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shiftin_gear98
19-02-16, 07:11 PM
Sorry, it was a naff joke. I was referring to the cat.

Heorot
24-02-16, 06:41 PM
Car (Impreza Turbo) misfiring and with my local garage since Thursday. Replaced leads, no effect. Replaced coil pack, no effect. Fuel filter bypassed and the engine runs perfectly so fuel filter replaced. Engine still misbehaving so they are looking at the fuel pump now. All this after an interim service the week before. Not happy relying on Ms Grumpy to drive me around. It's lucky I am retired and don't need to commute to work any more since I live in the sticks.

DarrenSV650S
24-02-16, 07:08 PM
Car (Impreza Turbo) misfiring and with my local garage since Thursday. Replaced leads, no effect. Replaced coil pack, no effect. Fuel filter bypassed and the engine runs perfectly so fuel filter replaced. Engine still misbehaving so they are looking at the fuel pump now. All this after an interim service the week before. Not happy relying on Ms Grumpy to drive me around. It's lucky I am retired and don't need to commute to work any more since I live in the sticks.

I had 3 garages look at my car trying to work out what was causing my misfire. One post on my cars owners forum and they got it in one: fuel injectors. I changed them myself and it runs sweet now

DomP
24-02-16, 10:27 PM
Snap, me too!

Heorot
24-02-16, 11:15 PM
I mentioned injectors to the garage. They dismissed the idea as unlikely. This could get expensive. Having said that, the car has done 112,600 miles with hardly anything going wrong since I bought it new in 1998 so I shouldn't really grump.

DarrenSV650S
25-02-16, 07:29 AM
It's very easy to check yourself. Just measure the resistance between the two connections on each injector. They should be all the same resistance. The good ones in my car were ~14 ohms and the bad ones were ~90 ohms

DomP
25-02-16, 07:53 AM
Or just unplug an injector at a time, when you unplug one and the engine doesn't change its running that's the faulty injector.

yokohama
25-02-16, 08:15 PM
Paying £81 to tax the bike for a year while the wife's Audi A3 diesel costs nothing. :cry::cry:

maviczap
25-02-16, 09:25 PM
Greedy Tour promoters & Stubhub users fleecing fans for 6 times the face value of the ticket

Red ones
25-02-16, 09:57 PM
Three driver pulling out on me on roundabouts and one just half overtaking then deciding to squeeze me out of the lane all in one day. Had my son on the back too so I was far for sensitive than usual to these things.

yokohama
25-02-16, 10:04 PM
Greedy Tour promoters & Stubhub users fleecing fans for 6 times the face value of the ticket

and while we're on that, the 'booking fee', which seems standard on most tickets now but usually adds 10 or 15% to the price

maviczap
26-02-16, 09:50 AM
and while we're on that, the 'booking fee', which seems standard on most tickets now but usually adds 10 or 15% to the price

That seems to have disappeared into the face value of the ticket.

Springsteen

£125 for seated tickets at Ricoh

£93 GA at Wembley

£83 GA at Etihad

Previously £67 at Eithad :mad:

Stubhub seats near the stage at Wembley, £650 feck off. GA £146 at the mo

Stubhub didn't exist on the last tour, you could only buy from Ticketbsatard or Livenation. Wembley GA was sold out within 30 - 45mins yesterday, and tickets were already for sale on Stubcnut.

I hope they still have their unsold tickets or another date is added for Wembley :smt062

yokohama
26-02-16, 10:09 AM
Not for the ones I bought yesterday, admittedly not so big names at smaller venues but Laura Cantrell at Leeds Brudenell is £17.50 face value; £20 with booking fee.
3 tickets in 1 transaction for a booking fee of £7.50 is a complete rip off. The tickets aren't even being posted, I'm collecting them.
I think I wouldn't feel as fleeced if the face value incorporated the 'fee' and was a little higher. it's the in your face exploitation that annoys me more than anything.

maviczap
26-02-16, 10:21 AM
Yep agreed

Sir Trev
26-02-16, 06:55 PM
Yep agreed

Even worse when you walk up to the ticket desk in your local theatre and find they add a booking fee on top of the face price. What the feck for?


