[David Kent @ KentKleen]

Thank you Smithie for your informed advice on the 'chinese' heaters.
I went against your advice and bought one. 

[James Bulton]

Fantastic.

[David Kent @ KentKleen]

So was your advice good or bad ??   

[Spruce]

So was your advice good or bad ??   

 

Hi Dave,

This made me laugh last night when I saw your initial thank you to Smithie for his Chinese heater advice. What you also have to see is Smithie's side as a South African. And I'm sure he is genuinely happy that its working for you.

If my memory serves me correctly I think he did describe the heat exchanger as being made from a very thin material that wouldn't last. Under South African conditions everything has to be made of 2mm thick plate or else it will be broken.

There was a long standing South African joke that summed it up. They locked a South African (a member of the group that would usually fall into the unskilled/semiskilled labour force) in solitary confinement in a cell for a few months with 2 large steel balls.

After checking back in a few months the observers noticed that 1 ball was missing and the other was broken.

I could never understand why Britsh Leyland spent millions on a test track to test the 'quality' of their newly built Leyland Marinas. It would have been cheaper to send a few out to South Africa and they would see very quickly where the weaknesses were.

[James Bulton]

Spot on Spruce Marina was classed as the worst car made in S A by British Layland. All overheated and fell apart if they did not rust to bits.Land Rover was another kettle of fish.
     What sanctions did in S A was everyone learned what quality was and how to recognize it. A through away society never existed.If we did not have it we made it.AS a result I can fix most things.When I moved to the U K I was expecting a very modern I st world society were everything worked and a more tolerant people.AS Britain told most countries how to do it all. Things have turned out quite different.
       The policy tossed about of equality and diversity by the politicians seems to have missed CIP Forum. I am getting used to it and now celebrate the difference.The way to learn and grow your country is to travel and observe what happens in other places.When I mean travel I do not mean Ibeeffa or Lansa-otty. So let me be different and most could learn a bit from a half German half Yorkshire man with a S A culture. I have been around the block so many time and seen the backsides of so many. 

[PoleKing]

Spot on Spruce Marina was classed as the worst car made in S A by British Layland. All overheated and fell apart if they did not rust to bits.Land Rover was another kettle of fish.
     What sanctions did in S A was everyone learned what quality was and how to recognize it. A through away society never existed.If we did not have it we made it.AS a result I can fix most things.When I moved to the U K I was expecting a very modern I st world society were everything worked and a more tolerant people.AS Britain told most countries how to do it all. Things have turned out quite different.
       The policy tossed about of equality and diversity by the politicians seems to have missed CIP Forum. I am getting used to it and now celebrate the difference.The way to learn and grow your country is to travel and observe what happens in other places.When I mean travel I do not mean Ibeeffa or Lansa-otty. So let me be different and most could learn a bit from a half German half Yorkshire man with a S A culture. I have been around the block so many time and seen the backsides of so many.  

Moderated (Please refrain from this kind of posting)

[James Bulton]

Thanks mods for messing up this one. You had made it sound like my thread is at fault. I objected to the insulting  remark from Dirty Darren of my culture and heritage.

[Pete Thompson]

On the whole, I like this forum and find it very useful.

It does suffer from the malady of all forums though:


THOSE THAT KNOW THE LEAST, POST THE MOST



As long as you know and understand this then its ok.

[Tom White]

Thanks mods for messing up this one. You had made it sound like my thread is at fault. I objected to the insulting  remark from Dirty Darren of my culture and heritage.

I don't know who modded the post, but for someone who claims to 'have been around the block' you're a sensitive little darling aint you?

Maybe you ought to stay away from the interweb if a bunch of pixels on a computer screen keeps annoying you?

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

Shouldn't moderators be objective and impartial?

[Dave Willis]

Don't worry - I've reported Tosh.

[Tom White]

Shouldn't moderators be objective and impartial?

Each of us perceives then adds a layer of subjective understanding onto that perception; so how can anything that is produced by a subjective mind be objective, Mr Bateman?

If that's too difficult to understand then the short answer is 'No!'.

hth

[C o z y]

I have been around the block so many time and seen the backsides of so many. 

Sounds like one of those "freinds" you meet in the public bogs you hang out in at the weekend Bateman.  

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

lol

I have met smithie in person and he said on that occasion he was due to meet you cozy round the back of the publics in the park at 9.30 that night.

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

Shouldn't moderators be objective and impartial?

Each of us perceives then adds a layer of subjective understanding onto that perception; so how can anything that is produced by a subjective mind be objective, Mr Bateman?

If that's too difficult to understand then the short answer is 'No!'.

hth

Wrong. But hey you can't educate a turd.

I didn't write that actually. It was cozy, he FB'd me and said he'd do it. I didn't think for one minute he'd do it under my name, but he's a turdy basher too.

[*Hector*]

Oh dear.... have I strayed into the gayer part of the forum?? 

or just the Matt and Cozy show? 

or is it the same thing?? 

[robbo333]

I find this forum very informative. There is lots of good advice on here from some very experienced people.
The trick is to sift it out and make the best of it. I certainly don't agree with everything on here but it's good to get a difference of opinions. Certain peoples arguments have made me see things differently and change the way I work and that can only be a good thing. The people on this forum are like my customers; most people are good, a few are a pain, a few I would choose not to deal with. But I get on with everyone because that's how I roll.  

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

Oh dear.... have I strayed into the gayer part of the forum?? 

or just the Matt and Cozy show? 

or is it the same thing?? 

I think Cozy gets a tad gayer most Thursdays of late. Male menopause.

[elite mike]

this will prove if your the gayest poster on ciu 

http://www.gay-test.com/

[C o z y]

I find this forum very informative. There is lots of good advice on here from some very experienced people.
The trick is to sift it out and make the best of it. I certainly don't agree with everything on here but it's good to get a difference of opinions. Certain peoples arguments have made me see things differently and change the way I work and that can only be a good thing. The people on this forum are like my customers; most people are good, a few are a pain, a few I would choose not to deal with. But I get on with everyone because that's how I roll.  

 Bateman just gets on well with members on CIU