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Jc

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  1. I used to fly regularly into Stansted(about once a week),not Ryanair;the planes were fitted with automatic landing system and you could always tell when it was turned-on;the landings were smoother than when on manual-well, after they got the system properly calibrated.
  2. The toughest laptops(real road warrior),tho' hard to find, are Zenith.
  3. I remember Stirling Moss using an American license because his UK one had been taken away;at the time everyone said "how clever".
  4. Not just Driving licenses,how many of the non France/Uk vehicles have got legitimate tax/insurance/CTor Mot?I've seen vehicles being driven around on East European platse for a lot longer than the law allows.                              
  5. I think you will find that British banks have changed;I asked for a loan over the phone 2 years ago and  was given an immediate OK.
  6. Should work anywhere if you can get amobile phone signal.
  7. Until recently UK mixer taps were different to the rest of the EU because of UK water supply regs;you can now fit EU type mixer taps in the UK but both cold and hot supplies must have one-way valves fitted.The UK tap did not mix in the spout-there were two seperate pipes right upto the end of the spout.
  8. When I first used my mobile in France,I used to have to hang off one end of my balcony to get a signal but enough people complained and we now have local aerials.
  9. In the UK,we saw a house for sale in an agent's window,went and had a look at it and were going to buy it;on the way back to the agents,I saw the same house for sale in another agent's window at a lower price-guess which one we used.
  10. You missed out the ones used to get to the front of the traffic jam that you're sitting at the back of(a preposition is a word you should not finish a sentence with!!).
  11. Isn't this tied in with modern computer games?;you can slaughter everyone including yourself in the most horrible way and then press one button and you're back to the beginning again-it does not work that way in real life-you're DEAD.
  12. We used to have an excellent English speaker at our branch of CL,but if they are any good,they get promoted and,usually,moved.
  13. Please be informed that there are Notaires in the UK;usually a French person who has married a UK one and has kept up their qualifications.
  14. Many of our footpaths(and I use the term as being seperate from larger green lanes) are being cut-up by mountain bikes and horse riders.
  15. If you ever do owt for nowt,do it for thysen!!Seriously the government should not be able to change the law to camouflage how much they take;fuel,tobacco and drink are other examples.
  16. Depends on type of machine used-not all do.
  17. Siemens,VW and M/B.And German industry was supposed to be the success story of Europe-now we're finding out how they did it!
  18. Poor old Marie again!!!! tho' she must be well off by now.
  19. The tennis ball is to keep the grease off your knees!!
  20. All modern bars must be "E" marked.This means that the bar and it's fixings and the mountings on the body meet legal requirements.As to bars protruding the only legal requirement(except "E" marking as above) is that there are no sharp edges.
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