stevie_b

No morning glory..?

This thread is the gift that keeps on giving. I must try to watch Gaz's iPlayer link before it disappears off the radar. I'm interested to hear more about Jazz's father-in-law's role at NASA.

* high five! *

Do you have any more details about Donald Rumsfeld's announcement of the missing trillions? It sounds like it was an announcement of defence equipment that couldn't be accounted for, probably over the timespan of several years. It is an awful lot of money but if the government was attempting a cover-up, would it not have been better to cause the destruction of WTC7 and parts of the Pentagon before Rumsfeld made the announcement. Then, the chances are that Rumsfeld wouldn't have had to make any announcement at all: everyone would have had other things on their mind. Even if he had had to have made the announcement, the day(s) after 9/11 would have been a very "good time to bury bad news". You claim that one of the offices destroyed in the Pentagon was the one that would have been investigating the missing trillions: is that a guess or do you have evidence? I suspect that such an investigation wouldn't have been confined to a single office or offices. The missing cash/kit is probably spread over several campaigns (Iraq, Afghanistan, the various western Africa interventions, etc as well as homeland service). The actual answers of where the missing trillions are, are very likely hidden in hundreds of thousands of accounting spreadsheets and equipment sign-out chits, and would need a large forensic accounting effort to uncover even some of them. This type of information doesn't usually exist in one place. It'll be strewn all over the entire US military infrastructure, from the Pentagon to Pearl Harbor, and operational HQs all over the world. The video skirts round the issue of the different ways in which a fire can destroy a building. It only describes how buildings brought down by controlled demolitions appear.

That chap must have been half a stone lighter after all that pus came out. Cottage cheese anyone?

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_070339 That seems to say you don't have to let pedestrians cross unless they've started crossing, but I always give pedestrians right of way on zebra crossings. It's how I was taught when learning to drive, and I think you'd stand a good chance of failing a driving test if you fail to stop for someone waiting to cross.

To let pedestrians cross the road? Was there anyone crossing or about to cross at the time? You've got to expect to stop at short notice when approaching these things. If no-one was crossing then you were just at the wrong place at the wrong time: chalk it up to experience and learn from it. It'll be very hard to escape fault having rear-ended another car near a pedestrian crossing.

I don't have an hour to spare right now, but I'll watch that programme later. Thanks Gaz. I see Scott's point, and there's a high risk that whoever makes a documentary or writes a newspaper article about it will have already formed their opinion, and their work will be little more than propaganda to support their view. I can't comment on the iPlayer programme because I haven't seen it yet.

... and breathe.

Don't put up with that Scott. L8HOaB1fOqA Count yourself lucky it was only potato in there

Would bacteria survive the temperature change from -30C ish to +70C (boiling point of water at Mt Everest summit)? Maybe it would: perhaps it would be in cryogenic suspension when at -30C, and wake up when heated ready to give the unwary mountaineer a nasty case of Delhi belly on the South Col. Pot Noodle - Breakfast Of Champions

As Ron's wife said, 48 hours is a large delay when so much of modern life revolves around one's current account.

I would guess someone has fat-fingered something at the bank. It takes time (and signatures on pieces of paper) to close a bank account, so I don't think scammers would be able to do it over the internet without using some very advanced hacking techniques. If it is possible to do this over the internet, I don't think your account balance was big-time enough for them to bother (no offence, they wouldn't bother with mine either!) I would be going into a branch of Santander (do they have much of a presence in Greece?) and speaking to someone face to face. There *must* be transaction records that provide evidence of the account having existed. Once you've proven it existed, you can then ask them, "Can you show me a copy of the completed and signed form giving my authorisation to close the account?"

After you Josh, I insist...

It's done to a high standard. I love the interior shot, makes me want to roll around inside. The outside does look like a ride from a travelling fairground though.

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If you've been smoking some wacky baccy, this video probably makes perfect sense.

Most of your photos don't seem to work.

But the people involved have already done that. You would go in there saying, "Please leave", and they'd most likely say, "No thank you" and walk away. If there are more of them than there are of you, they'd probably assist you in exiting the house. The London Evening Standard has been running a story about a couple who were the victims of squatters. The victims offered the squatters £500 to just leave, but they declined (and IIRC asked for much more money before they'd consider it). It's not that people do *nothing*. It's that they would generally try peaceful means, and if/when that doesn't work then they'd do nothing apart from get the court wheels slowly grinding into motion. The majority of people on the internet claim they'd bust in there with a family-sized pack of whoop-a$$, but in reality they would probably just go down the courts route. Fair play to people like Abz. He was in that situation and was able to do something about it, without presumably getting legal repercussions from the squatters. I admire him for doing that. But most people wouldn't have the contacts, the means or the nerve to do that.

Much appreciated all of you. I'll stop hijacking Si's thread now.

Sounds about right. Starters motors may not be rocket science, but they are not cheap to buy new.

Thanks guys. Where do you drain the PAS fluid from? Is it from the bottom of the reservoir or is there a lower, better point to drain from?

Was the PAS pump straightforward to replace? I may be doing this job soon on mine.

If they'll fit a 1996 Discovery 200Tdi, I'll almost certainly take them. My brother in law owns one and he's been looking to replace the steel wheels for a while. Can you confirm the size of the alloys please? Edit: beaten to it I think. If the others don't want them I'll take them off your hands.

Are they mk4 alloys on the mk3? How do the interiors compare? Is the mk3 interior roomy/comfy/dated...?