dozeydustman Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 On 08/12/2021 at 14:35, dozeydustman said: That’s me booked in for a PCR test. Arsehats. 3 LFs in 2 days - one fail, 2 negative but symptoms prevalent. PCR was negative thankfully. I still feel dog rough High Jetter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 14 hours ago, cort16 said: My 7 series failed it's MOT on a rear shock absorber.. You can't get them after market, price from BMW £812. There are lots of second hand ones on ebay for about £180 BUT they're all for the right hand side of the car and I need it for the left. They are of courses sided. I've found a new one in Lithuinia for £575 or there's a guy in Derby selling both for shock for £300 but it's on Friggin Facebook market place. I don't want to drive to Derby. That's the risks with running ageing mega barges I suppose but it friggin stings. Bub lives in that area. Maybe he could get them for you and post them on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 15 hours ago, Bren said: Vets. Harley our King Charles has developed a cough - previous experience has proved this is his heart. We took him to the vets about a fortnight ago - a consultation and two weeks meds was £90. We rang for a repeat prescription - they would only give us five says meds - that will be £35 please - he needs to go back in next Tuesday. I hope they don't try and charge for another " consultation" because I will do an impression of an atomic bomb. I have no objection to making a profit - but I object to having the piss taken because of the emotional bond we have with our pets. Our's sicked up a razor-sharp pork bone last Monday. She'd raided the bin (first time ever at 2 1/2...) and had a dicky stomach for a couple of days but we hadn't thought anything of it. Emergency vet visit once we realised as this can do huge amounts of damage and quite easily perforate their stomach or small intestine. Ended up opting for an x-ray. The (very attractive) vet gave me the option but I wasn't going to muck about worry about there being more in there. 'If she stays still and doesn't need sedation, it'll be £250. If she does need sedating, the x-ray will be £400.' Got the x-ray (right decision) and thankfully didn't need sedation. Bill was still £325. Excess will be £100 after claiming on insurance. Emptying the bin properly now... Mind you, that's nothing compared to emergency vet bills at the out-of-hours place. Last year her face completely swelled up one evening very suddenly (probably stung by a wasp) and it was £200+ for a consultation and some steroids. The trials of a Golden Retriever/Labrador cross. Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Isn't that useful however having pet insurance. Vet bills be awfully high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 15 minutes ago, Spurious said: Isn't that useful however having pet insurance. Vet bills be awfully high. Smallest excess tends to be around £50 but most are nearer £100. That means first consultation , typically £40 is going to cost you. Insurance is very useful though if ongoing treatment is required as it does protect you from really big bills if an operation is required. GrumpiusMaximus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chadders Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 We've gone for insurance for our two rescue dogs. The one my missus selected includes jabs and worming treatment and is not an awful lot more than the cost of those. Given our youngest dog incurred bills nearing 2k last year after some sort of reaction to medication it caused us to think about it after dismissing it for many years. Hopefully we won't need it now. How it'll work if they recommend she be put down again like last time is a moot point. I suspect that it won't then be covered and it'll be do what you need to save her, here's my credit card time again. Having your missus coming out of the vets with tears streaming down her face is more than enough for one lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 We have a nice dog , but at the end of the day , it's a dog , we have spare money to help it if required , but a 3 legged dog or other major work is not on the cards .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 I took my dog to the vet last year as she was off her food and she had an x-ray, which showed a large lump on her liver, so game over, she had to be put down a week later. What was annoying was the vet trying to talk me into an ultrasound as well, as the x-ray wasn't razor sharp. At a mere €200. Which was annoying, as my wife had had a private ultrasound a couple of weeks before for €150. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi paul Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 A year ago our little shitzu doggie, aged around ten . Eat some chicken bones my grandson gave it. Next day poorly sick and couldn't move. Off to the vets with my non insured doggie. Vet wanted £2,400 just to make a start. With no guarantees of any remote succes. So doggie was put down for £179.00 . We haven't got another and won't be getting one. I know people who spend hundreds a month for their ailing dogs . Fair play to them but not for me. Although on our estate it's compulsory when getting a dog to spend at least £2,599 on some sausage dog or other fur ball with legs. Then parade round the school gates with the bleeding thing. Dont take it for a walk any other time obviously. Just to school so other people can see how much richer than them you are. Or just highlight that you're fella has a questionable occupation involving class A substances. Also Facebook posts of your massive Xmas tree. With a million lights. Dont see posts of the old mattress and other shite in the front garden though hey Sandra. myglaren and Coprolalia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil clark Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 21 hours ago, cort16 said: My 7 series failed it's MOT on a rear shock absorber.. You can't get them after market, price from BMW £812. There are lots of second hand ones on ebay for about £180 BUT they're all for the right hand side of the car and I need it for the left. They are of courses sided. I've found a new one in Lithuinia for £575 or there's a guy in Derby selling both for shock for £300 but it's on Friggin Facebook market place. I don't want to drive to Derby. That's the risks with running ageing mega barges I suppose but it friggin stings. Where in derby is he? I'm in derby and know a few people that break cars myglaren and cort16 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieman Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 50 minutes ago, taxi paul said: A year ago our little shitzu doggie, aged around ten . Eat some chicken bones my grandson gave it. Next day poorly sick and couldn't move. Off to the vets with my non insured doggie. Vet wanted £2,400 just to make a start. With no guarantees of any remote succes. So doggie was put down for £179.00 . We haven't got another and won't be getting one. I know people who spend hundreds a month for their ailing dogs . Fair play to them but not for me. Although on our estate it's compulsory when getting a dog to spend at least £2,599 on some sausage dog or other fur ball with legs. Then parade round the school gates with the bleeding thing. Dont take it for a walk any other time obviously. Just to school so other people can see how much richer than them you are. Or just highlight that you're fella has a questionable occupation involving class A substances. Also Facebook posts of your massive Xmas tree. With a million lights. Dont see posts of the old mattress and other shite in the front garden though hey Sandra. I hope your grandson realises what he did there. And it's nice to see someone with a similar view of humankind to me! 