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ophic
25-10-14, 08:27 AM
Watcha building?

timwilky
25-10-14, 08:51 AM
I am actually using victorian engineering principles (over engineering) to convert what was the tiled over "gazebo" into a pucker man cave. The uprights were flimsy unbraced 4"'x4"s, (gazebo, so open to the elements, but roofed over. So no bracing put in at the time to allow open access, big mistake) that had started to lean under the weight of the roof (tiled), so replaced with wall supports of 6"x3", 3 ft apart. But I need to jack in new roof bearers for which I an using 18' lengths of 8"x2".

The problem is, I cannot put in the new principle rafters without removing the original uprights. Hence the need for a couple of acrows to take the weight of the roof whilst I remove the uprights and get the new rafters bolted onto the new wall supports.

Then it is a simple matter of cladding with stupidly thick loglap. This thing should last me a lifetime by the time it is finished, then sell the acrows on. If I ever get them. £50 for 12 was cheaper than hire for a week.

ophic
25-10-14, 09:40 AM
Hang on to the acrows. Every proper man cave needs a basement, right? Underpinning is all the rage these days.

maviczap
26-10-14, 09:09 AM
Post flu jab soreness, barely a scratch yesterday, this morning its sore, despite no bruising.

Its worth it, although I think its too late this year, as I think I've had my major bug this year

Kenzie
26-10-14, 10:00 AM
Having to change the times on six watches and three clocks as BST has ended. Luckily the alarm clock is radio controlled so we never wake up late when they change.

timwilky
26-10-14, 10:54 AM
todays gripe is actually as a result of yesterday. I forgot to take my medication principally the lansoprazole. Didn't think about it till about 6pm when my stomach began to complain. too late, you need to take it before food, first thing in the morning.

By midnight and 8 gaviscon later, I am sat on the bed doubled up in pain as the acid eats me from inside. 4am was the last time I checked the clock, dogs shot in the room at 6am. Don't they know the clocks went back. So 2 hours kip.

It is a miracle drug, 15 years of daily pain, cured for the past 10 years. but boy do I know when I forget to take it. So first thing this morning it went down.

Geodude
27-10-14, 09:01 AM
Ouch Tim i know your pain im permanently on same (as a result of taking other medicine also grr) and if i forget to take it im curled up in pain all night.

NTECUK
27-10-14, 10:58 AM
Infection were I had two teeth out

Jayneflakes
27-10-14, 11:22 AM
todays gripe is actually as a result of yesterday. I forgot to take my medication principally the lansoprazole. Didn't think about it till about 6pm when my stomach began to complain. too late, you need to take it before food, first thing in the morning.

Ouch Tim i know your pain im permanently on same (as a result of taking other medicine also grr) and if i forget to take it im curled up in pain all night.

Same here, if I miss my meds I can guarantee a day of nasty upset tummy, mood swings and even the occasional violent outburst.

What is annoying me today though? Why wont the cat leave me alone? It is almost like he wants to inhabit the same space as me, he sleeps on me every night, curls up in my lap all day if let him and even sits in the garage watching me if I head down there to work on the bike. I have just had to move my keyboard so that he can sit on my desk. I am such a soft touch when it comes to the cat, but this is getting silly. =;

Littlepeahead
27-10-14, 01:04 PM
Jayne you're Pussy Magnet :p

Jayneflakes
27-10-14, 01:43 PM
Jayne you're Pussy Magnet :p

I am sorry, but I have to use that one! :cheers:

Bibio
27-10-14, 02:16 PM
todays gripe is actually as a result of yesterday. I forgot to take my medication principally the lansoprazole. Didn't think about it till about 6pm when my stomach began to complain. too late, you need to take it before food, first thing in the morning.

By midnight and 8 gaviscon later, I am sat on the bed doubled up in pain as the acid eats me from inside. 4am was the last time I checked the clock, dogs shot in the room at 6am. Don't they know the clocks went back. So 2 hours kip.

