u/davidcandle

This was a kid's competition show made in about 1976/77 by Anglia TV. It was hosted by Chris Kelly, and 2 school teams had to take turns to speak confidently and eloquently about something. Guest judges included Jenny Hanley from Magpie and Gyles Brandreth.

I know this rubbish because our school was in it and we went to Norwich to be in the TV audience a couple of times.

https://i.redd.it/6cfhfj8xkqhh1.gif

Is it Carter J. Burke?

Apparently even Paul Reiser's mum was happy when this happened.

This story is a few years old...

We'd had Sky TV for several years, no issues, until it started acting up - freezing and needing to be unplugged from the wall to get it going. I trawled the Sky forums as I was dreading phoning up their support, and spotted some people reporting similar issues with a recent Sky+ box software update.

I decided to try my luck (have done this quite a few times before) and looked up Sky TV Board/Management.

There was a person listed as Director or Head of Customer stuff, so I took a punt and emailed him, guessing his email address would be firstname.lastname@sky.com. The email was very polite, just pointing out there seemed to be an issue, adding the forum link, anything he could do to help us out? Sent it and thought no more.

At work a couple of days later and my better half called in a flap. She was on the phone with half a dozen Sky people telling her to press this and that. She followed their instructions, provided replies and they went away.

Two days later at 08:30, there was a knock at the door and two Sky engineers had arrived to investigate and fix the problem. They'd driven 150 miles to our house and had been sent out on a 'special job'. After an hour they had found a problem, replaced the dish cables and given us anew Sky+ box and a spare remote.

Later that day I emailed the Sky Director and thanked him profusely, to which he replied "Glad we could help." I never had to raise a ticket, or pay a penny to get this fixed.

Because, well it makes me a bit uncomfortable.

Our 2014 DS3 is the 1.2 Puretech 110BHP variant (yes the wet belt has been changed). Mileage is only 60k.

For a few years, whenever the weather reaches 25+ degrees, the engine splutters and stops. It then refuses to start. If left until night time when the temperature drops, it will start and run just fine.

It's been looked at by a couple of garages (and the AA) over the years but no one has found anything. There are no dash warnings or anything in the diagnostics.

Is this a known "feature" of these engines?

TIA

Such a disconnect between outside and inside.

Geoffrey Palmer

Harry Fowler

Charles Dance

Al Matthews (Aliens Sgt Apone)

Just for fun 😊

Edit: As someone's got it, they all appeared (and Clarke Peters) in the same episode of The Professionals - The Ojuka Situation.

Get your sunglasses on for this one