What have you done today thread?

[Skub]

Fitted a new chain and sprockets to the bike, ready for a trip to Scotland next weekend

Take waterproofs. Very good waterproofs.

[KungFooBob]

Went and had a look at a replacement for the rapidly dying Transit. It's awful. But thats not really a deal breaker.

Bought it then

I assumed the negotiations were how much they were going to pay for him to take it away.

[chillitt]

Actually you are both equidistant from the final deal..

[the_priest]

Well, my daughter turns 16 next week. Got her GCSE results and is a straigtht A's student with some 8's. So very happy for her. She got her place in college and is pleased with her 6th Form choices. No uniform, just be neat and presentable and not too much skin showing. She is rather prudent in her dress sense (at the moment!) so not too worried there.

At the moment the wife and I are coordinating a surprise sleepover party with her two best friends for tomorrow night and I have to get her out of the house before they arrive so they can set things up. The Wife has a Birthyday next week as well, so I'm taking daughter out shopping for the present etc...

Went to a friends house for a curry, missed his cooking, bloody sublime veggie curry and I am still full! Had a beer tonight and will turn in early as I have three services tomorrow and am preaching at the main one (which I recorded on Wednesday evening so I'll be watching myself preaching....)

[Mr. Dazzle]

Actually you are both equidistant from the final deal..

Stole it then.

[chillitt]

Actually you are both equidistant from the final deal..

Stole it then.

I dont think so. Apart from potentially being transport its not a great deal of use to me. Its too small and a complete punt of if it will be any better than the transit. ITs either a good stopgap or Ive been done up like a kipper and its too soon to tell. Anyway it hasnt cost me anything yet..

[chillitt]

I dont think so. Apart from potentially being transport its not a great deal of use to me. Its too small and a complete punt of if it will be any better than the transit. ITs either a good stopgap or Ive been done up like a kipper and its too soon to tell. Anyway it hasnt cost me anything yet..

LDV still running and now in Sweeden That must be you on your forth motor since saying never to a LDV and om in my 2nd only as i wanted larger. Same Transit engines but a lot easier to work on and larger load area. Stop being a snob and get one. A welder is part of the standard tool kit

Snob? Look at the shitty vans Im getting.! ive been turning bangernomics into an extreme sport here, and very little of it has anything to do with choice. I have more welders than Ive had vans, but you need something to weld to, thats why this one is going. Transits are everywhere so theres cheap parts everywhere, and thats why they make sense for cheap transport. Most LDVs are long gone, and I suspect Ive driven more LDVs than you and Ive never been in a good one. Its not snobbbery, its common sense.

[Scotsrich]

Went to next doors annual barbecue.

A bit disappointed they had cut the numbers down from the normal 20 ish to 6 but that was their choice.

Still a good time had by all.

[chillitt]

Snob? Look at the shitty vans Im getting.! ive been turning bangernomics into an extreme sport here, and very little of it has anything to do with choice. I have more welders than Ive had vans, but you need something to weld to, thats why this one is going. Transits are everywhere so theres cheap parts everywhere, and thats why they make sense for cheap transport. Most LDVs are long gone, and I suspect Ive driven more LDVs than you and Ive never been in a good one. Its not snobbbery, its common sense.

Hell no. There is 1000's still going strong and prices are rising. Later one are all transit engines with the 2.5 Banana or the 2.5 Turbo and later 2.4 Duratorq. Only thing you will find hard to get is body panels like wings. Got a man with a warehouse full of NOS but sadly no wings. They have a huge cult following with the hippys due to size for converting to campers and they make great recovery trucks. Quite a lot of this version still out there earning money also

https://www.gumtree.com/p/vans/recovery ... 1382337547

So LDVs are great because they have transit parts on them you are so keen on them even you got a transit. Dude you have to let this go...

[MrLongbeard]

Fitted a new night latch to the front door, I've been asking the landlord to do it for 3 years but I've given up waiting.

[Taipan]

Took the family out for Sunday dinner. Keeping inline with my retro thing of late, I had a prawn cocktail for starter!

[MingtheMerciless]

Finished our Wildlife Pond. So far we have mosquito larvae, leeches, snails by the million, damselfly and dragon fly nymphs, a water boatman and a frog or a toad.

[Wreckless Rat]

Blew up Facebook by suggesting kids need to go back to school so they don’t end up working in a chicken processing plant when they are older....

[Bwana]

It wasn't today, it was two days ago. Sort of kind of yesterday for me as I've not been to bed yet.

