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

[Count Steer]

Sloppy legislation. The final nail in the coffin of Mamod model steam engines was.....

....anti-terror legislation.

I had a (new) Mamod steam engine in about 1981, and they were using solid fuel then.

I have two questions -
- did 1980s Britain really have this level of anti-terror legislation? (supplemental question: wasn't this prior to everything being "world's gone mad" and all H&S being categorised as "political correctness"?). Surely we were all still enjoying lazy sexism and racism prior to the revolution of transpararent fairness arriving at our doorsteps (before being quickly bundled up into "woke" so we could hate that again and go back to normal).
- why have you left it 40 years to vent your frustration?

Because it was only in 2023 that the hexamine tablets required a licence.

Hexamine fuel tablets
Hexamine fuel tablets have been banned in the UK since October 2023 because the chemicals in the tablets could be used to make explosives. Hobbyists need a license to own the product, and can purchase one from the government website for around £40. Licenses are valid for three years.

[DefTrap]

Because it was only in 2023 that the hexamine tablets required a licence.

Thank God I sold my Mamod about 20 years ago (when it became clear my sons weren't remotely interested ).

A friend has one on top of his kitchen cabinets as an ornament - I might tell him about this infringement of his civil liberties to see if that rile him up. (He is a Paddy though, so he's probably already had his terrorism equipment forcibly removed).

[Cousin Jack]

"Reply All" as the standard response to an e-mail with a loooong distribution list. You should be replying to the originator alone, most of us have no fcuking idea who you are, nor do we care why you are 'special'. I have just had 23 e-mails of which only one, the original, was relevant.

[Noggin]

I watched it in English via vpn
You are clicking on livestream aren't you?

Yes, I was. Obviously did something wrong, but I did try. And, TBF, right now, if it's too complicated I just can't be arsed! Too much else needs the brain cell!! LOL

[Sadlonelygit]

Autodoc........even more than last time!
Big box arrived today. Had a spare hour before dinner, so started to rebuild the Moho rear brakes. Handbrake shoes, a faff but done, disc on. FFS, the locking bolt is wrong. Not insurmountable, but a ballache. Caliper bracket fitted, open box with the new pads in.......hmmm they don't look right. Sure enough, wrong pads. For the time being slapped the old pads back in as a workaround. Of course their customer service is closed now, but tomorrow an ICBM is coming their way!

[Sadlonelygit]

Garages that don't use the right tool and fuck things up for the next bloke!
Last time my back brakes were done, short on time so a garage did them. Carrier bracket is bolted on with 18mm bolts.......
Guess garage/apprentice didn't have an 18, so used a 19, which rounded the bolts off just enough to render a 19 and 18 useless! Had to hammer an imperial socket onto them.

[mangocrazy]

Garages that don't use the right tool and fuck things up for the next bloke!

I had a water pump failure a day or so before I was due to drive back from France to the UK so put the car into the local (French) garage.

The twat decided I needed a new timing belt (it didn't - it had only been changed less than 500km before) and in order to fit it had to remove the crankshaft pulley, which is held on by a 38mm nut. He obviously didn't have a 38mm socket and couldn't be arsed to get one, so removed the nut with a fucking cold chisel.

Then to put the cherry on top, he didn't tighten the belt tensioner up properly and the belt jumped, wrecking the engine - 7 out of 8 valves bent.

[Taipan]

Banks are boiling my piss today for sure. Their push to back a cashless society is so obvious. Been to about 8 cash points today and surprise surprise they all say insufficient funds. I'm onto you fuckers!

[MrLongbeard]

Stripped out a bolt hole in a brake caliper carrier on the car, none to be had at any local scrappies, bleedin' buggery bollox.

[Taipan]

Stripped out a bolt hole in a brake caliper carrier on the car, none to be had at any local scrappies, bleedin' buggery bollox.

I bet you swore worse than that! I would have!

[MrLongbeard]

Stripped out a bolt hole in a brake caliper carrier on the car, none to be had at any local scrappies, bleedin' buggery bollox.

I bet you swore worse than that! I would have!

Surprisingly no, I must be getting old.

[Bigjawa]

Garages that don't use the right tool and fuck things up for the next bloke!
Last time my back brakes were done, short on time so a garage did them. Carrier bracket is bolted on with 18mm bolts.......
Guess garage/apprentice didn't have an 18, so used a 19, which rounded the bolts off just enough to render a 19 and 18 useless! Had to hammer an imperial socket onto them.

Get yourself a set of those spiral sockets for taking off rounded off stuff. They've saved me from throwing stuff across the garage a thousand times.

[Bigjawa]

Granddaughter was due to start primary school this week, she has special needs, epilepsy, some genetic fault and something that sounds like jihadi malformation so the wee woman hasn't her sorrows to seek, she was at the school last week, met her teacher, uniform bought, all ready to go, then the headmistress rings saying she can't attend as the teachers aren't trained to administer the emergency medication if she has a seizure. This is despite MrsJawa asking that specific question on the school visit last week. To rub it in, the school sent pictures of the new class to all the parents. With my granddaughter and another SEN kid absent.

[Sadlonelygit]

Garages that don't use the right tool and fuck things up for the next bloke!
Last time my back brakes were done, short on time so a garage did them. Carrier bracket is bolted on with 18mm bolts.......
Guess garage/apprentice didn't have an 18, so used a 19, which rounded the bolts off just enough to render a 19 and 18 useless! Had to hammer an imperial socket onto them.

Get yourself a set of those spiral sockets for taking off rounded off stuff. They've saved me from throwing stuff across the garage a thousand times.

That's what imperial sockets are for

[Horse]

... jihadi malformation ...

Chiari?

[Bigjawa]

... jihadi malformation ...

Chiari?

That's it, something to do with the base of her skull and spinal column, poor wee woman.

[Count Steer]

More of a wry LOL, but after the rather display of lightning, thunder and torrential rain last night....

....the water has gone off.

(Broken pumping station, they have 'ordered the parts'. ).

[Horse]

Chiari?

That's it, something to do with the base of her skull and spinal column, poor wee woman.

It's what I have. A chunk of brain hangs out the base of the skull. Squishes the spinal cord.

A variation (which I don't have) also includes fluid in the spinal cord.

[Pirahna]

Chiari?

That's it, something to do with the base of her skull and spinal column, poor wee woman.

It's what I have. A chunk of brain hangs out the base of the skull. Squishes the spinal cord.

A variation (which I don't have) also includes fluid in the spinal cord.

A friend of mine banged the back of her head on a car boot getting shopping out. A spinal fluid leak has turned her from one of the fittest women I've ever known into someone who's bedridden. Unfortunately she's in America and is now also bankrupt.

[Horse]

That's it, something to do with the base of her skull and spinal column, poor wee woman.

It's what I have. A chunk of brain hangs out the base of the skull. Squishes the spinal cord.

A variation (which I don't have) also includes fluid in the spinal cord.

A friend of mine banged the back of her head on a car boot getting shopping out. A spinal fluid leak has turned her from one of the fittest women I've ever known into someone who's bedridden.

It was a chest infection that effectively crippled me.

10 days of hacking cough, with the back of my skull karate-chopping my cerebellum every time.

Balance FUBAR, eyes wobbling like a loon, constant headaches, and more. Walking? Tripping over on flat level ground. Almost falling over if I turn around too quickly.