Just be mindful they can and do grow diamonds in labs for retail, so the whole discussion of "fake" Goes a step further nowadays.

I had a period where I kept picking up nails in my tyres in my old BMW (at £200 a quarter for their odd sizing it was ridiculous) and the TPM would alert me as you'd hope, but even after that because the TPM system was so flaky and overly sensitive it would still set the dread in motion every time it kicked in to the point where I wished I didn't have it!

Even if they're not fake they're not worth the retail price in terms of stones and metal, but I guess you can't try a lot on because they only have limited sizes/range shown? If you went to a chain maybe go to an independent jewellers instead to compare, might get a better deal or something a bit more bespoke?

Quote from: matt5cott on September 13, 2026, 00:32:36 AMGreat it's working, I love seeing the old guard* posting 

*I include myself in that terminology, none of us are young now!

I was about to post, "no, I'm still young!"

then I realised actually I'm dropping to bits, everything hurts, I'd love a nice little nap


but also if I sleep in it cripples me with back pain 

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on September 10, 2026, 18:26:06 PMHave to flip them over unfortunately

perv.

lol

went ring shopping on Friday, it's a bit weird they have about a million rings in the shop but you can;t try on what you want

"we've got this one which is kind of what you want then we could use the stones of this other one"


I didn't realise all the stuff in the shop is fake... so it's not like it would cost a lot?

it's pretty humbling when you think here's some major problem... but it turns out to be something stupid :-o

Recently I was on A roads on my "commute" As such, man it was running so sketch at times, it was doing a really weird tramline type effect, after a couple of journeys it dawned on me "what if it's just the tyres"

It was, the rears are set to 31psi, one was 31psi, the other was 18...


Funnily enough after getting the old portable tyre inflator out it runs as normal again...

If I throw animal faeces at a woman it's a "vile hate crime" Yet if you do it's romantic.

The inconsistencies in this country are a joke.

Quote from: bear on September 02, 2026, 09:10:43 AM

Quote from: knighty on August 27, 2026, 10:16:07 AMlol


how's the new kidney working out?  all ok?

what was wrong with the old one?

if you have 3 now that's just greedy

So far it is working, I had an Aortic Aneurysm a few years back, they could not save the kidneys but they saved me.

Great it's working, I love seeing the old guard* posting 

*I include myself in that terminology, none of us are young now!