Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[NJD]

[M.C]

Lost the remote

[Rogerborg]

[Poundshop Dave]

Kids. Titch, the youngest has moved in with her boyfriend, OK not an issue. Get a call this afternoon "Dad, the electric keeps tripping on the sockets". Go around, unplug everything, check board, all seems good. Then 'Dipshit' her boyfriend, says "Dave I spilt me coffee on the work top and it's gone down the back of the cooker, do you think that did it".

Pull out electric cooker and plug socket soaked in Nescafe.

She's probably gonna have kids with this guy.
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Proud to be from Birmingham

[grr666]

[techathy]

[Poundshop Dave]

[grr666]

I'm guessing he has no need for suncream... Landlords like that give the rest of us a bad name.





Which in turn grinds my gears.
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Ste wrote: Avatars are fine, it's signatures that need turning off.

[Poundshop Dave]

Yep. He's a Muslim, he keeps a goat out the back of his shop. I'll give it 2 months before it's fat enough for a Halal kill at 6am one sunny Sunday morning. Waiting for the nipper to call 'DDDDDAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad he's killing a goat'.
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Proud to be from Birmingham

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Being told by a letting agent that the property I'm enquiring about had been let weeks ago.
I thank them anyway and leave. What I really should have said is, "It's still on your website and it's
in the fucking window!!
Third time it's happened. They're making money hand over fist so they don't care. Big Issue, anybody?

[owl]

Car radiator leaking, alternator on the way out, gaitor worn, rear brakes shot, tyre needs replacing and need new wiper blades FML
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Observation is the greatest source of wisdom.

[andyscooter]

father in law collected me from work

all the way home I got third degree about my job

is the extractor good enough, why are you not wearing a mask,where are your gloves are you not cold working by the open door all day

and so on

I have had to have a beer to chill again
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gilera runner vxr200 (chavped)
if its spelt wrong its my fat fingers and daft auto correct on my tablet

[NJD]

This one's a tale of woe with a temporary happy ending, there's no inbetween thread and it's mainly gripe more than happy so it's going here.

WGYGT? .. Oxford luggage.

Left work and all was normal until I went to attach the tailbag only for the zip to split and the zipper on the base fly of into the darkness never to be seen again, balls. Major balls.

I think about carrying the chains and tools on me back but it's impossibru. I did it once before when the zip split and had a bad back for a couple of days and that was with a lighter load compared to today.

So I'm stuck standing around with me gloves, helmet and bag sprawled on the floor with the bike unlocked but can't go anywhere (I should add that I was also carrying a backpack with things in so hence why I was stuck).

Thankfully, this is the temporary happy ending, the one person who works with me that lives near by was in and agree'd to follow me home with all my things in the car. If it wasn't for this guy I would have been completely bolloxed or had to phone a taxi and get them to transport my luggage home.

So anyway after a panicked ride home with me head all over the place because luggage snapping had spent me into a spin I've took a chill pill and all is well and over.

No idea what the way forward is. Tailpack's under warrenty, I believe as is less than a year old, but this is the second time that it's happened. The only reason I got home the first time was because my setup then was a 13mm, oxford and disc lock with tools rather than the more beefier setup I've now got and even that, as above, gave me a bad back because of the weight and basic straps on the tailbag not being designed for load.

Think the realisation that if it wasn't for zed mate then I'd still be at work means I'm going to spit my dummy out and try and get them to, instead of a refund, put the money I've already paid towards a Kriega and I'll foot the bill for the rest.

I'm calling it a shit design fault rather than the load I've been using because, as above, even when I didn't transport heavy loads the same thing happened.

Less than a year old and it's kaput, brilliant.

And yes I was going to order a Kriega but had been putting the money towards tools and other things until I really needed to replace the tailbag as was more of a luxury item that I new I wanted, eventually, but didn't need just yet.

Hopefully shop all agree to swap to what I've got planned because I can't be dealing with getting stranded for a 3rd time.
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The do it all, T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶r̶o̶k̶e̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶,̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶i̶g̶ ̶l̶u̶m̶p̶,̶ ̶C̶h̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶N̶o̶o̶d̶l̶e̶

[Beehive Bedlam]

[NJD]

[Polarbear]

Steel.

I used to wander down the local scrappys, have a root around the steel pile and choose what I wanted. Give us £20 and sorted

Now I can't get steel without paying stupid prices or transportation. Our local fabricator can't even be arsed to let me root through his off cut bins, it just goes back to be recycled. If I want steel I either have to buy full lengths or pay for it to be cut to size.

On line, ebay prices are stupid with transportation costs,

Grrrr. Might as well get the local to fabricate it as it costs the same as buying the metal and doing it myself. (although I would have a fair bit of metal left over.)

Mutter, growl, kick the cat.
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Triumph Trophy Launch Edition

[Rogerborg]

[techathy]

Bikers & cyclist who don't filter, even when the gap is big enough get a Twizy through, but put their vehicle in a position that blocks anyone behind filtering.
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Bikes: '17 Zero FX ZF6.5, '16 BMW R1200 RS, '12 Triumph Daytona 675

[Polarbear]

[recman]

The word issue.

[grr666]

[M.C]

[techathy]

Realising that in a few months I'll have to put a vehicle through an MOT for the first time in over 10 years!
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Bikes: '17 Zero FX ZF6.5, '16 BMW R1200 RS, '12 Triumph Daytona 675

[Howling Terror]

Midway through wiring up my home music studio and it seems I'll be needing more bloody cables.



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[andyscooter]