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Thread Author: bathtub tom	Replies: 87

New Wed 26 May 10 16:10   T'other side - bathtub tom

There's a contributor over there who seems to be giving some very good advice - LucyBC. Do we think he's brought her in to improve the quality? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 26 May 10 16:15   T'other side - Skoda

*Yawn* :-P Reply to this message | Report message       3

New Wed 26 May 10 16:26   T'other side - Stuu

It needs something thats for sure. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 26 May 10 18:18   T'other side - BiggerBadderDave

"seems to be giving some very good advice - LucyBC" On ironing and cooking? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 26 May 10 19:49   T'other side - Pat

Yawn.......x2. Let it go. Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 26 May 10 20:01   T'other side - MD

Hopeless J. cast us aside like a sweaty sock. Arrogance and playing with fire both may get one singed. Simples. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 26 May 10 21:31   T'other side - BobbyG

Now and again, I pop over there to see if anything interesting. I immediately get the double click as the pop-up blocker tries to stop the ads but I always end up with an open tab for a life insurance quote. It acts as a reminder to me why I can't be bother frequenting it on a regular basis. Of all the websites and forums I view, its the only one that does it. Reply to this message | Report message       3

New Wed 26 May 10 21:33   T'other side - NortonES2

AdBlockPlus seems to work. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 26 May 10 21:42   T'other side - Focusless

Go to the thread lists on both sites and look down the number of replies counts - there's a big difference. Eg. comparing Non-motoring (IHAQ), 1st 10 threads: HJ: 3 0 4 1 2 0 1 0 0 3 = 14 C4P: 7 36 34 6 5 7 18 8 15 10 = 146 Last edited by: Focus on Wed 26 May 10 at 21:42 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 26 May 10 22:01   T'other side - Dave_

Not this again. ICBA with HJ any more, haven't so much as looked in on the BR in 2 months or more. I got fed up with it over there, and I like it here, end of. One good thing about posting on C4P is that most people here have the same outlook. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Wed 26 May 10 22:09   T'other side - -

I look in once in a while and always end up wondering why i bothered, the interminable wait whilst it loads and that insurance page give me the hump, it's lost. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 26 May 10 22:34   T'other side - rtj70

I took a look today and earlier in the week. I am surprised (or am I) there are so few threads. Apart from oilrg's single handed attempts at creating interesting posts. I did post today in response to a Mazda6 diesel thread. Ah well. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 26 May 10 22:56   T'other side - CGNorwich

"One good thing about posting on C4P is that most people here have the same outlook." Sometime think a little more controversy would be welcome though. Posts can sometimes seem a little too predictable and this forum might seen a little too cosy to outsiders. You don't often see a new face here. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 26 May 10 23:02   T'other side - smokie

"Sometime think a little more controversy would be welcome though" What utter rubbish. "Posts can sometimes seem a little too predictable " I knew you'd say something like that. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 00:32   T'other side - Skoda

New names do come up every so often and they post and then they become regulars so i don't think this site can be all that off putting on first visit? Seems alright to me. There's not any regular "bad" posters on here (IMO). Not enough (jovial) rocking of the boat though :-P Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 06:29   T'other side - MD

>> Sometime think a little more controversy would be welcome though. Gordon Brown was a great man. How's that then CG? M Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 06:39   T'other side - Pat

Nah, that won't do it M! Here we go......Lorry drivers have every right to block the road on elephant overtakes:) Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 07:58   T'other side - BobbyG

Pat, bet u didn't mention that in court yesterday!! :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 08:28   T'other side - Pat

I didn't even look like a lorry driver yesterday:) Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 09:10   T'other side - CGNorwich

"Gordon Brown was a great man. How's that then CG?." Not controversial at all Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 09:30   T'other side - Runfer D'Hills

Football is boring ( but classless ) :-) Last edited by: Humph D'bout on Thu 27 May 10 at 09:32 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 10:27   T'other side - Roger.

Football is a working class game. As a result of clever marketing and the desire of the politically correct and Hampstead dwelling lefties to be seen as "of the people" , it has transmogrified into a crazy, money fuelled, self important, attention seeking excuse of a pastime played by brain dead, tattooed, overpaid, chavs. of the lowest class imaginable. (Pulls on tin hat, flak vest and ducks under the parapet!) Last edited by: landsker on Thu 27 May 10 at 10:28 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 10:45   T'other side - smokie

Anyone for croquet? :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 10:57   T'other side - Runfer D'Hills

Too classy. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 12:14   T'other side - Roger.

Croquet - no fear - John Prescott was seen playing it between his regular bi-hourly intake of two pies & chips! Last edited by: landsker on Thu 27 May 10 at 12:15 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 12:18   T'other side - Ted

>> (Pulls on tin hat, flak vest and ducks under the parapet!) You've got a parapet ? wow ! We only had a budgie ! Ted >> Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 12:22   T'other side - Roger.