My actual gripe for today is my current client's IT department. The company was bought out by a large well known drugs company last year and we're now being migrated to their servers and services. Despite telling us emails to our legacy addreses would be unaffected the alerts for my timesheet approvals stopped going to my line manager. Without approval I don't get paid. They're approved now but will be Thursday before the held up dosh arrives in my account. Grumble grumble.

maviczap
26-02-16, 07:00 PM
Even worse when you walk up to the ticket desk in your local theatre and find they add a booking fee on top of the face price. What the feck for?


My actual gripe for today is my current client's IT department. The company was bought out by a large well known drugs company last year and we're now being migrated to their servers and services. Despite telling us emails to our legacy addreses would be unaffected the alerts for my timesheet approvals stopped going to my line manager. Without approval I don't get paid. They're approved now but will be Thursday before the held up dosh arrives in my account. Grumble grumble.

That's taking the phish on both accounts :smt068

Sir Trev
27-02-16, 11:02 AM
Spookily enough the trailer for Radio 4s Moneybox on the breakfast news this morning mentioned booking fees even for cash sale walk-ins. Seems theatres/venues justify it with box office and printing costs. Should be in the ticket price if you ask me.

phi-dan
27-02-16, 02:19 PM
The local theatre here charges a booking fee, credit card fee, and a "theatre development" fee. Apparently the profit margin isn't enough

maviczap
27-02-16, 03:32 PM
Exploding electric sander, scared the bejesus out of me.

Was bloomin lucky as metal part of it came out the opposite side away from me.:roll::roll::roll:

Geodude
27-02-16, 07:54 PM
To the powers that be. Please can i have a stress break as ive surely had plenty now :(


Mav stop sanding those push iron calluses with electric tools, glad you're okay though :)

maviczap
27-02-16, 07:59 PM
Blooming skirting board mate, doing all these jobs in the bad weather so i can get out on the Sv or the pushbike once this weather warms up :-(

Sir Trev
27-02-16, 10:14 PM
Blooming skirting board mate, doing all these jobs in the bad weather so i can get out on the Sv or the pushbike once this weather warms up :-(

The sander exploding was a sign to get someone in to do that sort of thing so you can get out on two wheels now!

Heorot
02-03-16, 01:01 PM
25 mile trip to the Impreza breakers and back to get a fuel pump only to find that my Oxford heated grips have stopped working. Fingers were like frozen chipolatas by the time I got home.

ophic
02-03-16, 03:24 PM
25 mile trip to the Impreza breakers and back to get a fuel pump only to find that my Oxford heated grips have stopped working. Fingers were like frozen chipolatas by the time I got home.
I've discovered that this is the main purpose of the rear brake.

Kenzie
03-03-16, 05:59 PM
People buying badges for their car that they shouldn't. Just seen a Mini Cooper S Type R Turbo.

Adam Ef
03-03-16, 06:35 PM
...Mini Cooper S Type R Turbo.

ha ha . Brilliant. Would be better on a Robin Reliant though.

Trev B
03-03-16, 08:34 PM
Jcb gti ...

andrewsmith
03-03-16, 08:37 PM
Scania RS GTi FR Turbo TSI

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DomP
04-03-16, 09:55 PM
No heated grips! Went for a sunny ride up into the hills towards Builth, soon turned to snow so I turned back. Freeezing cold finger tips.

NTECUK
05-03-16, 03:39 PM
Heated gloves??
I have a bad habit of not holding my digits round the grips.
But not seen many people who use them..

Kenzie
05-03-16, 04:01 PM
Gripe with myself. Thought I better check when the ER6 mot was due thinking it was April. Had four days left. Great service from Orwells Suzuki and got it dropped in and done this afternoon.

