samuri – Member

Just a tip gents.

DO NOT, EVER, record your wife’s statements for posterity or to produce them in the highly unlikely event she will contradict herself. Even if she dares you to do it after you’ve pointed out it happens quite a lot.

Don’t.

It is apparently entirely possible to say one thing one day, an opposing thing the next day and still be right both days. Apparently.

No.1 son piped up in the middle of a discussion, “No mum, Dad’s right you did say that.”

Poor sod, the naivety of youth.

Mrs flicker treds lightly when I’m destroying the house, I can be a little volatile when things aren’t going my way, and there’s always room for another patio….

Never realised you worked in the porn industry, you must have some “unique” tastes if you found the video he sent dull :D

Edit: shakes fist at winston and composite…

Double edit: eww! no, not like that, sicko :(

@ bokonon

Yup, did exactly the same, 30 mins and the liner was in.

re the insurance, I rang Aviva and they couldn’t have cared less. Not bothered that I was fitting it myself, in fact told me I didn’t need to inform them at all :D.

Worth contacting your own insurers though judging by the response ski received.

Should be finishing my install in the next few weeks. I’ve spent in the region of £1.5k, £600 on stove (Charnwood Country 4 multifuel), £350 for the liner, £159 for building control and the rest on all the other odds and sods needed. It’s been a lot of work to remove the old back boiler, rebuild the fireplace and hearth, rebuild stack and fit new pots.

It is pretty straight forward, but it’s the horrors you uncover when you start work, fortunately I was already gutting the room anyway.

flicker – Member
Cook off something like spag bol, chili, curry, stew, lumpy soup. Anything really that you can reheat in a bag in boiling water. Home made boil in a bag basically, decent meal and no mess to clean up as you can eat it out of the bag, doesn’t mess up your pan and packs easily.

Forgot to mention, use your boiled water for a brew too, winner winner.

Cook off something like spag bol, chili, curry, stew, lumpy soup. Anything really that you can reheat in a bag in boiling water. Home made boil in a bag basically, decent meal and no mess to clean up as you can eat it out of the bag, doesn’t mess up your pan and packs easily.

globalti – Member

TBH I don’t know why I bothered fitting TRVs on all our rads; Mrs Gti just goes around and opens them all to full anyway and if she so much as suspects I’ve turned one down so as to allow it to do its job, she whinges like hell and heads straight for the room ‘stat in the hall.

Thermostat wars are waged in our house every Autumn and Spring while the CH isn’t working very hard and some rooms get a bit cool.

:( I feel your pain,we’re about due this annual argument in the flicker household.

I’ve put the lockstops in ours and have refused to take them out, but we have the same argument, I explain how they work, she snaps “I KNOW HOW THEY WORK, I’M NOT STUPID!” and in the next breath says she just wants to turn them up to max until the rads are hot :| . “……..so you don’t understand how they work then?” and round in circles……

6 hours should be more than enough, do you already have a target or are you going to pick someone at random? 8O

@ project, maximum per week is capped at £430 also :(

Apologies, raised to £450 this year.

Has your system always had this problem or is it a new development?

We’ve always had one radiator need bleeding on a weekly basis since we moved into the house.Recently has a new system and combi installed, unprompted, the plumber asked if we ever had any problems with air in the system, and pointed out it was due to a rather poor layout of the original system and header tank arrangement.

Well, it has been a rather dry summer, surprised there haven’t been more bush fires….

@CaptJon

:D

reminded me of IT Crowd and the soldering iron incident.

I think you should reply to the e-mail, interested to see if your HR dept is as humourless as ours.

binners – Member

Well at least Tom seemed to get it. You carry on with your righteously offended indigence if you like though

How poor are we talking? surely not iPhone 5 poor? 8O

She needs to open the front door to a house full of barely concious, v. drunk/stoned strangers. Preferbly with a pair (or more ;) ) going at it on the dinning room table.

….and if you can’t find a valve anywhere it means you have a gravity fed hot water tank :). In which case it will most likely be a faulty pump.

Wife pointing at Blackbird

“What’s that black bird called?”

Trevor, every single time…
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Bloody isn’t , that’s Gerald that is…..

Edit: damn you, nested quotes >:(

406 estate.

Galv body so doesn’t rot, diesel engine that will run forever.

Had mine since 2005 and it’s been the best car I’ve owned by far. Very little gone wrong, huge load space, comfy and quiet, great car.

Zero electrical problems too, I’ve had a lot of people comment on the electrics, when I’ve asked them about it, turns out they’ve never owned one :/, but a mate of a mate said blah blah zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……

Sounds fair to me, it’s the lieing bit that would have pissed me off to…..

and actually, I’m Spartacus, and so is my wife….

Previous gf soon learned that giving me the silent treatment or declaring “I’m not speaking to you!” was not very effective. Instead she would tell me about her friends, who said what to who, so and so’s new hairdo etc…… I still have nightmares now…. :(

I picked up a 2.5m HQ beamer with kite killers, handles, lines etc for £40 off eBay.

But do heed the warnings above, you can do yourself and others a lot of damage if you’re not careful.

When I started I’d never stepped foot in a bookies or placed a bet online. Had absolutely no idea what I was doing, so I read and reread the guides on Money saving expert. Started with a £50 float of my own money, within a week I’d made over £50, withdrew my £50 and continued using the money I’d made.

Start small, simple bets with well established UK bookies, and be prepared to put the time in reading up and undertanding it all. Don’t rush in and try to grab the bigger value free bets straight away, you will make a mistake at some point, best to do it with £10 than £100+.