It is a miracle drug, 15 years of daily pain, cured for the past 10 years. but boy do I know when I forget to take it. So first thing this morning it went down.

Ouch Tim i know your pain im permanently on same (as a result of taking other medicine also grr) and if i forget to take it im curled up in pain all night.

i used to suffer like that but it turned out to be something else :rolleyes:

anyway, have you both been checked for high levels of helicobacter?

http://www.patient.co.uk/health/helicobacter-pylori-and-stomach-pain

maviczap
27-10-14, 03:49 PM
Some scrote has kicked off my drivers door mirror, how do i know this, well my cars been parked on my drive way all weekend.

Its completely buggered.

Not the first time my car has been targeted.

Just add to the unexpected financial hit I've taken lately. Forgot to SORN my SV, so got a £40 penalty notice in the post last week.

Today has not been a good day.

Geodude
28-10-14, 08:32 AM
@Bibs. Mines caused by other medication im taking, but will mention what you said next time im in Docs, ta petal.

@Mav. You got a teen daughter haven't you mav? just that one of my neighbours used to find his car damaged now and then as a result of having a teen daughter as the knuckle draggers that were sniffing round and being rebuked used to turn up now and then and take their frustration out on his car/property. May not be the case for you but you never know.

maviczap
28-10-14, 09:41 AM
Nah, it's not that Geo, she doesn't have any interest in boys and doesn't go out.

It happened over the weekend, probably Saturday night when they came back from the club, Id's seen the knuckle draggers earlier in the day and looked at them the wrong way.

Something always happens when I look at these knuckle draggers the wrong way and they are part of the Darwin group

DarrenSV650S
28-10-14, 09:52 AM
Head height cooker hoods with razor sharp corners

maviczap
28-10-14, 10:23 AM
Youch :(

Littlepeahead
28-10-14, 05:44 PM
Cancer. It's evil. I went to the funeral today of a very talented journalist, historian, radio producer and musician who served on our Heritage committee. He was 76 so not a youngster but still full of life and jolly-ness until throat cancer took him too soon and too swiftly. I shall miss him making my dull committee meetings at Lord's bearable and always having a witty response to raise a chuckle. So sad to say goodbye to a dear friend on day when the sunshine streamed through the church windows and lit up his coffin in rainbow colours from the stained glass.

maviczap
28-10-14, 06:37 PM
on day when the sunshine streamed through the church windows and lit up his coffin in rainbow colours from the stained glass.

That's a nice sign on a sad day

Heorot
28-10-14, 10:03 PM
Head height cooker hoods with razor sharp corners
+1

Sir Trev
29-10-14, 12:55 PM
Project managers who keep forgetting to add me to meeting invites so I find out a bit late that I have to be in Harlow on Friday and have to change my car service appointment. And breathe. I've only been here three months so why can't they remember to include me?!

Littlepeahead
30-10-14, 12:23 PM
It's London Poppy Day. So far I've travelled from Liverpool Street and now I'm at Waterloo. My gripe is why can't they fill the railway stations with handsome men in military uniform like this every day as it would make my commute far more bearable! ;)

thefallenangel
30-10-14, 12:28 PM
National Express. Their "Tracker service" doesn't work so when there's an accident on the m4 and i've a gig to go to I get annoyed. Jumped on the train and it was half the price. Just had to walk for 10 minutes the other side which i saved 15 minutes on journey time. I will be phoning my credit card company to cancel the payment. Never will I use national express again!

NTECUK
30-10-14, 12:30 PM
Gripe have to have a MRI on the Sunday.
Kind of why not on a working day so I can skive some time off!

