Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1625276 times)

andrewc · « **Reply #10175 on:** 21 July, 2018, 06:02:26 pm »

Can you just dump the slummy in a hopper or do you have to feed it in coin by coin ?
(I never use the things)

Kim · « **Reply #10176 on:** 21 July, 2018, 06:16:41 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 21 July, 2018, 06:02:26 pm

Can you just dump the slummy in a hopper or do you have to feed it in coin by coin ?
(I never use the things)

The Sainsbury's ones I use for the purpose have a slot that will accept 3-4 coins at a time, and some sort of buffer that it works its way through. You can, with a bit of practice, pour coins into the slot from your hand, but if you overflow the buffer they immediately reappear in the change hopper. Once you get the hang of it, you can hear the mechanical click that means it's ready to accept some more coins. Eventually it will fill up and refuse to accept a particular denomination.

My general approach is that whenever I have to buy some milk or whatever, I fill a pocket with random change, feed that to the machine, and (much kudos to the designer of the machine for allowing it) top up with card payment to complete the purchase.

(Top tip: If you've just fed it a zillion 2p coins, and you then try to pay the remainder with a larger denomination coin, it will give you the change in 2p coins, because for some reason it has loads of the fuckers.)

ElyDave · « **Reply #10177 on:** 21 July, 2018, 08:10:06 pm »

last time I emptied the jelly baby it contained nearly £70 in loose change, thats a lot of pints of milk

Beardy · « **Reply #10178 on:** 21 July, 2018, 08:56:01 pm »

I just spent a quite afternoon watching th the contents were f the tea pots sorting and counting. I wrapped
The coins in paper tubes and took them to a local bank who were happy to change the shrapnel into folders

Wobbly John · « **Reply #10179 on:** 21 July, 2018, 08:58:14 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 21 July, 2018, 06:16:41 pm

denomination.
(Top tip: If you've just fed it a zillion 2p coins, and you then try to pay the remainder with a larger denomination coin, it will give you the change in 2p coins, because for some reason it has loads of the fuckers.)

The ones at our Co-op, paid back change in the largest coins possible - I would sometimes put a whole handful of 1p,2p & 5ps in and get 50p & 20ps as change.

They've removed them now.

andrewc · « **Reply #10180 on:** 27 July, 2018, 05:48:26 pm »

Evans no longer give 10% discount for CTC members

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #10181 on:** 27 July, 2018, 06:00:16 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 27 July, 2018, 05:48:26 pm

Evans no longer give 10% discount for CTC members

I thought that Cycle Surgery did but looking in the back of Cycle magazine it seems that they don't – although Runners Need and Snow & Rock do!

Jakob W · « **Reply #10182 on:** 27 July, 2018, 08:09:37 pm »

Halfrauds are now the preferred partner I believe. Nowhere near as useful, mind, though a couple of the LBSes offer a discount; I've never really bothered, as it doesn't really make a difference on small consumables, and their labour rates are so reasonable I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage. If I ever buy a new bike, then maybe...

ElyDave · « **Reply #10183 on:** 27 July, 2018, 08:39:50 pm »

Cotswold Outdoor gives 15%

Basil · « **Reply #10184 on:** 27 July, 2018, 11:04:04 pm »

No view of the moon because of much needed rain. That would have been ok.
No much needed rain but great view of the moon. That also would have been ok.

No rain. No moon. The gods are being gits tonight.

T42 · « **Reply #10185 on:** 28 July, 2018, 11:02:52 am »

Dropping the blanket limit for second-class roads to 80 kph seems to have exposed a class of drivers who drive at 10 kph under the limit no matter what it is. Whereas before they would trundle along at 80, now they dodder along at 70 - speedometer 70 at that, i.e. something like 65*. Driving from here to Haguenau & back, as we did this morning, has become unutterably vile.

* the speed limit in French towns used to be 60, with a 10 kph tolerance, which meant that permitted max speed in town was only 10 kph less than it is on the "open" road nowadays.

Beardy · « **Reply #10186 on:** 28 July, 2018, 10:45:27 pm »

Why hasn’t the world been rebuilt to accommodate people of reasonable stature. The population is getting taller and still facilities only accommodate short arses.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #10187 on:** 29 July, 2018, 10:58:14 am »

Probably cos everything would then be too high up for us short arses?