😝 taxi paul 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 16 minutes ago, Neil clark said: Where in derby is he? I'm in derby and know a few people that break cars It doesn't say. This is what's on the facebook advert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Went to Lidl for some odds and ends, wish I hadn't now. Tyre exploded on the sliproad just outside, had to change the wheel with traffic flying past at 70mph. Then had to drive it home, very slowly. broken spring rubbing on the tyre. So that is two tyres and a spring on Monday - need to angry-grinder the spring so I can drive it to the workshop. They are closed at weekends. Got home, putting shopping away, four pack of yoghurt, snapped in the middle and dropped to the floor, splattering yoghurt all over the floor. A proper snappy day. GrumpiusMaximus, Tickman, grogee and 12 others 1 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 With the way your luck's running I'd avoid an angry grinder this weekend! barefoot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Have a door to fit today so that can wait until tomorrow. Then it will snow, I expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil clark Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 23 hours ago, cort16 said: It doesn't say. This is what's on the facebook advert. Ask them but my gut feeling is Normanton....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) This is all we've been hearing for hours on end every night for the last week. Exact volume varies from minute to minute depending on exactly what the wind is doing. Louder than the camera makes it sound. Loud enough that it keeps setting the dogs off. VID_20211211_215201.mp4 The really annoying part? The car park they're doing this in is about 500 metres from the Central Milton Keynes Police Station. They can SEE it from their main entrance. Edited December 11, 2021 by Zelandeth Fighting with this stupid editor... myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 at the risk of making you even grumpier Sorry! it seems the editor/forum software has eaten the video file im getting a sorry could not find the file error 2 minutes ago, Zelandeth said: The car park they're doing this in is about 500 metres from the Central Milton Keynes Police Station. They can SEE it from their main entrance. can you go over there and politely of course, ask someone at the station why they are not doing anything about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 4 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said: at the risk of making you even grumpier Sorry! it seems the editor/forum software has eaten the video file im getting a sorry could not find the file error can you go over there and politely of course, ask someone at the station why they are not doing anything about it? The editor was being an absolute bastard while I was trying to post it, so not surprised. Try it now? Last time we spoke to them about it, as an aside when I was also reporting a hit and run, the response I got was "It's the weekend, what do you expect?" myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Video working for me. I'm sure reports of hearing suspected gunshots wouldn't rouse the Police into a bit of action... LightBulbFun and timolloyd 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 For Mrs Grogee's works doo, we stayed in a Best Western which has a Marco Pierre White restaurant in it. Went down for breakfast this morning. I understand the whole celebrity chef thing, it's a brand, and they milk it. But what sort of psychopath would line the walls of his restaurants with black and white pictures ENTIRELY of himself? What a cunt! warch, Yank Tank, timolloyd and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 laptop is dying so wanna go and get another have massive CBA so drinking tea and watching hunbut (YEAH hunbut) videos need some glass fuses but they can wait till in the week meh i say again meeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh or is it old age The Moog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saabnut Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 13 minutes ago, hairnet said: or is it old age It's old age! I have it The Moog, Garythesnail and hairnet 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Anti-destination league Sunday drivers* can get in the fucking bin. 😠 cort1977, mitsisigma01, adw1977 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 What should have been a simple half-hour job to change a set of drop links has now become a two-day fuckabout, with the car currently immobile. Threads on the lower bolt remained impervious to being doused in penetrating oil, and now the hole for the H5 allen key has rounded off. Looks like it's gonna be an angle grinder job to cut it off - if only it'd stop raining for long enough... Split_Pin, 155V6 and myglaren 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 26 minutes ago, Datsuncog said: What should have been a simple half-hour job to change a set of drop links has now become a two-day fuckabout, with the car currently immobile. Threads on the lower bolt remained impervious to being doused in penetrating oil, and now the hole for the H5 allen key has rounded off. Looks like it's gonna be an angle grinder job to cut it off - if only it'd stop raining for long enough... Oh, come on! Every shiter knows that drop links are always an angle grinder job! I'd say something about you beating me to that car, but my alternative choice of winter beater now has a strange over cooling problem. I'm going into the centre of town for some Christmas shopping. That should cheer* me up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 some time clearing shite in the garage revealed the back wheel bearings on my sons push bike are fubared again ... funny how some people dont notice flat tyres and a wobbly wheel ???? its a cluster off job so that can wait till the spring . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 If the Dyane's heading to Hereford for its new engine early in the new year, I really need to break out the sparkly stick and upload laurenceteachdavetoweldwithoutkillinghim.exe to get the door bottoms fixed. But, somehow, meh... Not good. grogee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyarddog Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Ambling along today in my Honda, was going to a local car meet,last one of the year. Driving along at the legal limit,there was a Toyota prius behind me for a few miles,when he decided to overtake me,then immediately slow down so we were actually travelling slower than before he overtook!!! WTF? grogee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 2 hours ago, Datsuncog said: What should have been a simple half-hour job to change a set of drop links has now become a two-day fuckabout, with the car currently immobile. Threads on the lower bolt remained impervious to being doused in penetrating oil, and now the hole for the H5 allen key has rounded off. Looks like it's gonna be an angle grinder job to cut it off - if only it'd stop raining for long enough... Usually ends up being like this for me, too. You could try heat I suppose. Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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