Author Topic: The "I'm Such a Fecking Div" Thread (Read 445356 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1825 on:** 20 April, 2020, 10:13:27 am »

Yep. Once learned, it's learned. By those who survive the lesson.

rafletcher · « **Reply #1826 on:** 20 April, 2020, 11:48:02 am »

Ive been trying to book a Friday off, as it's my wife's birthday. Our "MyHRSpace" online system keeps refusing to book it.

It's May 8th, my wife's birthday.

Oh, and the 75th anniversary of VE day (which was when she was 1 year old).

And a Bank Holiday apparently

ScumOfTheRoad · « **Reply #1827 on:** 20 April, 2020, 11:59:57 am »

Ws VE Day not the Bank Holiday which was moved from 1st May as that was a teensy tiny bit full on Socialist Internationale Lets Man the Barricades for the Tory Government?

rafletcher · « **Reply #1828 on:** 20 April, 2020, 12:18:56 pm »

Quote from: ScumOfTheRoad on 20 April, 2020, 11:59:57 am

Ws VE Day not the Bank Holiday which was moved from 1st May as that was a teensy tiny bit full on Socialist Internationale Lets Man the Barricades for the Tory Government?

No, there was never (well, once before, for the 50th anniversary in 1995) a formal VE day holiday. I know Thatcher disliked the early May BH, as it was introduced (as the first Monday in May) by Labour in 1978, but she never got it moved.

Greenbank · « **Reply #1829 on:** 20 April, 2020, 12:24:21 pm »

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 20 April, 2020, 10:01:00 am

That is why, despite (or because of) years of cycling experience, you should always safety check your bike before riding.

The free cycle training that the local council offered used the "ABCD" mnemonic:-

Air (check the tyres)
Brakes (Try both brakes before starting)
Chain (check the chain is sufficiently lubricated)
Dangly bits (check that luggage/jackets/etc are secured and nothing can fall into the wheel)

All of that can be checked in under 30 seconds before setting off each time and it doesn't take too many times doing it before it becomes habit.

The Family Cyclist · « **Reply #1830 on:** 20 April, 2020, 08:36:40 pm »

So Saturday cos it was my birthday I treated myself to an hour in the shed fettling bikes. Not that she understands them but the wife's gears needed attention. Being a lady bike I had to extend the seat post to put it in the work stand. Gears work perfectly now.... She couldn't get on the bike today and thought I had done it deliberately as I think she had the saddle down too low (she does)

The Family Cyclist · « **Reply #1831 on:** 29 April, 2020, 08:09:23 am »

Nearly me again. Rescued a BMX from work skip to hopefully fix for neighbour. It's very rusty and tyres flat. Took into workshop at work and pumped tyres. Thought I'll ride it back to my office. Now not sure why but the back wheel is pretty seized and chains also pretty solid. This had the effect of making the bike effectively a fixed wheel so when I stopped outside my office it didn't and nearly had me off

Feanor · « **Reply #1832 on:** 30 April, 2020, 06:59:36 pm »

Measure twice, cut once.

Idiot boy should be made to write this out one hundred times. Fabricating a pair of feet, this is what happens when you clamp the workpiece into the mitre saw the wrong way round.

Measure twice, cut once. by Ron Lowe, on Flickr

ElyDave · « **Reply #1833 on:** 30 April, 2020, 07:37:36 pm »

it would still work as a foot thobut

Feanor · « **Reply #1834 on:** 30 April, 2020, 07:50:45 pm »

It could be a Design Statement!

But, as can be seen in the pic, I already made a new one.

robgul · « **Reply #1835 on:** 01 May, 2020, 02:28:43 pm »

. . . . . I have a cordless brad gun (a.k.a. a nail gun) - today I was completing some slide-out pan drawers for a kitchen cabinet and thought - I'll nail the back rail on rather than screwing and gluing as the rest of the tray.

