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

[Pirahna]

It's about 9 / 10 inches. It's not that I can't manage it, it's that I don't need that much food.







Have you three given up on reading posts before replying ?

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Tuesday, but I don't think I'll make it to the party.





Soapy £10 to anyone that can tell me the reference !

The gap on the points needs adjusting, if that doesn't work change the condenser.

[Count Steer]

173

Tuesday, but I don't think I'll make it to the party.





Soapy £10 to anyone that can tell me the reference !

The gap on the points needs adjusting, if that doesn't work change the condenser.

Personally, I'd say sod the expense and buy a new gap.

[Pirahna]

Tuesday, but I don't think I'll make it to the party.





Soapy £10 to anyone that can tell me the reference !

The gap on the points needs adjusting, if that doesn't work change the condenser.

Personally, I'd say sod the expense and buy a new gap.

I thought they'd stopped trading?

[Mussels]

Nah. Have it cold for brekky with that half full can you found behind the sofa

As a stoodent, my housemate used to wrap up the remnants of his post-pub-takeaway and just wedge it down the side of the sofa so that he could continue eating it in the morning. How none of us died ....

If you stick it under your pillow it's less likely to go missing before the morning.

[Yorick]

Spanish websites. Just booked ferries to Fuerteventura and took nearly as long as the ferry itself.

I was a programmer for many years and I'd have been sacked if I'd produced the 2 shit sites I had to use today

[Ditchfinder]

I love broad beans, especially in a ham and broad bean risotto, but they are difficult to find fresh in this country (well up north anyway) yet we export or use as animal feed most of what we grow in the UK

https://www.theguardian.com/science/art ... -scientist

[mangocrazy]

I really like broad beans as well, but the only way to get hold of them on a regular basis is in the frozen supermarket aisles. If I ever see them fresh I snap them up, but that doesn't happen often.

They're great in a green Thai curry.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I used to do PYO broad beans with my Mum when I was a kid. I'm gonna see if I can find somewhere to do it with Baby D, now I think on it

I suppose I could just grow them

Those pods look so comfortable inside.

[cheb]

The water stop cock in my house. When the valve is open the lever is across the direction of flow and when closed it's in line with the direction of flow. Aha I thought, I'll take the handle off and rotate in 90 degrees on the shaft. Nope, it has a stadium shaped* driveshaft and socket not a square one.

*A similar shape to the pistons used in the Honda NR750 engine. They aren't oval, ovals are curved all round, stadiums have straight sides.

[Rockburner]

The water stop cock in my house. When the valve is open the lever is across the direction of flow and when closed it's in line with the direction of flow. Aha I thought, I'll take the handle off and rotate in 90 degrees on the shaft. Nope, it has a stadium shaped* driveshaft and socket not a square one.

*A similar shape to the pistons used in the Honda NR750 engine. They aren't oval, ovals are curved all round, stadiums have straight sides.

Weird. I wonder if the internal parts were assembled 90 degrees out somehow? (Or the wrong internals used).

Seems totally counter-intuitive to have the lever aligned that way.

[cheb]

I doubt that much thought went into the manufacturing specs. It's not a quarter turn tap, just the usual windy up and own one.

I dealt with the wrongly aligned quarter turn taps soon after arrival.

[gremlin]

stadiums

Stadia, surely.


And with any mains tap, as long as it turns when needed, then it's a good 'un.

[cheb]

Hypercorrection apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection

Not as bad as shouting 'Bravo' instead of 'Brava' at the opera though.

[Count Steer]

An industrial ceramics academic at Leeds Uni insisted on pronouncing the word as keramics because 'the Greek root is keramos' (potter's earth). He wasn't the only one - it was a bit of an academic snobbery thing for a while.

[cheb]

A bit like surgeons calling themselves Mr or Mrs as historically they weren't physicians.

But then most doctors aren't Doctors.

[Mussels]

I've just had the 6th (I think) visit from the Stoves techs to fix my cooker. Their fault finding methods sounded normal to me so not a big rant about them but the problem turned out to be* loose power cables inside the cooker, not impressed with what is meant to be a premium brand.

* Needs more testing.

[mangocrazy]

The local boulangerie has no bread! None at all! Not one baguette!

Revolutions have started for less in France...

[Mr. Dazzle]

Did they have any cake?

[Taipan]

B&Ms not having any Tingly Teds in!

[mangocrazy]

Did they have any cake?

I had to make do with the last croissant.