Frederick
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They are just as bad in Dorset....be it in France or the country areas of the UK I think the lack of public transport is in the mind of many doctors who should tell some people to pack driving up but they dont ......In my village in Dorset I know of one guy who kept hitting the cerb......waiting to go in for cateract opperations .....one guy who could not turn his head ...had mirror on a stick he shoved out of the window to see who was coming from the left before he went over cross roads...and a neighbour..He has.just been done for speed on the Bournemouth spur road ......As he told me and the police ....he was in a hurry to get to the hospital as he was late for an appointment .....thats why he was doing 91 ......six years more than his age .... Its the same in France ....there are people who should not be on the road ...but who is going to tell them to stop driving ...old French tractor drivers ....give them a wide berth !
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Fly with Ryan Air's Australian equivilant Jetstar in the row where the emergency exit is and you get a briefing at check in ! I am over 6 foot and choose the rows with exits for leg room...You have to declare that you are willing to assist the crew in the event of an emergancy and that you are capable of unlocking the window and throwing 35 kilos of door out of the aircraft if need be ...In the event of an emergancy it would go like a frizzbee !....... May this year a big Aussie sat next to me and said "You know you are sitting in the most dangerous seat on this aircraft " I said "Is that right " he said "Yes mate .....you are between me and the 8loody door ! " an enjoyable flight in good companythat one ......
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Google "Revenge of Ebay customer sold a faulty laptop " Seems an Iranian student sold a non working lap top on ebay and then tried to say he had left the country when contacted by the purchaser .....The buyer took the hard drive out and the contents he put on the internet....along with publishing his dodgy CV's and the porn He emailed all the contacts on his dddress book and directed them to the site ...His dad is not happy ... great move !
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The aircraft puts down at Limoges at 1130 pm.......Ryan Air then "Find " another aircraft and a crew in the middle of the night ... and get it to Limoges..... and it takes off with the passengers keen to finish their journey at 0330........4 hours ...seems pretty good to me .
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Does anybody use Jajah to make calls ....they quote France to UK 1.9 pence / min .......from Landline 10. 7 pence / min from mobile You connect via going on line give them your number and the number you are calling they act as an exchange...your phone rings you pick up and hear the other phone ringing then on answer you make your call ...They text back a dedicated number for you if you use a mobile to save for the person you have called.......... and next time you call it up from "contacts " and away you go ......I am yet to sign up with them and would like to hear from anybody who uses them...Their web site advertises the calls you make from overseas will be at local call rates and loads of other stuff .....JAJAH sorry cant put the link on for you.......I am sure sombody will though ! I should imagine you could set up all the people you need to call with their dedicated Jajah numbers into a mobile easy enough
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I believe the legal age for sex in Vietnam is 18.................They have hundreds of thousands of prostitutes and they say 30% of them are under 16.....Given their history of war and a country full of visiting troops ....and the devistation .....you can see how it has come about ....for some of these women having sex must have been the means of survival for them and their families and its now a way of life for many
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Its not just a question of poverty that puts these girls of a very young age into the hands of men for sex...it could be in their culture...In Australia for instance aborigional girls can be "promised " by their parents to someone at an age we would consider it illegal to have sex...The authorities have a big problem dealing with this as many will not accept the "White " law over their traditional way of life ...How many aborigional " pedophiles " end up in the Australian courts ? .....I dont know the answer but I would imagine not many ....Its the likes of Gadd that take advantage of this .....Look what happened on Pitcain Island for example .....
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One of the papers suggested we would be certain gold winners at synchronized binge drinking ! Now there is a sport Ernie ...couple of hours on the ale then onto the BMX bikes .... include in it the high diving pool ....... got to be worth watching .!
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Thanks guys I will give it a go...My wife was watching the sport and pressed the red button to watch somthing ...it decided to do itself a scan for new channels and bingo..... threw in the towel !
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Dont be sorry Tim !......I can now adise my OH that "Unfortunatly " it is now going to join its mates on the duff DVD pile at the local tip and we will just " have to" go out and buy one with the DVD recorder in now !
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My Daewoo SV900 freeview box no longer works as the Freeview transmission has been tweeked and according to Daewoo help desk it is a model that is now no longer of any use in the UK.....If I take it over to France ..(.its also a video recorder ) what is the chance of it picking up the free view channels there ?
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If he turns up at the closing ceremony of the Olympics ......will the press be crowding round Gordon Brown to talk about London 2012......I dont think so ! this could be a major publicity stunt for glitter .....and a red face for the PM..
