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Forum: Canada May 21st 2013, 1:16 pm
Replies: 79
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Posted By MikeUK
Re: DIY

Canada may be big on permits, but the standards aren’t that high

It is worth getting your local building code because some local best practices are just weird, some defy logic and some are just...
Forum: Canada May 8th 2013, 11:48 pm
Replies: 35
Views: 1,250
Posted By MikeUK
Re: UK electronics

yep... sometimes its worth a look inside..
Forum: Canada Apr 25th 2013, 2:12 pm
Replies: 46
Views: 1,386
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Landrover Defenders, might not take them :'(

He means if there 15yrs or older then they don't take any modifications into consideration

I brought over a 15yr old mini with a modified engines setup, no problems the only issue I had was meeting...
Forum: Canada Apr 25th 2013, 1:12 pm
Replies: 35
Views: 1,250
Posted By MikeUK
Re: UK electronics

Doesn't surprise me, I used to use my old UK sony TV on a transfomer set up, untill I ran into a remote controller issue, pulled the back off the unit to get the part number only to find out that the...
Forum: Canada Apr 24th 2013, 6:50 pm
Replies: 35
Views: 1,250
Posted By MikeUK
Re: UK electronics

read the info on the unit carefully and completely

What's available on e-bay for slim PS3 seems to state

Model: EADP-185AB
AC Output: 100V~240V, 2.1A-0.8A 50/60HZ
DC Output: 12V--13.0A, 5.5V--...
Forum: Canada Apr 24th 2013, 5:47 pm
Replies: 35
Views: 1,250
Posted By MikeUK
Re: UK electronics

You know I've always wondered, a sort of "what if" about the washer, now knowing that they're almost always paired with dryer that runs on 220v and 60hz??
My curiosity was peaked last year when I was...
Forum: Canada Apr 24th 2013, 12:57 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 892
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Citizenship test next week - any tip ???

That's optional once you pass the test, helps you fit in
Forum: Canada Apr 22nd 2013, 9:12 pm
Replies: 53
Views: 4,833
Posted By MikeUK
Re: We're going back

I think that it’s as you move forward as an expat, you know that it is the negatives that de-rail the process

It's nice if the pro's and Con's balance but very few coming here seem to give enough...
Forum: Canada Apr 22nd 2013, 3:04 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 913
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Kids in Business Class

Kids fly business and or first if there parents or grandparents can afford it
and if they can afford it they tend not to give a sh1t about the self import business class user who's companies...
Forum: Canada / The Maple Leaf Apr 19th 2013, 2:18 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 321
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Arthur Scargill and allies 'expelled' from miners' union

Nope... but trying to paint scargill blacker than maggie stil won't improve anybodies opinion...

its amost as dumb as the arguemnt maggie and scargill got in to
Forum: Canada / The Maple Leaf Apr 19th 2013, 2:16 pm
Replies: 85
Views: 2,085
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Goodbye Maggie RIP

Yes I have, and I've crossed a few too

I worked in a miner's pub one frequeny by but UDM and NUM
Forum: Canada / The Maple Leaf Apr 18th 2013, 6:57 pm
Replies: 85
Views: 2,085
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Goodbye Maggie RIP

Not particularly reprsenative, a conservative party member (and NUM member) who crossed the picketlines..

an opinion of a small minority.... I'd put more value in the opinion of nottinghamshire UDM...
Forum: Canada Apr 18th 2013, 4:16 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 892
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Citizenship test next week - any tip ???

I'd concur

IMHO the citizenship test is more a test of your ability to read and understand in one of the two languages, the book is the test material being evaluated, it just happens to be about...
Forum: Canada / The Maple Leaf Apr 17th 2013, 2:37 pm
Replies: 85
Views: 2,085
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Goodbye Maggie RIP

If Maggie’s in Hell

Do you reckon she’ll close down the furnaces?
Cus if she does then maybe it’ll freeze over, and the maple leafs might just get in the play offs :fingerscrossed:
Forum: Canada / The Maple Leaf Apr 17th 2013, 2:19 pm
Replies: 85
Views: 2,085
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Goodbye Maggie RIP

I don't think the telegraph list will change many minds at all, all that will be taken away is those points that support there already firm view, the others will be dismissed
The second report is a...
Forum: Canada Apr 16th 2013, 4:24 pm
Replies: 53
Views: 4,833
Posted By MikeUK
Re: We're going back

moving south might have moved you forwrad to only living 5 years behind the times
Forum: Canada Apr 16th 2013, 2:37 pm
Replies: 53
Views: 4,833
Posted By MikeUK
Re: We're going back

Good luck..

Two years is more than enough time if you don't like what you’re seeing, and you need to make that decision before you run out of money and options too
Forum: Canada / The Maple Leaf Apr 10th 2013, 8:06 pm
Replies: 326
Views: 8,083
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Thatcher dies

I'm assuming its was to not be seen crossing into Argentinean sovereign airspace, from my understanding you use the SAS when you don’t want to admit or be seen doing something, a minor mishap that...
Forum: Canada / The Maple Leaf Apr 10th 2013, 6:22 pm
Replies: 326
Views: 8,083
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Thatcher dies

I think the special forces were used or at least tried, I think from memory one helicopter with an SAS team was forced to land in Chile, the helicopter burnt (deliberately) the pilot arrested and the...
Forum: Canada / The Maple Leaf Apr 10th 2013, 5:53 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 1,385
Posted By MikeUK
Re: living on a lake

The wrong lake and it'll be every 5 seconds...........
Forum: Canada / The Maple Leaf Apr 9th 2013, 8:30 pm
Replies: 326
Views: 8,083
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Thatcher dies

My opinion based on my time served behind a bar (in North Notts) during the Thatcher years is that a lot of the working class had some bizarre approaches to their reasons for voting

Time served...
Forum: Canada / The Maple Leaf Apr 9th 2013, 7:43 pm
Replies: 326
Views: 8,083
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Thatcher dies

Many would say Margret Thatcher won the first two elections, the first on her own merit, the second on the back of the falklands and that the newspapers helped Kinnock lose the third
Forum: Canada / The Maple Leaf Apr 8th 2013, 6:54 pm
Replies: 326
Views: 8,083
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Thatcher dies

But no new regulations were put in place, no changes to senior management, just a share issue and non profitable funded by the government, none existent profits supposedly returned to the government...
Forum: Canada / The Maple Leaf Apr 8th 2013, 4:09 pm
Replies: 326
Views: 8,083
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Thatcher dies

I think we should all agree that something had to be about the trade unions, but killing the industries at the same time I feel was the wrong approach, yet the unions were subdued, but with the...
Forum: Canada / The Maple Leaf Apr 8th 2013, 1:07 pm
Replies: 326
Views: 8,083
Posted By MikeUK
Re: Thatcher dies

The Witch is dead.................
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