hamas conflict.
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Perfectly balanced? Guterres? The UN? You must be joking.
The UN has long been a rat's nest of marxist theory and thinking, since Maurice Strong of the UN came out with this little gem.
Maurice Strong 2010/2011
"Pure sadism deserves no context, no explanation, no excuse. None. If Guterres doesn’t understand this, he has no business heading an organization whose goals are ostensibly to promote peace, security, and human rights.
As US President Joe Biden said in a speech to the American people on October 9,
“You know, there are moments in this life – and I mean this literally – when the pure, unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world.”
Hamas’s barbarous attack, he said, was one of those moments. That is moral clarity. And that is what Guterres needed to say to the Security Council convened to discuss the current war: that there is good and there is evil in the world, and that what Hamas perpetrated – what Hamas itself documented and celebrated – is sheer evil that must be uprooted.
No “buts,” no stories about context or tall tales about vacuums."
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12 hours ago, menthe said:
Thank you, that has made me, if anything admire him even more than before.
I hope he really IS going to be in contention for the top job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Attal - Personal Life.
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On 08/10/2023 at 09:08, DaveLister said:
or are on the phone.
In all 15 different infractions are about to be logged by the cameras.
Details below.
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000037411183
In practice, French radars are not yet equipped to detect all these offenses . Technology will evolve and could hit the roads faster than expected. However, one question remains unanswered: would AI as a fine-tuning system be too intrusive to the point of entering into the private lives of motorists?
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23 hours ago, betise said:
Yes, no one seems to remember the safe braking distance when doing 130 on the autoroute.
You don't have to remember it - even if you did, how are you going to measure it on a road at 130 kph?
What you do is to use the 2 second rule. The two-second rule helps a defensive driver to estimate the minimum following distance needed to reduce the risk of collision under ideal driving conditions.
"Only a fool breaks the two second rule - when it starts to pour, you make it four"
Following another vehicle, you pick a road feature, a crack in the road, a post at the side, a piece of litter in the gutter etc and as the back of the vehicle in front passes that point you say "Only a fool breaks the two second rule" which at normal speaking speed takes about 2 seconds, if the front of your car gets to the road feature before the two seconds, you are too close, drop back and repeat etc. To make it four seconds in the wet, you say it twice.
Driving on snow or ice you make it ten seconds.
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I had a chuckle at this "rule" which is never enforced from the link https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000037411183
Nr 5 - Respect of safety distances between vehicles provided for in article R. 412-12 ;
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Have you checked with companies house?
Which company called Pelican is the one you are trying to contact? There are quite a few.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=pelican+consulting
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Of course I've heard of NVT - but the association of Honda with NTV was stronger.
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5 hours ago, DaveLister said:
Yes I have to admit, I was loyal to Honda to. Apart from an ill fated adventure with an NVT in '77.🙃
An NTV surely?
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19 hours ago, DaveLister said:
Secondly, has any car manufacturer ever given the option of a left handed flip for their key fob?
No need.
Instructions for left hand key fob flip.
1 - Carefully turn key fob over 180 degrees keeping the unflipped key facing away from you.
2- Press button underneath - key will flip out from right to left
3 - Insert key into ignition switch.
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On 30/09/2023 at 09:01, DaveLister said:
Apparently a 60 year old man has now been arrested.
Who used to be a "lumberjack" but who has two leaky heart valves and is said to be not fit enough to have done it.
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13 hours ago, DaveLister said:
That is/was a large tree-you have to know what you are doing to fell that without it falling on the feller.
What on earth is the motivation for doing that?
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On 26/09/2023 at 10:48, DaveLister said:
And no longer hold a UK banking license so are not on the list. Unfortunately the combination of Brexit and American money laundering rules have made most UK investment companies very risk averse so it's usually a case of 'computer says no'. Natwest have now closed all their branches in France so I suspect they are following the same path as Barclays in keeping old accounts open until the T&C's change. Certainly you can no longer open a standard account with them without being a UK resident.
HSBC ( my bank ) still has some branches but how long that will last is anybodies guess.
"To provide continued access to our products and services, NatWest Group plc (“NWG”) continues to serve most of its European Economic Area-based customers from NatWest Markets N.V., another bank in NWG, which is headquartered in the Netherlands, with branches across Western Europe"
https://www.natwest.com/business/support-centre/contact-us/western-europe-offices.html#office
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We don't have a problem as we have an admin address in the UK.
Natwest don't seem to mind that we have many UK accounts with them, savings and current, but are resident in France; which they are well aware of, so why should Barclays see it as a problem?
Wise now operate out of Belgium.
https://wise.com/help/articles/2965898/how-does-brexit-affect-wise
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Why bother with an international bank account when you can have a Wise card?
