Author Topic: The moaning old git thread (Read 534519 times)

Brockett · « **Reply #2420 on:** October 26, 2019, 22:35:45 »

I agree grrrrrrrrrr. I can buy Eddison screw bulbs but can't find the Battern lampholder fitting it screws into. I am in the dark on this one.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2421 on:** October 26, 2019, 22:39:41 »

Ikea sell adapters. Bulb screws in, bayonets out the back. Quid a pair. Inelegant, but functional.

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/koppla-b22-to-e27-bulb-converter-90295615/

Very illuminating.

TLPower · « **Reply #2422 on:** October 27, 2019, 05:56:14 »

Excellent moaning good Sir.

Candles that's what you need or if shopping in Sheffield ask for cangles.

MartinW · « **Reply #2423 on:** October 27, 2019, 07:11:39 »

If you need more than three, then ask for Four Cangles.

MartinW · « **Reply #2424 on:** October 27, 2019, 07:17:27 »

Why is it that on days like yesterday, with armeggedon rain, that the postman leaves important documents half hanging out the letterbox so that the letters are soaked, blurred and stuck to the envelope, yet the pizza leaflets are sitting on your hall floor and are all nice and dry?

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2425 on:** October 27, 2019, 07:31:14 »

Its just part of the fun of the job.
The pizza menus are usually shiny and don't absorb water.
The schoolboy delivering them doesn't have to walk round in the deluge for 5+ hours.
None of our gear is waterproof.
Half the letterboxes have brushes behind that are so strong that the wet mail won't go past them.
What's this "important documents"? Every time I see anybody tbey say "more junk then, that's all we ever get"

I'll let you off on the leaving stuff hanging out of the letterbox, though. That's not on. Never in 20+ years - unless - you've got one of those tin cigarette case-sized boxes fastened to your wall with a razor sharp spring- loaded letterflap guarding the microscopic cavity within.

If it gets too wet I'll just make a papier maché model dinosaur out of it all and go home.

MartinW · « **Reply #2426 on:** October 27, 2019, 07:33:21 »

Nice reply Rusty.

Earliest delivery I have ever had from a Postman too

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2427 on:** October 27, 2019, 07:35:16 »

At least it didn't go to the neighbours - and I didn't take a shortcut across your lawn and trample your hollyhocks.

mr_diver · « **Reply #2428 on:** November 10, 2019, 05:00:07 »

You can't teach stupid.

Taken from that V-Strom related facebook group.

Bloke has a bike with a battery that's past it's best bit doesn't want to spend out on a new one just yet.
Has a halfords clip on charger...
'Automotive' with pictures of a car, campervan, boat but no bike. There is no spec shown in the picture.

People with no fecking idea says "oh it's for all automotive batteries"...
Que me saying a bike battery isn't automotive and all the reasons why you wouldn't use that charger on a bike... over charge, swell, spray acid, explode!

Then people start arguing with me over it after I've already said I used to sell them for a living and know more than they do about batteries and chargers.

Fair play to people for sticking to their ideas, but ffs can't they use their brains before they speak or that asking too much

TLPower · « **Reply #2429 on:** November 10, 2019, 05:08:58 »

*Facebook

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mr_diver · « **Reply #2430 on:** November 10, 2019, 11:28:21 »

Yeah thanks to Graham for the support, but I think it will all fall on deaf ears, until a load of batteries split and spray acid over everything.

I bet the morons will then put a warranty claim into Suzuki for the batteries

MartinW · « **Reply #2431 on:** November 22, 2019, 14:46:18 »

Can I not just receive something in the post (anything, I'm not fussy) that doesn't have a £75 Wine Voucher in it?

TLPower · « **Reply #2432 on:** November 22, 2019, 16:53:41 »

RUSTY, have you seen this?

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2433 on:** November 22, 2019, 17:10:41 »

I just lob the shite through holes in doors, I don't choose the content.

TLPower · « **Reply #2434 on:** December 08, 2019, 12:33:45 »

Leaves.

Or more accurately, neighbour's my leaves. On one side we have The Clampits complete with feral children, Henry and Elsie. On the other we have Widow moaning twat. Across the road we have Widow pig eyes and next to her Widow Rampant.

All have trees that deposit leaves and all of them, every single one of them ends up in the gulley for my driveway. For the third time this year I've had to lift all the covers to remove THEIR leaves from MY property.

I'm sick to death of it I can tell you.

I'd go as far as saying I'm outraged.

Tusker · « **Reply #2435 on:** December 08, 2019, 14:55:50 »

If you could prove ownership of the leaves you could probably prosecute for criminal damage !!!!

Brockett · « **Reply #2436 on:** December 08, 2019, 15:02:28 »

I always thought you must return to your neighbour any vegetation that falls onto your property.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2437 on:** December 08, 2019, 15:38:57 »

Anyway, pray tell more about widow Rampant.

MartinW · « **Reply #2438 on:** December 08, 2019, 16:17:40 »

This is her Rusty, taking TLP's KTM for a ride around the gardens at TL Towers.

Note the leaves for proof.

TLPower · « **Reply #2439 on:** December 08, 2019, 16:24:24 »

Her name is Beryl, she'll be 86 next year and she scares me to death.

She is very suggestive towards me and makes me feel uncomfortable. A couple of years ago she went on a "Tinsel and Turkey" break to Ilfracombe with Widow Pig eyes. On the 1st night she shagged a complete stranger then ignored him for the rest of the week.

Mrs Power calls her a "game old bird"....