what grinds your gears

[nick...]

Got a gas gun in a bit of wild bird cover so it’s hidden from the thieves and it’s not worked since last Wednesday.got it back this morning to have a look and mice had started building a nest in the combustion chamber.amazing amount of stuff in there too.all sorted again now.never had this problem before.obviously easy for mice to get into barrel as cover is higher than the gun.anyone else had this happen
Nick...

 

[Mac10]

Last time I was in the job market I had applied for a number of jobs in the FW which could have taken me to anywhere in the country, it was time for a complete change. After my first interview I hadn't recieved any offers of interviews from the others but the chap offered me the job there and then, I tried to buy some time and wanted to mull it over for a few days, the morning after phoning him up to say yes to the job which was a week after applying the other 9 were offering interviews.
Hindsight is a wonderfull thing but after being told that a change of farming policy when working on a large estate meant that you had 6 weeks to find a new job and a new house with a 12 month old kind of makes you a bit desperate.

Typical!

Found myself in a similar change of policy situation just before Christmas, though luckily I didn't have a farm house. Unfortunately there's not much of a living scratching around on the remnants of the family farm so as good a time as any to look for a step up whether Ag related or outside of Ag, and might as well try and use my degree, after all, it cost enough.

 

[DrWazzock]

Kind of two in one here I suppose.

Firstly - applying for jobs

Secondly - when the employer states 'we will only contact you if you are successful'. So am I supposed to hang around on the off chance you might ask me for interview etc in 2, maybe up to 3 weeks time?! Sure it would be simple enough to send a 'thanks but no thanks' email.

Grrr

I am still waiting for British Steel to tell me whether I got the job or not. I went for the interview 28 years ago.

Still, that's 28 years not having to work in Scunthorpe.

 

[yellowbelly]

Still, that's 28 years not having to work in Scunthorpe.

Careful - some of us have to live (near) there.




If Typhoo put the 'T' in Britain, who put the c**t in Scunthorpe

 

[Paddington]

Car cup holders, the ring type, who uses them ? I have four in my car and have never used one to carry a cup. If we go any distance we take a flask of coffee and stop somewhere to drink it. Our mugs don't fit the holes. They must be an American thing, pick up your Big Mac and a coffee before driving 100 miles at 55mph on a smooth, straight road. Try that around here on our pot holed, hilly, twisty roads and there wouldn't be much coffee left. If you drive a Volvo with 8 air bags, side intrusion beams and a 5 star NCAP rating why would you risk driving with a scalding hot cup of coffee next to your left knee ? The cup types can be useful for keeping change, phones in, but not the pop out ring type that pop out when you're changing gear and either jam at an angle when you come to push them back in or self destruct completely leaving plastic bits in the footwell.

 

[smcapstick]

Car cup holders, the ring type, who uses them ? I have four in my car and have never used one to carry a cup. If we go any distance we take a flask of coffee and stop somewhere to drink it. Our mugs don't fit the holes. They must be an American thing, pick up your Big Mac and a coffee before driving 100 miles at 55mph on a smooth, straight road. Try that around here on our pot holed, hilly, twisty roads and there wouldn't be much coffee left. If you drive a Volvo with 8 air bags, side intrusion beams and a 5 star NCAP rating why would you risk driving with a scalding hot cup of coffee next to your left knee ? The cup types can be useful for keeping change, phones in, but not the pop out ring type that pop out when you're changing gear and either jam at an angle when you come to push them back in or self destruct completely leaving plastic bits in the footwell.

I use mine all the time. My thermos travel cup fits perfectly.

My tub of chewing gum lives in the other hole.

 

[nick...]

I use mine all the time too.thermos mug fits in holder a treat as does mcd's coffee cups
Nick...

 

[Ley253]

Of course, the holding of a cup and drinking from it is a case of not being in proper control! Are they hands free dispensers? Quite how you would use on in that manner escapes me.

 

[Sharpy]

Of course, the holding of a cup and drinking from it is a case of not being in proper control! Are they hands free dispensers? Quite how you would use on in that manner escapes me.

Straw?

 

[smcapstick]

Of course, the holding of a cup and drinking from it is a case of not being in proper control! Are they hands free dispensers? Quite how you would use on in that manner escapes me.

Are you being serious?

(Read: are you calling people that sip coffee in the car insane baby killers or do you just mean from a legal standpoint?)

 

[Pilgrimmick]

Are you being serious?

(Read: are you calling people that sip coffee in the car insane baby killers or do you just mean from a legal standpoint?)

Anyone who drinks coffee (AKA the devil’s brew) is an insane baby killer, does not matter if you drink it in the car or the kitchen!
Tea is the drink of gentlemen, (like wot I is!)

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Driving whilst drinking a scalding hot cup of coffee is ridiculous - a can of Bud is acceptable though .

 

[Pilgrimmick]

Driving whilst drinking a scalding hot cup of coffee is ridiculous - a can of Bud is acceptable though .

Like coffee larger is the work of satan, real ale please!

 

[smcapstick]

What if you enjoy tea, coffee, lager, bitter and everything else, too?

I’m not fussy

 

[roscoe erf]

What if you enjoy tea, coffee, lager, bitter and everything else, too?

I’m not fussy

We had heard

 

[Ley253]

Drinking, eating, and probably farting is an offence if carried out whilst driving! Though as the latter is "hands free", you may get away with it!

 

[roscoe erf]

Drinking, eating, and probably farting is an offence if carried out whilst driving! Though as the latter is "hands free", you may get away with it!

It actually isn’t an offence but you could be done for due care

 

[Pilgrimmick]

What if you enjoy tea, coffee, lager, bitter and everything else, too?

I’m not fussy

Let you have larger at a push, as it is alcoholic, but only after all other sources of alcohol have been exhausted! But NO COFFEE!

 

[Philip Watkins]

Let you have larger at a push, as it is alcoholic, but only after all other sources of alcohol have been exhausted! But NO COFFEE!

Let him have the lager, more ale for you then

 

[Pilgrimmick]

Let him have the lager, more ale for you then

Good point, I like your style!