like all those carriers you open an account usually. faster and in general quicker and often cheaper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
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like all those carriers you open an account usually. faster and in general quicker and often cheaper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
you should never privatise essentials...ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
..a bit like insurance for cars.. its essential and car ownership is essential to most and country but you see private firms now upping policies 10 fold for evs for no good, legit reason. thats because the govt doesnt have a basic policy that the companies have to beat.
Incompetent management, they don't have a clue,I've worked there for 36 years:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
I know a few posties and they all say the same as you. Rubbish management at all levels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pieoftheday
That would be nice, but I can't see the govt getting stuck into that, too complicated. I mean, who out of the present shower could you trust with it?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
I did read something about the insurance price hikes for evs, with some refusing to renew cover. They're blaming the uncertainty of repair costs. So why did they try to jack up my diesel van premiums by 30%?
I sold my old Pioneer cd player on Ebay for £50, the one with the big loading tray, that you play discs upside down. Sold a few records too, Scott 4 went for £63 in VG+ condition, it's gone up a bit since I bought it 10 yrs ago, about 100%. Most of the others I sold went for their min. bid of £10, which is fine. Everyone happy with my gradings and quick shipment. Anyway cd player buyer claims it wasn't reading discs, when its been working fine for about 5 years. I ask for a video and true enough it ain't reading em, can only assume it got thrown about by royal mail, I did pack it well. Anyways, i accept his return and buy an email label, then just as I pay see its got my old address on it (for returns), forgot to update my seller account, you'd think it would be the same as one's buyer account, but no. So contact ebay, they say ok tell the seller not to send it back, and Ebay will automatically cancel the label and won't charge me, and I'm like, oh shit I gotta sort out a new label now myself, with another courier, what a fucking drag. Then the Ebay guy goes, no worries, I see you've been an Ebay member for 17 years, and your feedback is excellent, and he just refunded the buyer for me, without the need to send it back, all on Ebay. I was well shocked, nice to see someone cares about loyal customers.
I take it he was putting CDs in the right way?
I've seen this happen
That catches me out. My Meridian takes discs the right way up and the Trichord, the 'wrong' way up :).Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
The whole thing always struck me as totally pointless, it makes no difference to anything whether the laser is mounted above or below the disc.
Just something for the marketing manager to put in the brochure to distinguish their players from a hundred others.
My Sony player needs the disc 'puck' to be fitted. It won't play otherwise. Plenty of other equally good players do not require the use of a puck - is it just a 'gimmick'? :scratch:
You have the same one I used to have I think, XB930E ? Uses a fixed laser mechanism so that's why it needs the puck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Great player, lovely build quality, don't know why I sold mine. Buyer got it for his daughter but tried it out first, said it gave nothing away to whatever high end mega money machine he was using.
Friend's daughter been offered 5 year recording contract with a major label. It would mean ditching her existing band and moving to L.A
Turned it down. Doesn't want to move to L.A, doesn't want to ditch the band.
I think she's crazy, what say you?
cant blame her if she doesnt fancy it. more to life than moneyQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
There is, but on the other hand she may end up back working in a dog grooming parlour and she wants to make her living from music.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Only young, and will still be young at the end of the five years whether it works our or not.
its a risk i agree, but maybe she doesn t feel able to abandon her band. as you say she is young. if she is good enough she will get another chanceQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Is this Keira Mac? Her loyalty to her bandmates is commendable, but these opportunities don't come along every day. If she accepts and makes a success of it, she may end up with sufficient clout to call the shots with her support players. And bring her mates back in (if they're up to snuff).
And five years isn't really that long.
In the end it's the things we don't do that we regret, that's what they say.
And that of course is true. It's going to be a difficult decision.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
It would be like an apprenticeship (albeit better paid than most), she could learn so much about how it all works, transferable skills :)
Yes it's an XB930E. If it had balanced outputs it would be perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
That's pretty much what I said. Can't tell these youngsters anything though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Yeh, that was the first thing I told him!Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
My partner has just managed to pull down the shower curtain rail. Another unplanned repair job for me to do today! :doh:
We have one of those extending poles which you then twist to lock. So easy. Mind you we haven't used the shower in maybe four or five years, might explain why we never get any visitors...
