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My body's reaction to vaccines can get in the sea.

Know it's several orders of magnitude less horrible than the alternative, and lacks the whole credible potential for being lethal...but that doesn't change the fact that I feel like absolute death just now.

Virtually every bone and muscle in my body hurts, to the extent that transitioning from laying down to sitting up takes 30 seconds or so to recover from.  Everything just hurts.

Hit me quicker than the last two, so crossing my fingers that means I get over it quicker as there's a LOT of stuff I really needed to do this weekend and I've already lost an entire day.

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8 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Good thinking. I was hedging my bets on a cat since there's two my neighbour has that like to terrify my dog and be a general nuisance. These aren't just your standard "no so threatening" cats, these barstewards are built like brick shithooses.

Handbag, buckle maybe? 
it could be a metal zip, like on a leather jacket?

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On 1/14/2022 at 8:25 PM, Zelandeth said:

Postie this morning.

Rang doorbell.  I was actually downstairs at the time so got there pretty quickly.  Made direct eye contact through the window, then stuck a "sorry we missed you" slip through the letterbox.

Then proceeded to completely ignore me shouting (politely!) after him as he walked the (15 metres or so) back down the garden path to his van and buggered off.

Thing is...he never even took the parcels out of the damned van in the first place, so no idea what he was playing at.

What did the "sorry card" say? Your parcel can be found on the tracks?

 

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On 12/01/2022 at 19:26, grogee said:

Fuck this to the moon and back. I'm going to shame-tweet them, the cheap bastards. 

I remember buying this maybe a year ago from Robert Dyas. Spent time comparing, touching, deciding which one felt the best. No cheap shit for me, I thought, but I was wrong. This was just heavy but also shit. 

That purchase was prompted by Mrs Grogee bringing home some awful Chinese shit from Tesco that looked OK from a distance but simply expired if it even got close to a tin. 

Anyway I know what it'll be now - "where did you get it from, did you keep the receipt?"

NO BECAUSE I'M NOT CERTIFIABLY INSANE

And I just know that some smug twat will be along shortly to tell me to buy a 1970s metal one, which are shit, hard to use and hurt your fingers. 

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And right on cue:-

 

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I used to spend a fair bit of time on the blue forum rather than this one. I've been a member here for over a decade but I didn't post much for the first few years.

I pretty much left RR alone around six years ago when I sold my mk2 Golf and have spent most of my forum time on here since.

Recently I've found myself nosing around there a bit again. As with here, it's interesting seeing which of my favourite long-term threads and posters are still going. Much has changed but many things are as before. 

Whilst there are a few new threads I've now bookmarked along with older threads I'll check more regularly, I have fairly quickly remembered why I stepped away in the first place. 

Doing things like this. FFS. 

That and a fella who specialises in hacking up vintage Americana. I can't even bring myself to post photos of those...

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8 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

I used to spend a fair bit of time on the blue forum rather than this one. I've been a member here for over a decade but I didn't post much for the first few years.

I pretty much left RR alone around six years ago when I sold my mk2 Golf and have spent most of my forum time on here since.

Recently I've found myself nosing around there a bit again. As with here, it's interesting seeing which of my favourite long-term threads and posters are still going. Much has changed but many things are as before. 

Whilst there are a few new threads I've now bookmarked along with older threads I'll check more regularly, I have fairly quickly remembered why I stepped away in the first place. 

Doing things like this. FFS. 

That and a fella who specialises in hacking up vintage Americana. I can't even bring myself to post photos of those...

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That's mint 👀 😝

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8 minutes ago, Jamie said:

I guess I'm just young and stupid at the moment 😬 I just love lowered cars, I've just ruined my 4 series by fitting springs and getting it remapped today 😂

Don't get me wrong. I'm mid 40s and my MR2 sits on Tein <35mm springs. My previous plaything was my mk2 Golf running a VR6 lump and which sat on coilovers and banded steels. 

I just can't stand stupid camber. Not only does it look dogshite, I can only imagine the driving experience would be on a par with trying to ask Shane MacGowan to walk in a straight line after a fun night out getting smashed on class As and liqour.

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5 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Don't get me wrong. I'm mid 40s and my MR2 sits on Tein <35mm springs. My previous plaything was my mk2 Golf running a VR6 lump and which sat on coilovers and banded steels. 

I just can't stand stupid camber. Not only does it look dogshite, I can only imagine the driving experience would be on a par with trying to ask Shane MacGowan to walk in a straight line after a fun night out getting smashed on class As and liqour.

Fair dos! As you've seen I lower everything to death and although they drive horrible in the fact they scrape on everything at low speed, they don't actually handle any worse than standard when they've got camber, this is my old z4 which had adjustable rear camber arms, it didn't drive any worse after I fitted the arms, it actually felt a bit more planted on the motorway! Although I never had it aligned after so if I did it probably would have been worse 🤣

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1 hour ago, Dick Longbridge said:

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I don't understand this either,

Why fit wider wheels,then have them positioned (Camber YO) in such a way that they probably have less contact on the road than the original skinny wheels from the factory had?

The mind boggles,I'm not against mods,but this is just downright stupidity,and will do nothing for the drive-ability of the car.

There is a few good threads over on RR though,the guy in his 70's building a 60's style Gt for one.

https://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/218220/reliant-kitten-rebodied-formed-aluminium

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11 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

I don't understand this either,

Why fit wider wheels,then have them positioned (Camber YO) in such a way that they probably have less contact on the road than the original skinny wheels from the factory had?

The mind boggles,I'm not against mods,but this is just downright stupidity,and will do nothing for the drive-ability of the car.

There is a few good threads over on RR though,the guy in his 70's building a 60's style Gt for one.

https://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/218220/reliant-kitten-rebodied-formed-aluminium

Will have a look at that one.

During my revisiting of the place recently, I discovered the XK120 resto thread. Absolutely mind-blowing. 

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1 hour ago, New POD said:

Last of the big spenders.  I definately wouldn't put more in than I needed to get me to a reasonably* priced filling station. 

I didn't! I put enough to get me to dunkinfield (a lovely part of Manchester no less) and home again in my wife's evoque. 

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On 1/13/2022 at 4:37 PM, Crackers said:

I get those horrible-for-the-environment-plastic-single-use-tub-things they do. But then I've eaten beans once since I moved here in December 2020 so I'm not exactly murdering the environment with plastic bean tubs.

Said tubs are incredibly tough.  Worth keeping a couple for putting nuts and bolts in when working on certain V8 engines.  Or indeed certain Japanese roadsters. 

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