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Taipan wrote: Sat Jun 12, 2021 3:16 pm Well that's cemented Anglo/Spanish relations! I'll lmao if he is tech inspector at your next track day!

I see you fat fellas stick together

Yorick wrote: Sat Jun 12, 2021 3:39 pm

Taipan wrote: Sat Jun 12, 2021 3:16 pm Well that's cemented Anglo/Spanish relations! I'll lmao if he is tech inspector at your next track day!

I see you fat fellas stick together

It's not like we can run away from each other...

Yorick wrote: Sat Jun 12, 2021 2:24 pm Fat folk. Same all over the world.
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I shouted tu madre se folló a un cerdo.

How lovely.

I reckon that would get you banned on here if it were in English.....

Tricky wrote: Sat Jun 12, 2021 6:31 pm
How lovely.

I reckon that would get you banned on here if it were in English.....

Is that possible or should it have been the father?

Tl;dr

I don't tend to get wound up about much although there's a couple of things that can make me lose my cool quite rapidly. I doubt this latest episode will happen again but it has certainly wound me up over the last two days.

I ordered a new steering box and cable for the boat. I asked the workshop how to measure to get the correct cable length and they told me I should measure the black outer cable of the old one. That was it. But the old cable was too long and it hung down in a big loop and that made the steering heavier than it should be. So I measured for a shorter cable using the old one (which is 15 ft) as a reference. I calculated that I could get away with a 13 ft cable. My bad. The problem is that a 13 ft cable isn't 13 ft long, and a 15 ft cable is not 15 ft long.

When the new kit arrived it had on the box two methods of measuring for the correct cable length, one for a new boat and one for a replacement cable. The new boat method involves taking 3 measurements from the boat all in inches and adding 6". The other method is measure the old cable's outer casing (in inches) and add 18". The new 13 ft cable inside the box is too short. So using the methods on the box I measured again. Using the new boat method I need a 16ft cable (the old one was 15 ft remember) and using the replacement cable method I could, in theory get away with a 13 ft cable. But I can't because the fucker is too short. Google is your friend of course so I checked again and the same methods are recommended.

What to do? I refitted the old cable to the engine and fed it into the consul and laid it next to the steering box. I taped a tape measure to the outside of the cable, measured the whole thing then subtracted the excess. To be safe I then added a bit on. I did this all in cms because I'm not American and I use logical dimensions. I converted the cms to inches, added the 18" the world and his dog told me to and it's 168". If my memory serves me well (it has it's moments) 168" is 14 ft. It's on order and I'll sell the shorter one. Now, there were a lot of things with this boat that have raised questions and I've addressed a lot of them this winter with the modifications I've been doing but wtf would you put a 15 ft cable on when a 14 ft cable is just about spot on? And how come measuring as if it was a new boat a 16 ft cable is correct when a 15 ft cable was too long?

The 14 ft cable that will be here soon had better bloody fit or I'm going to lose it big time.

Try that without specs.

I've taken to shaving my head.

Potter wrote: Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:25 pm

I told her from now on I want some sort of all in one body/hair wash.

When I was a kid we had a bar of soap and it was used for washing face, hands, arse and hair. It worked fine and I have a head of mostly non-grey hair which looks fine to me, at the ripe age of 51, which is at odds with most of my peers. I have requested that we go back to this system at Chez Gremlin, as opposed to the multitude of liquids for washing hands, face and hair, with additional conditioners and 'deep hair treatments', body scrubs, body wash, etc. with the invariable plastic waste that it generates, but so far my request has been met with solid refusal.

I have a dispenser in the shower filled with generic hair/body shower gel, I buy it in bulk and anyone who wants a fancy shampoo/conditioner whatever can sort their own little bottles out.

Potter wrote: Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:25 pm

slowsider wrote: Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:02 pm Try that without specs.

I've taken to shaving my head.

It all came to a head eventually, upon waking I got into the shower and once I was wet I reached for the shampoo, but there was none, so I had to get out, do that funny run/hop/scuttle thing that you do when you're soaking wet and trying not to drip everywhere, all the way over to the other side of the bathroom and then root around in this silly basket thing she has where she keeps all that stuff, I stood there dripping trying to focus on the bottles to see what was what.

