Jonboy

Luckily the lockdown filming hiatus seems to have cured my wife of her eastenders habit....

My family used to go to our grandparents on Xmas eve (German heritage) for a family gathering. When we got back at around 4 years old my parents had bought me a Thomas and Bertie race set ( https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/thomas-bertie-great-race-battery-1806552553 ). The box was around 2’ x 3’ and they had wrapped it and laid it flat on the floor for when we got home....I promptly sat on top of it to play with the presents from the grandparents and aunts....

Europallets fit well but you end up with a gap at one end of about 80% of a pallet space, and because the pallets have to be in two different orientations your warehouse team tend not to be too keen on it...until you order a couple of loose stacked 40’s to remind them it could be worse...

1 hour ago, Hobby said:

 

To be replaced with another method of doing it according to that article... Why not just allow both... If CFD becomes good enough the use of the tunnels will fade away anyhow... BTW how does not using wind tunnels help F1's "sustainability message"?

When it was first installed the Williams wind tunnel was reported in the local press to draw more power than the village of Grove next to it, population of Grove circa 7000.....

Just a note that it might be worth noting which usb socket you have used and sticking to it, I have found windows can occasionally be a little tetchy with usb serial connections if you change ports.

11 hours ago, Ruston said:
Of course, you could always start a completely new topic to ask the question and wait for someone to say how it had already been covered in an existing topic!

Nah this is the internet, post it with any wrong answer as a statement and someone will come and correct it far faster than if you simply await an answer...

Personally if I drop into the end of an interesting thread I will tend to go back 5 or 6 pages but not much more. If it is less than 15 pages I may go to the start and skim read it all.

(Always fun if you google a question, only for the results to be an rmweb thread you have participated in previously)

The key to this is changed to uk law that obligate marketplace sites to ensure VAT is collected. If you don’t provide details of a VAT registration the market place have to assume this process on your behalf.

As the seller you will get a 3d/qr barcode at some point in the sales process to display on the parcel for it to whizz through customs as pre-declared. 
 

(I suspect this will tighten the screws on non-PayPal payments in the case of eBay).

as an aside if you don’t like the current post office interrogation about contents when posting parcels you ain’t seen nothing yet...

For me it’s a once a month trip to the office at 130 miles each way(following employer relocation) . Easily drivable in a single stint each way, but the mileage is right on the limit of equivalent cost cars to my current petrol car. As the vast majority of the journey is/or becoming smart motorway I would be reluctant to pay fuel roulette...

public transport takes almost double the time each way via 4 trains each direction, meaning I would only have three workable hours instead of 6 or 7 with the team on each trip.

we also live in a flat with parking spaces away from the the block.

3 hours ago, 30801 said:

 

How do you you know what the electricity is being used for? You can plug your car into a 13A socket.

BTW public charging already attracts VAT at the full rate.

now if only the technology was there to superimpose a digital signal over the ring main from car charger or the vehicle back to the smart meter with the consumption details...it could be called “driving consumption cost”, abbreviated to DCC for short...

Take a look at the list of questions in this article and have answers ready when you get interviews. Even if they ask something similar rather than the exact questions it will likely help you answer more confidently:
 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2013/01/11/how-to-ace-the-50-most-common-interview-questions/

The point about doing some research on the organisation you are applying to is also important for coming across well. Having some questions ready to ask them that relate clearly to the role and organisation is a good way of showing you really want the job.

Remember you are determining whether you want the job as much as if they want you as a candidate.
 

Don’t take rejection personally, I have often interviewed several strong candidates for roles, and agonised over the relative strengths and weaknesses but had to end up with just one.

Is it to late for Ferrari to “gift” Vettel to Haas and help themselves stay above them in the constructors????

21 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

I have had to acknowledge the cookie placement popup at least three times today. I never log out - why would I? - so don't know why. Yes, it is on three separate Macs, but they are same three Macs I use every day, and most days I don't see them. My cookie level is whatever Safari sets by default. 

It’s not Andy it’s you....Mac have updated safari to only store cookies for 7 days...

