what grinds your gears

[GTB]

Hour less in bed tonight. I wish they'd leave the effing clocks one way or the other!

 

[Lofty1984]

Is it meant to look like he's knocking one out when on his side

 

[Philip Watkins]

It does look like it, I think he's supposed to be banging his fist on the floor.

 

[Campbell]

Just a bit on the charity posting , and I post without comment right or wrong. I see these TV programmes about mal nourished/ starving people with children in Africa, all very heart wrenching , and asking for donations . I just wonder will it ever do any good sending food money etc. It looks to me as if life as such is completely unsustainable in that area under present circumstances , and I just wonder if the approach is from the wrong end . Might education , or dare I say it , birth control provision be more helpful .? Can sending food etc be any more than a very short term solution when very large families and high child death rate seems to be the norm ? Indeed might sending food actually prolong the state of emergency ? Having said all that , I'm not sure that external interference is good or bad , might an ending of lawlessness help , or is life there completely unsustainable anyway with drought and ignorance seemingly prevalent , and again , dare it be said , complete lethargy ? ( I already have my tin hat on ! )

The saddest thing about Africa is that the poverty and misery just seems to get worse every year. Will we ever fix it?

 

[Philip Watkins]

...... Will we ever fix it?

No. Those areas that can't sustain the population they have will only get worse if more are kept alive. Those dying/suffering due to corruption or wars is a different matter.

 

[Shovelhands]

The world, and society, is broken in many ways. Wars and famine have taken place for centuries, it's nothing really new. It's the sheer volume of the world population that is inevitably going to be our downfall.
Personally I feel for the ones that are suffering, but am hugely grateful for the place we call home, we moan a lot, and I suppose it's all relative, but blimey there's far worse place to be and situations to be in!
Can we really help the ones at most risk , I fear not.......

 

[Boohoo]

Council 'workers' at recycling centres. You try to make life easy, they try to make it difficult. They tell you that reversing isn't allowed on site, but tell you to park in a way that means you have to reverse to get out of the place

 

[Nearly]

Council 'workers' at recycling centres. You try to make life easy, they try to make it difficult. They tell you that reversing isn't allowed on site, but tell you to park in a way that means you have to reverse to get out of the place

Just smile, wave and back up.
It confuses them when I go in with an empty 14' trailer and just a few bags in the boot. Ours are pretty good though.

 

[Boohoo]

Just smile, wave and back up.
It confuses them when I go in with an empty 14' trailer and just a few bags in the boot. Ours are pretty good though.

No trailers over 6ft long where I was yesterday. Usually park side on to the skips but because it was busy they wanted everyone to park facing them then try to carry stuff between the cars.

 

[Paddington]

Ours has a 7ft trailer limit to stop everybody with an 8ft trailer, no horse boxes, stock trailers allowed, never mind, I can stack our little camping trailer nearly 6 ft high.

 

[George from SJM Planning]

Trailers are ok at ours but I'm not allowed to take my pick up at all unless I report to the weighbridge [emoji34]
So I pile it high in dad's estate car. Pointless

 

[Neddy flanders]

Cars with circular brake/tail lights with an orange flashing indicator in the middle about the size of a ten pence piece.

 

[smcapstick]

Trailers are ok at ours but I'm not allowed to take my pick up at all unless I report to the weighbridge [emoji34]
So I pile it high in dad's estate car. Pointless

It's to stop builders getting rid of job waste. It makes good sense.

 

[Nearly]

It's to stop builders getting rid of job waste. It makes good sense.

Rubble's chargeable anyway now. The workers know who the builders are.

 

[smcapstick]

Rubble's chargeable anyway now. The workers know who the builders are.

You can't rely on that, though - that would mean the staff would have to think.

 

[___\0/___]

Our recycling center is the same. As a result the amount of fly tipping and trail tipping has went through the roof.

A dedicated lorry now drives about picking the rubbish up off the road and taking it to landfill

 

[debe]

Our recycling center is the same. As a result the amount of fly tipping and trail tipping has went through the roof.

A dedicated lorry now drives about picking the rubbish up off the road and taking it to landfill

 

[FonterraFarmer]

A bloke doing some work next door with a Leap Goat 6105R with a straw blower got it stuck on Saturday lunch time, the neighbour next door rings up and ask if I can pull him out, I've been going up and down the road all morning, so I said "I'll be there in ten minutes" to which the neighbour replies "Oh , no, the driver has f@#%ed off already, what time on Monday?" ffs I reply "10.30"
It was dry all weekend,till midnight, then we got 30mm and the tractor was stuck in the second wettest part of the property, roll on 10.30 and then had to wait another 45 minutes before they turned up, ffs
I had already hooked up the snig chain to both tractors, then said bloke asks "Have you got it in 4WD and the diff lock on?" ffs Who the f@#% brought the 4WD tractor with additional ballast and the snig chain and was ready an hour before you got here???
In the end we had to remove the straw blower from the 6105R, pull that out, then pull the straw blower, which was exactly the way I'd suggested right at the start, ffs
Normally the accepted penalty for getting a tractor stuck here is a box of beer, but with all the fecking around, it'll be two boxes of Corona, thank you

 

[Robigus]

.....Normally the accepted penalty for getting a tractor stuck here is a box of beer, but with all the fecking around, it'll be two boxes of Corona, thank you

You want some 80's lemonade??

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

A bloke doing some work next door with a Leap Goat 6105R with a straw blower got it stuck on Saturday lunch time, the neighbour next door rings up and ask if I can pull him out, I've been going up and down the road all morning, so I said "I'll be there in ten minutes" to which the neighbour replies "Oh , no, the driver has f@#%ed off already, what time on Monday?" ffs I reply "10.30"
It was dry all weekend,till midnight, then we got 30mm and the tractor was stuck in the second wettest part of the property, roll on 10.30 and then had to wait another 45 minutes before they turned up, ffs
I had already hooked up the snig chain to both tractors, then said bloke asks "Have you got it in 4WD and the diff lock on?" ffs Who the f@#% brought the 4WD tractor with additional ballast and the snig chain and was ready an hour before you got here???
In the end we had to remove the straw blower from the 6105R, pull that out, then pull the straw blower, which was exactly the way I'd suggested right at the start, ffs
Normally the accepted penalty for getting a tractor stuck here is a box of beer, but with all the fecking around, it'll be two boxes of Corona, thank you

Sounds more like a years supply is deserved. I would have been tempted to sod off when he wasn't there at 10:30