Hedganian Posted March 2, 2018 Report Share Posted March 2, 2018 Some doofus probably crashed into the delivery lorry on some motorway or something. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scorch Posted March 2, 2018 Report Share Posted March 2, 2018 I got sent home early. Dunno what's for dinner though, skipped the supermarket as the queue to get in was horrendous. I bet they were all buying bread and milk. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted March 2, 2018 Report Share Posted March 2, 2018 Queueing to get into a supermarket? I'd rather shoot myself. That is stupid. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted March 2, 2018 Report Share Posted March 2, 2018 I bet most of them don't really need anything, either. Bloody panicking idiots. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scorch Posted March 2, 2018 Report Share Posted March 2, 2018 Yep. Just ordered an Indian. They said the roads are fine. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitmanNo2 Posted March 2, 2018 Report Share Posted March 2, 2018 You want to talk queuing? How's this. It took me 65 minutes to travel 0.9 miles in a car today. That was tedious. I could have walked it in 10 minutes, if that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scorch Posted March 2, 2018 Report Share Posted March 2, 2018 Jesus Christ. That was one spicy curry. I will burn tomorrow. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted March 2, 2018 Report Share Posted March 2, 2018 You want to talk queuing? How's this. It took me 65 minutes to travel 0.9 miles in a car today. That was tedious. I could have walked it in 10 minutes, if that. London? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitmanNo2 Posted March 2, 2018 Report Share Posted March 2, 2018 Not even London. High Wycombe. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted March 2, 2018 Report Share Posted March 2, 2018 Still south of the Ribble, southerner Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spudgun Posted March 3, 2018 Report Share Posted March 3, 2018 Going to work was an absolute waste of time yesterday. The place was almost deserted. I could've clocked on, gone home, clocked off at the end of the day and nobody would've noticed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tinkerton Posted March 3, 2018 Report Share Posted March 3, 2018 Same. Our delivery of parts wasn't delivered. Had to wait for the local trade parts depot to finish loading their vans before we could go and collect, then hardly any customers all day. Plus bitterly cold. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spudgun Posted March 3, 2018 Report Share Posted March 3, 2018 Here's a handy hint folks. Don't open a fresh bottle of Coke that you've just knocked over indoors. I'm still cleaning up! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sandstorm Posted March 5, 2018 Report Share Posted March 5, 2018 Meh, ended up dropping out of the engineering degree program. Too old for the stress from full-time employment and evening/weekend courses. At least I know better than to force myself for 14hour days out if machismo. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted March 5, 2018 Report Share Posted March 5, 2018 No shame in that bud Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitmanNo2 Posted March 5, 2018 Report Share Posted March 5, 2018 You gave it a shot which is a lot more than many people. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted March 5, 2018 Report Share Posted March 5, 2018 (edited) Here's a handy hint folks. Don't open a fresh bottle of Coke that you've just knocked over indoors. I'm still cleaning up! Wow. That's very... American of you. As for me, I cannot deal with the worst motivated cold and I feel the incoming weather change. Which means that instead of ######-freezing cold we're gonna have rain and snow, in case we're too happy with above-zero temperatures. And I have a headache already. Edited March 5, 2018 by Mike_West Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitmanNo2 Posted March 5, 2018 Report Share Posted March 5, 2018 Standard airmail parcel from HK just got caught by customs. £2 over the £15 limit...£8 RM fee. Basically 50% of the item. Bloody Royal Mail. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted March 5, 2018 Report Share Posted March 5, 2018 Just bought a $200 bottom bracket from America. Tracked it making a stop in customs. Thought: Welp, that's a £70 tax bill. Nope. The company who sent it put a value of $20 on it. Now I'm complicit in international tax fraud. Nice. That's nice. The bad: To fit it I had to remove a little carbon fibre from the bottom bracket area of the bike. A thread broke free and came out. Now, it is on the bottom of the bike in the most heavily reinforced area of the bike but it is still irritating. However, because there is a hole there now, you can see my BBinfinite BB peeking through. Hot. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted March 6, 2018 Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 The only part of that I understood is that you're a CRIMINAL. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scorch Posted March 6, 2018 Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 You have committed crimes against Skyrim and her people. What say you in your defence? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted March 6, 2018 Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 I couldn't sleep because I had a fit of ideas. Namely, an attempt to revive my Nuclear Backpack project and add a couple of bits and bobs to it. Now, do I want a $200 Chinese MIG pilot helmet (A TK-1, GSh-4 copy) for the undoubtedly nefarious purpose of creating a spacesuit/hazmat suit costume? The hood that covers the back of neck seems to be intact, or at least not dinged that much, but the photos hardly show anything. That and I'd have to repaint the dome as it's scratched, but it's not a bad thing because I want to paint over the red star insignia anyway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted March 6, 2018 Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 You have committed crimes against Skyrim and her people. What say you in your defence? Something, something - arrow in the knee? 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Habakure Posted March 6, 2018 Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 So that's why those Knights say 'Knee'. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lone_Bullet Posted March 12, 2018 Report Share Posted March 12, 2018 Non standard screwheads. Either finding imperial hex here in the metric EU, even worse so because while it's quite easy go get imperial screws by mistake, it's very hard to find correct imperial tools like a hex bit set. Everything sold here is metric!Either that or out of spec machining of the screws. Or Ph / Pz screwheads that don't fit any bit. it's either a very wide screwhead, but not deep enough to fit the correct Ph/Pz bit so the bit wobbles or it's a combination of Ph/Pz ( PZ is sharper and have narrow 'blades' but have extra small blades for support. )Also, never ever use hex on small screws, especially when it's made of a soft material. Use Torx, less easy to strip, but the industry is ignorant of this fact...WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHH ! The woes of being a technician of any sort 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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