Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 1 minute ago, richardmorris said: Well they weren’t paying I suppose. Good luck- that car has had some huge amounts spent recently. We are well into double what I paid originally and the voyage towards three times is well underway, so just sit back and enjoy the ride.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 5 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: We are well into double what I paid originally and the voyage towards three times is well underway, so just sit back and enjoy the ride.... French mistresses were always a luxury! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazoli Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 9 minutes ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said: Tyres at 4mm all round, time to start looking up replacements. Whats dirt cheap but half decent? At 4mm I'd be running them for another couple of thousand miles and buying something not dirt cheap, they are only 50% worn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 12 minutes ago, richardmorris said: French mistresses were always a luxury! ....and with a capricious filthy temper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Must have been told by a slow thinker. Or kwik fit worker. HarmonicCheeseburger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said: Really? I got it drilled when doing my license once they go under 4mm to begin to think about replacing them. Cheers. Think and plan, but 4mm is double the minimum isn’t it? Probably not half worn the original tread. Anyway, I’ve found tyres on the drive ok for price recently, but best was my local mytyres.co.uk HarmonicCheeseburger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsisigma01 Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 What size tyres are you looking for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 11 minutes ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said: 155/70 R13 T think I'll get prices sorted, but keep running these till they drop under 2mm. I meant merit tyres sorryl https://www.merityre.co.uk/tyres/search-results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 37 minutes ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said: 155/70 R13 T think I'll get prices sorted, but keep running these till they drop under 2mm. Ones I found for mine were something like £48 a corner for some good brands. I think they were Uniroyal all season tyres but I may be wrong. chaseracer and HarmonicCheeseburger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 4 hours ago, richardmorris said: I avoid the m1 if at all possible - when I did use it the driving standards were appalling. Nothing compared to my journey on the m4 last Sunday evening though which saw me ( in merc in lane one at 65mph) being passed by several Range Rover/ bmw/ Mercedes with chavvy numberpates at well into treble figures, coming up to the cars in front and swerving onto the hard shoulder to pass them. Followed a few minutes later by a 3series bmw again doing 100+. This was just before the 50mph average from theale. . I still can't figure out why the M4 needs to be 50mph all the way from Reading to London when they're only actually working on about 200 yards of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 5 minutes ago, wuvvum said: I still can't figure out why the M4 needs to be 50mph all the way from Reading to London when they're only actually working on about 200 yards of it. So they can work at any point that they want too when they want too. Works can be complicated with the scheduling of different aspects at different times. The contract document will have described the area of work, method and working conditions. It is all legal beagle and far too long to go into here. BTW when I was in the UK in January I drove that section I drive a rental car from Stanstead to North Devon. When I drove the M4 road works I too found that doing the max speed of 50MPH. I was also being pushed along and even over taken by lorries going faster. Yes I was using the speedo of the car. But a (newish car) rental should not have a change of tyres to make that much of a difference in speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Would it not be possible though to carry out the smart motorway upgrade in sections, a couple of junctions at a time? Maybe Hounslow to M25, M25 to Wokingham, Wokingham to Maidenhead, Maidenhead to Reading? Would avoid the entire population of the home counties losing hours of their lives crawling along at 50 for 30-odd miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinmasters Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 1 hour ago, Remspoor said: So they can work at any point that they want too when they want too. Works can be complicated with the scheduling of different aspects at different times. The contract document will have described the area of work, method and working conditions. It is all legal beagle and far too long to go into here. The whole system is designed to allow scrotes to wring the maximum amount of profit/overtime out of the public purse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetleysmooth Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 I tend to use that link road between the M4 and the M40 at High Wycome now, just to get away from that frustrating 50 limit, and twats sitting in the middle lane at 40 mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainagain Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 As someone with a controls background it would be pretty simple to split the whole length into sections and then set up digital speed limit displays for each one. You could then limit the section that was being worked on and nothing else. The speed cameras are broken up into sections so you’re half way there already! It’s pretty pathetic that you are forced to drive at 50 for literally miles sometimes in roadworks like this, for the sake of one 100m section being worked on. wuvvum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Half 8 on a Sunday morning and my neighbour is, what sounds like, hammering aimlessly at the walls with a hammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burraston2006 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Turn your stereo speakers to the wall, play some heavy German rock (Rammstein etc), crank up the volume and bigger off out for the day. Never done this before officer I must have forgotten to turn it off!