General Chit Chat

[Hoboh]

Anyone got recent experience of a VW Passat?

[Bruce Rioja]

Anyone got recent experience of a VW Passat?

Me. Great cars. Mine's up for renewal though at the end of the year so I'm toying with getting a Jag XE.

[Hoboh]

Anyone got recent experience of a VW Passat?

Me. Great cars. Mine's up for renewal though at the end of the year so I'm toying with getting a Jag XE.

Might be after a fresh car in the next 6 month or so, looking at a Golf GTE, a Passat GTE or a Mitsubishi plug in outlander, they all look good the other half quite fancies the Outlander.
Going to get a low, low, mileage, pre- April 1st though not brand new, allows scope to buy high spec model without the £360 road tax add on plus I've seen them knocking about with up to 8 grand off the MRRP.

Most of our mileage is low local stuff now, so much so I doubt the petrol engine will get much use, I'd go electric but for the dreaded range anxiety disease if we went to the lakes etc. plus there are not many decent all electric models the leaf looks pants.

[Bruce Rioja]

Anyone got recent experience of a VW Passat?

Me. Great cars. Mine's up for renewal though at the end of the year so I'm toying with getting a Jag XE.

Might be after a fresh car in the next 6 month or so, looking at a Golf GTE, a Passat GTE or a Mitsubishi plug in outlander, they all look good the other half quite fancies the Outlander.
Going to get a low, low, mileage, pre- April 1st though not brand new, allows scope to buy high spec model without the £360 road tax add on plus I've seen them knocking about with up to 8 grand off the MRRP.

Most of our mileage is low local stuff now, so much so I doubt the petrol engine will get much use, I'd go electric but for the dreaded range anxiety disease if we went to the lakes etc. plus there are not many decent all electric models the leaf looks pants.

Three colleagues have the plug-in Outlander, Hoboh. One lives in St Helens, one in Calderdale and one in Macc. Not a one of them can reach the office on the electric charge alone. Otherwise, all three are quite chuffed with them though (especially as they don't yield the usual Co. Car tax clobbering).

[Hoboh]

Anyone got recent experience of a VW Passat?

Me. Great cars. Mine's up for renewal though at the end of the year so I'm toying with getting a Jag XE.

Might be after a fresh car in the next 6 month or so, looking at a Golf GTE, a Passat GTE or a Mitsubishi plug in outlander, they all look good the other half quite fancies the Outlander.
Going to get a low, low, mileage, pre- April 1st though not brand new, allows scope to buy high spec model without the £360 road tax add on plus I've seen them knocking about with up to 8 grand off the MRRP.

Most of our mileage is low local stuff now, so much so I doubt the petrol engine will get much use, I'd go electric but for the dreaded range anxiety disease if we went to the lakes etc. plus there are not many decent all electric models the leaf looks pants.

Three colleagues have the plug-in Outlander, Hoboh. One lives in St Helens, one in Calderdale and one in Macc. Not a one of them can reach the office on the electric charge alone. Otherwise, all three are quite chuffed with. them though (especially as they don't yield the usual Co. Car tax clobbering).

Really genuinely surprised by that, owners reviews I've been reading indicate St Helens would be in with a shout, thanks for that info.
Might just wait and see what the new leaf, due to be unveiled next month is about the old ones got one hell of an ugly ass.

[Worthy4England]

I'm surprised at your age you're not in the market for a mobility scooter. I'll offer to tow it up to the Lakes with you in it.

[Hoboh]

I'm surprised at your age you're not in the market for a mobility scooter. I'll offer to tow it up to the Lakes with you in it.

No thanks I'd be breaking my own rule in regard of motoring, give a wide berth to BMW and Audi drivers.

(More to the point, middle aged men playing boy racers)

[Worthy4England]

I'm surprised at your age you're not in the market for a mobility scooter. I'll offer to tow it up to the Lakes with you in it.

No thanks I'd be breaking my own rule in regard of motoring, give a wide berth to BMW and Audi drivers.

