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  On 01/05/2019 at 23:12, wuvvum said:

And the F5 button on my keyboard is worn out.

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I can’t beleive with all this upgraded trickery I can’t be confused and grumpy/sad at the same time...the wife manages it but I suppose she isn’t the Internet.

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And ‘insert other media’ sounds like the sort of thing I got banned from those chat rooms for typing

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  On 30/04/2019 at 12:37, barefoot said:

All mobile phones are shit.

 

Anyone else noticed that although phones are getting more and more clever and do more & more stuff, but as phones, they are shit.

Garbled voices that sound like they're speaking through a phlanger, and that's before they drop out & miss a            unk of conversati

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No. ....

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My Galaxy S7 is great..

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Having had to converse with the wife during the outage which was quite enough   but I had an angiogram on Tuesday that showed I'm  furred up beyond flushing with dishwasher tablets; it's the blood eagle treatment on the cards for me.  I can't see it being done that early but  it's got to be  after SF19

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I've been on the go since 8:30 this morning and still haven't managed to get a collection thread started. 

tramsport is is going according to plan but crappy phone signal, forgotten password and general incompetence around the new forum have conspired against me. 

and someone on this train has smelly feet :(

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Building a 3.77 English diff up today, old one was melted.  A while since I've done one.

Forgot to put the washer on the pinion shaft before the bearing.  Bearings are very tight.

Managed to angle grind it off without damaging the shaft.

Try again tomorrow with a new bearing.  The washer is on now!

 

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Two days in to being retired and fuck this shit for a caper.

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Bought a new suit off eBay for my cousin's upcoming wedding.  It arrived today and it's the wrong bloody size - jacket is too big.  It's an odd one though because it's just about right across the shoulders and it's tightish across the stomach, but way too baggy across the chest.  I think it's probably a young person's suit, designed for some 20-something gym bunny with a washboard stomach and 40DD pecs, which isn't me.  Strangely the trousers are pretty tight round my thighs, so maybe it's intended for the kind of young chap who spends all his gym time working on his upper body.  Either way, I now need to try and get a refund, and find another suit - otherwise I'll end up having to wear the pinstripe suit I wear when I'm working in London, which is a bit severe for a wedding, and also being 100% wool is probably a bit* warm for July in Annecy. 

Also, the 75 ran out of diesel as I was leaving for work this morning - just managed to limp it into the petrol station.  The stupid thing was that I'd put £10 of diesel in on Tuesday night and had only done 40 miles since.  It's the second time it's done that - funnily enough both times have been after I filled up at the same garage, and I think the same pump as well.  So one to avoid in future...

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report the pump either to garage or weights & measures

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I'd suggest you stop buying suits online and go to a shop where you can try them on!

I buy everything online apart from clothes, as nothing ever fits properly.

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I've rarely had a problem with buying clothes online.  If the jacket had been the size the seller said it was (38 long rather than 40 regular) it probably would have been fine.  Proper shops are great but almost universally more expensive - plus I have to either go in my lunch hour or fight my way in to Norwich on a Saturday, which is a pain in the arse.  I can do an online purchase whenever.

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Where's my signature gone?  It was a convenient way to find my project thread and now it's not there.   Was it lost in the update?

Apart from that, this update isn't as woeful as updates normally are.  I actually find the pages somewhat easier to read than before and it's familiar enough overall that I don't feel like a complete idiot.  Just going to take some getting used to.

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Ugh. Termites swarmed last night. 

Thankfully I saw a few about 8 in the evening flying around so shut all the outside lights off and put the blinds and shutters closed with all the lights off inside.

The things appear to mostly have passed us by, there are a few wings up in the attic and there was one aimlessly wandering around in the shower tray along with a handful of dead ones this morning.

 

I hate termites.

 

Phil

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Ordered a touchscreen panel from China last week. a 1mm thick glass panel for an 8" LCD - I need it for a £400 repair job that I need to get out of the door ASAP  to get some money in.

It arrived very quickly, in a plain envelope, in over 9000 pieces. I was going to order a few, I knew I should have. 

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My mechanic, well the one I use I don't own him, 'may' not get around to swapping my suspension today, It's been booked in for over 3 weeks now, this is starting to become a regular occurrence with him now. I'd not mind but he charges top rates for his work. No questions on the quality of his work he's a very good mechanic and I was happy to see 2 MGB's and an A60 on his car park this morning BUT this could well be another day my wife has been without a car and the job has not been done so will mean more faffing about dropping car off picking car up no car etc for another day. 

 

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  On 02/05/2019 at 20:31, wuvvum said:

I've rarely had a problem with buying clothes online.  If the jacket had been the size the seller said it was (38 long rather than 40 regular) it probably would have been fine.  Proper shops are great but almost universally more expensive - plus I have to either go in my lunch hour or fight my way in to Norwich on a Saturday, which is a pain in the arse.  I can do an online purchase whenever.

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Charity shop.................?

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Adblockers have been disabled in Firefox :(

Never knew that there were so many adverts.  Defected to Chromium until they fix it :)

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Just been to my lock up to tidy it up.

Opened the door & it looks half empty,there's around 40 alloys missing.

It looks like they've bent the door frame at the top & got on that way,the lock hadn't been forced.

Police gave me a crime number,& that's all.

Tried ringing a couple of local scrap dealers to see if anyone had weighed in a load of alloys,but no joy there.

Brilliant.

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  On 04/05/2019 at 09:22, myglaren said:

Adblockers have been disabled in Firefox :(

Never knew that there were so many adverts.  Defected to Chromium until they fix it :)

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All extensions it looks like.

Including the one that all my regularly used bookmarks live in. Argh!

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Looks as though Google are going to remove them from Chromium too :(

I always have both browsers installed so swapping is easy enough except for multiple email accounts.

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Where IS everyone atm? Has the winter hiatus finally ended and everyone’s motoring - or are they still trying to get Little Professor Calculators to login to the new AS?? ?

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I have got a couple of work updates* but can't do them with the forum as it is as lots photos and text don't seem to mix so gave up.  Waiting for Tapatalk as that was my preferred poison.

 

*Nothing exciting - mx5 brakes, golf locks and temp sensor.

 

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The new forum wouldn't let me log in. I reset my password (using the same one as before!!) and it let me in even though it complained the password was weak.

Didn't know adblock is starting to be clamped down on and that makes me very grumpy indeed. It makes the internet (and YouTube in particular) useable. It's bad enough when some websites force you to switch it off to access them.

I'm grumpy about the weather today, it's switching between warm sunshine and torrential rain, wind and hail. FFS

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Tyres on the drive didn’t turn up this morning. I had  a txt and email at 7.30 saying they’d be here between 8 and 12.  I had a haircut at 7 and was back from waitrose dead on 8. Nothing heard by 1pm so I got in touch. Their system says both that the tyres were fitted and that the fitter turned up but couldn’t contact me. Also the fitter apparently drove back to base and resigned. Bets that he just couldn’t be bothered to do any work ?

anyway, they’re now supposed to be coming tomorrow between 12 and 2.

home fitting is supposed to take the stress and effort out of life, not add to it.  

I was going to recommend them, but holding off for now. Time will tell.

 

Also talking to my friend jan this morning as she was cutting my hair she was saying that her partner’s new e350 Mercedes ( he chauffeurs) needed two tyres last week at £180 each! Plus an mot ( needs one for tfl private hire twice a year despite the age), TfL’s own £160 annual test and is now subject to a daily £12 emission charge despite being euro 6 compliant. Something black cabs and buses don’t have to pay. 

 

 

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Halfrauds .... how much !!!

that or inflation has gone potty in a very localised area

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