puddlethumper Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 1 hour ago, reb said: Apparently selling an "axe" with no edge to it whatsoever is something that is ok now. Not too much of a grump because I was planning on sharpening it anyway as even good axes don't have a fantastic factory edge, but I'd at least expect it to be able to split a piddly bit of firewood! For £13 I can't really complain I suppose. After a sharpen and replacing the varnish with boiled linseed oil it should be a serviceably pleasant thing to use hopefully. What you need is a splitting axe not one of those kindling choppers. Or hit it wiv a wump ammer. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 Noo, never hit an axe not designed for it with another hammer or anything metal. I sometimes use a different bit of firewood to help ours through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 30 minutes ago, puddlethumper said: What you need is a splitting axe not one of those kindling choppers. Or hit it wiv a wump ammer. ? Will a £15 silverline job be decent? I don't mind having to sharpen it, as long as I don't have to replace it in 6 months when the head comes flying off! 15 minutes ago, loserone said: Noo, never hit an axe not designed for it with another hammer or anything metal. I sometimes use a different bit of firewood to help ours through I only have one hammer and it's not big enough to help here I don't think, so no worries there. I don't have that many logs right now, so the main reason for the axe really is splitting reclaimed wood into kindling so it made more sense to get a smaller one. Wish I'd got a big bastard now though! Made it look and feel 100x better after an hour of varnish removal via scraping with my Opinel: puddlethumper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frogchod Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 10 hours ago, Jerzy Woking said: Do you get points on a licence for this, like in the UK? I love driving through France on D roads on my way to and from Spain, but now I'll have to be looking constantly at my speedo, and not the fantastic countryside With a French licence they take points off. With a UK license you'll get away with a fine for minor offences. Speed camera fines are now being sent to the uk. There aren't that many working cameras here they're well signposted. If there's a copper lurking in the bushes with a laser oncoming motorists will flash their lights. purplebargeken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Ha, apparently someone's tried to spend £130 on my credit card at Harvey Nicholls. They'll be dissapointed when it declined, partly because its got a small limit and its up to it anyway, partly because Lloyd's know I don't shop there and declined it for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazoli Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 11 hours ago, dozeydustman said: Just had to rescue this poor little sod from one of the cats. He's still alive but shocked. Where I wish I had a small cage and a few mealworms to nurse him back to some kind of health. He's tucked away in the hedge and took hold of a perch, I hope he makes it through. Think yourself lucky, my cat brought a fucking seagull in last year, that put up one hell of a fight and shat everywhere, I have also had a couple of junior rabbits brought in, I did wonder why there was rabbit droppings next to the couch, when I lifted it up the rabbit bolted for the back door, headbutted it and dropped dead, it was quite funny really, although not if you were the rabbit he is an 8kg monster though, the black cat is normal sized for reference! DeeJay, 155V6, Tenmil Socket and 5 others 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltox Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 6 minutes ago, Jazoli said: Think yourself lucky, my cat brought a fucking seagull in last year, that put up one hell of a fight and shat everywhere, I have also had a couple of junior rabbits brought in, I did wonder why there was rabbit droppings next to the couch, when I lifted it up the rabbit bolted for the back door, headbutted it and dropped dead, it was quite funny really, although not if you were the rabbit he is an 8kg monster though, the black cat is normal sized for reference! Why have you stolen my cats? Stanky, Jazoli, Datsuncog and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazoli Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 1 minute ago, Kiltox said: Why have you stolen my cats? LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazoli Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Daughter just came into work, her newly purchased (by me on Sat) Bini is making gluggling noises she says, took it for a spin around the block and sure enough there's a funny noise coming from both front wheels, parked up back at work and had a look and the front wheel nuts are finger tight and hanging on by a couple of threads, that'll be it then I have not had time to give it a cursory glance since buying it, the wheels were very close to falling off, fuck knows what would have happened had they fallen off, she's taken a knock to her confidence already after last weeks crash where she wrote her new polo off, the seller has been called a cunt as he changed the brakes before the sale. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Bought a nice packet of freshly baked donuts on the way to work. Put them on top of the microwave and made a coffee. Halfway through the coffee I was texting someone, and wandered over to grab a donut, cramming half of it into my mouth in one go. Then I felt something crawling up my arm and actually looked down. Hundreds of ants. All over the donut. In my mouth. On my face. aargh! wuvvum, paulplom, BorniteIdentity and 5 others 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 At some point this afternoon either expect an Alien type event where you do a John Hurt and your stomach explodes, or possibly a Jeff Goldblum where you start turning into a giant ant. treehugger, purplebargeken and myglaren 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRi05 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 1 hour ago, cobblers said: Bought a nice packet of freshly baked donuts on the way to work. Put them on top of the microwave and made a coffee. Halfway through the coffee I was texting someone, and wandered over to grab a donut, cramming half of it into my mouth in one go. Then I felt something crawling up my arm and actually looked down. Hundreds of ants. All over the donut. In my mouth. On my face. aargh! GrumpiusMaximus, purplebargeken, stonedagain and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Car hunting is an arse. Why do sellers: 1) Have a car for sale that is already sold and they simply reply to your polite and well-crafted enquiry with "SOLD". 