eddyramrod Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 I've calmed down a bit now... By 1pm today I had decided that I didn't want to go out in the car again! People have been randomly throwing themselves across the road in front of my car (and then taking all fucking day to cross the road they've just jumped onto), or with a vehicle at their disposal, appearing from nowhere in droves to fill up any road I might be trying to join. It would be very, very easy on the evidence of today to assume that I'm being deliberately targeted. Doctormop and Remspoor 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazoli Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 1 hour ago, eddyramrod said: I've calmed down a bit now... By 1pm today I had decided that I didn't want to go out in the car again! People have been randomly throwing themselves across the road in front of my car (and then taking all fucking day to cross the road they've just jumped onto), or with a vehicle at their disposal, appearing from nowhere in droves to fill up any road I might be trying to join. It would be very, very easy on the evidence of today to assume that I'm being deliberately targeted. Sorry Eddy I had a wander around Barrow centre today and drove around for a bit checking a couple of buildings out, sorry for the inconvenience I wasn't paying a great deal of attention 😀 Doctormop, myglaren and eddyramrod 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 Made the mistake of having a poke at some grot on the Renault 6. Oh dear. Turns out that a section of floorpan which I had thought was solid had actually been lovingly sculpted out of wob. sdkrc, AnnoyingPentium, fairkens and 9 others 1 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 Double grump. One is my fault, one isn't. We've had a slow puncture on the BINI for a couple of weeks and the fronts were getting a bit low, so I took it to the local tyre place having ordered a pair of Falkens online. Got there and had forgotten that it needs run-flat tyres (ideally) so it ended up costing me £25 more a corner than I originally thought it would. Not their fault and they're really good - just annoying. Against my better judgement I then took it to the hand car wash in Morrisons. I usually avoid these places for a number of reasons but I didn't have the energy to give it a clean and my other half was paying as she's taking friends out in it in the week and our dog is a shedder. When it came out, the airbag warning light was on. Twats there fobbed me off (no point in arguing with them) and only wanted to be paid in cash (so are on the fiddle because they definitely have a card machine). The best I got out of them is that the under-seat connector may have got wet when they steam cleaned the car. Other than that they just shrugged and tried to claim that it could happen 'at any time'. Yeah, fuck off pal. Now, that can happen and they might be completely correct - but that doesn't help. I wasn't in the mood to argue about a refund, etc. because I would have just got angry but from reading, it looks like the airbag warning can only be reset with a code reader. So I've had to book it into a garage on Monday morning. I'll get shafted for that too, probably. Not a garage I'm familiar with but they're the only ones with availability (probably a bad sign). So we'll see. My other half won't drive it with the airbag light on (they'll be switched off) so I had to fix the driver seat in my Golf and then clean the inside and out. I wouldn't have usually bothered but she's been invited to go and meet with a potential new employer on Monday after applying for a job with them and arriving in my filthy Golf will set a terrible first impression. I'm now absolutely fucking knackered now, probably dehydrated and I wasn't exactly feeling a spring in my step when I woke up this morning to begin with. Fucking cars. At least it got me out of mowing an overgrown and damp 1/3rd of an acre. Rust Collector, Datsuncog and myglaren 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 I wish someone did home delivery breville sandwiches, no fucker eats them all the time but everyone gets a craving sometime, yeah that's me tonight and we threw our breville out a year ago GrumpiusMaximus, AnnoyingPentium and adw1977 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 You can say that again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 2 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said: You can say that again. Sorry, I had a bit of a stutter AnnoyingPentium, PicantoJon and GrumpiusMaximus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieman Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 Called at the local pharmacy earlier this evening to get some throat sweets and my neighbour's daughter was just finishing her shift in there, having recently started working there at weekends while doing her A-levels. As I was leaving her dad arrived to pick her up, and apparently he takes her there and back for every shift...my grump is, the place is less than ten minutes' walk from our houses! I thought getting part time work was meant to teach you a bit of independence. Remspoor, 5speedracer, GrumpiusMaximus and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 57 minutes ago, omegod said: I wish someone did home delivery breville sandwiches, no fucker eats them all the time but everyone gets a craving sometime, yeah that's me tonight and we threw our breville out a year ago Even grumpier now as there are at least 5 shiters not too far away from me and not one of the bastards has offered to bring me a breville toastie, this place has gone the dogs 😒😁 mitsisigma01, PicantoJon, twosmoke300 and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 6 minutes ago, omegod said: Even grumpier now as there are at least 5 shiters not too far away from me and not one of the bastards has offered to bring me a breville toastie, this place has gone the dogs 😒😁 Now that's an idea. If you'd asked sooner I would be under the drink drive limit. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 Grump. My 34 year old flymo has erm failed to proceed. Coprolalia, hennabm, Remspoor and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 1 hour ago, omegod said: I wish someone did home delivery breville sandwiches, no fucker eats them all the time but everyone gets a craving sometime, yeah that's me tonight and we threw our breville out a year ago I'd do it, but by the time I arrived you'd have been able to go to Argos and buy a machine and have made you and your extended family some toasties. GrumpiusMaximus, PicantoJon and Tenmil Socket 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 1 minute ago, AnnoyingPentium said: I'd do it, but by the time I arrived you'd have been able to go to Argos and buy a machine and have made you and your extended family some toasties. I'm on my own in the house, if he drives up the M57 he can be here in 30 mins. I would make him two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 6 minutes ago, New POD said: Grump. My 34 year old flymo has erm failed to proceed. AnnoyingPentium, Remspoor, Rust Collector and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 14 minutes ago, New POD said: I'm on my own in the house, if he drives up the M57 he can be here in 30 mins. I would make him two. With the new bypass I could do it in 20 , the urge has passed now but I'm going to Argos tomorrow !!!!! New POD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 Can you not just butter a couple of slices, shove some cheese into an inside out sandwich and drop them into a hot dry pan? Far better than anything that ever came out of a Breville. NorfolkNWeigh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 3 minutes ago, barefoot said: Can you not just butter a couple of slices, shove some cheese into an inside out sandwich and drop them into a hot dry pan? Far better than anything that ever came out of a Breville. Wash your mouth out ! PicantoJon and barefoot 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWeldedShut Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 49 minutes ago, New POD said: If you'd asked sooner I would be under the drink drive limit. Sorry. yes but then again, you are in Scotland? No? Where an opened bottle of whisky in the room is enough to trip the limit (Never mind the inhaled fume from a Toastie) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 1 hour ago, New POD said: Grump. My 34 year old flymo has erm failed to proceed. Need some of this. New POD, PicantoJon, MiniMinorMk3 and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 3 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said: Double grump. One is my fault, one isn't. We've had a slow puncture on the BINI for a couple of weeks and the fronts were getting a bit low, so I took it to the local tyre place having ordered a pair of Falkens online. Got there and had forgotten that it needs run-flat tyres (ideally) so it ended up costing me £25 more a corner than I originally thought it would. Not their fault and they're really good - just annoying. Against my better judgement I then took it to the hand car wash in Morrisons. I usually avoid these places for a number of reasons but I didn't have the energy to give it a clean and my other half was paying as she's taking friends out in it in the week and our dog is a shedder. When it came out, the airbag warning light was on. Twats there fobbed me off (no point in arguing with them) and only wanted to be paid in cash (so are on the fiddle because they definitely have a card machine). The best I got out of them is that the under-seat connector may have got wet when they steam cleaned the car. Other than that they just shrugged and tried to claim that it could happen 'at any time'. Yeah, fuck off pal. Now, that can happen and they might be completely correct - but that doesn't help. I wasn't in the mood to argue about a refund, etc. because I would have just got angry but from reading, it looks like the airbag warning can only be reset with a code reader. So I've had to book it into a garage on Monday morning. I'll get shafted for that too, probably. Not a garage I'm familiar with but they're the only ones with availability (probably a bad sign). So we'll see. My other half won't drive it with the airbag light on (they'll be switched off) so I had to fix the driver seat in my Golf and then clean the inside and out. I wouldn't have usually bothered but she's been invited to go and meet with a potential new employer on Monday after applying for a job with them and arriving in my filthy Golf will set a terrible first impression. I'm now absolutely fucking knackered now, probably dehydrated and I wasn't exactly feeling a spring in my step when I woke up this morning to begin with. Fucking cars. At least it got me out of mowing an overgrown and damp 1/3rd of an acre. That doesn't make total sense because SRS is a self test system. So the light should go off and the system re-enable although the code may still stay. May sound silly, are the interior lights