Sir Trev
30-10-14, 12:53 PM
It's London Poppy Day. So far I've travelled from Liverpool Street and now I'm at Waterloo. My gripe is why can't they fill the railway stations with handsome men in military uniform like this every day as it would make my commute far more bearable! ;)

Different regiment at each station and stop on the Underground (I'm in London today as well). I think they have a "bit" of rivalry going over the collection totals as they ignore the fact I already have a Poppy on my jacket and hassle me for another donation. By the time I made it to Old Street I'd run the gauntlet of the RAF and at least three Army units (not sure where the Navy were today).


Best bits? The pipers at Marylebone and the very funny army sergeant at Moorgate who was giulting people in a loud voice if they tried to avoid interacting with him. Best of luck to them all and I hope they fill their buckets by the end of the day.

DomP
30-10-14, 01:05 PM
The woman who leapfrogged me while waiting for a car coming towards us to take its right of way

kaivalagi
30-10-14, 01:58 PM
The woman who leapfrogged me while waiting for a car coming towards us to take its right of way

Yep, Had the same this week at Southwold, on the main road to the pier I was waiting to let a bus through after seeing a LOT of car drivers being so impatience and squeezing their way past all the time and not letting him progress the other way...so I am sitting there waiting (would be maybe another 5 seconds 'til he's through) and a car from behind jumps in front and blocks the f'ing bus so neither go anywhere for the next 20 seconds....there are some real pratts out there that can't see past their bonnets....

ophic
30-10-14, 02:30 PM
(not sure where the Navy were today)
Oxford Circus

carelesschucca
30-10-14, 03:55 PM
The price of parts for motorcycles!

Bibio
30-10-14, 04:08 PM
The price of parts for motorcycles!

dont you mean the price of EVERYTHING

andrewsmith
30-10-14, 04:11 PM
The price of parts for motorcycles!
Stop crashing ;-)

Red ones
30-10-14, 05:00 PM
People who don't read their emails correctly then throw their toys out of the pram.
I mean the woman who threw a paddy and complained to my boss that I wasn't answering her emails fast enough and not picking up my colleges workload when he is away.


It was MY out of office you were getting you stupid cow.

Littlepeahead
30-10-14, 09:49 PM
Different regiment at each station and stop on the Underground (I'm in London today as well). I think they have a "bit" of rivalry going over the collection totals as they ignore the fact I already have a Poppy on my jacket and hassle me for another donation. By the time I made it to Old Street I'd run the gauntlet of the RAF and at least three Army units (not sure where the Navy were today).


I headed down to Tower Hill later to see the poppies at the Tower of London with CMSD2. The crowds were huge, all the servicemen including my local Anglia Regiment from Colchester were there and it's quite a sight. Loads of kids there having a look, I really hope their parents explained what it all means, and why every one of those 888,246 poppies means they have the freedom to run around London today.

timwilky
31-10-14, 08:36 AM
The bloke selling me the acrows still hasn't responded to my 3 emails requesting an address where I can pick them up and pay him. I keep looking out for him attempting to sell them separately etc.

Seriously, if you want a price set a reserve. Otherwise if it doesn't make much, it is because that is all people are prepared to pay.

maviczap
31-10-14, 08:44 AM
People who don't read their emails correctly then throw their toys out of the pram.
I mean the woman who threw a paddy and complained to my boss that I wasn't answering her emails fast enough and not picking up my colleges workload when he is away.


It was MY out of office you were getting you stupid cow.

Ha Ha Ha LOL :p

The bloke selling me the acrows still hasn't responded to my 3 emails requesting an address where I can pick them up and pay him. I keep looking out for him attempting to sell them separately etc.

Seriously, if you want a price set a reserve. Otherwise if it doesn't make much, it is because that is all people are prepared to pay.

Time to raise an Ebay dispute Tim

Teejayexc
31-10-14, 09:23 AM
:smt068. Happy birthday threads.

That is all.

Geodude
31-10-14, 09:25 AM
:smt068. Happy birthday threads.

That is all.

