Scott #55
Member Since: 15 Apr 2015
Location: UK
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Adverts on Amazon Prime. A lot of the programmes on there are made for the American market and so have natural breaks built in for ads. Does Amazon use them? Does it  . Ad placing is akin to me, after a few pints, hitting 'pause' on the remote and announcing that I'm off for a pee, with zero regard for the bit if the film we're at.
If we need to suffer adverts, at least put them in where the breaks are made for them.
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GrumpyPenguin
Member Since: 06 Mar 2024
Location: Thanet Kent
Posts: 37
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HairyFool wrote: horse faeces if deposited by a generally healthy horse will have nothing that would cause harm due to their herbivour diet.
My late father used to swear by said deposits' as garden manure.
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| 12th Apr 2024 9:05 am |
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mark the spark
Member Since: 22 Jun 2011
Location: southampton
Posts: 2521
 
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Scott #55 wrote:Adverts on Amazon Prime. A lot of the programmes on there are made for the American market and so have natural breaks built in for ads. Does Amazon use them? Does it . Ad placing is akin to me, after a few pints, hitting 'pause' on the remote and announcing that I'm off for a pee, with zero regard for the bit if the film we're at.
If we need to suffer adverts, at least put them in where the breaks are made for them.
film 4 winds me up adverts get longer and longer as the film progresses so much so that you can forget the thread of the film given up watching anything on there now MY05 SE D3 Manual my first LR what a car
MY10 HSE D4 auto
MY14 XXV more buttons than the spaceshuttle
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| 12th Apr 2024 9:43 am |
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
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Just subscribe to avoid the adverts.  D4 HSE EU6 (Known as Jeeves)
New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!) Sold
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner 
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
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| 12th Apr 2024 12:47 pm |
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Icarus
Member Since: 15 Jul 2023
Location: Essex
Posts: 99
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People who park close when there’re plenty of empty spaces near them.
It must be the herd instinct.
In Wickes car park today, a very nice Maserati Ghibli - not new but looking good, pulled into a space in the row across the aisle in front of me. I was sitting my D4 looking at my receipts. The guy got out, and went in the store.
Then, an old Honda Civic came in, ignored all the vacant spaces around the Maserati, and parked up right next to his offside…
Out got Sid & Doris Bonkers , obviously not petrol heads at all, and off they went into the store.
I just sat there thinking wtf. People eh? I’m a Disco 4 believer. What a vehicle!
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| 12th Apr 2024 1:15 pm |
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HairyFool
Member Since: 04 Jan 2023
Location: North Essex
Posts: 684
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On the opposite side of the coin those that park so far apart they take up 1 1/2 spaces 
Where we pick up our grandchildren space is at a premium at the end of the day and everyone will have struggled on one day to get a space to park. There are markers for each bay although they are not as clear as they could be.
In a row of about 25 spaces there frequently are only 20 cars because people seem incapable of judging how far away from the next car they need to be to get one set of doors open. Quite often they are so far apart both cars could have doors open full width and still walk between them.
There is one parent who drives a restored original Mini Cooper Clubman and I did smile when he slipped it in between two cars, slipped out of his door and went in. The look of thunder on one of the parents came back was a picture.
It doesn't help when the car park looks like a Land Rover Dealership most days. A visitor from the dark side, my other vehicle is an is still an EV. Strictly speaking its SWMBO.
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| 12th Apr 2024 3:27 pm |
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mark the spark
Member Since: 22 Jun 2011
Location: southampton
Posts: 2521
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indeed always avoid the banged about ones cos they arnt bothered MY05 SE D3 Manual my first LR what a car
MY10 HSE D4 auto
MY14 XXV more buttons than the spaceshuttle
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| 15th Apr 2024 6:57 am |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13553
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HWN wrote:
It's a psychological thing - people need a reference. Sad, but true!
That's my guess too. They use other cars to show them where the lines are. What's amazing to me is that even with another car to guide them, these halfwits seem incapable of parking properly in the space they've chosen.  Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 15th Apr 2024 7:49 am |
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kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
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Tire puncture.
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| 18th Apr 2024 6:45 pm |
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14417
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Importing stuff from Poland! It used to be so easy!!!  D4 HSE EU6 (Known as Jeeves)
New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!) Sold
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
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| 18th Apr 2024 7:13 pm |
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Nasher
Member Since: 07 Mar 2009
Location: Clanfield, North of Pompey - UK
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kajtzu wrote:Tyre puncture.
There, fixed that for you. 
Unless of course you are bored of punctures. Heaven doesn't want me, and hell is afraid I'll take over.
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| 18th Apr 2024 10:22 pm |
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kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6754
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My sincere apologies for being an European and spelling like an American
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| 19th Apr 2024 4:45 am |
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Nasher
Member Since: 07 Mar 2009
Location: Clanfield, North of Pompey - UK
Posts: 2815
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Hei Kajtzu, ole hyvä.
Having spent quite a bit of time in Tampere over the years I was a little surprised you favoured the spelling of our Blueberry pie eating, cousin ing, neighbours from over the thankfully wide ocean.
. Heaven doesn't want me, and hell is afraid I'll take over.
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| 19th Apr 2024 10:28 am |
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