Yes, I misrecalled initially, but it was Macedonia. Why do you Putinists flock together?
Putin is a loser
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Two border crossings from Greece will put you in Romania, not Ukraine....are you sure you know where you are?
Jacob
What goes around comes around.
Maybe that was just when you turned up? It's quite cheerful around here as a rule.
I had an accidental insight into the anger and meanness of spirit when I bought a smart phone recently. It has the habit of google flashing up selected newspaper front pages with eye catching headlines, often about impending disasters and reasons to be miserable - nearly all coming from the right wing press which I don't often see. Daily Mail and Telegraph packed with lies and fomenting anxiety and unhappiness!
Appalling really, seriously disorientating for the feeble minded and making them vulnerable to dubious influences.
Lons
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I had an accidental insight into the anger and meanness of spirit when I bought a smart phone recently. It has the habit of google flashing up selected newspaper front pages with eye catching headlines, often about impending disasters and reasons to be miserable - nearly all coming from the right wing press which I don't often see. Daily Mail and Telegraph packed with lies and fomenting anxiety and unhappiness!
Appalling really, seriously disorientating for the feeble minded and making them vulnerable to dubious influences.
Why? Can't you work out how to turn them off and block them?
Jacob
What goes around comes around.
Working on it. I hate the thing! Having the Telegraph and Mail popping up all the time is like having some sort of "poisonous dwarf" in the house!Why? Can't you work out how to turn them off and block them?
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Lons
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Nothing wrong with a smart 'phone it's down as always to the person using it. Just think you can search for all your google links without using your computer or tablet. and if you forget how to use your oilstones you could watch a youtube video on it while sharpening.
My smartwatch links to my 'phone which can be a nuisance if you don't change the settings but it's all customisable. Always helpful to check your BP and pulse rate or how many steps you've walked while out and about I suppose for those who are desperate to know that.
and if you forget how to use your oilstones you could watch a youtube video on it while sharpening. My smartwatch links to my 'phone which can be a nuisance if you don't change the settings but it's all customisable. Always helpful to check your BP and pulse rate or how many steps you've walked while out and about I suppose for those who are desperate to know that.
Jacob
What goes around comes around.
I tend to see the whole thing as "gadgetisation", everywhere you look nowadays. Hardly needed but done because it's possible, sells kit, rapidly obsolescent and sells more kit...etc.Nothing wrong with a smart 'phone it's down as always to the person using it. Just think you can search for all your google links without using your computer or tablet.
My smartwatch links to my 'phone which can be a nuisance if you don't change the settings but it's all customisable. Always helpful to check your BP and pulse rate or how many steps you've walked while out and about I suppose for those who are desperate to know that.
Same with our car - it bristles with switches and have to keep looking at the 500 page manual as they are interactive and have a mind of their own. The "air conditioning" is really complicated. In my old Bedford CA van it was on/off, and pull a lever for screen/cabin/both. Dead simple and perfectly adequate.
Wow, you had Aircon in a CA. How very bourgeois
Seriously though I am with you.
My missus mini has so much stuff, even variable mood lighting FFS, and keeps telling her the tyre pressures are wrong, when the gauge says otherwise.
Going to have to replace a sensor I guess, she thinks I am trying to do her in making her drive about with dodgy tyres, as if
My missus mini has so much stuff, even variable mood lighting FFS, and keeps telling her the tyre pressures are wrong, when the gauge says otherwise.
Going to have to replace a sensor I guess, she thinks I am trying to do her in making her drive about with dodgy tyres, as if
Are you blaming Putin for your missus's tyre pressures ?
Certainly putin too much air
Lons
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It's called being an old git Jacob. Being one myself I can say that with confidence though I like all the gadgets in our cars.
Lons
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Seriously though I am with you.
My missus mini has so much stuff, even variable mood lighting FFS, and keeps telling her the tyre pressures are wrong, when the gauge says otherwise.
Going to have to replace a sensor I guess, she thinks I am trying to do her in making her drive about with dodgy tyres, as if
I wouldn't worry about it and certainly not bother with new sensors. My wife is on her 5th Mini the current one being extremely well equipped and regularly gets the same warning as she also did on her previous 2. Our neighbour has a 2019 Mini with the same issue and she came round in a panic a few weeks ago when it first happened. Our little Citigo does it occasionally as does both Fiesta's my daughter has owned recently.
My car on the other hand has only done it once when I had a slow puncture but that's just luck I guess. I think many of the sensors on modern cars are far too sensitive, an opinion shared by our local garage owner.
For the record as the originator I do not mind thread drift on this thread (or Putinist trolls) - anything which promotes "Putin is a loser" works for me!
Just be thankful you don't have to drive a Lada.
Just be thankful you don't have to drive a Lada.
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Jacob
What goes around comes around.
Had one years ago. Estate model. It looked a very neat practical design (ex Fiat) but just not reliable or nice to drive. Somebody stole the best bit which was the battery, with an image on it of happy looking soviet peasants and tractors.
Pleased with my newly formed acronym "PDP" = Poisoned Dwarf Press. Leaders of the pack being Telegraph and D Mail. Dedicated to lies, half truths, conspiracy theories, reasons to hate your neighbours/foreigners/black people, reasons to blame/distrust almost everybody, reasons for not voting to tax the rich and look after the poor, reasons for being miserable and angry...etc etc.
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AJB Temple
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This is a silly thread full of quotes from elsewhere, but it is interesting to see the styles of argument. The word propaganda is used often, especially by Robin, and is used to describe the portrayal of the Russian side of the argument. On the other side we have "facts" apparently, which can be regarded as truth.
Meanwhile, over on the Russian Workshop Forum, Russian Robbo is tearing into rabid right wingers accusing them of spreading propaganda, whilst refuting their nonsense with proper Russian facts.
Meanwhile the wind continues to howl and the floodwaters rise and tractor drivers show off.
Meanwhile, over on the Russian Workshop Forum, Russian Robbo is tearing into rabid right wingers accusing them of spreading propaganda, whilst refuting their nonsense with proper Russian facts.
Meanwhile the wind continues to howl and the floodwaters rise and tractor drivers show off.
Oh I would happily leave it, but of course every time you start the damn thing it keeps saying the pressures are wrong.
The laugh is that this really gets her going, but she has never actually checked the tyre pressures of any car she has ever owned !
I did have a Niva for a while, and have to say it was actually pretty impressive
