The grumpy thread

[fraser.innes.3]

tbh that is where I am at with it, where did you reroute it?

Thought i had some pics of the route, but on my old phone, which does not charge anymore. We didn't do the full run, but put a coupler in. My cheap brake flaring tool would not flare the original BMW brake pipe, so had to borrow a proper one from my mechanic friend. It was nearside BTW.

 

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[Tamworthbay]

Thought i had some pics of the route, but on my old phone, which does not charge anymore. We didn't do the full run, but put a coupler in. My cheap brake flaring tool would not flare the original BMW brake pipe, so had to borrow a proper one from my mechanic friend. It was nearside BTW.

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Cheers, I am taking it to my friendly garage/ MoT place on Thursday so will have a play when it's up on the lift. There may be enough showing to use a flaring tool as its only the last couple of inches that has gone a bit crusty.

[MarvinsMom]

the last advert on the telly, for a remake of "Ben Hur" following from the remake of "Pete's Dragon" and "Star Trek" etc.

 

has the world run out of original ideas??

 

what next, remake "Gladiator"?

 

lucky for me i'm way, way too mean to go and spend £10 to £12 to watch a film at the filx......

[RoadworkUK]

what next, remake "Gladiator"?

 

 

I vote for a hand-drawn, 2D Avatar, produced with a rostrum camera. But with a plot this time.

[twosmoke300]

I've done a few bmw pipes and always reroute them . I usually put them inside some fuel tube to protect them though

[STUNO]

When will the Brits discover that cars have a left and right side. 

[xtriple]

I seem to recall one of Kyles cars had a pipe fail  for an MOT, that ran over the tank as well (Mondeo) so I just shoved a new pipe over the top and then flared the ends once the pipe was in place. Worked fine, tester happy, me happy 'cos no tank droppage

 

I have decided that I smoke too much: 40 a day. I don't care about the health thing (I'm already fucked so a bit late to start worrying now) but I do care about the £450 a month(ish) that I spend! So, to reduce this fairly major expense, I have dragged out the old 'electronic fag' and have been smoking that for the last day or so. I now have a raging sore throat and have been feeling sick all day! Obviously my body cares not one jot about the money and is craving the 'real thing'.

 

I didn't decide to quit completely: if I can just get it down to 20 a day (19 actually, the days of a packet having the full 20 seem to be long gone) I will be a shitload happier and rather a lot better off!

[dugong]

I seem to recall one of Kyles cars had a pipe fail  for an MOT, that ran over the tank as well (Mondeo) so I just shoved a new pipe over the top and then flared the ends once the pipe was in place. Worked fine, tester happy, me happy 'cos no tank droppage

 

I have decided that I smoke too much: 40 a day. I don't care about the health thing (I'm already fucked so a bit late to start worrying now) but I do care about the £450 a month(ish) that I spend! So, to reduce this fairly major expense, I have dragged out the old 'electronic fag' and have been smoking that for the last day or so. I now have a raging sore throat and have been feeling sick all day! Obviously my body cares not one jot about the money and is craving the 'real thing'.

 

I didn't decide to quit completely: if I can just get it down to 20 a day (19 actually, the days of a packet having the full 20 seem to be long gone) I will be a shitload happier and rather a lot better off!

Are you smoking because of how much the Bentley is costing you?

[Captain Furious]

Had exactly the same thing with the 'e-fag' couple of days fine and then the worst ever sore throat and feeling like death warmed up. I think because I am a fairly heavy smoker (although only 20 a day not 40) I assumed I'd need the super turbo powered e-liquid and OD'd on nicotine

 

Wanna give up, but I'm gonna try and do it the conventional way without replacing it with the vaping bollocks. Patches, gum, nicotine injections straight into the heart, that sort of thing.

[Des]

The thing with the leccy fags, and it took me a few years to realise, is that the fluids don't necessarily all share the same boiling point, and the leccy fags don't all run the same temperature. I got lucky at first and happened on a ciggy and fluid, a bloody strong 36mg one, that worked well together and took over smoking for me, zero effort and within a couple of weeks a real ciggy would give me the symptoms your leccy one is.

These days I'm playing with the sub ohm nonsense, Chugging whole lungsful of 6mg fluid out of skull shaped glass bottles, filling rooms with steam, so still able to piss off the squares.

[xtriple]

I'll have you know that the Bentley is costing me nothing at the moment! It can't it's locked in my garage and even it can't cost me anything when locked away and not used!    Mind you, I am considering going and getting it out to play tomorrow.... Bankrupt by Thursday?

 

I gave up smoking for years but when I was laying on the decking waiting for the ambulance to arrive I begged my wife to go over the road to a friends and get some fags off him. I lay there, not in any great pain (unless I tried to move when things changed remarkably quickly in that regard!) smoking roll-ups one after another.

 

After that, I was a smoker again.

 

It has increased since being a Bentley owner there is no doubt, I do wonder if the two are connected

[cort1977]

Surely as a Bentley owner you should be smoking big fat cigars? Possibly lit with twenty pound notes?

[plasticvandan]

Do you know I was just going to post the same thing,I've been on a Vape since 3pm Sunday,I last tried last September, and lasted til Xmas when I stupidly bought a pack of baccy,because Xmas. Sunday I ran out,and couldn't be bothered going out to get any more,so dug the vapor out again. I do think its been easier than the first time.Just ridiculous money to be spending,I would get through a 25g pack in just under 3 days.