:D

maviczap
31-10-14, 09:32 AM
Another unloved Orger :p

Red ones
31-10-14, 09:37 AM
Halloween

Geodude
31-10-14, 09:41 AM
Halloween
Noooo halloween is my xmas and the only time of the year i feel normal ;)

timwilky
31-10-14, 09:54 AM
knock on my door, trick or treat mister.

I will have treat thank you.

Leave the little darlings confused then no your supposed to give us a treat

Why? More confusion

then hand over the sweets and leave the laxative laced chocolate brownies for the big uns who should know better. who says halloween is just for the kids

timwilky
31-10-14, 10:00 AM
Ha Ha Ha LOL :p



Time to raise an Ebay dispute Tim

unfortunately, ebay want to leave it 4 weeks from sale before they start their dispute process. I cannot wait that long

pookie
31-10-14, 10:19 AM
having a sensible conversation and being beaten down to their level by their stupidity.

Red ones
31-10-14, 10:25 AM
having a sensible conversation and being beaten down to their level by their stupidity.


I refer back to the email yesterday.
Now the stupid cow has "confirmed" her meeting with me next week. I have pointed out I can't make it as it is too early in the morning. Her reply, "but that's what you agreed yesterday"

It must have been someone else you spoke to yesterday you bint.

NTECUK
31-10-14, 11:11 AM
knock on my door, trick or treat mister.

I will have treat thank you.

Leave the little darlings confused then no your supposed to give us a treat

Why? More confusion

then hand over the sweets and leave the laxative laced chocolate brownies for the big uns who should know better. who says halloween is just for the kids
Toffee onions anyone ;)
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02383/toffee-apples_2383338c.jpg

andrewsmith
31-10-14, 11:28 AM
then hand over the sweets and leave the laxative laced chocolate brownies for the big uns who should know better. who says halloween is just for the kids

Inspiration alert ;)

Bluepete
31-10-14, 06:28 PM
Just don't do what this plonker did!

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/chadderton-bungler-gave-trick-or-treat-697298

Pete ;)

maviczap
31-10-14, 06:58 PM
Just don't do what this plonker did!

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/chadderton-bungler-gave-trick-or-treat-697298

Pete ;)

Pete is that a gripe of natural justice for a nominee for a Darwin Award?

Good job the kids didn't try any, that would have been really bad :smt009:smt009:(

Ch00
31-10-14, 10:02 PM
Fireworks, sending my dog nuts.

BanannaMan
31-10-14, 10:32 PM
Cold temps, wind and rain on the weekend. :(

Red Herring
31-10-14, 10:41 PM
This weather! I thought I'd cut the grass for the last time a week ago, spent the best part of a day cleaning and putting the mower to bed for the winter and the grass has only gone and grown 6" since......grrrrrrrr

Littlepeahead
31-10-14, 11:41 PM
Just don't do what this plonker did!

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/chadderton-bungler-gave-trick-or-treat-697298

Pete ;)
The way some of the kids in our village were hurtling around off their faces on sugary Haribo I don't think taking cocaine would have been noticeably different. Just fewer cavities at the dentist.

kaivalagi
01-11-14, 04:54 PM
Cage drivers that deliberately move to the middle line when they can't make any progress just to stop a motorcycle getting through city traffic...gave this particular guy today a fist full of rocket when I eventually had space to get past

Red Herring
01-11-14, 05:28 PM
Yes, but in their defence you do need a fair bit of space in order to get past.....!

kaivalagi
01-11-14, 05:40 PM
Lol, true, a little more than none would be useful though :)

NTECUK
01-11-14, 05:45 PM
You could fit a snow plough and with the grunt just clear a path like Moses

kaivalagi
01-11-14, 06:04 PM
Hahaha, now there's an idea for winter....we can ride year round, just put me at the front lol

Had a good ride today with another 5 rockets, those coastal towns didn't know what hit 'em :) I should have took some pictures, my wishlist of future mods has just increased that little bit more now...

maviczap
01-11-14, 07:15 PM
The woman who leapfrogged me while waiting for a car coming towards us to take its right of way

Yep, Had the same this week at Southwold, on the main road to the pier I was waiting to let a bus through after seeing a LOT of car drivers being so impatience and squeezing their way past all the time and not letting him progress the other way...so I am sitting there waiting (would be maybe another 5 seconds 'til he's through) and a car from behind jumps in front and blocks the f'ing bus so neither go anywhere for the next 20 seconds....there are some real pratts out there that can't see past their bonnets....

