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?
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It needs something thats for sure.
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"seems to be giving some very good advice - LucyBC"
On ironing and cooking?
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Yawn.......x2.
Let it go.
Pat
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Hopeless J. cast us aside like a sweaty sock. Arrogance and playing with fire both may get one singed. Simples.
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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.
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AdBlockPlus seems to work.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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"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.
:-)
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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
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>> Sometime think a little more controversy would be welcome though.
Gordon Brown was a great man. How's that then CG?
M
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Nah, that won't do it M!
Here we go......Lorry drivers have every right to block the road on elephant overtakes:)
Pat
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Pat, bet u didn't mention that in court yesterday!! :)
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I didn't even look like a lorry driver yesterday:)
Pat
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"Gordon Brown was a great man. How's that then CG?."
Not controversial at all
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Football is boring ( but classless )
:-)
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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
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Croquet - no fear - John Prescott was seen playing it between his regular bi-hourly intake of two pies & chips!
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>> (Pulls on tin hat, flak vest and ducks under the parapet!)
You've got a parapet ? wow !
We only had a budgie !
Ted
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Wild parapets actually - they nest in local trees, thankfully not on our urbanisation - but they fly past regularly making a terrible racket
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"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...
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....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......
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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!
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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.
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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
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Ach. Thank you for that - shall have to break out the Laugh In tapes tonight now.
That was very interesting. But so stupid.
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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
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>> There's a contributor over there who seems to be giving some very good advice -
>> LucyBC.
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>> Do we think he's brought her in to improve the quality?
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she has posted some good replies in the legal forum today
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/threads.htm?f=12
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...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.
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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".
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I've not been back since the shutdown. I'm quite happy here.
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Just make sure you behave yourself.
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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.
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Let's chill out and live and let live, shall we? :)
Pat
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I had to Google that Ted:)
Pat
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>>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)
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just looked
LucyBC certainly is beavering away
dam-m her :-)
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LucyBC looks like Lucy Bonham Carter who has her own legal problems web site.
www.articlesbase.com/authors/lucy-bonham-carter/325014
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>> LucyBC looks like Lucy Bonham Carter who has her own legal problems web site.
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>> www.articlesbase.com/authors/lucy-bonham-carter/325014
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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.
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>> Lucy Bonham Carter >>
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Good family - presumably!
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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?
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>>>>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.
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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.
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>>>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.<<<
:) :) :)
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>>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.
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BT it was told to me as the whirly whirly bird... at the same time I was informed of the elarwi tribe.
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Better not mention the bird that has it's eyelid connected to it's scrotum then.
Or the one with no legs!
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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 ;-)
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>>>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.
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>> That was another tale which didn't quite add up.
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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.
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..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.
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>> Now he's been done again, has he?
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So you hadn't read his post resurrecting the thread? At least do him the courtesy of reading his psot before commenting on it.
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...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.
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>> 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.
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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
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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?
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>> 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.
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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.
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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...
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I have not been there for a while - is there a way to use threaded viewing? "Flat" is very smelly and unwieldy.
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>> 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.
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>> 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!
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>> 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.
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>> I've not been back since the shutdown. I'm quite happy here.
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Seconded.
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>> >> I've not been back since the shutdown. I'm quite happy here.
>> Seconded.
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Thirded
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>> >> >> I've not been back since the shutdown. I'm quite happy here.
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I peep through the curtains now and again but I've never posted.
Nor do I intend to.
Ted
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I poke me nose in daily but find it a strange cold place, and I've never posted since it went tits up.
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>>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?
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>> 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
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Don't milk it Dog! You should've used an udder word maybe...
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>>From mammary I can't recall anyone complaining. There are bound to be one or two knockers though<<
F.A.B. ;-)
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>>Is the word I used for Brest offensive to some?
I just thought **** was a little more subtle.
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I prefer the abreviation TU
BUt hey, thats txt spk and hence shows my ignorance.
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>> I prefer the abreviation TU
There was a TU on t'other side - originally called Truckers Unite, IIRC.
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T'other side - Skoda
