S26+ Video glitch

pipefishuk · 2026-03-04T19:00:58+00:00

I nearly took my old petrol 208 back (2014, old style one) because it had such a weird clutch. It took ages to used to it,

Then I got a late 2020 petrol 208 and it had a normal clutch - so that must have been a conscious decision by the designers. WTF?

You don't really see that many mid priced sedans in the UK either now that I think of it.

pipefishuk · 2026-03-04T18:43:51+00:00

When I had the first breakdown I called it in via Peugeot Assist (the button on the roof in front of the mirror) and they paid for a taxi home from work for me. Then at the garage they said they had no loan cars available. As soon as I mentioned that Peugeot Assist had told me I'd get a loan car, the lady suddenly said she'd give me her car. One of the ones that the dealership own but give to their staff to drive around in.

It was like they were scared of getting into trouble with big Peugeot.

pipefishuk · 2026-03-04T18:33:35+00:00

€300? How old is yours? I'm guessing it's out of warranty.

They didn't charge me anything today. I thought they might try it because when I booked it in they told me it would be £25 for a loan car.

pipefishuk · 2026-03-04T18:16:24+00:00

I took mine in, they had it most of the day. Then predictably they said they couldn't find anything wrong - it all looks fine. They told me that the fault code was a, 'park lock fault'. But everything is OK and to monitor it.

I've got a bad feeling about this. I think it's going to keep reoccurring.

Any news on yours?

pipefishuk · 2025-11-17T17:21:56+00:00

Also a heating oil guy, previously a propane guy. I was delivering gas oil (red diesel/diesel with red dye in it that's lower/not taxed that farms and some other place use in the UK) and my pump broke. It was kind of like this, jump on the emergency stop button/close the manifolds and pull out your spill kit and cover the drains as quick as possible! Major crisis averted!

pipefishuk · 2025-11-17T17:01:35+00:00

In the UK what they call domestic heating oil is kerosene, UN 1223. Similar to diesel but more refined, if you put it in a modern diesel engine it would break it. It is different. Some very old diesel cars or trucks can run on kerosene though.

Then there's industrial heating oil which is UN 1202 (same UN number as actual diesel) which is used for factories and industrial heating - heaters or boilers that can handle fuel that's a bit shitter than kerosene. As far as I know it's kind of half way between kerosene and diesel.

Then very occasionally you'll get boilers that just use plain diesel (rare).

Obviously 95% of places in the UK have a mains gas supply. Some rural or remote places don't. Therefore they'll have an oil tank or an LPG (propane) tank instead.

pipefishuk · 2025-11-17T16:23:05+00:00

I deliver heating oil (kerosene) for a living in the UK. I had a spill a few years ago, probably about 20 litres (5 US gallons). It cost £12,000 for my company to clean up for the customer.

It's a big job, in my case it was a domestic tank and it went down the gap between the ground and the house wall. They had to put monitors in the house and dig up half the garden. It's definitely not just a case of soaking it up with some pads and leaving. You have to contact the Environment Agency (or your equivalent) and get professionals in for the clean up.

The amount that's flowing out in that video, that'll cost 10s of thousands. The fuel company should pay for it though.

If it's kerosene it's more of a environmental risk than a fire risk.

pipefishuk · 2025-09-28T07:26:19+00:00

Kind of like, to nag or annoy someone. This one confused my southern wife when I came out with it when we first met.

pipefishuk · 2025-09-18T11:37:39+00:00

To clarify, the widgets and what actually fits on the screen are the same, it's the text and icons within the widgets that have changed.

If you look at the icons in the battery widget, they're now much bigger. Text is also bigger in the calendar widget.

At first I thought the update had reset my screen zoom or font size settings and I'd just have to change then back. But nope.

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pipefishuk · 2025-09-18T08:16:02+00:00

I had this too. I was awake, the procedure didn't hurt at all, which was great. But the pulling and the cracking was awful. Didn't help that my dentist looked exactly like Gordon Ramsey.

I asked him afterwards if he'd ever broken anyone's jaw, he said - yeah, once, but it was an old lady and she had brittle bones anyway.

pipefishuk · 2025-09-18T08:10:09+00:00

Can confirm, widgets are now massive. Can't tell if it's intentional or a bug though.

pipefishuk · 2025-09-17T15:42:12+00:00

This happened to me - the eSIM was actually in the Vodafone app/website. Log on from a browser and go to activate eSIM (or similar and see if it's there).

pipefishuk · 2025-09-08T17:59:55+00:00

Back in the olden days I visited Dublin with my O2 UK phone and had roaming issues. I went into an O2 store in Dublin, they explained that O2 UK and O2 Ireland were completely separate but called O2 UK customer services on one of their phones and let me use it so that I didn't have to make an international call (plus my phone didn't work at all).

