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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 1:49 pm Screenshot is your friend!

You're right about ASDA though.

ZRX61 wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 3:03 am Fucking Cadbury's fucking cream fucking eggs where the foil wrapper has become pretty much glued to the choccy & takes 10 minutes to bloody peel it off in 300 pieces so the effort far outweighs the reward.

Mussels wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:58 am Meghan Merkle, I'm bored of it all already.

Trinity765 wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:08 pm Washing machines, more specifically my Mum's (Bosch). It's not moving on from the wash cycle - just keeps washing. It drains when you put it on drain. It spins when you put it on spin. A bit of hunting around the interweb and I've diagnosed a faulty heating element (I guess it won't move through the cycle unless the desired temperature is achieved). So - I'll get my son to help me pull it out to get the serial number and will order a new heating element. My theory with all mechanical things is that if you can get the old one off, you can put a new one on

v8-powered wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:33 am

Trinity765 wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:08 pm Washing machines, more specifically my Mum's (Bosch). It's not moving on from the wash cycle - just keeps washing. It drains when you put it on drain. It spins when you put it on spin. A bit of hunting around the interweb and I've diagnosed a faulty heating element (I guess it won't move through the cycle unless the desired temperature is achieved). So - I'll get my son to help me pull it out to get the serial number and will order a new heating element. My theory with all mechanical things is that if you can get the old one off, you can put a new one on

Interesting, well not really interesting - bit too Mumsnet for me, as our washer intermittently does the same thing. Several hours washing if you don't remember to check it. Please let us know if your solution works....

gremlin wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:29 am

Mussels wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:58 am Meghan Merkle, I'm bored of it all already.

How arrogant must a person be to assume that the rest of the world is interested in the petty trivia of their private lives...?

David wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:41 am

v8-powered wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:33 am

Trinity765 wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:08 pm Washing machines, more specifically my Mum's (Bosch). It's not moving on from the wash cycle - just keeps washing. It drains when you put it on drain. It spins when you put it on spin. A bit of hunting around the interweb and I've diagnosed a faulty heating element (I guess it won't move through the cycle unless the desired temperature is achieved). So - I'll get my son to help me pull it out to get the serial number and will order a new heating element. My theory with all mechanical things is that if you can get the old one off, you can put a new one on

Interesting, well not really interesting - bit too Mumsnet for me, as our washer intermittently does the same thing. Several hours washing if you don't remember to check it. Please let us know if your solution works....

We had similar problems on a Bosch ( top loader, not that it makes any difference ) and a miele. Both times it was the breather from the pump...blocked with lint.
Both would sit and rumble away for hours, but would drain if shifted to that....after clearing the hoses both were fine.

gremlin wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:29 am

Mussels wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:58 am Meghan Merkle, I'm bored of it all already.

How arrogant must a person be to assume that the rest of the world is interested in the petty trivia of their private lives...?

gremlin wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 10:11 am I suppose the media and celebs are kind of like dung beetles and turds....

Noggin wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 10:07 am

gremlin wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:29 am

Mussels wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:58 am Meghan Merkle, I'm bored of it all already.

How arrogant must a person be to assume that the rest of the world is interested in the petty trivia of their private lives...?

I'm not sure they arrogantly think that. The media has proved that they and a certain amount of the rest of the world are interested (and if they can't find any trivia they make it up) so I guess the couple might as well get in there first?

Personally I wish the media would leave people alone - but then the celebs that make money and print space from media coverage would have to actually work ?

McNab wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 11:45 am

Noggin wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 10:07 am

gremlin wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:29 am

How arrogant must a person be to assume that the rest of the world is interested in the petty trivia of their private lives...?

I'm not sure they arrogantly think that. The media has proved that they and a certain amount of the rest of the world are interested (and if they can't find any trivia they make it up) so I guess the couple might as well get in there first?

Personally I wish the media would leave people alone - but then the celebs that make money and print space from media coverage would have to actually work ?

So do I. They wanted privacy, just give it to them. If the media just ignored them, I'd be happy, but would they?

Noggin wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 1:49 pm Migraines. Sodding migraines!!!

mangocrazy wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 2:50 pm I'd be very surprised if this hasn't been mentioned before, but I'll be buggered with a splintery gatepost if I'm going to check through 40-odd pages of previous posts...

So.

This morning I went to a local tyre emporium to get a pair of tyres for the recent cheapo (4 wheel) acquisition. I did a quick check of tyres fitted and manufacturing dates and it has 4 different makes of tyre on the 4 wheels. Getting the two oldest (one dates back to 2004!!) replaced and the new ones put on the front (it's FWD).

I wasn't allowed into the tyre fitting bay (Covid being the excuse) but watched from a distance. Windy gun used to remove tyre bolts - no problem with that. Tyres swapped around and new ones fitted as per my wishes - no problem with that.

Windy gun used to put tyre bolts back on - I do have a problem with that. The fitter then followed that up by checking torque with a torque wrench. Unsurprisingly it clicked without tightening any further because the fucking windy gun had already over-torqued them...

When paying for the tyres I inquired what torque they used on the wrench "100 ft-lbs" came the reply . The manual for the car states a torque of 90 Nm or 66 lb-ft for wheel bolts, so even before you take into account the overtightening the windy gun has applied, they compound this by using 50% more torque than is specified when checking.

Get the car home and loosen all the wheel bolts and re-torque to the correct value. To undo the bolts I had to use a breaker bar with scaffold pole extension. Can you imagine trying to get those fuckers off with the tools provided as standard by the manufacturer? Fat fucking chance.

Grrrrrrr....

Saga Lout wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 2:10 pm

Noggin wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 1:49 pm Migraines. Sodding migraines!!!

You have my sympathy. Not that it'll help, but you have it anyway.

I never got it bad and it's got a lot better as I've got older. Now it's mostly just the visual disturbance, I rarely get the subsequent headache. What was almost as bad as the migraine itself was people telling me, wrongly, what was causing it, as if I was too stupid to try to work it out for myself.