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Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:15 pm
by Pirahna
Jody wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 5:41 pm
Yorick wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 5:40 pm
Jody wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 5:39 pm
It's about 9 / 10 inches. It's not that I can't manage it, it's that I don't need that much food.
Have you three given up on reading posts before replying ?
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Tuesday, but I don't think I'll make it to the party.
Soapy £10 to anyone that can tell me the reference !
The gap on the points needs adjusting, if that doesn't work change the condenser.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:16 pm
by Count Steer
Pirahna wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:15 pm
Jody wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 5:41 pm
Yorick wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 5:40 pm
173
Tuesday, but I don't think I'll make it to the party.
Soapy £10 to anyone that can tell me the reference !
The gap on the points needs adjusting, if that doesn't work change the condenser.
Personally, I'd say sod the expense and buy a new gap.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 10:25 pm
by Pirahna
Count Steer wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:16 pm
Pirahna wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:15 pm
Jody wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 5:41 pm
Tuesday, but I don't think I'll make it to the party.
Soapy £10 to anyone that can tell me the reference !
The gap on the points needs adjusting, if that doesn't work change the condenser.
Personally, I'd say sod the expense and buy a new gap.
I thought they'd stopped trading?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 11:40 pm
by Mussels
DefTrap wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 5:23 pm
Yorick wrote: Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:24 pm
Nah. Have it cold for brekky with that half full can you found behind the sofa
As a stoodent, my housemate used to wrap up the remnants of his post-pub-takeaway and just wedge it down the side of the sofa so that he could continue eating it in the morning. How none of us died ....
If you stick it under your pillow it's less likely to go missing before the morning.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2024 6:18 pm
by Yorick
Spanish websites. Just booked ferries to Fuerteventura and took nearly as long as the ferry itself.
I was a programmer for many years and I'd have been sacked if I'd produced the 2 shit sites I had to use today
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2024 10:23 pm
by Ditchfinder
I love broad beans, especially in a ham and broad bean risotto, but they are difficult to find fresh in this country (well up north anyway) yet we export or use as animal feed most of what we grow in the UK
https://www.theguardian.com/science/art ... -scientist
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2024 10:29 pm
by mangocrazy
I really like broad beans as well, but the only way to get hold of them on a regular basis is in the frozen supermarket aisles. If I ever see them fresh I snap them up, but that doesn't happen often.
They're great in a green Thai curry.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 7:22 am
by Mr. Dazzle
I used to do PYO broad beans with my Mum when I was a kid. I'm gonna see if I can find somewhere to do it with Baby D, now I think on it
I suppose I could just grow them
Those pods look so comfortable inside.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 7:25 am
by cheb
The water stop cock in my house. When the valve is open the lever is across the direction of flow and when closed it's in line with the direction of flow. Aha I thought, I'll take the handle off and rotate in 90 degrees on the shaft. Nope, it has a stadium shaped* driveshaft and socket not a square one.
*A similar shape to the pistons used in the Honda NR750 engine. They aren't oval, ovals are curved all round, stadiums have straight sides.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 8:32 am
by Rockburner
cheb wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2024 7:25 am
The water stop cock in my house. When the valve is open the lever is across the direction of flow and when closed it's in line with the direction of flow. Aha I thought, I'll take the handle off and rotate in 90 degrees on the shaft. Nope, it has a stadium shaped* driveshaft and socket not a square one.
*A similar shape to the pistons used in the Honda NR750 engine. They aren't oval, ovals are curved all round, stadiums have straight sides.
Weird. I wonder if the internal parts were assembled 90 degrees out somehow? (Or the wrong internals used).
Seems totally counter-intuitive to have the lever aligned that way.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 8:44 am
by cheb
I doubt that much thought went into the manufacturing specs. It's not a quarter turn tap, just the usual windy up and own one.
I dealt with the wrongly aligned quarter turn taps soon after arrival.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 8:52 am
by gremlin
cheb wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2024 7:25 am
stadiums
Stadia, surely.
And with any mains tap, as long as it turns when needed, then it's a good 'un.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 8:55 am
by cheb
Hypercorrection apparently:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection
Not as bad as shouting 'Bravo' instead of 'Brava' at the opera though.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 9:23 am
by Count Steer
An industrial ceramics academic at Leeds Uni insisted on pronouncing the word as keramics because 'the Greek root is keramos' (potter's earth). He wasn't the only one - it was a bit of an academic snobbery thing for a while.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 9:46 am
by cheb
A bit like surgeons calling themselves Mr or Mrs as historically they weren't physicians.
But then most doctors aren't Doctors.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 10:23 am
by Mussels
I've just had the 6th (I think) visit from the Stoves techs to fix my cooker. Their fault finding methods sounded normal to me so not a big rant about them but the problem turned out to be* loose power cables inside the cooker, not impressed with what is meant to be a premium brand.
* Needs more testing.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 12:15 pm
by mangocrazy
The local boulangerie has no bread! None at all! Not one baguette!
Revolutions have started for less in France...
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 12:18 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
Did they have any cake?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 1:11 pm
by Taipan
B&Ms not having any Tingly Teds in!
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 1:13 pm
by mangocrazy
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2024 12:18 pm
Did they have any cake?
I had to make do with the last croissant.
