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  1. The postie mystery. Why does my postie have me sign for packages when my neighbour is’nt in and leaves them with me when they're small enough to fit through a letterbox. OK don’t mind signing for them but he then goes and sticks a card through their letterbox saying the packages have been left with a neighbour?  Why not just take the flippin packages and stick them through their letterbox instead???   :017:

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    2. johninderby

      johninderby

      Anyway it’s not a rant or complaint just an observation. No big deal.

    3. Oh How Original

      Oh How Original

      Yeah I have asked this before, when small but important bits have been left with a neighbour, who works weird hours so I have to wait until the next day.

      They can't leave packages anywhere other than the house of the person who signed for it.

      The funny ones are when stuff is left with me that fits through my letterbox, with no signature :lol: 

    4. RCbutcher

      RCbutcher

      Better than just dumping it at the door like ours. Dripping wet parcels aren't good lol. My gearVR was thrown outside in rain and snow last week. 

  2. Is anybody actually bothering to watch the Winter Olympics? Just can’t get interested this year and haven’t watched any at all. 

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    2. dazp1976

      dazp1976

      Well the Men snowboarding was good but the women, well...

      Equality strikes, "we can do the same kickers as the men. We don't need smaller ones" is what they said. What happens? They either bottle it and bail on the run or wipe out hard. Ha!. Guys are doing like 1440's and the girls can barely pull a 360 on the same ramps. All they is "waiting for the wind to drop". You're an Olympian you have to work with your conditions and not just bail out and cry. 

    3. QRC

      QRC

      I was impressed by Red, only 17, well deserved gold medal.

    4. dazp1976

      dazp1976

      Yep. He really put the pressure on forcing the others to go hard and make mistakes. Well done to the fella :first:

  3. Ah Amazon. Couple of packages from Amazon didn’t turn up although their tracking showed them as being delivered and handed to resident. No note was left.  Contacted Amazon and they said the packages had accidentally been scanned as delivered but were actually in transit but they would sort out replacements if they didn’t show up,by Friday.  Then this evening a neighbour a few doors down came over with the packages ( he’d just got home from work ) that had been left in his porch. 

     

    Oh what a clueless bunch.  :yes:

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    2. Oh How Original

      Oh How Original

      My Dad was shocked when he went to an Amazon depot delivering on the wagon... Amazon is basically a fancy pound shop, they get the stuff from exactly the same places.

      He couldn't believe what a state the place was, small wonder they cock it up :P

    3. spannermonkey

      spannermonkey

      Wife ordered a Crockpot just before Christmas that never turned up, Amazon were straight on it and a replacement arrived next day. It's was simply the retail packaging with an address label stuck to it, wonder why the first one vanished. :lol:

    4. johninderby

      johninderby

      Told Amazon that the packages had turned up and they’ve given me a £5.00 voucher to use on an Amazon purchase. Not bad considering the order was only about 15 quid in the first place. :yes:

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    2. Fly In My Soup

      Fly In My Soup

      Popped it in the news section. Credited j.i.d.

       

      John I think you've inadvertently revealed your email address in the link dude

    3. johninderby

      johninderby

      Hopefully one of the mods can remove the link from my original post.

    4. RCbutcher

      RCbutcher

      Very nice truck. 

  4. Victory for common sense. :thumbsup:   The US International Trade Commision in a unanimous ruling chucks out Boeings complaint against Bombardier saying that there was no basis for their claim. Few thousand jobs in the UK now saved. 

    1. Carpmart

      Carpmart

      Yep good news for once!  Bullies don’t always win! :good:

    2. RCbutcher

      RCbutcher

      I was just reading about that. Its great news nr 300% tax is spite. Isn't boeing doing enough buisness or is lockheed slowly pushing them out lol. Last moves. 

       

      I wread a story on the American industrial complex its pretty crazy.  But Lockheeds merger with another giant pushed it infront. Now it has the most staff the best states and all the politicians wanting to keep them sweet. 

       

      Now bombadier is making moves they cried unfair advantage? 

       

      Uk/CA is subsidising bombardier too much. 

       

      It sounds like amazing news a huge deal with canada securing tons of jobs in Ireland too. High skill labour jobs too. 

       

      Mayb another reason people keep saying the pound is ticking up abit. Or hopfully this is extra good news. 

       

       

      Usa must be nervous keep trying to do sly things to keep #1 like meeting the eu to discuss breaking up the nhs on fair trade laws. Again subsidised by govt HELL NO. You pay full price. 

       

      Gaddafi gave his people free health care. Why can't usa. 

       

       

      Does it matter though its just 2min to midnight on the doom clock. 

       

      Russia might have a new nuke sub. 100 megaton drone sub 5ft x 75ft. APPARANTLY according to leaked pentagon papers? 

       

      I saw it on tomonews with russias robo troops ot cosmo naughts whatever a human can do they can do it. Inc firing two pistols accurately and hoping to have them at iss by 2021. Sounds too good. 

       

      Also new planes that are huge but just skim the ground, to be used like transporter ships. They cam easily skim over the water land or ice no bother. 