(More to the point, middle aged men playing boy racers)

I could put it on a very long string, off the tow-bar...Course this might make it wobble across the carriageway bit more.

[BWFC_Insane]

I'm surprised at your age you're not in the market for a mobility scooter. I'll offer to tow it up to the Lakes with you in it.

When you say "the Lakes" I assume that is code for, North Korea, no?

[Ivan the Terrible]

Proof that God does not exist is hard to come by, but the fact that a mother, whose three month premature baby was killed by a falling oak tree after they (the family) had specifically travelled to a religious festival "to give thanks for his miraculous survival after his difficult first months" on the Catholic Assumption Day, must be up there.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Having had my account reactivated this morning I discovered a number of unread private messages that had been sent over a year ago. One had subsequently been deleted by its author, so I'll never know what that one was about, but another was asking me in quite frank terms whether I was dead or not?
This set me thinking, and as chance would have it I've just been chatting with my next door neighbour who is also my solicitor. He says that these days he is more and more opening executor internet management accounts. These operate by storing all your internet usernames and passwords (it's up to yourself to keep these up to date) with an overall password that deteriorates on a set basis (either every two weeks, a month, or six months) which the holder must update otherwise the solicitor and/or executor can use their password to access the info and close/inform/manage the various accounts.
This seems like a bloody good idea to me, and I'm signing up. So if I do die an actual death, two weeks later, someone (my wife is my current nominated executor) will pop on here on inform you all of my passing...

[Harry Genshaw]

Having had my account reactivated this morning I discovered a number of unread private messages that had been sent over a year ago. One had subsequently been deleted by its author, so I'll never know what that one was about, but another was asking me in quite frank terms whether I was dead or not?
This set me thinking, and as chance would have it I've just been chatting with my next door neighbour who is also my solicitor. He says that these days he is more and more opening executor internet management accounts. These operate by storing all your internet usernames and passwords (it's up to yourself to keep these up to date) with an overall password that deteriorates on a set basis (either every two weeks, a month, or six months) which the holder must update otherwise the solicitor and/or executor can use their password to access the info and close/inform/manage the various accounts.
This seems like a bloody good idea to me, and I'm signing up. So if I do die an actual death, two weeks later, someone (my wife is my current nominated executor) will pop on here on inform you all of my passing...

How do we know that it's not Mrs Spots posting this now?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Having had my account reactivated this morning I discovered a number of unread private messages that had been sent over a year ago. One had subsequently been deleted by its author, so I'll never know what that one was about, but another was asking me in quite frank terms whether I was dead or not?
This set me thinking, and as chance would have it I've just been chatting with my next door neighbour who is also my solicitor. He says that these days he is more and more opening executor internet management accounts. These operate by storing all your internet usernames and passwords (it's up to yourself to keep these up to date) with an overall password that deteriorates on a set basis (either every two weeks, a month, or six months) which the holder must update otherwise the solicitor and/or executor can use their password to access the info and close/inform/manage the various accounts.
This seems like a bloody good idea to me, and I'm signing up. So if I do die an actual death, two weeks later, someone (my wife is my current nominated executor) will pop on here on inform you all of my passing...

How do we know that it's not Mrs Spots posting this now?

That's a very interesting existential question to which I have no answer...

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Having had my account reactivated this morning I discovered a number of unread private messages that had been sent over a year ago. One had subsequently been deleted by its author, so I'll never know what that one was about, but another was asking me in quite frank terms whether I was dead or not?
This set me thinking, and as chance would have it I've just been chatting with my next door neighbour who is also my solicitor. He says that these days he is more and more opening executor internet management accounts. These operate by storing all your internet usernames and passwords (it's up to yourself to keep these up to date) with an overall password that deteriorates on a set basis (either every two weeks, a month, or six months) which the holder must update otherwise the solicitor and/or executor can use their password to access the info and close/inform/manage the various accounts.
This seems like a bloody good idea to me, and I'm signing up. So if I do die an actual death, two weeks later, someone (my wife is my current nominated executor) will pop on here on inform you all of my passing...

