Westward
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21 hours ago, Ultrastu said:
My goodness .you think the 2.0 ltr diesel transit engine .is bomb proof ?.
The faults start around 40 k . Unfortunately it's the same engine as in the ranger . The 1 ltr petrol ecoboost is another ford disaster .
Good luck with that .
And then, when you get past that lot the suspension issues start kicking in. Ask me how I know!
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3 hours ago, Stonepark said:
I use Kapersky across all my devices.
Never had any issues.
You do know it's Russian software with access to all areas of your phone and has known ties to Russia's Federal Security Bureau don't you?.
No one in the IT industry trusts it.
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I've yet to find a gun/choke combo where finger tightened chokes would stay put. Grease or not they always come loose unless they're nipped up with the key. There's a clue in the fact that there's always a key supplied with the gun!
Beretta will simply tell you to use the key - as will every other maker.
Forget the rocket science and put a trace of grease on the threads before tightening with the key. Any grease will do but, although I've never personally used it on guns, copper grease has the advantage of being heatproof (Messy stuff though)
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16 hours ago, 12gauge82 said:
the vast majority of people with great wealth and land belong to the same familys from history who also had great wealth.
The only way of 'leveling up' would be to remove vast wealth at death and make it impossible to pass on to family. The ethics of that I'm not going to go into as it a very devisive subject and is all a bit communistic.
Perhaps, but it's not really levelling up. I firmly believe that you don't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
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On 18/06/2023 at 18:20, 12gauge82 said:
I would strongly disagree with that.
We all have opinions. Mine is that higher education is the only reliable foundation stone for self improvement but, sadly, a very large percentage of the population in "disadvantaged" areas think further education is a waste of time and money.
I know plenty of very capable working class locals who have good brains and a good work ethic but who were never encouraged or supported by their parents to aspire to anything more than unskilled or semi skilled work. Building shopping malls, toddlers playgrounds, multiplex cinemas, sports centres and skateboard parks isn't going to change that.
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It's all nonsense anyway. Levelling can't be applied from above no matter how much money they waste trying. It has to come from the hearts and minds of the people who live in those areas and no one's ever worked out how to fix the problem of those who think education is a waste of time.
You can't build a house from the top down. It's that simple.
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On 03/06/2023 at 10:19, team tractor said:
My dads just had a result of 8 but told that’s nothing to worry about . Is that normal ?
See my posts from page Feb 3. John above is right in the sense that a stable level is important but I would counsel against putting faith and trust in a GP. Back in 2013, my PSA was 14 but the GP said nothing and didn't bother with regular follow up tests. 9 years later, with a PSA level of 2,293 I was diagnosed with advanced PC which had migrated to the base of my spine. Thankfully it had not become bone cancer and a CT scan showed my soft tissue to be clear. Nevertheless I am told that it's life limiting and, in the golden words of the Urologist: "It'll get you in the end".
Not content with ignoring my high PSA back in 2013, I now find that the GP blood test records show that on 24th January this year, one of the GPs accessed that record and deleted the PSA figure. Cover up perhaps! Not being one who gives up easily, I obtained the records from the path lab and there it is, April 2013 PSA level of 14.
My PSA is still falling and as of 3 weeks ago was 5.1.
I'll say again, do not trust your GP to give the right advice. Do your own research and you'll find that Serum PSA levels tend to increase with age. The normal level for a man over 70 is 4.5 - 7.5.
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29 minutes ago, oowee said:
Of course there is uncertainty as there is with any emerging science. There is also a large degree of consensus.
The underlying problem is that the "emerging science" is all about predicting the effects of climate change, all of which is predicated on the assumption that it's caused by man made CO2 emissions.
Not only is there no scientific proof or any other kind of certainty that CO2 is to blame but no one has yet been able to demonstrate that the greenhouse gas effect is actually real. What is certain is that the very high temperatures of the late 19th Century until the 1920s (at least as hot as 2023) and the medieval warming period (hotter than 2023) which enabled agriculture to happen in Greenland were most definitely not caused by CO2 emissions.
