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gremlin wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 9:37 am That the world seems to have an endless capacity for fuckwits...

Man filmed throwing rock at lone grey seal

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Looked to me like he thought it was stranded and he was 'encouraging' it to go back in the Irish sea. No idea that seals like to bask obviously!
He wasn't exactly trying to bash it's brains in!
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Flies - buzz against the window constantly, so I open the window, usher it out, only for the little fucker to fly straight back in again.

Twat.
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gremlin wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 11:29 am Flies - buzz against the window constantly, so I open the window, usher it out, only for the little fucker to fly straight back in again.

Twat.
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Yorick wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 11:30 am
gremlin wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 11:29 am Flies - buzz against the window constantly, so I open the window, usher it out, only for the little fucker to fly straight back in again.

Twat.
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If the cap fits...
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v8-powered wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2024 7:00 pm Our Quooker tap just failed and also the shower in the family bathroom has stopped working too. I sense ££££'s :thumbdown:
Still waiting for Quooker to get back to arrange a service visit, thankfully a 2 year warranty on that!

Shower - another £551.45, 2nd one of our showers that has failed within a few months. Mira must build then with a date chip so they die after 10 years, just wait for the 3rd one to fail now!
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v8-powered wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 11:43 am
v8-powered wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2024 7:00 pm Our Quooker tap just failed and also the shower in the family bathroom has stopped working too. I sense ££££'s :thumbdown:
Still waiting for Quooker to get back to arrange a service visit, thankfully a 2 year warranty on that!

Shower - another £551.45, 2nd one of our showers that has failed within a few months. Mira must build then with a date chip so they die after 10 years, just wait for the 3rd one to fail now!
I fancied one of the Quookers but was warned off it, as apparently they are not known for their reliability? How long have you had yours? Is it the first time its gone wrong? Pleased with it regardless?
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Taipan wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 11:47 am
v8-powered wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 11:43 am
v8-powered wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2024 7:00 pm Our Quooker tap just failed and also the shower in the family bathroom has stopped working too. I sense ££££'s :thumbdown:
Still waiting for Quooker to get back to arrange a service visit, thankfully a 2 year warranty on that!

Shower - another £551.45, 2nd one of our showers that has failed within a few months. Mira must build then with a date chip so they die after 10 years, just wait for the 3rd one to fail now!
I fancied one of the Quookers but was warned off it, as apparently they are not known for their reliability? How long have you had yours? Is it the first time its gone wrong? Pleased with it regardless?
Installed just over a year but at 2 grand, would have expected better reliability wise - first failure to date. Apparently they are the best of the bunch from a reliability POV!
It is a good piece of kit - we have the boiling, filtered chilled and filtered carbonated options. Handy when I WFH and want a cuppa, don't have the faff of waiting for the kettle etc.

Will see wat their service is like now......
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Taipan wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 11:47 am
I fancied one of the Quookers but was warned off it, as apparently they are not known for their reliability? How long have you had yours? Is it the first time its gone wrong? Pleased with it regardless?
I had a Franke one for a while, but after the second once went bollocks-up I fucked it off and bought a kettle.

Great while they work, but not very reliable. We have them at work and the bloke who fixes them is a permanent fixture in the office.
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Look at this section of road on the A1

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.9721227 ... &entry=ttu

No i dont care much what you pro cyclists think as this was just plain fucking stupid. The little white line to the right a couple were cycling up that today heading north to Dunbar. Not only were they on bikes so were the two fucking toddlers they took with them on bikes. The woman may have had a third kid as her bike had the child's add on seat and wheel thing. That is a 70mph road. Main trunk road for trucks coming from England. 60mph trucks and vans. I ended up phoning the police. Woman was unsure if that section was limited or not but was looking into it and if so she would send a car out. Most signs are green but even if allowed what makes folk think this is a good idea. Especially when you have alternative roads ffs.
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Felix wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2024 8:28 pm Look at this section of road on the A1

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.9721227 ... &entry=ttu

No i dont care much what you pro cyclists think as this was just plain fucking stupid. The little white line to the right a couple were cycling up that today heading north to Dunbar. Not only were they on bikes so were the two fucking toddlers they took with them on bikes. The woman may have had a third kid as her bike had the child's add on seat and wheel thing. That is a 70mph road. Main trunk road for trucks coming from England. 60mph trucks and vans. I ended up phoning the police. Woman was unsure if that section was limited or not but was looking into it and if so she would send a car out. Most signs are green but even if allowed what makes folk think this is a good idea. Especially when you have alternative roads ffs.
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Noggin wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2024 8:33 pm

People, even parents, just don't think. I've had parents holding their kids hands but letting them hop on and off the pavement in front of cars or in my case, a large bus :roll: :roll: :angry-cussingblack: The mother in the bus incident couldn't understand why I stopped the bus and got off and suggested (just about politely) that it wasn't a good idea to let her kid jump on to the road in front of a bus. She thought I was the stupid one for over reacting :angry-cussingblack: :angry-cussingblack:
Single parent lass across the road lets her two hang out the 1st floor window. Shouting at the street while chucking toys into the garden. Probably 3 and 5 year old
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The value of secondhand books.