…..and before you start a new bookie, make sure your float is big enough to cover the qualifier, freebet and wager requirements.

A new bookie started up a few years ago, £250 freebet but with a large wager requirement (£2.5k), I won all my bets bar one, and ended up with nearly £10k in the bookie before I could withdraw, that one focused my mind a little :D

Depends on the bookie, usually you will have to place a qualifying bet, which will mean using your own funds to bet and lay. The free bet will be released (no, you can’t just withdraw it :) ) you will then be able to place the free bet and lay it off with your own funds. Again, depending on the bookie you will then be able to withdraw or you may have to roll the freebet value over a number of times.

As others have said, start off small, £10-£20 offers and stick to something like football. Horse racing isn’t too badonce you’ve got a good grasp of what you’re doing (unless you don’t keep an eye on the time and the race starts before you’ve laid your bet off :D ).

After a while you don’t look at it as money, it’s all just numbers on a spreadsheet and you’ll be placing 2 large on the outsider in the 2nd division Mongolian slug racing…..

Yup, misuse of company time, a written warning should do the trick. Although he’s obviously a bit thick as it almost cost him his job last time.

ell_tell – Member
TBH I think you’re going to have to take a dump on the carpet to set a precedent. That way early on the relationship you both know where you stand.

errr, not on the brown patch?

Woody74 – member
What a dick, what is it with motorcyclist that they have to nail it everywhere

I know, dicks. It’s like those cyclist bastards, every man jack of them jump the lights

Another vote for HQ kites. We started off with a 1.4m HQ Symphony. We’ve now got 1.2m ,1.4m and 1.8m Symphonys (2 line kites) and a 2.5m HQ beamer (4 line).

The Beamer is a beast, way too much for my youngest (10) and I have to keep a tight grip of the oldest (13).

Into my first season of kite surfing with the eldest too this year, it’s getting very expensive……but great fun :D

I’d say it’s down to adjustment, I’ve had one fitted for the last couple of years and it hasn’t dropped the chain once, whether commuting or riding round Llandegla/Cannock chase very badly :D

:D

Walking through the store with axes, shovels, plastic sheeting and bags of lime…..

They will all be put down to be with her …

…..they’ll all feed off her corpse….

binners – In the same way nothing strikes fear into a mans heart like the words ‘I’m fine’, when you’ve just asked if she’s ok, as she looks a bit miffed?

:D

I always take that answer at face value and will then wander around being painfully happy, whilst talking at Mrs f about all sorts of random rubbish (this is usually accompanied by slamming of kitchen cupboards/utensils by Mrs f). Eventually she will relent and we will enter into violent negotations.

She has now learnt to skip the foreplay and go straight for it, which is a relief and saves time, and cupboard hinges…….

Same as Binners. My eldest has a 24″ blast, dumped the grip shift for SRAM triggers and dumped the clarke cable brakes for Shimano hydraulic. We’ve been round Cannock Chase FTD and Monkey Trail this month and we’ll be hitting Llandegla and Marshbrook MTB Marathon next month, loves it :D

Same problem for my two, changed them both to SRAM triggers and they rattle through the gears now.

duffmiver
it’s so they can check each others nobs out, thus making it an easier decision who they want to stroke during their mid-ride, behind the bushes gay sex session.

You’ve put some thought into this haven’t you. Anything you’d like to tell the group, sweety :wink:

I’ll make sure i’ve no savings and will have long-since signed my house over to my kids. That way i’ll have no assets and the government can pay my keep.

Seems fair to me.

Pray you never need to go into a nursing home then, I wouldn’t wish a state funded nursing home on my worst enemy. A truly awful way to live out your remaining time in this world.

Seems very strange to me to work hard your entire life, saving for your retirement, then give it away when you will most likely need it most.

The only thing we saw confiscated when we went (2010) was alcohol. They certainly don’t confiscate food.

DSG and Autoboxes are totally different inside , DSG has mechanical gears which are preselected by 2 clutch packs . ie when you select 1st the computer selects second gear with the other clutch , when you change up with the optional paddles or let the electronics do it for you,it changes up lightning quick , then the 1st clutch is used to select 3rd gear in readiness, if you decide to do a cheeky down change it only takes a few milliseconds to sort it out. Its a very clever box. One way to see the difference beteween it and an auto is to see how it reacts to creeping up an incline in traffic. You can feel the clutch engaging and diengaging as you creep forward , an auto will just smoothly let you crawl forward or indeed allow you to sit on a hill with no brake applied. It is crucial to change the oil on both types of boxes, it will take about an hour as you have to check it a certain temp with diagnostic computer. The issue here is that you have chose to use the dealer , all you are doing is paying for all their leather couches , plasma TV screens , fancy showrooms and way to many managers. To be fair to them at least they seem to be doing the service properly unlike the UK dealers, We change pollen filters during services where app.as they clog up with traffic fumes and stop your blower motor working efficiently ie: clearing your windscreen (common complaint – most pollen filters get forgotten about and strangle the incoming supply of air to the cabin.) Spend some time and find an english speaking independent but use the correct fluid , you’ll kick yourself if the gearbox fails and you never changed the oil.

Nice idea these new style autoboxes, in theory, sadly they’re pocket empytingly expensive when they go wrong, and they do, a lot.

The Toyota MMT version is particularly bad, as is Fords version. Fine when you still have the factory warranty, wouldn’t want to own one without though. Shame really.

WorldClassAccident – Member
i got offered the choice of Mermaids or Witches of Eastwick on DVD.

i hate Cher options

8O

For the love of god!

You should be stoned to death for that….