Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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BBC News - Jeffrey Epstein accuser urges Prince Andrew to 'come clean'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49486590


What a hot potato this must be for the old Bill to handle.

I wonder if Andy will be investigated as vigorously as Sir Cliff or Toothy Blackburn?

[Doobs]

BBC News - Jeffrey Epstein accuser urges Prince Andrew to 'come clean'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49486590


What a hot potato this must be for the old Bill to handle.

I wonder if Andy will be investigated as vigorously as Sir Cliff or Toothy Blackburn?

She was 17 at the time of the "orgy" in London, and as I understand it, she claims Epstein forced her to have sex, not Prince Andrew.   So has Prince Andrew even committed a crime in their jurisdiction?  If so, how do we know if it hasn't already been investigated thoroughly?  And surely, given the upheld complaints of Cliff Richard, they should do so a bit more privately than they did with Cliff?

I think the hot potato sits with Florida police, where she was under the age of consent when the alleged crime by Prince Andrew took place.   

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BBC News - Jeffrey Epstein accuser urges Prince Andrew to 'come clean'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49486590


What a hot potato this must be for the old Bill to handle.

I wonder if Andy will be investigated as vigorously as Sir Cliff or Toothy Blackburn?

She was 17 at the time of the "orgy" in London, and as I understand it, she claims Epstein forced her to have sex, not Prince Andrew.   So has Prince Andrew even committed a crime in their jurisdiction?  If so, how do we know if it hasn't already been investigated thoroughly?  And surely, given the upheld complaints of Cliff Richard, they should do so a bit more privately than they did with Cliff?

I think the hot potato sits with Florida police, where she was under the age of consent when the alleged crime by Prince Andrew took place.   

In light of the evidence offered by my learnerd friend, I withdraw my statement Your Honour.

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Things that broke today.


Took my car to the garage to get a slow puncture mended. It turned out to be a tiny screw embedded in the rubber. Unfortunately, it was deemed unrepairable because "the damage" was "outside the tread area."

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Bring back inner tubes I say.

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I love these.

I can't believe that Lenin was ever 17.


https://allthatsinteresting.com/famous-historical-figures-young#1   (Click view gallery)

[Kev B]

I love these.

I can't believe that Lenin was ever 17.


https://allthatsinteresting.com/famous-historical-figures-young#1   (Click view gallery)

Some crackers in there Tom. How handsome was Stalin? Would never have guessed Hillary was that pretty either.

[Karabiner]

Hitler had a moustache that positively bristled with ambition in that early pic.

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The daddy long legs are a couple of days early in Sharnford.

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I'd like to see just how much gun gum and baked bean cans the exhaust would take.

Alas those days are gone Mr L.

I remember with fondness the time when exhaust systems were substantial enough to withstand the ministrations of a welder, unfortunately today's offerings are about a tough as wet tissue paper.

I'm just thankful that mine doesn't have a cat, and if it wasn't illegal I would remove the particulate filter and have the system re mapped. cough.

Quick sit-rep on my back box. (No making your own jokes up.)


As usual in these situations I rang a random tyre & exhaust supply/fitter and got a quote for a replacement. It was £149.99 inclusive.

I rang another and was quoted £129.99 so I rang the first one back and he said he would do it for £120.

Not wanting to alert the first two to my game I then rang a third place and told him my lowest quote was £120. He offered £112 and a free wheel alignment check. (probably hoping to stick me for something else)

I continued like this for a few more calls and ended up with a quote of £75.99. I asked if that was the very best he could do and he asked if I was in a hurry. I told him I wasn't so he said that the problem was that when someone comes in for an exhaust he has to pay a courier to bring it while I wait. However, his own supplier delivers on Thursdays and if I could wait until then he would do it for £45.

Today is Thursday, I rang and it's now in stock.

I'll let you know how it turns out.

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Bada bing bada boom!

Cost me forty six quid but it feels like a win.

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[atdc21]

Hi Tom,
           How ya doing ? I'm a bit surprised, and a tad disappointed you didn't get an exhaust and fit yourself 
I have noticed recently that there can be a massive difference in the quality of exhausts, always been so to a degree but some of the stuff now is paper thin and badly made .
A pattern cat ( one that is part of the manifold as well )  i fitted just under 2 years ago for someone, as they didn't want to pay for a genuine one was back in with a crack all around it last week.
It was weldable.....is that a word ?  as the crack was on manifold part . It was about half price still of genuine one, but im sure only lasted about a fifth as long.

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Hi Tom,
           How ya doing ? I'm a bit surprised, and a tad disappointed you didn't get an exhaust and fit yourself 
I have noticed recently that there can be a massive difference in the quality of exhausts, always been so to a degree but some of the stuff now is paper thin and badly made .
A pattern cat ( one that is part of the manifold as well )  i fitted just under 2 years ago for someone, as they didn't want to pay for a genuine one was back in with a crack all around it last week.
It was weldable.....is that a word ?  as the crack was on manifold part . It was about half price still of genuine one, but im sure only lasted about a fifth as long.

I bet they made you part ex the old cat too. 

You are right though, and I always weigh the pro's and con's of pattern v OEM, but an exhaust from Fiat would be extortionate.

I used to fit my own exhausts back when vehicles had more ground-clearence and I had oxy-acetylene kicking around, but that's not the case these days. Plus I don't have a ramp or a pit, and I'm getting old and fat.

[Rod Paradise]

BBC News - Jeffrey Epstein accuser urges Prince Andrew to 'come clean'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49486590


What a hot potato this must be for the old Bill to handle.

I wonder if Andy will be investigated as vigorously as Sir Cliff or Toothy Blackburn?

She was 17 at the time of the "orgy" in London, and as I understand it, she claims Epstein forced her to have sex, not Prince Andrew.   So has Prince Andrew even committed a crime in their jurisdiction?  If so, how do we know if it hasn't already been investigated thoroughly?  And surely, given the upheld complaints of Cliff Richard, they should do so a bit more privately than they did with Cliff?

I think the hot potato sits with Florida police, where she was under the age of consent when the alleged crime by Prince Andrew took place.   

New York and the Virgin Islands as well. Age of consent in NY is 17, it's 18 in the Virgin Isles though, where consent or no it would be statutory rape.

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Does anyone know what they call those little snipe-nosed tweezer-come-pliers, (Preferably the ones with the curved jaw) that stay closed on their own when you squeeze them?

You often see them in gangster films when some drunken bent sawbones is using them to remove a bullet from a patient who can't go to the hospital because the feds have an APB out on him and all gunshot wounds have to be reported. 

[typhoon13]

Does anyone know what they call those little snipe-nosed tweezer-come-pliers, (Preferably the ones with the curved jaw) that stay closed on their own when you squeeze them?

You often see them in gangster films when some drunken bent sawbones is using them to remove a bullet from a patient who can't go to the hospital because the feds have an APB out on him and all gunshot wounds have to be reported. 

You can get bent nosed snipe pliers