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetleysmooth Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Tuesday is Mrs Tet's birthday. Wednesday is our 20th wedding anniversary. Thursday is my birthday. We were going to try to have some sort of celebration Covid permitting. I booked the three days off work. Towards the end of last week, Mrs Tet got a call from Barts Hospital. They want her back in to have another stent put in as the one she had done after her heart attack last year looks like it's narrowing again. When has she got to go in? Yup, Wednesday, our anniversary. We're both a bit gutted, but we realise this is much more important than celebrations etc. So, on Wednesday, she will be on her way to that there London in an ambulance at 5am, and I'll be at Tetley Towers worried bloody sick until she returns. Oh well, always next year. paulplom and New POD 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saabnut Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Good luck to Mrs Tet. I am also going to declare the first Wednesday that she feels fully fit to be the 8th July. There. It is done. Enjoy the celebrations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieman Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 What's the betting they call you as she's on her way there to cancel it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 $~&#@?^¥%ing hell... I hate exhaust work. Like with a passion. If it wasn't going to cost me north of £400 I'd have just thrown this at the garage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 On 7/5/2020 at 12:53 PM, Pieman said: What's the betting they call you as she's on her way there to cancel it? Are Paddy Power offering odds on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angle Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 The ultra shonky XM that lived on my road has been missing a few weeks, presumed dead. At the same time, someone new has moved in round the corner. There goes the neighbourhood. Bloody gentrification. myglaren, Shite Ron, richardmorris and 5 others 3 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Grump about long term testing and trousers. Do you remember when magazines would publish reccomendations for products & then the results of a long term test? So that you could buy for example a VHS or a washing machine knowing that a particular example of it hadn't failed over the course of two years. Or how about a favourite pair of trousers? They'd wear out, you'd nip back to the shop where you bought them & buy another identical pair which would fit exactly the same as the first. Those days are gone. They don't make a washing machine or a pair of trousers for much more than ten minutes now, before they replace it with a new, improved, lower cost, better featured version of something that purports to be the same item, but which clearly fucking isn't! myglaren, LightBulbFun, outlaw118 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outlaw118 Posted July 7, 2020 Author Share Posted July 7, 2020 1 hour ago, barefoot said: they replace it with a new, improved, lower cost, better featured version of something Nail, head etc. Being of "generous" proportions, it's difficult enough to get stuff that fits, so when you find something you want to keep at it. A good few years ago it was Levi 5somethings, perfect wider cut available in fat belly, short leg configuration. After an unfortunate incident with an angle grinder, i set out to buy more. Spotty child in the shop assured me these new numbered ones would fit. No they don't, and my testicles wouldn't be crushed like that until I got married. Tesco value jeans were discovered to be perfect, and at about a fiver a shot, I've stockpiled. Good job too as they're NLA. barefoot and BorniteIdentity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 44 minutes ago, outlaw118 said: Nail, head etc. Being of "generous" proportions, it's difficult enough to get stuff that fits, so when you find something you want to keep at it. A good few years ago it was Levi 5somethings, perfect wider cut available in fat belly, short leg configuration. After an unfortunate incident with an angle grinder, i set out to buy more. Spotty child in the shop assured me these new numbered ones would fit. No they don't, and my testicles wouldn't be crushed like that until I got married. Tesco value jeans were discovered to be perfect, and at about a fiver a shot, I've stockpiled. Good job too as they're NLA. I have bought 4 pairs of black 501's 38 waist x 31 short leg, over the past 4 years. They are perfect, last about 18 months before they start looking tatty, and whilst they are expensive I've found a source that does them at an internet price, which is still 5-10 times the price of a supermarket own brand. Problem is that I've gone from 15 stone to 12 stone 10 in the last 4 months, and when I reach my 12 stone 4 lbs target, they really will be too big for me. In fact I'll be going through my wardrobe and archiving clothes from when I was 17 stone 15 years ago. outlaw118 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outlaw118 Posted July 7, 2020 Author Share Posted July 7, 2020 The Levis were definitely better quality...not 501's though. Tried Wranglers at one point too, just didn't feel right y'know? Good work on the weightloss Squire, I really need to start considering, maybe, perhaps thinking about it too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 On 7/5/2020 at 9:29 AM, Tetleysmooth said: Tuesday is Mrs Tet's birthday. Wednesday is our 20th wedding anniversary. Thursday is my birthday. We were going to try to have some sort of celebration Covid permitting. I booked the three days off work. Towards the end of last week, Mrs Tet got a call from Barts Hospital. They want her back in to have another stent put in as the one she had done after her heart attack last year looks like it's narrowing again. When has she got to go in? Yup, Wednesday, our anniversary. We're both a bit gutted, but we realise this is much more important than celebrations etc. So, on Wednesday, she will be on her way to that there London in an ambulance at 5am, and I'll be at Tetley Towers worried bloody sick until she returns. Oh well, always next year. I had my heart attack on my Son's 27th birthday exactly 2 weeks ago. I'll never be able to forget the date of that "happy" event. Did they say why it's narrowed ? I only ask because I would like to do everything in my power to NOT have a second stent. My wife (ex nurse) has taken over talking to the Cardiac Rehab team, at my request, and I've now been removed from taking one of the many tablets, as my resting heart rate (taken 5 times to be sure) was.............a concerning .............. 41 beats a minute. It's always been low, hovering around 50, which is probably why I naively assumed that I was as strong as an ox. Anyway, give my positive vibes to your wife and tell her to ask for the diazapan, when she's in theatre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetleysmooth Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Thanks everyone for the good wishes regarding Mrs Tet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarvinsMom Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 4 hours ago, angle said: The ultra shonky XM that lived on my road has been missing a few weeks, presumed dead. At the same time, someone new has moved in round the corner. There goes the neighbourhood. Bloody gentrification. ugh - dunno what i find the more offensive, the pointless POS fashion victim that is the Range Rooney Ewok or the lurid EAT phoenix orange paint..... hennabm and Fumbler 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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