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That's some serious coating.
I've used brake cleaner on a cloth on the outside of the volvo to prep it for Rain X.
it was the same with the C-Max. its like an anti fog/silicone coating. think i might have to splash out on some acetone or panel wipe
Geodude
25-03-15, 08:05 AM
Being rang and woken at 6am by a foreign speaking gentleman to tell me i was having computer problems and he was a microsoft engineer... my reply was not U rated :smt075
maviczap
25-03-15, 09:05 AM
That's a scam call Geo
Geodude
25-03-15, 09:14 AM
That's a scam call Geo
Yeah sussed that Mav, thats why the caller got my warmest and friendliest of replies :toss: :smt093 ;)
maviczap
25-03-15, 09:39 AM
Yer ucking gastard, wish they'd call me, just for some fun
Sir Trev
25-03-15, 09:55 AM
Not sure about the phone calls but the scam emails are getting better. One got through my spam filter last night telling me there was suspicious activity on my online banking account. Right bank, right logos, proper spelling/grammar, everything. "Click this link to verify your identity and reactivate your account". DELETE.
ethariel
25-03-15, 10:47 AM
Ever try to find Red Rubber Grease in an actual shop anywhere?
Such a shame all the little stockists went out of business over the years, the look of of unknowing or the exclamation of 'I have a 30 year old tin I use, but no i don't sell it' is all i'm getting.
Oh well back to fleabay
try your local bike dealer they usually have some small sachets of them kicking about.
Ever try to find Red Rubber Grease in an actual shop anywhere?
Such a shame all the little stockists went out of business over the years, the look of of unknowing or the exclamation of 'I have a 30 year old tin I use, but no i don't sell it' is all i'm getting.
Oh well back to fleabay
Motos on Godstone Road in Kenley.
I was in there yesterday and I actually commented to them on the exact same thing, having spotted large pots of it on their shelves.
http://www.motosofkenley.org/
Red ones
25-03-15, 06:56 PM
My 1 Direction calendar is now out of date.
so is my top gear one too :)
adverts on websites-Ebay namely. Makes loading the site lag like hell whilst it tries to find some crappy ad that you have no interest in what so ever
DarrenSV650S
25-03-15, 07:55 PM
adverts on websites-Ebay namely. Makes loading the site lag like hell whilst it tries to find some crappy ad that you have no interest in what so ever
Get adblocker
I am transferring across to chrome, will be having that add on for sure!
Bluepete
25-03-15, 09:54 PM
The smell coming out of my dog's bum! She's eaten something that's clearly upset her, the gasses she's passing every two or three minutes are nearly making us blind.
Pete :(
andrewsmith
25-03-15, 09:59 PM
The smell coming out of my dog's bum! She's eaten something that's clearly upset her, the gasses she's passing every two or three minutes are nearly making us blind.
Pete :(
Couple of bottles of home brew? ;-)
punyXpress
25-03-15, 11:00 PM
Light them - it'll only smell of burnt toast!
timwilky
27-03-15, 04:01 PM
Daughter pregnant
Again!
She is a nursing student, so should know what caused this. She is seconded by the NHS to do her degree, so her fees are paid by the NHS, she receives her basic wage from the NHS to study. win win or should be.
Grrrrh, her life was starting to look better and she screws it away.
Father has done one at the news.
maviczap
27-03-15, 04:21 PM
The smell coming out of my dog's bum! She's eaten something that's clearly upset her, the gasses she's passing every two or three minutes are nearly making us blind.
Pete :(
That's turned into a smile of the day :p
Daughter pregnant
Again!
She is a nursing student, so should know what caused this. She is seconded by the NHS to do her degree, so her fees are paid by the NHS, she receives her basic wage from the NHS to study. win win or should be.
Grrrrh, her life was starting to look better and she screws it away.
Father has done one at the news.
Unfortunately it seems that those who should know best seem to do the opposite!
The service book for the 675 has disappeared!!
maviczap
28-03-15, 10:06 AM
I have the lurge, not man flu, but just enough to feel off colour. Legs ache & I've got the shivers :(
Its grey & damp outside, so once the youngest has gone to her sleep over, its going to be peace & quiet in front of the Tv.
So just a little gripe :)
Luckypants
28-03-15, 10:42 AM
Disaster recovery testing all day, so working. I have a new car sat outside and I want to drive it!
People who can watch the Moto GP live spoiling it for those of us who have to wait for the ITV4 highlights...
