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Serious question from someone who knows bugger all about cars and can't tell one from another except 2CVs and the odd Merc or Rolls.
Is there a handbrake? Does it work? Are they not very good?

I ask because one of our teachers at school had one (of course) and we were easily able to push it about ten yards away from where he parked it just for a laugh. :rofl:

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For a client of mine who I seem to have been able to pull rabbits out of a hat, he has said I can borrow his DS21 for a week next spring when it is fully restored. This is the car..dumb question time. I'm assuming it is a manual which I can drive and a manual (5 speed) is my day to day car...but would it be a column mounted shifter. Never driven one of those before.
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...e1032d6c70.jpg

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Might be a lever on the dash below and to the right of the steering wheel.
Edit: There are also sticks and conventional "3 on the tree" column shifters. Lots of pics of different ones so the one I remember from 50 years ago doesn't count. :lol: Don't worry, they're all easy. Safest car in Europe at one time, almost impossible to roll, and a 1 piece scrolled steering wheel that wouldn't go through your chest in a collision.

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https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...6bb9f5cc06.jpg

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HA HA HA. I wish there was a comedy club in Kamloops that I could send people to when they start low balling.

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No matter how easy people make something look on youtube, chances are when I do it, it will be a complete mess...lol

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my Dad had the estate as a company car. It was always known as the brum brum, I was very little, it's the 1st car I remember.

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these deep fake videos are getting scary

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A proper telling off from a copper on a horse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVub...ature=youtu.be

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My husband and I enjoyed that :lol: Except husband wondered why the bloke wasn't arrested.

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Have to say those cops are professional and almost friendly, and they are way less intimidating compared to US/Canada maybe its the uniform.

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This ought to be good; sexual harassment on the job at CBSA and the complainant gets put through the wringer after making her complaint. Hopefully the officer who thinks his "hands on approach" is ok gets what he deserves. Whenever a civil servant is shown to be unworthy of their job it's important to land on them hard and make sure they never collect a cent of a government pension. Once it hits the press they can't hide any of it, and whoever thought it appropriate to grill the complainant in that way deserves the same treatment. Hopefully, if the allegations are proven, neither of them are able to work as mall cops. The Commissionaires certainly won't want them.
https://globalnews.ca/news/6217038/c...sment-lawsuit/

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I always wonder if this guy makes enough off youtube to cover the costs of his hobby, or has a good job to cover the costs, regardless his videos are neat, always building something new. Would be cool to have a fish room like that.


Couldn't really do it in Canada due to climate, but would be a cool business if you know how to run a fish farm.

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https://urbanicity.com/hamilton/city...all-of-canada/


"Hamilton now has the fastest-rising rent in all of Canada":(


It's all the Torontonians moving in because they are priced out of Toronto and Oakville / Mississauga.. Hamilton is an hour from Toronto, but obviously that's not far enough to deter them.. it's an industrial City, we don't have high earning jobs.. so it's the commuters that are pushing the prices up. :(

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It's the pits. Sounds likes Toronto region is much like the Vancouver region.

Eventually metro areas run out of affordable areas and it becomes one big expensive area.

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Ello my Canadian Brothers and Sisters. If this is true, you are a country of legends. Keep this up.

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/...s-cDxI4UNgBfLE

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:hysterical:

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I remember combining two UK banknotes (don't recall which) to make a John Mcenroe.

Ah...here it is

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Excellent ! I think I've probably seen at some point, but totally forgot about it.

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London Bridge attack this morning. Best footage so far of what happened.

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That's is very immediate footage - not even on BBC.

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Now stabbings being reported in The Hague.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50609528

Police looking for a male suspect, 45 to 50 years of age.


Interesting advertising point for a laundry detergent. "gluten free ingredients"


Alberta Health Services plans to cut nursing positions.

"AHS said while its budget has remained stable, a growing and aging population means cuts must be made."

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-...nion-1.4708633

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The perpetrqtor was wearing an explosive vest, and people are saying why was he killed, he escaped from the public who were holding him and ran, the police at that time didn't know it was a dummy vest, so they shot him. Now people are saying they shouldn't have shot him, why the hell not, as far as they knew it was a live vest, and he may have been looking for a big group of people to explode it in. If he had escaped and blown himself up along with a number of members of the public, these same people would have been saying why didn't the police shoot him.

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So there was an attack in London, an attack in the Hague, and someone in Winnipeg stole a fire truck and tried to run people over with it. I wonder if there's a connection between them all. I believe there have been several raids recently that thwarted planned attacks, so considering those, I venture that they could possibly be coordinated.

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Crazy. Police have said they don't think its a terror related attack, seems more like a crime of opportunity at this point, but suppose time will tell.

Back in the 90's a man stole a tank and went on joy ride/rampage with it, that was one of the weirdest police chases of my childhood, police chases back in the 90's were almost always carried live on TV and they were common back then.

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Yes, I agree. What I didn't understand from the clip was the last public member who the police seemed to have to drag off the perpetrator.

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It looks as if the brave member of the public was wrestling with the suspect to presumably keep him from detonating the vest strapped to his waist. At that time it wasn't known that the suicide vest was fake.
I'm guessing here, but the copper probably wanted the guy on top out of the way so that his colleague waiting to the right could get a clean shot the millisecond everyone was out of the way. It was fascinating to watch, all those years of training put to good use in seconds. I imagine the members of the public who saw the suspect shot and killed close up will need some counselling. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.

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And people think it never snows in San Diego..... ;) Granted you have to drive about 1 hour to go to the mountains but the mountains are within San Diego County. Looks like they got a nice storm.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sandiego/co..._at_mt_laguna/

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Wouldn't whomever is wrestling with him just want to get far away as soon as he sees the suicide vest?

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Lots of conspoiracy theories floating round, the guy was a terrorist released on license from prison but tagged, he was attending a seminar on prisons and inmates, where he got the knife and vest from is unknown, the police seem to have had no choice but to shoot him as they were unaware whether the vest was real, and it could have caused many deaths if it had been. There is also the fact that it's happened just a few days before a general election, and the shooting of Jo Cox happened just before an election, there was also a terrorist attack just a few days before the referendum. The major parties doid, as a mark of respect, cancel all meetings, speeches etc, well apart from Johnson and Gove who decided it was a good idea NOT to fall in line.

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I would have thought so. There are some good videos doing the rounds this morning of 4 guys bringing him down with a fire extinguisher and a 7' narwhal tusk. One of them a Polish immigrant. Bloody poles, coming over here and tacking our terrorists.

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:lol:

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:thumbsup:

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Was his name Walter? :lol:

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Did they have static electricitiy in the old days?

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No, it was always moving around. :lol:

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We are really behind the times in Canada. Not only is toilet paper other than white hard to come by, this morning I discovered that in addition to all the nice colours I remember in the UK, they now have scented toilet paper, including a Christmas one of mulled spice.

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Really? I'm still using a wooden stick.

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Seems we can be in Canada. There was a company selling some colors of toilet paper in Wal-Mart a couple years ago (not sure if they still do) but the price was a bit high for what you were getting and not a good value.

I know in the US toilet paper in various colors was around from the middle 1950's until middle 1980's, seems one of the biggest reasons for the decline is change in bathroom design and decor, pastel and colorful bathrooms lost popularity into the 1980's.

I wonder if Canada was like that as well.

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Well that explains a lot :rofl: :p