I worked out stopping for a year would buy a Trabant (yes I know the irony of stopping smoking to buy a car known for smoking)

[cros]

Day 1 of Jury Service - Clearly I can't share details, but sometimes I fucking despair of my fellow humans

When I was on jury service (1973) the case against a 46 year old 'man' was dismissed because the 13 year old daughter of his landlord had, the judge thought, been a willing participant in full sex. Such a decision would, hopefully, be unthinkable today.

Unfortunately, similarly blatant cases of abuse now fail to even make it to the courts if there is the possibility the miscreants have cultural grounds for committing it.

[fordperv]

I was proud of mrs fp when she quit smoking, she smoked quite a bit, she quit without e cigs etc the only thing she had was some tablets from the Dr for the first few weeks

[Junkman]

I think that vaping is an entirely other type of smoking, which some people take better to than others, like some people preferring to smoke pipes, or cigars, or whatever. Being the cigarette smoker I am, I do vaping simply for cost reasons, but for me it isn't a real substitute. Especially not for a proper Gauloises or Roth Händle.

[Captain Furious]

I might have misunderstood the point of e-cigarettes from the start, I thought they were intended as a stop smoking aid, ie you stop smoking the real fags, and then wean yourself the electronic one too.  That doesn't seem to be the case, because I know people that have been on the e-cigs for years and years with no sign of quitting them.  I have even seen people that have never smoked chuffing away on e-cigs and thought...why?

 

I don't want to merely replace the nicotine delivery system, I want to try and stop.  I have done if before, so I'm hoping I can do it again.

 

[standard smokers excuses]

I just need to pick the right time. Today isn't looking good..

[Richard]

Quite a lot of people seem to puff on e-cigs almost constantly, that must be worse than smoking.

[Jazoli]

I don't buy this can't quit nonsense, I smoked from the age of 13 until I was 32, first cigs then onto rolly's for the last five or six years, probably 20-30 a day, I met the wife, she told me I stank, my house stank and my car stank, I did, they did, I quit there and then, no pills potions or stupid fucking vape things (I don't think people realise how fucking stupid they look puffing away on them) 

 

Nicotine is such a pathetic drug, it does fuck all apart from make you want another stinking fag, 12 years later I realise how ridiculous it was to smoke and have never felt better, just do it, it's not hard, most of the smokers in my family have also quit, some are dead because they didn't, just pick a day and do it, it will change your life.

[Captain Furious]

Is there a danger that it will make me all preachy?

[Jazoli]

Is there a danger that it will make me all preachy?

 

Quite possibly, but then I don't give much of a fuck really

[ShiteRider]

I recently quit, using a an e-cig as an aid, i've been nicotine free for a few weeks now.

I was using 12mg strength fluid then dropped down to 6.

Hardest thing i've found is not having something in my mouth or between my fingers.

I genuinely enjoy smoking but the reality is i've not got a pot to piss in, nor a window to chuck it out of. It's that lack of cash that's the driving factor for me.

[Sheefag]

 just pick a day and do it, it will change your life.

 

That's just what I did. I smoked 40 red Marlboro a day for 20 years. I'd tried changing to small cigars, Nicorette chewing gum and cold turkey to no avail.

One New Years eve, I just did the classic thing and chucked a full pack on the fire and never smoked again.

It's tough as fuck and I still occasionally miss them some 20 years later but it's so definitely worth it.

As Jazoli says, pick a date do it and stick to it.

[dome]

Aye I'm the same. Been off them for about 15 years now, another Malboro Red smoker but i weaned myself off them onto Malboro Lights. Smoked about 15-20 a day. It took me a few attempts to quit but couldn't go back now. I do like the odd cigar though, I put that down to owning a Jag...

[eddyramrod]

Today a customer asked me about me leaving my current job and going to another one, with very specific references.  I have a plan in progress, in fact I've been for an interview and been accepted, all on the recommendation of someone I thought was a mate.  He is the customer's source.  Well fucking thanks! 

I will decide who I tell, what I tell them and when I tell them it.  It's not up to anyone else.  There's no fucking way I'm going to work alongside someone who would do that behind my back.  Who else has he told?  How long before it gets back to my blissfully unaware present employer?  Fucking marvellous.

[wuvvum]

Day 1 of Jury Service - Clearly I can't share details, but sometimes I fucking despair of my fellow humans

It's not a pair of 29-year-olds from Ipswich who are on trial for car theft is it?  If so, may I recommend the death penalty?

[Cavcraft]

It's not as easy as just giving up on the spot for most people, some may be able to, most won't. I tried the patches as they're really good, plus other things like an inhaler and the chewing gum. The gum was porperly minging, basically what I'd imagine a cigar made out of an Egyptian camel walker's 23 year old sandals suffused with a tincture of cat shit would taste.

[Sheefag]

It's tough, make no mistake, I gave up numerous times before I gave up for good.

 

The time has to be right and you have to stick with it but it's not easy.

 

What was weird about quitting smoking, was that I realised that I smoked in all of the same places, at the same time, every single day and that there were in fact, only two or three really good cigarettes a day.

The rest really were just habit.

[ShiteRider]

It's tough, make no mistake, I gave up numerous times before I gave up for good.

 

The time has to be right and you have to stick with it but it's not easy.

 

What was weird about quitting smoking, was that I realised that I smoked in all of the same places, at the same time, every single day and that there were in fact, only two or three really good cigarettes a day.

The rest really were just habit.

This, i rarely had more than one or two cigs a day if i was at home, but if i was at work or driving i'd be chuffing all the time.

[beko1987]

Our gas and leccy bill is £96 a month, WTF?

 

The gas costs more than the electric over the last few months, with the heating off completely since march and the hot water coming on twice a day. Hot water is going down to once a day in the evening...