Cricinfo.tv. :)
Sent from my magical portable device
Fruity-ya-ya
30-03-15, 05:43 AM
Daylight savings/bst.
Getting stung £50 in my free 3 months insurance policy to change the bike.
My 17 year old car failed its MOT for the first time. MOT & repair, £425, tax & insurance for it, £475, repairs to bike, £200. Add to that, £110 to repair my watch and I am out £1210 for the month. That's my income for the month mostly spent.
maviczap
30-03-15, 04:05 PM
Finding a drain pipe where I want to site a concrete fence post
atassiedevil
30-03-15, 04:14 PM
Car lost either its clutch slave or master cyl on the way into work. Limped it home in gear
Then the 1100 magna decided to play games at me on a roundabout approach and cut out.
Add to that a throat that feels like i swallowed a kilo of glass shards.
Mum not taking time and falling down.
Geodude
31-03-15, 09:22 AM
Mum not taking time and falling down.
Same here ten minutes ago :(
Geodude
31-03-15, 10:06 AM
Hopefully she's ok
Hope yours is ok too. Mines a stubborn bugger who thinks she can do it all.
maviczap
31-03-15, 10:15 AM
Feeling like I've been awake for hours ............. wait a minute I have.
Since 04:45 or earlier thanks to the howling wind rattling the fence panels & other wind related noises
Brettus
31-03-15, 12:34 PM
Having to refill my tank of liquified dinosaur remains that I'll burn in a series of controlled explosions to power my vehicle ;-) how very archaic. (Still wouldn't be without it as a safety net for when the duracells run out though!)
Had to hand the i3 back yesterday, still waiting to hear if they can make the figures stack up.
maviczap
31-03-15, 02:51 PM
£40 for 6 doughnuts!
Having to refill my tank of liquified dinosaur remains that I'll burn in a series of controlled explosions to power my vehicle ;-) how very archaic. (Still wouldn't be without it as a safety net for when the duracells run out though!)
Had to hand the i3 back yesterday, still waiting to hear if they can make the figures stack up.
Are you thinking of buying one? An electric car makes a lot of sense to me (charge points everywhere in MK), unfortunately they cost a fortune so I'd never see the savings.
Go work for nissan.
You get a great staff deal ;)
BanannaMan
01-04-15, 12:32 AM
£40 for 6 doughnuts!
I hope they were really good!!!
Wait, that works out to 6.66 per doughnut, the devil with them! :p
Red Herring
01-04-15, 01:29 AM
£40 for 6 doughnuts!
Bargain! The last one I did cost me a whole lot more than that as they made me clean the evidence off the car park......
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/Broomewood/4269_1149708335909_1023620378_30452.jpg
maviczap
01-04-15, 06:03 AM
I hope they were really good!!!
Wait, that works out to 6.66 per doughnut, the devil with them! :p
freshly cooked and still warm, as i walked back to my car after taking my daughter swimming, i saw the parking warden finalising the ticket:toss: we'd overstayed by about 20mins, 5 of which was waiting for the doughnuts :rolleyes:
Bargain! The last one I did cost me a whole lot more than that as they made me clean the evidence off the car park......
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/Broomewood/4269_1149708335909_1023620378_30452.jpg
LOL, and to think you were a pillar of the community, somebody got you bang to rights you 'ooligan :p[-(;)
andrewsmith
01-04-15, 06:25 AM
Bargain! The last one I did cost me a whole lot more than that as they made me clean the evidence off the car park......
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/Broomewood/4269_1149708335909_1023620378_30452.jpg
Hahaha
I thought you were a pillar of the community, not a hooligan
Littlepeahead
01-04-15, 04:08 PM
Getting caught up in the central London fire. I'd been at the British Museum, got to Holborn and the police stopped me going anywhere. Tube closed, all power off, thick smoke. Was stuck there nearly an hour. Took some interesting photos though.
garynortheast
02-04-15, 04:26 PM
The dirty, slovenly sh1tebags who think it's okay to lob their rubbish into the verges and the road sides around here. A large part of it is locals too. There is one particular alcoholic scumbag who heaved cheap crap beer cans out of their car windows every day. On my walk with the dog this morning I counted around 20 Carlsberg and Carling cans thrown out and from the condition of them, all within the last week. On one section of the walk every 8 -10 paces there was a can, a plastic bottle, sweet wrapper, junk food container. We live in a fairly out of the way area, and while visitors certainly do chuck crap out into the scenery, most of this is locally generated. As for the farm waste - my walk was a trail of silage wrap in trees, the river, and hedges, feed tubs, fertiliser sacks, empty livestock medication bottles, and two rotting sheep carcasses. Very handy for spreading gid between the livestock. Custodians of the countryside eh?
