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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3500 on: August 01, 2023, 20:49:25 »
Re-cap. :clap:

I don't always remember taking the milk out of the fridge, so I obviously won't remember removing the lid. The lids used to be green (semi-skimmed) and as such I could see the lid was on.

I generally use baby wipes for spills rather than arses so there.
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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3501 on: August 02, 2023, 09:29:32 »
TLP - yes I did take the back off but in doing so touched an unfinished edge of the inner metal casing and put a rather large cut in my hand. I put it back together and called "the man"  Bosch by name and Bosch by nature eh!
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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3502 on: August 02, 2023, 13:34:14 »
I too have succumbed more than once to the guillotine like qualities of domestic appliances. Our dishwasher has an appetite for door closing springs, it never fails to inflict a slice or two. Or rather it did until I replaced the Zanussi sourced springs with springs from a garden gate, since then no more broken springs. :thumb:
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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3503 on: August 02, 2023, 16:19:06 »
I bought a Zanussi dish washer many years ago. when it broke I called a white goods repair man. He told me he doesn't do dishwashers because they are so sharp inside. I took the machine apart and found a door spring had broken and smashed a plastic water container of some kind in the prosses.

I then contacted Zanussi who sent be replacement parts and a newly developed part to protect the water bottle if the spring breaks again. I fitted the parts and all was good, the spring didn't break again. Zanussi, "The Appliance Of Science"? Their moto seems like a joke.  :dl_hyperhysteria:
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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3504 on: August 11, 2023, 13:21:26 »
So WT actual F is going on with the Post Office?

I saw their chief exec was being hauled up by a bunch on MP's because all the management had paid themselves HUGE bonuses for doing such a fine job... and they are not even delivering any mail... at least around here.

A few months ago I ordered a small number of small part (for NOT a small price) from Andover Norton that I needed for my T140 build. The little package was sent 24 Tracked.... what this turned out to mean, when I complained that the tracking showed my package had not moved from Bristol in over a week, is that they will try to deliver within 24 hours, but that they are not contracted to do so....WUT?

After I complained the package miraculously arrived two days later.

Here we are in August and more parts have been ordered from A-N for the primary drive side build.

On Tuesday I got an email telling me my package would arrive the same day..... it didn't as we didn't have a delivery at all, mostly because the local management have increased the sizes of the rounds to such an extent that even with two people in a van, the postmen cannot reach all the houses in the round every day. So, no package Tuesday. We had a delivery of mail on Wednesday... but no package.

On Thursday (yesterday) I received another email telling me that my package would be delivered later that day... guess what? No package.

Last night I put in another complaint, let's see how long it takes Royal Mail to get around to delivering.

I don't live in the back end of nowhere, I live in a large 1970's housing estate in Weston-super-Mare and the local sorting office is no more that a five minute drive from my house.  :angry-banghead:
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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3505 on: August 11, 2023, 14:09:04 »
To be happy, I don't need private helicopters,a Florida house or a yacht. I'm fine with my motorcycle,a trip to a forest in Bavaria and some lunch money.

Walter Rohrl.

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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3506 on: August 11, 2023, 15:05:10 »
Harsh.




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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3507 on: August 11, 2023, 15:21:46 »
 lol
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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3508 on: August 11, 2023, 19:25:21 »
No package today either!

Sipping tea... "DURING THEIR BREAKS".... I bet they were caught eating food at lunchtime too.  lol
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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3509 on: August 11, 2023, 20:03:47 »
Oh, if only I wasn't still under contract, you wouldn't believe.....anyway, nuff said already.  :whistle:

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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3510 on: August 11, 2023, 20:29:10 »
Was your contract posted to you?
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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3511 on: August 11, 2023, 20:40:19 »
Nah, they wanted to make sure I'd got it.

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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3512 on: August 12, 2023, 14:21:28 »
 lol lol
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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3513 on: August 12, 2023, 22:46:21 »
 ### When I spend time mopping up petrol after removing the tank and I find the petrol tap is :
6 0'clock = ON,  3 O'clock= RESERVE and 12 O'clock = OFF.
I was convinced 3 O'clock was off and 12 O'clock is reserve. ( as it was on my VX800) 
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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3514 on: August 13, 2023, 08:34:31 »
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To be happy, I don't need private helicopters,a Florida house or a yacht. I'm fine with my motorcycle,a trip to a forest in Bavaria and some lunch money.

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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3515 on: August 13, 2023, 13:18:21 »
That's more of a winter fix.
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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3516 on: August 13, 2023, 14:46:20 »
I thought you received an allowance for winter fuel. I'm really looking forward to all that free petrol. :lala:
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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3517 on: August 13, 2023, 21:38:29 »
It's worth about 130 litres of E10.
But not having any fireplace or even a chimney I have to rely on gas.
Unless, of course,  proper use of the benefit includes driving my car around with the heater on.
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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3518 on: August 14, 2023, 05:27:33 »
"Looking forward to all that free petrol"?
I'd have thought an ex tanker driver would have a swimming pool sized stash of the stuff.

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Re: The moaning old git thread
« Reply #3519 on: August 17, 2023, 12:44:39 »
Bloody UPS!
My standing instructions to UPS are to deliver to an access point just up the road. Makes sense, as I'm at work I don't want parcels left on doorsteps or wheely bin lids.
Got a notification to say the item was there at the shop, went to collect it, no parcel. Went back to their tracking, asked for proof of delivery, they showed me a very nice photo of it sitting on a wheely bin lid. Photo was taken yesterday.  And it's not my garden, not my bin. Marvellous