what grinds your gears

[Wombat]

Forgot how much of a pain driving in the dark is especially in towns, pedestrians wandering about, cyclists with no lights on.

Roll on lighter nights again

 

[ste]

Work being quiet on the linesman side so have to work on the operating side. Usually ok until I'm put on a drum carrier for another firms linesmen to run the wire!!!!!!!!!

Not good when they take 5hrs to run and fasten into the insulators 621m, where as our team can do 2500 in the same time.

Also not letting me off track as agreed so I can load tonights wire ready, as where it has been left means I can only load it whilst the track is under possession. So they get 30mins doing nothing whilst I load up. Wouldn't mind but its job and knock

 

[mixed breed]

price difference between two hydraulic couplers

 

[smcapstick]

The camera had very good reviews, a bit like a LR product it's only after a few months the problems rear up and bite you. Another hour on the phone today and Canon are saying I need to contact Microsoft.

I bought a new tape measure on the back of several glowing TFF reviews.

It is the worst tape measure I have ever used. It still gives me nightmares

 

[wasted years]

I bought a new tape measure on the back of several glowing TFF reviews.

It is the worst tape measure I have ever used. It still gives me nightmares

Is it not as long as you thought?

 

[smcapstick]

Is it not as long as you thought?

The length with perfect. It was the girth that brought a tear to my eye.

 

[ste]

We have to fill in daily log sheets for the company to get paid, these are sent in weekly in by post. Just had a email requesting 3 from the beginning of September that are apparently missing, yet the other 3 from that week have arrived????

Funny how they were all in the same envelope when I posted them, and it my responsibility to get them the missing 3 by the end of the week?????

 

[betweenthelines]

The length with perfect. It was the girth that brought a tear to my eye.

a quote from my wife

 

[Pilatus]

@Fallowfield
Unless one presses ignore function

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

People on eBay who in their description put something along the lines of “Suzuki not Mazda, Mitsubishi, Jeep, Landrover, Isuzu, Honda or Daihatsu”

Just put the make of the part you are trying to sell. Don’t list all the other fecking makes that it isn’t. So when I am searching for a specific item my search keeps showing me things that are no feckin use. Cos the idiots added half a dozen makes in the title that the part isn’t for and won’t fit.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

People on eBay who in their description put something along the lines of “Suzuki not Mazda, Mitsubishi, Jeep, Landrover, Isuzu, Honda or Daihatsu”

Just put the make of the part you are trying to sell. Don’t list all the other fecking makes that it isn’t. So when I am searching for a specific item my search keeps showing me things that are no feckin use. Cos the idiots added half a dozen makes in the title that the part isn’t for and won’t fit.

As bad as the twunts who put "fits your tractor" our list things in entirely the wrong category (have you SEEN how many bloody lawn mowers are listed as "tractors"?).

 

[smcapstick]

'Been in dry storage since [date X]'

...almost without exception means that the brakes are seized, every oil seal and rubber hose is perished to destruction, nothing electric works, the interior is mouldy and the thick layer of dust masks the shoddy bodywork.

It's funny how this is often given out as a positive, though

 

[ARW]

“barn find”
Portrayed at a super secret barn unknown to the world for years and discovered by a lucky ebayer that finds it full of desirable treasures!
No you bought it out of a shed off someone who cba to do anything with it

 

[smcapstick]

“barn find”
Portrayed at a super secret barn unknown to the world for years and discovered by a lucky ebayer that finds it full of desirable treasures!
No you bought it out of a shed off someone who cba to do anything with it

'Barn find' used to mean it had been found in a barn.

Now, it means 'it has no MOT and it's totally f**king f**ked'.

 

[Wombat]

It's amazing how many barn finds have the sale number from the last collective sale still on them

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

It's amazing how many barn finds have the sale number from the last collective sale still on them

Ah, but the sale was in a barn

 

[smcapstick]

Ah, but the sale was in a barn

Barn... or marquee?

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

Random people wanting to talk to you when your purposefully sat in the quiet coach on a train journey

 

[smcapstick]

Random people wanting to talk to you when your purposefully sat in the quiet coach on a train journey

I get that at sales.

Just because we're looking at the same item does NOT mean I want to chat about it.

 

[nick...]

Just started my washing machine and it’s blown the trip.full of water and clothes all dry and water all over Kitchen floor.managed to get it outside and will buy a new one.
Nick...