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Ekona

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  1. OIC now! Well in that case it's fine and my last sentence applies.
  2. Nah, mine is pure white, no idea who the guy with the yellow lid was.
  3. Go on, bugger off then, no need to make a fuss over it. Glad things are working well for you bud, just don't be a stranger eh?
  4. You need to put the new plates on before you drive it. Not for insurance purposes, but because you'll ping the ANPR for an uninsured, untaxed and un-MOT'd vehicle by driving on 'false' plates. Should've waited until you had the plates to inform your insurer. Who says you received the paperwork, after all?
  5. I found that corner very challenging in the BMW, as it relies on massive speeds but also very good brakes to get the front to turn in without unsettling the car, and then the last left flick onto the start/finish straight is just a nightmare with a huge car. Bet it's ace in an Elise or something. Also, lols at the MX5 comment When is the Weekender this year? Might come along again if possible.
  6. First off, what are the codes? How many miles are you actually doing between oil changes? Not relevant to the issue I don't believe, more a case of I'd say you're changing far too early and wasting money unless you're tracking it loads or using particularly crap oil
  7. I suspect they've done significantly better than if Labour had been in charge, but your point is very much valid. World circumstances dictated that things haven't been great, and in fairness that same issue didn't help Labour during the credit crunch so I don't lay masses amount of blame there either. After all, I did vote that Labour government in so I should take some of the blame!
  8. Basically the circle continues as ever. Tories make the money, Labour spend it, and so on and so forth.
  9. I wouldn't expect a Union to carry on unwinnable cases either, as that would be a waste of other people's money at that point.
  10. I was thinking more the 30mins free, or hell you can pretty much find anything on the internet these days, but point taken.
  11. See, I'd simply go to a solicitor instead. I guess my issue isn't with the theory of unions, it's how they're run. Like I say, the people I know who are union guys are utterly despised by co-workers and management alike, because their mindset appears to be one of "If it's not written down, then I'm not doing it", which just feels wrong to me. On a case by case level, where one person is under investigation for whatever reason then sure, the union isn't that different from a solicitor, but when you get the group mentality it just destroys things. Only 20? Seems more like 200! Other half has just left one union for another as she's been made headteacher now officially (she's only 28, I'm so massively proud of her for that achievement) and the first union doesn't cater for HTs, but even though she told them three times in writing why she's leaving she still gets these blackmail letters through saying that they have a 98% retention rate and you'll get run over without us blah blah. It's all nonsense, she's only with a union so that she gets free legal cover if a kiddy accuses her of something innapropriate!
  12. This is why I keep my track cars road legal. I can't legally tow either, and I cba to do the test
  13. WHAT?! The Rocket complex is amazing, nevermind the drop down from Peel through the Corkscrew! Laguna Seca or Suzuka for me too. I'm looking at maybe doing LS for my 40th in a few years.
  14. Given that I've stated numerous times that the reason Corbyn needs to go is because the UK desperately needs a strong (and stable) Opposition for the government to function properly, I choose to ignore your not-so-subtle dig sir. We do need an Opposition. We don't need Unions. Unions used to be very important back in t' days of working down t' mill, but these days they're useless, toothless, and perfect examples of champagne socialism. The train driver thing serves as the perfect example of this. In more general answers to your questions, if an employer tries to change my contract illegally then I shall take them to court over it for breach of contract, something that has evolved in UK law over hundreds of years. If I don't like more general practices then I'll leave and work elsewhere. Would I work for Sports Direct, given a choice? I've no idea, but in theory I have nothing against them in principle. Do I think they're a stand-up example of an employer? Not at all, but no-one is forced to work there. You're quite wrong when you say that worker's rights are not enshrined in law, and I mean proper statute stuff as well as common law. Employment Right Act 1966, HASAW Act 1974, Working Time Regs 1998: They're the main ones, which are of course backed up by numerous amounts of case law precedents.
  15. And more torque steer than you can shake a scrabbled corner at
  16. Unions are completely useless these days, ironically because we have so much employment law that they were desperate to have. The only thing a union is good for is to protect the old boy's network they have amongst themselves, which again is ironic as that's what they hate about the current government. The union rep is always the least-liked person of any workplace. Anyone else notice that too?
  17. She's blaming it being her seventh interview this morning. You'd think after six goes she'd have it down to a tee, no? As someone else on another forum pointed out, if you listen to the interview carefully you can hear the exact moment where an aide passes her a load of papers with the answers on
  18. Being married, it's all I have these days
  19. She can make all the faces she wants, her head'll be face down in the pillow anyway
  20. And no-one ever thought that Labour could have a weaker leader than Milliband. I guess people said it often enough at the time, and these things have a habit of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. I HAVE NEVER SLEPT WITH ARIANA GRANDE I HAVE NEVER SLEPT WITH ARIANA GRANDE I HAVE NEVER SLEPT WITH ARIANA GRANDE YET
  21. I think that's in Labour's manifesto.
  22. Rather a till girl than a call girl
  23. Yup, which is why we end up with people like Abbott in there.
  24. Any time, us orange wrapped car owners gotta stick together
  25. You can use a clay bar, but you need A LOT of lube because otherwise it can mark the wrap and that's one mark you may not be able to remove ever. No reason not to though, I've clayed mine once with the AS clay cloth and it worked a treat. You need to know what you're doing with the ceramic stuff, as it's easy to get it wrong and wreck everything. On paint you can at least polish it off and try again, with wraps you're a bit knackered if you get it wrong. Needs to be done indoors and on a cool-ish (i.e. not freezing but not like an oven) day. Probably best left to the pros if you're not confident, I've done a couple now on paint and it's been fine but I have been nearly caught out a couple of times, and there was a panic to correct in time!
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