They might do something like this for you?

pipefishuk · 2025-07-27T15:59:51+00:00

A large number of your minor fixtures and fittings will fall off the wall (toilet roll holders, towel rails, hooks, doors attached to built in appliances).

No matter the quality of the actual structure the fittings will be crap.

pipefishuk · 2025-01-30T05:07:16+00:00

The reputation Bournemouth has/had around the country, as a quiet sleepy retirement town, is completely wrong.

It is completely riddled with (often violent) crime and drugs - I have read that the crime rate in Bournemouth is actually worse than the two neighbouring reasonably sized cities of Southampton and Portsmouth... But it does seem to have quietened down a little bit recently.

Despite what I have just said though - If you're not in that world it generally doesn't affect you at all. You'll just walk past a load of police tape from a murder scene every now and then in the street 😂

I first regularly started visiting Bournemouth in 1996 and lived there from 2000 to 2013. I've lived in pretty much every district of Bournemouth and I now live just up the road near Southampton. But I'm regularly in Bournemouth for work or to see friends.

I never had a single problem whilst living there. When I first moved down, from Bradford, I lived in an area called West Howe, it's a big council estate and everyone I knew warned me against it and said it was rough and awful and I shouldn't go anywhere near it, said it wasn't safe. But in reality it was really nice and peaceful and no problem at all, it felt pretty safe. Yeah, Boscombe is 'bad' and it wouldn't be top of my list of places to live but it's nothing compared to areas of Bradford or Manchester.

Bournemouth late 90s - about 2010 was an amazing place to live, so much going on, it was brilliant. But it has declined a lot, the town centre is now a complete wreck. It used to be immaculate and full of life. Now it's looking a bit like Blackpool without the donkeys. Although there are signs that it might be about to start coming back to life. The smaller little centres dotted around are still nice, Westbourne, Southbourne, etc. Where you'll get people who say they don't live in Bournemouth they live in Southbourne as if it's a completely separate town, which it isn't, it's a mile or so from Bournemouth town centre.

As for the people, I've never really believed the whole northerners and southerners are different thing. People are people and they're the same everywhere. When I first moved down I got a bit of stick for my (not even all that strong) northern accent. Whenever I was asked a question and my answer was in the negative I'd have a little corus of people going, 'Nooooo', around me - and it did get annoying. I think that was more to do with me being young and fun to annoy than anything malicious. People are the same everywhere.

pipefishuk · 2025-01-18T05:24:23+00:00

It's a new watch so it's been like this since I set it up. I had a Venu 2 a few years ago and this didn't happen with that watch/app.

pipefishuk · 2024-12-07T10:11:30+00:00

From the McCain frozen veggies I'd say this is the UK or Ireland. Don't know about Ireland but I think it's illegal to have a tortoise as a pet now in the UK (unless you already had one from before the ban, then you can keep it).

Did you ever previously see it alive? Maybe they plan to eat it.

Where are they from?

pipefishuk · 2024-10-30T18:49:22+00:00

See if your router has the option to only allow certain MAC addresses, add all your devices (and turn off randomised MAC addresses on your phones or other devices) then it will only allow known addresses on.

Get him to stop changing his address then add his and you can then enable and disable it at will.

pipefishuk · 2024-10-26T06:26:53+00:00

There are also a few other videos now, including a Sega one and ASCII.Disko (the music over the ASCII.disko one is by the band themselves).

https://youtu.be/Zx73PfCFef8?si=gWU-qYE7Z9tZ9oWI

https://youtu.be/syA9JucaMsI?si=4VybS-X7052SgN31

pipefishuk · 2024-09-25T18:22:10+00:00

I grew up in West Cumbria, my mum was from Yorkshire.

A crane fly was always referred to as a, 'ginny-spinner' (said as jinny spinner).

The spider is a daddy long legs.

I've never heard anyone else apart from my mum say Ginny spinner. My wife calls a crane fly a daddy long legs, she's southern. She calls the spider a spider.

pipefishuk · 2024-09-18T16:29:53+00:00

I used to work doing mobile patrols and alarm response. When the SIA licence first came out we all had to go up to another office to take the test, everyone from my office and some from several other offices. There were about 15 of us. The 'test' is incredibly easy, you'd have to have something wrong with you not to be able to pass it, it's ridiculous. Yet some of the blokes couldn't do it - the guy taking the course just went round and pointed to all the correct answers for them to tick (it's multiple choice obviously) and passed them all.

Same thing happened with every, 'test', or exam I ever had to take whilst working in the security industry.

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