What Grinds my gears archive B

[Robby]

For those who are uncomfortable with contactless payment, do you trust Google/Apple pay? You have to unlock your phone to do contactless payment so walk-by card skimming isn't possible.

[M.C]

[Nobby the Bastard]

For those with issues with modern tech....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/232940842280?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&var=532502588798
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Coming back from a weekend visiting family and a trip to Stratford (Warwickshire) Autojumble* my rucksack seems to have unzipped itself and a hat fell out somewhere along the way. I was lucky not to lose more.

I always have a rucksack when biking anywhere and I thought I had long recognised and addressed this potential problem after losing a pair of gloves and some pants while traversing France years ago. With additional luggage bungee’d to the pillion seat and Renntech rack there seems to be a vacuum forming behind me which presumably billows the rucksack and, if I’ve left the two zip heads too high, pulls them back.

* My first autojumble/car boot sale (thank you, Henry Cole’s telly progs), it was full of junk (albeit sometimes interesting junk), plus a few interesting bikes, oil cans, expensive rusty signs, imperial spanners and other stuff. I didn’t buy anything but my mate bought a 1950’s Eversure petrol can which he will use.

I don’t think my 20-year old bikes are yet old enough to make autojumbles the place to search for spares but it’ll happen. £6 entry to Stratford Racecourse and we were there for about 3 hours. Decent bacon and egg bap with a good cup of tea. Some proper classic cars and a couple of bikes in the car park too. I’d go again. This bit should be in ‘oils’, not ‘grinds’.

[M.C]

[Nobby the Bastard]

It's a shame your father didn't know about condoms.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[M.C]

[hellkat]

[hellkat]

Bit tense about work: changes in the office tech and I'm the bloody guinea pig, not happy at all.

It should all blow over by mid week, at which point I shall either be calm, ommmmm, or I shall have been carted away in a straitjacket

Meanwhile, I shall require regular applications of bacon, cheese, and chocolate to stay sane.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I’ve lost one of the two adapters for the ABBA stand and I can only think I must have accidentally left it in the Kawasaki’s swing arm pivot when I adjusted the chain. It would then have fallen out on the road somewhere.

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Used my new soldering iron for the first time, set it too hot, terminal melted out of the switch body and I don't have a spare
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Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
Currently : Royal Enfield 350 Meteor
Previously : CB100N > CB250RS > XJ900F > GT550 > GPZ750R/1000RX > AJS M16 > R100RT > Bullet 500 > CB500 > LS650P > Bullet Electra X & YBR125 > Bullet 350 "Superstar" & YBR125 Custom > Royal Enfield Classic 500 Despatch Limited Edition (28 of 200) & CB Two-Fifty Nighthawk > ER5

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I stopped at the local Tesco’s forecourt on Saturday morning and it was like a sandy beach. This evening I landed at the same pay-at-pump and it was unchanged; deep and loose underfoot. It wasn’t worth going inside to berate the hapless checkout operative but surely spills need to be swept up pronto? It’s especially annoying when I’ve previously been told I must fill up on the sidestand because bikers have been known to topple when filling while astride the bike. No wonder.

[recman]

[hellkat]

Another day with no fucking lunch

A snatched Golden Crisp cookie shoved down on the train home and washed down with a swig of fizzy water - both liberated from the Boardroom but which I was too busy to eat

It's not like I couldn't do with dropping quite a few more kilos, but its getting tedious now, this lack of appropriate sustenance thing.
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[hellkat]

Still, at least I survived my committee-meetings-panic without ending up in a straitjacket.
The Chief Executive even smiled directly at me
Made me feel almost human again.

Just got to write up the actual minutes now three sets of 'em.
Well, two and a half sets - I had actually started his Senior Team minutes two weeks ago *sigh* - just not got round to finishing them (!!) - now that I can breathe again for a week or two, I will get them cracked out in no time. Woot!

I truly would not want their job/s.
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[Ribenapigeon]

[hellkat]

Oh, I just remembered!
I was waiting at the bus stop on the Kings Road today, as ya do - but and across the road a builder is having a domestic on the phone.

He was roaring down the phone at [whoever] with such rage, swearing worse than even I could cope with (!!) His apoplexy was almost palpable.

I'm used to people having rows in London - its part of the scenery, happens all the time. Admittedly not often on the Kings Road, but even that has its fair share of nutters.
At that time of day there's quite a lot of old people about - most of whom glanced warily and continued on in their posh-yet-strangely-impecunious-looking old-people way: "no business of ours", looking-distastefully-away sort of thing.

But as I was stuck there waiting for the bus, listening to it drew me back to unpleasant domestic situations I've been lumbered with in the past.
All the threats, the obscenities at 100 decibels down the phone, the vicious inflections, refusing to bring money: desperate, ugly power plays. It was awful, he was so distressed .

He even kicked the side of the shop he was standing outside of, a couple of times. I was worried he might accidentally break some plate glass, but luckily my bus happened along and I completely forgot about him - until now. The whole vignette made me feel queasy.

I never want to be in another relationship like that.
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[Bhud]

Dealing with clueless admins at a community college (I have applied for some hands-on courses to learn some new skills - not my background) who:

1) Have been told to not ask certain questions because they think it's discriminatory (specifically: "what are your qualifications and can we check them?")

and then:

2) Disbelieve you when you tell them your qualifications (it's on a form and it goes on their system), and refuse to log any qualification beyond GCSE on their system.

Sure way to infuriate someone. I mean, just because you unfairly stereotype young kids day in day out doesn't mean everyone of a certain age who ends up at your door must be at the last chance saloon... I only want to learn welding part-time ffs. There will be adult learners, and adult learners have mixed backgrounds, and I bet all of them have done stuff. I can't be the only one who wants to learn something for its own sake. If you've got a form that says you have to record someone's qualifications, then ask them straight up for their qualifications, and ask to check. There is no other way to get that information. You can't just look at someone and guess.

Conversation between them in my presence:
"How do you deal with adult learners who don't have any qualifications ... [LONG pause] with them?"

Just the principle of it... I've written to them asking for an appointment where they check my actual paper qualifications (originals). They can take as long as they like, but I am determined to make a point now.

Unfortunately it's the only place within a reasonable distance that teaches welding, and the teacher really knows his stuff. Just have to make my way through these clowns, who, incidentally, spelled welding "wielding".

[Ribenapigeon]

[to v or not to v]

Gosport. what a shit hole to drive around. coupled with torrential rain, it really wasnt a very pleasant experience.
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
Moto Guzzi V7.

[hellkat]

Gettin' kinda bored of the rain now ...
I need to get out in me garden and cut some shit back.
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[pepperami]

[pepperami]

People around me are dropping like flies
Three people close to me have all gone down with different long term conditions .

Two of my good friends partners have been diagnosed with long term diseases .

I’m beginning to feel like a bit of a Pariah!
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I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now!

[Ribenapigeon]

[chickenstrip]