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Littlepeahead
19-07-16, 08:07 PM
My train company waiting until we had just left Stratford to tell us there were delays ahead of up to an hour to go the mile and a half to Liverpool St due to the tattoos being hot and waiting for an inspection. Firstly, why not make rails of something other than chocolate. Secondly, why not tell us before Stratford so we can get off and get the tube into Liverpool St or the overland to Finchley. Greater Anglia are useless.

Red ones
19-07-16, 08:44 PM
It's awful when the tattoos get hot. It makes me all sweaty.

phi-dan
20-07-16, 09:21 AM
Colleagues (who work on other teams) that think it's somehow okay to modify the source content of software installation packages with asking/telling the people who actually are responsible for said software. They don't even work with the system they are messing with :smt092 :smt068

Trev B
20-07-16, 10:40 AM
The hot weather.....woke this morning to find these 6 floating on top of the pond,all dead,there's another I couldn't get out,fine last night....lack of oxygen in the water.got 2 of these orfs left,the koi and goldfish ok.its all or nowt !!!

maviczap
20-07-16, 01:04 PM
Last day at primary school for my youngest, where did all that time go. No more nice primary school, its off to join the academy system, grumpy teenagers & all that stuff.

day 5 and still suffering from the effects of the lurgy since Saturday :-(

Trev B
20-07-16, 01:39 PM
The one that was on the bottom of the pond this morning arose from the deep with another at 2 pm,that's 8 out of the 9 I has,rest of fish ok.going to close it down now so if anyone wants some large koi,a large orf,20+ assorted goldfish etc please contact me......was going to re design the garden anyway !!!

Littlepeahead
20-07-16, 08:31 PM
The cats have been hot and bothered for 5 days. But this doesn't give them an excuse to kill a bird and fill the conservatory with a corpse, blood and feathers.

They were so pleased with themselves they were asking for treats as a reward.

Kenzie
21-07-16, 06:38 AM
Cat gripe of the day: Owner unhappy with gift we left and then denied us reward.

Littlepeahead
21-07-16, 10:56 AM
I did actually give them a plate of sliced chicken.

Stu dropped his bike on the drive last night in front of one if the cats.

This morning as he came up the stairs the cat just randomly launched himself off the ironing board with such force the whole thing went crashing over and the iron went flying across the room. It's almost as if he was trying to show that anything Stu can do, he can do better. The cat then came belting into the bedroom all pleased with himself. He's bonkers.

dirtydog
21-07-16, 10:03 PM
Customers phoning at almost 10pm for a non emergency
"hello is that the plumber?"
Yes
"My shower is leaking"
Ok
"It looks like it's leaking from the edge of the shower head"
Call tomorrow in working hours
"Oh ok"

:mad::mad:

Littlepeahead
22-07-16, 06:10 AM
People who post without warning horrible graphic images of their injured body parts on Facebook. Not bike crash related either. I don't want to see that sort of thing and I really don't understand why people do it.

I know there's long been an 'Always wear your leathers' thread on here, but that contains a warning and I can choose not to view it.

timwilky
22-07-16, 07:25 AM
Customers phoning at almost 10pm for a non emergency
"hello is that the plumber?"
Yes
"My shower is leaking"
Ok
"It looks like it's leaking from the edge of the shower head"
Call tomorrow in working hours
"Oh ok"

:mad::mad:


Previous life, I was among many roles a automotive Engineer and claims assessor. We would contact claimants asking them to leave their vehicle at the nominated repairers on the day when I would be in that area. My week would be split into areas, East Lancs/west Yorkshire, Cumbria, Mersyside/Cheshire, Manchester etc. So it had to be the right day, and at the repairers so we could discuss the repair and argue cost etc.

Many times we would get, can you not inspect it at my home on Saturday/Sunday, after 7 etc.

Stock answer :- Sorry Sir/Madam. engineers are unreasonable people. They expect to spend the weekend/evenings at home with their families.

dirtydog
22-07-16, 09:28 PM
She then phoned at 8am today!

punyXpress
23-07-16, 10:10 AM
Must have been a 'working girl' ?

DJ123
23-07-16, 10:01 PM
Must have been a 'working girl' ?

That or she had seen a few movies and was expecting more . . . . .

Red ones
23-07-16, 10:26 PM
That or she had seen a few movies and was expecting more . . . . .



And with a name like Dirtydog???

shiftin_gear98
26-07-16, 02:56 PM
That no one on here has a decent project/build under way. I could really do with something interesting to read whilst I'm supposed to be working.

Bibio
26-07-16, 03:24 PM
That no one on here has a decent project/build under way. I could really do with something interesting to read whilst I'm supposed to be working.

i get hooked on reading advrider adventures, some of them are truly epic :riding:

shiftin_gear98
27-07-16, 10:06 AM
Today's even more boring than yesterday.

shiftin_gear98
27-07-16, 10:19 AM
Lance thanks for the pointer Rideforsmiles 275 pages!!

Littlepeahead
27-07-16, 01:22 PM
Yesterday I spent an hour with a cameraman filming... concrete.

Today a location manager visited to see... the gents toilets to potentially use in a feature film.

I'm not sure I can handle all this excitement. Or should that be excrement.

Red ones
27-07-16, 07:00 PM
There's nothing wrong with concrete.
I have a 2 hour meeting first thing in the morning about multi storey car park concrete. Living on the edge!

punyXpress
27-07-16, 08:37 PM
Don't jump!

Bibio
27-07-16, 08:54 PM
new neighbour biker with open pipes revving it at 9:45 pm. few sunday's ago was him and his mates revving the titzzz out the bikes on the limiters.

i love bikes but there is a time and a place for antics especially when a few of my neighbours are OAP's or disabled.

timwilky
28-07-16, 07:05 AM
Neighbour's dog.

It was his dads farm dog. So used to living outside in a kennel and is still an outside dog. 4 O'clock this morning it decides it needs to have a chat with whoever might be awake. Well I soon was!

shiftin_gear98
28-07-16, 02:02 PM
Neighbour's dog - it's just really ****ing annoying.


Neighbour said to just give it a spray with water to shut it up. I think her idea of a spray and mine are two completely different things. Oh well, time will tell if she still speaks to us.


Now where's the boys super soaker...

Trev B
28-07-16, 03:25 PM
Soak the owners,poor old dogs doing what it does naturally,it's funny how owners never hear their own dogs yapping all day and do something about it !!!

timwilky
29-07-16, 06:44 AM
My dog yaps, bloody annoying I know. So when I hear it, in he goes.

But as one neighbour put it, he is doing his job. He only does it when he sees a stranger. We live in a small cul-de-sac of about 30 houses of which he can see about 5 from the gate. So there should not be anyone around during the day. If I hear him (I work from home) I have a good look as we have had a couple of burglaries over the years.

shiftin_gear98
29-07-16, 09:22 AM
I understand they are "doing their job", but does that job really have to involve scaring the **** out of my two year old little girl every time she wants to go in our garden. Not it's sodding garden.
I live in a quiet cul-de-sac too - 10 houses. The neighbour the other side has a Border Collie - never hear a peep from it, as that owner has trained it not to bark at everybody.
I like dogs, I'm currently trying to persuade my wife that we should get one as the kids would love it, if we got a big one it could eat next doors dog too. Stupid little rat dog. So win win.


However her in doors is having none of it.
Until I can change her mind (which would be a cold day in hell) I might just need to squirt it, and the hapless neighbour if they are near it too!
It's the weekend soon, so perfect chance to practise my aim.

Luckypants
29-07-16, 09:38 AM
Stupid little rat dog.This! :smt072

We have been dog-sitting my step-daughter's Yorkie/Pug cross, what a nasty little yappy ******* that is! Yaps at everything and despite me being at home most of the time, yelling at it to STFU when it yaps it has not got the message.

Currently that rat-dog is back with it's owner while we dog-sit my son and daughter-in-laws dogs. One of which is a Border Terrier, another yappy little ****! He is slowly calming down a bit though, so will improve as he gets used to his new surroundings. Didn't stop him waking up the neighbourhood when we got back from the pub last night though! :smt093

The main problem with the yapping is it can set off the other dogs, ten times worse! Our staffies are pretty quiet, but when the yapping starts they sometimes think its fun to join in!

Gripe of the day and all foreseeable days is yappy little rat-dogs!

Sir Trev
29-07-16, 11:36 AM
Our Black Lab went deaf a few years ago, which means she cannot hear birds in the hedges any more so consequently does not run up and down barking at them. Thankfully. It was bad enough that we'd put a fairly tight fitting soft muzzle on her if she was let out at anti-social o'clock which did the trick. Shame the near neighbour with the Doberman does not do the same...

Sir Trev
30-07-16, 06:22 PM
Alas, poor battery. My Optimate has been telling me for the last couple of months that my battery's condition is "poor". After a good long run today it is now seemingly stuck on a desulphate cycle so it looks like I need a new one. Shouldn't complain really as it's the original and it's lasted 7 years.

carelesschucca
03-08-16, 08:55 AM
First Bus, bunch of see you next Tuesdays

They've decided that they're not making enough profit off the bus I use to get to town so are cutting it completely in two weeks.

It means my commute to work will increase by at least 25 minutes (will now be nearly 90 minutes to go 15 miles)

I don't want to use the Street to get to work, she's a toy to be enjoyed. I'm not best pleased. I'm even looking at 250 scooters on eBay... What a fricking nightmare!!!

Littlepeahead
03-08-16, 10:52 AM
Same where I live. No buses after 7pm. Costs me £12 in a taxi any time Stu can't pick me up. Other areas have late buses that run empty up to the 2 million pound houses because that was a deal of the planning permission for those developers, funny that they would rather use their Mercs and Audis than the bus to those homes.

timwilky
04-08-16, 02:54 PM
Asda!!!

I ferkin hate the place, never got anything fresh in stock. Deliberately short staffed on tills, self service tills that don't work. Ignorant staff that wont respond to the please wait messages permanently being belched out by the not fit for service tills.

Why do I go there. It is 300 yards away. Next nearest store is over 4 miles away.

Yup walked out again, emptied my half full bag on the useless till, left the lot that it will not allow through on the conveyor. I just wish the store management would look at their cctv to see what prompts customers to abandon half way through arranging to pay for goods. And see the staff ignoring the flashing tills to continue their gassing.

Yes I hate the place, tried their internet once and rejected half of what they attempted to deliver. If they cannot supply what is asked for. Don't deliver half the shop and don't substitute alternatives..

No I don't feel better for this rant. The wife laughed when I walked in minus bags. She knows damn well I have abandoned the shop. 20 mins of my life I will never get back. Still last time I ever go there. I just wish they would bar me from the dump. Tehy are supposed to be owned by Walmart. Well they certainly have not adopted an American view of customer service.

Now Tim, relax, deep breaths, calm.....

shiftin_gear98
04-08-16, 03:05 PM
20 mins!! Whenever I venture into a supermarket I seem to have my soul removed.
The next thing I'm aware of is I'm in my car driving home and it's at least two hours later.
I wish I was in there for 20 mins.

Bibio
04-08-16, 03:14 PM
i like my ASDA. getting used to the self service now so its not a problem, there are a few 'rules' you have to adhere to to get through them without problems but i have got it down to a tee. mind you i go shopping at 3am so stuff is fresh on shelves and store is pretty much empty of other shoppers. i wont go to ASDA during the day as the day staff are overworked with customers that cant use the self service properly. the night staff all know me so i get through the tills quicker if i'm doing a big shop.

timwilky
04-08-16, 03:23 PM
There for 20 mins because they have nothing on the shelves.

Was supposed to be cooking Chinese tonight. No ****ake or oyster mushrooms, Guy on the veg looked at me as if I was an idiot asking for them.

Fish counter unmanned.

Why do I bother, they want to knock out pre packed rubbish. Deli counter gone. No butchers. Soggy water filled chicken and 20 slices to a pack wafer thin mush purporting to be bacon etc. The place is simply horrid.

timwilky
04-08-16, 03:31 PM
i like my ASDA. getting used to the self service now so its not a problem, there are a few 'rules' you have to adhere to to get through them without problems but i have got it down to a tee. mind you i go shopping at 3am so stuff is fresh on shelves and store is pretty much empty of other shoppers. i wont go to ASDA during the day as the day staff are overworked with customers that cant use the self service properly. the night staff all know me so i get through the tills quicker if i'm doing a big shop.


I know how to use the tills. My problem today was bananas. Weighed them, selected bananas, put them in the bag. And it locks up requiring a supervisor checks my bag as it has decided there is a weight discrepancy. Trouble is the supervisor would rather talk to her mate than help a customer.

But you are right, I made the mistake of selecting the till that was empty, apart from the woman paying for her purchase. Once I had loaded the conveyor, I then see she has not bagged her shop and is waiting to pay before she will take her stuff off the scales and place it into the bags in her trolley. So queue wait for that. My fault going for the till with no queue, should know better.

pookie
04-08-16, 04:04 PM
and breathe and relax Tim!

I think waitrose do those fancy mushrooms..

carelesschucca
04-08-16, 06:08 PM
Tim and his first world problems ;-) TBH, I hate ASDA myself as their stock levels jump about all the time. Gaffer and I now use Sainsburys, and I now buy Pork Pies and cakes from Waitrose (so much for the Red flag)

Come to think of it the only thing I use the ASDA for is the petrol station it's self service with no attendants, lovely, just ride in card in machine fill the bike and make like a shepherd.

Littlepeahead
04-08-16, 07:43 PM
Tim, have you written to their Chief Exec. I mean you've already written the letter in this rant haven't you, so cut and paste and send it to him as a proper letter.

We had a rubbish M&S in town. A woman got sick of us getting the cr@p stock, never having her size, the poor lighting, tiny changing rooms etc. She wrote to Stuart Rose, the CEO. Within a month he'd visited the store unannounced. Agreed with everything she said. Got the whole store revamped.

Red ones
04-08-16, 10:00 PM
Sounds like Tims ASDA is performing to their usual standard. I used to work across a number of their stores and didn't like a single one.

My gripe is virginmedia or their Superhub to be precise. Modem mode? Doesn't work! So I'm limited to 30Mb when i should be able to get 100 - 150!! For some reason in modem mode it won't talk to my airports.

Bah.

timwilky
05-08-16, 06:31 AM
Generally virginmedia works ok for me. I have the 200mb service. a SH2ac running in modem mode connected to a small pc running pfsense as my firewall.

I then have Asus ac wifi routers running as access points upstairs/downstairs and in the home office. The interesting one is how the shed at the bottom of the garden connects with a fairly solid wireless 600Mb connection.

http://virgin.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/72107iA5DACD39E8434A8F/image-dimensions/2000?v=v2&px=-1

http://virgin.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/72108i05CA5E198E8ACEC8/image-dimensions/2000?v=v2&px=-1

If I did have a gripe with Virgin. It would be.

Indian call centres staffed by script monkeys.
Poor upload speeds.
no native ipv6 (I have to tunnel from the pfsense using Hurricane Electric).
No static ip allocation.

DarrenSV650S
05-08-16, 07:21 AM
My virgin hub is useless. I try to log on to the admin control panel and it just says loading. How can it possibly not manage to load some text from the router to my wired pc ?

It keeps dropping out then restarting too. I need to get on to virgin about it again

Red ones
05-08-16, 09:15 AM
I've got a SH1 which is wired to an Airport and then onto a switch for the wired hardware (TV, Gameboy, etc) with wireless network extension.
If I put the SH1 to modem mode it doesn't work and the Airports lose internet access, DNS lookup etc.

Virgin sent me a new SH but Yodel lost it and are now blaming me for not living in the house they delivered to. Hopefully the new SH will work on modem mode as it looks like it should also be about 3 times faster out of the box.

Stingo
05-08-16, 09:50 AM
Noticeboards. People putting random notices on boards and not using a drawing pin in each corner, and/or obscuring other notices in an untidy fashion. Grrr. Do it tidily or don't do it at all. Oh, and keep it relevant - I don't wish to know about a sale on at the hairdressers whilst looking at the Health & Safety noticeboard! Yes, I am that sad...

Bibio
05-08-16, 03:25 PM
fekwit skoda steeler. took the yeti in for a service and got courtesy car got back parked up then they moved the car round the back came in some time later and said its got a scratch and a chip in the windscreen and i done it. ermmm no.

it was absolutely lashing it down this morning so jumped straight in the car and never thought twice. so warning to all. take a camera if you get a hired/courtesy car and take pics of before and after.

add to that my car now smells of dog as they hoovered it out with obviously a well used and crap hover.

i is not a happy bunny right now.

DJ123
05-08-16, 10:31 PM
fekwit skoda steeler. took the yeti in for a service and got courtesy car got back parked up then they moved the car round the back came in some time later and said its got a scratch and a chip in the windscreen and i done it. ermmm no.

it was absolutely lashing it down this morning so jumped straight in the car and never thought twice. so warning to all. take a camera if you get a hired/courtesy car and take pics of before and after.

add to that my car now smells of dog as they hoovered it out with obviously a well used and crap hover.

i is not a happy bunny right now.

With any courtesy car you always get a check sheet showing any damage to the vehicle, mileage and what fuel was in it. Its up to you to check it and pick up on anything that isn't on it-otherwise its your word against theirs

Red ones
05-08-16, 10:35 PM
I once had a courtesy car where they tried crossing out a mistake of a chip in the windscreen. Worked in my favour. Cracked the windscreen on the way to the cost and argued my way out of it even though they knew there was no chip in the glass before.

Heorot
06-08-16, 07:48 AM
Aldi & Lidl may not have shiitake mushrooms, but getting through the tills is very quick.

Bibio
06-08-16, 04:40 PM
liquid type clothes detergents make your drains stink.

i had really bad smells coming up from the 1/4 bowl on the sink when i was using liquid type clothes detergents with the initial turning of of the washing machine but now i have changed to powder type again after years of the liquids the drain is not smelling.

Red ones
06-08-16, 04:55 PM
Relatives who think it's appropriate to turn up with their kids then sit and watch the TV when I'm trying to pack for my holidays. That's packing for 5, all the camping stuff, food, bedding etc AND clean the house before the house sitter arrives. They want to let their kid run riot and demand cups of tea and a chat.


Liquid detergents usually need you to do a 90 degree wash occasionally to get rid of the stuff that makes the smell.

Littlepeahead
06-08-16, 05:46 PM
Paying BMW £340 for a service. But that's not my gripe. While I was sorting out the paperwork, Stu had wandered into the showroom and booked a test ride on an S1000RR. That is going to cost £13,000+ - so quite an expensive visit to BMW.

timwilky
07-08-16, 08:19 AM
liquid type clothes detergents make your drains stink.

i had really bad smells coming up from the 1/4 bowl on the sink when i was using liquid type clothes detergents with the initial turning of of the washing machine but now i have changed to powder type again after years of the liquids the drain is not smelling.

Younger brother owns a domestic appliance retail/repair business. He reckons the biggest cause of stinking black mould developing in machines is liquid detergents. Once it develops impossible to fully clear.

I bollock the wife for buying liquids, she knows what it does yet still buys them.

Littlepeahead
07-08-16, 09:27 PM
Ah, that explains the stink that comes from my washing machine. It a long way from the drain so a long pipe to go smelly.

Heorot
07-08-16, 09:41 PM
Paying BMW £340 for a service. But that's not my gripe. While I was sorting out the paperwork, Stu had wandered into the showroom and booked a test ride on an S1000RR. That is going to cost £13,000+ - so quite an expensive visit to BMW.

There's a guy in Norwich trying to sell a S1000RR. 7000 miles, 2010 model with full service history looking at £8250. Will come with full mot.

Red ones
08-08-16, 08:29 AM
Being told the airbed I'm camping with has a leak. I over inflated it to compensate then found it doesn't leak.

It was like a night of sleeping on top of a balloon.

ophic
08-08-16, 11:16 AM
Younger brother owns a domestic appliance retail/repair business. He reckons the biggest cause of stinking black mould developing in machines is liquid detergents. Once it develops impossible to fully clear.
I found the cause in my machine was concentrated fabric conditioner. It was thick and just clogged everything up and then went mouldy.

The normal stuff is fine.

This was back when I did my own washing... not sure liquid detergents were invented...

andrewsmith
08-08-16, 11:57 AM
Younger brother owns a domestic appliance retail/repair business. He reckons the biggest cause of stinking black mould developing in machines is liquid detergents. Once it develops impossible to fully clear.

I bollock the wife for buying liquids, she knows what it does yet still buys them.
Had the same with our second hand washer.
Improved it after 3 boil washes in a row and some chemicals in the 4th run

Sent from my D2303 using Tapatalk

Trev B
09-08-16, 05:32 PM
A poxy footballer taking home £220k a week,mental amount of money,nothing to do with supply and demand,mental !!?

maviczap
09-08-16, 05:57 PM
its an obscene amount of money

garynortheast
09-08-16, 07:14 PM
The quote from the mahatma Gandhi springs to mind. Something about 'The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.'

Trev B
09-08-16, 08:48 PM
Who did he sign for ??? I thought it was good,!!!

vysie
10-08-16, 07:15 PM
eBay!!!!!! Sold a PS3 over a month ago a couple weeks in buyer wants to return it saying its faulty, arrived back today and guess what I've been had its not my PlayStation I sent its my controller my games and leads but console not mine missing bits of plastic won't read a disk turns off contacted buyer. Sorry it is yours its broke 1st day, it was like that when I got it, do you think eBay care do they heck I've been told unless the buyer offers to give me some cash tough!
Really fuming

littleoldman2
10-08-16, 07:19 PM
Did you not take a photo of the serial number?.

maviczap
10-08-16, 07:35 PM
eBay!!!!!! Sold a PS3 over a month ago a couple weeks in buyer wants to return it saying its faulty, arrived back today and guess what I've been had its not my PlayStation I sent its my controller my games and leads but console not mine missing bits of plastic won't read a disk turns off contacted buyer. Sorry it is yours its broke 1st day, it was like that when I got it, do you think eBay care do they heck I've been told unless the buyer offers to give me some cash tough!
Really fuming

This is why i gave up selling on ebay, the buyer gets to win in pretty much any dispute, unless you are very very careful

Did you not take a photo of the serial number?.

Aye thats what you need to do to protect yourself

andrewsmith
10-08-16, 07:35 PM
Contact eBay and bring up a dispute and take pictures of the knackered one

Sent from my D2303 using Tapatalk

vysie
10-08-16, 08:44 PM
Had another message lol said sorry mate your tripping if you think I'm giving you money I could of sent you old books and got a refund!!!! Books would of been better tbh at least I could do something with em, I've mailed eBay but I doubt anything will be done

Littlepeahead
11-08-16, 07:45 AM
See if you can get him to make some admission of his fraud in a message then send the screen grab to Ebay.

atassiedevil
11-08-16, 08:25 AM
Time to call the police for fraud, maybe?

Littlepeahead
16-08-16, 05:37 PM
My tortoise died. She lived with my mum and they found her in the garden dead today. No idea what caused her death as she was eating OK yesterday. She wasn't young, I've had her 43 years and she was an adult when I got her so I reckon she was at least 60. But I'll miss her biting my ankles until I went and fetched her sliced banana.

[emoji22]

Red ones
16-08-16, 06:46 PM
:(


My gripe is having to ask the waste of a nephew to return my Optimate after 6 months because the SV battery was weak after 2 weeks parked up and new flooding the engine.
Optimate broken. He snapped the wires off the main body of the charger.
I swear the nephew could break a brick.

I have an evening of trying fix it ahead of me now.

Nutsinatin
17-08-16, 04:43 PM
Tractor trundling down an NSL dual carridgeway on the way home. Car in the runnning lane wouldn't undertake him so we were all stuck doing 20 for a few miles until I managed to squeeze past at the lights.

Dave20046
18-08-16, 08:51 PM
Badly stacked dish rack causing a plate to jump off at a mere fart and smashing a floor tile. Not a great wake up call.

carelesschucca
21-08-16, 01:06 PM
This 'king cold and chest infection, three weeks now and a course of antibiotics and I'm still a snottery mess that can't breath I've had enough of it...

maviczap
21-08-16, 03:18 PM
Broken down in the works van on the M25, waiting to be recovered

garynortheast
21-08-16, 03:45 PM
Broken down in the works van on the M25, waiting to be recovered

M25? At least you're in a car park then Mav! ;)

maviczap
21-08-16, 04:28 PM
Just for a change it's flowing freely, luckily we didn't breakdown in the tunnel otherwise we would have featured in the traffic report and causing miles of misery. Still only been waiting nearly 2 hours.

DarrenSV650S
22-08-16, 08:26 AM
Having to carry the guy I'm working with every Monday because he's still half pished from last night. Makes me look bad

maviczap
22-08-16, 09:17 AM
This 'king cold and chest infection, three weeks now and a course of antibiotics and I'm still a snottery mess that can't breath I've had enough of it...

You have my sympathy, this is what happens to me nearly every time I get a 'simple' cold.

If you had what I had, its a nasty bug, luckily I caught mine in time with the antibiotics.

Next time this old git tells you not to ride, then heed my words :D

carelesschucca
22-08-16, 09:39 AM
I know, I know. Hangs head in shame for not listening. He says that but I've got a dicky stomach (antibiotics) but I'm going out tomorrow come hell or high water.

maviczap
22-08-16, 11:37 AM
Just take it gentle.

Me today's gripe is I've pulled a shoulder muscle, making driving difficult, as turning my head at junctions is bloomin painful. :(

Trev B
22-08-16, 06:48 PM
Careless,have you tried the old menthol crystals from the chemists,just a few in a bowl of boiling water,towel and enjoy,OK they won't kill the bugs,but sure open the old pipeworks up !!!

Littlepeahead
22-08-16, 09:13 PM
My Garmin falling off at 30mph. It's survived and works but a bit scuffed. I had to wave at a car to stop him running over it.

Heorot
23-08-16, 03:33 PM
Driving the Impreza to Diss yesterday. Suddenly the steering got really heavy and I'm 5 miles from home. After shopping I drive the 10 miles home heaving at the wheel every time I need to turn. Broken auxiliary drive belt found under the bonnet. Certainly built up my muscles driving it without power steering.

However, I don't think it's too bad. It's a 98 model and I've had it from new. The belt has lasted for 18 years so I can't really complain. Subaru engineering.

carelesschucca
24-08-16, 07:08 PM
Talking cars but slightly less serious but Parking Assist on cars... Can people not drive at all nowadays?

Bibio
24-08-16, 08:16 PM
Talking cars but slightly less serious but Parking Assist on cars... Can people not drive at all nowadays?
no they cant. the standard of driving is shocking these days.

it was not that long ago when people drove at the speed limits or just over, now everybody drives around at 40mph EVERYWHERE and its not just dottery old sunday drivers either.

andrewsmith
24-08-16, 08:20 PM
It boils me, 40 mph in the middle lane on the a1!

Guess what I do....

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Luckypants
24-08-16, 10:42 PM
Talking cars but slightly less serious but Parking Assist on cars... Can people not drive at all nowadays?
Parking sensors are a requirement of my company car scheme "for insurance purposes".

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Heorot
24-08-16, 11:40 PM
As a motor insurance claims assistant to a fleet, most accidents involving speed were men. Slow impacts where the sensors would have helped were mostly women. Some were repeat offenders; one senior woman manager had 12 claims in 10 years, all bar one involved hitting things while parking. Not PC I know, but true.

Littlepeahead
25-08-16, 07:22 AM
That stat is true. Women have more accidents but they tend to be low speed with not too much damage and so not expensive. Men tend to cause higher speed accidents so the cost of the claim is higher.

However, Stu has scraped the front wing of the car despite our parking sensors!

Littlepeahead
25-08-16, 07:25 AM
My gripe is that half of Derbyshire's roads seems to be covered in deep lose chippings. On a fully loaded bike going round bends even at 20mph this isn't a pleasant ride. You have to stay well back from numerous trucks or you get peppered with stones and then some idiot car drivers decide it's ok to overtake at 40mph because you're riding slowly.

Red ones
25-08-16, 07:42 AM
R125 riders on L plates, especially when the bike has been vinyled matt black. Need I say more?

Sir Trev
25-08-16, 12:36 PM
Talking cars but slightly less serious but Parking Assist on cars... Can people not drive at all nowadays?

Both my cars have auto park, but in three years of having it I've never once used it. Lady Poppy's car also has a rear parking camera* which is actually quite distracting - it is such a wide angled view that it looks like you are a way off things but in reality you're right on top of them.


*in case LP sees this post I need to add that it was a pre-owned car and the camera was already fitted. I did NOT set out to get her a car with this option.

maviczap
25-08-16, 02:49 PM
My car has auto park, I get Jeeves to do it :-)

Bibio
25-08-16, 03:09 PM
i cant remember the last time i had to squeeze into an on street parallel parking space, it must be years.

dizzyblonde
25-08-16, 04:48 PM
I haven't parallel parked since doing my test. It's a bit like the U turn with the bike. Only done when necessary and I haven't found it necessary to parallel Park the car.
I've a camera on the Juke, it's great for reverse parking outside the business unit when the metal bollards in front of the door disappear into the blind spot. That, and for checking for lemmings in tesco carpark..

Why the hell do they do it? Decide to walk behind you when you're halfway out of a spot, then proceed to walk down the side of the car as it's turning. TESCO LEMMINGS!!!!

Bibio
25-08-16, 05:15 PM
Why the hell do they do it? Decide to walk behind you when you're halfway out of a spot, then proceed to walk down the side of the car as it's turning. TESCO LEMMINGS!!!!

due too them having the right of way and therein lies one of the problems with the standard of driving these days, people are taking this attitude into the drivers seat as well and thinking that they now have the right of way in the car. its the 'bubble generation' syndrome.

courtesy and patience costs nothing but its sorely lacking in todays society.

dizzyblonde
25-08-16, 05:35 PM
Oh, don't get me wrong, I wait as patient as a Saint, just as I do as a pedestrian when a car is making a manoeuvre. Difference being lemmings, treat the car as totally invisible and look surprised when they see a face in the window looking back at them