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I can see my post fell on totally deaf ears then. Hey ho. I tried. I genuinely think it is a real shame that there are people - possibly a lot of people, but obviously I have no way of knowing - who won't post on this forum because of the toxicity of some of the threads, and by implication some of the posters. There is a difference between having a discussion based on proven facts (or based on opinion clearly stated as opinion), and a ding dong argument based on unproven "facts" which one of the protagonists would like to believe are true (or knows/suspects they are not true but cites them anyway because they "back up" his side of the argument). And appears to think that this is amusing. It isn't. I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that it brings this forum into disrepute. I also think that some posters seem quite unaware that they are accusing people of things that they themselves are doing. Or of being what they themselves are. It's called projection, if memory serves.

Sorry, which ones are the good lads? Kwik Fit?

I agree with all that apart from the "long may it continue" bit 🤣 "Many of us"? How many? And your evidence for that is ....?

Closing down completely. The lovely people there are all retiring. Thanks, but Deptford is a long way to go to make two journeys to take and collect a car! Do they not do even relatively minor repairs if it fails its MOT first time? Then that would require four journeys 😭 Wondering if there's already a thread on here for garage recommendations? People on my road WhatsApp group have recommended some local ones. I'm particularly gutted because apart from the lovely people who worked there, Dell was a five minute walk for me!

I did think that might be the reason, but five years out of seven it's going to be a weekday (I think. Not sure how leap years might affect things!)

Why do you think he should be toast? All these problems with the prison service apparently go way back, long before Labour took over.

Rockets, you cannot put all the blame on Earl Aelfheath. It is not just them who is taking the conversation round in circles, is it? You are both just repeating the same old stuff, and it is incredibly boring. The problem is that as soon as one of you stops posting, the other one will crow that they have "won". So you have both dug yourselves into a hole, it seems to me. Surely you could both just agree to stop discussing this? Because it is already on page 5, and if you don't it will just go on for ever. And sad people like me will keep on reading it and rolling their eyes 🤣

Surely this thread has long ago run its course? Can't you just agree to disagree?

No. What happened? I actually thought, considering it was what we used to call Guy Fawkes Day last night, the loud noises from fireworks ended remarkably early. About 9pm? Maybe I just fell asleep and didn't hear any later ones. Do people actually burn Guys any more? Apart from at places like Lewes, where I believe they still have Bonfire Societies and burn effigies of various political figures etc.

The accompaniment to our "Christmas Pudding" aka Nothing-Whatever-Like-A- Christmas-Pudding last year at The Cherry Tree was "brandy butter ice-cream." If it had ever been near any brandy, the brandy must have been waved in its direction from a very great distance. Same with butter. The ice cream tasted like bog standard "vanilla" from a catering tub. At least it did bear some resemblance to ice cream. Whereas the "Christmas Pudding" bore no resemblance whatever to any Christmas Pudding I have ever seen or tasted in my many decades of seeing and tasting Christmas Puddings. Oh, and Cinzano Bianco. Bleurgh. My sister used to drink that. 🤢

Absolutely gutted to hear that Dell Autos in Hansler Road is closing tomorrow. They have MOTed my ancient 1998 Micra for years, and have always been brilliant. Wishing them all the best of luck in their retirement. Wishing all their customers (including me) luck in finding another garage as honest, helpful, efficient and friendly as they were.

Crikey. I need a lie down in a darkened room after reading that. And I've only just got up 🤣 Well said, though (apart from the annoying use of "woke").

I completely misread the previous post, sorry. For some reason I thought the mini cooper was also a police vehicle, DUH.

Not even in whisky macs?!

That's very rude. Care to expand, rather than having a go at malumbu? You think this solicitor with five one star reviews (and most people with complaints won't bother writing reviews) is perfectly proficient, and all the delays, non use of email communications etc are his clients' fault?