What's made you grumpy today?

ChrisUK · Apr 18, 2014

Changing my front Disks and Pads on my car. 1 out of 4 Torx screws needed drilling out, cross threaded by an Evan's Halshaw trained Monkey. 3 out of 4 other bolts holding on the pad carrier seized solid probably due to over tightening.

Got there in the end after 2 hours of swearing and brute force

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dave · Apr 18, 2014

mrs dave gone to bed an left tv on other side of living room again

s and b · Apr 18, 2014

ChrisUK said:
Changing my front Disks and Pads on my car. 1 out of 4 Torx screws needed drilling out, cross threaded by an Evan's Halshaw trained Monkey. 3 out of 4 other bolts holding on the pad carrier seized solid probably due to over tightening.

Got there in the end after 2 hours of swearing and brute force .

were probably over loctited to save a corporate manslaughter charge if they undided
its the times we live unfortunately

Ziggy122 · Apr 18, 2014

My job is crap

Customer dont think we have lives.....

when we have been saying we close at 8, please come to checkouts - it dont mean shop till 10past 8 then come down :bang::bang:

Rushing = Mistakes, which WILL bite me in ass tommorow

Ziggy

Focus Owner · Apr 19, 2014

ford focus earth locations. and the poor information in the Haynes manual. and the lack of anyone ever posting on the internet how to get to the earths under the front door sills

AndyRKett · Apr 19, 2014

Accidentally buying things on eBay I didn't mean to via the 'Make and offer' button, when you make a silly offer over a third less than the asking price I don't expect them to accepted and leave me having to buy something I didn't really need!

Seriously what are these people playing at!

I suppose I got an epic bargain anyway so not all doom and gloom

Gavv8 · Apr 19, 2014

Being ejected from a friends bbq for getting too deep in a discussion about photography......

GrandeGuy · Apr 20, 2014

Gavv8 said:
Being ejected from a friends bbq for getting too deep in a discussion about photography......

http://youtu.be/jbl79BbmpVg
http://youtu.be/f68VXKMZT1Q

Gavv8 · Apr 20, 2014

grandeguy said:
http://youtu.be/jbl79bbmpvg
http://youtu.be/f68vxkmzt1q

:d

SeanW · Apr 20, 2014

AndyRKett said:
Accidentally buying things on eBay I didn't mean to via the 'Make and offer' button, when you make a silly offer over a third less than the asking price I don't expect them to accepted and leave me having to buy something I didn't really need!

Seriously what are these people playing at!

I suppose I got an epic bargain anyway so not all doom and gloom

Err...why make an offer for something you didn't really need?

Eklipze3k · Apr 20, 2014

SeanW said:
Err...why make an offer for something you didn't really need?

pooroldcodger · Apr 21, 2014

The firms that are running these courses tell their "clients" that the insurance companies are not supposed to be penalising customers in this way and that they should not be asking the question.
If insurance companies are so high-tech and switched on when it comes to risk -assessment, where was this finely honed business awareness when they fuelled the crash for cash scams by selling the accident victims' personal details to no win no fee lawyers themselves?
O'h yes, I remember now....they fuelled the scam market and then complained about the compensation payouts and so put up the premiums for everybody to pay for it. In some cases black-listing entire post codes.

Most Easterly Pandas · Apr 21, 2014

pooroldcodger said:
The firms that are running these courses tell their "clients" that the insurance companies are not supposed to be penalising customers in this way and that they should not be asking the question.
If insurance companies are so high-tech and switched on when it comes to risk -assessment, where was this finely honed business awareness when they fuelled the crash for cash scams by selling the accident victims' personal details to no win no fee lawyers themselves?
O'h yes, I remember now....they fuelled the scam market and then complained about the compensation payouts and so put up the premiums for everybody to pay for it. In some cases black-listing entire post codes.

It's not the possition of these 'firms' to be advising anyone of the like. But as I've always said you get good insurance companies, and crap ones, which tend to be at the budget end of the market, and guess where Admiral group sit

The business sense behind them selling the details made perfect sense tbh. The details would be sold regardless, if they didn't then someone else would have, and in turn would have got the referal fee. At least with the insurance companies selling them, although creating a spiralling black hole, they still made the money from the referal fee, resulting in an ever so slightly lower overall loss.

pooroldcodger · Apr 21, 2014

Most of us these days buy insurance via the internet so we only see a website. Without inside knowledge how are we to know who is at which end of the market?
Price is not always an indicator of service is it?
So insurance companies sold referal details because if they didn't somebody else would? Did they have to make those details available at all? How would somebody else get the details if it wasn't from the insurance companies themselves ? Shouldn't that data be private anyway?

pooroldcodger · Apr 21, 2014

What sort of photography were you discussing? ?

scout · Apr 22, 2014

I've got to go back to work after the two week Easter break

Most Easterly Pandas · Apr 22, 2014

pooroldcodger said:
Most of us these days buy insurance via the internet so we only see a website. Without inside knowledge how are we to know who is at which end of the market?
Price is not always an indicator of service is it?

http://defaqto.com/stars

pooroldcodger said:
So insurance companies sold referal details because if they didn't somebody else would? Did they have to make those details available at all? How would somebody else get the details if it wasn't from the insurance companies themselves ? Shouldn't that data be private anyway?

Recovery firms, Claims management firms, hospitals, body repair shops etc etc. The list goes on also.

Andy Monty · Apr 22, 2014

Most Easterly Pandas said:
Recovery firms, Claims management firms, hospitals, body repair shops etc etc. The list goes on also.

Know when mum and sister got knocked down on a zebra only people we had spoken to was ambulance and police and guess what the no win no fee vultures were on the phone in under 12 hours of the event

sludgeguts · Apr 22, 2014

MAJOR road into town completely snarled up because some moron wants to dig up the road at a minor junction. so they control said junction with 3-way lights (and we know how well those things work

)
Queues of up to 40 minutes coming in this morning, up to 20 minutes going out plus long tailbacks on some of the other roads joining this main road.

Of course, it wouldn't occur to do this work last week during the hols, or overnight? In any case, the road is a 4 cars wide at that point (OK, I'm talking about parked cars & not driven) - so why block most of the road off?
:bang::bang::bang:

Freebo · Apr 22, 2014

The Supersport is going shortly. Drove it for one of the last times at the weekend. Going to be sad to see it go but needs must.

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