3 cars stuck behind a bus, so I filter past on my pushbike, I move to overtake the bus & nearly get taken out by a woman who's leapfrogged these 3 cars and gone the wrong side of a traffic island to get past them :smt011:smt011

Nutsinatin
01-11-14, 08:28 PM
Drivers struggling with the concept of driving in the dark. Driving down a NSL unlit road, catch up to a couple of cars stuck behind someone doing 28mph. Why are they doing 28mph? Because they can't see. Why can't they see? Because at night, in the pitch black, on an unlit road, they are driving along with their dipped beam so can only see a few metres ahead. Overtake them, a few hundred meters later catch up to a couple of cars stuck behind someone doing 25mph... repeat for 15 miles. A few of them nearly got rear ended by the cars following them when they slammed on their brakes as they suddenly found themselves entering a corner they hadn't seen was coming, what do they think full beam is for if not this (and don't even mention the cars that are using their fog lights because visibility is less than 100m, because it's dark! Or the cars with one headlight or the drivers just not bothering with lights at all.)

Red Herring
01-11-14, 10:30 PM
Don't worry, they'll all speed up to about 50 when they get to a built up area with street lights, despite the limit then being 30......

Fruity-ya-ya
01-11-14, 10:40 PM
Potty training.

Not me, my youngest. I'd forgotten just how many changes of clothes they go through. The hurried sprints to try and get them over a potty before they tiddle all over the floor.

pookie
02-11-14, 12:44 PM
having a sensible conversation about education and being beaten down to their level by their stupidity again :)
and its raining!

maviczap
02-11-14, 10:34 PM
Didn't you have the same gripe the other day? Just without the rain? :p

Littlepeahead
03-11-14, 07:40 AM
Mr LPH asking for a lift into town to the pub with 2 mates on Saturday night and then when we got there not allowing me to join them for one drink before I headed home again.

Apparently this was because I was already in my pajamas when he asked for a lift at 8.30 and he wasn't letting a 5'2" Tigger wearing slippers into the pub with him.

Yet the night before he was happy sitting in a pub full of people wearing onesies because it was Halloween.

NTECUK
03-11-14, 08:48 AM
Traffic is pants cause of the school's being back

timwilky
03-11-14, 08:59 AM
Condescending security on works car park.

Car has a pass on it, he waves me down and asks "Have you got a pass buddy?" Grrh, I am not his buddy, if he wants to address a complete stranger, sir is the appropriate form.

My reply, yes and drove off.

NTECUK
03-11-14, 09:28 AM
Condescending security on works car park.

Car has a pass on it, he waves me down and asks "Have you got a pass buddy .

Buddy is like a freindly term.
It's better than having them as a "Mate ".

kaivalagi
03-11-14, 07:00 PM
50's council house bathrooms....cemented in tiles have meant I now need to do a lot more work with the walls before the new tiles and bath suite can go in....I'll be glad when it's over!

maviczap
03-11-14, 07:04 PM
Just get on with it and stop whinging :smt079 ;)

kaivalagi
03-11-14, 08:06 PM
Quick Dry Cement here we come...

DarrenSV650S
03-11-14, 08:34 PM
Just tile over the top of them

andrewsmith
03-11-14, 08:58 PM
50's council house bathrooms....cemented in tiles have meant I now need to do a lot more work with the walls before the new tiles and bath suite can go in....I'll be glad when it's over!

