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

[Dodgy69]

How old bike ?

[Cousin Jack]

MOT on the bike today. Expecting no issues, it failed! Rear spring has almost zero damping. Bollocks, expensive bollocks.
Earliest delivery for Honda OEM part is March 23. Perhaps. Double bollocks

Managed to find an aftermarket version for a bit less money, and a lot less wait but still a bloody expensive and inconvenient day.

I bet you didn't price up a yss one via the forums special contact!

No I confess I didn't. Paid full wack for the YSS one, didn't even know we had a contact. I must confess I was happy with Brook Suspension, they sorted me out quickly and efficiently.

[KungFooBob]

Sideshow Pob has a proper YSS service centre, did Cheesy a good deal on a shock for his previous GSXthingy, I think he sorted someone else on here out too.

[Cousin Jack]

And yet again my piss is boiling.

New car for wife ordered for delivery on 28 Feb. New new car, to be registered with private plate. So I need to get new old number from DVLA so the private goes on retention and can be used to register the new vehicle. Fight with website to sort insurance, and surprise, this is all to complicated to do. Call Aviva to sort out so car is covered now while it is on private plate, and next week when it is on age related number, and to transfer cover to new vehicle with same private plate on 28th. Quite happy to pay for changes, and perhaps more for a new car.

Not only can they not do that, they cant even give me a quote for the new vehicle until it is registered. Words fail me!

[Pirahna]

private plate

I stopped caring at that point.

[Count Steer]

At 8am next door's Friday 'gardener' started up his petrol leaf blower...in the woodland. That's probably what he'll be doing all day.

Brrrup, bbrup, brrrpbrrrpbrrrpbrrrup...

It's nearly spring. He must be blowing the same leaves he blew last Friday and the Friday before etc into new locations.

The complete and utter

Wonder if he'd like a batch of size 8 shot in his derriere?

(PS It's not depriving me of sleep, I was up at 6 ).

[Cousin Jack]

At 8am next door's Friday 'gardener' started up his petrol leaf blower...in the woodland. That's probably what he'll be doing all day.

Brrrup, bbrup, brrrpbrrrpbrrrpbrrrup...

It's nearly spring. He must be blowing the same leaves he blew last Friday and the Friday before etc into new locations.

The complete and utter

Wonder if he'd like a batch of size 8 shot in his derriere?

(PS It's not depriving me of sleep, I was up at 6 ).

Wait a bit, he will need to trim around with the brush cutter, and maybe thin out the trees withy the chainsaw.

DAMHIK, I live not far from some woodland.

[Rockburner]

Boiled my piss today was the car deciding to lock up the passenger side window AFTER we dropped the roof to fit something into the rear seats.

Roof is now stuck in the boot and it's miserable out.

Earliest we can get it fixed is Thursday...


Grrargarhagh!

[Jody]

Realising that my insurance company happily insured my 690 SMCR as a 690 Duke, despite having the registration number!

Bmp even more is that for the 9 months left on the policy, ontop of the £130 I already paid, the charge is £130!!

[Rockburner]

Discovering that the 2m foot pump hose I just bought has completely the wrong fitting for the pump.

Hose is allegedly an M8 fitting, pump is larger, more like 10mm across, but the plastic fitting on the old hose fits a 1/4Whit spanner, NOT any metric spanners...

Grumble grumble, probably going to need a new footpump. The old one isn't even that old, it's a Halfords Brass-Bodied unit that can't be more than 20 years old: I know that because I bought the fecking thing new. (I just don't remember when). It works fine, but the original hose is too short.

Also pissed that my eyesight is getting bad enough that, even with specs, trying to use a thread gauge on the hose fitting was futile.

[Pirahna]

foot pump

I have a Makita DMP181Z pump, because I have Makita batteries. Get a battery pump, it's much easier.

[Rockburner]

foot pump

I have a Makita DMP181Z pump, because I have Makita batteries. Get a battery pump, it's much easier.

Tbh, I'm closer to getting a Kismet, I don't always have batteries to hand in the workshop.

