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If i were that person..Brexit would never have happened. And Boris would have been thrown off Tower Bridge with pockets full of bricks.

Struggling to stay awake...

Baby Cav had his 3rd jab yesterday and reacted badly. Temperature up to 38.9C, screaming, loss of appetite, the lot. I tried to get sleep on the sofa but didn't get much. At 4am he also passed his 4 day constipation which resulted in us washing our bedding and remaking the bed. Thankfully though, Calpol brings his temperature down quite quickly and we were getting a lot of smiles afterwards.

His temperature was back to the mid 38s a couple of hours into my working day and I really feel for my Wife, she's just got a day of feeding him and trying to calm him.

I wish I'd bought shares in Calpol instead of the stupid **** T-shirt.

Cav wrote: At 4am he also passed his 4 day constipation which resulted in us washing our bedding and remaking the bed.

Sorry, but.....

4 days worth!?? That's impressive. Well done, Baby Cav.

Cav wrote:Struggling to stay awake...

Baby Cav had his 3rd jab yesterday and reacted badly. Temperature up to 38.9C, screaming, loss of appetite, the lot. I tried to get sleep on the sofa but didn't get much. At 4am he also passed his 4 day constipation which resulted in us washing our bedding and remaking the bed. Thankfully though, Calpol brings his temperature down quite quickly and we were getting a lot of smiles afterwards.

His temperature was back to the mid 38s a couple of hours into my working day and I really feel for my Wife, she's just got a day of feeding him and trying to calm him.

Something I learnt when my kids were young, especially Byron, was you can piggy back Ibuprofen and paracetamol based infant pain meds. The 6-8 hour gap between doses of just one syrup type sometimes doesn't keep the temp at bay. But if you use the two types, having different active ingredients you can stagger them 3-4 hours apart to prevent the spikes as it wears off. Not something I would do regularly, but when you are struggling, it is something my doctor recommended, and helped prevent Byron having more febrile seizures prior to his tonsils and adenoids coming out at 2.5 yrs

Jess car went into limp mode again, but cleared with a power cycle. Told her just to use my car for now.

She's pretty keen on the car she looked at, but the dealer is struggling to find a wholesaler that will take the Jeep off his hands, seems everyone in the world knows what a pos they are (except Jess when she bought it ) So still waiting for a deal to be struck

What kind of Jeep is it??? Not the Wrangler.... the WW2-looking thing, I hope?

D41 wrote:What kind of Jeep is it??? Not the Wrangler.... the WW2-looking thing, I hope?

Compass Sport

It's a smart-looking car.
Made in a Fiat factory in India apparently...amongst other places.

D41 wrote:It's a smart-looking car.
Made in a Fiat factory in India apparently...amongst other places.

Well that would account for the build quality and reliability. I detest it immensely. Plus the indicators and wipers controls are on the wrong sides of the steering wheel, which for an OCD pillock like me, is enough for me to want to burn it.

I don't think there's a right or wrong side for the switchgear TBH - I think the car manufacturers just pick a side and run with it. But yes, I know what you mean when you change vehicles.
It's probably better just to avoid using them completely.... it takes all the guesswork out of it and is therefore safer.

To my knowledge there's a Japanese switch gear position and a Rest of World switch gear position.

I'm in the office. I can't watch Netflix while I'm working. This is an infringement of my workers rights.

Cav wrote:To my knowledge there's a Japanese switch gear position and a Rest of World switch gear position.

It'd make sense just to put them on the left and be done with it.
That way the dominant hand (for 90% of people) stays on the steering wheel.
They're probably already done that way anyway.

If we look at it that way, it makes sense that Japanese cars have the indicators on the right as the gear stick is on their left (right-hand drive) therefore you can indicate while changing gear if necessary. Honestly, I doubt there's that much reasoning behind it... it's just done that way.

D41 wrote:

Cav wrote:To my knowledge there's a Japanese switch gear position and a Rest of World switch gear position.

It'd make sense just to put them on the left and be done with it.
That way the dominant hand (for 90% of people) stays on the steering wheel.
They're probably already done that way anyway.

British cars used to have them on the right as well. All the older english cars I had in my youth had them on the right. The reason British cars now have theirs on the left as well is that it was agreed as an ISO standard across europe as part of the harmonisation of EU safety standards.

The design function was right hand side for RH drive cars, left hand side for LH drive cars. But then when you get a car designed for LH drive (euro cars and US cars) but comes out in a RH drive variant for export, they never seem to change indicator stick position. Apart from Jess' Jeep the last time I drove a car with the indicators on the left was a Fiat 850S I had when I was 16.

Right hand side is the right side to have them, because that's where they have been for 90% of my driving experience

It's freezing outside right now.... which in my world translates as anything below 60F..... and it's going to be in the 90s by lunchtime. I'm going to stay indoors and re-string my new(ish) guitar.... and maybe my 12-string too if I'm feeling adventurous.

That's a touch warmer than here today but we've got some strong and very cold winds making it feel arctic

Meeting a couple of old school mates for a beer