The grumpy thread

[horriblemercedes]

8 minutes ago, Spiny Norman said:

It's Glasgow's scumbag SNP/Greenie council, the whole city's like this. Like I say it's not just the odd bad one here & there, every single mile of every single road has some kind of major crater in it. There's a Facebook page called Potholes Make Glasgow (A take of the cooncil's stupid 'People Make Glasgow' slogan) with about 15,000 members which is very nearly 10% of the city's population, and it's full of photos like this. People post up warnings about them and give advice on how to claim for damages but the fashion for wafer thin tyres on 20" RIMMZZZ plays a big part in most of the tales of woe.

 

I still try to dodge the worst of them but these make a huge difference.

 

Geolandar GO15 is one of my favourite tyres ever. Good value, last ages and good on and off road. Great choice 

[Wibble]

11 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

I don't know about my current council, but I lived in Shropshire before this and their tips would take anything for free. Including tyres. 

 

I doubt it was generosity....I assume they had decided that the cost of disposing of it was less than the cost of clearing up after fly tippers 

Crikey! A council that might actually be reading the room and demonstrating common sense? Hold the front page!

[horriblemercedes]

20 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Crikey! A council that might actually be reading the room and demonstrating common sense? Hold the front page!

I've heard that they have regressed since I left, but they were great when I lived there (until 2023)

 

I'm not implying that they regressed because I left, just that policy has changed since then! 

[Wibble]

On 06/03/2025 at 00:22, Wibble said:

I’ll put it outside and see what happens . Wife was worried about getting done for fly tipping but we’ve had plenty of stuff leant against our wall by others which was taken or I ended up taking to the tip. Pisses me off and another reason for cctv to find out who’s doing it.

New machine now installed. What a ball ache. All was fine until it started leaking at the join for the waste. It’s so far away from the sink it has two waste pipes, joined by a bit of copper pipe and jubilee clips.

They were so old they weren’t tightening up enough, having been fine before. Fuck sake! The clips weren’t even metric when I tried a 7mm socket on them. Luckily I had some clips from the Senator’s heater matrix debacle and used these. All is now good and the new machine is working fine. 

All of this would have been much easier if my arms weren’t so fucked. Carrying a washing machine 30 yards from the car didn’t help, so the old one has  been dumped in the back garden, for now. 
 

End result is a new machine, everyone’s happy, my brokenness doesn’t matter.

[Spiny Norman]

3 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

Geolandar GO15 is one of my favourite tyres ever. Good value, last ages and good on and off road. Great choice 

I was hoping for some OMGSNOKAOS this winter so I could go out and play with them but we barely had a flake land.

[Split_Pin]

Speaking of scumbag councils, Falkirk are raising their Council Tax by 15.6% on April 1st. To me that's FORTY QUID a month. Oh well at least I'm in steady and certain employment to be able to afford the increase. Oh wait.....

[New POD]

6 hours ago, Wibble said:

New machine now installed. What a ball ache. All was fine until it started leaking at the join for the waste. It’s so far away from the sink it has two waste pipes, joined by a bit of copper pipe and jubilee clips.

They were so old they weren’t tightening up enough, having been fine before. Fuck sake! The clips weren’t even metric when I tried a 7mm socket on them. Luckily I had some clips from the Senator’s heater matrix debacle and used these. All is now good and the new machine is working fine. 

All of this would have been much easier if my arms weren’t so fucked. Carrying a washing machine 30 yards from the car didn’t help, so the old one has  been dumped in the back garden, for now. 
 

End result is a new machine, everyone’s happy, my brokenness doesn’t matter.

I have found that rolling the old machine is easier than trying to lift it outright.