Or use summat like lastpass and let the missus have the password... Assuming you've stored your porn passwords in a separate place

PS welcome back

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Having had my account reactivated this morning I discovered a number of unread private messages that had been sent over a year ago. One had subsequently been deleted by its author, so I'll never know what that one was about, but another was asking me in quite frank terms whether I was dead or not?
This set me thinking, and as chance would have it I've just been chatting with my next door neighbour who is also my solicitor. He says that these days he is more and more opening executor internet management accounts. These operate by storing all your internet usernames and passwords (it's up to yourself to keep these up to date) with an overall password that deteriorates on a set basis (either every two weeks, a month, or six months) which the holder must update otherwise the solicitor and/or executor can use their password to access the info and close/inform/manage the various accounts.
This seems like a bloody good idea to me, and I'm signing up. So if I do die an actual death, two weeks later, someone (my wife is my current nominated executor) will pop on here on inform you all of my passing...

Or use summat like lastpass and let the missus have the password... Assuming you've stored your porn passwords in a separate place

PS welcome back

Porn passwords, how very dare you?

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Having had my account reactivated this morning I discovered a number of unread private messages that had been sent over a year ago. One had subsequently been deleted by its author, so I'll never know what that one was about, but another was asking me in quite frank terms whether I was dead or not?
This set me thinking, and as chance would have it I've just been chatting with my next door neighbour who is also my solicitor. He says that these days he is more and more opening executor internet management accounts. These operate by storing all your internet usernames and passwords (it's up to yourself to keep these up to date) with an overall password that deteriorates on a set basis (either every two weeks, a month, or six months) which the holder must update otherwise the solicitor and/or executor can use their password to access the info and close/inform/manage the various accounts.
This seems like a bloody good idea to me, and I'm signing up. So if I do die an actual death, two weeks later, someone (my wife is my current nominated executor) will pop on here on inform you all of my passing...

Or use summat like lastpass and let the missus have the password... Assuming you've stored your porn passwords in a separate place

PS welcome back

Porn passwords, how very dare you?

Ahhh, you prefer the free stuff you cheap barsteward

[Hoboh]

Now we know why Rooney's goal scoring dried up,



He should have gone to Specsavers, he obviously had vision problems.

Rumour is he is funding the police Christmas do as a thanks for saving him from being traumatised the following morning.

[TANGODANCER]

Only in Farnworth...well, probably not...

Was at the counter in our local convenience store for a paper and a couple of items Saturday morning. Pretty quiet and only a couple of us in. Hears the manageress appear and say loudly, "Out you" to a bloke in his twenties (?) who had just come in.
"Can I have a word?" he says. "No, out now"..says she. I turn round just in time to see the bloke open the door then suddenly dive back and grab....a large box of washing powder? and leg it down the side of the shop. I shouted, hoy ..and dived across the shop with no chance of catching him, but the manageress comes out and a tells a bloke who has just pulled up in a car what happened. He dives back in his car and takes off to try and cut the bloke off. (Don't know if he did or not eventually) . Seems the bloke is a known local thief, druggie who has done time and only last week grabbed two bottles of wine and legged it again. A box of washing powder? Ronnie Biggs he ain't but wins the weekly award for chuzpah..

[TANGODANCER]

Being a Halliwell lad, and reading the comments elsewhere about Smithills, Heaton, Halliwell etc, I did a bit of research and came up with this. Interesting read about Bolton (le Moors) and it's various areas:

http://www.bolton-le-moors-townships.co.uk/428505606

[Montreal Wanderer]

Being a Halliwell lad, and reading the comments elsewhere about Smithills, Heaton, Halliwell etc, I did a bit of research and came up with this. Interesting read about Bolton (le Moors) and it's various areas:

http://www.bolton-le-moors-townships.co.uk/428505606

Interesting indeed, though I was distressed to discover that Lostock, where I was born, comes from the old English meaning pigsty!