Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[hellkat]

Spent the whole morning (yesterday) in a dull-as-fuck AGM, so that the public audience - who you never see except once a year at the AGM - can keep informed and pretend they are interested.
(not interested enough to do it for free all year round, like those of us up at the top table, though, eh?)

Bloody boring because its all just a rehash of what we've all been doing all year, so no moving-forward stuff actually occurs.

Anyway.
The only light at the end of the tunnel was a lecture by a rather hot professor that I've previously worked with, and on a reasonably interesting subject (for a change).

But the executives rattled on for too long and ran over by 20 minutes so his lecture was cancelled. So he stomped off and I didn't get the chance to bat my eyelashes at him over an egg mayo sandwich.

*sulk*
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[BTTD]

Ebay buyer.
Sold an enlarger and stated that it wasn't working. I genuinely thought it might just be the bulb, but hadn't tested it or investigated it at all. The bulbs are over £100. Chap won it, collected it, had a good look over before he took it. He's now had it "professionally" inspected and asserted that it never would have worked in the way that it was set up.
Yes, it did work previously, but I know it wasn't working when I last looked at it, and that is how I listed it.
"Well that's what you say".
Being called a liar has really pissed me off.
I should have just sold the ancillary bits individually and dumped the transformer that appears to have died. I actually would have made more money on it, never mind the lenses that I sold him for a lot less than what they go for. I actually wasn't looking to make money on this, and really just wanted it gone and to go to someone who had the time and knowledge to get it working and enjoy using it. It's a great price of kit.
He's also complained that parts inside are broken. I don't know if that happened in his car, because they weren't damaged when it was here.
Number blocked.

[hellkat]

[thx1138]

cheap stitching inside t-shirts

the collars and cuffs start to itch after a few dozen washes

I've taken to wearing my t-shirts inside out

[BTTD]

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[Fizzer Thou]

I had hoped to start uploading my biking holiday pics from the last 18 days to p/b,only to find that they have now decided that I have to pay in some way

Anyone else found a way around this before I move all my pictures to another photo hosting page?
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Just talk bikes.What else is there?

Always have a 'Plan B'

[P.]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

[TheSmiler]

Had a car pull out in front of me this morning with a sticker on the back saying look out for bikes and a sticker saying give blood save lives.

Reported a trike that was dumped on a public crossing on monday between a dual carriageway. To find out the owner had just left it there as the clutch cable had snapped.

An put a bid in for a house within the region of 95k to find out that someone else had come along and paid 110k cash. So now got 3 more viewings on friday and saturday.
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CB125>CG125>GN125>ER5>K100RS>R1100RS>K100RS
A2 completed 23/07/15 Ready for the Golden Crisp Packet

[techathy]

The absolute belief of most politicians at local level that because reducing road capacity reduces car use there will be less congestion. No you twats, you raise congestion to the levels that people find the alternatives are more convenient while also reducing the total road capacity so future traffic increase will only lead to even more congestion.
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Bikes: '17 Zero FX ZF6.5, '16 BMW R1200 RS, '12 Triumph Daytona 675

[Dave70]

Long story short but, having to do a runner from two plastic po po because I refused to speak to or acknowledge a member of Kingdom environmental services for throwing a used fag end down a roadside grid, as there were no bins about.

To put things into perspective. There are shootings around the area on a daily basis and scumbags putting up two fingers to po po whilst riding past them on stolen bikes, because po po can't chase them as the poor darlings might get hurt and my father (or other elderly residents) won't go outside when it's dark because of the amount of local crime.

Anyhow, I managed to escape (probably because po po couldn't really be arsed with such a trivial matter more than my ability to run like Usain Bolt).

In my defence, I always either dispose of any litter in a bin or carry it home with me. But putting used fag ends in my jeans pocket isn't really a reasonable option imo. More so as the council has recently removed four litter bins in the area and replaced them for an electronic advertising board.

Anyway, FTPP.

I've also just realised that now my potential £80 fine will reach £1,500 plus costs if caught. (Apparently the c*nts wear body cams )
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There ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk.

2012: R125 killed by white van. 2016 R125 killed by 30,000 miles of redline. Current: 2016 Kawasaki ER6f.

[grr666]

[chickenstrip]

Nothing and everything. Life is just one big meh.
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THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[hellkat]

I have to watch two hours of House of Lords debate, on BBC iPlayer.
It's on a subject I am passionate about.
And I don't often do passionate except about food and sex.

Everybody else has watched it and given their opinion.
Mine doesn't matter anyway, cos I am but a lowly pleb, but I still have to watch it, hence gears ground

Got to go to work now, though.
Only watched about a quarter of it, but will watch the rest of it on the weekend (including the speech by our esteemed Chair, Baroness Awesomebird of Poshland )

And its surprisingly interesting what they have on the iPlayer parliament section.
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[hellkat]

[chickenstrip]

https://johnhartstudios.com/bc/
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Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[hellkat]

I love BC comics, a vastly underrated cartoony.

Anyway, I'm back for a bit of another whinge.
People who write you letters and say "I enclose a [whatever]..." and then don't enclose it. FFS, back in my secretarial days that was practically a sackable offence, definitely at least a black mark against the personnel record if you were found out.

They used to make us type "Encl." at the bottom of our letters to remind ourselves when we were envelope-stuffing that there was something else to go in there.

So THANKS NewVic for not including the list of other local colleges I might be able to do A levels in Economics* as mature-student-learning. I'll just spend an indeterminate number of hours finding them for myself



*its easy to find A level mature student classes in English or Maths because those are part of the government's whole numeracy/literacy drive, but how about something you're actually interested in. I don't want to do fucking pottery or upholstery.
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[M.C]

[grr666]

To be fair, the shopkeepers aren't that thrilled with the cyclists and their unwanted, unused cycle lane either.
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Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
Ste wrote: Avatars are fine, it's signatures that need turning off.

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I took my suit to get dry cleaned the other day. I went to pick it up today as I am going to a wedding tomorrow. The dry cleaners is shut. For a week.

When they reopen I will be tutting very loudly when picking up my suit.

[waffles]

I took on a whole load of extra work for some extra cash, then took on another batch of extra work for even more extra cash.

Had an email today to say "we notice that you haven't been uploading this work recently so we will be reallocating from inactive people". Except I am not inactive and have ploughed my way through over half the job in the last week.
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Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
Past rides Yamaha XT125X, Triumph TT600, Honda XR250
Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125

[TheSmiler]

Waiting to see if my offer has been accepted as the seller is on holiday.
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CB125>CG125>GN125>ER5>K100RS>R1100RS>K100RS
A2 completed 23/07/15 Ready for the Golden Crisp Packet

[chickenstrip]

[grr666]

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