Todays - What Grinds my gears

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[stinkwheel]

Noticed my central heating oil was neartly empty last night. Price has hiked 42% in the last 48h. Thanks Donald!
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Raffles]

[stinkwheel]

[P.addy]

[Easy-X]

I put diesel in my car last week... but only after it bleated "5 miles left" Normally I only stick £20 in but for some reason my subconscious said "£30 is also a nice round number". Trust your gut instinct!
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[A100man]

[BanditsHigh]

Medical professionals giving different contradictory information on what's wrong with you!

Respiratory says I don't have pulmonary fibrosis, but cardiology says I have the very early satges of it, even better cardiology then points out that one of the meds I'm on, Amiodarone, can cause pulmonary fibrosis ... would you like to change to a different medication

I've requested all my medical records from September 2025 upto February 2026 ... just to see what is actually wrong with me (well apart from the obvious).

[hellkat]

The cream* which the dermatologist gave me effectively burns away the "mild level" BCC I acquired whilst in Australia when I got sunburn.

*The dermatologist-approved equivalent of a skin peel for which rich women pay a fortune to look younger.

This is the early treatment regime that the dermatologist gave me in the expectation that it will burn away the lesion and save me from having to have major-level surgery and reconstructive plastic surgery.

But the area where I have to apply it is very close to my eye, and I have to make sure it includes a 1mm margin.
... so even though I applied it C.A.R.E.F.U.L.L.Y. with a cotton bud ... since I started applying it, I can feel that the cream is finding its way into my eye, probably via my wrinkles

So my gears are vaguely ground with the anxiety that maybe it will also burn away layers of my eyeball
But am also hoping if that's the case it might get rid of the not-yet-serious cataract

hellkat
Eternal optimist/always looking for the silver lining

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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[BanditsHigh]

[to v or not to v]

a wet weekend after a week of sunshine.
was hoping to get the bike out for the first ride of the year.
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
Moto Guzzi V7.

[BanditsHigh]

The continuing stupity of humanity!!

During the Cuban missile crisis, the atomic clock was set to 7 minutes, refelecting how far away we were to gobal destruction ... as of 27th January 2026, it is now set at 85 seconds.

I've not had a ciggie or joint in over 4.5 years, but I think I may get one or two to have on hand just in case

[hellkat]

[BanditsHigh]

Road I live on has been closed between Monday and Friday this week for resurfacing work ... big signs have been up for over a week saying that this will be happening ... I have no problem with that.

But the roadworks crew ... once you'd finished your work for the night (after 9pm), why the fuck did you leave the one side of the road open, complete with signs saying road closed!

[stinkwheel]

An old chestnut, printing stuff.

I have fairly complex skeleton documents in .PDF format which need filling in and have check boxes to delete sections of them by scoring them out.

It's a losing battle already because they were generated by a government agency then adopted by a third party delivery company.

I don't know who's fucked them up, one of those two or microsoft. They open in edge but the scoring out doesn't work, They open in adobe but wont print and they open in chrome but its fucked up the formatting.

I've finally managed to get chrome to print them as they appear on screen but fuck me, that took an hour of my day. You must really have to actively work at fucking things up enough to make a .pdf not talk to a printer.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[A100man]

[stinkwheel]

Further research shows it is a combination of all agencies involved who have fucked it up. I tried opening older copies of the same documents I had saved locally and they work fine, but not in Edge any more.

The delivery company have modified the files so they are more "locked down". Effectively added restrictions to the users ability to edit them, despite those editable features being an inherant part of actually using the document.

Also an edge update which is effectively a dumpster fire.

So multiple incompetancy over several agencies. Probably using AI tools.

They missed producing official documents 101 which to me involves, before making one "live", try filling it in.

I know they didn't do this when they first made them because it's what I did when they landed and had to point out they hadn't allowed enough characters in three of the fields to actually fit the required information (for example, all pet microchip numbers are 15 digits long and they'd only allowed space for 12 in one of their fields). They fixed this but it shouldn't be for the end user to point out on an official government document. I don't know if they have a QA system in place but if they do, they aren't following it.

Especially because I'm a vet, not a fucking IT tech.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Easy-X]

Sounds like you need some 1337 haxxors to take the PDF apart and put it back together properly

TBH my skills in this area are a bit rusty but if it's something you can email over I could take a look. Then again it's not your job to bring in outside consultants to fix other people's fuck ups.
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[stinkwheel]

[blurredman]

I would just print it and fill it out by pen and scan it in.
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S, 1979 MZ TS150.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 18k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 10k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 40k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 51k.

[BanditsHigh]

[BanditsHigh]

Me feeling bad about blaming the road works guys for not blocking the road off when finished, especially as there are signs up saying road closed.

Turns out I hadn't counted on the morons driving cars these days!

Turns out that not only do they ignore the road closed signs and drive up to the barriers, they then proceed to get out of their cars and move the barriers out of the way, before driving off down the road which is closed.

I really wish that I was allowed to have a truck, with multiple 50 cal machine guns, so that I could light them up as they say!

[blurredman]

[stinkwheel]