A lot of scientists are doing very nicely out of the $1 billion per day being spent around the world studying ways to capture CO2 or reduce emissions and they're not ging to kill the goose that keeps on laying their personal golden eggs by pointing out that no one has yet proved that CO2 emissions are to blame.
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1 hour ago, sutty2006 said:
now. Where’s my copy of blazing saddles?
Right next to Pulp Fiction...
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Apparently it's okay though for a lady of colour to complain publicly that the Buckingham Palace balcony was "very white". Imagine the global burst of outrage if someone stated publicly that the gospel singers at the coronation were "very black".
Why should the 99% of the population who aren't offended by such words kneel in supplication to the 1% who are?
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3 hours ago, Lloyd90 said:
I can’t see how individual GP’s would be blamed for that.
Our testing facilities etc are already massively overrun and underfunded without us having a policy like this.Let's hope that you won't find yourself being told one day that you have a life limiting, incurable cancer that's been slowly building for 10 years because your GP didn't do anything at the time about the abnormal PSA results and is now committing illegal acts by changing your records to cover up his negligence.
That's what's happened to me 15 months ago and is an example of why GPs deserve to get the blame. I can't prove which GP redacted my records but I can now prove that someone did as I've obtained copies from the Pathology Lab of the original test results. I will now be taking legal advice.
GPs are not superhumans and they're not the highest level professionals around. Anyone of reasonable intelligence and the right aptitude could make it as long as they had the means to fund the training. I've known several doctors socially and none showed any signs of having phenomenal intelligence or special abilities.
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By far the best people I've dealt with in the NHS are the Nurse Practitioners. There's a lot of contact with the NPs when having a course of Chemo and in my experience they've always been thorough, helpful, considerate and professional.
It's not just Joe Public who think GPs are taking the rip, ask a nurse in the Chemo ward what they think about GPs and GP pay. I did and I got a very clear answer because they know that every day they're providing hideously expensive treatment to people who, in many cases, wouldn't have ever got to that stage if their GP had taken their symptoms seriously and when less costly and more effective treatment would have been prescribed.
Cancer is on the rise and by 2035 at the present rate, 70% of the population can expect to be diagnosed with cancer at least once in their lifetime.
There are thousands like me who should have been diagnosed years earlier but weren't because their GP was too lazy/disinterested/incompetent/negligent/inattentive etc. to do the job for which they are very, very highly paid. As said above, it's bad enough that they get so much wrong, but the fact that they try to hide the evidence shows just how low they really can get and little they really care about their patients.
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I'm in that minority that doesn't think doctors are elite. specially gifted human beings that should be worshipped as being near godlike. This is why I'll never again put unquestioning trust in the opinion of a doctor, whether one with 7 years of university training or a 3 year apprenticeship.
As I've said before I am being treated for metastatic prostate cancer. 2 consultants have told me that it's not curable and life limiting. In 2013 I had a check up and blood test at the surgery with the senior GP at which I specifically requested a PSA test. There was no follow up call and I assumed everything was okay. The following year I had another check up but this time the practice nurse took blood before I saw the doctor. She was looking at the screen and asked if the doctor had mentioned my PSA result from the previous test as she thought it was rather high. He hadn't. A week later I saw a different doctor for the physical exam and asked him about my PSA. From what he said I now know that back then my PSA was abnormally high but he asked a couple of questions about my peeing habits and that was that until my cancer diagnosis in January 2022. But I never forgot the actual figures from back then.
A few weeks ago I remembered those 2 blood tests from 9/10 years ago and what's more I could recall the actual figures quoted by the 2nd doctor, so I requested and got access to my GP health records via the NHS app. Imagine my surprise when I found that the entries for the 2013/14 PSA tests had been redacted on 24th January 2023. In the last week the results have been redacted again eliminating all PSA results, even one from 2 months ago. What this means is that not only were the doctors negligent in the extreme by not following up the earlier abnormal tests, but now they've managed to erase the evidence that proves it!
I can't prove which doctor erased the results which is a shame because it's a criminal offence to change factual information on a patient's record. Legally, a doctor can only modify their own opinion and only in certain specific circumstances.
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1 minute ago, Stonepark said:
get good wholesome meat and dairy on their plate.