working? Disconnect the battery, wait however long you deem for nuns and kittens to be safe (🙂) disconnect the under seat connectors and spray some electrical cleaner in there, and reconnect. Then reconnect the battery. That should clear the light. chaseracer and GrumpiusMaximus 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 4 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said: That doesn't make total sense because SRS is a self test system. So the light should go off and the system re-enable although the code may still stay. May sound silly, are the interior lights working? Disconnect the battery, wait however long you deem for nuns and kittens to be safe (🙂) disconnect the under seat connectors and spray some electrical cleaner in there, and reconnect. Then reconnect the battery. That should clear the light. That's incredibly helpful, I'll take a look tomorrow. Thank you. I have already tried disconnecting the airbag connectors and re-connecting but I'll give it another go (and disconnect the battery this time...). RoverFolkUs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 2 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said: That's incredibly helpful, I'll take a look tomorrow. Thank you. Basically what I'm saying is, as soon as the fault is rectified (if it is just a dodgy connection under the seat) - the system should detect it during its self test and switch the light off the next time you cycle the ignition. And with the battery being disconnected it will only help. And the interior light question is in reference to the habit that BMWs have of blowing the interior light fuse and triggering an airbag light because the switch tell tale lamp is on the same circuit (!!) I don't know if minis are the same because I haven't come across it on a mini, but it wouldn't at all surprise me. GrumpiusMaximus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 3 hours ago, omegod said: Even grumpier now as there are at least 5 shiters not too far away from me and not one of the bastards has offered to bring me a breville toastie, this place has gone the dogs 😒😁 Take it round your neighbours, shirley one would squash and scorch it for you? myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 8 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said: That doesn't make total sense because SRS is a self test system. So the light should go off and the system re-enable although the code may still stay. May sound silly, are the interior lights working? Disconnect the battery, wait however long you deem for nuns and kittens to be safe (🙂) disconnect the under seat connectors and spray some electrical cleaner in there, and reconnect. Then reconnect the battery. That should clear the light. On our R50, once the airbag warning light was on, the only way of getting it off was with a code reader. (never tried disconnecting the battery) If the passenger seat was as far back as it goes and someone got into the rear seat, and kicked the cable, whilst the ignition was on, that was the cue for the light to go on. GrumpiusMaximus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 10 hours ago, barefoot said: Can you not just butter a couple of slices, shove some cheese into an inside out sandwich and drop them into a hot dry pan? Far better than anything that ever came out of a Breville. I am sending a hitman to put you right. Permanently. PicantoJon and myglaren 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 10 hours ago, omegod said: With the new bypass I could do it in 20 , the urge has passed now but I'm going to Argos tomorrow !!!!! I went to argos yesterday. For this https://www.argos.co.uk/product/6144472 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 12 hours ago, barefoot said: Can you not just butter a couple of slices, shove some cheese into an inside out sandwich and drop them into a hot dry pan? Far better than anything that ever came out of a Breville. barefoot, RoverFolkUs, PicantoJon and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 M56. Junctions 11 and 12. Avoid. Motorway is closed. The area around Warrington looks like the end of the film deep impact. A bridge on the A533 is being demolished this weekend. Given the length of time it has taken I assumed the bastard had been demolished last year. I have no idea why civil engineering projects can take so long in this country. Anybody who lives or works in St Helens will know that the bull and dog roundabout looks like a branch of Huws Gray with little or nothing getting done on it. The roads are becoming so bad I avoid driving if possible - even the thought of a blast on the bike does nothing for me any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 On 5/13/2023 at 7:05 PM, omegod said: I wish someone did home delivery breville sandwiches, no fucker eats them all the time but everyone gets a craving sometime, yeah that's me tonight and we threw our breville out a year ago I do toasties in the George Foreman grill, not as good as a proper toastie maker, but means I don't have to keep a separate device. 😊 Richard_FM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 1 hour ago, Fennec said: I do toasties in the George Foreman grill, not as good as a proper toastie maker, but means I don't have to keep a separate device. 😊 Same here when I used to be able to go home for lunch from my old job. It was a model with removable plates, so I could easily get all the melted cheese off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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