Breathe.....
maviczap
02-04-15, 04:33 PM
I see it all the time on my cycle rides, especially on a quiet lane where all the dodgy trades people dump their trade waste, rather than pay landfill tax.
But the one thing I really hate seeing are 'Mountain Dew' bottles, which you can see miles off, discarded on the verges
Bluepete
02-04-15, 04:43 PM
How about the stupidity of picking up your dog poo in a bag, then...
Chucking it into the hedge!
FFS!
Pete ;)
timwilky
02-04-15, 04:57 PM
How about the stupidity of picking up your dog poo in a bag, then...
Chucking it into the hedge!
FFS!
Pete ;)
lots hanging from the trees round here.
But at present I would love to be able to pick up. Just taken Jasper and Jack out, 3 lots of bloody doggy diarrhea gushed out of Jasper, one on the pavement and the mobile chip van nearby gave me a bucket of disinfected water to swill it into the drain. Ended up carrying him home as he couldn't walk and putting him to bed with extra blankets.
time for that chat I think.
Littlepeahead
02-04-15, 05:44 PM
Going into the Post Office in town, which is now the only post office for miles as they've closed all the small ones. 15 people in the queue ahead of me at least and one window open out of 10. After 15 minutes I gave up and took my parcel to a small corner shop and used their returns service. Perhaps if the Post Office actually bothered to staff the counters people would use them.
maviczap
02-04-15, 06:24 PM
Going into the Post Office in town, which is now the only post office for miles as they've closed all the small ones. 15 people in the queue ahead of me at least and one window open out of 10. After 15 minutes I gave up and took my parcel to a small corner shop and used their returns service. Perhaps if the Post Office actually bothered to staff the counters people would use them.
Its Thursday, never go in on a Thursday :D
I use Hermes & Collect+ for any parcels now, no queues at my drop off points
Geodude
02-04-15, 06:44 PM
Very handy for spreading video between the livestock
Pirate copies of animal farm? ;)
garynortheast
02-04-15, 08:01 PM
Pirate copies of animal farm? ;)
Bugger! Bloody autocorrect. Should have read "spreading gid between livestock".
BernardBikerchick
04-04-15, 09:52 AM
loving your username!!!! Nearly as good as mine ;)
Gripes - fockers in boxes knocking any of us lot off our bikes !
maviczap
04-04-15, 07:34 PM
Tumble dryer broken down after just 2 years (to the day). Only one year warranty on this one.
Both our previous ones lasted much longer and just died.
maviczap
04-04-15, 08:27 PM
Beko
BanannaMan
04-04-15, 11:02 PM
Dryers are fairly simple to work on and parts are available online.
What's it's symptoms? ??
Beko is a Turkish make and their appliances are usually pretty reliable. You have been unlucky. I have a Beko dishwasher in my house in Turkey and a washing machine in the UK. Never had problems from either. The washing machine is brilliant.
maviczap
05-04-15, 05:42 AM
Dryers are fairly simple to work on and parts are available online.
What's it's symptoms? ??
Motor is working, but drum isn't turning. Belt is in place. Googled the problem, and it said it might be the starter capacitor which helps the motor to start the drum turning. Ive tried the simple test to see if this is the fault, and isn't.
Drum doesnt seem to want to turn, there's a lot of resistance.
Now it wasnt expensive, under £200, so do we call out our our friendly tech engineer or buy a new machine :confused:
Jayneflakes
05-04-15, 06:21 AM
Thanks EE, was looking after my Grandson last night and was up until 4AM. Luke is missing his Mum, but she has had to go away for the weekend for a family funeral and Dad had his best mates birthday and wanted to go out and do what young men do when the wife is away. Luke has also just started "head banging", repeatedly slamming his head against the mattress in his travel cot, which has freaked me out, but the internet says is perfectly normal. So I finally got to sleep at four AM and then get a sales text message from EE at seven AM on a Sunday morning that wakes me up. So thanks EE, you are a bunch of male chicken suckers! :-(
BanannaMan
05-04-15, 02:09 PM
Motor is working, but drum isn't turning. Belt is in place. Googled the problem, and it said it might be the starter capacitor which helps the motor to start the drum turning. Ive tried the simple test to see if this is the fault, and isn't.
