Jazoli Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 I think its great, my car has stopped depreciating and is actually worth more than I paid for it, same with the wife's, I know I could sell the both for more than I paid, but would struggle to replace them. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 3 hours ago, Talbot said: Given the massive drop in new vehicle sales, it's hardly surprising that the second-hand market has gone up in price. Yea, but how many 70 reg have you seen? They're everywhere down here. myglaren and Craig the Princess 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 9 minutes ago, High Jetter said: Yea, but how many 70 reg have you seen? They're everywhere down here. Plenty down here, too. However, it took a little longer than usual for the new registrations to appear this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 Yes, maybe, but September only just gone. There's loads of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 9 hours ago, High Jetter said: Yea, but how many 70 reg have you seen? They're everywhere down here. Funnily enough I was talking about this yesterday as I saw one on the M1 and exclaimed how few I'd seen. I know I've not been far but I've noticed 2 of them in a month round here. I'd normally see more, even just round the village. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig the Princess Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 9 hours ago, High Jetter said: Yes, maybe, but September only just gone. There's loads of them. There seem to be loads round this way, completely different to 20 plates which were very scarce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig the Princess Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 On 10/2/2020 at 10:53 AM, MikeR said: I have a long one that could reach the street , thanks Show off. BorniteIdentity, r.welfare, Amishtat and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Just been to pick the kids up from my mothers 12 miles away. I saw a speed camera van on the A19 dual carriageway in a layby. Passed it on my way back home and you could barely see it because of the sun. A first for me and a new low for them imo. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 On the same journey there was an organised cycle race organised on the A167, another dual carriageway. It was chaos. Marshalls waving their arms about, cars down to 20mph, bikes overtking each other in the middle of the road. Cars were swerving all over th place, especially on the sliproads on and off. It'll be a miracle if there's not an accident. Why the fuck you'd risk your life doing that is beyond me never mind the inconvenience to other road users. Wankers. Stevebrookman, myglaren, rainagain and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Round at father in law’s again. Went to use the khasi... I’m covered in glass. Just shattered while about my business - didn’t touch it, lean on it or anything. Injuries are thankfully minimal. Only half an hour previous father in law gave it all a clean. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Must have been some dump! Remspoor, tinribs, BorniteIdentity and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 I've had this happen in about a dozen jobs. They go off like a bomb for no apparent reason. The manufacturers must know about it as they'll give me a new one no questions asked. I remember ringing my mate who is manager at the merchants and he asked me to bring it back. I said it was in a million pieces! I returned it in three builders buckets. I couple of times they've exploded while I've been lifting them and been left bleeding with two hands full of shattered glass. It gives you a fright. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out Run Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 21 minutes ago, dozeydustman said: Round at father in law’s again. Went to use the khasi... I’m covered in glass. Just shattered while about my business - didn’t touch it, lean on it or anything. Injuries are thankfully minimal. Only half an hour previous father in law gave it all a clean. That was more than just a squeaker. 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Two consecutive days of having to leave home at 0230 to pick up goods and deliver, yesterday to that London (just round the corner from RobT funnily enough), today to Newcastle. That's not the grump to be fair. No the grump came when I had to fill up this morning at an Esso station. Real old skool pumps, had to wait for the pump jockey to wake up and press the dispense button from the sales booth. Said pump then delivered fuel at a rate of 1 ml per second. Bearing in mind the van needed 40+ litres it took forever. To cap it off, the dribble of diesel from the pump was so pathetic it failed to register that the van's tank was full. Being half asleep, I then pumped what seemed like about 100 litres of diesel all over my shoes, my clothes, the forecourt and the side of the van. Yeah, wasn't dribbling then, was it, the fucker ? Fucked my fuel economy figures right up. Plummetted from 53.6 to 41.6 Fuelly over a cliff myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 15 minutes ago, paulplom said: I've had this happen in about a dozen jobs. They go off like a bomb for no apparent reason. The manufacturers must know about it as they'll give me a new one no questions asked. I remember ringing my mate who is manager at the merchants and he asked me to bring it back. I said it was in a million pieces! I returned it in three builders buckets. I couple of times they've exploded while I've been lifting them and been left bleeding with two hands full of shattered glass. It gives you a fright. Toughened glass seems to have something of an Achilles' heel'. I worked for a windows & doors company. Most of the windows and door panels were toughened glass. It only needed a slight knock on a particular corner to shatter it. There was a bloke came into our unit with an eight foot by three foot sheet that was covered with lead and coloured bevels in an intricate pattern that had probably take a couple of days to make. Set it gently on the floor and it turned into a heap of crystals. Not his best day. paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 But like what haplened to @dozeydustman, you don't actually have to be touching it for it to