Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[hellkat]

[Sister Sledge]

I'm kinda numb at the moment - that will all wait until Dad arrives back and we can chat...

So - have another gear grinder. (might have mentioned this thing before)
For a whole week my phone has rung twice daily with a withheld number. I'm always working and can't answer. The problem is they have been letting my phone go to voicemail but then not leaving a message!!! B*stards.
So, Friday afternoon I finally managed to answer one of the calls. It was a f*cking service engineer for Dads recliner chair. (NHS/serviced by their engineers yearly) I'm a contact for Dad and with him being away they were calling me instead.
"So why didn't you just leave me a message and I'd call you back" I asked. The engineer told me that his company is trying a new system..
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[Easy-X]

Don't read too much into that. I'm on the TPS and still get regular silent cold calls that my ansafone filters.
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[Freddyfruitba...]

[Riejufixing]

On 15 Jan 2020

[Ste]

A pub changing their opening time from 11am to 12pm.

[recman]

[Ste]

That's a matter of opinion.

[JackButler]

Sorted my nephew with a plumbing apprenticeship 15yrs ago. Got my mate to take him on the condition that the lad actually went & asked for the job & he was never to know.

He's got his own little business now, 2x vans & 4 lads. Money is rolling in.

Came round today to service my boiler, not a bad job for £120 cash.

Why do I ever fukkin bother
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I clean my guns with the tears of the snivelling, left wing scum.

[King29]

[1198]

My housemate (shared house for work) leaving bits of black in the butter from when he's buttered his toast. Clean the bloody knife you heathen, have some consideration!

[Nobby the Bastard]

The bastard fence has blown down.
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[wr6133]

[JackButler]

[JackButler]

This is the most fun you can have on a wild wet & windy Sunday morning. Got this chap up on one screen & flightradar24 on t'other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gln7T-xxE4k
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I clean my guns with the tears of the snivelling, left wing scum.

[recman]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Now the bastard power is out /and the little bastard is using all my data to watch stuff on YouTube.
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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."
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[chickenstrip]

In the first year I moved here, I lost a fence and roofing felt on a shed to the wind.
In the second year, I lost the garden gate.
Shed got replaced with a new, larger one, no wind related problems thus far. Fence got replaced with a new, stronger one, holding up well. Garden gate is still languishing between the fence and the new shed

Things seem to be pretty much windproof now

Famous last words...

The centre of these low pressure systems seems often to pass over Scotland, so we get a lot of these strong winds (the isobars man, the isobars!) here.
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[hellkat]

[Howling Terror]

I see that the towns built in a steep valley that shares a canal a river a railway line and a road are suffering again.

'The new flood defences aren't working'
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[hellkat]

GSX got blown over

Woke up at 8am this morning to two voicemails from my neighbours either side, telling me the bike was over and partially in the road.

My burly weekend houseguest was still sparko so I went out (in my dressing gown) to assess the situation and see if I needed to wake him up (scary concept ) but I was just about to get the thing back onto its tyres (flat) when a policeman happened along and helped me get it not only upright but also onto the centre stand (which I had failed to do last time through lack of strength/partially seized).

But just before he left, my mate has shifted it more properly away from the road and closer to my house.

Still gonna have to go out there and retarp it though
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[chickenstrip]

[P.]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Turns out the pub has power. Result!
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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."
Sprint ST 1050

[JackButler]