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Cousin Jack wrote: Tue Jun 13, 2023 11:04 am

Count Steer wrote: Mon Jun 12, 2023 8:51 pm

Cousin Jack wrote: Mon Jun 12, 2023 8:47 pm What is the going rate for punkah wallahs? No one wants the job around here.

Dunno Jack. They came with the house. Seem happy enough.

Ooh, modern slavery!

Hardly. They only have to work about 3 weeks a year. Spend most of their time playing kabbadi and raiding the fridge.

Count Steer wrote: Tue Jun 13, 2023 11:56 amSpend most of their time playing kabbadi

With their bud bud bud bud buddies?

We’re paying twice for the same experience’: Plus-size travelers hit out at ‘discriminatory’ airline seat policies

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/travel/article/ ... index.html


FFS. So you stuff your face with Ginsters all your life, then complain you're being discriminated against as the airline charges you for the two seats you need to occupy.

She says, “I kind of knew that planes were not built for people like me by the time I was 12,” she says, recalling trying to tuck her seatbelt underneath her stomach so that flight attendants couldn’t see that she hadn’t been able to buckle it."

If, at the age of twelve you can't get a seatbelt on, maybe you need to have a long, hard think about your lifestyle choices....

gremlin wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 9:13 am We’re paying twice for the same experience’: Plus-size travelers hit out at ‘discriminatory’ airline seat policies

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/travel/article/ ... index.html


FFS. So you stuff your face with Ginsters all your life, then complain you're being discriminated against as the airline charges you for the two seats you need to occupy.

She says, “I kind of knew that planes were not built for people like me by the time I was 12,” she says, recalling trying to tuck her seatbelt underneath her stomach so that flight attendants couldn’t see that she hadn’t been able to buckle it."

If, at the age of twelve you can't get a seatbelt on, maybe you need to have a long, hard think about your lifestyle choices....

Maybe if you can't do your belt at 12 you have been abused!

JamJar wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 9:24 am

Maybe if you can't do your belt at 12 you have been abused!

This is very true. I often see supermarket trollies stuffed to the gunwales with ultra-processed shit, fizzy drinks laden with sugar, confectionery of all description and devoid of any fruit, veg or basic cooking ingredients, being pushed by morbidly-obese parents, followed by their waddling offspring, looking like over-stuffed sausages in sportswear. It's long-term child abuse.

(Actually, I don't often see it as there are no Asda supermarkets near me)

gremlin wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 9:32 am

JamJar wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 9:24 am

Maybe if you can't do your belt at 12 you have been abused!

This is very true. I often see supermarket trollies stuffed to the gunwales with ultra-processed shit, fizzy drinks laden with sugar, confectionery of all description and devoid of any fruit, veg or basic cooking ingredients, being pushed by morbidly-obese parents, followed by their waddling offspring, looking like over-stuffed sausages in sportswear. It's long-term child abuse.

(Actually, I don't often see it as there are no Asda supermarkets near me)

LOL Couldn't be more RTTL if it tried...

weeksy wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 9:50 am
LOL Couldn't be more RTTL if it tried...

Too stinky?

Most of my town has been without water for three days now, the water company is blaming over-use by residents in the hot weather.
Nothing to do with the river of water I saw running down the main road yesterday then? It was spraying out from behind kerb stones.

Mussels wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 10:15 am Most of my town has been without water for three days now, the water company is blaming over-use by residents in the hot weather.
Nothing to do with the river of water I saw running down the main road yesterday then? It was spraying out from behind kerb stones.

We've had a small river running down a local road for over 12 months now. (It's about 50 yards from the covered reservoir that they keep having to fill up using road tankers). It made the road interesting during the cold weather. Thames Water have a semi-permanent bottled water station in the next village/town - there always seems to be somewhere in the locality that's off supply.

If only they were as good with water supply as they are with pumping crap into rivers/the sea. Privatisation is - my arse. Harrumph.

weeksy wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 9:50 am

gremlin wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 9:32 am (Actually, I don't often see it as there are no Asda supermarkets near me)

LOL Couldn't be more RTTL if it tried...

That's a Lidl known fact.

Aldi best stuff comes from other supermarkets anyway.

I usually have some sympathy with water companies but by their own admission SE water has plenty in the reservoirs, they just can't distribute processed water quickly enough.
I'm in the worst hit area where many have been without water for several days, I saw a river flowing down the main road a couple of days ago from a burst water main.
Blaming it all on consumers is taking the right piss.

BBC wrote:South East Water said it had no choice after demand for drinking water had reached "record levels" in June.

It said customers had used a similar amount of water as in the drought last year, adding: "Despite asking for customers help to use water for essential uses only, regrettably we've now been left with no choice."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-65927032

Went for a day out on the bike yesterday. Arrived home to find that the rear seat pad had departed on the ride home. If someone finds a Honda seat pad somewhere betwen Tiverton and Nanpean it is mine.

Even more annoying is that it should need the key to remove it, and has not been touched for weeks.

Cousin Jack wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 3:36 pm Went for a day out on the bike yesterday. Arrived home to find that the rear seat pad had departed on the ride home. If someone finds a Honda seat pad somewhere betwen Tiverton and Nanpean it is mine.

Even more annoying is that it should need the key to remove it, and has not been touched for weeks.

Did you hit any particularly big bumps?

I've seen it happen before, they're not always the best fitting device.

On my first Flash tour, Flash himself lost the 'tray' from his R1100GS, Just as we were leaving a town, and the group of 11 was bunched up behind him: the tray flew in the air and scythed through the group at head height! (no idea how it didn't hit anyone)! IIRC one of us turned back and picked it up for him!

Lots of bumps in the morning, but the seat was still there when I stopped for a late lunch. Then a fairly smooth m'way and mostly main road run home. I did shuffle right back on the seat at that stage, cos my bum was sore.

French electrics!!

I know my place needs a full rewire but it isn't exactly urgent. The rewire is mainly to 'fit in' what changes I want to the lighting (there is only one actual light on a switch, and that's by the front door!! All other lights are plug in ones I've bought to be able to do what I want! LOL)

Anyway - spent the time wiring a new socket, screwing it on the wall where I want it and running the wire down to the socket I want to take it from (which is not longer properly connected to the bracket in the wall, so will need that replacing as well - I do have the socket to replace it!).

BUT -

the wires in the cable I bought for the extension are Brown and Blue - not the same colours as in the new socket, but I was able to match the right ones to the right cables with some research

the wires going into the socket that is broken are Red, Black and Blue



I've asked on an FB page (which has a couple of, sadly not local, electricians) and they have all said "step away and get an electrician to confirm what wire is what"

Was so proud that I put in the new socket - now a bit peeved that I can't connect the bastard thing and have to continue with extension leads


Bastard old fashioned 'lectrickery peeps

Red is brown, black is blue. it's AC anyway, so it changes direction 50 (or 60) times a second.




But get a Sparky in.

David wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 1:01 pm Red is brown, black is blue. it's AC anyway, so it changes direction 50 (or 60) times a second.

But, I have red and black and blue in one, and blue and brown in the other!!

David wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 1:01 pm But get a Sparky in.

Oh yes! Often I will work out how to do something and get on with it. But in some circumstances I know I must not! LOL

I would make a bet that the set with red black and blue is red positive, black earth and blue negative.
Easy to test, stand in a metal bath of salt water and lick the cable ends one at a time......

David wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 1:10 pm I would make a bet that the set with red black and blue is red positive, black earth and blue negative.
Easy to test, stand in a metal bath of salt water and lick the cable ends one at a time......

I know I'm daft as a brush but I ain't that daft