Red ones
05-03-16, 05:49 PM
Over banding

The local authority here have decided to repair the roads by over banding without fine aggregate in the bitumen. Including on a small major roundabout by my house which already has brick shoulders and an adverse camber.

Now can't take the roundabout at more than a snails pace on the bike and keep getting cars pulling out on me because I'm so slow on it.

Trev B
05-03-16, 06:33 PM
Notify the relevant authorities about it ASAP !!!

Littlepeahead
05-03-16, 11:16 PM
Notify the relevant authorities about it ASAP !!!
And cc your MP. They'll say that roads are not within their control but most likely write to whoever you write to as well to say they expect to be told what is happening following your concerns. Sometimes a letter on that Commons headed paper seems to speed things up.

Kenzie
06-03-16, 10:07 AM
I hit a damaged rubber type speed bump and tore something off the bottom of my car once. It had been like that for ages. I took photos and made a claim against the council. Strangely enough it was repaired the same day.

Heorot
06-03-16, 08:19 PM
Did you win the claim? They would have repaired it ASAP to prevent more people claiming.

Sir Trev
06-03-16, 08:25 PM
HP desktop pc's. Mine has stopped working so I took the side off, used an air duster which covered me in fluffy gunge, tried it again and... nothing. Powers up but the hard drive is not spooling up. For goodness sake - it's only seven years old :rolleyes: Off to PC World tomorrow to see if they can fix it cheaper than the £500 it will cost to replace it.

Kenzie
06-03-16, 08:32 PM
If you have the side off still, just make sure the power cable to the drive is fully seated.

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Heorot
06-03-16, 09:29 PM
What spec are you looking for for £500? I bought an Asus desktop last week from PC World for just under £330. AMD A-7800, 8gb memory, 3tb hard drive and integrated graphics, Lan & Bluetooth. Windows 10.

Plenty for my needs as I don't do games like Call of Duty etc.

DJ123
06-03-16, 10:01 PM
HP desktop pc's. Mine has stopped working so I took the side off, used an air duster which covered me in fluffy gunge, tried it again and... nothing. Powers up but the hard drive is not spooling up. For goodness sake - it's only seven years old :rolleyes: Off to PC World tomorrow to see if they can fix it cheaper than the £500 it will cost to replace it.


Have you gone into the bios to see if the HDD is still showing as an active drive?

Sir Trev
07-03-16, 07:51 AM
Have you gone into the bios to see if the HDD is still showing as an active drive?

Eh? The fans come on full blast but nothing else happens. The hard drive does nothing so I don't know how I can check for anything I'm afraid. Nothing is unplugged so... It has been unhappy and very slow for weeks with a hard drive error popping up on the weekly diagnostic check so it could simply be a dead drive. Six or seven years is not bad for a base level home use machine that's on for most of the day every day.

Heorot
07-03-16, 10:50 AM
I've had that (drive errors on startup). It was the drive slowly dying as more and more sectors went bad. It finally died when the boot sector went bad. I hope you have been taking regular backups to external media.

Littlepeahead
07-03-16, 11:34 AM
The dishwasher is showing fault F7 again. It does this every so often, and it's a faff to sort out. It;s a 13 year old dishwasher and I have a newer one ready to go in as soon as I get myself organised to pick it up from my dad's. The thought of having to actually wash up myself fills me with dread.

maviczap
07-03-16, 05:22 PM
HP desktop pc's. Mine has stopped working so I took the side off, used an air duster which covered me in fluffy gunge, tried it again and... nothing. Powers up but the hard drive is not spooling up. For goodness sake - it's only seven years old :rolleyes: Off to PC World tomorrow to see if they can fix it cheaper than the £500 it will cost to replace it.

