The "I'm Such a Fecking Div" Thread

[T42]

Good mandrill impression, though.

[andrewc]

After finishing some nasal topiary I put my little electric trimmer back on the shelf.  From where it promptly made a suicidal leap for freedom....    I picked up the 2 pieces (the head had come off) and was able to click them back together & it still worked.    I then noticed that during its descent it had hit my pottery shaving bowl* & taken a chunk out of the base.  I'm going to have to find the superglue....


Finally I looked down & noticed that there was quite a lot of red stuff leaking from my left big toe....  one of the falling items with a sharp edge must have landed on it... 

[Pingu]

After finishing some nasal topiary I put my little electric trimmer back on the shelf.  From where it promptly made a suicidal leap for freedom....    I picked up the 2 pieces (the head had come off) and was able to click them back together & it still worked.    I then noticed that during its descent it had hit my pottery shaving bowl* & taken a chunk out of the base.  I'm going to have to find the superglue....


Finally I looked down & noticed that there was quite a lot of red stuff leaking from my left big toe....  one of the falling items with a sharp edge must have landed on it... 

Another reason why beards are good 🧔

[Paul]

After finishing some nasal topiary I put my little electric trimmer back on the shelf.  From where it promptly made a suicidal leap for freedom....    I picked up the 2 pieces (the head had come off) and was able to click them back together & it still worked.    I then noticed that during its descent it had hit my pottery shaving bowl* & taken a chunk out of the base.  I'm going to have to find the superglue....


Finally I looked down & noticed that there was quite a lot of red stuff leaking from my left big toe....  one of the falling items with a sharp edge must have landed on it... 

Another reason why beards are good 🧔

In your nose?

[Polar Bear]

I'm guessing the reference might be to the pottery shaving bowl.

Ii find it much easier to use an electric shaver.  I am less prone to unintended self harm this way.

[Beardy]

Shaving is just a vanity thing. Let beards be is what I say!

[T42]

'Ear, 'ear!  Speaking of which, maybe that electric nose-picker thing would fit a lughole...

[rafletcher]

'Ear, 'ear!  Speaking of which, maybe that electric nose-picker thing would fit a lughole...

Oh yes, they certainly do.

[barakta]

I managed to forget spare trousers when packing to come to my mum's and only realised when I chucked my dirty clothes in the washing machine. I managed 4 teeshirts, plenty of underwear, 2 jumpers, scarves in case it was chilly and only 1 pair of trousers which I had on.

Thankfully my mum is a similar size so I found some of her leggings as she was out. The washing machine had a fast spin and I banged my jeans in the tumble drier for 20 mins cos I Do Not have the physical spoons to do outside laundry (which involves either carrying stuff the long way round or fighting with broken doors that I can't open). That's self care innit.

[T42]

'Ear, 'ear!  Speaking of which, maybe that electric nose-picker thing would fit a lughole...

Oh yes, they certainly do.

The thing is, nasal hairs are filters that combine with nasal secretions (sorry) to trap air-borne particles.  I only ever used mine the once, and found my sense of smell considerably altered - in fact, I'm wondering if it wasn't then that my current susceptibility to pollen began.  It only takes one good onslaught.

[T42]

Twigged to what I was doing after pouring a good splash of milk into the water-tank of the coffee machine.

[De Sisti]

Trying to complete the admin for my French holiday in July. I know I booked a hotel (for one night)
for the return journey from the Semaine Fed. I know I received an email confirmation of the booking, but appeared to have deleted it (several weeks ago) and I can't remember the name of the hotel.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Had my first visit from the fairy on Hamish. Hamish is my first bike with thru-axles. Forgot about the screw-in dust cap on the Selcof axle and snapped it clean off removing the wheel. They don't sell spares.

I am amazed no one sells bling titanium dustcaps.

New axle ordered.

Sam

My two bikes with thru-axles have had the original axles replaced with "Bristol levers" - easier than needing an Allen key in what is often an axle made from very soft material.   

Like this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003408522324.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.10.7e101802TjoweT   - you need to know the length and thread pitch but that's usually printed on the axle.

I've no idea why it's called a Bristol lever, but here in the city of that name, leaving a bike with one of those locked on the street for more than an hour would mean no wheels. Which would solve the axle problem at least.

[Kim]

Apropos of recent posts in Ctrl-Alt-Del, I managed to do the internet equivalent of failing to pass the cable through the connector shell before terminating the wires, or emptying the contents of the u-bend into the sink you just removed it from:  I refer of course to the traditional fuckup of firewalling yourself out of the firewall's admin interface, necessitating a factory reset and restore from backup.