BrianI · « **Reply #10188 on:** 29 July, 2018, 11:49:38 am »

No, local cycling club which I recently rejoined after a few years away.
I don't appreciate being automatically registered with Endura, to sign up for club cycling kit orders.

In anycase I prefer the "anonymity" of non club cycle clothing...

Beardy · « **Reply #10189 on:** 30 July, 2018, 10:40:28 am »

why can't micro$oft get their short cut keys consistent across their applications?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #10190 on:** 30 July, 2018, 12:08:38 pm »

By the miracle of SCIENCE I have learned that my ESTA application was indeed successful and I shall therefore be able to enter USAnia next month. However, Gnomeland "Security", could you tell me what is the point of asking me for my e-mail address during the application process if you do not then e-mail me to let me know the outcome

Beardy · « **Reply #10191 on:** 30 July, 2018, 12:17:08 pm »

They like you to provide an email address because it saves them having to find it before they hack it

Kim · « **Reply #10192 on:** 30 July, 2018, 12:19:37 pm »

Yeah, they're probably checking you haven't posted anything socialist on twitface.

ian · « **Reply #10193 on:** 30 July, 2018, 12:38:44 pm »

They're probably just checking for email addresses that end in @isis.com or @jihad.syr or @kill-all-the-infidels.iq. They have a list.

Also @illegaldrugsforsale.com and @moralturpitude.com. Though admittedly, given Donald is in the big chair, the latter evidently isn't such an issue. Though I doubt he can spell turpitude or tweet it with his little fingers.

My ESTA revoked in 3,2,1...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #10194 on:** 30 July, 2018, 01:20:09 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 30 July, 2018, 12:19:37 pm

Yeah, they're probably checking you haven't posted anything socialist on twitface.

There's a section for "Social Media". At the moment this is optional^*. I left it blank. Plus the e-mail address I use for Farcebok is not the one I use to ask USAnia if I can come to play.

* But probably won't be by 2020

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #10195 on:** 30 July, 2018, 01:43:53 pm »

So you'll have to have a Facebook account to visit the USA? Sounds totally reasonable...

ian · « **Reply #10196 on:** 30 July, 2018, 02:46:50 pm »

The ESTA form gets longer each time. By 2020 it'll be so long it'll take more time to complete than there is time left in the universe.

Oddly, as it's against type, my most recent visit to the US resulted in a lovely cheerful conversation with the agent. Against type because it was Chicago. Usually the immigration hall is the land of grunters and yellers.

It went better than my discourse with the agent in Indonesia. He seemed to want to me to have a visa. I didn't want one and I wasn't about to pony up the $50 for a visa-on-arrival I didn't need. Also because, as detailed elsewhere, I had no US dollars (nor local currency).

"Visa?"
"No."
"Visa?"
"No."
"Visa?"
"No."
"Visa?"
"No."
"Visa?"
"No."
"Visa?"
"No."
"Visa?"
"No."
"Visa?"
"No."
"Visa?"
"No."
etc.

Eventually he twigged that we weren't getting anywhere and this was the limit of our mutual conversational ability and grumpily stamped my passport. They were having a merry time dragging off Chinese visitors (top tip, when the sign says 'no photos' that's what it means, and then having seen your friend escorted away for doing just that, don't then take a picture of that either).

Kim · « **Reply #10197 on:** 30 July, 2018, 03:11:49 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 30 July, 2018, 01:43:53 pm

So you'll have to have a Facebook account to visit the USA? Sounds totally reasonable...

Why not, you need one to do everything else?

TheLurker · « **Reply #10198 on:** 30 July, 2018, 05:06:33 pm »

Quote from: Beardy on 30 July, 2018, 10:40:28 am

why can't micro$oft get their short cut keys consistent across their applications?

If this is Outlook's insistence on using ctrl-F for "forward" rather than "search" then blame Bill Gates. He got them to use that binding because he was used to it from the e-mail client he was using prior to that. Other cases? Who the hell knows?

Kim · « **Reply #10199 on:** 07 August, 2018, 07:55:12 pm »

I had to climb a ladder because Drains, and now my knee hurts.

Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1625276 times)

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