Unfortunately, there's really no such thing as "good wholesome meat and dairy". Even beef, dairy or pork from cattle reared without being pumped with anti biotics and growth hormones will degrade the immune system, overload the alimentary system and double the risk of colorectal and some other cancers. Normally produced beef, dairy and pork from the supermarket is mostly produced with profit being the main priority and does even more damage to people's health.
I'm not vegan but having been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer early last year I've done a mountain of research into ways to improve survival chances by changing lifestyle. I have a study of over 1500 people who achieved remission for themselves by changing their lifestyle after the oncologists could do no more for them. The study found 10 things which virtually all of them did. Regarding diet this included eliminating or drastically reducing dairy, eliminating all red meat, virtually all processed foods and massively increasing veg, particularly greens, veg, nuts, seeds and fruit. My experience of using oat milk instead of dairy is that after about 2 weeks, milk starts to taste quite unpleasant. I always have oat milk in coffee because I really dislike it with cow's milk in now, although I do put a little milk in tea - but that's all.
No matter how much you might love cheese, bacon sandwiches, burgers steaks etc., if it's your life expectancy on the line, you happily change things. Then, amazingly, you find your hair grows thicker and stronger, you skin becomes smoother and more elastic, your eyesight improves, your general mood improves, energy level goes up and so on.
One day year or so ago I felt a bit under the weather and a covid test proved positive. I took it easy for a few hours and next day I was fully up and running again. Proof of the pudding and all that!
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Beretta Optima bores have always been extra hard to clean. My SV10 sporter was the only gun I've ever had that needed the help of a power tool and even then it took ages. By comparison my CG bores come up like new after a 10 minute soak and a 2 or 3 passes with cloth patches.
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5 minutes ago, ditchman said:
my phone didnt go off...........does that mean im going to die ?
It's worse than that, looks like everyone on the Three network is going to die. 😕
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2 minutes ago, nobbyathome said:
I think it is a good idea if it is used properly it will save lives
Not in this house it won't. 4.16 and still no alert here, so If this were a real emergency we'd be dead by now.
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Well... Still no alerts for us. Is it because we're old and not worth saving? 😁
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3.21 and no emergency alerts yet in my house.
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1 hour ago, udderlyoffroad said:
Not entirely sure how they're going to appeal to, the uh Middle Eastern market, by going all-electric. But I'm sure the marketing wonks know what they're doing. Ahem.
I think JLR's experienced marketing specialists must be weeping into their porridge at what is obviously a political gesture almost certainly emanating from the board.
Once they've lost the North American and Mid East markets - which they will - they'll be on their way out of business.
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In a couple of years JLR will be 100% electric so it won't just be the Land Rover brand that ceases to exist. it'll be the whole company!
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Greenfields in Salisbury have a new 32" F16 sporter for sale. It's listed at 8lbs 4oz and I know for a fact that that they weigh every gun they have in. I repeat that the F16 I tried weighed 8lb 3oz which is the same as my CG and that's a pretty reasonable weight for a sporting clays gun.
If CGs didn't exist I'd shoot an f16, as in my hands they shoot better than anything Beretta makes below the DTs and the triggers alone make it nicer than any Browning.
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Blaser stocks don't suit everyone. I had no problems when I tried one but there have been lots of complaints about the recoil on Shotgun world. But then a high ptoportion of Americans shoot shotguns like rifles and cram their faces into the comb in order to look flat along the rib.
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Early last year I had my first ever prescription which was for driving glasses. I rang Optilabs and they advised that the same prescription would be fine for clays so I went ahead. No regrets at all, although it took a few hundred shells to get used to seeing the clays better. They make the lenses in house and supplied me with the exact same frames as the Zeiss branded ones with adjustable nosepiece.
Altogether the basic cost was under £150 plus another £23 to have them coated. You can spend £500+ on Pillas if you want but I doubt you'd break more clays.
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There are still a few CG haters around who refer to issues such as shooting loose with the very early ones. Unlike a certain other well known Italian shotgun maker, CG engineers resolved such issues quickly, and any CG made since about 2008 will be at least as durable and reliable as any other mid range O/U. The Invictus has a couple of new features but is still basically the same as every other CG regardless of the model name.