Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

dealerships often stiff you
if you're out of warranty, your local garage may fix for a fraction of the price
however, you then may need to get mercedes to boot it up

You can buy a merc scanner on eBay for less than £15. It will give you any fault codes and clear the engine check message. Just check the scanner protocol for your motor.

Thanks for the comments guys. Most welcome.

The cost to me is the first £50. The rest is covered by my Warranty Direct car warranty. This costs me £138 per quarter.

The car, by the way, is a '62 E350 CDI BlueTec AMG Sport Estate and I should have swapped it before now - but it is absolutely immaculate and I love it.

Police are investigating claims that a teenage British tennis player was poisoned at Wimbledon last month.
Gabriella Taylor, 18, spent four days in intensive care after becoming unwell during her girls' quarter-final match.
Scotland Yard says it has received an allegation of poisoning with intent to endanger life or cause grievous bodily harm.
Apparently, she contracted leptospirosis, a rare bacterial disease usually transmitted through rat urine.
Now I remember an email going around in Brazil some years ago about a similar case. A man had died after drinking from a can of coke, the lid of which had been infected by rats while in storage.

I wonder if there will be any legal route taken against anyone . Supplier or Wimbledon .

If you go to a club......keep an eye on your drink at all times......

Because cans and bottles stored outside

We all tend to drink out of a can,whether it be a beer or a soft drink. Just look at the top before opening and make sure there are no stain marks. If I have made you really pananoic with the thought, pour into a clean glass.

I ALWAYS carry a retractable 24ct gold straw...Its for the man who has everything..


There a lot of paranoia and speculation about this incident, but it could be
something or nothing, and who knows where she's been putting her mouth?..

that might give you thrush but very unlikely to put you in hospital seriously ill

Ha Ha. Very sensible. I even suck my grapefruit through a straw. Never know where it has been...

cynic..WHATEVER are you suggesting!! :D... She could be one of those people
who like kissing their pets on the lips..

Iturama, Yes They're a boon to personal hygene, mine has an intagrated pith filter
for occasions as fruit drinking..;)

My understanding is as follows:

Human saliva is full of bacteria and enzymes and assists in the digestive process.

Dog saliva has no enzymes, not much bacteria (depending upon the when the dog nibbled/ate its last dead rabbit and how old said rabbit was when the dog got to it) and only assists the digestive process by allowing the food to slide down the dog's gullet more easily than it otherwisde would.

So it might be healthier not to snog fellow humans and, if you know where your dog has been and what it has been sniffing, enjoy some mutual dog kissing/face licking with your dog instead.

Hmmm?

Did I just type out the above? It's probably a load of crap.

Also, the pH of the liquid in a human's stomach is about 5. Whereas in a dog's stomach, the pH is about 1 or 2.

surely that's a pic of michael heseltine

No. That is definitely not a picture of the 'Tarzan' we all know and love.

The URL address of the image tells you it's actually an image of a 'conceptual man'. So he is probably drinking grapefuit juice through a straw to help make himself conceive.

"surely that's a pic of michael heseltine"

No don't think it is, even though the guys 'drinking' from a gratefruit,
since the referendum result Heseltine has being wearing a sour puss
face giving the impression of him sucking on bitter lemons..

I reckon Fred has run out of lemons!

gosh, i remember bitter lemons with sherbet powder in the middle

This is actually the 'Talk to yourself thread'.....

There are two 'very similar to look at' homes for sale near me. They are priced for sale at identical prices and are also being sold by the same agent.

Hmmm?

One has had nothing done to it at all. The other has had around £60k-£70k spent on improvements. The builder who did lots of the internal work around 7 years ago, was recommended to the owners by me. Later the tradesman thanked me and told me that 'money was no object with the owners' and how it was one of the best jobs he had ever come across.

Anyhow, the better one of the two is theoretically worth consideration for buying for investment purposes, since it is in stunning condition and around £50k-£60k underpriced, IMHO.

However, it isn't! Since it would be 'a second home' for us, Stamp Duty would be chargeable at 8% of the asking price! Add in the likely buying and selling costs and the exercise just isn't really worthwhile. Only the government would benefit from VAT and Stamp Duty collection.

In my lifetime, I've seen things like 'a reasonable amount of inflation' be used to settle off mortgages and debt - the main debt I'm talking about, was usually incurred to try and make some money with some kind of a project - usually connected with 'housing'.

Things seemed to be 'worth doing'. Not now though.

As my wife and I now look at the massive drop in earned interest we have suffered on our cash savings during these last few years, we also look at what has happened to the £GBP lately following Carney's recent savaging of Base Rate. The £GBP has just recently suffered a collapse and so we aren't really wanting to go on a foreign holiday. Neither are we wanting to spend our money on high costing things.

Have Carney and these so called 'economic experts' got things right or have they got it wrong?

It's also gone very quiet on here. Volaitility has probably scared off the private investor. Nowadays, I just want to sit in the sun and read a book. I think I have become a changed man.

Hmmm? Probably Merkel, Osborne and Carney got it wrong. Farage got it right. Perhaps things will take some time to work through? Hmmm? And whilst I'm thinking about things, why did Cameron resign?

Ah well.