My old (ie read) paperback novels usually go straight to charity shops. Often, it's where they've come from, or on bulk buy from supermarkets.

But I've decided to thin out my grown-up* books.

So downloaded the 'We buy books' app and scanned a few barcodes. Minimum 'sell' is £5.

Several they don't want. The 5 they do total £2.04. Fuggit, they can all go to charity.

* Not really. In amongst the arty stuff there's there's 5 'Far Side' compilations :)

And there's a variety of biking books too.

I can't see it's worth the aggro to EBay any of them.


Edit: couldn't even give some away. Advertised here and elsewhere.

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I remember Amazon paying good money for second hand books. I used to regularly sell to them That was a while ago now though, obviously.

I've looked at few other places in the recent past, like music magpie, for example, and they are offering pennies. I don't bother with all that, I just give them to my brother in law for his car boot sales now.
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I have 3 outlets for books. 2 boxes at a time usually gets ~£30 from We Buy Books, then some that they don't want or are 20p jobs go to Oxfam (quite often they're non-fiction and seem to go quite well in there). Others go to the 'bus stop library'.

The bus stop library is :thumbup: Quite often get a big drop of books from clear outs so there's been stacks of antiques books, pathology/medicine, history etc. They get read or flipped through in some cases and put back the following week. Popped in today and there was a stack of children's stuff inc. games but also some more novels and medical books - some text books but some 'my life as a...' type of thing. (I think someone must have trained as a pathologist). Bagged a couple and have a bunch to take back when there's a bit of shelf space. Brilliant idea.

A local rail station has one with a donations box. Got some good stuff there too. (Tends to be a lot of, what I call 'airport books' though. High volume, low, erm, literary value novels....cheesy romance and Dan Brown knock-off type things).
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I've seriously considered setting up the french porch as an temporary bookshop. Paperbacks are £1. hardbacks are £5. No new stock wanted, exchanges forbidden, anything left after 1 year gets binned.

I tried using paperbacks as fuel in the stove, lots of ash and not much heat.
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cheb wrote: Mon Jul 08, 2024 4:13 pm

I tried using paperbacks as fuel in the stove, lots of ash and not much heat.
Not Fahrenheit 451 then?
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Count Steer wrote: Mon Jul 08, 2024 3:25 pm I have 3 outlets for books. 2 boxes at a time usually gets ~£30 from We Buy Books,
Well, £2 for 5 books means it's some way to go for even their £5 minimum!

One of them is a hardback Pratchett graphic novel. S/h they going for £5-6. Astonishing. Although, I suppose his popularity means plenty available. Just as well I'm not trying to shift Dan Brown paperbacks :)

I'm considering moving on all of my Pratchetts. Most of the Discworld novels, most of them in hardback. Plus some 'science of', etc., Nation, and a couple of others. Might get to £5 ...
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Continuing scanning. Amazingly, offering £3 for one nondescript book 'Tingo'.

But the shocker, for me, is Stirling Moss, by Obert Edwards. Massive coffee table hardback, 350 pages. Not wanted by WBB.

£30 when published in 2001. £4.50 s/h
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WBB can be v strange in their want/don't want algorithms. I don't think they can cope with some of the higher value but smaller market stuff but, on occasion I've gone 'Eh?' when something like a hardback travel book has gone '£7'*

Anything without an ISBN is forget it territory too.

Our Oxfam books lot are red hot on anything vaguely antiquarian though. They have a cabinet of stuff at £30+ which they also have out on the Web - at a slight premium.

I was going to gift them a hardback Frank Miller, Batman graphic novel but wife said 'Hang on' tappity-tappity-tap '£90, put it back on the shelf!'.

PS I picked up a Jasper Fforde book in Oxfam - he's supposed to be a bit Pratchetty.

* So I immediately get Googling of course. :D
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gremlin wrote: Mon Jul 08, 2024 4:26 pm
cheb wrote: Mon Jul 08, 2024 4:13 pm

I tried using paperbacks as fuel in the stove, lots of ash and not much heat.
Not Fahrenheit 451 then?

451 F is only about 230 Celcius - that's barely "warm" for a wood-burner
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