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28,434 · July 6, 2021

Gotcha ya bastard!

The epoxy idea was the winner.

I was hesitant to drill into it given I was working with relatively little meat on the area in question and I didn't want to wreck the threads or sealing surface in the housing.

Can now actually get the parts ordered (about £200 worth so I didn't want to order anything until I knew I could get it apart!) and get it sorted.

15,454 · July 6, 2021

Bloody well done! Now it's out, can you see how it should be done? I thought I saw one dog in the last pic, but couldn't make out a second.

6,277 · July 6, 2021

Just noticed this email:

Dear customer,

In light of our nation’s recent success in the Euros 2021 and our confidence that we will make the final for the first time in 55 years, we have taken the decision to alter our deliveries next week.

If you normally receive a Monday delivery then you will receive that delivery on Thursday 8th instead of the 12th. If you require to make any changes then can you please make them by 9am on Wednesday.

This one off alteration to your delivery schedule will allow our staff Sunday 11th off to enjoy the celebrations.

Best wishes, McQueens Dairies

Cheeky fuckers! I'm mindful to change my order to fuck right off, I'll get my milk from the supermarket. Their milk doesn't keep that well, so not super keen to have it on Thursday and expect it to still be ok the following Thursday when more is delivered. Nice to know you must be pissed to watch football.

28,434 · July 6, 2021

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Bloody well done! Now it's out, can you see how it should be done? I thought I saw one dog in the last pic, but couldn't make out a second.

Nope...think it's just intended to be done up tight enough at the factory that the central spindle section should be tighter than the outer...bit of a daft design to be honest.

2,470 · July 7, 2021

6 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Just noticed this email:

Dear customer,

In light of our nation’s recent success in the Euros 2021 and our confidence that we will make the final for the first time in 55 years, we have taken the decision to alter our deliveries next week.

If you normally receive a Monday delivery then you will receive that delivery on Thursday 8th instead of the 12th. If you require to make any changes then can you please make them by 9am on Wednesday.

This one off alteration to your delivery schedule will allow our staff Sunday 11th off to enjoy the celebrations.

Best wishes, McQueens Dairies

Cheeky fuckers! I'm mindful to change my order to fuck right off, I'll get my milk from the supermarket. Their milk doesn't keep that well, so not super keen to have it on Thursday and expect it to still be ok the following Thursday when more is delivered. Nice to know you must be pissed to watch football.

FFS. Business is obviously good for them then. I wish I could sack off work responsibilities for such tenuous reasons.

33,366 · July 7, 2021

7 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Just noticed this email:

Dear customer,

In light of our nation’s recent success in the Euros 2021 and our confidence that we will make the final for the first time in 55 years, we have taken the decision to alter our deliveries next week.

If you normally receive a Monday delivery then you will receive that delivery on Thursday 8th instead of the 12th. If you require to make any changes then can you please make them by 9am on Wednesday.

This one off alteration to your delivery schedule will allow our staff Sunday 11th off to enjoy the celebrations.

Best wishes, McQueens Dairies

Cheeky fuckers! I'm mindful to change my order to fuck right off, I'll get my milk from the supermarket. Their milk doesn't keep that well, so not super keen to have it on Thursday and expect it to still be ok the following Thursday when more is delivered. Nice to know you must be pissed to watch football.

Get it from the Supermarket.

Look after your staff, yes, but the customer comes first.

McQueens deliver round my way at about 11.30pm so in July the milk will certainly be sour by the morning, especially for those who have a South facing front door.

1,943 · July 7, 2021

10 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Just noticed this email:

Dear customer,

In light of our nation’s recent success in the Euros 2021 and our confidence that we will make the final for the first time in 55 years, we have taken the decision to alter our deliveries next week.

If you normally receive a Monday delivery then you will receive that delivery on Thursday 8th instead of the 12th. If you require to make any changes then can you please make them by 9am on Wednesday.

This one off alteration to your delivery schedule will allow our staff Sunday 11th off to enjoy the celebrations.

