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astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
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I always think that too about the stats on the adverts!
I asked a friend in market research why 'odd' numbers and they said they do it while the responses are favourable and when the stats start to decline out of their favour they cut it off there.
In that example it may well have been 77% positive from 229 people but if the next 71 people asked were all negative, all of a sudden your positive rating has shrunk to around 59%.
Lies, damn lies and statistics....... 
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 7th Jun 2023 7:25 am |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13107
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Likewise, I'd like to see the .9 dropped from petrol/diesel prices. It's done, obviously, to make the price appear to be less. It's annoying. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 7th Jun 2023 12:24 pm |
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Scott #55
Member Since: 15 Apr 2015
Location: Glasgow
Posts: 1665
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Holibobs.
Platty Joobs.
Chrimbo. 2014 - D4 2010 HSE Nara Bronze
2012 - FL2 2009 GS Stornoway Grey
2001 - VW Passat Estate Inky Blue
1999 - Ford Mondeo Light Blue
1998 - Rover 25 Red
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| 7th Jun 2023 12:45 pm |
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al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 10297
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Any “American-isd” version number, I.e 2.0, pronounced two dot oh. No, it’s just 2.
Al Volvo XC90 B5 Plus Dark
Gone - MY18 D5 HSE - Corris on 22's with Black Pack
Now gone - MY16 D4 SE Tech, Loire Blue, Almond Leather, Privacy, plus some other goodies.
Old - MY12 D4 SDV6 XS Auto - Ipanema Sand with Almond Leather - Plus other niceties, and D4.com sticker
Older - D3 TDV6 XS Auto - Lugano Teal with Almond Leather, 20" Stormers, Shiny Tailpipes, DVD/TV - and obligatory D3 sticker
Ancient - D3 TDV6 S - Tonga with Ebony, 20" Stormers, satnav & DVD
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| 7th Jun 2023 2:12 pm |
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Hardware
Member Since: 28 Jun 2016
Location: Hiding under the M60
Posts: 12711
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Hugh, absolutely agree on "electrocuted" as that is how I've always understood it.
However ...
Google wrote:Dictionary : Definitions from Oxford Languages
electrocute
verb
past tense: electrocuted; past participle: electrocuted
injure or kill (someone) by electric shock.
And i still remember it being given as the reason I got a replacement microwave from Comet in Bournemouth, around 1984 when I'd dropped the glass turntable after getting a shock touching the frame.
Strangely, the replacement also shocked me until I checked the plug socket and found the earth wasn't connected 
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| 8th Jun 2023 8:07 pm |
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Oswiperus
D3 Decade
Member Since: 02 Apr 2010
Location: Chelmsford, Essex
Posts: 1590
 
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Two from my list,
'For free'
'So.....' Stu
2016 D4 Landmark current
2022 Defender D300 SE Gone 
D4 2014 XS Commercial - Gone
D4 2016 hse lux montalcino red - Gone
D3 2005 se java black - current
D3 2005 base manual - gone
D2 1999 TD5 E white - current
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| 9th Jun 2023 8:04 am |
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discott
Member Since: 24 Sep 2010
Location: Harrow
Posts: 131
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I've got loads, of which these are a few;
Upskill or train?
Downplay or play down?
Breaks and breaking or brakes and braking?
Rightsize or cut jobs?
Loose, loosing or lose, losing?
Disinterested or uninterested?
Could of, would of, should of.
But my current bugbear is "have a nice rest of your day!"
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| 14th Jun 2023 1:03 pm |
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