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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 01 July 2025, 23:44:09 »
Yes thanks Nick, that will be the cause. 
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 01 July 2025, 18:07:13 »
What is it then ? Old age ?
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 01 July 2025, 18:06:34 »
What is it then ? Old age ?
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 01 July 2025, 12:10:09 »
Just realised I posted the same thing twice.
The heat must be really getting to me.
The heat must be really getting to me.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 01 July 2025, 11:04:34 »
I spent nine years working in a foundry, having to wear the required PPE. that went with the job.
We never closed in the hot weather.
Later, I spent seven years making pre stressed concrete floors.
Shoveling concrete on price work, and the stressing wires were heated to cure the concrete faster. Wearing overalls and a much hated plastic hard hat.
On early shift in the summer we started at 5am instead of 6am to try and get the worst done before it got too hot.
I left that job when I was 48 and not long after tipped the scales at 12 stone for the first time in my life.
Im now a fat bastid at 14 stone.
The poor little dears should try some of that for a while. They dont even carry the bins anymore like they used to. They just wheel them to the truck.
Bunch of woosies.
We never closed in the hot weather.
Later, I spent seven years making pre stressed concrete floors.
Shoveling concrete on price work, and the stressing wires were heated to cure the concrete faster. Wearing overalls and a much hated plastic hard hat.
On early shift in the summer we started at 5am instead of 6am to try and get the worst done before it got too hot.
I left that job when I was 48 and not long after tipped the scales at 12 stone for the first time in my life.
Im now a fat bastid at 14 stone.
The poor little dears should try some of that for a while. They dont even carry the bins anymore like they used to. They just wheel them to the truck.
Bunch of woosies.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 01 July 2025, 10:01:20 »
Colchester council has cancelled recycling bin collections today because its too hot for the binmen to work !!
Words (almost) faile me.
I worked in a foundry for nine years. The binmen should give that a try in the middle of summer.
I also worked in a prestressed concrete flooring factory for several years. Shovelling concrete on pricework, while the stressing wirse were electrically heated to cure the concrete quickly.
The first time in my life I reached 12 stone was when I finished with that job in 2008 when I was nearly 50.
Im now a 14 stone fat bastid.
Send a few of the poor little dears there for a week or two.
What do these people think happens in the parts of the world where 30 degree temps are the norm for much of the year ?
Words (almost) faile me.
I worked in a foundry for nine years. The binmen should give that a try in the middle of summer.
I also worked in a prestressed concrete flooring factory for several years. Shovelling concrete on pricework, while the stressing wirse were electrically heated to cure the concrete quickly.
The first time in my life I reached 12 stone was when I finished with that job in 2008 when I was nearly 50.
Im now a 14 stone fat bastid.
Send a few of the poor little dears there for a week or two.
What do these people think happens in the parts of the world where 30 degree temps are the norm for much of the year ?
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 01 July 2025, 09:50:06 »
I cancelled the direct debit for VED on the Boxster, as I no longer own it.
Had a look at my online banking this morning and sure enough, the DD has been paid / taken from my account.
No doubt there will be hours of my life wasted trying to get it back.
Already tried dealing with CARA - the Natwest onlne AI " helper". Beyond fickin useless, and I told it so.
Yes I know it wont understand that, but it made me feel slightly better at the time.
Had a look at my online banking this morning and sure enough, the DD has been paid / taken from my account.
No doubt there will be hours of my life wasted trying to get it back.
Already tried dealing with CARA - the Natwest onlne AI " helper". Beyond fickin useless, and I told it so.
Yes I know it wont understand that, but it made me feel slightly better at the time.
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« on: 30 June 2025, 13:22:38 »
Good news.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 30 June 2025, 13:21:56 »
We need pics. 
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trump has gone to the top .
« on: 25 June 2025, 19:17:17 »
He is an inarticulate ignoramous, but his general direction of travel on most issues is the right one.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trump has gone to the top .
« on: 25 June 2025, 00:13:51 »
Well spotted.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 24 June 2025, 18:51:01 »
I loved the first three albums, and still play them all the time in the car.
I suspect repeatedly playing "Cant get enough" at max volume on the old Bang & Olufsen, is what gave me Tinnitus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XwKk_LmwTI&list=RD4XwKk_LmwTI&start_radio=1
I think Paul Rodgers is the best singer ever to come out of this country.
I suspect repeatedly playing "Cant get enough" at max volume on the old Bang & Olufsen, is what gave me Tinnitus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XwKk_LmwTI&list=RD4XwKk_LmwTI&start_radio=1
I think Paul Rodgers is the best singer ever to come out of this country.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trump has gone to the top .
« on: 24 June 2025, 18:47:07 »Yeah goats, I’d rather eat them than shag them👍 although with sheep its the other way round. the world would be far better off with Iran and its inhabitants transformed into sheet of glass. Just keep the few nice people who live there alive. I’m sure they would rejoice in the crooked cruel prehistoric regime getting annihilated.
Very honest post Ray.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 23 June 2025, 23:54:21 »
Very few left now Don. We may not have known at the time, but we had the best of music and most other things. 