New POD Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 20 hours ago, AxWomble said: Walking over a zebra crossing on Sloane Square yesterday, two lanes of traffic coming from my left, black cab stopped in the lane nearest to me, I start crossing but have to pause halfway as an octogenerian in a mk1 Focus bombs straight through the crossing in the other lane. It was broad daylight, her view of me wasn't obstructed at any point and so I saw her coming from a way off and thought "not sure she's stopping" Worst thing - I had a 7 month old baby in a sling on my chest and at no point did she brake or even show any sign that she had seen me. Shivers.... I sometimes think it would be better if a barrier came down. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Great , days before Xmas the main washer splits it's door seal , scabs to the rescue for now , but a new washer in the sales ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Great , days before Xmas the main washer splits it's door seal , scabs to the rescue for now , but a new washer in the sales ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 6 minutes ago, MikeR said: Great , days before Xmas the main washer splits it's door seal , scabs to the rescue for now , but a new washer in the sales ....... Or a new door seal perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, myglaren said: Or a new door seal perhaps? Its had other issues , one of which is not to drain properly ,it only cost me 80 quid years ago , the outside washer can be used for now , new washer and scrap the old ones .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 caught a wheeler dealers where brewer was working on the car ffs MikeR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 LED lightbulbs . Stated 20000 hrs lifetime, which is roughly 3 years continuous. Given normal use might be 2 hours a day, that should be about 30 years , which would be a lifetime at my age probably. Instead , they last a year if you’re lucky! Even worse are LED lights that have non replaceable bulbs. Always expensive and you end up binning the whole light. Hardly compatible with the green ethos presented by LEDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Just now, Metal Guru said: LED lightbulbs . Stated 20000 hrs lifetime, which is roughly 3 years continuous. Given normal use might be 2 hours a day, that should be about 30 years , which would be a lifetime at my age probably. Instead , they last a year if you’re lucky! Even worse are LED lights that have non replaceable bulbs. Always expensive and you end up binning the whole light. Hardly compatible with the green ethos presented by LEDs. Chances are it's a couple of LEDs overdriven which will drastically reduce the life of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 1 hour ago, MikeR said: Great , days before Xmas the main washer splits it's door seal , scabs to the rescue for now , but a new washer in the sales ....... Ooh is that scabs as in bike inner tube things? That is a very good tip and might come in v handy one day - thanks But like you say, "fun" finding a replacement in the Jan sales. Which have probably started already MikeR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 58 minutes ago, Spurious said: Chances are it's a couple of LEDs overdriven which will drastically reduce the life of them. Is there a way to stop that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 23 minutes ago, Metal Guru said: Is there a way to stop that? Getting better quality fixtures that use more LEDs at less power, or by adding more LEDs yourself to reduce power consumed by each LED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 19 minutes ago, Fumbler said: ...... or by adding more LEDs yourself to reduce power consumed by each LED. myglaren and puddlethumper 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieman Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 On 12/17/2021 at 11:39 AM, AxWomble said: Walking over a zebra crossing on Sloane Square yesterday, two lanes of traffic coming from my left, black cab stopped in the lane nearest to me, I start crossing but have to pause halfway as an octogenerian in a mk1 Focus bombs straight through the crossing in the other lane. It was broad daylight, her view of me wasn't obstructed at any point and so I saw her coming from a way off and thought "not sure she's stopping" Worst thing - I had a 7 month old baby in a sling on my chest and at no point did she brake or even show any sign that she had seen me. Shivers.... According to the precedents in this thread earlier this week, that's your fault for not fully making sure everyone had stopped. Talbot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 What the fuck is this shit? Naff all £1.50 cars (and normally 3 for 2 in this shop) anywhere we went but loads of these £7 jobbies! I had promised ImpJr a hotwheels car (I lost a bet on which side the platform would be on as we pulled into the station) but said these were too much and found a 'street fighter' Ryu car for £3.50 that was half price, probably trying to flog old stock to parents like me not wanting to spend seven fucking quid on what would've cost £1 if I'd bought it a few weeks ago. puddlethumper, barefoot and tooSavvy 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 3 hours ago, Metal Guru said: LED lightbulbs . Stated 20000 hrs lifetime, which is roughly 3 years continuous. Given normal use might be 2 hours a day, that should be about 30 years , which would be a lifetime at my age probably. Instead , they last a year if you’re lucky! Even worse are LED lights that have non replaceable bulbs. Always expensive and you end up binning the whole light. Hardly compatible with the green ethos presented by LEDs. I have loads here and the majority have lasted very well. One in the dark stairwell is permanently connected and has been on for five years now, its predecessor lasted about five years and I think was spiked by a heating engineer working on the boiler - it is connected to the boiler. The only other one was a huge cob bulb in the bathroom which lasted two years. And an LED strip on top of the kitchen cabinets - overheating as I didn't provide a heatsink for them. Otherwise I have chucked a couple of early ones out that were a bit crap and replaced with improved ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 On 12/13/2021 at 2:44 PM, wuvvum said: That didn't go well. Went out to the Mazda at lunchtime to check the coolant level, noticed a drip from under the thermostat housing so removed it to check whether the gasket was seated properly. Well shit. That's that car out of action then until I can source a replacement. Only possibilities I've found so far are a new housing from a site in the Philippines which won't post outside the country, and a rather overpriced used Ford Festiva housing on eBay US. @gricer do you have any hot tips for sourcing bits for these? I could try JB Weld I suppose but that's unlikely to be a long term solution... You'd be surprised; the ship I'm on has had a coolant manifold temporarily* repaired* with wob(specifically the Wencon equivalent of Milliput) while waiting for a replacement to arrive. The replacement was ordered last year, it looks shit but it's not leaked yet. Because that housing only has two bolt holes I'd try making a reinforcement from sheet steel or aluminium and glue that on at the same time with epoxy of choice. tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxWomble Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 9 hours ago, Pieman said: According to the precedents in this thread earlier this week, that's your fault for not fully making sure everyone had stopped. Indeed, lucky I checked properly! myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 14 hours ago, tooSavvy said: I just want to screw in a light bulb not rewire the house. tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Weather Grump. Here on west coast we've been enveloped in a haar..thick fog that seems to roll in from everywhere..its quite normal for the east coast..but three days on the west is highly unusual.