Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1626546 times)

LindaG · « **Reply #1600 on:** 09 April, 2012, 07:43:10 pm »

Quote from: Arch on 09 April, 2012, 06:48:57 pm

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 09 April, 2012, 06:42:39 pm
Why is it, that whenever I put on a nice shiny new cycling top in a nice colour that I really like, that I have to fettle something in the wild, and get oil on it?

Every nice thing I own has oil stains.

Have you tried Swarfega? Apply to dry clothing, rub in well, then rinse out. Worked well for me when I leaned back against my trike chainring in the back of MFWHTBAB's car...

I have just done this and IT TOTALLY WORKED!!!!!

Thanks Arch

I'm so pleased.

Arch · « **Reply #1601 on:** 09 April, 2012, 08:40:20 pm »

Yay!

I had no idea you could use Swarfega on cloth, it was MFWHTBAB who told me...

I wonder if it would shift the red wine stain on my carpet...

hellymedic · « **Reply #1602 on:** 09 April, 2012, 09:06:44 pm »

Quote from: Arch on 09 April, 2012, 08:40:20 pm

Yay!

I had no idea you could use Swarfega on cloth, it was MFWHTBAB who told me...

I wonder if it would shift the red wine stain on my carpet...

I don't think so.

Swarfega works on oil-based gunk. Red wine is water-based.

Kim · « **Reply #1603 on:** 09 April, 2012, 09:38:48 pm »

Red wine coloured carpets. It's the only way to be sure.

Peter · « **Reply #1604 on:** 09 April, 2012, 09:43:26 pm »

Quote from: Arch on 09 April, 2012, 08:40:20 pm

Yay!

I had no idea you could use Swarfega on cloth, it was MFWHTBAB who told me...

Yep! I used it regularly to clean chain oil off my right trouser-leg. After a few years (I'm thick, see), it occurred to me to wear a long sock on that side - a black one!

Arch · « **Reply #1605 on:** 09 April, 2012, 10:08:51 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 09 April, 2012, 09:06:44 pm

Quote from: Arch on 09 April, 2012, 08:40:20 pm
Yay!

I had no idea you could use Swarfega on cloth, it was MFWHTBAB who told me...

I wonder if it would shift the red wine stain on my carpet...

I don't think so.
Swarfega works on oil-based gunk. Red wine is water-based.

Yeah, I reckoned that was the case. I'll have to just continue to put a footstool over it...

David Martin · « **Reply #1606 on:** 09 April, 2012, 10:46:24 pm »

To join two threads together, have you tried rubbing the red wine stain with a bicarbonate of soda solution? The red color (IIRC) includes tannins which should be more soluble in aqueous base. If that fails, use vinegar.
Then rinse well.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #1607 on:** 10 April, 2012, 09:20:41 am »

Going back home today. Saying goodbye to bobb doesn't get any easier the more I do it.

Andrij · « **Reply #1608 on:** 10 April, 2012, 02:17:20 pm »

Rain, rain, go away, come again ~~some other day~~ any time after next Monday.

(For the record, Dublin is not in a drought AFAIK)

Arch · « **Reply #1609 on:** 10 April, 2012, 07:20:51 pm »

Quote from: David Martin on 09 April, 2012, 10:46:24 pm

To join two threads together, have you tried rubbing the red wine stain with a bicarbonate of soda solution? The red color (IIRC) includes tannins which should be more soluble in aqueous base. If that fails, use vinegar.
Then rinse well.

I fear that after few years, it might be too late....

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #1610 on:** 10 April, 2012, 08:07:39 pm »

Got home safe to find a letter from an upstairs neighbour saying the rhones are all blocked and need to be cleared and the roof needs to be repaired. Fucking marvellous. I hope it's not going to be expensive.

Ashaman42 · « **Reply #1611 on:** 10 April, 2012, 09:43:33 pm »

Ah buggrit. One of the tents I was umming and ahhing about but had finally maybe decided to go for as it was reduced from £180 to £55 is now no longer available at that price.

Marco Stefano · « **Reply #1612 on:** 11 April, 2012, 11:30:15 am »

Teenage BMXers & my Park Tools tools...
That tool I bought so I would only have to buy one once.
That small tool that is more expensive, but good value as it is well made.

That tool you borrowed and cannot find again.

Another £10 goes begging.

And you wonder that I have a lock on the toolbox?

trio25 · « **Reply #1613 on:** 11 April, 2012, 06:19:06 pm »

Getting a rude text telling me I have to have Monday off in lieu with no choice in the matter. Made me feel so happy.

JonBuoy · « **Reply #1614 on:** 11 April, 2012, 06:50:13 pm »

I was quite impressed that my new monitor was delivered by a taxi driver and at a time when I was actually at home.

I was less impressed by the way that he tripped over the doormat and threw the package at me. I don't think that it was my fault that I failed to catch it before it skittered across the hall floor.