Eh? The fans come on full blast but nothing else happens. The hard drive does nothing so I don't know how I can check for anything I'm afraid. Nothing is unplugged so... It has been unhappy and very slow for weeks with a hard drive error popping up on the weekly diagnostic check so it could simply be a dead drive. Six or seven years is not bad for a base level home use machine that's on for most of the day every day.

This fortnights MicroMart had a little piece about hard drive failure. The most common cause is heat failure of the HDD's chipset, and with the symptoms you've described, it could be that.

It is possible to fix this, using a chipset from the same donor HDD, but I doubt PC world will suggest this. Especially as the drive isn't even spinning up.

I'd get a usb cable & Sata adaptor and see if the drive is dead.

Any precious stuff on it Sir Trev?

Sir Trev
07-03-16, 07:04 PM
It's been getting slower for some time so daily backups have been in place for a while so no issues there. The amount of crud in the chipset heat sink was amazing so I hope it's not that part thats given up.

What made me laugh was a call from Lady Poppy to report PC World said they would not touch it as it was over five years old. Really? Now with a local indie shop round the corner I'd never noticed on recommendation of a neighbour. Fingers crossed.

maviczap
07-03-16, 07:35 PM
That doesn't surprise me at all

Littlepeahead
08-03-16, 09:44 PM
I'm sad today upon hearing that a colleague miscarried on Sunday. It was her first pregnancy and to her surprise she was expecting identical twins. She'd recently got a proper bump so we were all excited for her. I'd even shown her a pic of me with Supervox's twin boys.

What's going to be very hard is that her line manager is currently on maternity leave and will be back a week or two before my colleague's due date would have been.

maviczap
08-03-16, 09:48 PM
Best let her line manager know, if you haven't done so. I would

Littlepeahead
08-03-16, 09:50 PM
Yes they have told her. She and I aren't in the same department but we work together a lot and she's someone I always enjoy chatting to as she's so upbeat.

maviczap
08-03-16, 09:51 PM
Cool, that's good team working, that doesnt always happen these days

NTECUK
09-03-16, 02:40 PM
Pot holes not the kind you can smokehttp://i1131.photobucket.com/albums/m556/Juke-of-earl/.facebook_1457534252267.jpg (http://s1131.photobucket.com/user/Juke-of-earl/media/.facebook_1457534252267.jpg.html)

Trev B
09-03-16, 02:55 PM
Fancy hitting a pothole like that on this pointless monster !!!

maviczap
09-03-16, 02:57 PM
For some bizarre reason, I like that :-)

NTECUK
09-03-16, 04:13 PM
They closed the road, only last September and supposedly did a new road base etc !!!!!

maviczap
10-03-16, 09:36 AM
The suns out, and its a nice day but I have to go into work because someone hasn't finished something they should have done by yesterday. When I said the 9th, I meant the 9th.

This is in my time, because I've worked my contracted hours for the year

ophic
10-03-16, 10:35 AM
They not heard of overtime?

maviczap
10-03-16, 10:39 AM
They not heard of overtime?

Not on our contracted hours scheme.

Overtime has not existed for nearly 20 years in my lot

ophic
10-03-16, 12:11 PM
Go ride your bike then.

maviczap
10-03-16, 02:14 PM
I did :-)

Littlepeahead
11-03-16, 06:59 PM
Having to deal with the world's grumpiest sulkiest colleague. I'm being ultra cheerful and upbeat around him just because I know that it will annoy him more when he wants everyone else to be as grouchy as he is so he can start arguments.

And the monthly migraine is nagging.

Swin
12-03-16, 08:08 AM
Saturday day shift :(

timwilky
12-03-16, 10:09 AM
Lunchtime kickoffs, nearly as bad as midweek night games.

Still the pub opened at 9:30.

maviczap
12-03-16, 10:20 AM
The lack of sunshine on the east coast, plus its cold!

Swin
12-03-16, 11:19 AM
Lunchtime kickoffs, nearly as bad as midweek night games.

Still the pub opened at 9:30.