Actually it's baths every time for me. Last thing before I go to bed, I don't want to be bothered in the morningtime.
i got a fancy one fitted with new bathroom suite. its L-shaped and needs 2 full shower curtains; one from each end. works well and doubt itll fall down.
my last one was i guess similar to steves one
She only has the curtain there for show anyway, because we also have one of these.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...AC_SL1500_.jpg
All fixed now. Yes, it was an extendable 'twist to lock' type. Been up there for ages, but fell down under the added weight of some hand washing put up to dry. The curtain rail was not designed for the extra weight.
Mind you, she did offer to repair it by banging in a couple of nails! Even if she had used masonry nails the tiles would have cracked and a right old mess made.
I thought about it and made a repair which will now take some extra weight, yet no longer depends on compressing the spring-loaded ends of the rail. And all the modifications are neatly hidden, so you can't see what I have done.
ah, the old slap in a few 6 inch nails :D... no more nails wouldd have been betterQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
'No more nails' is, I believe, an adhesive so the repair would have been irreversible. My repair is reversible.
true but it would be preferable to real nails into tilesQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I'm intrigued - our pole has been known to succumb to gravity on occasion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Next time I might just replace it with one of these:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...AC_SL1000_.jpg
You could do gymnastics off that bugger, though it would definitely need bigger curtain rings :)
props might be overkill steve ... i had also te shower shelf version. went vertically.. both lasted well enough tbh. im using cubbys that are suction fixed.. quite good they are and no screws into the fancy wallingQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
All I did was to drill a hole in each end cap to take a 4mm screw head. Then drilled, rawlplugged and fitted the screws in the corresponding positions on the wall. Offered up one end of the rail to the first screw, extended the rail to cover the second screw, twisted the rail so it butted firmly against the wall and rehung the curtain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
So the rail will now take a little more weight, allowing some light clothes to be hung up to dry if need be. And the repair means the rail will not fall if it looses its torsional twist. The repair cannot be seen as the screws are covered by the end cups.
my shower curtain rail is just a piece of steel pipe, cut to to the exact length of the room and jammed into place.
Works fine except in the winter of 2009/2010 it was so cold in the bathroom that the metal contracted sufficiently to cause the whole array to drop into the bath.
Made a hell of a racket.
Also my toothpaste was frozen solid in the tube.
Goodness - it must have been cold for that to happen! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
It was -10C IIRC (That was indoors, it was even colder outside ofc)Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
That winter and the one after were the coldest I've known.
That's clever! Simple and ingenious at the same time :) And well explained too, even a donkey like me can understand that, and I'm rubbish with instructions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Yes I've come across those, they look to work well, and you can position them to your ideal height for when showering.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
We have no need for such things - when we have new bath fitted a few years ago it was positioned a few inches from the wall so I could run a shelf alongside it, then capped over with uPvc 'cappit' board sealed in. It's actually a lot better than it sounds, and easy to wipe clean.
Thanks! It didn't take too long to think of a solution, but it did take a good while to effect, as there was a lot of coming and going to find the right tools for the job.
I have a lot of tools; but since my partner moved in, she has 'tidied up' the place and now I can't find certain tools, and if I ask where they might be she doesn't know either! :doh:
If Happy's anything like Anita, the 'right place' for any particular tool is whatever box, drawer or cupboard it will fit into, so I've no chance :doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Fortunately I keep all of my work tools (and there are a lot) in my van, and there is a place for everything, everything in it's place. Folk think I keep the van pretty organised, but really it's just that if something doesn't go back to its usual place I've a devil of a job locating it!
Happy Birthday Universe!
According to Archbishop Usher, the world was created on this day (23 October) in 4004 BC.
so all those fossils are fake thenQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Or just not as old as we thought they were...Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Actually I think the official line was that God put them there deliberately to test our faith.
sounds likelyQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Of course - they were all made in a factory in China. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
A T Rex skeleton sold for six million dollar not that long ago, saw a programme about it.
There's commercial archaeologists out there looking for more to dig up and sell. Ofc they all think they're Indiana Jones.
There's a market for other dinosaurs too but not for that kind of money. Some bloke had a diplodocus that took years to shift. There's no Autotrader equivalent for dinosaurs.
When I was a kid I found an ammonite fossil in the river. Probably wasn't worth much, but it would be fifty-odd years older now, so...
I have a trilobite fossil, I picked up in southern Tunisia. Not sure where it is now - Happy had a tidy up, so it could be anywhere!
Good job it's a fossilized one, the live ones gave Captain Kirk a lot of bother.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry