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Red ones
02-01-18, 01:35 PM
Rain

Everytime it rains my data connection drops from 100meg to about 0.5. Grr.

Engineer booked for Friday.

SV650rules
02-01-18, 02:17 PM
Sounds exactly like conservatives here in America.
If you are not extreme right wing then you must be one of those (insert insult of your choice) liberals.

They have no concept of middle of the road politics or believing both parties have good ideas.
And any criticism of the far right makes you the enemy.
Something you don't get from the liberals, even if you are not always in total agreement everything they say.

They criticize other hate groups but no one preaches it harder than the far right.
This will be what brings the conservatives down in America and it's already showing in state elections.

It is not unknown, in fact quite common for the incumbent party to lose a few by-elections, it happens all the time in UK.

I visited an engineering company in Luton a few years ago to pick up some work, I went out lunchtime to buy a sandwich and thought I had been in doctor whos' time machine and been taken to a middle east / asian country - I was the only white face in sight, same with huge chunks of the UK these days, every town seems to have a mosque ( paid for by saudi 'mosque building fund' ) - same in parts of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and many, many other towns and cities throughout the UK - when you feel like a total stranger in your own country it is time to take a look at what is happening, and who let it happen...... if you don't you are just a sleepwalker, allowing for the situation to carry on. Certain 'faith' schools in UK are dividing up the girls from the boys, apparently OK by their religion but totally against UK law, but these people think they just carry on with their own laws and ignore our statute book.

It's all going to end very messily indeed...

BanannaMan
02-01-18, 02:53 PM
I visited an engineering company in Luton a few years ago to pick up some work, I went out lunchtime to buy a sandwich and thought I had been in doctor whos' time machine and been taken to a middle east / asian country - I was the only white face in sight, same with huge chunks of the UK these days, every town seems to have a mosque ( paid for by saudi 'mosque building fund' ) - same in parts of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and many, many other towns and cities throughout the UK - when you feel like a total stranger in your own country it is time to take a look at what is happening, and who let it happen...... if you don't you are just a sleepwalker, allowing for the situation to carry on. Certain 'faith' schools in UK are dividing up the girls from the boys, apparently OK by their religion but totally against UK law, but these people think they just carry on with their own laws and ignore our statute book.

It's all going to end very messily indeed...





This is a totally different situation than exists in the US although every large city has always had neighborhoods of different minorities.
So while you agree with Trump's message and tactics it may be a better solution to your problem than it is to ours.
Most of his rehtoric is not based on fact but aimed to keep his base of supporters stirred up.
But if you think he has the answer, feel free to take him. Most people here would be thankful!! ;)

admin
02-01-18, 03:02 PM
Rain

Everytime it rains my data connection drops from 100meg to about 0.5. Grr.

Engineer booked for Friday.
Sounds like water getting into a cable joint somewhere.

Red ones
02-01-18, 04:47 PM
I'm betting they will say I need a new hub.

Checked all my connectors, but it's not them.

Doesn't matter what the problem is they always say it needs a new hub. It rains, we lose connection. I suspect Friday will be dry when the engineer arrives and all their pits will be empty of water.

0.2 meg downstream. 5 meg up. Ping 20ms. Jitter 350ms. I think you're right.

admin
02-01-18, 07:42 PM
I had a problem like that a couple of years ago. In my case the junction box at the top of the pole serving my house was crumbling with old age.

pookie
02-01-18, 09:40 PM
people that insist you should do something just because they dont understand why??

Heorot
02-01-18, 10:06 PM
I visited an engineering company in Luton a few years ago to pick up some work, I went out lunchtime to buy a sandwich and thought I had been in doctor whos' time machine and been taken to a middle east / asian country - I was the only white face in sight, same with huge chunks of the UK these days, every town seems to have a mosque ( paid for by saudi 'mosque building fund' ) - same in parts of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and many, many other towns and cities throughout the UK - when you feel like a total stranger in your own country it is time to take a look at what is happening, and who let it happen...... if you don't you are just a sleepwalker, allowing for the situation to carry on. Certain 'faith' schools in UK are dividing up the girls from the boys, apparently OK by their religion but totally against UK law, but these people think they just carry on with their own laws and ignore our statute book.

It's all going to end very messily indeed...

I had a similar experience in early '99. I was working in Solihull and drove into the city one day. As passed out of Solihull I went into Sparkbrook. I thought I was entering Islamabad. All the mens wearing Pakistani traditional shalwar kameez dress, women covered head to toe and many halal butchers. Old wheelless bangers up on blocks. Just a slum really and only a couple of miles from middle class Solihull.

SV650rules
03-01-18, 03:06 PM
I had a similar experience in early '99. I was working in Solihull and drove into the city one day. As passed out of Solihull I went into Sparkbrook. I thought I was entering Islamabad. All the mens wearing Pakistani traditional shalwar kameez dress, women covered head to toe and many halal butchers. Old wheelless bangers up on blocks. Just a slum really and only a couple of miles from middle class Solihull.

A lot of Americans think it can never happen there, have they got a surprise coming....

ophic
03-01-18, 03:53 PM
OMG brown faces and traditional clothing. They must be evil.

Heorot
03-01-18, 06:35 PM
OMG brown faces and traditional clothing. They must be evil.
Ophic,

you are deliberately missing the point. It's not about colour, it's about refusing to learn the language and integrate and therefore making a breeding ground for disaffected youth looking for a meaning in life and choosing Isis. My home town in the East Midlands has a sizeable black Caribbean and Indian/Pakistani community amounting to 7% of the towns population. The black & Indian community (brown) is totally integrated with the rest of the population but the small muslim Pakistani community make every effort to insulate themselves from the rest. Some of the older Pakistanis have been in the UK for over 30 years and still don't speak English.

SV650rules
03-01-18, 06:50 PM
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/why-do-we-pretend-that-all-muslims-are-sweet-smiley-and-integrated/

Their religion basically forbids them to integrate and obey laws of the country they live in - they think their religion overrides everything.

Even Trevor Phillips had to admit defeat...

garynortheast
03-01-18, 09:52 PM
Doesn't take religion to do that. Just come here to Wales and see how well the majority of English immigrants have('nt) learned the language or integrated. Spain too. Cultural and linguistic imperialism in action.

Red ones
03-01-18, 11:17 PM
0.2 meg downstream. 5 meg up. Ping 20ms. Jitter 350ms.



Just thought. The upstream is consistent but the downstream varies massively. As it is Virgin fibre and coax into the house, I assume it's fibre to cabinet and then copper from cabinet to house. Copper coax doesn't give a monkeys which way data is travelling so the fault must be on the fibre side, or at least before it reaches coax.

So, why do I need to be at home to meet the engineer? It must be something away from my house that is playing up.

SV650rules
04-01-18, 09:42 AM
Doesn't take religion to do that. Just come here to Wales and see how well the majority of English immigrants have('nt) learned the language or integrated. Spain too. Cultural and linguistic imperialism in action.

LOL...........

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/25/eu-should-force-uk-give-us-english-language-brexit-former-italian/

Nothing important been written in Arabic for at least 500 years at a pinch.

And if you ever go to Patagonia Welsh may still be spoken in a remote place.

ophic
04-01-18, 09:52 AM
Ophic,

you are deliberately missing the point. It's not about colour, it's about refusing to learn the language and integrate and therefore making a breeding ground for disaffected youth looking for a meaning in life and choosing Isis. My home town in the East Midlands has a sizeable black Caribbean and Indian/Pakistani community amounting to 7% of the towns population. The black & Indian community (brown) is totally integrated with the rest of the population but the small muslim Pakistani community make every effort to insulate themselves from the rest. Some of the older Pakistanis have been in the UK for over 30 years and still don't speak English.
I didn't miss that point, you just never made it. Check what you wrote. You mostly complained about what they wore and the economic appeareance of the area. The other chap you responded to complained about being the only white face and too many mosques.

If you don't wanna be branded as racist, then stop being one.

BanannaMan
04-01-18, 12:40 PM
LOL...........