Best wishes, McQueens Dairies

Cheeky fuckers! I'm mindful to change my order to fuck right off, I'll get my milk from the supermarket. Their milk doesn't keep that well, so not super keen to have it on Thursday and expect it to still be ok the following Thursday when more is delivered. Nice to know you must be pissed to watch football.

Time to fix the milk float Pat Mustard style.

13,105 · July 7, 2021

On 7/5/2021 at 1:44 PM, mitsisigma01 said:

Went to a funeral cremation today ..... whilst there had a phone call about oven cleaning 😖

Try blocking cookies.

5,535 · July 7, 2021

On 7/3/2021 at 5:29 PM, Remspoor said:

Same in Spain the cost to change registration can be expensive.

Autonomous Community (area); Will charge 4% or 6% of the value. This is not the sale but one dreamed up by the state.

The Traffico (registration office and a few other things) charge 54.60€

Then there is the collection of the forms and filling them in.

Recently it was announced we can go to the post office to do the documentation. They have their cut too. However, in my case that would save a hours trip (each way) to Traffico.

Here in Alicante the cost for changing ownership on the Honda bike I bought was €55.15 plus an Autonomous Community charge which worked out to around 2% of my purchase price.

Again, not so much the charge that pisses me off, but all the time you have to spend faffing about getting it done in this electronic age.

5,535 · July 7, 2021

And today I saw that Zoe Ball has taken a £380,000 per year cut in pay from the BBC, down to £980,000. It was stated that she said she "felt it was inappropriate to earn so much in the middle of a pandemic".

All very noble Zoe, but you were paid that amount, you have not earnt it. There are millions of people that go out and work hard and actually earn what they are paid. Massive difference between "Pay" and "Earnings", at least in my eyes.

July 7, 2021

9 minutes ago, Jerzy Woking said:

Massive difference between "Pay" and "Earnings", at least in my eyes.

Very salient point.

I don't have a problem with people being paid large sums of money, not at all. Most technicians and engineers that I know who work in the public sector could earn thousands more elsewhere, but choose not to. It's the same for politicians.

40,641 · July 7, 2021

16 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Just noticed this email:

Dear customer,

In light of our nation’s recent success in the Euros 2021 and our confidence that we will make the final for the first time in 55 years, we have taken the decision to alter our deliveries next week.

If you normally receive a Monday delivery then you will receive that delivery on Thursday 8th instead of the 12th. If you require to make any changes then can you please make them by 9am on Wednesday.

This one off alteration to your delivery schedule will allow our staff Sunday 11th off to enjoy the celebrations.

Best wishes, McQueens Dairies

Cheeky fuckers! I'm mindful to change my order to fuck right off, I'll get my milk from the supermarket. Their milk doesn't keep that well, so not super keen to have it on Thursday and expect it to still be ok the following Thursday when more is delivered. Nice to know you must be pissed to watch football.

I wonder if surgeons down the hospital are cancelling operations so they can have a good knees up watching the football? Or perhaps the Police should all be given the day off Sunday/Monday so they can watch the football. Absolutely ridiculous.

23,200 · July 7, 2021

2 hours ago, Jerzy Woking said:

Here in Alicante the cost for changing ownership on the Honda bike I bought was €55.15 plus an Autonomous Community charge which worked out to around 2% of my purchase price.

Again, not so much the charge that pisses me off, but all the time you have to spend faffing about getting it done in this electronic age.

The price for cars is higher due to COdos emissions.

5,535 · July 7, 2021

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

The price for cars is higher due to COdos emissions.

The only car I have purchased (so far😇) had the ownership changed by the dealer. No idea what the fees were, all included in the price of the car.

5,535 · July 7, 2021

3 hours ago, Yank Tank said:

Very salient point.

I don't have a problem with people being paid large sums of money, not at all. Most technicians and engineers that I know who work in the public sector could earn thousands more elsewhere, but choose not to. It's the same for politicians.

Me neither. Good luck to them, I don't begrudge a penny they get paid (as their employers must get a big return from them) but being paid highly as DJ on the radio is far removed from earning money as a retail or manual worker. Grump over.

