Those pins are supposed to be quite tight as they pull the door into the frame to help seal it. Have you tried greasing the pins and pockets?

Don’t listen to all this namby pamby ‘just take an unwanted sapling’ stuff. Get yourself one of these and get down the local arboretum. Life’s too short to watch trees grow.

Does my nixie clock count – that would be 6.

That’s about 100 feet back from the last one, with a bit of snow added.

Clicky Image – Part two….

“Be the first person to like this”

Well I wouldn’t want to be the second one. 8O

A new ironing board cover

Anyone would be annoying if people didn’t use their correct name.

I personally don’t find Tim Shaw that annoying but then I set my baseline from Mike Brewer.

Why did some of the le mans cars have yellow tinted headlights?? I know it is in France, but that requirement ended years ago surely??

It’s to differentiate the different car classes. LMP have white headlights while the slower GT class has yellow. So if a GT driver sees white lights coming up behind they know to get out of the way.

How can this guy be the champion – they found him. Surely the current leader is Ryan Lochte – he managed to get out of the country.

Needs more spoon

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I liked them better when they were the plucky mujaheddin.

There’s always one, bragging that they were a fan before they were famous and how they don’t like their later work.

Why the high jump starts low (where everyone can jump) insteand of starting high and dropping levels until the first to jump it wins.

So what happens if it moves down to a level that suddenly everyone in the competition is able to get over? Call it a draw? Or you could start moving it up incrementally until you get a winner, oh hang on, that sounds familiar.

Dutch high jump? I think I’ve seen that ‘film’. :-)

What I don’t understand is why so many long jumpers stand at the start of the runway doing the hokey-cokey before they start their run-up.

It all started with a TV programme called ‘Pub Olympics’ (IIRC) in the 1960s which featured all sorts of pub games like bagatelle and skittles and Darts and Snooker just sort of stuck around.

I think you mean Indoor League presented by the legend that is Fred Trueman

Quality stuff.

if something was left at their property without their consent, it might actually fall under ‘unsolicited goods’. Can’t find the relevant section of law though, think it’s somewhere in the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013. The company (QVC in this case) has a duty to deliver to the correct address unless otherwise previously arranged between the buyer and seller. If for whatever reason they just dump it with the neighbours without the neighbours’ consent, then the neighbours can do what they like with it. Possibly

What an utter load of rubbish, the barrack room lawyers on here never cease to amaze. When it was left with the neighbour it would have the OPs name and address on the package. ‘Unsolicited goods’ would only apply if the neigbour’s name and address had been on the package at which point they would then need to give the sender the option to collect. When the courier asked the neighbour to accept the delivery on behalf of the OP they would have had the option to say no, by saying yes I would say they are then obliged to ensure it gets to the correct recipient.

To the OP try ordering something from the suppliers alluded to in this, and maybe make a slight mistake in the house number.

I bought my current bike from a dealer for about 6k on a credit card which I then immediately transferred to another card on a 0% balance transfer, had to pay the transfer fee which was about 1.5% but essentially an interest free loan for 3 years. I haggled with the dealer and got them to waive their usual credit card fees. I don’t think dealers care too much where the payment comes from as long as it’s legit.

So if I were you I’d use the 0% purchase deal on the Barclaycard, but be sure you can pay it off in the 25 months as I imagine the interest rates will be punitive once the deal expires.

What tyres for molten lava?

anybody clever enough to engiferate this ?:

I didn’t do it – there’s this new fangled thing called Google – its got all sorts on it. :lol:

You work to earn money. Is this deal worth you working?

No it’s not, but I’m being given the hard sell about others on the rota being on call too often, but the way I see it they had the option to say no, and if they had, then a rethink would have been required around payments to make it more attractive. There are some in the team who would do it for free, I think, they seem happy to work stupid hours for no real gain and in some people’s eyes this makes those who don’t look bad. I don’t play that game – I’ve told my boss before now, that I do this job to pay the bills, it’s not a hobby.

The company I work for are a huge multinational who (in the sector I work in) seem to piss massive amounts of money up the wall through inefficiency and stupidity but nitpick when it comes to the fine details involving paying staff – for example, someone recently showed me an email conversation they’d had over 15p on their expenses which was the difference between calculating an overseas expense using an exchange rate at 2 or 3 decimal places. IT is not the core business and is seen as a necessary evil to be tolerated, so consequently we are treated as a poor relation.

Thanks for the replies – I think I was just looking for some validation of my inclination to thank them for their kind offer but on balance I’ll pass.

It’s part of the customer’s contract so there is no direct charge to them.

I’m not overly fussed about the extra money – the other staff providing this service don’t feel it is very lucrative. For me it’s more about the loss of free time at weekends as I wouldn’t really be feel able to do much away from home whilst on-call.

I’ve had two recent return requests and the subject line for both is Return requested: ‘item details’.

So as was said previously, a genuine return request should have the item details in the subject line. I have nothing with a subject line of ‘You have received a returns request’

Finally, the money shot.

Count me in.

I rented an upstairs flat owned by a plumber who had put the heating in himself. The pipes had been run through the loft space and dropped down from the ceilings to the radiators. You couldn’t close the door in the smallest bedroom as the door was right in the corner of the room and the pipes dropped down too close to the door on the wall at 90° to the door frame. I used to wonder what he would have done if he’d put the pipes in with the door closed.

Isn’t Al Peodos the Newcastle centre forward? Surely they should hang the whole team, it’s not all his fault.

Outofbreath = lanesra?

@Outofbreath, You keep banging on about the Taylor report as if this was the last word on the matter and nothing else had happened between that report and yesterday’s vindication of the victims and families.

The police may have admitted that they opened the gates on the evening of the day of the tragedy, but I’m sure they only did this because they had no choice as this had already got out – Duknifield had contacted Graham Taylor before the ambulances arrived, and told him that the cause was ‘drunken fans breaking the gate down’.The senior police officers first instinct was to cover there arse before dealing with what was in front of them.

Having admitted that they opened the gates, the police then sought to completely dismiss this as the major cause of the disaster by systematically blaming the fans at every opportunity in an orchestrated series of smears and lies which led to the accidental death verdict at the original inquest which has been what the families have been fighting for a quarter of a century. Dukinfield at least seems to finally have admitted he was completely out of his depth and acknowledged that in his actions he bears a large responsibility for what happened, but there were some officers at the inquest who stood resolutely to the story that the fans were to blame which has been shown to be a complete falsehood.

Are you sure there are 43 runners? Five live reporting only 39.

Why is my name not on the list DD. I’ve sent the cash via PPG.

Count me in.

If you come up short on the 44 I’ll take another if it helps.

No particular fear of holes but the thought of doing something like this makes my skin crawl.

That escalated quickly

They can’t mess this up from here can they?

I’m sure they’ll give it a good try.

Leodensian

That’s the sheepfold at Low Tilberthwaite

I thought it was his sister

Turns she was his mother and sister.

That ending wasn’t quite as dramatic as I expected, but all the better for it, I thought.

The Campag Khamsins can be had from PlanetX for £83.99. The Headline price is £139.99 but using the code PXPPP40 takes 40% off the price. I don’t really need them but at this price it’s almost rude not to.

Linky

I only read factual books – in fact I’ve read Lance Armstrong’s autobiographies twice.