Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[MingtheMerciless]

New GoreTex bike jacket day and yes it rained on me on the commute this morning! Boo!

[Ant]

A second one from me....

The yoof of today, they can't bloody count !!

Bought a baguette €1.10, gave the guy €1 coin and a 50 cent coin. He stared at them for far too long, then chucked them in the till, took waaaaaay to long to work out how much the change should be, then got it wrong. I left 10 cent short (I think I can cope) shaking my head in disbelief.

I was in a shop during a power cut so the electric till wasn't working. The lady in front of me was buying a couple of items, batteries, I think, @ £2.99 each. The employee at the till used a calculator to work out the total. The customer looked at me with a as if to say "Did she really need a calculator to work out 3 + 3?"

That was in the early 90s. The employee was in her 20s so she's now in her 50s (and probably still uses a calculator to work out 3+ 3). It's not just today's yoofs wot can't count.

It's not just yoofs that can't count. You said it's 2.99, then said 3+3

[JamJar]

It's not just yoofs that can't count. You said it's 2.99, then said 3+3

Lol I was thinking exactly the same thing

[slowsider]

I'll type this slowly for you both...

£3 + £3 - 2p is an easier mental calculation than £2.99 + £2.99.

[Horse]

Not so much a BMP as a WTF with some people

I'm having a bonfire in my garden
I'm tired, it's late, I'm going to bed
Put it out? Nah
Yes, there's a shed next to the bonfire. So what?
Yes there's a gas cylinder in the shed

1.30 this morning ...

Boom

[Noggin]

I'll type this slowly for you both...

£3 + £3 - 2p is an easier mental calculation than £2.99 + £2.99.

Yup - that's how I was taught to add up when I was about 13 or 14! By the barman in the sailing club, not sure my dad appreciated!

[gremlin]

I'll type this slowly for you both...

£3 + £3 - 2p is an easier mental calculation than £2.99 + £2.99.

Yup - that's how I was taught to add up when I was about 13 or 14! By the barman in the sailing club, not sure my dad appreciated!

I remember the days when the barman used to look at your order assembled on the bar, point at each one in turn whispering some incantation along the lines of, 'One-sixty, one's a sixty, two's a three twenty, four's a four a four, nineteen, twenty five's a five....call if £5.70, Gov'.

[JamJar]

I'll type this slowly for you both...

£3 + £3 - 2p is an easier mental calculation than £2.99 + £2.99.

Yeah but he didn't write £3 + £3 - 2p did he

[Noggin]

I'll type this slowly for you both...

£3 + £3 - 2p is an easier mental calculation than £2.99 + £2.99.

Yeah but he didn't write £3 + £3 - 2p did he

Probably didn't think he needed to!!! LOL

[Jody]

I went to fill my camper with fuel today.

The €120 limit for paying by card is no longer enough to fill the tank

[Ant]

I went to fill my camper with fuel today.

The €120 limit for paying by card is no longer enough to fill the tank

Even when it was £1.20 per litre, the £99 limit would only just be enough to get me a full tank in the estate car.

[Jody]

Finally got back to the rescue centre yesterday after not being able to go due to vehicles failing.

When I got there they asked, what had happened, why hadn't I been in touch. I showed them the reply I sent to their email a fortnight ago, that explained that my vehicles were broken and I'd be back ASAP.

It turns out that my reply wasn't seen and in the meantime the dog I liked has been promised to someone else

[gremlin]

My Franke boiling water tap. A few years back the heater unit packed up, so I forked out a few hundred quid for a new one. That one has now, I suspect, scaled up inside as the flow has reduced to a trickle over the last few months. You can't take them apart, for obvious reasons, and you can't descale them. Basically, it's destined for the tip.

Given that they have the life expectancy of an average kettle, but cost around ten times as much, I'll be going back to a kettle.

[Skub]

It's been 10 days since I last had a chance to ride the bike. It rains every bloody 20 minutes. No end in sight for the coming week either.

Sigh.

[Pirahna]

It's been 10 days since I last had a chance to ride the bike. It rains every bloody 20 minutes. No end in sight for the coming week either.

Sigh.

I've been in Roscommon for the last 4 weeks, the weather has been rubbish since I arrived. Fine today though so I'm working in the old mans garden.

[slowsider]

It's been 10 days since I last had a chance to ride the bike. It rains every bloody 20 minutes. No end in sight for the coming week either.

Sigh.

Where is it you live again?

[Silly Car]

I went to fill my camper with fuel today.

The €120 limit for paying by card is no longer enough to fill the tank

Even when it was £1.20 per litre, the £99 limit would only just be enough to get me a full tank in the estate car.

I was going to say the same, I’ve been hitting the £99 limit for months on an empty tank, in recent weeks it has just been more depressing given what has been left in the tank when I’ve hit the limit.

[Skub]

It's been 10 days since I last had a chance to ride the bike. It rains every bloody 20 minutes. No end in sight for the coming week either.

Sigh.

Where is it you live again?

The friggin' rain forest.

[Yambo]

My Franke boiling water tap. A few years back the heater unit packed up, so I forked out a few hundred quid for a new one. That one has now, I suspect, scaled up inside as the flow has reduced to a trickle over the last few months. You can't take them apart, for obvious reasons, and you can't descale them. Basically, it's destined for the tip.

Given that they have the life expectancy of an average kettle, but cost around ten times as much, I'll be going back to a kettle.

Our water here is awful and I (and just about all residents in the village) spend far too much time and effort de-scaling stuff. Luckily we can buy good chemicals locally, even in the supermarkets although I buy 5 litre containers of generic stuff rather than the brand name 1 litre bottles.

It's basically hydrochloric acid which is the ideal stuff to get rid of the lime scale in kettles etc (I'm originally from Dover so I grew up with lime scale) and I have developed various techniques to deal with odd shaped bits of kit - it's tricky to de-scale the tap spout filters for example but with a bit of ingenuity . . .

I suspect I could clean out your boiler tap and give it a few more years of life in a couple of hours. The first thing I'd try is removing it, seal the outlet pipe and the fill it from the inlet side with hydrochloric acid. You should be able to get the acid from a chemist. I wouldn't leave the acid in the tap too long, more flushes and refills being better than one long flush. It can all be flushed down the sink. If that didn't work I'd certainly find another way but hydrochloric acid is the stuff to use. The supermarket de-scaler stuff here is called PorÇoz and you're not going to get it in UK, the nanny state won't allow it but you should be able to buy hydrochloric acid locally. It's the acid in your gut, by the way.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Have to say our water softener is doing a stand up job. We waited to get it before redoing the bathrooms, a year in said bathrooms are still scale free despite our tap water being harder than Phil Mitchell.