14,507 · July 7, 2021

On 02/07/2021 at 09:32, Bren said:

There are lots of people - especially in public services - who would happily use the virus as an excuse not to do very much.

We’ve found this purely to be in the minority at my place. Then again we have said you won’t get Covid pay (full) if you don’t supply us with a test result, just SSP. Union agreed to it.

15,089 · July 7, 2021

9 hours ago, 3VOM said:

Time to fix the milk float Pat Mustard style.

With a massive tool in a box?

17,680 · July 7, 2021

21 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

With a massive tool in a box?

3,035 · July 8, 2021

P4 hasn't been getting the love it needs recently, had mental deadlines set which I've completely missed.

Days booked off from work were meant to be shared between house & P4 repairs, ended up stuck under a mini in the pissibg rain, then having to rush around finding parts, as sadly folk apparently couldn't get them 🤷‍♂️

Aah well, be alright next week- Just work to contend with... hopefully.

62,469 · July 8, 2021

13 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

P4 hasn't been getting the love it needs recently, had mental deadlines set which I've completely missed.

I know that feeling. I blame the shite weather.

28,582 · July 8, 2021

On 7/7/2021 at 4:22 PM, sierraman said:

I wonder if surgeons down the hospital are cancelling operations so they can have a good knees up watching the football? Or perhaps the Police should all be given the day off Sunday/Monday so they can watch the football. Absolutely ridiculous.

This, all day every day. Delivery cancelled forthwith; Asda gains.

22,961 · July 9, 2021

Supposed to be 7-14 days to collect.

21 days later and the trees have superbly killed the lawn. I guess we see how well that comes back (it should)

13,617 · July 9, 2021

I had a lovely time coming home this evening with this knob jockey sitting right up my arse through the residential speed zone and then repeatedly flashed his high beams and blew his horn because I had the audacity to indicate, slow down and turn into my driveway.

I reviewed the situation, checked my indicator was working properly and concluded that he was simply a professional grade bell end.

26,807 · July 9, 2021

1 hour ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

I had a lovely time coming home this evening with this knob jockey sitting right up my arse through the residential speed zone and then repeatedly flashed his high beams and blew his horn because I had the audacity to indicate, slow down and turn into my driveway.

I reviewed the situation, checked my indicator was working properly and concluded that he was simply a professional grade bell end.

That happened alot at my mums old house, busy road and indeed it was easier to reverse in otherwise you couldn't see out.

I fucking loved it when someone came haring around the corner then stops right behind me, until they get the hint and reverse with me. Judicious use of leaning on the horn usually made them get the hint, and the reversing lights and hazards...

20,171 · July 9, 2021

10 hours ago, PhilA said:

Supposed to be 7-14 days to collect.

21 days later and the trees have superbly killed the lawn. I guess we see how well that comes back (it should)

We had a skip delivered arranged by our kitchen fitter. This being a 8 day job with a weekend in the middle.

The skip hire company came after 7 days. Which included the weekend. So they had all the packaging for all the appliances still to dispose of. Fitter was not happy, as it was only half full.

They took it away in thier van. I reckon it will go at the bottom of the skip for the next job on day 1.

15,089 · July 9, 2021

Just after saying goodbye to 377 quid for replacement varifocals. Daylight feckin' robbery. Eyesight has got worse over past two years.

15,089 · July 9, 2021

4 minutes ago, Nyphur said:

Bet you didn't see that coming

I'm no clairvoyant

22,961 · July 9, 2021

Ugh. My electric bill has gone up just over $100 every month in the past year.

That's over $1200 a year extra.

The electricity we get hasn't become any better

7,585 · July 9, 2021

2 minutes ago, PhilA said:

Ugh. My electric bill has gone up just over $100 every month in the past year.

That's over $1200 a year extra.

The electricity we get hasn't become any better

How much is it current ly

22,961 · July 9, 2021

1 minute ago, omegod said:

How much is it current ly

$284 this month

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