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

[mangocrazy]

Hah! you added the missing zero before I could get in and post...

[KungFooBob]

Hah! you added the missing zero before I could get in and post...

I was too busy thinking how to get this view to avoid typos.

[ChrisW]

I'm slightly annoyed that I'm at least 10.25m euro short to buy this...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86550039

Get the stamps valued, you might be rich!

[Yorick]

Farking wanker cyclists. Don't mean the average cyclists.
No, the elite cyclists who come to train here in winter months and think they own the roads. Ride in groups of 20 to 30, blocking passage and creating big tail backs on hilly roads.
And still ride flat out through town after the main ride, ignoring families on holidays with kids. No-one likes them. Arrogant pricks.

Today i set off on my usual ride. First mile dirt path, then join the road into town. I saw a big group of about 30 heading my way, but pulled out in plenty of time and pulled to the right kerb.
The first few passed me just before a right turn, then suddenly turned right before me and whole pack followed.
I had to jam on and put both feet down to stop hitting the road. I could hear them all laughing.

But I guessed where they were going and they had to negotiate a busy junction and a roundabout.
I knew a shortcut on dirt path so arrived just before them at the zebra crossing.
Pushed the bike out and slowly followed, blocking the whole road

Nobody fell off, but was carnage

I laughed just as loud as they did.

[gremlin]

DIY in general, plumbing specifically.

Ripped out the Gremlinette's room and en-suite when she buggered off to uni. That was back in September and it's been sat there ever since in a state of dusty abandonment.

I went in there today to see where I need to pick up from and ended up offering up the new low-level shower tray to the wall. Although we specified the waste in the same location, different brands have their own designs and of course, the Law of Sod says the new waste sits right over a joist where two 22mm pipes from the boiler run right next to it.

Having sat and looked despondently at it for a while, I video called the F-I-L, who is a bit of a handyman, and he laughed and confirmed my opinion of the situation succinctly with the comment, 'You're a bit fucked there son'.

Pondering my options, I could take the floor up and reroute the waste, no doubt encountering various joists and pipes, or I could go the lazy route and see if the plumber's merchant will take back the shower tray for a raised one. I don't particularly like raised shower trays, but it's only for the Gremlinette, so I'm kinda coming round to them.

[cheb]

I'm working my way through some rather strange services installations. Odd, some of the house has been thought through to the nth, other parts have been flung together.

The shower tray where you can't get to the trap to clean it isn't high on the list of fun.

[Skub]

DIY in general, plumbing specifically.

Ripped out the Gremlinette's room and en-suite when she buggered off to uni. That was back in September and it's been sat there ever since in a state of dusty abandonment.

I went in there today to see where I need to pick up from and ended up offering up the new low-level shower tray to the wall. Although we specified the waste in the same location, different brands have their own designs and of course, the Law of Sod says the new waste sits right over a joist where two 22mm pipes from the boiler run right next to it.

Having sat and looked despondently at it for a while, I video called the F-I-L, who is a bit of a handyman, and he laughed and confirmed my opinion of the situation succinctly with the comment, 'You're a bit fucked there son'.

Pondering my options, I could take the floor up and reroute the waste, no doubt encountering various joists and pipes, or I could go the lazy route and see if the plumber's merchant will take back the shower tray for a raised one. I don't particularly like raised shower trays, but it's only for the Gremlinette, so I'm kinda coming round to them.

Get a boi in.

[gremlin]

Get a boi in.

If I could find one, I would. Plumbers are like unicorns so either try to take the piss (see my earlier posts - 30k nigh-on for a bathroom refresh) or sayvthey can take a look some time in the next millennium.

[KungFooBob]

Plumbing is a piece of piss, just make sure you've got a shit load of PTFE tape and a large tub of plumbers mait.

[gremlin]

Plumbing is a piece of piss, just make sure you've got a shit load of PTFE tape and a large tub of plumbers mait.

You forget mention slathering everything in sealant, just to be on the safe side.

[Noggin]

Taxi drivers.

Ok, I was one (briefly) but it was too annoying.

Anyway, one of the Mini-jawas got a taxi from Belfast with a friend and the driver fell asleep at the wheel and banged a kerb, cops were actually following him because he was all over the road and it turned out that he had been driving for something like 19 hours straight.

I have a tacho in my truck and the coaches I've driven and it boils my pish that taxis don't have set drivers hours either. Judging by the standard of taxi driving in this country, half of them must be dead on their feet.

And no, I don't appreciate getting hauled out of bed at 2am to drive from Ballymena to Holywood to get the girls home.

Rant over.

Bloody hell. Hope the girls were ok.

I have often wondered about that as I regularly drive over 8 hours on a weekend day and am usually out (even if not driving) for over 12 hours. But I also know my limits and so am quite careful what I do either side of the weekend and the only thing I really fail at is adequate food and water.

But I do think there should be more than working hours guidelines for drivers of smaller vehicles that are used for transporting customers.

I did learn the driving hours a few years ago when I did the CPC and transport manager courses - looks like I’ll be doing them again but in French (well, the CPC, not the manager one) so it’ll be good to get a refresh - and also to drive something with regulated hours!!!

It is really quite scary how little regulation there is for a driver with passengers if the vehicle isn’t HGV

I've done that before and set off with 2 pairs of sunglasses on

I do that a lot. But mostly cos I have a pair of dark glasses I use as a hairband - and then use other glasses for driving/sun glasses in resort

[MrLongbeard]

A bloody cracked windscreen, FFS it only gets used 1 day a week

[Felix]

A bloody cracked windscreen, FFS it only gets used 1 day a week

Its what i am wanting TBH. Bloody thing has wiper blade scratches making it hard to see at night. Fucked if im paying 300 quid for a new one.

[Count Steer]

A bloody cracked windscreen, FFS it only gets used 1 day a week

Its what i am wanting TBH. Bloody thing has wiper blade scratches making it hard to see at night. Fucked if im paying 300 quid for a new one.

Most insurance policies include free windscreen replacement...or they used to. Have things changed?

[MrLongbeard]

A bloody cracked windscreen, FFS it only gets used 1 day a week

Its what i am wanting TBH. Bloody thing has wiper blade scratches making it hard to see at night. Fucked if im paying 300 quid for a new one.

That's cheap mine is £750

Most insurance policies include free windscreen replacement...or they used to. Have things changed?

Free they ain't, you have to cover the excess.
Rushes out to check my what my excess is set at....

[v8-powered]

Screen has just gone in my lads Focus - £115 excess for glass now.....

[MrLongbeard]

Rushes out to check my what my excess is set at....

60 quid, that's not three bad.

[Felix]

A bloody cracked windscreen, FFS it only gets used 1 day a week

Its what i am wanting TBH. Bloody thing has wiper blade scratches making it hard to see at night. Fucked if im paying 300 quid for a new one.

Most insurance policies include free windscreen replacement...or they used to. Have things changed?

Im hanging off with that just now as i not long got the car. Summer is coming so will be less night driving soon

[Felix]

Rushes out to check my what my excess is set at....

60 quid, that's not three bad.

I am 70 on my camperbus. Car is through the same company so i will presume the same

[Pirahna]

Not boiling my piss, more amusing. I get marketing emails from a Spanish oil company called Cespa so thought I'd unsubscribe, I didn't want to put them in spam as I might need emails from them in the future.

My unsubscribe request has been raised as a low level dispute in whatever system they have, so now I get a daily update on the progress of the dispute. Fuck knows how long it'll take to get sorted.