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Actually they are reasonably happy with the concept of selling on the last day of the month and the new owner taxing on the next day, and offer advice over the phone to that extent. True they do point out the technical need for a SORN but if you inform them of the sale, which you can do over the internet, during the last hour of play (as defined by their technical opening hours) on the last day of the month, and tax it within the first hour of play on the first day of the next month it is effectively taxed because their system has not yet got around to deciding that it's untaxed.
Government inefficiencies can be put to ones advantage but they are admittedly very few and very far between. In the main government systems are just a complete pain.
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OriginalGriff wrote: automated system wants the 12 digit reference number. Except the V5C/3 I got only has an 11 digit number
Try a leading 0.
I had a bank teller (the human type) get confused when the system she uses daily refused a bank account number of mine because it was apparently expecting one more digit. The leading 0 is the first thing that came to my mind--and sure enough, it worked.
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OriginalGriff wrote: 3) Road Tax:
There is no such thing in the UK, see I Pay Road Tax[^].
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OriginalGriff wrote: To use a car on the road in the UK, you must should have:
When my younger brother was at Junior Ranger Camp in Moosenee, Ontario, Canada (find Hudson Bay on the map, Moosenee is at the South end of the Bay), the taxi drivers were 12 years old.
Technically, you are SUPPOSED to be 16 to even get a learners permit let alone a driver's license, but, since there are no roads leaving town - access into the town is by water or rail only - the police figured, if there's a problem, its hard to get away.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Except the V5C/3 I got only has an 11 digit number and the phone system won't take it. OK. Try the internet. No dice, it wants 12 digits as well.
Intrigued, I just checked my 'log book': the part the new keeper is supposed to have is the V5C/2 (V5C/3 is for traders), and although the main portion of the log book has an 11-digit ref number, the V5C/2 has an extra leading 7 (in my case). You could try adding that? The V5C/3 has the original 11 digits.
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Just reading some of the soapbox threads. More and more, the following would seem to cover it:
It's amazing the extraordinary lengths these people will go to to go to extraordinary lengths.
But, I guess that's what it's for.
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boah......
what I tried to write e^abs(x).... 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: It's amazing the extraordinary lengths these people will go to to go to extraordinary lengths.
This statement is way too short and concise,
only 2 goto's?
Fail: we demand extraordinary length and not withstanding a hell of a lot more obscurification
Sin tack
the any key okay
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We had a power outage (or 3) at the office and our internal office servers and network is fried.
This[^] is me today.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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At least it happened on a Friday, so you can have a relaxing weekend before you have to fix it, eh?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Just wait til 4:30, then it really goes downhill.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Quote: We had a power outage
I strongly assume, what you will say is: Our coffee machine does not work. And before this is not solved..... 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Quote: Our coffee machine does not work
Nooooooooooooooooooo!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Nooooooooo and mui noooooo
I left 60 capsules nespresso because private coffee machines were banned in my company last week. I can send you the capsules gladly.
Bruno 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Quote: coffee machines were banned in my company
Are they a bunch of communists? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Mwaaa, electricity is so 20th century ... who needs it ?
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Thanks for that, that lead me to this: top 5 beaker moments - YouTube[^]
made my day. beaker is my favorite.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I ran into this[^] which made my day.
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Indeed!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Hey - with those hair and skin tone . . . take it to the Soapbox!
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Good. I really need to make some progress on my anagram system.
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So they don't have UPSs and power conditioners in Canada?
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Yes we do - two of them - and one failed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If I told you a butter joke, would you spread it?
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If I told you a bitter one, would you drink it?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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