Brad gun in hand, ready to fire ... nothing on the trigger, checked the switches/safety etc - fine - tried again - still no go. Lightbulb moment: battery was still in the case . . . the tool is designed to be stored in the case without the battery to avoid accidental discharge. Doh.

Rob

Ashaman42 · « **Reply #1836 on:** 01 May, 2020, 04:27:34 pm »

Phew, I read the first line and thought "Oh no!"

robgul · « **Reply #1837 on:** 01 May, 2020, 05:18:25 pm »

Quote from: Ashaman42 on 01 May, 2020, 04:27:34 pm

Phew, I read the first line and thought "Oh no!"

In similar vein I always worry when I see people (usually in the US) on YouTube with a table saw running an un-guarded blade - and pushing wood through without a push-stick

andytheflyer · « **Reply #1838 on:** 01 May, 2020, 07:11:42 pm »

Quote from: Ashaman42 on 01 May, 2020, 04:27:34 pm

Phew, I read the first line and thought "Oh no!"

Me too. I was already going faint and clammy.

ElyDave · « **Reply #1839 on:** 01 May, 2020, 07:57:15 pm »

Anything starting "I have a nail gun" fills me with a Doctor Who 1970's watching through my fingers kind of dread

ian · « **Reply #1840 on:** 01 May, 2020, 08:10:47 pm »

I raise you the nail gun. If the search function worked on this site you'd find the story of the time I quad-biked drunk through the woods while firing an AR-15.

Ashaman42 · « **Reply #1841 on:** 01 May, 2020, 08:37:10 pm »

I don't remember that story. But I must find it!

ian · « **Reply #1842 on:** 01 May, 2020, 09:50:50 pm »

Quote from: Ashaman42 on 01 May, 2020, 08:37:10 pm

I don't remember that story. But I must find it!

Search worked this time.

I don't think I was actually on the quad bike, but my memory of that evening is more than a bit frothy. I remember Mary Lou though. Lots. And I'm not joking, she really did show me where the Walton's lived.

quixoticgeek · « **Reply #1843 on:** 01 May, 2020, 11:12:41 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 24 March, 2020, 10:39:00 am

In normal times you could put it in a jar of rice and hope. However, these days getting hold of rice is a bit of a challenge.

A year or more ago I found a bag of rice in the back of the cupboard with a date even more years further in the past. Realising it's utility in drying stuff, I left it there. A housemate when here recently found it, and binned it as being out of date. Which was a tad annoying.

Fortunately a friend gave me a bag of rice in a care package. But still annoying waste...

J

rafletcher · « **Reply #1844 on:** 02 May, 2020, 06:04:08 pm »

So I decided to wash the bird feeders in the dishwasher, on a hot wash. “They won’t melt will they” says my wife. “No” says I. And they don’t. But they do get hit enough to distort if you’ve propped them at an angle, and that’s how they stay when they cool down

. That’s £100 worth of ruined feeders $:-\$

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1845 on:** 02 May, 2020, 06:24:10 pm »

Try washing them again, not at an angle?
Not as if you have anything to lose now...

perpetual dan · « **Reply #1846 on:** 02 May, 2020, 06:31:57 pm »

Do they not work now, surely birds use wonky branches all the time? You could get some cheap ones, make a batch and sell them

rafletcher · « **Reply #1847 on:** 02 May, 2020, 07:16:59 pm »

They’re the squirrel proof ones, the outer metal screen slides (or used to) over the plastic inner. The inner is now oval rather than round, and the centre spindle is offset by 10mm or so.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1848 on:** 03 May, 2020, 07:14:08 pm »

No, Mr L, tonight's TV news was not truncated because today is a bank holiday. Because today is not even a Monday

hellymedic · « **Reply #1849 on:** 03 May, 2020, 07:25:32 pm »

And the Bank Holiday is not till Friday, anyway...

Author Topic: The "I'm Such a Fecking Div" Thread (Read 445356 times)

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