The grumpy thread

[Noel Tidybeard]

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[inconsistant]

 

 

Don't bother with mushrooms, fingers are the things to use to open these effectively.

[Richard]

What is it?

[320touring]

What is it?

First pressing olive oil-he's treating his bosch pump;)

[mat_the_cat]

It was olive oil actually, but no match for a knife. We're going to start frying with it instead of veg oil to see whether there's a noticeable difference in taste, although it would do well to beat steaks fried in butter

[dave21478]

IMO stuff fried in olive oil tastes gash. 

 

The best comparison is a fried egg, do one in normal oil then one in olive oil.....Its a very noticeable difference. If you like it, then cool, I suppose - its definately better for you. Personally, I prefer to edge a little closer to a massive heart attack with every fry-up I have in normal oil.

[Semi-C]

Try using Coconut Oil in your frying pan/cooking pot, molto bueno.

[cort1977]

My missus and I had a disagreement* over this recently.   

 

I pointed out that using olive oil for frying both tastes gash and is not great as the oil breaks down and doesn't actually work very well.   She disagreed politely* but did go away and look in to it and eventually grudgingly admitted I was right.  

 

In summary olive oil - dressings, dips; frying - vegetable oil.   Recently we got a deep fat fryer, it's the future - I've tasted it.

 

Love that Autoshite must be the only place on the internet where I can browse threads on lovely Renner 16s, cars and girls, cooking with oil and the shortcomings of self service tills in one convenient forum.   This place is what it used to be.

[cms206]

I used to work with a bloke called Jim Fryer who we always called Deep Fat...

 

In other news: first day back at work after two weeks off. "You've got a Plaxton Leopard today. Don't break it."

 

Imagine my disappointment when it wasn't a 35 year old Leyland coach but a 3 day old Volvo B9R with Plaxton Leopard body. Not happy.

[Angrydicky]

1. The Somerset is broken. It broke down in the most awkward position on the over bridge at J10 of the M20 Sunday night with no spark, and I had to be recovered. I thought the newly fitted electronic ignition was faulty, so have just refitted the points and condenser. Nope, exactly the same, completely dead and now it's stuck on the driveway of my rented house like a beached whale. Tried two coils too with no improvement.

2. The twat in the Citroen Birlingo who keeps parking opposite my lockup, about five feet away from the fence which makes it incredibly difficult to get cars in and out. The Maestro had been completely blocked in on the street all day by two twats from the university who left their cars here all day, as you don't need a permit to park on this road. When a car finally moved at 6pm, I took my chance and moved it to the garage - see above.

3. My student loan hasn't been paid and I'm skint.

4. I've been waiting two weeks so far for Internet to be installed in this new house and although it's supposedly being installed on Saturday, I'm already fed up with typing on my phone.

5. I thought I'd got the house to myself for this term, when this afternoon the letting agent turned up with three people to view rooms, and they hadn't told me they were coming. This annoyed me, as they had to walk past my open toolbox in the middle of the hallway, bits of Somerset ignition on the worktop and a load of washing up in the sink that would have taken 5 minutes to clear away if they'd told me someone was coming. My housemates were annoying last year, they were noisy, didn't pull their weight with household chores and smoked weed in the house. I do hope this lot are better behaved. It's a shame as the area is full of old people, not many students around here at all.

6. An old chestnut, but I'm still depressed at being single. I asked out a lovely girl a while ago who I still have feelings for, but she didnt feel the same way, so back to the drawing board I guess.

[vulgalour]

It is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all.

 

I cannot offer any advice on the Somerset beyond asking if you've tried fixing it with a hammer.  If a hammer cannot remedy the problem then it's definitely an electrical issue.

[seth]

1. The Somerset is broken. It broke down in the most awkward position on the over bridge at J10 of the M20 Sunday night with no spark, and I had to be recovered. I thought the newly fitted electronic ignition was faulty, so have just refitted the points and condenser. Nope, exactly the same, completely dead and now it's stuck on the driveway of my rented house like a beached whale. Tried two coils too with no improvement.

 

Rotor arm?

 

Is there a spark at the points?

[richardmorris]

I use extra virgin olive oil for most cooking - Lidl's best at £2.49 a bottle. It doesn't like getting hot though, and I don't fry anything. Groundnut oil is best if you want to wok anything to death - doesn't smoke as much, I've also recently got some rapeseed oil, but am not sure about the taste.

[Angrydicky]

Tried a different rotor arm Seth, and there's no spark at the points . It did run - badly, and only for a few seconds - earlier, then it cut out, I swapped back to the points and condenser, and now I can't get anything out of it. It would help if I had a multimeter.