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So according to that report it means the Police Officer was sent out with no authority to do anything in Bankok or anywhere else.... He now comes home while Glitter goes on round the world if he feels like it . If he could not bring him back in handcuffs ...and it seems he could not as there was no offence outstanding in the UK ...then what was he doing there ? .....This is a joke and put together by the big collection of jokers who are working in the Home Office today I think ! .....Can this governement get anything right ?
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Why does it need a Brittish Police Officer to fly to Vietnam to oversee his release and accompany him home to the UK all at our expense ....I would a have thought that a call as to what plane he was put on and meet him on the tarmac on arrival was all that was required ....he cant leg it somewhere at 30.000 feet can he !
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Why to dog owners think their dogs want to be on the beach....running into the waves for sticks and balls ? Its not done for the dogs benefit ..Its so they can show off their pet to people who would rather not have it among them while they try and enjoy some time on the beach ... Its the owners who are on display .."Look at me ....look at what I can get this dog to do " I am sure the dog would rather be in a field trying to smell out the rabbits and rolling in cow pats as they do and then wiping it off their coats over the car seats and the furniture ....Shaking wet dogs ..sand.... and people covered in sun tan lotion do not go together and consideration for people comes first...not dogs !
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Pierre I think you are right I am yet to see anybody in France pick up after a dog.....as for the beach...There is a big notice forbidding dogs on La Tranche beach but typically nobody seems to take any action when people still take their dogs on .....Last time we were on the beach we watched an alsation digging in the sand and chucking it over two young girls lying in the sun....The kids didnt have the nerve to say say anything to the owner sitting nearby watching it .......Who is supposed to enforce these dog and beach regulations anyway ?....Dogs on beaches ..... they are a 8loody nuisance ..
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My wife ........bless her has just decided that as the Chinese let off roakets to shift the rain away for the opening ceremony.....it sent the bad weather over here ! ..........there again she might be right ?
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Cant bring back frozen food ? ...... We have done it .....but it takes a little more preperation.....My wife wrapps the frozen items well in layers of newspaper and uses lots of the cool keep blocks in the "chilly bin " we also use the padded cool bags like the tesco ones and the day before we leave she puts the whole loaded bag in the chest freezer in the garage.... It normally takes from 5am to about 4pm French time to do the crossing and drive down to the South Vendee....we find the meat is still frozen solid on arrival to go straight into our freezer there ...I dont have one but I should imagine the cool boxes that plug in the car cigar sockets must help as well .
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Gastines .........I will check out Sturtons ..never been there ..thanks ....I note tonights news item the big UK supermarkets are dropping prices in an effort to win back us "deserters " who have taken our cash to the cheaper ones like Lidl ...Money talks !..... I now await Super U doing the same .........
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Being on a fixed income like so many on this forum .I have found myself trying to keep to my budget by changing our shopping habits ....We have taken both in the UK and in France to doing a Lidl shop every other month instead of sticking with Super U and Sainsbury's all the time ....it saves ..and we tend to favour one restaurant when we eat out now where we know we get a great meal at good value.rather than look at menus in others ..and we eat in more .....I am not going to cut back on the amount of visits I make to France each year....but I wonder if others are ? My son has SORN'd one of his cars and now goes to work on a Kawasaki motor bike so he enjoys having to save on fuel costs ....I have the licence still but my wife will not permit me to have one of them to save on fuel ...pity .... .
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Tegwini..............You are not the only one to have Police thin on the ground.....its not only Wiltshire that cant afford to recruit Police it seems ...recently when I called to report a gang of kids who were kicking off the keep- left bollards in the village our local bobby never came at all...The following day when I did see him he told me he had 49 square miles to cover.....on his own . he just cant cope with it .
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When it comes to the opening ceremoney..... I suppose in London we will just wheel out the guards band and have her majesty do a lap of the arena is a horse drawn coach behind them ....and somebody will hand her a box of matches to light the torch ? Or do you want to see loads of money spent trying to outdo this lot ?
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I suppose the photo of the delivery truck in Spearman St in Australia with the drivers bare feet sticking out of the cab while he sleeps in the firms time means he is now out of work ......... he must love Google !
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Thanks for all that information Sunday Driver ......this subject popped up in a conversation with a relative in Queensland who has noticed the latest Google mapping shows their new car at their house ...they think they have been "visited " some time in the past 6 months by the Google camera ...
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