[Mrs Pingu]

I seem to have lost the little pouch I keep my keys and cards in.

That's all 4 house and garage door keys (we now no longer have a spare for the front door and can't get another cut for it, and I gave one to the decorator earlier so now I don't have one at all)
Spare key for my brother's house cos we were supposed to be going down there tomorrow.
3 of our bank/credit cards and my company credit card
My driving licence (yes I stupidly keep my keys next to my address).

I can only think I might have accidentally put them in the recycling bin on the way to the front door last night. Of course that bin got emptied this morning. 
No I'm not doing the perimenopause (yet).

What with the car shitting itself on Monday I'm not having a good week.

[T42]

Oops. Hope they turn up PDQ.

Meanwhile: while adjusting my FD cable this afternoon I got everything spot on then gave it a quick run through the gears, ending by wrenching it onto the big ring, as one might sometimes have to on the road. Clonk, and everything went to hell.  Muggins hadn't done up the anchoring screw to its full 7 Nm after tensioning the cable.

[Morat]

I proudly drove my old Jeep back to the Rotterdam Ferry terminal last week and stopped 2nd in the queue for the ferry with the smug certainty that I'd be 2nd off the ferry in the morning and able to escape Hull in good time to start my long weekend.
10 minutes later the barrier went up. It was at that moment I realised that I had left the headlights on. It was broad daylight but there are tunnels on the route so I had half flattened the battery. 5s of slow cranking later and I was done.
No amount of jump leads would resurrect it, it seems that the starter motor churner its last and died at the same time.

A very nice man towed me onto the Ferry, after the whole queue had filed past and I spent the first couple of hours on the Hull side arranging a tow off the Ferry and onward recovery.

Should have changed the starter BEFORE Driving to Amsterdam.

[Pingu]

I seem to have lost the little pouch I keep my keys and cards in.

That's all 4 house and garage door keys (we now no longer have a spare for the front door and can't get another cut for it, and I gave one to the decorator earlier so now I don't have one at all)
Spare key for my brother's house cos we were supposed to be going down there tomorrow.
3 of our bank/credit cards and my company credit card
My driving licence (yes I stupidly keep my keys next to my address).

I can only think I might have accidentally put them in the recycling bin on the way to the front door last night. Of course that bin got emptied this morning. 
No I'm not doing the perimenopause (yet).

What with the car shitting itself on Monday I'm not having a good week.

Shout of "FFS!" heard coming from the bedroom. Guess what? 

[Mrs Pingu]

Well at least I don't have to rush about trying to get new locks now. I have a nice pile of useless plastic though.
I found them in my dressing gown of all places!
See, this is what happens when you get the decorator in and your house and normal habits are turned upside down. At least I don't feel like I'm losing my marbles now.

[barakta]

Alongside your not-tea and buffered analgesic...

Infuriating but probably the best way round to find and not have to redo keys.

[quixoticgeek]

Apropos of recent posts in Ctrl-Alt-Del, I managed to do the internet equivalent of failing to pass the cable through the connector shell before terminating the wires, or emptying the contents of the u-bend into the sink you just removed it from:  I refer of course to the traditional fuckup of firewalling yourself out of the firewall's admin interface, necessitating a factory reset and restore from backup.

Sleep 180 && nft flush ruleset

Running in a second term. So that worse case you wait 3 minutes and try again... Learnt this the hardway when it was 2 hours in a train to go plug the console in...

J

[Mr Larrington]

After three hours of searching a Several of hundreds of files to find the source of $ERROR I finally read the fucking manual log file with due care and attention and discovered I'd been instructing the thing to look for a file named foo.sii.sii when it’s actually called foo.sii.  Thus it Will Not Work.

fart -r *.sui “.sii.sii” “.sii” and rebuild.  Ten seconds

[Kim]

Apropos of recent posts in Ctrl-Alt-Del, I managed to do the internet equivalent of failing to pass the cable through the connector shell before terminating the wires, or emptying the contents of the u-bend into the sink you just removed it from:  I refer of course to the traditional fuckup of firewalling yourself out of the firewall's admin interface, necessitating a factory reset and restore from backup.

Sleep 180 && nft flush ruleset

Running in a second term. So that worse case you wait 3 minutes and try again... Learnt this the hardway when it was 2 hours in a train to go plug the console in...

The FireBrick web interface provides a nice friendly button that does the equivalent of that.  The true divvery was clicking 'Save' rather than 'Test'.

[canny colin]

I got really excited , when l read " The firebrick web interface " . But its not about refactory bricklaying .

[Kim]

I got really excited , when l read " The firebrick web interface " . But its not about refactory bricklaying .

Not unless you get something really wrong in the XML