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WHAT THE FUCK???!!!!

LeStempy said:
Thread 'Cheapy Elgrand for someone with a trailer'

https://forum.elgrandoc.uk/threads/cheapy-Elgrand-for-someone-with-a-trailer.47599/
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-Lummox- said:
There we go, solutions not problems!
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This is the place that helped me import mine officially!

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Nissan Elgrand Highway Star 350 - JDM Import! (m2440058479) — Nissan — Marktplaats

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Lpgc said:
I haven't checked but I think Fanny Hands Lane in Lincolnshire might have been renamed. Could never help laughing as we passed it enroute to Skegness but if locals saw you laughing it brought a frown to some of their faces. I believe they did petition their local authorities to rename it and it was in the news years ago.
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Many towns in England at least have a "Grope cunt lane" or similar. The c word was just a word that described something back in the day and was not considered taboo until recently and road names quite often described their primary or preferred reason for being.

Fanny Hands probably follows that trend for exactly the same reason but is probably a bit more modern. I think that fanny is a more modern word than cunt. I think we can work out what "fanny hands" really means, when given the rather older: "grope cunt".

Now that is probably not a discussion you thought you needed!
 
gerdesj said:
Many towns in England at least have a "Grope cunt lane" or similar. The c word was just a word that described something back in the day and was not considered taboo until recently and road names quite often described their primary or preferred reason for being.

Fanny Hands probably follows that trend for exactly the same reason but is probably a bit more modern. I think that fanny is a more modern word than cunt. I think we can work out what "fanny hands" really means, when given the rather older: "grope cunt".

Now that is probably not a discussion you thought you needed!
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Fanny hands lane is even more innocent to be fair.
“Fanny” married a farmer ( I think he was a farmer) named John hands and the lane was named after her
 
Highway Dave said:
Fanny hands lane is even more innocent to be fair.
“Fanny” married a farmer ( I think he was a farmer) named John hands and the lane was named after her
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P4ddy said:
It was John' hands that gropped fanny in that lane, I'll get my coat
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They were both true until after the wedding then it was renamed nag lane
 
Karl said:
Here's a general rant thread... let all of that pent up anger out!

Go!
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So I was out with my Elgrand today. Ok I am still getting used to driving an automatic that's a heavy old thing and really trying to avoid sharp braking. I get towards a roundabout and start braking to slow her down in case I have to stop. Behind me a commercial van gets annoyed and gives me a beep. Why is everyone else on the road in such a hurry. My Elgrand just has a 2.5 engine so she's not a nippy vehicle by any stretch of the imagination but why am I such a red rag to impatient drivers. Oh and I usually drive in a way that lets people get in front who really want to, I never hug the car/van/lorry/tractor in front but leave space since I'm not going to be the one to overtake. I wish other drivers could take an Elgrand chill pill
 
RobbieMcLaren said:
So I was out with my Elgrand today. Ok I am still getting used to driving an automatic that's a heavy old thing and really trying to avoid sharp braking. I get towards a roundabout and start braking to slow her down in case I have to stop. Behind me a commercial van gets annoyed and gives me a beep. Why is everyone else on the road in such a hurry. My Elgrand just has a 2.5 engine so she's not a nippy vehicle by any stretch of the imagination but why am I such a red rag to impatient drivers. Oh and I usually drive in a way that lets people get in front who really want to, I never hug the car/van/lorry/tractor in front but leave space since I'm not going to be the one to overtake. I wish other drivers could take an Elgrand chill pill
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Van drivers are often 'on a mission' because they want to get from A to B to do some work at B and hoping to get an early finish. Some of them sometimes seem out of their depth / comfort zone drivng vans if they're more used to the Fiesta they drive the rest of the time. A lot of van drivers are pushy on the road so are breaking the 'do not try to dominate on the road' highway code rule.

That said, there's a balance between being cautious and making progress. When you're learning you're expected to need to be more cautious / err on the side of cautious until you've gained enough experience to be cautious and make good progress at the same time. Maybe the van driver or other following drivers would think you were being over cautious to the extent of not increasing safety but not making decent progress, not knowing that you were getting used to driving an automatic.

We would fail a basic learner driving test by doing something unsafe or to a far lesser extent by not making good enough progress. But would fail an advanced driving test by not being polished at pre-empting hazard situations and by not making good enough progress, the advanced driver might be expected to make better progress than the basic learner while at the same time being safer than the basic learner.

I've been in cars with drivers who drive a manual car OK and smoothly but drive an automatic a lot worse and a lot less smoothly. E.g. Drive like other drivers and passengers would hope and expect they would drive a manual, enter corners at a speed that they can keep a bit of power on going around the corner to better plant the vehicle and lessen that sideways push in the seat G force feeling but not anticipate the lesser engine braking in an auto so enter a corner a bit quick then either coast around it or brake mid corner, etc. Random increases / decreases of speed, etc. But the real eye opener is when it comes to manouvering... They could probably do a 3 or 5 point turn on a hill no problem and never overshoot how far they intended to move in a manual, never do the rolling in the wrong direction thing. But put them in an automatic and they're all over the place, overshooting how far they intended to move and rolling in the wrong direction. Even more 'fun' if the automatic has a foot parking brake instead of a hand parking brake or if the parking brake doesn't work properly.

I tell people who are new to slushbox automatics that if they don't feel they have the same level of vehicle control in an automatic compared to driving a manual they should try left foot braking in an automatic. Then even if the parking brake is a bit week they can prevent the rolling around during manouveres on a hill with left foot on the brake while applying a bit of throttle. It's another trick in the box for smooth driving and sporty driving too.

An automatic gearbox is supposed to take some of the work out of driving but to a lot of people it seems an automatic gearbox makes driving more work because coming from manual gearboxes they assume they should handle the brake and accelerator pedal pretty much the same as they do in manual cars except they don't need to press a clutch pedal... when they might be better off handling the brake and accelerator pedal a bit differently in the automatic if they try it and practice it, but they never try or practice it so just assume they will always have less control in an auto compared to a manual.
 
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I wish the Elgrand had a halt brake like a bus and the mercedes Actros I drive
 
I’m sat here contemplating self harm because I changed the Plug on my favourite petrol lawn mower and for no apparent reason whatsoever it runs like a bag of spanner’s.( it ran OK beforehand )
Now, any normal person would put the other plug back in and see how it ran…. But no, not me, I convinced myself it was fuel related - so took the carb to bits.
Built it back up, stayed the same, it was at this point I was staring at the wretched thing on my bench and I noticed this warning sign, what the fuck does that mean?
Because my train of though was broken by this warning sticker I decided to look at the plug, that’s when I realised the plug cap was not clipped to the plug, so the contact was intermittent as it revved… like it was hunting.
Anyway - the mower is fine but that warning label is annoying me.

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What exactly is the warning on? If you touch the grass you'll have a head of fire and need ventilating with a manual pump thingy
 
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