Tile over them or get an asbestos crew in

DarrenSV650S
03-11-14, 09:21 PM
Yeh or you could just tile over them...

DarrenSV650S
03-11-14, 09:22 PM
or you could tile over them

kaivalagi
03-11-14, 09:49 PM
Or I could do it properly and remove the few rows of tiles and then tile the whole wall ;)

As for cast iron baths removal....glad I had ear plugs, that thing wasn't going down the stairs in one piece lol

andrewsmith
03-11-14, 09:54 PM
Not crack it with a chisel?

kaivalagi
03-11-14, 10:13 PM
Eventually, with a lump hammer and a sharpened 1" chisel, it was almost 1cm thick....it was like ringing a bloody church bell...even then I couldn't completely break it up, still left with the whole top of the bath without any bottom (half the weight)...easier to move about atleast :) Acrylic FTW!

No more bathroom gripes now, promise, the worst is over with...only thing to drive my patience now will be getting the 10mm twin & earth up from the eaves to the loft space for wiring in the shower...coat hanger, string, nut and swearing me thinks

andrewsmith
03-11-14, 10:20 PM
Fishing rods

kaivalagi
03-11-14, 10:35 PM
lol, now that might just work :)

punyXpress
03-11-14, 10:43 PM
. . . or tie it to a squirrel's tail & say BOO ? ;)

Bibio
03-11-14, 11:56 PM
Eventually, with a lump hammer and a sharpened 1" chisel, it was almost 1cm thick....it was like ringing a bloody church bell...even then I couldn't completely break it up, still left with the whole top of the bath without any bottom (half the weight)...easier to move about atleast :) Acrylic FTW!

No more bathroom gripes now, promise, the worst is over with...only thing to drive my patience now will be getting the 10mm twin & earth up from the eaves to the loft space for wiring in the shower...coat hanger, string, nut and swearing me thinks

if your talking about breaking up an old cast bath then you put a wet blanket in the tub before you start to smash it up ;)

BanannaMan
04-11-14, 02:04 AM
..only thing to drive my patience now will be getting the 10mm twin & earth up from the eaves to the loft space for wiring in the shower






Wiring, in a shower?
I thought water came from pipes. :smt102

kaivalagi
04-11-14, 07:41 AM
Wiring, in a shower?
I thought water came from pipes. :smt102

An electric shower that takes just cold water and heats it itself using electricity? You not got those in the states lol

Littlepeahead
04-11-14, 08:12 AM
Why would you want to get rid of a bath like that when they are solid and better made than anything you can buy now? We have huge ones in the dressing rooms at Lord's, and instead of replacing them had them restored, they are beautiful. Not that I've ever bathed in them, but I hear the screams when they are used as ice baths. :D

kaivalagi
04-11-14, 08:46 AM
Why would you want to get rid of a bath like that when they are solid and better made than anything you can buy now? We have huge ones in the dressing rooms at Lord's, and instead of replacing them had them restored, they are beautiful. Not that I've ever bathed in them, but I hear the screams when they are used as ice baths. :D

I know, I looked and looked for a bath as deep and there aint any....all "eco" baths now...when I want to be eco I take a shower, when I want a soak a nice deep bath is lovely...but it's time was up, it would have cost a lot to get it restored (various chips and enamel cracks) plus the thing was imperial sized so standard mixer taps etc don't line up.....

Littlepeahead
04-11-14, 08:52 AM
A shame. My sis in law did have her one re coated and sourced some vintage taps bit it wasn't in really poor condition, just discoloured. Now in our house we don't have a full size bath, it's about 2/3 size which is fine for a midget like me as I prefer the big walk in shower. Poor 6'2" Mr LPH looks very funny folded up in our little bath with his knees round his ears. But the bath mostly gets used for washing out the home brew equipment!

timwilky
04-11-14, 08:54 AM
I know the pain of trying to remove an old cast iron bath and like you resorted to smashing it. I remember my old metallurgy lecturers saying cast iron was brittle. Not when you hit it with a lump hammer. You need a sharp edge to start it.