[seth]

Hmm, could be the small cloth covered earth lead inside the dizzy?  Is that retained for the electronic conversion? Or even wiring to/from the Ign switch. Tricky as you say without a multimeter, or at least a test bulb of some sort. 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Multimeter ? All you need is an old bulb, gaffer tape and a length of wire !

 

I'd check there's 12v at the coil first.

[EssDeeWon]

You really need a multimeter in these cases Dicky (or some wire and a bulb as SF suggests). My old Rover used to play up so in the end I gave the ignition system a much needed overhaul with genuine Lucas bits, however it would still fail to start, then sometimes start and run for 20 seconds then die again.....in the end it came down to the distributor, once a new/recon one was fitted the car never missed a beat after that.

 

Good luck with the house mates situation. Sounds like your having one of those weeks, I had one similar the other week, keep going, chin up and everything will be ok this time next week im sure 

[outlaw118]

Road tax is due on teh Seat.

 

"I know, I'll do it on Tuesday night, no need to do it any earlier, there's no tax disc coming" said a not-so-clever-fat bloke.

 

DVLA website won't load because it appears that every other bastard whose tax is up is on the site already.

 

WANKHAMMER.

[EssDeeWon]

Road tax is due on teh Seat.

 

"I know, I'll do it on Tuesday night, no need to do it any earlier, there's no tax disc coming" said a not-so-clever-fat bloke.

 

DVLA website won't load because it appears that every other bastard whose tax is up is on the site already.

 

WANKHAMMER.

 

Mine runs out at midnight, but the car is kept off the road and I don't use it much so will probably log on tomorrow or Thursday and tax it when it all calms down.

[dugong]

Mine runs out at midnight, but the car is kept off the road and I don't use it much so will probably log on tomorrow or Thursday and tax it when it all calms down.

^^^

 

If at all possible, do this.

[M'coli]

I've got this problem too, although I can't find the V11 and the number on the V5C isn't being recognised by the DVLA, which means that I can't even SORN it at the moment...

[outlaw118]

IT'S DONE!!!

Only took 56 minutes, and two "The connection was reset" type error messages......

[vulgalour]

They have an automated service.  It is a 0300 number.  I called it then realised I had the V5 for the Renault 6 in front of me... and then couldn't find the Xantia V5.

 

I have now found the Xantia V5 and I'm loathe to call that number again because it'll cost MONEY.  I'm also loathe to spend an HOUR refreshing the DVLA website to do my legal requirement.

 

I'd be grumpier, but to be fair we all saw this coming didn't we?

[Pillock]

03xx numbers should be included with your bundle minutes on a mobile.

 

In fact, a lot of 08xx numbers can be swapped with the same 03xx to stop it costing a fortune from a mobile.

[vulgalour]

hhahahahahaa

 

 

I have a 15 year old PAYG sim in my mobile phone.  It has no credit on it.

[plasticvandan]

Re the Somerset,you have no spark at plugs,yes? Check the carbon brush in the cap,also check the screw holding the points/leccy unit into the baseplate,I've had this earth out due to being too long before.also the black earth lead.

[Bobthebeard]

Vodafone..... For fucks sake sort out your website/customer interface.

What a load of crap.

Website just sends you into a loop. Online advisors 'may' answer, but if they do, it will be along the lines of " Hello, my name is Olangodoo, how may I help you today?"

After 20 minutes trying to tell Olangodoo that I have been trying to register my phone on the website to access my account the web chat thing crashes....

Breathe, try again.

"Hello, you are speaking to Serendipity, how may I help you"?

"Oh, hello, I have just.....

 

Sorry, we are just making a few tweaks to our website, please try again later.

 

Sometimes technology needs a massive kick up the arse!

[vulgalour]

Well you won't get anywhere talking to a car**

 

 

 

**my Princess is nicknamed Serendipity.

[EssDeeWon]

Never call phone companies / electricity companies / insurance firms / or any call centres in the evening after 6pm because that is when 99% of the great unwashed decide its a good time to call EON/Vodafone/BT/Admiral/TalkTalk etc etc....The same probably goes for the web assistance.

 

If you can call em about 10am midweek, guarantee you'll go straight through and be dealt with within a few mins.

[Bobthebeard]

Never call phone companies / electricity companies / insurance firms / or any call centres in the evening after 6pm because that is when 99% of the great unwashed decide its a good time to call EON/Vodafone/BT/Admiral/TalkTalk etc etc....The same probably goes for the web assistance.

 

If you can call em about 10am midweek, guarantee you'll go straight through and be dealt with within a few mins.

I am going to call them at 10am on Wednesday, then use the ringback option. When they ring me back I wont answer. That will show 'em.