[Noggin]

I may have posted this before, but I had the obligatory boob squish at the end of January. It's always a challenge since I moved here as my right arm will not go where the radiographer wants it to. So I have to explain about the shoulder and then try and stand at an angle that makes things kind of ok

So in Jan I did exactly that, explained to the guy that I had a full inverse shoulder replacement. Given that I mostly speak french here, work in french, only speak french with my boyfriend, I'm pretty sure that what I said was very clear and could be understood

I got the emailed report back in early Feb and then the paper version along with the xrays (we have to keep hold of both to go to the next mammogram for comparison - they request the last two).

Only the radiographer has written on the report that goes to my doc, another one and also to the next two radiographers -

< Examen technique difficile du côté droit du fait dune périarthrite chronique invalidante à type d'épaule gelée >

"Difficult technical examination of the right side due to chronic disabling frozen shoulder periarthritis"

FFS - how is << Je ne peux pas lever mon bras comme ça au cause de'une' prothèse totale inversée de l'épaule du côté droit >> confused with chronic frozen shoulder/periarthritis ????

I was asked to do a feedback form after the scan and told them about this error, but no, it's still on the formal report

So I've now emailed the Images Centre direct to ask them to correct it, and explained that I can speak enough French to be understood!!

Not sure if "I fail to understand why . . . " actually translates with the same amount of distain/outrage

But seriously - it's a medical thing. Get the info correct!!



Oh, and if men had to have their balls squished like women have their boobs squished, a better way of checking for problems would have been invented bloody decades ago

[Horse]

Oh, and if men had to have their balls squished like women have their boobs squished, a better way of checking for problems would have been invented bloody decades ago

Ahem. Prostrate checks?

[Saga Lout]

Oh, and if men had to have their balls squished like women have their boobs squished, a better way of checking for problems would have been invented bloody decades ago

Ahem. Prostrate checks?

'Swot I was thinking. More specifically: prostate biopsy.

[Rockburner]

Oh, and if men had to have their balls squished like women have their boobs squished, a better way of checking for problems would have been invented bloody decades ago

Ahem. Prostrate checks?

You do yours lying down?

[gremlin]

'Swot I was thinking. More specifically: prostate biopsy.

Meh. Have TURP, then you'll know prostate shenanigans.

Nothing that wide should go up there. That's all I'm saying.

[Noggin]

Oh, and if men had to have their balls squished like women have their boobs squished, a better way of checking for problems would have been invented bloody decades ago

Ahem. Prostrate checks?

Ahem, Smears!!

FFS, most the guys I know want to try (or regulalry use) the back door yet you whimper about a prostate check That's a finger up the bum right? Zero comparison to a mammogram!!

Ever seen the Ben Elton sketch about smears? Not painful for most women, just uncomfortable. Bloody painful for some and you get treated like you are pathetic if you say it hurts - even when lying there in tears.

Seriously, I'd prefer a prostate check to either a smear or a mammogram!! You bunch of wimps!

Oh, and if men had to have their balls squished like women have their boobs squished, a better way of checking for problems would have been invented bloody decades ago

Ahem. Prostrate checks?

'Swot I was thinking. More specifically: prostate biopsy.

Cervical biopsy? Most women aren't not offered a general for this (even tho google says it's "usually" under GA!) - no idea if this is comparable to a prostate biopsy, but a "hollow needle sample" and "cone shaped sample", well, neither sound nice!


Still not like having a squishy and sensitive part of the body firmly pressed between two bits of metal until you squeal in pain.

The prostate checks and biopsies, well, women have similar stuff to deal with, and yes it's all pretty uncomfortable/nasty.

Squishing bits till the squish causes pain? Tell me you undergo something like that?!!

[Noggin]

'Swot I was thinking. More specifically: prostate biopsy.

Meh. Have TURP, then you'll know prostate shenanigans.

Nothing that wide should go up there. That's all I'm saying.

The traditional resectoscope is a relatively bulky instrument with an outer diameter of 26–27 Fr gauge (8.7–9 mm)

See my above quote!

[Jody]

When people describe bikes or cars as having "Character" Or "Soul". No it doesn't, it's not alive, it doesn't make conscious choices.
These people are only eclipsed by those that refuse to buy EG an Electric car because it doesn't have a soul. Niether does your 15 year old BMW. If you don't want one because you don't want one, that's fine, but don't make shit up. You may aswel say that you don't want a "Whatever" because the tooth fairy said so.