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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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Lets be honest here, for every single person in Britain who doesn't work in the city, their immediate reaction on seeing that story is the following..
"Ha ha!"
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Mon Sep 02, 2013 4:54 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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There have been several cases in the US of various cars having parts melted by their surroundings. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/06/21/consumerwatch-prius-part-susceptible-to-melting/
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Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:01 pm |
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Amnesia10
Legend
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:33 pm |
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm Posts: 4876 Location: Newcastle
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_________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:56 pm |
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm Posts: 10022
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Mine wasn't.
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 10:07 am |
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mikepgood
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:23 pm Posts: 710
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Surely the manufacturer should bear some liability. The phrase not fit for purpose springs to mind
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 6:28 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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That depends on how hot it got.
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:25 pm |
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm Posts: 10022
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The feckers designed a concave mirror. Obviously basic physics didn't come into it.
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:19 pm |
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm Posts: 4876 Location: Newcastle
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Of the car, no. Of the building, yes. It's negligence to build a giant focussing mirror into a building, even with British summers. If a child/dog was in the car I'd hate to think of the temperatures it would get to in the car at any time of year
_________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:27 pm |
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Amnesia10
Legend
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Does no one think of the children?  Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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Wed Sep 04, 2013 6:55 am |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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If there's any wood in the building by the parking spaces there could easily have been a fire.
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Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:00 am |
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TheFrenchun
Officially Mrs saspro
Joined: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:55 pm Posts: 4955 Location: on the naughty step
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Breakkie Anyone?I'd like to say that it's been chaos in my office yesterday as owners from other high rise in London were calling in to know if their buildings would have the same problems. Not a good day to be a Building consultant. (or Architect Viñoly)
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Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:54 am |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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What they should do is put covered parking bays with solar panels on them. If they focus the sun the panels could generate a fair amount of energy. 
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Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:16 am |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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They should have built it with the concave wall on the North side, then it wouldn't have been a problem.
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Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:32 am |
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