Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[DRZ4Hunned]

My car's head gasket is slowly going kaput... have to de-pressurise coolant tank before every drive otherwise coolant pipe pops off the engine.

Car's only worth £1500 max... Is it worth £500 to replace?
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[Polarbear]

The RNLI.

I've had a standing donation with them since I joined the Merchant Navy. It's not really a 'just in case' scenario because I very rarely came to UK shores but obviously I have a lot of respect for their work.

I've become more and more pissed off with them because of the way they have treated lifeboat crews - sackings because they had mugs with nude girls on.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/954778/whitby-rnli-lifeboat-men-sacked-joke-mugs-volunteers

There are other historical incidents as well, St Heliers lifeboat crew all quit over cox'n sacking.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-39526414

Scarborough crew resign over sacking.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-43795856

Bearing in mind these are all volunteers who risk their lives to save people this has already left a sour taste in my mouth.

Now we get this......

RNLI buys burkinis for Africans as it axes 100 UK jobs: How £3.3million of donations to lifeboat charity are spent abroad including aid for Tanzania swimmers and creches in Bangladesh

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7464961/How-3-3million-donations-RNLI-spent-abroad.html?fbclid=IwAR0la6DLGYJrtc2ikRTW_8kw_mdGUwr0VpsMPapqZQCAMdrz5l3SjvVkz0E

Those donations were made to the Royal NATIONAL Lifeboat Institution for the upkeep and use in saving lives in British waters (as we don't have a useful coastguard, but that's another rant) not for PC schemes in foreign countries.

I have cancelled my standing order to the RNLI & e-mailed them telling them how I feel about what they are doing. I'm sure it will make no difference to them but I am bloody seething.
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[Easy-X]

[Ste]

Someone in the comments says "Make donations direct to individual lifeboat stations ie Littlehampton RNLI or Iow RNLI then the money goes to them and them only" so that might be a way to support them in a way that won't see your money being used to buy burkinis in Tanzania.

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[Howling Terror]

[Ste]

Charity is big business and if you want someone good at the helm then you'll have to pay them a comparable salary to what they could elsewhere.

[Ste]

RNLI stuff with The Charity Commission: https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=209603&SubsidiaryNumber=0

[Howling Terror]

That's true Ste, however it's often people who in the case of the RNLI Chief exec who are already well heeled..they've already made their money. They'll do the job ...top up their pensions and then leave.

I guess I'm saying they're not very charitable are they.
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[King29]

The boiler has been registered. TA DA.

https://i.imgur.com/ImK6pE4.jpg

[Sister Sledge]

Re head gasket failure: Remove the radiator cap. It's causing pressure problems. The whole point is to increase pressure in the system which increases the boiling point of the coolant. As long as you avoid long inclines where the engine will labour under load (increase in temperature) then you should be OK. Remember too that cylinder pressure could be seeping into the coolant system and increasing pressure. I guess it depends on the value/condition of the car and if it's worth it.
I ran a Peugeot for two years with a broken head gasket like that!

Charities: F*ckem. Support that local small group that benefits your locality. You'll know fine well you're not topping up a pension and are indeed helping your community.
I spotted the RNLI thing ages ago and it didn't surprise me. First they 'fixed' the UK and like any business they'll be aiming to expand etc. First the UK and then the world..
I once had a lot of family and friends involved with the lifeboats and saw first hand how it all worked. It's the same with all of the big charities now.
I do shop in some charity shops but only use community ones where the money supports local childrens football teams and other similar projects. Locals drop off items knowing fine well their gift will help improve their locality. I buy old cotton bed sheets and rip them up to make awesome rags for when I work on engines or painting.
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[DRZ4Hunned]

[Easy-X]

In the right hand lane approaching a big roundabout...

Scooter rider - one of those 3-wheel jobbies with the two at the front - wearing a "POLITE - Think Bike" vest

Signals left and wafts into my lane without looking Then wafts back into the right hand lane.

Proceeds up the road doing 50 in a 40 zone which wouldn't be a problem except there's a bit of a hill and traffic lights the other side... chance of queuing traffic

So, neither polite nor actually a bike. Top marks
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[Nobby the Bastard]

[King29]

[A100man]

[King29]

[Riejufixing]

[King29]

Just ignore him A100man, everyone else does. When he isn't getting as much attention as he thinks he deserves he'll reinvent himself again.

[Islander]

[Sister Sledge]

The c*nt my Dad is courting. She posts sh*t stuff to FB and I refuse to even acknowledge it (she's complained many times that I don't 'like' what she posts - usually dogs dancing on back legs) and in fact I block those spamming things.
They went to Ireland recently for 12 days of drinking as much as they possibly could. She grabbed Dads phone and called me at half past midnight and tried to speak - she was so bladdered she couldn't. I hung up. She kept calling and I refused to answer (using Dads phone) and because I didn't answer she let it go to voicemail and left me lots of 3 minute recordings of that drinking session - she literally left the phone on the table for me to get voicemails of it. C*nt.
Now this b*tch has already caused bother on my half sisters side of the family and I can see how.
Where's Dad in all of this? In a drink induced dementia and completely unaware of it. I'm livid and tell him so and when I do he goes all heartbroken FFS.
I love my Dad to bits but her, drink and some seriously bad behaviour is grinding some gears.
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[A100man]

[recman]

[Islander]