Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

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[LustyLew]

People who know they're wrong, but their "rational" response is to get aggressive and in your face.

Essex wideboy driving like a twat in the building basement.

I'm not easily spooked by peoples driving, but when I felt the need to take a step back away from his car and say slow down, he clearly decided he was the next Lewis Hamilton.

Probably the type to glass you from behind in the pub, because "you looked at him the wrong way"!

CUNT.

[Polarbear]

Following on from above - Know it alls who won't admit they are wrong.

On FB BMC boat engine page someone was asking 'do you take the oil level in a PRM150 gearbox with the dipstick screwed in or sitting on the threads'.

I have the exact same gearbox on my boat and know from having checked, PRM say to screw the dip stick in, which I admit is unusual but it's there in the manual and on PRM's FAQ's.

So along comes know it all saying 'unscrewed', I was a bit short with him, sickpup style (you're a fcuking idiot I think I said) and got the 'I've been working on these since god created the diesel, you don't know anything' etc.

So I posted the bit from the PRM manual and even then he wasn't having it, twat.

Those gearboxes are notorious for blowing seals if overfilled and there he is advocating a level 10mm or so above what it should be, Cvnt.
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[LustyLew]

[Ste]

Unwashed crusty Greta supporting protest people in Bristol.

They're making the place look untidy and I missed seeing Greta this morning by about ten minutes.

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Ste]

Greta crusties on the train are looking for the bath or possibly Bath.

They say "is this station Bath?" which I tell them it is so I can then watch them get off at the wrong station.

[bhinso]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

My 2010 VW Tiguan showed the battery/alternator warning light on the A1(M) this evening but I kept going another mile hoping it would either go out or I'd make it home. Then the overheating warning came on. I nursed it down the hard shoulder but I wasn't keen to stop. The road is bloody dangerous at the best of times. It's one reason I abandoned the Winter motorcycle commute. I let the car cool just before the busy off-slip, then drove into town where the temperature gauge maxed out and I pulled into a side road. As I did so, myriad warning lights appeared, and the power steering abandoned me. I would have expected some response from the wheel but it was virtually locked dead centre. Rubbish! The brakes lost the servo too.

I'm tempted to buy a good old-fashioned car which doesn't rely on powered this-and-that; one with old skool decent visibility too. Anyhow, I sat and thought for a bit, could have called the RAC but it had been a shitty day and home was just a mile away so I ditched and walked. Forgot my house keys in the centre console so had to go back.

Google suggests it might be a slipped or snapped "serpentine belt" which drives the alternator, water pump and some other stuff. I might be able to replace it myself roadside for man points but heck, it's February, it's parked outside somebody else's house and I've got RAC membership. I'll call them tomorrow.

[Shaft]

[A100man]

[wr6133]

[Nobby the Bastard]

It's softplay saturday with the little bastard (tm) and I have a hangover.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Thanks folks, just the response I was hoping for. Well this morning I waited a reasonable hour for the RAC, and in daylight I'd already seen the snapped belt dangling on the side of the engine. RAC man fetched a replacement from Euro Car Parts but couldn't quite get it onto all 6 pulleys at the roadside (so I'd have had no chance myself). The perishing cold probably didn't help. The battery had recovered so power steering was back for a while and I was able to drive the short distance home, pausing at an MOT centre which turned out to be shut. I'll see if I can charge the battery and I'll go back on Monday. Apparently it will be easy with a lift and two blokes working together. Towing wasn't an option because it is 4WD, a problem which hadn't occurred to me.

[Tracey Suntan-King]

Crows!

The feckers peck away at the moss on our roof so much that it sounds like someone's hammering on it, despite us being in a detached house.

I went out to look today and they've pecked a whole tile loose! There was even a big crow pulling at it, in full view, as I watched, brazen!

There's now the beginnings of a hole where they've dislodged the tile, at the most exposed corner of the roof, just as the gales begin.

Thoughts and prayers BCF, please.

We may have no roof at all by morning.
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[wr6133]

eBay sellers.

Ordered a "service kit" for my Enfield. Should have had an air filter and an oil filter. Listing clearly stated it was selling an air filter and an oil filter for a Continental GT 535.

I received an oil filter for an Interceptor 650 and another oil filter for a Himalayan.

I could sort of understand the error if I'd had air and oil filter for a wrong bike, 2 oil filters for 2 different bikes though, morons. Luckily I had a spare oil filter so it didn't hold up my planned oil change.

[pepperami]

[hellkat]

Even though I am a "got my shit mainly together" kind of bird, I am currently in this mode

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ThoughtfulRaggedDegu-mobile.mp4

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/LastingNextChupacabra-mobile.mp4

https://media.giphy.com/media/l1J3CQmaFbr5Mp84g/giphy.gif

I'm sure I'll be alright in a day or so, but right now ... I'm just having one of those wtf am I *doing* in my life moments.
Jeez, LOL.
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[pepperami]

I was on my feet for the best part of 14 hours yesterday.
Today my feet feel like they’ve been smacked with a hammer !
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[panrider_uk]

Taking my cat, Freddie, for his last visit to the vets this afternoon
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[Easy-X]

[Peanut_Butter]

So sad. Freddie is a cutie btw

[pepperami]

Feel for you Mr Panrider.

I have a very similar ginger bugger like that .

RIP little fella.
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[wr6133]

[hellkat]