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#2770749 2-Sep-2021 18:55

She really is a total legend and inspiration. Amazing.

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#2772641 6-Sep-2021 07:13

That ABBA is back (officially!). Well, it seems I have to travel to London next year when their arena is ready :-)

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#2773328 7-Sep-2021 02:43

This is very NSFW and made me smile. Not suitable for those who are offended by bad language.

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#2773347 7-Sep-2021 07:53

I am posting this in the vaccine thread. Very apt.

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#2773412 7-Sep-2021 09:49

Jab number one yesterday. Used the new vaxx.nz site to bump my appointment up by 24 hours, and then was 25 minutes from start to finish at Pipitea Marae. Only a slightly sore arm to boot

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#2775896 10-Sep-2021 10:54

AA Roadside service.

I went to the dairy. I couldn't restart my car.

AA came, diagnosed the issue, replaced my battery and I am back up and running.

The info I received was excellent, with a surprising piece of info on the way car batteries perform (and the fallacy that taking your car for a 30min drive will charge a modern battery).

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#2776053 10-Sep-2021 14:16

Handsomedan:

The info I received was excellent, with a surprising piece of info on the way car batteries perform (and the fallacy that taking your car for a 30min drive will charge a modern battery).

Interesting considering AA were the ones promoting that everyone should run their cars in their driveways for 30 mins each week during lockdown to keep the battery topped up.

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#2776100 10-Sep-2021 15:27

Handsomedan:
AA came, diagnosed the issue, replaced my battery and I am back up and running.

For generic car-won't-start problems, AA US have for years been dispatching first-responder units that mostly carry a pile of batteries and another common item that I can't remember, since ninety-something percent of their callouts are for that. In the southern US you also frequently get Mexican service people who can fix the problem with various techniques you won't find in any service manual but that are necessary in Mexico where you need to use ingenuity rather than expensive spare parts to keep things going. For example the guy who came to sort out my friend's car showed us how to put copper pennies by the corroded zinc battery contacts and pour a bottle of drinking water over them to create a simple Cu/Zn cell that removed enough of the corrosion that the car would start again. He pointed out that everyone in Mexico knows tricks like this but few people in the US do.

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#2776435 11-Sep-2021 17:07

My SO - when she goes internet shopping on overseas sites and uses my email.

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#2776441 11-Sep-2021 17:18

Overseas? I hope the boots fit and your SO likes them. Damn return freight costs.

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#2776444 11-Sep-2021 17:21

Stu:

Overseas? I hope the boots fit and your SO likes them. Damn return freight costs.

I ordered boots from China a few weeks ago. I'm between sizes, so there is a chance they may be slightly too small, but they're also less than 1/5th what I paid for the NZ made boots I normally wear. I ordered a pair of those too, but if the Chinese ones work out I'll switch to those going forward. If they don't fit, I won't be returning them, I'll just buy a bigger pair.