It does however appear to work - otherwise this would be in the rant thread.

Arch · « **Reply #1615 on:** 11 April, 2012, 07:06:23 pm »

The colleague who put the electric truck away on yesterday forgot to plug her in, so she wasn't charged this morning.

Never mind, it happens, we jiggled things round and I went out to get the time-critical stuff on the trike, while the truck charged. My workmate today was therefore at a loose end until I got back.

Never mind, she did the washing up that the same colleague who forgot to plug the truck in was rota'd to do yesterday, but didn't...

mattc · « **Reply #1616 on:** 11 April, 2012, 07:26:13 pm »

Quote from: Marco Stefano on 11 April, 2012, 11:30:15 am

Teenage BMXers & my Park Tools tools...
That tool I bought so I would only have to buy one once.
That small tool that is more expensive, but good value as it is well made.

That tool you borrowed and cannot find again. Another £10 goes begging.

And you wonder that I have a lock on the toolbox?

If it makes you feel any better ... my and my TeenBMXer mate once broke Dad's bench-vice during a particularly enthusiastic piece of ill-informed fettling

Marco Stefano · « **Reply #1617 on:** 12 April, 2012, 01:00:20 pm »

No... no, doesn't make it better.

Good job I do not have a vice...

The phrase 'give me the job and I'll finish the tools' is perfect for him & his mates.

why1040 · « **Reply #1618 on:** 12 April, 2012, 03:15:32 pm »

Argh!

Just came home to a notice that Royal Fail can't deliver an item to me because there's a fee to pay. Apparently someone has sent me something but not paid the full amount. But I can't find out WHAT the package is, even once I've paid the sodding thing-plus the £1 handling fee of course...for .36 postage. So I can't even grumble at the idiot who sent me something without paying for it properly!

Not to mention that there was another card slotted in with it. For $NOT ME$ In fact, for not even someone in this street or post code, but a large business in Slough!

tiermat · « **Reply #1619 on:** 12 April, 2012, 03:18:53 pm »

I once came home to find one of those cards through the door. Luckily I had just got home in time to turn the car around and get to the PO before it closed (this was when they opened sensible times, like until 6PM).

So I went, paid the money and collected the letter which turned out to be my employment contract for the company I had just been at, all day, and for the previous 5 months!!!!

The first thing I did the next morning when I went to work was give the HR director an ear full for not just handing the envelope to me in the office, or if they had to post it, at least put some postage on it......

why1040 · « **Reply #1620 on:** 12 April, 2012, 03:33:27 pm »

I bought 4 things on ebay yesterday. These are the only things I am expecting that are not bills or normal other post.

If it's one of those items, I will be alternately really impressed at how quick it was and HIGHLY unimpressed at having to pay extra for the sodding postage!

Mr Arch · « **Reply #1621 on:** 12 April, 2012, 04:49:53 pm »

Why is it so difficult to find and buy a doorbell?

All I want is a bell that goes 'Riiinnnnnggggg' when someone presses the button at the door. I have the bell push, the cable and the transformer so all I need is a bell.

B&Q store only have wireless ones and ones that go Ding Dong, from a speaker not chimes, and ones that play music and awful tunes.
Wickes are the same but they also sell the bell push and transformers but nothing to connect then to.
City Electrical Factor had one and sold it yesterday, none left in any Manchester outlets.
Other local electrical wholeseller had none in, no demand!
Tool Station only do battery Ding Dong chimes, and wireless crappy tunes ones.
B&Q warehouse had one and it was bright fake chrome and almost £13! That is about the price of a whole wireless door chime kit that plays crappy tunes!

I could always spray it black I suppose.

Analog Kid · « **Reply #1622 on:** 12 April, 2012, 07:01:37 pm »

Damn you broken femur !
How much longer will the borrowed exercise bike be as close as I can get to the real thing?
I'm bored bored bored now.....
Can't walk (ok lurch on crutches) very far, can't cycle, can't drive..
...and I'm really unimpressed with statutory sick pay....

Pedaldog. · « **Reply #1623 on:** 13 April, 2012, 03:02:12 am »

I live at Flat 2, K*** Court, MAINWAY. On the eletoral roll my address is just 3 Mainway.

I got a You kissed a parcel card today soqwent waliing up the F off big hill to collect it. ONly to find it was my address but not my name.

Decided it could be 3 Hills court, same road or any of the 3rd floor flats in Bridge house or Skerton house (4 number three in each of those) and as my regular posite is away and on crutches they Temp's don't recognise the names and wher they should go to .

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1624 on:** 13 April, 2012, 09:39:05 am »

Oh sodding body, you let me do an Arrow last week, although you had delivered the warning signs.

Not needed so much as Aspirin for most of my life and now needing 4 types of medication a day? Bloody ridiculous.

Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1626546 times)

LindaG