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grr666
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PostPosted: 13:45 - 03 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Missed out on some HG leather trousers, was outbid while I was walking the dog. Sod it!
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PostPosted: 13:51 - 03 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
grr666 wrote:
Missed out on some HG leather trousers, was outbid while I was walking the dog.

Second-hand leather trousers?
That's where I draw a line Shocked

But anyway, if you're bidding (on ebay?) there's only way to do that which is to make just one bid, at the absolute maximum you're prepared to pay, in the dying seconds of the auction - that way you don't give a rival the chance to react to it; and if you do end up being outbid regardless, you won't care because they'll have paid more than you were willing to. (And if you do win, of course you'll only pay the minimum amount necessary to outbid the next highest bidder, not the full amount you bid.)
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PostPosted: 14:06 - 03 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Freddyfruitbat wrote:


But anyway, if you're bidding (on ebay?) there's only way to do that which is to make just one bid, at the absolute maximum you're prepared to pay, in the dying seconds of the auction - that way you don't give a rival the chance to react to it; and if you do end up being outbid regardless, you won't care because they'll have paid more than you were willing to. (And if you do win, of course you'll only pay the minimum amount necessary to outbid the next highest bidder, not the full amount you bid.)


Who came up with that idea? They should make a web site thingy for that.
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PostPosted: 15:05 - 03 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Freddyfruitbat wrote:
But anyway, if you're bidding (on ebay?) there's only way to do that which is to make just one bid, at the absolute maximum you're prepared to pay, in the dying seconds of the auction - that way you don't give a rival the chance to react to it; and if you do end up being outbid regardless, you won't care because they'll have paid more than you were willing to. (And if you do win, of course you'll only pay the minimum amount necessary to outbid the next highest bidder, not the full amount you bid.)

Yep, and that's why I hate eBay Smile
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Voltguard battery isolator playing up on the caddy. Only have to leave the back doors open for five minutes while I'm loading and it cuts all power.
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PostPosted: 21:40 - 03 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yesterday
I lost one of my best mates
She came ho!me for a few weeks
As per other thread


Her dad found her hung yesterday

I'm numb
Can't work out what's going on

She is the one that got me through the dark times

I was a bit in love with her I have to admit as she was an ingigma
Spent two days drinking which hasn't helped

Spoke to her on Thursday and told her if she needed anything to call me

Fucking gutted

May disappear off here for a little while as need to be focused on something productive

Also got to work yesterday to find no other bugger turned up
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PostPosted: 23:23 - 03 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mate Crying or Very sad

Big hugs xx Wub xx
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PostPosted: 00:53 - 04 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Same here...as in a HT hug on its way.
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PostPosted: 01:45 - 04 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Really sorry to hear that andy. I can't begin to imagine how her friends and family are feeling.
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PostPosted: 06:53 - 04 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
Freddyfruitbat wrote:


But anyway, if you're bidding (on ebay?) there's only way to do that which is to make just one bid, at the absolute maximum you're prepared to pay, in the dying seconds of the auction - that way you don't give a rival the chance to react to it; and if you do end up being outbid regardless, you won't care because they'll have paid more than you were willing to. (And if you do win, of course you'll only pay the minimum amount necessary to outbid the next highest bidder, not the full amount you bid.)


Who came up with that idea? They should make a web site thingy for that.


https://auctionsniper.com/

Imagine if that was a thing ... oh ... wait Smile
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PostPosted: 20:00 - 04 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
It was great until, well, it wasn't.

Someone tell him remove that block of cheese.

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PostPosted: 11:12 - 06 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Freddyfruitbat wrote:
Second-hand leather trousers?
That's where I draw a line Shocked

I tend to use a pad or a sheet of paper. Question

Grinding my gears today, I have misplaced a couple of washers and a couple of knurled knobs for attaching a
spot lamp to a bracket. I have hunted high and low and no bloody sign of them. So far I've searched for a total of about
4 hours. It's driving me insane.

Edit - Gave up, ordered some cheapo ones from china. I have m6 Bolts that will do until they get here. I'll find the buggers now!

Edit Edit... Just spent the last hour searching for the van keys, the van which was used last by my wife. God forbid she should
do something daft like leave the fuckers in the bowl where all the keys live. Oh noooooooooo, that would be too fucking obvious.
She's also taken the car keys to work with her for some reason best known to herself what with the car being here and us
usually sharing the key for it. Then she pipes up she wants picking up from pole class tonight, how shall I do that my dear?
In the car you've got the key to in your fucking bag or in the van which you've lost the keys for? I may kill her before
the day is done.
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Oh, nice. Cos I was thinking of starting up a collection of hunky widowers, as a separate genre from my hunky single men stream.