Drum doesnt seem to want to turn, there's a lot of resistance.
Now it wasnt expensive, under £200, so do we call out our our friendly tech engineer or buy a new machine :confused:
It is probably the bearing located at the center behind the drum.
Had to replace one in my lads dryer a few months ago.
Remove the belt if it will not spin freely it's the bearing.
Not to hard to replace but helps if you have an assistant when replacing the drum.
Parts should be around £35 and less than an hours work.
If you're going to pay someone else might be just as well off to get a new one at that price.
Sir Trev
05-04-15, 02:45 PM
We have a guy just round the corner from us mends domestic appliances and he said business is really poor for him as people just throw stuff away now instead of mending them. The prices are now so low on things like dryers that most don't bother and his phone rings less and less. Seems such a waste, especially as John Lewis/Currys take your old one away for free and someone probably gets them cheap off them and mends them...
Sun's out and I'm miles away from my bike!!!
Bluepete
05-04-15, 08:39 PM
Dropping things on my foot.
Yesterday, I dropped the battery for my quadcopter on my foot. Looks like this today!
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/conker51/20150405_213442_zps2eqzfcdt.jpg (http://s276.photobucket.com/user/conker51/media/20150405_213442_zps2eqzfcdt.jpg.html)
Pete ;)
Mrs DJ Fridge
05-04-15, 09:27 PM
We have a guy just round the corner from us mends domestic appliances and he said business is really poor for him as people just throw stuff away now instead of mending them. The prices are now so low on things like dryers that most don't bother and his phone rings less and less. Seems such a waste, especially as John Lewis/Currys take your old one away for free and someone probably gets them cheap off them and mends them...
When you take away old units, as we do with our old refrigerators, you are not allowed to even break it for spares, can be quite annoying sometimes as we havevto send perfectly good units for scrap just because some designer does not like the colour, such a ridiculous waste.
Geodude
06-04-15, 07:13 AM
Dropping things on my foot.
Yesterday, I dropped the battery for my quadcopter on my foot. Looks like this today!
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/conker51/20150405_213442_zps2eqzfcdt.jpg (http://s276.photobucket.com/user/conker51/media/20150405_213442_zps2eqzfcdt.jpg.html)
Pete ;)
Ouch bet that stung a bit, hang on though on closer inspection are you sure you didn't bash it on a rock climbing mount doom :p ;)
punyXpress
06-04-15, 10:19 AM
More likely to be showing the yoof of today the error of their ways? :p
Sir Trev
06-04-15, 04:21 PM
Dropping things on my foot.
Yesterday, I dropped the battery for my quadcopter on my foot. Looks like this today!
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/conker51/20150405_213442_zps2eqzfcdt.jpg (http://s276.photobucket.com/user/conker51/media/20150405_213442_zps2eqzfcdt.jpg.html)
Pete ;)
Nice slippers under the nest of tables, and is that your polkadot handbag we can see on the floo? :D
Dropping things on my foot.
Yesterday, I dropped the battery for my quadcopter on my foot. Looks like this today!
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/conker51/20150405_213442_zps2eqzfcdt.jpg (http://s276.photobucket.com/user/conker51/media/20150405_213442_zps2eqzfcdt.jpg.html)
Pete ;)
If that's the bruise, how big is the battery/'copter? Is it a Chinook?
maviczap
07-04-15, 06:19 AM
Frost on the car windscreen this morning
Getting up for an early shift to find my the work I have planned isn't going to happen until this afternoon. :smt013 :smt013
Bluepete
07-04-15, 11:08 AM
Stop taking the p1ss out the afflicted!
Evil buggers.
Littlepeahead
10-04-15, 09:09 AM
Waking up to the sad news that Richie Benaud had died. I grew up listening to him, and years later was lucky enough to spend over ten years working with him. He was always friendly and gracious to everyone. Class and good manners were his style. There's a few former BBC presenters could have learnt a thing or two from Richie on how to behave towards the crew and co workers. He'll be sadly missed.
Manhole covers that honestly shouldn't be there and mess up the line of a safe apex.
And Yes it is flipping slippery in the damp as I gave it a try this morning.
timwilky
10-04-15, 01:47 PM
email request for proof of no claims, 2 months after I took out the policy.
Why by email, I get hundreds a day and bulk delete loads without opening.
