Brew

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  1. How can anyone say they are a confirmed atheist? Atheists can no more prove god doesn't exist than believers prove he does. The fact some believes in something doesn't mean it's real, just as not believing doesn't mean it's not... Happy Easter...
  2. Apart from the oxymoron I quite agree...
  3. Is a warning of a problem that has no specific warning light of it's own like seat belts, brakes etc. It's not critical but does need attention...
  4. But is it? To my mind 20% seems a fairly normal profit margin. I can't really see why they're trying to make out it's some sort of outrageous profiteering. They are after all a business like any other. The GMB and that mysterious invisible group 'campaigners' wants more regulation, I say it's too much regulations that's caused the problem. Since child minding became regulated and forced into a politically correct regime of quasi schools for babies, many have simply given up. The visits from the education department, the demand for record keeping, a curriculum plus
  5. The headlight for that car is one piece and over £1300 which is outrageous considering it's injection moulded plastic
  6. On an Audi S8 the lights, like Mercedes, do need to be 'told' it has a new light. My new headlight unit refused to point where it was supposed to until it the car recognised it. Having said that it wasn't a main dealer who did it, many independents have the necessary diagnostic facility nowadays. My brother has a Service/Bodyshop garage and has just such a machine. Lizzie needs a new taillight, not sure they are the same as a headlight in this respect.
  7. Sounds like a bit of a run around Col, I hope after all that the results are good when you finally get them...
  8. Maybe it's misophonia and she absolutely can't stand dogs yapping. It's much like fingernails on a blackboard, a sound that can drive some people crackers.
  9. Shooting or harming wild birds is illegal, even pigeons and seagulls, unless you can meet certain conditions...
  10. True CT but once the warning light is triggered it's more than likely it will a diagnostic machine to reset the error codes.
  11. I have to say Oz with those figures I'd find it difficult to call them a rip-off. They make a lot of money, but to the individual customer a net profit of £4/5 per 100 is actually more than reasonable and considerably lower than most industries. It would be easy to blame the cost of living on the rise in shoplifting but as Ben will attest stealing from shops has always been with us. It has also steadily increased and the rise in population, the apparent lack pf respect for the law plus no fear of punishment must have some bearing on why that is. I don't some steal in an act of desperation
  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billinge,_Merseyside#:~:text=History-,Etymology,recorded as Bylnge in 1252.
  13. Brew

    Memories

    Asda do a version and it's delicious, we have it regularly. Though it loses its crustiness after a day it still tastes good.
  14. No idea over the Qz, but here the operating profits in the retail grocery sector during 2022-23 were down 41.5% on the previous year and that average operating margins in the sector fell from 3.2% to 1.8%. Put another way, for every £100 of sales, the typical supermarket is making a profit of just £1.80. Not an unreasonable profit margin and for most businesses is embarrassingly low, only volume of sales make supermarkets a viable operation.
  15. I meant the financial arrangement; is the money borrowed or from the reserves, if borrowed, (which is probable), what are the interest rates, how long to pay back, how big an impact will the annual repayments have on services etc.
  16. And the woolsack is a real sack of wool.....and I sat on it...
  17. Irrelevant Col, he used the self same system as Sunak, the one you called questionable. The whys and wherefores don't count. Inclined to agree, not only should peers have some sort of relevance but attendance should be mandatory - as it should be for MPs.
  18. There is a simpler explanation of the single transferable vote on the electoral reform website. I find it difficult to believe Tasmania, who's population is only two thirds that of Nottingham, can afford a prestige project like a stadium, although the financial details are not known. Presumably the Tasmanian health service is funded by the Australian government so the money for a stadium is taking nothing away from the bed/doctor/ambulance shortage.
  19. The menu nowadays is more or less redundant if you use photo editing software. lots are free.
  20. He said swerving neatly round Starmer using the same system
  21. Col, as someone with an excellent camera why no pics?
  22. And at the other end of the table it was postulated that said Mr Mayfield of this parish has constructed an online persona that will not stand up to reality and the cold light of day.
  23. The ministerial code has actually nothing to do with selecting peers. It does apply to people like Pola Udin (Labour Baroness Udin), who was sacked over a £125,000 claim for a flat her husband denied ever having owned. Just as a highly experienced politician was given a peerage by Sunak, so were two rather obscure and decidedly inexperienced 'advisors' sent to the Lords by Starmer. Starmer, a man who is using the Lords as a tool of opposition yet hypocritically promises to scrap them when he becomes PM.
  24. Col will be along shortly Oz...