Forum: Idle Banter
29-11-23, 12:35 PM
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Forum: Idle Banter
18-08-23, 11:33 AM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Don't expect them to apply logic and try a work around.
When we first went over on secondment:
- I'd like to open a bank account.
- You need an address and a social security number.
- I arrived...
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Forum: Idle Banter
16-06-21, 07:06 AM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Rear puncture - got geared up to head to work and there's a screw in it, must have picked it up on the back street on Monday coming home.
1st one in 12 years so I've had a good innings, and...
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Forum: Idle Banter
25-05-21, 12:21 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
My Lindstand/Halvarsson trousers gave up the ghost last week. They have been good for 10 years with just needing a Nikwax wash in waterproof if they do let water in.
Backing has gone as have the...
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Forum: Idle Banter
26-01-21, 01:46 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
My wife's secondary school have been told they need to plan lessons with one eye on delivering online from now on. As have other schools she's spoken with.
Could also be an end to substitute...
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Forum: Idle Banter
06-12-20, 01:33 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Have they? I may be wrong here, I thought there was already an EU directive that protected pharmaceuticals if they released an unlicensed drug to use if they needed it, such as in a pandemic. Isn't...
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Forum: Idle Banter
05-08-20, 12:08 PM
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Forum: Idle Banter
21-07-20, 11:14 AM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Finding out the strange smell in the living room was the old bakelite meter frying.
Electricity Northwest were there within the hour, to determine it is knackered (after warning us off a smart...
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Forum: Idle Banter
13-07-20, 07:39 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Wife hit the curb in the mini and ripped the sidewall...no spare, actually no jack. Thankfully my Hyundai has, at least I have the bike so she can take my car...nope, heading out tonight and radiator...
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Forum: Idle Banter
06-07-20, 07:12 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
I can't find the details, but ask these guys https://amlinstruments.co.uk/about/ it looks like a smaller firm and you never know, the parts may be common. I can't see too many people making sapphire...
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Forum: Idle Banter
06-07-20, 11:25 AM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
A company called Brookfield make viscometers which use sapphire bearings (the newer technology may have changed) either way they do still service them. May be worth a call if you don't get sorted,...
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Forum: Idle Banter
08-03-20, 09:34 PM
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Forum: Idle Banter
06-01-20, 12:20 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Getting ill again, feels like what I had before Christmas that put me on my **** for a week.
The fun of two kids, they are just getting over their colds, we are such a sharing family.
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Forum: Idle Banter
25-11-19, 01:02 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Don't forget a lot of "forests" are managed and allowed to grow for a set number of years then felled (they are doing that round our way at the moment).
I'm lucky in my wood has all come from...
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Forum: Idle Banter
08-08-19, 10:55 AM
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Forum: Idle Banter
07-08-19, 06:43 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Maybe, I'll quote it as a new post for anyone else who may find it useful.
Resistance/continuity on the stator pins is good, all show zero resistance between each other.
Same can't be said for...
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Forum: Idle Banter
06-08-19, 01:54 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
It only shows an issue when it's hot. As in, rode from work to meet and associate. Bike cranked slow like a duff battery.
Left it a while and it fired up first time, same again this time. I was...
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Forum: Idle Banter
05-08-19, 12:42 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Running out of electriccary in the Street Trip.
Happened a few weeks back, bike was hot and wouldn't turn over, was fine when cool. I thought this was due to over cranking a while back when I...
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Forum: Idle Banter
19-06-19, 11:14 AM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Loosing my US10 last night on the way home, with my observer stuff and pair of Kenwood intercoms inside.
Back again (went back last night) to take another look after work. McD's were very...
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Forum: Idle Banter
24-01-19, 01:26 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
No need to rub it in, wrong side of the Pennines for me, not high enough to get regular snow, but close enough for the cloud to keep us grey for days.
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Forum: Idle Banter
23-01-19, 01:30 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
I used to live in Delaware, turn on the car AC in summer and mist pours in from the vents, absolutely sapping, then winter was Baltic, but sunny and dry.
Clearing paths was great as the snow was...
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Forum: Idle Banter
10-07-18, 12:50 PM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Oh we have, or close to and a 2 week fire on the nearby moors (it looks like mist until you remember) and one of the reservoirs is now pretty much empty.
Still just young enough to enjoy it :)
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Forum: Idle Banter
09-07-18, 11:14 AM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Have you looked into getting a Daith piercing? My sister in law, niece and wife have suffered, although no where near a bad as you it sounds like. This has helped a lot.
My wife used to get...
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Forum: Idle Banter
08-06-18, 11:30 AM
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Staff...says it all really.
Someone who hasn't been in work since Jan '17, other than a brief stint in December to see if they could still work as their Doc decided they'd had enough and signed...
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Forum: Idle Banter
20-07-17, 11:57 AM
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