I ended up shouting in frustration and she came in and immediately knew exactly what was in what bottle, then she said I was stupid for not knowing.
I got back into the shower ranting and she walked off calling me a twat for being in a bad mood

I told her from now on I want some sort of all in one body/hair wash.

Buy your own.




( I nearly posted that after your first post on this subject but thought, no, he's a sensible adult, he can work that out on his own, surely....)

Rockburner wrote: Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:44 pm

Potter wrote: Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:25 pm

slowsider wrote: Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:02 pm Try that without specs.

I've taken to shaving my head.

It all came to a head eventually, upon waking I got into the shower and once I was wet I reached for the shampoo, but there was none, so I had to get out, do that funny run/hop/scuttle thing that you do when you're soaking wet and trying not to drip everywhere, all the way over to the other side of the bathroom and then root around in this silly basket thing she has where she keeps all that stuff, I stood there dripping trying to focus on the bottles to see what was what.

I ended up shouting in frustration and she came in and immediately knew exactly what was in what bottle, then she said I was stupid for not knowing.
I got back into the shower ranting and she walked off calling me a twat for being in a bad mood

I told her from now on I want some sort of all in one body/hair wash.

Buy your own.

I did that. I found it being used to wash the dog.

I hate bridges and been over this bugger 3 times in last 24 hours.

Gephyrophobic.

Autocorrect in search boxes, just because a brand / generic name / word isn’t in your poxy IOS dictionary Mr Ipad, it doesn’t mean it is wrong or indeed needs changing to a completely different word just as I hit the search button.

My central heating is stuck on.

Nice day for it.

The internet. When Arpanet was first funded by the merkins one of its goals was survivability in the event of a nuclear attack.

Now it appears one bloke with a mini digger in london can take down a huge swathe of it.

wheelnut wrote: Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:33 pm The internet. When Arpanet was first funded by the merkins one of its goals was survivability in the event of a nuclear attack.

Now it appears one bloke with a mini digger in london can take down a huge swathe of it.

Where did he get the nuclear device from?

David wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:32 am

wheelnut wrote: Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:33 pm The internet. When Arpanet was first funded by the merkins one of its goals was survivability in the event of a nuclear attack.

Now it appears one bloke with a mini digger in london can take down a huge swathe of it.

Where did he get the nuclear device from?

No need. Modern networks are way too clever for their own good.

Carefully designed network, with diverse routing on Day 1. No single point of failure.
Day 2, system goes down, and auto-protection re-routes traffic
Day 3, another system goes down, and auto protection does it's thing.
Fast forward 3 years. and no-one has any idea WHERE stuff is routed, it works, and that's ok
Then a digger takes out a link, and if you are really unlucky it is a critical link that forms a single point of failure.

'Tis the price of being uber-reliable 99.99% of the time, the other 0.1% is shit.

Local councils that just don't understand customer service.
It's not that the bin men refused to empty my garden waste but that I can't dispute their mistake, because they said no the computer says no. I have no choice who provides my services so they don't care.

My memory sucks!

Went to get a coffee yesterday after class. Asked a couple of girls that were sat at one end of a table if I could sit at the other. Then, when they said 'Hi Smixxy" realised that they were not french and I should know them!!

We chatted for quite a long time, with one of them offering to meet to chat in French when she is back from a trip next week

Eventually they left and the one that is going to meet to chat in French said she'd message me on FB to catch up


The whole time I was talking I was thinking, I'll remember who they are in a minute!!!! I didn't

So, I can't search for them on Fb, cos I don't know who they are!!

Can't sort out meeting, unless she messages


AND - feel really daft cos we had a fab conversation between the three of us and yet I have zero idea who they are!!!

Mussels wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 12:41 pm Local councils that just don't understand customer service.

Or anything at all.

Our main road, which we live on, is being resurfaced (which is good, it needs it!), they closed about a mile stretch last night at 10:00 sharp, our house being bang in the middle of that section.

We WOULD have been past the closure point on time (we knew it was happening), but there was ANOTHER road closure (which we didn't know about because it's 'just' outside our council's boundary) only a couple of miles away that had a 5 mile diversion which meant we were NOT early enough to get past the closure on our road at the closest end!

Cue an hour of trying to find the closest possible point we could park (including talking our way into the closed section of road - they were only tearing up 100yards of it), and then walking the rest at 11pm!