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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 22, 2023 17:19:41 GMT
What fun
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Post by MartinT on Apr 23, 2023 11:16:55 GMT
Jacked the front of the car up yesterday, so that I could re-secure and tighten the front lip to the bumper. I had ordered M6 rivnuts some months ago for exactly this purpose, and the weather yesterday was fine (until it was not).
Undid the first rivnut and it fell inside the hole from wear. Go to position a replacement and it didn't fit. What I needed were M5 rivnuts. After all this time, I had a bag of the wrong size rivnuts and now have one less bolt securing my front lip. Grrr!
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 23, 2023 12:55:20 GMT
I needed an Allen bolt Measured very carefully, got madam to check. 5mm diameter Ordered M5 bolt Fell out, too small
Measured the new one and the old one Both 5mm - absolutely Checked the mm refers to the outside diameter (not inside) - confirmed
Baffled
For £1.50 I took a punt and ordered an M6 which must be too big Fitted perfectly
Lesson learned on bolt diameters
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Post by Slinger on Apr 23, 2023 19:43:47 GMT
EMERGENCY - The cutting wire on my Westmark Rollschnitt snapped, and I can't get a replacement until Tuesday.
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Post by petea on Apr 23, 2023 20:50:12 GMT
Quick, someone throw him a knife!
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Post by Slinger on Apr 23, 2023 21:53:49 GMT
Quick, someone throw him a knife!
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 27, 2023 22:23:07 GMT
Too bad there isn't an Ultra petty thread.
I can't shake it I hear it often but hearing whispering in a video clip or any recorded audio legitimately repulses me. It may be a completely irrational pet peeve of some kind. I cringe when I hear it. I only realized it a few years ago.
In person it's fine though.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 28, 2023 19:18:22 GMT
People with crappy old turntables (for instance) who disassemble them and procede to list every single nut, bolt, and spring, on eBay.
While I'm at it, people with beaten up old guitars that they would, in the past, have thrown away or given to a junk shop, now selling them as "roadworn" on eBay. They are NOT roadworn, you've just tripped over them one time too many in your fekkin bedroom. To be "roadworn" ...well ...the clue's in the fekkin name you ignorant, twats.
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Post by petea on May 9, 2023 15:25:55 GMT
On Monday I ordered 10 lengths of aluminium extrusion via Amazon to build an extension to my airbrush bench. It turned up today as promised. Guess how many boxes! Yep, 10. Each large enough for 8 lengths. Grrr.
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Post by MartinT on May 9, 2023 16:36:44 GMT
Was just going for a listen when FLASH - BANG lightning, thunder and the power is out.
Oh well, first world problems. Have torch, will read.
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Post by nicholas on May 9, 2023 17:00:16 GMT
Was just going for a listen when FLASH - BANG lightning, thunder and the power is out. Oh well, first world problems. Have torch, will read. Absolutely hate when that happens... How long do such power outages last in your neck of the woods?
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Post by Slinger on May 9, 2023 17:16:25 GMT
Yes, the sky has been exploding here too, but it's all OK now, and I had no power problems.
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Post by MartinT on May 9, 2023 18:03:50 GMT
... And power is now restored. The storm is on the news and I drove through some serious cloudburst getting home earlier.
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Post by MartinT on May 9, 2023 18:10:40 GMT
nicholas outages are quite rare and even rarer to last more than an hour.
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Post by nicholas on May 9, 2023 18:13:33 GMT
nicholas outages are quite rare and even rarer to last more than an hour. Consider yourself fortunate... I reside in an area where all the power cables are above ground so every time a drunk or otherwise impaired person slams into a pole I can kiss 3-5 hours of power goodbye.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 3, 2023 13:30:43 GMT
Sustitutions to my online shop this week. Generally, Sainsbury's does a reasonable job of subbing things they don't have, but 100g of Smoked Salmon TRIMMINGS, instead of 200g of Scottish Mild Smoked Salmon, and a Chorizo ring instead of my Saucisson Sec? Seriously? The smoked salmon was to be a part of two dinners this week, and another two will now have Chorizo instead of Saucisson Sec, which is not the balance I wanted They're also delivering 185g of Port Salut French Cheese instead of my usual 200g Caprice des Dieux French Cheese, but I can live with that, as I quite like Port Salud. Looks like I'll be hitting up the freezer this week, which is probably no bad thing truth be told, as a lot seems to go in, but very little seems to come out again.
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Post by julesd68 on Jun 3, 2023 15:20:05 GMT
Smoked Salmon trimmings - yuk!
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Post by rfan8312 on Jul 7, 2023 3:17:15 GMT
I've long thought of how wasteful physical spam "junk mail" is.
This last time though was actually comical because I was on the phone while going to the mailbox so without really even paying attention I unloaded half a pound of paper that was in the mail tube and dumped it in the outdoor trash bin on my way into the house while continuing the phone conversation.
I'm the middle-man for a sinister machine that cuts down trees to print ads that go directly into a trash bin which ends up at a landfill and waits 15 years to anaerobically decompose thusly feeding the earth with continuous updates about sales on Michelin tires and vinyl siding.
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Post by Slinger on Aug 19, 2023 17:36:27 GMT
Actually, now I've started to write this it's a bit more than a minor gripe.
Tomorrow (Sunday) at 11:00 AM our England Women are playing in the Football World Cup Final. That's the first World Cup Final we've reached for almost six decades.
Neither King Charles nor Prince William nor any member of the British Royal Family nor Prime Minister Sunak are attending. Prince William is actually the President of the English FA FFS. Apparently, the PM has now frantically scrambled Foreign Secretary James Cleverly to Sydney to fly the flag for England. Cheverly's last-known football-related action was to ask LGBT football fans to ‘be respectful of host nation’ Qatar for the 2022 Men's World Cup. Cleverly has even stated that he's a "rugby man" and says he's not particularly knowledgeable about football. Rumours that Sir Keir Starmer has launched Angela Rayner towards Australia are, as yet, unconfirmed.
If it were the men's team, of course, royals and politicians of every stripe would be climbing over each other begging for tickets and sourcing corporate hospitality from anywhere they could.
Queen Letizia of Spain has announced she (and her 16-year-old daughter Infanta Sofia ) will jet out to Australia to cheer on her national team, and she's nothing to do with her country's FA.
Should they win, which I fervently hope they do, I'd love to see the girls tell both the palace, and Number 10, to fuck right off when the inevitable post-final photo-op invites are delivered. In fact, I'd like to see them tell the ignorant anachronistic misogynistic arseholes to not only fuck of, but to keep fucking off until they couldn't fuck off any further. And then fuck off a bit more.
OK. Rant over. As you were.
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 19, 2023 18:14:33 GMT
Sexism alive and well
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