Wild parapets actually - they nest in local trees, thankfully not on our urbanisation - but they fly past regularly making a terrible racket Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 14:15   T'other side - Crankcase

"Wild parapets actually ..." As was put by "the world's greatest comedian", an idea the British view with incredulity... ....And there was Betty Mavery, who had her own aviary, and the biggest parakeets I've ever seen... Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 14:43   T'other side - helicopter

....And there was Betty Mavery, who had her own aviary, and the biggest parakeets I've ever seen... You sure it was parakeets she had Crankcase and not a Cockatoo...... Last edited by: retpocileh on Thu 27 May 10 at 14:44 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 14:48   T'other side - helicopter

She's got chanticleers and dickey birds, Intelligent and tricky birds, That make the boys all want to hang around. Her crow is black and shiny, Her hummingbirds are tiny, But she's got the biggest parakeets in town! She's got cockatoos and bobolinks, In royal blue and dusty pinks, And you should see them hangin' upside down. Oh, it's thrilling to behold her, When she wings them past her shoulder, 'Cause she's got the biggest parakeets in town! Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 14:55   T'other side - Crankcase

That's really interesting - yours is Jud Strunk, and mine was a dreadful and serial plagiarist of obscure comics, so I'm betting mine nicked yours! About the right time too. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 15:08   T'other side - helicopter

Jud Strunk indeed of Laugh In Fame recorded around 1975 Here's the whole lot - have a listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kA-Z4VEmoA Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 16:19   T'other side - Crankcase

Ach. Thank you for that - shall have to break out the Laugh In tapes tonight now. That was very interesting. But so stupid. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 16:29   T'other side - Ted

The Bishop of Chester, in slavery. Committed great acts of depravity. To terrible howls he'd roger young owls, in a crypt fitted out as an aviary. Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 16:58   T'other side - John H

>> There's a contributor over there who seems to be giving some very good advice - >> LucyBC. >> >> Do we think he's brought her in to improve the quality? >> she has posted some good replies in the legal forum today www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/threads.htm?f=12 Last edited by: John H on Thu 27 May 10 at 16:58 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 27 May 10 18:15   T'other side - Iffy

...Do we think he's brought her in to improve the quality?... He might have brought her in to improve the quantity. That legal sub-forum had done next to nothing for a fortnight, yet on May 25, a dozen or so different threads are replied to. I've seen similar activity in the other sub-forums. I dunno what's going on, but the rhythm of posts just doesn't ring true. And nor does the way some threads reappear from the past. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 28 May 10 13:04   T'other side - FotheringtonTomas

It doesn't matter, does it. HJ's trying to drum up support - a good way to do it is to increase activity by number of posts. He's posting there himself, it seems to me, far more frequently, too. A good way of increasing "membership". Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 28 May 10 13:49   T'other side - L'escargot

I've not been back since the shutdown. I'm quite happy here. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 28 May 10 14:18   T'other side - Clk Sec

Just make sure you behave yourself. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 28 May 10 17:08   T'other side - The Nut

Car by car breakdown over there is still quite useful, but the forum's? Can't be bothered with them, all the quality posters have turned up here. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 28 May 10 17:40   T'other side - Pat

Let's chill out and live and let live, shall we? :) Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 28 May 10 23:42   T'other side - Ted

Schadenfreude, Pat ! Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 29 May 10 05:27   T'other side - Pat

I had to Google that Ted:) Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 29 May 10 11:57   T'other side - Clk Sec

>>There's a contributor over there who seems to be giving some very good advice - LucyBC. Indeed she is, even over a bank holiday weekend. (With apologies to *Yawn* :-P and Yawn.....x2 above) Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 29 May 10 14:45   T'other side - Bellboy

just looked LucyBC certainly is beavering away dam-m her :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 29 May 10 17:03   T'other side - Duncan

LucyBC looks like Lucy Bonham Carter who has her own legal problems web site. www.articlesbase.com/authors/lucy-bonham-carter/325014 Last edited by: Duncan on Sat 29 May 10 at 17:05 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 29 May 10 17:09   T'other side - John H

>> LucyBC looks like Lucy Bonham Carter who has her own legal problems web site. >> >> >> www.articlesbase.com/authors/lucy-bonham-carter/325014 >> IIRC she did give her web address in a reply to someone there a few weeks ago. In the last para of the post linked below she seems to confirm that she is a part of HJ's team. www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=84926&v=t&m=980274 "I certainly think you need detailed (free) legal advice so you can take an informed decision and if you write to me at asklucy@honestjohn.co.uk I will set up a free legal support call." In that post, she also displays that she has later time editing powers usually reserved for officials of the web site. Last edited by: John H on Sat 29 May 10 at 17:11 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 29 May 10 18:04   T'other side - MD