In my case I ran 16mm T&E, 10.5 kW shower. That was fun routing it up the cavity wall.

ophic
04-11-14, 09:31 AM
But the bath mostly gets used for washing out the home brew equipment!
Funny that, I don't think our bath has actually been used for anything else since moving in in January.

We have 2 showers, before anyone wrinkles their nose. And we're too drunk to care anyway...

NTECUK
04-11-14, 09:34 AM
I know, I looked and looked for a bath as deep and there aint any....all "eco" baths now...when I want to be eco I take a shower, when I want a soak a nice deep bath is lovely...but it's time was up, it would have cost a lot to get it restored (various chips and enamel cracks) plus the thing was imperial sized so standard mixer taps etc don't line up.....

We ended up with a P bath. No sniggering at the back.
It's a bit strange as it keeps warmer longer so you get pruny body not just fingers....
Hang on that's old age I'm still wrinkley ;)
Dumped the instant shower for a power shower

maviczap
04-11-14, 06:27 PM
People who go shopping and don't get more than one days worth of food and buy overpriced M&S ready made food :smt070

The fridge is still empty & I'm hungry

Nutsinatin
04-11-14, 06:39 PM
As per my post yesterday, same NSL road, but this time with rain, stuck behind a 25 mph car and a 19 mph car. Then coming round a corner nearly rear ended a Van traveling at 14 mph with no lights on, in the pitch black with no street lights. I wondered how these people got away with it until I saw some idiot had managed to roll his Fiat 500 on a straight stretch of this road this morning. Madness. I know there is considering and driving to conditions, but these are not 20% of the speed limit conditions. I wish the van was the only vehicle I saw tonight with no lights but there were more offenders, I don't remember it so bad last year.

DomP
04-11-14, 06:53 PM
I can never understand people's judgement regarding when to use lights, any doubt stick em on.

Do police ever pull people for doing too far under the stated speed limit, is just as dangerous as excessive speed.

Spank86
04-11-14, 07:23 PM
People who offer you a cup of tea and then give you earl grey.

It always tastes like dirty dishwater to me.

littleoldman2
04-11-14, 07:31 PM
Down your way it will. Earl Grey is a blend for Northumberland water.

Phoenix22
04-11-14, 07:44 PM
Customers who phone & say I need a job doing urgently ASAP & then you can never pin them to a time when they will be in!!!!

Littlepeahead
04-11-14, 07:58 PM
I can never understand people's judgement regarding when to use lights, any doubt stick em on.

Do police ever pull people for doing too far under the stated speed limit, is just as dangerous as excessive speed.
My car decides when to put the lights on, as soon as it gets dull or I go into a tunnel they come on. Then when I park and walk away from the car they switch off. Super. Until I use another car and then I just know I'll be forgetting to put them on or waking away from the car without switching them off and coming back to a flat battery.

NTECUK
04-11-14, 10:56 PM
My car decides when to put the lights on,.

People who get so lazy they forget to take off the handbrake as the other car does it automaticly
:mad:

BanannaMan
04-11-14, 11:35 PM
An electric shower that takes just cold water and heats it itself using electricity? You not got those in the states lol



Nope, never seen one.
Does it have a tank that the water is heated in or is the water heated as used?

maviczap
05-11-14, 01:38 AM
Heated as it's used Bill.

Mine for today.

Starting a night shift at 02:00, I've only dropped off to slleep about an hour before my alarm has woken me up, it's raining and there's a thunderstorm rumbling on. Tired and grumpy.

BanannaMan
05-11-14, 02:21 AM
Electricity must be much more affordable.
To be able to heat water as used would kill you on your leccy bill here.




I've worked night shift. I think I was tired and grumpy the entire time.