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/25/eu-should-force-uk-give-us-english-language-brexit-former-italian/

Nothing important been written in Arabic for at least 500 years at a pinch.

And if you ever go to Patagonia Welsh may still be spoken in a remote place.



LOL is right!
You just proved Gary's point.
You think your own language is superior to all others and should be adopted by the whole world.
You think it's wrong when people come to your country and don't learn the language and at the same time think you shouldn't have to learn the language or cultures in other countries because you see their language and cultures as trival which actually makes you worse than those you criticize. SMDH

SV650rules
04-01-18, 01:31 PM
LOL is right!
You just proved Gary's point.
You think your own language is superior to all others and should be adopted by the whole world.
You think it's wrong when people come to your country and don't learn the language and at the same time think you shouldn't have to learn the language or cultures in other countries because you see their language and cultures as trival which actually makes you worse than those you criticize. SMDH

No Bill you miss the point, if you read the article in link that request for English language to be used in EU (instead of French) was made by a former Italian prime minister, he wants English usage to make EU more competitive in world trade, he describes English language as our best export.

It is already a fact that English HAS been adopted by the whole world, it is the language of trade, diplomacy, air traffic control and business etc etc etc that it is not even worth discussing. English lessons are part of the mandatory curriculum of most education systems throughout the world and are as necessary as maths and sciences.

BanannaMan
04-01-18, 01:46 PM
Nothing important been written in Arabic for at least 500 years at a pinch.

And if you ever go to Patagonia Welsh may still be spoken in a remote place.[/QUOTE]






According to the people who speak those languages or according to you?
Nuff' said. Do think that's not insulting to Welsh and Arabic speakers?

Justify it anyway you like you still think English should be the universal language. Correct?
Because it nearly is already makes it OK only because it's your language.

ophic
04-01-18, 01:49 PM
No Bill you miss the point
We're doing a lot of that today. Perhaps if you make one worth listening to, we'll pay attention.

So far it's been "I went to an area where the culture was different to mine and I didn't like it so it shouldn't be allowed" and "English is the best language ever, so says one person in the EU." Ok, 2 people in the EU, including yourself, as we're still in it for the moment.

I don't think you missed much, Bill.

Trev B
04-01-18, 02:36 PM
SV650rules!i fullyunderstand what your saying buddy but the tree huggers of this world have too much bark in their ears they don’t hear you

SV650rules
04-01-18, 02:44 PM
SV650rules!i fullyunderstand what your saying buddy but the tree huggers of this world have too much bark in their ears they don’t hear you

Cheers, I am just glad I won't be around when Arabic becomes official language of UK and USA (only Trump can save you guys) and probably Europe (except Norway who has seen the light and kicked them out in droves, risking the 'racist' slur for the future of their country).

ophic
04-01-18, 02:50 PM
Won't happen. We've got blue passports after all.

BanannaMan
04-01-18, 03:20 PM
Cheers, I am just glad I won't be around when Arabic becomes official language of UK and USA (only Trump can save you guys) and probably Europe (except Norway who has seen the light and kicked them out in droves, risking the 'racist' slur for the future of their country).



LOL This is the one thing I agree with you on.
Yes they are in your country they should learn the language and the culture.

My point was you expect this from them but then you also expect the Welsh and Europeans to forgo their own
languages and adopt the English language and culture.
You are just as guilty of this as the Muslims in your own country. Worse you expect to have your cake and eat it too.
If it's wrong for the Muslims to bring their language to your country how is it right for you to do the same to other countries?

SV650rules
04-01-18, 03:43 PM
LOL This is the one thing I agree with you on.
Yes they are in your country they should learn the language and the culture.

My point was you expect this from them but then you also expect the Welsh and Europeans to forgo their own
languages and adopt the English language and culture.
You are just as guilty of this as the Muslims in your own country. Worse you expect to have your cake and eat it too.
If it's wrong for the Muslims to bring their language to your country how is it right for you to do the same to other countries?

The EU need to adopt English as their common language if they are to survive and prosper, because most countries outside EU do not speak a European language except English, and members of the eU speak to each other mainly in English. They can try speaking to China in Swedish or Italian if they like, the decision is already made for them - you cannot graduate from any Chinese university without passing exam in English.....

