Things I Don't Like
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Tesco lorries blocking roads outside their stores, this gets me on 2 levels firstly sitting in the traffic jam they have created and secondly because the price of the parking ticket is already added on to the price of our goods!
Backs of large appliances the last time I saw something that sharp It was used to thinly slice meat!
People who put 13a plugs on everything even when it goes bang!
As for the gas bottles on board from what Iv'e heard they can't "lift" the vehicle because of the risk of causing an explosion. Not sure if its true?? but I do know If you do get some make sure there magnetic so you can take them off to go through tunnels.
Backs of large appliances the last time I saw something that sharp It was used to thinly slice meat!
People who put 13a plugs on everything even when it goes bang!
As for the gas bottles on board from what Iv'e heard they can't "lift" the vehicle because of the risk of causing an explosion. Not sure if its true?? but I do know If you do get some make sure there magnetic so you can take them off to go through tunnels.
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And back to what we don't like:
Well there's a nice forest walk not far from here that we do quite often, along a tumbling river valley with boardwalks and bridges along the way.
Got there today, and it was taped off. "Trail closed due to storm damage. Hope to be open again by 31st January"
1: We don't have Trails here, that's in America.
2: We had driven to get there, so we thought we would have a look anyway. Well we completed the walk. there was ONE small tree blown down over the path that was easy to step over.
3: So why has some elf n safety biggot decided to "close the trail" just for a small fallen tree, that happens in forests. Anyone taking a walk in a forest should know to expect that and deal with it, making their own decisions.
4: Why is it going to take someone a whole month to make two chainsaw cuts in a tree trunk no more than 6" diameter to clear the path so they can "open" it again.
I'll just carry on ignoring such elf n safety tosh.
Well there's a nice forest walk not far from here that we do quite often, along a tumbling river valley with boardwalks and bridges along the way.
Got there today, and it was taped off. "Trail closed due to storm damage. Hope to be open again by 31st January"
1: We don't have Trails here, that's in America.
2: We had driven to get there, so we thought we would have a look anyway. Well we completed the walk. there was ONE small tree blown down over the path that was easy to step over.
3: So why has some elf n safety biggot decided to "close the trail" just for a small fallen tree, that happens in forests. Anyone taking a walk in a forest should know to expect that and deal with it, making their own decisions.
4: Why is it going to take someone a whole month to make two chainsaw cuts in a tree trunk no more than 6" diameter to clear the path so they can "open" it again.
I'll just carry on ignoring such elf n safety tosh.
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I'm surprised they didn't close off the walk " Due to autumn leaves on the ground " A whole tree 6" thick ....could have someone's eye out that could.
To get it shifted would be 30 days of paperwork and raising risk assessments , then a meeting to discuss how to do it , then a site visit to veiw the fallen tree then a cost evaluation and finally on the 31st Jan, a bloke in a van will turn up , a sub-contractor who has never heard of such things but who will have it cleared away in an hour .
To get it shifted would be 30 days of paperwork and raising risk assessments , then a meeting to discuss how to do it , then a site visit to veiw the fallen tree then a cost evaluation and finally on the 31st Jan, a bloke in a van will turn up , a sub-contractor who has never heard of such things but who will have it cleared away in an hour .
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Not round here he won't, because if it stays that long, I will have had it away for firewood :innocent , so when they finally get round to sending someone, he won't find the fallen tree they were making all the fuss about.
go cut it down, remove all trace of it. then leave a small branch in its place. bloke with the chainsaw would probably think 'couldnt the idiot who closed the path just pushed the twig to the side instead?'
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Potholes............so bad round my way I actually now STOP and spray round them with a can of white line paint I carry. Did the front wishbones on the car and had to do the ball joints inside 12 months! At least the new ones bolt on!
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Claim off your council.
I cracked an alloy wheel in a pothole once. Council paid out the full cost of one new alloy wheel, so I then went and bought 4 second hand ones with good tyres for the same price.