”The updated Safari also limits storage for a website's scripts to one week, and includes counters to sites that try to avoid tracking detection by delaying their redirects”

from https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-24-safari-blocks-all-third-party-cookies-by-default.html?

Idle musing, would Perez and Albon make a good pairing for Haas next year?

I really like a chicken tarka, it’s like a tikka but a little otter...

Our local Royal Mail delivery office are struggling to deliver more than once a week, twice a week on a really good week at the moment (this is in a medium size town, not a rural hamlet). I have a first class post weekly magazine on subscription regularly turning up a week late.
 

How they have the capacity to add an extra service I have to wonder....

On 20/10/2020 at 20:44, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

If a UK resident orders, say, a loco from Spain, under the new arrangements, presumably the seller must first remove 21% IVA and then apply VAT at 20% which he then pays to the UK masked highwaymen tax authorities?

Being a Spanish resident, how does it work for traffic the other way if I buy from the UK, a similar arrangement? Hopefully not as I won't be able to buy UK models due to the sellers (understandable) reluctance to be an unpaid tax collector for the Spanish government.

 

Mike.

It will likely be handled by the carrier. We are working with ours so that customers will either be able to pay the carrier the due taxes plus a processing fee on arrival in the eu country, or they pay us up front and the customs clearance is carried out effectively before the goods depart. Note that for Spain it might not be a Spanish clearance but a French one (At French TVA rate) as the first  EU point of entry

If there is sufficient demand then companies will likely automate it though their websites, otherwise it may need a manual process.

(Some companies may simply decide it isn’t worth it for destination countries with very limited demand).

You can get quite a lot of different styles of rubber ladder feet through various eBay sellers, had to occasionally buy them to replace missing ones in the warehouse at work.

9 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

I expect there will be a statutory declaration to be affixed on the parcel, showing the value of the goods and VAT paid. Parcels arriving without it will be held at Royal Mail's infinite pleasure until someone pays something. As said above, imports from outside the EU have had a working system for years, so why invent anything new for Brexit? 

from January almost any parcel worldwide Via postal systems will need an electronic declaration made before shipping  and have a QR barcode affixed that relates to the this Declaration.
 

If you take a parcel to the post office to buy postage they will ask you contents and value to generate the declaration...

if you buy postage online it’s a step in the booking process...

15 minutes ago, AY Mod said:

 

I think you may be receiving some advertising based on some of your niche interests.

I was baffled by the advert I had for about 85% of the period they were running showing Camila Cabello, as not any sort of interest of mine...turned out it was eBay trying to sell me postcards of her...

I have just had an advert for google adword improvements....

Round here Wallace and gromit get short shift as they were almost every teachers end of term, go to filler, back when there where only the original three episodes.....They were ok the first 10 times....

Do they have to run the Friday sessions in the same car?
 

50 laps in a Renault Zoe for the “novices” to learn the track would surely save a large proportion of the car related running costs of a Friday session....

On 28/09/2020 at 09:19, chris p bacon said:

 

Having followed some in London I think you'll find that no one liked them as they were incapable of operating with narrow streets.  Having seen one wedged between traffic lights at a junction I can understand why.

 

I did see the ex London buses in Malta after they were shipped there. They didn't work there either and after several fires and complaints from passengers they languish(ed) in yard outside Valletta.

I saw them being upgraded in Oxfordshire before they left....8 out of a batch of 10 broke down on the drive to Bristol dock for the boat to Malta....

6 hours ago, Hal Nail said:

Are you suggesting the way to avoid panic stockpiling is for everyone to have a 6 month supply sat at home already?

 

Try someone in the house getting a long term digestive disorder, that 30 rolls will become a 2 week supply.....

At work we get these around twice a month for every exhibition we have attended, across two differently named business divisions. It is straight-forward fishing with you being the target. The scammers simply trawl the exhibitor lists and fire off the same type of email to all of them, in the hope someone will pay them for it.

we also get paper forms in the post asking us to check details are correct and amend and fax or post back in the enclosed free post envelope back if not so. They all have missing details and small print saying your signature confirms agreement to three years of adverts at 1259 pesos or equivalent per annum, governed by Mexican law.....it would be a cynical git that simply pops back the empty envelope....