And it is not just our language the muslims don't like, it is our laws (they have their own apparently which supersede ours - sharia law, which includes no rights for women at all) - they have their own sharia courts that they run by themselves. Islam is like most religions, run by men for the benefit of men.

Trev B
04-01-18, 05:35 PM
Agreed!the law of this land says a man can only take one wife otherwise it’s bigamy.Plenty of them got more than one and require a sheep dog to round the kids up instead of a baby sitter.They can have a road closed off for prayers where a man who hates the system of the West is allowed to spout what when the used the other way is deemed as racist.Have their own courts and laws applied overriding the laws of this land that many men and women gave their lives to uphold, in 2 world wars fought on and for Christian values.I AM NOT RACIST but do believe that as you sow so ye shall reap,look after your own

Red ones
04-01-18, 05:50 PM
My gripe today is people who don't realise the Daily Mail has its own website.
I only came here for updates on pretty pictures, the occasional thread about a Triumph and a bloke who runs on hills with his dog.

Give me my org back!!

maviczap
04-01-18, 06:05 PM
I'm surprised a mod hasn't come in and waved a big stick to restore some order ;) :p :D

admin
04-01-18, 06:22 PM
Yep. I've had enough of this discussion. I think everyone has had their say, so let's draw this to a close. Let's get back to more light-hearted moaning, such as the weather.

maviczap
04-01-18, 06:24 PM
Ooh don't get me started on the weather ;) :p :smt023

Trev B
04-01-18, 06:37 PM
Point taken

Sir Trev
04-01-18, 06:55 PM
...... and a bloke who runs on hills with his dog.



Gary, Gary, you're famous! But then we already knew that :D.

garynortheast
04-01-18, 07:12 PM
Gary, Gary, you're famous! But then we already knew that :D.

I'll get back to my running as soon as the mods stop hitting me round the legs with that big stick! :smt045

DomP
04-01-18, 10:34 PM
My gripe today is people who don't realise the Daily Mail has its own website.
I only came here for updates on pretty pictures, the occasional thread about a Triumph and a bloke who runs on hills with his dog.

Give me my org back!!I whole heartedly agree, was getting pretty distasteful!

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shiftin_gear98
05-01-18, 07:13 AM
My gripe - this gripe thread.


The world is full of all kinds of people - some get along, some don't.


Some are also a55holes. They tend to (Insert whatever has just ****ed you off here)


As Mav said - Lets get back to talking about the fact it's always raining and cold.

admin
05-01-18, 07:40 AM
Well it's wet and raining this morning. I don't think I'll be cycling to work today. I'll have to endure the local bus service if it turns up...

maviczap
05-01-18, 07:50 AM
Cold, damp & grey, I'll be cycling in the garage today.

Last day, back to work tomorrow, back to the grind. Now that's a real gripe

Red ones
05-01-18, 07:54 AM
Wet boots from yesterday.

I'll get trench foot this way.

maviczap
05-01-18, 07:57 AM
Sealskinz socks, so if your boots leak, your foot stays dry.

Or as Rictus said, Army Goretex boot liners are cheaper.

Or new boots :p

Red ones
05-01-18, 08:21 AM
The 5p carrier bag charge ruined my method!

admin
05-01-18, 07:19 PM
Sealskinz socks, so if your boots leak, your foot stays dry.

Or as Rictus said, Army Goretex boot liners are cheaper.

Or new boots :p
Not heard of these gortex boot liners I'll have to Google that.

maviczap
05-01-18, 07:32 PM
Not heard of these gortex boot liners I'll have to Google that.

Here ya go John, plenty of them on Ebay

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F 182313633494

Sir Trev
05-01-18, 07:43 PM
The 5p carrier bag charge ruined my method!

I remember those days too. Was too skint to be able to afford the dry socks/liners available then, much to the amusement of my work colleagues. After a few years I gave in and bought a car, even though the socks would have been cheaper #-o

admin
05-01-18, 07:48 PM
Here ya go John, plenty of them on Ebay

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F 182313633494
Thanks. I saw some sealskin socks in Millets recently but I don't recall the price, probably expensive.