I cracked an alloy wheel in a pothole once. Council paid out the full cost of one new alloy wheel, so I then went and bought 4 second hand ones with good tyres for the same price.
probably cheaper for them to have fixed it in the first place
round here, its very rare for any potholes to get filled. except for some certain roads around september. must the council scared of getting sued by someone falling over doing the great north run. although they usually bodge it. many of the potholes were potholes again by october...
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As an aside I was well impressed with the state of the roads on the Isle of Wight back in the summer - really nice to drive over there.
A short stretch of country lane about 1/2 mile from me featured on national news when it became more pothole than road! They "fix" them them then heavy rain just opens them again bigger than before. Must be murder for anyone on a motorbike thinking its just a puddle.
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Right, back to the topic......
American "food"programmes ....where they make a hero out of someone can eat the most/hottest/mankiest
Scripted reality TV programmes
SPLASH
Pratting About on Ice
Health tourists
2013
The state my work vehicle manages to get into by the end of the week
Boy racer with illuminated sills AND even worse....illuminate windscreen washer nozzles! WTF
Pizza with "see through" toppings
Potholes
Brucie
False sincerity
Providing the wine for our daughters wedding in August and being slapped with a "corkage" charge for EVERYONE over the age of 16...still saving about a Grand on the cost of the venue providing the drinks though
The cost of weddings in general
Using something,utting it down for 30 seconds then spending an hour trying to find it again
Finding a tool after an hours searching and it NOT being where you last put it....even though you are alone
Coming in at 2 o'clock this morning to find one of our Jack Russells had elected to dig an escape tunnel through the plasterboard that i fitted 12 hours earlier
Probably a couple more that i have missed BUT it is only January 1st
American "food"programmes ....where they make a hero out of someone can eat the most/hottest/mankiest
Scripted reality TV programmes
SPLASH
Pratting About on Ice
Health tourists
2013
The state my work vehicle manages to get into by the end of the week
Boy racer with illuminated sills AND even worse....illuminate windscreen washer nozzles! WTF
Pizza with "see through" toppings
Potholes
Brucie
False sincerity
Providing the wine for our daughters wedding in August and being slapped with a "corkage" charge for EVERYONE over the age of 16...still saving about a Grand on the cost of the venue providing the drinks though
The cost of weddings in general
Using something,utting it down for 30 seconds then spending an hour trying to find it again
Finding a tool after an hours searching and it NOT being where you last put it....even though you are alone
Coming in at 2 o'clock this morning to find one of our Jack Russells had elected to dig an escape tunnel through the plasterboard that i fitted 12 hours earlier
Probably a couple more that i have missed BUT it is only January 1st
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"It Just Is"
Now that's enough, quit hijacking old threads and start your own!!!
False sincerity Eh ! Not sure of your age Kerch so wondering if you ever saw Hughie Green , You'd've liked him ............not !
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57 and fading rapidly.....And I mean that most sincerely folks, I really do!
You forgot to clasp hands & switch on the sickly smile.
Wind turbines that aren't turning on a windy day....
We've got about 300 of the blinking things off the North Wales coast and very often only 50% of those I can see will be turning. ... :|
We've got about 300 of the blinking things off the North Wales coast and very often only 50% of those I can see will be turning. ... :|
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If I recall correctly, Wind Turbines are the same as the Weeping Angles on Dr Who.....they only move when you are NOT looking
There are axouple of huge ones on the side of the M6 on the way up to Lancaster...hardly ever see them moving. If they do move it is probably a motor inside truning them
Just saying
Unreliable vans
My van wouldn't start this morning.....ok rang office and the plant hire company next door towed it to the garage for me and I had an alternative van....returning to the yard with alternative van and I stop at a petrol station for a drink, I was out like 2 mins and BANG flat battery FFS!
My van wouldn't start this morning.....ok rang office and the plant hire company next door towed it to the garage for me and I had an alternative van....returning to the yard with alternative van and I stop at a petrol station for a drink, I was out like 2 mins and BANG flat battery FFS!
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My Transit has never been a great starter the last one I had I had an extra battery fitted but as the one I now has is under the seat its not so easy to do. First frosty morning this winter it wouldn't start got my tyre man out same day and he fitted a new one. Hope fully it should be OK for a couple of winters now.
PAT testing .
