🙂
While we’re talking stones, and in the (alleged) words of one Big J: Let he who never took pleasure in an England loss cast the first one….. Butt 😉

Suprised to see so many englishman gloating over the welsh loss considering how dire their own team is. If france play against england like that it will be a slaughter.

It’s not big. It’s not clever. You’re right.
However, my level of irrational partisan support for England is almost eclipsed by my partisan dislike for the Welsh (Rugby Team).
‘Twas ever thus – and is mutual.

Doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy their play.
I just always hope they lose 🙂
Like 98.5% of my Welsh mates always hope England lose.

Me and CFH had a debate on this long ago: My personal roots go back to having the Pontypool front row rammed down my throat (not literally, you understand) by Welsh relatives in the 70s.

Like I say: It’s not big. It’s not clever. But it is fun, and we always have a beer afterwards 🙂

http://tinyurl.com/comeyerboyo

😉

What a game so far!
I am far from neutral but happy to see this one go to the wire if it stays like this.

18 minutes gone and he flattens Roberts!
Get in!

Allez les Bleus!

Kill you soon as look at you, y’know?

Monkeys.

Certainly in the UK, the unions are pretty weak.
They have little/nothing to do with the current situation.
(In Germany and the US, for example, they are infinitely more powerful)

Back to the OP, and with no axe to grind (despite, personally, being wholly dependent on the industry surviving):
There is a worldwide credit crisis.
People simply aren’t buying ‘luxuries’.
Motor cars can be considered a luxury – as long as one’s current vehicle hasn’t died.
Motor vehicles, by their nature, have a large amount of capital tied into them (both as material and intellectual property).
Therefore, even after 15+ years of ‘lean’, ‘just in time’ processes the investment for any given, singular, vehicle commences years before it reaches a dealer – when the return on that initial investment starts to come back.
Cashflow, I believe it is called.
Regardless of legacy reasons for this, this is why.

Hey. It is far from a perfect industry in the UK, but this is worldwide.
In fact – the UK is a bit better off than some other auto-making countries.
At least we still make something… as opposed to shifting funds around, or selling foreign phones etc etc.

LFF even though I’m right handed and rightfooted.

I’m a bit weird though.
I seem in a minority in that I:
Skateboard/Snowboard RFF
Vault fences with my right arm
Spar Southpaw

Some say it is to do with ‘eye dominance’ – but I don’t know.

At great personal cost I reluctantly withdrew my planning permission for the Coventry ConveyorPort ™ 🙁

ventry City

jedi
canadian cockrot

That’ll be North Sore, then

Where’s that then?
Warwick?

That’s much a much more healthy thing for these kids to be doing, Corroded!
🙂

“There can be only one…”

.. on my way to 10 sampsonia way, pittsburgh, allegheny, pennsylvania 15212 😉

Used to love the earlier podcasts with RG but havn’t heard them for a while.
I could sense they were getting a bit more staged but still enjoyed.

Rellys seem to have latched onto this and I now get a KP book every Christmas. I have three now: “The world of”, “Happy slapped” and “Karlology”

Put my pre-order in for the box set today.

I’ve had the Pearl (also from Orange) for about a fortnight now.
I think it is great.
Use it for short emails and quick web trips.
My Gmail gets ‘pushed’.
Wouldn’t want to be doing proper emails with it though because it is basically a phone still.
I walk in the door and it is wifi so my calls are then free. Walk out of range and they’re back on the usual tariff .. I love that feature.

So…. w*nking does make you blind!

There is indeed an internal ‘switch’ inside the motor gearbox.
As the motor rotates it passes over said switch or plate every cycle – but ignores it.

The electrical pins in the motor connector are (generally): Hi (Speed wipe), Low, Ground and park.

When you indicate that you want the wipers to park it is communicated via the park pin, making the park switch live.
The next time the motor ‘sees’ the switch it stops.

So.
If yours is not stopping (where it should) it is likely to be either:
1) The signal from your stalk to your motor is not getting there
2) The park switch is gerf*cked/corroded/

In my experience it will be #2 90% of the time.
It is not readily fixable short of replacing the motor.
Sorry.

PS.
Del: “..Think you’ll find this is the perfect stw post – speculation without any real knowledge…”

🙂
You know what – normally I couldn’t agree with you more – but – and I don’t readily admit this, but the irony was too much to take – my job (includes) designing wiper systems.
🙂

No fan of cats but this appeared in some banal junk I received the other day

and even I said “Ahh”

A broken ABS ring can cause the effect you described.

or, indeed, “Broken ABS can cause a ring effect”

Funny.
(ear) Lance just posted this http://twitpic.com/1a80w

Hello MM (sorry. Been out)
It is kevDOTdavittATgmailDOTcom if you can help, thanks.

(But… after much more sorting I did find this)

http://www.tsphotodesign.com/templates.php

which has done the trick, I think but any advice will still be gratefully accepted.
Ta

🙂
Before I’d even opened the thread I’d got this image lined up

Also, as much as I find it wrong somehow, I see dozens of Astons every day and they still do it for me.
(I also have a guilty inexplicable soft spot for the Z3 M Coupe)

http://twitter.com/kdavitt here.
Pointless indeed. But was intersting to read (‘ear) Lance’s stuff during the TDU (and Johan Brunyeel from the team car)

Golden Rule, Ambleside (pre fag ban it was great)

and, for the memories:
Red Lion, Egham (Beautiful Burton Ale bolthole)
Argyle Arms, nr Oxford Circus .. to escape the maniacs outside.

The Cross Keys didn’t look quite like that last time I was there.
I’m with Diawl in thinking it’s a little flattering.

Mind you .. haven’t been that way for all of 16 years now…

[reminisce]
…when there were just a few of us rattling around on Timberlines and the like and, when I joined the local rugby team, I got as much sh*t from my own teammates as I did from the opposition just because I was (and am) English. Tsk! I ask ya.
[/reminisce]

http://www.volvooceanracegame.org/news.php?id=303
Explains it a bit..

Lokelani McMichael.. Ironwoman

Geographically, about 90miles.
Culturally and evolution-wise: Several Lightyears

[holds nose] Phewee! [/holds nose]

Gee-Jay… That does appear to be the case. Unintentional bit of drafting on my part by the looks of it

Likewise. Last two nights. I’m well off the pace now 🙁

MrMichaelW..
Probably correct but, like I say, could be that it (the sensor/switch interface) is dodgy I have seen this happen very recently.

However .. probability (I suggest 8/10) is that motor park plate/switch is corroded which means that the ‘turn me off’ signal from the stalk doesn’t get to (the right part of) the motor.

It will either be
1. Like Pete says: a parkswitch/park plate failure internal to the motor
(This is the most common type of motor failure)
2. Dodgy column stalk/connections
3. Dodgy rainsensor/connections

Most likely #1 but do give the rainsensor part of the windscreen a cursory clean and the stalk a waggle about for some amateur diagnosis.

In the interim – and to avoid anything burning out – one could remove the wiper fuse – this is of course entirely your choice and needs be be precisely timed with a break in the rain to get you to the breakers yard 🙂

"Set".
I can truly say that I became aware of this fact because it was one of those nuggets of info on the back of Walkers crisps when I was at school.

116 different meanings IIRC

Thought I’d lock my escort up and take a 15 month sabbatical…

It’s all the rage, you know?

The Jack