2) Have a car for sale but just ignore your polite and well-crafted enquiry 3) Drop in undisclosed complexities such as "It doesn't come with the wheels that are on it but the ones it is being sold with are somewhere else and I haven't had a chance to fetch them yet" 4) Nearly always have the car parked at somewhere other than their home address for no obvious reason 5) Advertise a car under a profile that is: not theirs/a business/clearly constructed to circumvent the search engine 6) Have no concept that advertising a car with an MOT of less than 1 month DOES attract a discount against other similar cars for sale with longer tickets 7) Act as an individual and expect not to be found out to be a trader. There is nothing wrong with the latter so why hide it? I was currently interested in a car however over the course of a few days attempting to nail down a time to view, numbers 7, 5, 4 and now 2 have become applicable. What's wrong with people???? EssDeeWon, GrumpiusMaximus, strangeangel and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssDeeWon Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 And all of the above is why I cannot be arsed to ever change my car again, unless I absolutely have to. Quite a statement at 36 I know but I honestly don't care if I never had another car, I used to quite enjoy changing cars, looking through autotrader and whatever but a few years ago I had enough of lying pillocks, so 4 years ago to the day (oddly) I bought my current car and still like it. This is also partly down to the fact I have less patience with these type of people than I used to. *edit people in general richardmorris, Split_Pin, BorniteIdentity and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 To be fair, a Rover 75 is all the car you will ever need. EssDeeWon, barefoot, Cavcraft and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colnerov Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 3 hours ago, cobblers said: Bought a nice packet of freshly baked donuts on the way to work. Put them on top of the microwave and made a coffee. Halfway through the coffee I was texting someone, and wandered over to grab a donut, cramming half of it into my mouth in one go. Then I felt something crawling up my arm and actually looked down. Hundreds of ants. All over the donut. In my mouth. On my face. aargh! Ahh yes, they are sneaky and clever. A couple of years ago they got into the coffee machine at work and changed all the buttons to dispense ant soup. myglaren, purplebargeken, Redfred and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 2 hours ago, wuvvum said: To be fair, a Rover 75 is all the car you will ever need. This I cannot deny however it's a car for my wife I'm looking and she doesn't share my enthusiasm for them ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 3 hours ago, wuvvum said: To be fair, a Saab 9-5 petrol estate is all the car you will ever need. FTFY dozeydustman, Split_Pin and Saabnut 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 2 hours ago, auld_ALS said: This I cannot deny however it's a car for my wife I'm looking and she doesn't share my enthusiasm for them ? It's ok, it's a typo. He meant Mercedes ML350. Supernaut, puddlethumper, stonedagain and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 8 hours ago, cobblers said: Bought a nice packet of freshly baked donuts on the way to work. Put them on top of the microwave and made a coffee. Halfway through the coffee I was texting someone, and wandered over to grab a donut, cramming half of it into my mouth in one go. Then I felt something crawling up my arm and actually looked down. Hundreds of ants. All over the donut. In my mouth. On my face. aargh! That's up there with a Dave numbers contribution. Did you not kick the donuts, and stamp on the ants? twosmoke300, BorniteIdentity and myglaren 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 1 hour ago, Cavcraft said: It's ok, it's a typo. He meant Mercedes ML350. And would Sir just happen to have an ML350 for sale? DeeJay and Cavcraft 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 A sizeable box arrived from Germany. On opening it, I found one of those paper bags that takeaways sometimes give you to carry your meal away: What did it contain? This: Errm....that's it! Seems a bit of a waste of packing. Could they not have just stuck the thing in a small Jiffy bag? Eddie Honda 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisWilliams Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 My last night in France, trying to negotiate my way into a tiny parking spot in a minute car park. Reversed in, literally 6 feet away from another hotel guest who didn't see fit to warn me of the hidden post behind me, as that would have required him to remove the joint from his scrawny gob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorRetro Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Another day, another burago 1:24 scale arrives damaged. Not the seller's fault this time I might add, but frustrating nonetheless. Spiny Norman and Split_Pin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Bburago 1/24 models are weird. The shell is chipped into shape from a solid block of titanium yet all of the ancillary parts are kept in place by everyone holding their breath at the same time. Cavcraft, mercedade, DoctorRetro and 5 others 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_70s Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 On 7/8/2019 at 8:47 PM, captain_70s said: As an update, I organised to collect this from the DPD depot after work today. Only when I arrived it transpired it'd actually been loaded onto a van and was out for delivery again but the driver had reported it as undeliverable because it wouldn't scan out, because it was logged in as to be kept in the depot for collection... The guy at the desk did say he'd phone the driver and see if he'd deliver it anyway and just have me sign for it manually but given he was supposed to be back at the depot at 21:00 I doubt that is going to occur... Looks like I'll be heading out to Cambuslang tomorrow. Again. Final update. Went to the depot today, the driver wouldn't deliver it yesterday because computer said no. A Triumph Acclaim exhaust only comes in two sections, one of these is very long. Longer than the cabin. It is also awkward as both ends turn 90 degrees, but in different directions. I had to un-pack the exhaust and take out the rear seat squab in the pissing rain to feed it through from the boot. It's left great dirty marks all over the seats. This wouldn't have been an issue had DPD actually managed to deliver the fucking thing. I've not even tried to fit it yet and it's already an utter pain in the arse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiny Norman Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 3 hours ago, TheDoctor said: Another day, another burago 1:24 scale arrives damaged. Not the seller's fault this time I might add, but frustrating nonetheless. I have exactly the same model with the exact same fault. I'm guessing the plastic degrades over time because mine got damaged when I put it down after dusting the shelf it was on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangeangel Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 After purchasing a bargainous tablet from the good Mr Pillock, I decided that one of those little cases with a built-in Bluetooth keyboard would be an ideal complement to my new acquisition. FFS. face, Tadhg Tiogar, wuvvum and 11 others 2 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 My cousin passed away yesterday of ovarian cancer. She was 48. That’s 2 family in as many months now ? purplebargeken, chaseracer, twosmoke300 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangeangel Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 5 minutes ago, dozeydustman said: My cousin passed away yesterday of ovarian cancer. She was 48. That’s 2 family in as many months now ? Oh man, sorry for your loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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