So far as I am concerned, murderous widowers are still widowers.
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PostPosted: 17:28 - 06 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
grr666 wrote:
Edit Edit... Just spent the last hour searching for the van keys, the van which was used last by my wife. God forbid she should
do something daft like leave the fuckers in the bowl where all the keys live. Oh noooooooooo, that would be too fucking obvious.
She's also taken the car keys to work with her for some reason best known to herself what with the car being here and us
usually sharing the key for it. Then she pipes up she wants picking up from pole class tonight, how shall I do that my dear?
In the car you've got the key to in your fucking bag or in the van which you've lost the keys for? I may kill her before
the day is done.


My missus used the spare key to get into the garage the other week. I asked her the other week, did you put that spare key back in the [spare key place]?

I gave it to you. Why do you always assume I've lost it, I haven't lost it. I'm sure I would have given it to you.

Why would you give it to me? I have one on my keys. If you had, I'd have put it back in the [spare key place].

I now have one key to get in my garage.
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PostPosted: 18:50 - 06 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
"Yes, I will pass on your details and get them to call you back as soon as possible!"

But they never do..... Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: 23:17 - 06 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
DrSnoosnoo wrote:
I now have one key to get in my garage.

Think yourself lucky.

I have NO Key to get in my garage, not even in the Place of Spare Keys, both my bikes are in there, neither now have MOTs, and my fella says the lock is fucked so he had to do a temporary secure repair and we can't open it till he gets round to doing it ... it's not real near our gaff so he can't leave it with a broken lock in case scrotes get in, and he somehow hasn't got round to fixing it (in the last six months, possibly longer).
Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes

And spring is on its way...

I am not H.P.
(but not quite at the homicidal level of Grr666 ... yet ... Laughing )

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PostPosted: 23:27 - 06 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
I dreamed about Clanger!

Now, I like Clanger, she's a mate, has been for many years, and we get on fine whenever we're in the same place at the same time.

But when she's in my dream, and ogling the Chief Executive of the Royal Brompton, about whom I have had a secret pervy but tongue-tied girlish hankering for Many Moons (and in real life she wouldn't even fancy him) , then my gears got ground on account of why is Clanger even in my dream, let alone setting her cap at my secret fancy piece Shocked

Also, in the dream, said CEO (who is usually suave, silk-suited and very bombastic) had on a Burberry baseball cap - worn backwards - (and possibly with his name embroidered on the front).

Not sure where my subconscious was going with this, but it ended up in not too bad a place (he with his thumb indiscreetly on my thigh under the desk, and me purring like a lioness ... ) so I really should post in the Oiled Gears thread. But no ... I won't inflict that upon you Laughing
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PostPosted: 23:29 - 06 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
grr666 wrote:

Edit Edit... Just spent the last hour searching for the van keys, the van which was used last by my wife. God forbid she should
do something daft like leave the fuckers in the bowl where all the keys live. Oh noooooooooo, that would be too fucking obvious.
She's also taken the car keys to work with her for some reason best known to herself what with the car being here and us
usually sharing the key for it. Then she pipes up she wants picking up from pole class tonight, how shall I do that my dear?
In the car you've got the key to in your fucking bag or in the van which you've lost the keys for? I may kill her before
the day is done.


So after speaking to my wife this afternoon and her swearing black is white that she's checked her bag I embark upon
another fingertip search of the house and front garden because she adds "I can't rule out not having dropped them
outside somewhere..." 3 more fruitless hours pass and I'm just about ready to blow my top. In all the kerfuffle of today
I then realise I have completely forgotten what time I was supposed to turn up to collect her (in the van, using the spare key)
probably not helped by my now thoroughly black mood.

So I call, whatsapp and text asking her to let me know what time she said she wanted picking up. No answer. Nothing.
Any other time her fucking phone is welded to her hand, but when I need to reach her.... Fat chance!
So rather than be late I head into town in time for the earlier of the imagined times she said and sit outside her
pole club for a full hour waiting, (despite a selection of other attempts to contact her) before she finally materialises.
A huffy journey home as my day has sucked and it's nearly entirely her fault. Then... Then when we get back home the
keys she swore blind she never had on her magically appear from her hangar sized bag of shite she drags everywhere.
Yes that one, the one she had "fully emptied on to her desk". I can't even look at her right now... Brick Wall
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PostPosted: 00:29 - 07 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Remembering that I'm 50 and not 27 years old.
And forgetting what I was going to search for on Ebay.
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Went training last night and caught a big one in the jaw Shocked
Today I have lopsided head and look like the Elephant Man Sad

My fault for letting my guard down, but f*ckin ell! My face bloody aches.
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Need new chain & sprockets fitting relatively soon.

All garages round me are busy.

Guy that i'd normally take my bike to in North Wales has had an operation & will be out of it for a few weeks...
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