Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[timwilky]

The joke with this one, Is that the retirement village is in Lancashire. Not Hull. The operators decided to run their own internal telephone system contracted to KC and the residents cannot get a provider of their own as all the internal wiring is to the KC frame.

[Red ones]

Here's a good gripe


My wife has to wear two hearing aids, but she has a cold this week which is making her hearing worse still. She says she can't wear the aids because of the cold. The result is we all have to shout louder than normal.
I'm in the doghouse at the moment. "Why?" I asked, and was told it's the way I speak. So I said, "Not my fault I'm shouting!"
Her response? "It's the way you shout at me"

Imagine the simple convo, "Would you like a cup of tea?" My reply is "YES" (don't add a please as I get asked what I said and then I have to explain)
This is at the top of my voice.

I've considered flash cards but don't think I'll get far with them.

[R1ffR4ff]

Originally Posted by Red ones

Here's a good gripe


My wife has to wear two hearing aids, but she has a cold this week which is making her hearing worse still. She says she can't wear the aids because of the cold. The result is we all have to shout louder than normal.
I'm in the doghouse at the moment. "Why?" I asked, and was told it's the way I speak. So I said, "Not my fault I'm shouting!"
Her response? "It's the way you shout at me"

Imagine the simple convo, "Would you like a cup of tea?" My reply is "YES" (don't add a please as I get asked what I said and then I have to explain)
This is at the top of my voice.

I've considered flash cards but don't think I'll get far with them.

"If a man is in a Forrest and his wife is not there,is he still wrong"

[timwilky]

I sympathise with her. I know I am getting a cold days before the symptoms hit when my ear canals narrow and my hearing deteriorates.

Being moaned at because the tv/radio is too loud. Being called ignorant because I didn't hear what somebody behind me, in another room etc has said. And I am the one who is accused of shouting. I was visiting one open plan office when my boss phoned me. They shoved me in a plant room as my call was disturbing everyone.

Hearing issues are horrid, nobody can see you are having problems the worse for me being you loose other peoples conversations in the background noise, so pubs, football, plant rooms etc become unpleasant venues.

But in your case you indicated the root cause on your second line with the one word Wife. She is having a miserable time and needs someone to blame. That is one of the hidden items on the marriage contract. Give her a cuddle, a mug of lemsip etc and tell her you will talk to her without shouting when she feels better and can hear again. Until then if she entitled to leave you in the dog house, so long as she throws you the occasional bone.

[DarrenSV650S]

Aprilia. What a nightmare this bike is to work on. So much stuff crammed in to the smallest space. No tank prop. Wiring tangled around other looms, connectors rubbing on metal. Barely enough room to take off the air box cover to change the filter. I was about to change the oil and filter too, but the filter is so close to the belly pan you can't get a socket type filter wrench on it. And the belly pan houses the ABS stuff so that won't be coming off.

Apparently these do the job

http://www.halfords.com/workshop-too...liers-300mm-12

[DomP]

Ha ha...Didn't you have an SV!

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[DarrenSV650S]

Yeah I did. I miss its simplicity. I knew how to take apart everything on it

[chris8886]

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

Yeah I did. I miss its simplicity. I knew how to take apart everything on it

it was just putting it back together that was the challenge......... i'm sorry, but you left that door wide open!

[DarrenSV650S]

haha yeah tbh that is my life story. I like taking things apart to see how they work, but find it difficult putting them back together XD

[chris8886]

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

I like taking things apart to see how they work, but find it difficult putting them back together XD

likewise, but I do then get quite bored really quite quickly putting things back together so I just save hassle and usually pay someone to do it for me.....