No fair, you have a gripe and a smile in the same post :)

DJ123
12-03-16, 01:45 PM
Silly to$$ers who drive in fog with no lights at all, yet in June you know they'll drive around with their fog lights on . . .

Balky001
12-03-16, 03:19 PM
Had a puncture repair done by local garage. Pre-ride check - no air. The repair was not done. Frustrating.

DJ123
12-03-16, 05:14 PM
Had a puncture repair done by local garage. Pre-ride check - no air. The repair was not done. Frustrating.

I hope you get Suzie fixed soon ;)

BanannaMan
12-03-16, 08:56 PM
Company do tonight.
Spouses or S/O 's required.
Dinner at a nice Italian Restaurant followed by an evening ........



at the Rodeo.
Yep cow ropin', bull riding, the whole bit .
Yee Haw! :rolleyes:

Nothing like the scent of fresh manure on Saturday night.

maviczap
12-03-16, 09:43 PM
Internally routed bicycle cables = nightmare

Littlepeahead
12-03-16, 09:56 PM
Company do tonight.
Spouses or S/O 's required.
Dinner at a nice Italian Restaurant followed by an evening ........



at the Rodeo.
Yep cow ropin', bull riding, the whole bit .
Yee Haw! :rolleyes:

Nothing like the scent of fresh manure on Saturday night.
How is that a gripe? It gives you a chance to wear your leather chaps, possibly without pants! [emoji12]

Adam Ef
12-03-16, 10:44 PM
Internally routed bicycle cables = nightmare

Yep. The amount of times we get customers calling up asking us to fit cables as they've tried themselves and can't do it. We quote them normal price and then they turn up and have forgotten to tell us the cables are internal and will take (at least) twice as long to fit.

Magnets and gravity can help. Is there a window under the bottom bracket?

Balky001
13-03-16, 05:23 PM
I hope you get Suzie fixed soon ;)


Suzie?

Toooldtodie
13-03-16, 06:07 PM
Silly to$$ers who drive in fog with no lights at all, yet in June you know they'll drive around with their fog lights on . . .

Oh yes!! And almost always in a white or silver car like some sort of stealth device. Inconsiderate, stupid, git-tards!!!

andrewsmith
14-03-16, 07:21 AM
Yep. The amount of times we get customers calling up asking us to fit cables as they've tried themselves and can't do it. We quote them normal price and then they turn up and have forgotten to tell us the cables are internal and will take (at least) twice as long to fit.

Magnets and gravity can help. Is there a window under the bottom bracket?
Flexible fishing line

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maviczap
14-03-16, 08:45 AM
Flexible fishing line

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Yep, it was on the possible list.

9984]Yep. The amount of times we get customers calling up asking us to fit cables as they've tried themselves and can't do it. We quote them normal price and then they turn up and have forgotten to tell us the cables are internal and will take (at least) twice as long to fit.

Magnets and gravity can help. Is there a window under the bottom bracket?[/QUOTE]

This was the rear disc cable, that passes through the chain stay. I could pass a cable the wrong way down the tunnel, but the other way it snagged. The tunnel had a teflon liner inserted during its build, but it had a crease in it, preventing the cable passing through and I took it out.

Stripped down a gear cable & took out the teflon liner, then threaded that onto an old cable & fed it down the tunnel until it got to the other end, and pulled the liner into position. Then the cable fed through no problem.

I got the idea from a Youtube video!

Helped being in the daylight, so I could see what I was doing

Nightmare

Geodude
15-03-16, 03:50 PM
Three days in to barf and squits bug :( totally nackered, bro's kids got chicken pox and sisters kids have given me barf bug hmm I think they should have all visiting rights removed..

Fruity-ya-ya
15-03-16, 04:00 PM
Three days in to barf and squits bug :( totally nackered, bro's kids got chicken pox and sisters kids have given me barf bug hmm I think they should have all visiting rights removed..
Get well soon Geo.