And as for Barclays, who tried hard to bankrupt a business that I was a partner in, during the nineties, to get hold of our houses which had been put up as security, I would sooner eat my own fingers than hand over any money to Barclays to look after.
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12 hours ago, DaveLister said:
It's all to do with the fact that they no longer have licenses to sell financial products on Europe post brexit. This article explains it well.
https://www.financialadvice.net/latest_round_of_uk_bank_account_closures_for_expats/news/9583
From the article you linked to:-
"Any existing UK accounts and contracts that were established before Brexit should be allowed to continue provided there is no change in the contract"
And as Barclays have had a branch in France since 1922 - https://www.cib.barclays/contact-us/fr.html there is no good reason for them to do this, apart from the fact that they cannot be bothered to service existing private accounts, seeing these as a cost rather than a profit centre.
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2 hours ago, Gardian said:
There are at least two ghastly major tragedies quite close to all of us in Morocco and Libya.
There’s economic crises afflicting most countries worldwide.
There’s political unrest in the UK, to the extent that Macron is welcoming Starmer for a ‘chat’.
And instead ............. what are we getting, wall-to-wall ? Russell bloody Brand.
I rest my case.
You forgot - Rishi Sunak has planned that the deadline for the prohibiting of the sale of petrol & diesel vehicles will be pushed forward to 2035 from 2030.
Cue emergency delivery of smelling salts for Guardian readers........................😂
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Welcome back Noisette - good to hear your opinion again!
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14 minutes ago, DaveLister said:
I know Brittany very well. My family came from there and I have relatives in the vicinity to where I'm thinking of setting up shop. I was more interested in the mechanics of running a second home in France. How do you run the day to day managing of a property remotely? Do you pay an agency or rely on neighbours. What types of property should you avoid?
Things that spring to mind are:-
If no mains drainage avoid fosse systems that rely on electrical power to function - power cuts etc
Avoid properties with a lot of trees, arborists are a lot harder to engage than a regular guy to keep the grass down and the garden tidy.
Make sure whatever you buy has a good tight roof - old slates crack and leak, no tiled roofs north of the Loire!
Most local gite owners will do keyholding and regular inspections for a modest charge.
Etc Etc
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24 minutes ago, menthe said:
The many times I have been in Brittany, I have always found that 56 is considerably warmer than 22.
Have you found this also, harnser?
I believe the wet part is Finisterre and we were warned about that by a French friend when we were househunting.
Pretty much true about that 56 is warmer than 22 - probably due to the high ground - the "Mur" = Wall that runs roughly
east/west along the middle of the Brittany peninsula.
Drought last year, no drought this year, although the prefecture is trying to talk up a drought as we have had 2-3 weeks without any significant rain.
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Brittany isn't necessarily wet and it can be hot here - it was very hot in July last year. This was the temperature outside our kitchen door on July 18th 2022 at about 5.30 pm.
We are in postcode 56310.
A good source of historical weather data for just about anywhere going back 14 years https://www.timeanddate.com/
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1 hour ago, menthe said:
"The point is that a very large company like GmbH should have spares for their machines."
Errm - cough cough
What Is GmbH?
GmbH is an abbreviation of the German phrase “Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung,” which means “company with limited liability.” It’s a suffix used after a private limited company’s name in Germany (vs. AG, for aktiengesellschaft, which is used to indicate a public limited company).1 GmbH is the equivalent of LLC (limited liability company), used in the United States, or Ltd. (limited), used in the United Kingdom, and is the most common form of incorporation in Germany.
1 hour ago, menthe said: -
We ran breadmaker(s) for about 4-5 years after coming to France and found that the paddles/stirrers and the shaft and seals that turns them wear out quite quickly at a rate of 2-3 loaves per 7 days. So it makes sense to buy a well known mainstream make where repair parts are readily available. We stopped making our own complet loaves because we could get a decent complet loaf from Aldi. Now they have changed their supplier so that their complet loaves are the same as Lidl which are not really complet. So we may go back to using a bread maker again if we can find a source of wholewheat flour.
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Looked up Arebos UK and they seem to do just one breadmaker.
https://www.arebos.co.uk/en_gb/home-living/kitchen/bread-maker/bread-maker-1500g-white.html
Replacement paddles for Arebos breadmaker - (model number unspecified as they probably only do one model)
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21 hours ago, crabtree said:
Is your car still insured. Normally once you are resident in France your UK insurance stops.
Also if you have not imported it within one month of being here then you are breaking the law, and likely to have it confiscated if stopped.
Referring to this guide on importing/registration it appears that the period is 6 months not one month.
https://www.french-property.com/guides/france/driving-in-france/vehicle-importation-registration
French radar cameras will now flash if you're not wearing your sea belt
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We have one LHD bought in france car and one RHD imported new from the UK in 2015 both are french registered of course. There is no visible coding on a carte grise to identify a RHD car - but probably it is within the VIN number.