Littlepeahead
05-01-18, 09:08 PM
I've split up with my husband.

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maviczap
05-01-18, 09:29 PM
I've split up with my husband.

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:(

admin
05-01-18, 09:30 PM
I've split up with my husband.

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Seriously! I'm sorry to hear that.

Littlepeahead
05-01-18, 09:31 PM
Yeah, really, but I thought I'd wait until everyone stopped bickering over the Muslims to mention it.

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DomP
05-01-18, 09:33 PM
Yeah, really, but I thought I'd wait until everyone stopped bickering over the Muslims to mention it.

Sent from my SM-G930F using TapatalkYou've certainly a more justified gripe

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garynortheast
05-01-18, 09:33 PM
Bloody hell lph, didn't expect to read that and I'm really sorry to hear it. :-( Hope you have people around you for support. Break ups are a hard thing to go through at the best of times, and more so at this very low time of the year.

You have an org full of shoulders here to lean on if you need them.

admin
05-01-18, 09:34 PM
Yeah, really, but I thought I'd wait until everyone stopped bickering over the Muslims to mention it.

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How sad. How are you coping?

maviczap
05-01-18, 09:36 PM
Not a good way to kick off the New Year, sorry to hear this too

Heorot
05-01-18, 09:51 PM
So sad LPH. I remember how horrible it was when my wife left. Commiseration and all my best wishes to you.

Specialone
05-01-18, 09:53 PM
Yeah, really, but I thought I'd wait until everyone stopped bickering over the Muslims to mention it.

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No offence Clare but Muslim discussions are more entertaining ;)
I did see some of your early cryptic messages on fb, pretty **** timing, I'm sensing it wasn't amicable :(

BanannaMan
06-01-18, 07:33 AM
Sorry to hear LPH. :(
Words fail me but know you have my best wishes.

Geodude
06-01-18, 10:29 AM
I've split up with my husband.

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:( Meh, what's one fella when you've got all of us ;)

Sir Trev
06-01-18, 07:23 PM
Sorry to hear that Clare.

DarrenSV650S
07-01-18, 05:51 PM
£20 to watch a film and I have to watch adverts for other movies, then an advert for the movie I'm about to watch that I can't skip through! And they wonder why people download films.

And now the preview for the film is perpetually looping with no way to watch the film. My bluray player must need an update.

Littlepeahead
07-01-18, 09:33 PM
Today's lunch stop, how appropriate! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180107/dccfe1828532e1879445955ba15d022f.jpg

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maviczap
07-01-18, 09:39 PM
It's a sign!

Quite literally :-)

Teejayexc
07-01-18, 10:12 PM
Yeh, but did you notice the sign directly above your head. Time to be a bit more adventurous? :p

Littlepeahead
08-01-18, 07:39 AM
Yeh, but did you notice the sign directly above your head. Time to be a bit more adventurous? :pNever mind the playground, there was an excellent pub just down the road. I had to walk 9 miles to burn off the mac n cheese lunch.

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shiftin_gear98
08-01-18, 09:51 AM
LPH, Sorry to hear your gripe - that's a ****e one.
All the best.

Luckypants
08-01-18, 01:32 PM
I've split up with my husband.

Sent from my SM-G930F using TapatalkThat is crap. Its a crap thing to happen and a crap thing to go through. Hope you have good friends looking after you.

SVSte
09-01-18, 10:17 AM
Just got a shock insurance for the bike as doubled in price got to shop around I thought bikes where cheaper to run lol.

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Heorot
09-01-18, 03:03 PM
I shopped around and Hastings Direct were the cheapest for me. Never renew at the figure they ask; it's always higher than it need be. Last year my insurance rocketed up so I went online to a comparison site and it came back with a quote from Hastings, my existing insurer, that was £30 cheaper. I phoned them and got a new figure close to the internet price.

SV650rules
09-01-18, 07:04 PM
Just got a shock insurance for the bike as doubled in price got to shop around I thought bikes where cheaper to run lol.