       

      Russia has been busy if its all true. I don't like the idea of rc 100megaton nukes swimming around though. Surly they could be hacked. Or something. 

  5. Don’t think I’d want to fly by Pegasus airlines. Don’t like the way they park.  :eek:

    They say they had a “Runway excursion incident” at Trabzon airport in Turkey. No injuries fortunately.

     

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  6. A Savage....but not as we know it.  :whistling:

    WLtoys 6 wheel crawler. Very, very toy grade. Note the word Fashionable underneath Savage.  :36_11_13[1]:

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    2. autobutcher

      autobutcher

      The 'particular' sticker on the rear end is my favourite.

    3. johninderby

      johninderby

      Chinese “English” can be amusing.

      Instructions on a charger I bought a while ago included the instruction “ The unit make some noise while charging but you don’t care”. :D

    4. evssv

      evssv

      yeah gota love  how they write there English....:doh:.....makes for a good chuckle:36_11_6[1]:

  7. Some may be going thirsty this Xmas. 

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42455358

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    2. spannermonkey

      spannermonkey

      Another of Stobarts fine sheds burst into flames. Feel sorry for all those held up in that mess, will take an age to recover that lot, and the beer will be warm. :lol:

    3. johninderby

      johninderby

      Don’t think they’re going to put this one right.  :whistling:

       

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    4. spannermonkey

      spannermonkey

      I've taken worse for MOT. :lol::lol:

  8. 7:00am and back from shopping and the petrol station. No need to go out again until Xmas day. Like Xmas early opening times..  :yes:  

    Now the big decision. Breakfast or back to bed for an hour.  :whistling:

     

  9. Toys R Us UK gets a last minute reprieve.  Looks like most UK stores will now be kept open. So it looks like most employees won’t be losing their jobs this Xmas. 

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    2. .AJ.

      .AJ.

      We have a megastore in Basingstoke, I wonder if that’s for the chop, it’s never busy and always understaffed 

    3. Oh How Original

      Oh How Original

      They'll get a bit of redundancy pay though, which I suppose is a small silver lining.

       

    4. dazp1976

      dazp1976

      That's what happens when the company spends the pension pot. Same with BHS, same with an ex employer of mine. Workplace pensions are a sham and aren't worth a toss.

  10. Came across this Xmas card that seems particularily appropriate to buying online for Xmas.  :whistling:

     

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    1. autobutcher

      autobutcher

      Good job it wasn't Yodel!

    2. wiggles

      wiggles

      In the yodel version the gifts are on the roof

       

    3. bertberr

      bertberr

      With holes punctured in the side, and squashed!

  11. I would really like this NIB kit. I really would. But not at that price. Can’t believe how much some of these vintage kits fetch..

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Marui-Big-Bear-Datsun-Kit-Excellent-cond/352233092901?hash=item5202ba7725:g:w6oAAOSwZlZaMd6a

     

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    2. QRC

      QRC

      Blimey that takes me back, wish I had purchased some of those kits back then and kept them sealed !!. :o

    3. johninderby

      johninderby

      Got all the bits together to do my own re:re: of the Big Bear based on an extended Lunchbox chassis and a TBG Big Bear body. Took about two years to gather all the bits. Original bumper, roll bar & lights and interior are hard to find.

    4. RCbutcher

      RCbutcher

      Its crazy once old and rare they ask silly money but some people van afford it, and not even care. I saw something tamiya afew months ago crazy price but even i thought ide love that and im not a fan of tamiya. But respect the brand for sure

  12. Ha Ha...Pull the other one.  Email received. :36_11_6[1]:

     

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    2. Ian w

      Ian w

      You can have her just send her £1550 travel expenses . :P

    3. evssv

      evssv

      :lol:........naa ur alright.....

    4. Fly In My Soup

      Fly In My Soup

      Why pick australia???

       

      They should of done 1.2million vietnamese dong ( £40 )

       

       

       

       

  13. Looking Christmasy outside this morning.  :yes:

     

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    1. Zannu

      Zannu

      Lucky, We just have rain and lots of it

  14. In the words of Forrest Gump stupid is as stupid does. What a total idiot.   :yes:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-42288252/prankster-defends-cementing-head-in-microwave

    1. Fly In My Soup

      Fly In My Soup

      Southerners ......:helpsmilie:

    2. RCbutcher

      RCbutcher

      YouTube is a beast. 

  15. Xmas must be coming.  :whistling:

    Just back from shopping. Shops packed and madness in the car parks. Impatient drivers circling the car park looking for a space and much blowing of horns, shaking of fists and shouting words that can’t be mentioned on here.  :D

     

    Ah merry Xmas indeed. :wacko:

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    2. QRC

      QRC

      That sounds a familiar story, even experienced that at an IKEA on a Sunday years ago, before anyone posts any comments it wasn’t Xmas, sad people, need to learn there is the internet to do your shopping!!. :D

    3. RCbutcher

      RCbutcher

      I nearly got run down last night i nearly threw my ecig at the jag it infuriated me. Small dark road cars go single file. Not this brand new jag he used the path. I needed my ecig tho stopped myself n jus shouted instead. Its pitch black around the village at night. Dangerous enough without snobs thinkinh they own the paths aswel as road. 