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 1 cm of snow ..... We're fucked ! GrumpiusMaximus, adw1977, AxWomble and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakebullet Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 ~Previously~ Sister's dog is most likely to expire soon. Waiting for test results to confirm. So Friday night I went to the Mrs's flat as usual. This was obviously wrong, I should have stayed home moping about the dog. I've come back to the Ma staring blankly into space, and deflecting any attempt at conversion with silent treatment. Anyone want to take bets the little bastard is going to take a turn for the worse on Christmas eve for maximum impact? Idiot sister had the genius idea of reducing it's insurance to 3K of cover, 'cos it's cheaper innit? She also has a vet whose first course of action is to contact insurance and find out what he can blow money on. He's already planning when blood tests come back to do an MRI for a mere £1500. 3 grand is going to be smoked in no time. No doubt Ma is planning on selling the house to chase a wild one in a billion chance of fixing it. Datsuncog and Remspoor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yank Tank Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 9 minutes ago, jakebullet said: ~Previously~ Sister's dog is most likely to expire soon. Waiting for test results to confirm. So Friday night I went to the Mrs's flat as usual. This was obviously wrong, I should have stayed home moping about the dog. I've come back to the Ma staring blankly into space, and deflecting any attempt at conversion with silent treatment. Anyone want to take bets the little bastard is going to take a turn for the worse on Christmas eve for maximum impact? Idiot sister had the genius idea of reducing it's insurance to 3K of cover, 'cos it's cheaper innit? She also has a vet whose first course of action is to contact insurance and find out what he can blow money on. He's already planning when blood tests come back to do an MRI for a mere £1500. 3 grand is going to be smoked in no time. No doubt Ma is planning on selling the house to chase a wild one in a billion chance of fixing it. just do the right thing and put it out of its misery. i remember my uncles dog going to live on a farm, it wasn’t that long ago that people would put their own pets to sleep rather than paying someone a fortune to do it for them. steal it overnight and put an end to the madness and suffering myglaren and paulplom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw1977 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Getting an animal put down at the vet doesn't cost very much (well under £100) and guarantees minimal suffering for the animal and no risk of prosecution for you. Tickman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheefag Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 7 hours ago, Rab said: Weather Grump. Here on west coast we've been enveloped in a haar..thick fog that seems to roll in from everywhere..its quite normal for the east coast..but three days on the west is highly unusual.. Disappointed you haven't blamed English Imperialism / Evil Torys yet. twosmoke300, Yank Tank, Dead_E23 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 We don't really have evil ones anymore, this lot are just shite. GeorgeB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 On 18/12/2021 at 09:54, MikeR said: Its had other issues , one of which is not to drain properly ,it only cost me 80 quid years ago , the outside washer can be used for now , new washer and scrap the old ones .... You have 2 washing machines???? How very sensible. And also slight karma here too. I'll explain at Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 10 hours ago, jakebullet said: ~Previously~ Sister's dog is most likely to expire soon. Waiting for test results to confirm. So Friday night I went to the Mrs's flat as usual. This was obviously wrong, I should have stayed home moping about the dog. I've come back to the Ma staring blankly into space, and deflecting any attempt at conversion with silent treatment. Anyone want to take bets the little bastard is going to take a turn for the worse on Christmas eve for maximum impact? Idiot sister had the genius idea of reducing it's insurance to 3K of cover, 'cos it's cheaper innit? She also has a vet whose first course of action is to contact insurance and find out what he can blow money on. He's already planning when blood tests come back to do an MRI for a mere £1500. 3 grand is going to be smoked in no time. No doubt Ma is planning on selling the house to chase a wild one in a billion chance of fixing it. The way to solve this is take it to the vet yourself. Now. And make the decision for them. Then come home empty handed. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Fucking tabby cat has been in and out the litter box every 5 mins since 3:30 this morning, scratching and trying to bury whatever. The box is empty with the same clean litter we put in it yesterday. The 2 cats have a box each + a spare - black cat’s uses her one normally, spare box unused so is tabby’s. Fucking thing is costing us £90 a month in vet prescriptions and £140 for blood tests every 6 months. Now the bloody thing is going senile I really wish the wife would ask the vet to put it out of its (and my wallet’s and the way things are going my mental health’s) misery. Next pet we get in this household is a dog. Or a parrot. Or a snake. Or an iguana. Anything but a fucking cat. Rab 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Get it stuffed and mounted; if nothing else it will send a message to the next cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 41 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said: Get it stuffed and mounted; if nothing else it will send a message to the next cat. I don’t want a reminder of the bloody thing! somewhatfoolish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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