Ok Yah!! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 29 May 10 18:26   T'other side - Duncan

>> Lucy Bonham Carter >> >> Good family - presumably! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 30 May 10 09:17   T'other side - MrTee43

www.qualityanswers.co.uk/qa/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24239&Itemid=414 £9.99 per year. Maybe HJ gets a cut. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 06:32   T'other side - LucyBC - sherlock47

Interesting post from LucyBC yesterday! www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=68927#m981384 Who is she ?????? This reply looks to me as written as though she was working in the police? Or do other people have full access to the MIB information? Does anybody else interpret it in that way? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 07:45   T'other side - LucyBC - Fenlander

>>>>Who is she ?????? Lucy Bonham Carter apparently. She is all over the net as a motoring legal advisor to various websites giving free advice. I assume she must charge some people at some point though or there's nothing in it for her?? Even a picture here.... www.articlesbase.com/authors/lucy-bonham-carter/325014 Seems to be all over HJ with his blessing and sometimes touts for *business* with her real email address. Her replies seem to be excellent advice. Last edited by: Fenlander on Wed 9 Jun 10 at 07:47 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 08:19   T'other side - LucyBC - Iffy

It's another thread dragged up from nearly two years ago. The view with all those margins they use over there is odd. Scroll down to the bottom and there's that many parallel lines the text is only a couple of inches wide. Almost tempting to construct a thread in an attempt to get the text to disappear. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 08:30   T'other side - LucyBC - sherlock47

>>>It's another thread dragged up from nearly two years ago.<<< that was my initial reaction. However the thread was resurrected by Stephen Farndon of MIB failure fame. >>>Almost tempting to construct a thread in an attempt to get the text to disappear.<<< :) :) :) Last edited by: pmh on Wed 9 Jun 10 at 08:31 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 09:38   T'other side - LucyBC - bathtub tom

>>Almost tempting to construct a thread in an attempt to get the text to disappear. What, a bit like the bird that flies in ever decreasing circles until it disappears up it's own orifice. Damned if I can remember what it's called. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 10:04   T'other side - LucyBC - Fenlander

BT it was told to me as the whirly whirly bird... at the same time I was informed of the elarwi tribe. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 10:20   T'other side - LucyBC - bathtub tom

Better not mention the bird that has it's eyelid connected to it's scrotum then. Or the one with no legs! Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 09:47   T'other side - LucyBC - car4play

What you are supposed to do is to follow the blue lines all the way up to see what that post is replying to. Simple really ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 11:01   T'other side - LucyBC - Iffy

... >>>It's another thread dragged up from nearly two years ago.<<< that was my initial reaction. However the thread was resurrected by Stephen Farndon of MIB failure fame.... That was another tale which didn't quite add up. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 11:18   T'other side - LucyBC - John H

>> >> That was another tale which didn't quite add up. >> Don't know what you are on about, but the thread has been resurrected by Stpehen Farndon (was UKIP cnadidate for Saint Mary's Ward, Trafford) who started the original thread. He has resurrected it because he has been done by an ANPR police patrol car again, as it seems his insurance company have failed to update the MIB once again. Last edited by: John H on Wed 9 Jun 10 at 11:18 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 11:24   T'other side - LucyBC - Iffy

..Don't know what you are on about... What I'm on about is there were more holes in his original story than Swiss cheese. Then we learn he's running for parliament. Now he's been done again, has he? You couldn't make it up. Except, possibly, you could, well, make up a tiny, perhaps a little bit of it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 11:41   T'other side - LucyBC - John H

>> >> Now he's been done again, has he? >> So you hadn't read his post resurrecting the thread? At least do him the courtesy of reading his psot before commenting on it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 12:09   T'other side - LucyBC - Iffy

...At least do him the courtesy of reading his psot before commenting... John, I read his original post on the old BR which was the tale I was commenting on. Subsequent events only serve to confirm my original impression. Oh, and thanks for the advice on courtesy, I promise to bear it mind. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 12:39   T'other side - LucyBC - FotheringtonTomas

>> the thread has been resurrected by Stpehen Farndon (was UKIP cnadidate for >> Saint Mary's Ward, Trafford) who started the original thread. Can you give an URL? I'd like to see the post. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 12:45   T'other side - LucyBC - Ted

Not seen anything in the evening paper about his latest ANPR tug. The last, contentious, one was all over it..........hardly likely to miss out on publicity for the latest one, I would have thought ! Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 14:30   T'other side - LucyBC - teabelly