If it makes you feel any better I have a head cold that is making my teeth ache like a wrong un?

Geodude
15-03-16, 04:12 PM
Cheers fruity, gws to you too.

maviczap
15-03-16, 06:13 PM
Three days in to barf and squits bug :( totally nackered, bro's kids got chicken pox and sisters kids have given me barf bug hmm I think they should have all visiting rights removed..

GWS Geo, I've had that pleasure before on a visit to relatives in Germany, one cousin had the bug and gave it too all my lot. I was the last to get it, and it was the nasiest thing ive every had.

Put me off coffee, as the smell of it, reminded me of this holiday, as they drink loads of it. :|

Littlepeahead
15-03-16, 06:50 PM
Another suicide on my train line. I reckon we have about 2 a month.

So I've had to jump on the Stansted Express and Mr LPH is going to trek out to collect me from the airport. I wouldn't always expect him to do this but as the incident had only just happened it'll be 2 or 3 hours before any trains run on my line and Stu's got this week off so not too tired.

I don't rant at the train staff like some people do. After all, I'm a bit inconvenienced. Some other poor family are about to get the worst call of their lives.

timwilky
15-03-16, 07:22 PM
I have a mate who drives the things.

He has splatted two in the past couple of years, people tend to forget the the psychological impact on the drivers.


My former employers provide train cleaning service. They love a messy one as well.

But having had friends succeed and family try. I feel for anyone who thinks there is nothing left to live for and we should be a lot more tolerant of people with problems.

Even if I have shouted jump when stopped for over 2 hours for idiots on the wrong side of bridges.

Bibio
15-03-16, 07:44 PM
This was the rear disc cable, that passes through the chain stay. I could pass a cable the wrong way down the tunnel, but the other way it snagged. The tunnel had a teflon liner inserted during its build, but it had a crease in it, preventing the cable passing through and I took it out.

Stripped down a gear cable & took out the teflon liner, then threaded that onto an old cable & fed it down the tunnel until it got to the other end, and pulled the liner into position. Then the cable fed through no problem.

I got the idea from a Youtube video!

Helped being in the daylight, so I could see what I was doing

Nightmare

this is why you tie a bit of thread/cord to the end of the old one before you take it out :rolleyes:

maviczap
15-03-16, 09:13 PM
this is why you tie a bit of thread/cord to the end of the old one before you take it out :rolleyes:

Twas only a section of the old liner, which was stuck in the tunnel, so couldn't tie it on, and not even enough room for a knot to pass through the tunnel. The teflon liner is 1.8mm dia, the tunnel is only about 2mm dia. A brake cable just fits the liner.

Hence my problems :D

Littlepeahead
16-03-16, 06:59 PM
I posted something on Facebook today in response to an earlier post from Loz about service received in dealers which I've re-griped below. How to fail at customer service and make assumptions about who your customers are.

Walk into Kawasaki in Colchester while Stu parks the car. I am in need of a new helmet and have a budget of, oh, up to £500 give or take a few quid.

3 members of staff completely ignore me even though I have already taken a look at a couple of their bikes on show in case I fancy chopping in both the SV and the GS and then I start looking at helmets.

Stu walks in. Before he's even got 10 feet into the store all three members of staff have leapt up and asked how he is, what he's looking for and does he need any help?

Only when he says he's here with his wife who needs a new helmet do they seem to become aware that I am even in the room.

They have one helmet in size XS - and it's bright pink because as they guy said 'pink would suit me'. Yeah, right.

Just about to order this online (it's not pink), it's £80 cheaper with a load of free extras. Normally I like to buy in store but those guys blew it big time today.

http://forums.sv650.org/picture.php?albumid=1225&pictureid=7968

Adam Ef
16-03-16, 08:26 PM
Similar to your experience... Had a friend recently walk into John Lewis trying to buy a TV. Sales guy pretty much refused to talk about tech aspects of the TVs with her and suggested she get her husband to have a look at the technical stuff!!! Needless to say, they lost a sale. Pretty shocking for a company like John Lewis.

maviczap
16-03-16, 08:39 PM
Had the same when a guy came to give us a quote for new windows, would only talk directly to me. Ignoring my wife totally.