It was simply luck that this was the very first one on the stack that I was tempted to open it.
lots of threat of what could happen if I did not return the requested information. (Which I have provided)
Ouch. Who you insured with just so we can check out our policies...
I've just had my bike policy voided because I did not declare a car accident I had in December. I'm a named driver on my partner's car policy. I wrongly thought that car and motorcycle policies were treated separately, and that only claims on your own insurance counted.
So now I have to declare that I've had insurance refused or cancelled whenever I apply for insurance.
timwilky
10-04-15, 02:10 PM
I had added the van to my aviva multicar policy. I guess they are starting to tighten things up, if they cannot find an electronic trace of an entitlement, request it.
Annoying the email simply said a communication in respect to your policy. It was only opening up the attachment that I had the request for a proof of no claims. So very easily missed.
tactcom7
11-04-15, 09:49 AM
I've just had my bike policy voided because I did not declare a car accident I had in December. I'm a named driver on my partner's car policy. I wrongly thought that car and motorcycle policies were treated separately, and that only claims on your own insurance counted.
So now I have to declare that I've had insurance refused or cancelled whenever I apply for insurance.
I had something similar, got a very nasty letter from my insurer saying I had ingored all previous letters etc. When I rang them to query this fact they admitted they'd printed the first letter but never actually sent it!
And the worst part is the 'Have you ever had insurance declined/refused?' is pretty much the last question they ask when quoting you, hence why after 20 minutes of giving out details for a quote I was told 'oh, sorry we can't insure you'. Pfft!
Red ones
12-04-15, 02:21 PM
Thinking you've been taking some decent night sky photos with your hacked bridge camera only to find you have really only been standing in the freezing cold and pitch black for ages with the lens cap on.
Ooops. How is it hacked?
Sent from my Kindle Fire
Red ones
12-04-15, 05:21 PM
D'oh indeed.
Canon bridge camera with CHDK
In the attempt to charge my Bluetooth headset. I put the wrong lead (right plug. Too big a plastic part of the plug) and broke the contacts.
BanannaMan
13-04-15, 10:56 AM
Lovely day yesterday and now it's a gray Monday.
Lovely day yesterday and now it's a gray Monday.
Exactly the same in London. You only pretend to be American :p
Rather sunny weekends and gray working days.
maviczap
13-04-15, 12:10 PM
People not looking after their main asset & bread winner
Being stopped for "making progress." oops!
BanannaMan
13-04-15, 10:26 PM
Exactly the same in London. You only pretend to be American :p
Er...No one would pretend to be an American.
However if I could only win the lottery or get a good job offer in the UK, (roughly the same odds) I would be on the next flight over and happily pretend not to be one. ;)
Bluepete
13-04-15, 10:32 PM
Being stopped for "making progress." oops!
Points mean prizes!
Hope you were lucky.
Pete ;)
Got an abscess under my tooth :smt019
timwilky
15-04-15, 06:46 AM
ouch, feel the pain. Hopefully, antibiotics and a bit of work. My last one resulted in a root and crown being pulled. he showed me the rot in the root. No wonder I was in pain from the resulting abscess.
kaivalagi
15-04-15, 07:02 AM
Yep, having a rear molar pulled on Friday, after repeated root canals the tooth split inside and although there's no pain I have an infection that needs to go! Teeth are such a nightmare!
But no teeth be more of a problem!
Tooth is being pulled on Monday.
Sent from my Xperia T
kaivalagi
15-04-15, 01:24 PM
Dentures for us all soon :)
timwilky
15-04-15, 01:29 PM
Sons car insurance renewal, tesco bank £1016
just ran it through the comparison sites
£422, guess who?
Yes tesco bank.
Why oh why do they force existing customers to look elsewhere by a stupid renewal quote. It is just asking to loose a customer.
maviczap
15-04-15, 03:19 PM
How silly of me, trying to book an appointment with a Doctor, that is any doctor, at my local surgery. Couldn't even get a over the phone consultation.
Unless it was a life threatening emergency, then ring 999
God help any poor pensioner phoning up, as the automated phone system they've installed would be a nightmare.
timwilky
15-04-15, 03:49 PM
just booked to see mine on Tuesday morning.
On telephone, you have to call on the day, telephones open 15 mins after the surgery, so walk in grab the appointments.
On line, you can see all the slots for the week and grab the one of your choice in seconds without having to give reasons etc to get past a receptionist.
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