It doesn't take long to check the askmid website to verify. If you don't check information and tell the organisation concerned when it is wrong how are they supposed to correct it anyway? It could easily be something like transposed characters so insurance was applied to a similar registration rather than the correct one. If it is incorrect on the proposal form then they will never realise unless the actual insured party tells them! Perhaps the insurance database needs to contain addresses as well as registration numbers so that the owners are cross referenced with vehicle reg plates and that those can be checked with dvla and those that don't match are then flagged up as being potential errors especially if the registration plates are only slightly different. I also think the askmid system should send out an automated letter when insurance stops on a vehicle to the dvla's keepers address so that people know it's gone off rather than waiting until they are stopped by police, potentially in the middle of the night or some other time. Also if it does show up as uninsured online there should be a way of registering a query or making a note to say that there is an error. I also think insurance companies must have 24 hour 365 day helplines for people that have been stopped so that the police can contact them so they can actually check details out of hours. How many of these incidents would have been stopped if the police could have talked to a person and verified the tugged person's story? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 12:49   T'other side - LucyBC - Focusless

>> Can you give an URL? I'd like to see the post. www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=68927 First 2010 post. Last edited by: Focus on Wed 9 Jun 10 at 12:49 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 14:02   T'other side - LucyBC - Dog

I have a butchers over at the dead place now & again, I was reading a fred yesterday entitled "05 2.2 VSA light on: Dealer wants 1600 quid." When I just had another look to see what's a'foot, I noticed the flipping thread was started 1 year ago, Yet ANOTHER resurrection. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 17:28   T'other side - LucyBC - crocks

As I was reading this I realised the song on the radio was Ashton, Gardner and Dyke's "Resurrection Shuffle". Haven't heard it for years. What are the chances of that... Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 14:56   T'other side - LucyBC - FotheringtonTomas

I have not been there for a while - is there a way to use threaded viewing? "Flat" is very smelly and unwieldy. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 15:01   T'other side - LucyBC - Focusless

>> I have not been there for a while - is there a way to use >> threaded viewing? "Flat" is very smelly and unwieldy. 'View threaded' similar to here. But you can see the threading in the 'flat' view - that's why you get all the indentation. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 15:07   T'other side - LucyBC - FotheringtonTomas

>> But you can see the threading in the 'flat' view - that's why you get >> all the indentation. Yes, and doesn't it look ablolutely-flippin'-awful. Gah! Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jun 10 15:18   T'other side - LucyBC - Focusless

>> Yes, and doesn't it look ablolutely-flippin'-awful. Gah! Before this place existed I thought what they do now would be a good idea. But now I think I also prefer the 'really flat' view with the option of threaded plus the little arrows we have here that indicate the target of the reply. Last edited by: Focus on Wed 9 Jun 10 at 15:18 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 10 Jun 10 23:07   T'other side - Fursty Ferret

>> I've not been back since the shutdown. I'm quite happy here. >> Seconded. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 10 Jun 10 23:20   T'other side - swiss tony

>> >> I've not been back since the shutdown. I'm quite happy here. >> Seconded. >> Thirded Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 10 Jun 10 23:25   T'other side - Robin O'Reliant

>> >> >> I've not been back since the shutdown. I'm quite happy here. >> >> Seconded. >> +4 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 10 Jun 10 23:29   T'other side - Ted

I peep through the curtains now and again but I've never posted. Nor do I intend to. Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 11 Jun 10 08:38   T'other side - Dog

I poke me nose in daily but find it a strange cold place, and I've never posted since it went tits up. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 11 Jun 10 12:56   T'other side - Clk Sec

Or even **** up. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 11 Jun 10 13:21   T'other side - Pat

Dog 1 Swear Filter 0 Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 11 Jun 10 13:26   T'other side - Dog

>>Or even **** up.<< Affirmative ... I did consider **** up but, when I checked with the filter, my word was deemed ok. Is the word I used for Brest offensive to some? Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 11 Jun 10 13:37   T'other side - VxFan

>> Is the word I used for Brest offensive to some? From mammary I can't recall anyone complaining. There are bound to be one or two knockers though. Last edited by: VxFan on Fri 11 Jun 10 at 13:37 Reply to this message | Report message       2

New Fri 11 Jun 10 14:04   T'other side - Pat

Another booby, Dog! pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 11 Jun 10 14:13   T'other side - Auntie Lockbrakes

Don't milk it Dog! You should've used an udder word maybe... Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 11 Jun 10 14:09   T'other side - Dog

>>From mammary I can't recall anyone complaining. There are bound to be one or two knockers though<< F.A.B. ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 11 Jun 10 15:31   T'other side - Clk Sec

>>Is the word I used for Brest offensive to some? I just thought **** was a little more subtle. :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 11 Jun 10 18:25   T'other side - Zero

I prefer the abreviation TU BUt hey, thats txt spk and hence shows my ignorance. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 11 Jun 10 18:50   T'other side - VxFan

>> I prefer the abreviation TU There was a TU on t'other side - originally called Truckers Unite, IIRC. Last edited by: VxFan on Fri 11 Jun 10 at 18:50 Reply to this message | Report message