It has never been easier to shop around, misguided loyalty to one company can cost you a lot of money - all the best deals are for new clients (strangely) - so the companies take advantage of loyal customers, which does not seem very fair. It was only recent financial conduct authority policy statement that forced insurance companies show last years price on the renewal - they would never do it voluntarily.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/insurance/2016/08/insurers-forced-to-reveal-price-changes-in-renewal-letters-from-next-april

SVSte
09-01-18, 07:19 PM
@SV650rules just got it down with a new company must have rang at least 8 hate renewal time.

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atassiedevil
10-01-18, 09:25 AM
Mild Steel Exhaust systems for motorcycles no one makes exhaust parts for these days.

Sir Trev
10-01-18, 07:56 PM
January resolution gym idiots. The place was packed out this evening - it's bad enough that I can only really go after work and it's busy enough as it is without wallies taking up all the machines whilst barely moving. Work up a sweat or you are wasting your time, and mine!

maviczap
10-01-18, 08:48 PM
January resolution gym idiots. The place was packed out this evening - it's bad enough that I can only really go after work and it's busy enough as it is without wallies taking up all the machines whilst barely moving. Work up a sweat or you are wasting your time, and mine!

They'll have given up in a week Trev, just hang on

SV650rules
11-01-18, 10:59 AM
January resolution gym idiots. The place was packed out this evening - it's bad enough that I can only really go after work and it's busy enough as it is without wallies taking up all the machines whilst barely moving. Work up a sweat or you are wasting your time, and mine!

They are the people who keep gym going by paying subscription and not using facilities after end of January LOL

Sir Trev
11-01-18, 09:59 PM
They are the people who keep gym going by paying subscription and not using facilities after end of January LOL

That's true but their brand new shiny trainers and still-creased-from-the-packet "muscle tops" are comical. Which is some recompense I suppose.

Trev B
11-01-18, 10:05 PM
I got to the gym 3 times a week 3 hours at a time......it’s only a part time job keeping the changing rooms clean

Heorot
15-01-18, 01:02 AM
Tried to wheel the bike round before going out on it only to find that it was immovable. The front brake was locked on to the disk. The guy that does all the work on it for me is busy and can't look at it until Friday. I have zero mechanical skills.

BanannaMan
15-01-18, 03:12 AM
:-|Tried to wheel the bike round before going out on it only to find that it was immovable. The front brake was locked on to the disk. The guy that does all the work on it for me is busy and can't look at it until Friday. I have zero mechanical skills.





No promises but you can try LIGHTLY tapping on the front calipers with a wooden mallet or rubber hammer and sometimes it will free them up.
Keep in mind what you are trying to do is move them side to side to push back the caliper pistons.
Should it free up apply the brakes several times to make sure it doesn't lock up again.
If it works consider yourself lucky!!
If not give up. Don't do further damage beating on the calipers.

atassiedevil
15-01-18, 09:21 AM
Or undo the brake nipple a tiny tiny amount....just enough to release some pressure in the caliper.

Tried to wheel the bike round before going out on it only to find that it was immovable. The front brake was locked on to the disk. The guy that does all the work on it for me is busy and can't look at it until Friday. I have zero mechanical skills.

Red ones
15-01-18, 12:27 PM
I'd tap lightly on the calliper. I bet the pad and disc have rusted together a bit.

Sir Trev
15-01-18, 04:10 PM
Puncture in the car. The "tyre pressure warning" message is usually a false alarm but out with the pressure gauge and... blast it. Limped slowly to a local garage as there was still a reasonable amount of psi left and a nail was spotted, tyre off, plugged, back on and we were on our way again 15 minutes later, just £15 lighter which was lucky.

maviczap
15-01-18, 06:00 PM
Family

admin
15-01-18, 06:43 PM
Waiting in all day for DPD to pick up a parcel.

BanannaMan
16-01-18, 06:39 AM
After a few teasingly warm days, winter has returned with s*** in the forecast for later on today into Wednesday.
I suppose that means I live in a s***hole part of the country.

