Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[King29]

No high pitched noises but I've tried Earex drops and I think I've made it worse. I'm like lopsided balance wise.

[Easy-X]

Never put anything in your ear smaller than your elbow.
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[chickenstrip]

I've never been one to follow fashions. I just consider what I think I need, then see what is out there that addresses those needs. Sometimes it's something cheap, sometimes it means splurging more cash than you want to.

Even if I buy something purely because I like it, I don't really care who makes it. If there's a cheaper but still effective version that fits my requirements, I'll go for that.

Paying for brand names has always been anathema to me. It's just that sometimes those brand names get it more right than the less well known ones. That period where it was fashionable to have labels worn on the outside of clothing seemed ridiculous to me. I still prefer companies to keep their labels discreet if we must see them at all.
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THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[grr666]

Yeah me either, but Megadeth!

https://preview.redd.it/gr7r56qsjfn11.jpg?width=620&auto=webp&s=f2f2c56fddd7d26f0ffef6feae5f2b06c918c292

Closest I ever got to being trendy. For all of 5 minutes.

Yes, I had the jacket too.
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[chickenstrip]

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[chickenstrip]

Yeah, I've always tried to live within my means. If I got a loan to buy a bike, I made sure I could pay it off quickly. Instead of looking to have expensive things, I think you should adjust your life to stay within those means. Never had a credit card in my life.

Now is an exception, because if I didn't use the bank's money, I'd starve to death
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THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[King29]

I work with a 19 year old who told me this morning when we were discussing trainers that he had a pair with an air pocket in the heel. He put them in the washing machine to clean them and the air pocket expanded out the sides and ruined the trainers. I laughed so hard I nearly crashed the van.

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[chickenstrip]

[bhinso]

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[King29]

EastEnders. I admit I watch it. They made a big song and dance about Paul Usher being cast as a villain, Paul played Des Taviner in The Bill and Barry Grant in Brookside.

A good actor by all accounts. However; his entire screen time on EastEnders was less than 10 minutes and he's gone. What was the point in that? big song and dance and naff all of him.

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[bhinso]

Don't diss mi byk but iz not bustin a pop innit.

(Still want to know what Tony's done)

[Freddyfruitba...]

A new gear grinder but hot on the heels of my recent comment below...

Tried to use my old iPad for a family Skype session with my adult kids who are mostly scattered around the country - we do this reasonably often; it's a nice way to keep in touch. But the Skype app told me it was out of date and needed updating before I could connect. So I visited the app store, only to find out that I'm already running the most up to date version available for my device. So, no more Skype. This is hot on the heels of exactly the same thing happening with my Royal Bank of Scotland banking app a few weeks ago; similarly about a year ago Skype stopped working on my smart TV (which I'd equipped with an expensive and now useless dedicated webcam thingy).

Does my farking head in, this built-in obsolescence. I have expensive bits of kit which work just as well now as they did when I bought them but they are effectively junk simply because the manufacturers and developers have decreed it

[King29]

Went to see the quack this afternoon about my ear (I went into work this morning as they only had a 1pm appointment). Apparently my inner ear is infected through cotton bud and key abuse. He gave me some Otomize ear spray and 100 Co-codamol 30mg/500mg capsules for the discomfort.

Took 2 of the capsules and fell asleep. Just booked the rest of the week off through work to recover. I hate time off work it's boring.

[Easy-X]

[pepperami]

As said earlier by me , my sat-nav broke.
So I go shopping for a new one because I prefer to have a separate sat-nav.

Not that many in the shops nowadays .
The ones that are about are fugging expensive
The cheapest I could find over the counter was £99.95.

Ended up buying a mount for my phone.
Looks like my phone is my sat-nav now?

Come back Maplins , all is forgiven.
Bought my last sat-nav there for not a lot of pennies.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I like to feed the birds so when crows nested in a neighbour's tall conifer I thought, "That's nice." So what do crows eat at this time of year? Small birds apparently, particularly fledgelings and nestlings. They're not equipped for a quick kill either.

[Easy-X]

Lazy crows that live near my house were tapping at the window asking to get fed this morning.

Woke up the cat (dozing on the window sill) and the furry fucker nearly shat a brick! Back end went out as he skidded round the living room door and nearly took the cat flap off the hinges
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[A100man]