So coupled with, that and his old school double glazing salesman techniques it cost him £5k

Littlepeahead
16-03-16, 08:47 PM
One of the reasons I take my car where I do is because they talk to me straight. They've taken me into the pit under the car to point out the bit that was making a weird noise. There's no assumption that because I'm a woman I don't know how my car works. I think they quite like that I'm 5 foot nothing yet drive a huge 7 series with a bike for weekend fun.

NTECUK
16-03-16, 08:52 PM
The southway Colchester needs wider lanes for filtering.
Scratch my mirror

Heorot
17-03-16, 01:43 AM
Same thing in reverse happened to me in Curry’s. I do all the ironing in our household because Sue doesn’t like doing it and is, therefore, useless at it. I told the female shop assistant exactly what I wanted in an iron and she then proceeded to explain to Sue all the features of the various irons, ignoring me. I twice more told her it was for me, but she continued to talk to Sue. It was only when Sue piped up that she needed to talk to me that she finally got it. Very confused by the idea that a man would do the ironing.

littleoldman2
17-03-16, 07:20 AM
When I'm buying clothes, if it needs ironing it stays in the shop.

timwilky
17-03-16, 03:01 PM
Drive belt on mixer snapped. with a full half mixed load.


£2.45 and an hour later, that mix finished. At least I had not added the water when it when bang.

ophic
17-03-16, 03:03 PM
Drive belt on mixer snapped. with a full half mixed load.


£2.45 and an hour later, that mix finished. At least I had not added the water when it when bang.

But if you had... what would you have done? Poured it for a marble cake effect? Added more water to limit damage? Turned it by hand? Given up and gone to the pub?

timwilky
17-03-16, 03:06 PM
I would have to had resorted to the reason I use a mixer.

Backache. handballing a mix is no fun at my age.

Littlepeahead
17-03-16, 05:18 PM
When we went to buy an oven the salesman told me all the fancy features for slow cooking, cheesecakes, intermittent in oven grill for roasted items.

Then he turned to Stu and said 'and sir, this button means it cooks your shop bought pizza perfectly, crispy on the bottom, not burnt on top.'

He'd actually got it exactly right as to Stuart's culinary capabilities.

NTECUK
17-03-16, 09:12 PM
Water leak from inside Mum's boiler....

Red ones
18-03-16, 06:34 PM
Me


I've driven up your house contents insurance by making a claim.
I'm actually impressed. Sent photo of damage to the insurer with the electronic claim notification and evidence of the menu pricing for the repair, they rang back and said "Fine, you'll have the money paid into your bank by Monday"

maviczap
18-03-16, 06:59 PM
Trips to London on the train, left my phone on the seat, my phone is now far far away.

Abellio Anglia lost property only work Mon - Fri 9 - 5

Its not been a good day

Red ones
18-03-16, 07:12 PM
My proper gripe: Nicky Morgan

Cast aside her horrible squirming and misleading BBC QT performance. If you thought Michael Gove was a nasty Education Secretary then think again. In one week Nicky Morgan has been in the driving seat when every remaining state run school has been told they will have no choice. They will have all their funds handed to private enterprise and publicly accountable bodies will no longer deliver education. But to better that, she then announces that parents of students will have no say in the running of their schools. Parent governors will no longer exist.
In one week all public accountability for schools in England has been removed. No national curriculum, no national pay arrangements, no accountability.



How undemocratic.
But at least we get a referendum on Europe.

Red ones
18-03-16, 07:14 PM
This forum blanks out the words that I'm thinking.

maviczap
18-03-16, 07:46 PM
Also drunks on trains