Alex...I hope your car doesn't need any major work..
My car is due around January for MOT and Check Up..
It certainly is a problem when things go wrong..
 My mate has a fancy motor with all the gadgets.. cost him a bomb..
It has just broken down... It is at the garage.. Who inform him that it can be very costly to repair..
  Gone are the days when we could just lift the bonnet up.. twiddle a few things and everything was fine..

It was funny. 😁 😁 😁

I might add that I wasn't naked .. It was only my joggers that I hadn't quite pulled up..

Depends. Sounds more like a hose than the head gasket because the plugs are in the head so above the head gasket . Hoses are cheaper to fix than head gaskets, water pumps etc.

Doubtless they'll be letting you know.

It passed but they've put a note at the bottom of the bill ' coolant leak - leaking into spark plug area - needs further investigation.   Hope that's not too big a job to fix 

I don't see how it will work it seems to be well advertised that facial recognition is in an area so criminals will not enter that area.

Quote from: Michael Rolls on December 04, 2025, 02:22:30 PMThere are real scum around. A grave near Veronica's holds a man who died in his fourties'. Three  Christmases ago his two little girls planted little Christmas trees around his grave - and some swine stole them

A disgusting act.  Wen ah wer a lad, we could trust the vast majority of people to be at least relatively honest, and such an act would attract general condemnation.
Unfortunately, these days, many young people would be rolling in laughter.  Total lack of respect.

I am innocence personified but my phone sometimes doesn't recognise me 😕

Quote from: Alex on December 04, 2025, 02:19:39 PMHope its something they can sort JB, how old is Peanut ?

She's 5 or 6.

The main problem with facial recognition and faces being obscured I see is that it removes any potential protection that it is supposed to offer. I don't care if they take my pic to identify me in the least. I think I've still got some vivid masks 

Quote from: JBR on December 04, 2025, 11:02:45 AMI agree that facial recognition is likely to be advantageous in crime prevention, especially as I see so many people on the news who are wearing face masks to hide their identity.
Muslim women, of course, might be encouraged not to cover their faces.  That is an ancient religious requirement and I'm sure that many of them only do so following orders from their husband (or even father).

It's not really religious, more cultural. I think face coverings should not be allowed in most scenarios, otherwise facial recognition won't treat everyone the same.