explode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Just now, paulplom said: But like what haplened to @dozeydustman, you don't actually have to be touching it for it to explode. No. Once it has been stressed it can go any time. Probably cleaning it has stressed it, if the corner is too tight a fit and a change in temperature can finish it off. paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 22 minutes ago, myglaren said: No. Once it has been stressed it can go any time. Probably cleaning it has stressed it, if the corner is too tight a fit and a change in temperature can finish it off. It's been there for 5 years with nary a bother, so I'm wondering if maybe it got scratched or leant on too hard. FiL normally has a cleaning lady in once a week as his hips are bad (they've both been replaced and both need re-replacing). I'll be going back there tomorrow with some rubble sacks, a hand shovel and a Henry Hoover to clear up; he's staying with us tonight now as his kitchen isn't quite finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 1 hour ago, High Jetter said: Must have been some dump! 51 minutes ago, Out Run said: That was more than just a squeaker. 😂 I didn't even get that far along - shut the lav door and BANG! Bad news is my favourite beige chinos are now covered in sanguineous stainage and have holes in, so they'll be 'old' trousers now. Thankfully I have skin and stature of a hippo so I'm pretty tough and only have scratches. Wife and FiL are more shaken up about it than I am. I know they can go at random, this is the first time one has exploded over me. Is that a cherry popped? paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieman Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 That happened to a couple of the windows at my old school - I think both times on the corner of the building, they had metal frames and I guess due to temperature expansion/contraction it just popped the glass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Ironically her next door , her drains leak into mine so her rain water drains away when the soak away is full . But as my drains are full , her house is surrounded by a moat .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floatylight Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Arses! I bloody hate drum brakes, been trying to sort out SmollestFl Fiesta Handbrake, have managed to make both the handbrake and foot brake worse, I'll get the garage to fix it I think.. paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 we have all done it , but we have just suffered the effects of pavement parking ... the personhole in the street is next to where everyone pavement parks , and the vibration had shook 2 bricks loose which fell into the bottom of the sewer and blocked it .... our personholes were brimmed with dirty water , and the down pour on top !!! 3 houses worth of shite . that was bad but ..... Do you know what its like having a wife going on about a non working bog !!!! any way the big water board van pulled up ,they got the tools out and it was cleared in minutes , took longer to do the paper work ! Craig the Princess 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Watching around the world in 80 days with Michael palin and finding it was 1988! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
108 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 1 hour ago, richardmorris said: Watching around the world in 80 days with Michael palin and finding it was 1988! I was just thinking exactly the same. Seems like it was only about 15 years ago! Where did the time go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jikovron Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 I took all this crap to the tip, of which was the 82yo neighbours tree, hes still well up for manual labour , anyhow it was shedding needles like mad so I though blimey rather than spread it all over the ground at the tip, the trailer got decoupled and pushed over to the tip wall to unload directly into the skip ,,success thinks us both till the guy who we had saved a job tells us in the shitteiest tone possible that we broke the rules doing it that way and they would be getting a load of guff from the council about it,,fuck sake the place was empty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Not only is Vanessa Feltz not welcome blaring out the radio alarm clock, but she’s playing UB40. 🤮 hennabm and paulplom 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borsuq Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 This week is already killing me. I'm the manager of the hygiene section in a small hospital (5 wards + A&E + operating block + fairly large outpatient department) and as of today 7 out of 29 of my staff are quarantined. If even one more person becomes unavailable I'm afraid that keeping up the required 24/7 coverage will become pretty much impossible. I'm already working my staff very hard and calling in favours from them (all above board and within legal limits of course) but I doubt we can keep this up for much longer. loserone, clayts450, catsinthewelder and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Decent parking by ghia x mondeo man ffs. Burnside and adw1977 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 FFS. Failed driving test. 4 majors, 2 of which were after I knew I failed. Examiner was the most miserable bint I've ever had the misfortune to be sat in a car with. It was at rush hour too, so the town was rammed. Main failure point: bad emergency stop- "Too soft" was the examiner's reason, fair play as I don't have ABS and I need to shove the brake pedal. Fine line between skidding on the wet roads and not slowing down enough, unfortunately. She took great delight in explaining to my instructor how shit I was, and didn't take kindly to my car either. Even decided to make a jab about my test preparations, complaining about the cleanliness of the interior. The wipe was barely soiled for christ's sake. Was it really necessary to complain about that and make me feel even more shit? I think not. TL:DR- Failed, 4 majors, 7 minors, unsympathetic and unpleasant examiner, rush hour, nerves and a little bit of bad luck. Now I have to go back to college and pretend that nothing ever happened. clayts450, myglaren, TomW86 and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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