Snow, the other 4 letter 'S' word this winter. ;)

Please note that I in no way support the indefensible weather remarks made by Donald Trump in the past.
The romance part of our relationship is over however this is not a cold weather parting of the ways.
I’m going to stand by him and the family in terms of trying to put his life back together.
Donald has been devastated by this.
Any calls for me to step down have come from people who for some time have been trying to undermine winter weather in any case.
:shock: :eek: :shock:


I'll get me coat.

Sir Trev
16-01-18, 02:33 PM
I'll get me coat.


Bill, I do hope your leg mends soon as you clearly need to get out a bit more.

BanannaMan
16-01-18, 02:37 PM
Bill, I do hope your leg mends soon as you clearly need to get out a bit more.



Umm (clears throat)
I may have had a few drinks prior to that last night.

DarrenSV650S
16-01-18, 05:02 PM
My boiler has gone on strike :(

garynortheast
16-01-18, 08:41 PM
Umm (clears throat)
I may have had a few drinks prior to that last night.

:smt046:drink:

BanannaMan
17-01-18, 09:49 PM
Our latest television satellite dish was installed by a genius who decided not only install it on a pitched roof but up near the peak and close to the center of the house.
It's now covered with snow, so no tellie until it melts as it can only be reached by climbing on to the roof.
Of course by then it will have melted off the satellite as well.

punyXpress
17-01-18, 09:55 PM
Don't go on the roof, Bill!
Try using your leaf blower ?

ophic
18-01-18, 05:09 PM
hosepipe or jetwash?

SV650rules
18-01-18, 06:39 PM
hosepipe or jetwash?

jetwash with concentrated car winter screenwash in the detergent container.

BanannaMan
18-01-18, 07:30 PM
Fortunately warmer temps and high winds removed the snow for me this morning.
Wasn't much I could do otherwise, still waiting on this leg to heal.

Just the same thanks for the suggestions. No doubt it's going to happen again.

garynortheast
19-01-18, 07:44 AM
End of year accounts. :-(

dirtydog
19-01-18, 07:12 PM
Turning up to a jonnthats been arranged for over a week and the tenant has "forgot" and gone out

chris8886
20-01-18, 09:42 PM
whilst playing hockey today took an incredibly firmly hit ball right on my left index finger, has swollen up like a balloon, but I can move, so I don't think I've broken it and we lost to boot too :(

kaivalagi
22-01-18, 09:06 PM
End of year accounts. :-(

Especially when you've put all the effort in back in June and passed all the details to the accountants then, for them to get you involved in sorting out a bunch of stuff before the end of January deadline!

andrewsmith
22-01-18, 11:45 PM
Especially when you've put all the effort in back in June and passed all the details to the accountants then, for them to get you involved in sorting out a bunch of stuff before the end of January deadline!So glad I do my own

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Red ones
23-01-18, 06:42 PM
Similar issue here.
Had a meeting 2 months ago where I had to explain financial calculations in great detail. Today I was given 5 minutes to run through them because the person who should have taken notes couldn't be bothered.
To add insult I am now cast as the baddie because I got the hump as I went through all my figures yet again.

They're not even easy numbers to run through.

Stingo
26-01-18, 08:12 AM
People who stand at the pelican pedestrian crossing having pushed the button waiting for the lights to change, at six in the morning when there's hardly any traffic.

SV650rules
26-01-18, 11:10 AM
People who stand at the pelican pedestrian crossing having pushed the button waiting for the lights to change, at six in the morning when there's hardly any traffic.

It seems that young people and women more likely to do it, most men just dodge across the road when they see a gap. I can understand people with reduced mobility doing it, and people with prams but for able bodied people bit of a nonsense when no traffic around (in Germany though it is an offence to cross without using the lights, me and my mate did it and we got some proper bad looks).

If we had just put some red lights on the border in WW2 the Germans would have just waited patiently in their tanks for them to change to green, probably until they ran out of fuel LOL.

phi-dan
26-01-18, 02:47 PM
People who stand at the pelican pedestrian crossing having pushed the button waiting for the lights to change, at six in the morning when there's hardly any traffic.People who push the button then cross the road without waiting for the lights to change, so I have to stop for an empty crossing... [emoji6]

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