Rode 130 miles to do an impromptu fund raising ride. It's one I participate in every year - usually scheduled for sometime in September. They cancelled it this year due to the pandemic. Someone decided to do a smaller run sans all the program associated with it. Usually there's coffee, doughnuts, and juice offered up in the morning during sign up and a program to give the total after the run. Lunch is usually served and a few survivors are introduced along with family. And updates on what is going on with the organization, Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, are given. A good day will have 200 or so bikes. I counted roughly 40 on Sunday. Quick pre-ride meeting and donation collection where masks were mandatory and social distancing encouraged. Then a 90 + cruise through some rural, suburban, and small urban areas.

In a typical year there will be police escort so we can run traffic lights and stop signs with impunity. No police this year. We divided up into four groups of 10 bikes and headed off on a loop course that had been laid out prior. First group headed off starting at one end of the loop, the second headed off in the opposite direction, third followed the first some minutes behind, and fourth followed the second some minutes behind.

My morning ride out was in fog, but not so thick I couldn't see well off to the sides or ahead of me for suicidal deer and dozey motorists. That cleared off to really nice weather for the ride.

After it was over I headed off to DC to see my friend that just finished up her final round of chemo. Had a nice Thai carry out with them and headed back home. More nice weather, a bit on the warm side but not unbearable. A good 350 miles in the saddle for the day.

[Silly Car]

Blew up Facebook by suggesting kids need to go back to school so they don’t end up working in a chicken processing plant when they are older....

Haha! Good to see the old threats still work, I recall when we were both at school it was, if you work hard you can work at Norwich Union, if you don’t, you’ll work at Banham Poultry

[Wreckless Rat]

Blew up Facebook by suggesting kids need to go back to school so they don’t end up working in a chicken processing plant when they are older....

Haha! Good to see the old threats still work, I recall when we were both at school it was, if you work hard you can work at Norwich Union, if you don’t, you’ll work at Banham Poultry

Haha... I don't know if you saw it, but it was funny as fuck, now deleted by admin. The funniest part being all the thickos who could hardly put a sentence together claiming that people work there through choice. Ya.. because every single person I know who has worked there has a} hated every second, and b} had no other choice.

That said, I think one of the funniest replies was from a girl with '9 O-levels, X A-levels, and a masters degree' saying that education was a waste of time because her Daddy pushed her hard... he wanted her to be GP, she wanted to read English at Cambridge... with all those qualifications, she was still to fucking thick to see you don't get to read English at Cambridge if you leave school with fuck all....

Ho hum... it was funny to stir to parochial town mind ne'er-do-wells for a few hours.

[MrLongbeard]

I'll do any sort of graft for a pound note, I've dug holes in the ground, peeled spuds and driven a van for a wage, so I'm not judging anyone, but my fear is being trapped in a job that I hate and pays crap wages - and if you don't put any effort in then that's where a lot of people end up.

Luxury is that, I cleaned spillages from around conveyors at the local quarry and picked ragwort from the verges of Leicestershire for the council , them were the days, we were happy to go home with an aching back and blisters up our arms just to earn a few quid for a bottle of Hooch on a Friday night

[Wreckless Rat]

Well, I'm a bully, ignorant, a twat, obnoxious, a c'unt, up my own arse, a wanker..... I thought, tell me something I don't know, but that's beside the point.

Bad school results = limited options = shit, dead end work and at the bottom of that pile, imho, is pulling the guts out of chickens on a meat processing line. One person tried to say "my husband owns a chicken factory". Yeah love, that's slightly different to sitting on the evisceration line, eh.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I worked in a chicken factory for about a year, 1985-1986 I think (Sovereign in Eye for anyone interested), it was boring, hard work and the pay was okay for a 18 year old, my job was mostly picking up pre-frozen chickens in bags and putting them in boxes according to the weight marked on the bag, I was given this job because most people who worked there weren't capable of doing it, occasionally I'd be assembling the boxes the chickens went in, another job most people there couldn't be trusted to get right.

Nobody works in a chicken processing plant because they have love turning chickens into food, they work there because they need or want the money, if you work there long term you do it because you can't get a better job, I went from there to a lawnmower factory where I learnt to machine lawn mower parts, assemble lawn mower engines, assemble lawn mowers and then make electric motors for lawn mowers and tumble driers - the work was less boring, physically harder but paid better.

I worked there two years and then got a proper job.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I once did a summer job at an injection mouldings firm. I had to take a plastic bowl out of the machine every 30s and press the go button again. If you opened the door at anything less than 29s it would sound an alarm and you'd have to start again. It also showed the average cycle time...

Got my average down to 29.1s after about a month

I doubt I could have stomached it as a career.