    4. QRC

      QRC

      Just parked up in my local town, with no issues, errie it very quiet !!, only gone in for an eye test, arranged by my best half !!. :whistling:

  16. Winter is coming by Friday.  Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.  :aww:

     

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    2. QRC

      QRC

      Ahh that’s where it’s different for me !!, I normally work weekends !!. :P

    3. MissT

      MissT

      I just hope there's snow, to make it worth while :cold:

    4. QRC

      QRC

      Keeping fingers crossed for snow, heavy the better, would be very annoying if I couldn’t get to work on the Monday, better to remember to hid the 4x4 !!. :whistling:

  17. UK drone users to sit safety awareness tests under new law. Also police with have new powers to deal with illegal use of drones. 

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42126150

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    2. Oh How Original

      Oh How Original

      @bertberr - yet the roads are still littered with absolutely terrible drivers.

    3. johninderby

      johninderby

      One solution.  :D

       

       

       

       

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    4. bertberr

      bertberr

      sorry... my rather dry sense of humour

  18. Snow !!!   Yes it’s actually snowing this morning aand coming down pretty quickly as well although just slightly too warm to settle except on the cars. 

     

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    1. sunny

      sunny

      Just very thick frost here

    2. johninderby

      johninderby

      Stopped now and melting. Only traces left on the path and car now. Temp was just below zero first thing.  Now up to 1 degree. 

    3. Oh How Original

      Oh How Original

      We have it all over the hills, had a bit on the ground this morning, the dogs love to play in it.

  19. Well it’s a flood of Black Friday offers emails in my inbox. Enough already.  :ack:

    Anyone notice how unspecial most of the offers are?  Where are the US style 80% off specials???   :whistling:

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    2. RC4WD fan

      RC4WD fan

      It's starting to get on my nerves now aswell my phone won't stop pinging with constant email:banghead:

    3. Oh How Original

      Oh How Original

      Only two deals I have seen are the TRX4 for £450, which is still £150 too much :P and the Yuneec Q500 at £550 which is a great price for what you get.

      You're right though, we still pay more than full USA retail when our stuff is on offer, it stinks!

    4. evssv

      evssv

      if only the general public knew the actual cost prices of things they would b shocked :faintthud:.......considering  the rrp's we gota pay......:ack::ack:......we truly get screwed for everything we buy.....

  20. Annoying.....eBay sellers that don’t respond to an offer. Why have the offer option if you’re not going to respond to an offer? Oh well there’s still a few hours for them to respond.  :ack:

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    2. evssv
    3. QRC

      QRC

      Thank you, will have it the ready for deciphering the next message !!. :D

    4. johninderby

      johninderby

      Finally just before the offer expired seller accepted it.  :thumbsup:

  21. The Milenium Falcon is finally finished and siting in it’s display table in the lounge. Been quite a build but more than happy with the result.

     

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    1. RCbutcher

      RCbutcher

      I was looking at the disney castle as a time capsule for my gilrs. I thought it looked really cool and if it doesnt lego star wars theyll be old enough to build it. 

       

      Is it this one that goes for £850 in bids all day long? Its crazy. 

    2. johninderby

      johninderby

      Yes silly prices and now averaging a grand selling price on evilbay. No more stock due this year apparently. I bought mine when it went on sale. At 7:15 in the morning. Sold out by 7:30.  :insane:

  22. Thought it was April 1st when I first read this. Like bleeping heck would I let an Amazon driver have a code to enter my house when I’m not at home.  :018::018::018:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41747074

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    2. rushboy2004

      rushboy2004

      I just get it shipped to a amazon locker / post office now days so much easier than waiting for a driver to find my address on a main road!

      this would be great for me they can get access to front door into porch but I can lock inner door to house. so they can leave items secure but have no access to house. better than hiding parcel in the bin. I have been tempt to but a lockable shed/garden storage locker near front door with a lock for delivery's

       

      prime been great for me, spent over £30k last year via work at amazon and saved a fortune on next day shipping.

       

       

    3. bertberr

      bertberr

      They are usually the last resort for me, what with the way they treat workers at there Dunfermline site, and elsewhere no doubt, as well as their tax avoidance antics...

       

      Just wish they weren't the cheapest option most of the time... :ack:

       

       

    4. sean-vrs

      sean-vrs

      Prime works for me

  23. Silly prices for hobby stuff. Was looking for some Tamiya masking tape and came across this. Obviously a mistake but what’s the most ridiculous price you’ve seen for accessories or even an RC.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/TAMIYA-Masking-Tape-2pcs-Refill/dp/B00J3TLZQC/ref=sr_1_13?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1508877915&sr=1-13&keywords=tamiya+masking+tape

    1. MissT

      MissT

      £32 for a Tamiya Dirt Tuned motor was extortionate.

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