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minor things that make you fume

summerisle said:
They've started late this year.
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Around our neck of the woods this time of year we get posts of outrageous indignation from the horsey set who have bought a couple of horses and have chosen to home them in fields next door to a town, where people let off fireworks, rather than house them in the peace of the deep countryside.

Yes, 10,000 people should avoid any form of loud activity for the sake of your four horses you chose to put there.
 
Spent a few hours today wandering around the house trying to trace our central heating plumbing, with screwdriver, prybar in hand for the floorboards; bleed key and pliers for the valves and a thermal camera to work out what was going on. We have a nightmarish bodge of microbore, minibore and full bore pipes feeding radiators at various points and the system is completely unbalanced - especially since 3very time we (I) redecorate or do anything to a room, the female insists we should have a new radiator (one of her new ones has all but rusted through in about 5 years ffs). Two rads fail to get warm at all... I even tried flushing the pipes in the summer. Nothing.

So imagine my surprise and discomfort when, after faffing around with pipes for hours, in one room I find a puddle of water beneath some pipes and a radiator about the size of half a cupfull if water was visible. Kinell!

Then I notice a drop or two of water on the skirting that's above the pipes. Can't be pipes then. I look behind the rad ... dry as a bone. Odd. I look higher ... there's a small pond in the windowsill. I look higher and EVERYTHING higher than the puddle is bone dry. I see what's likely to be the culprit, sat on a soggy island amidst the puddle. Dipping my finger into the puddle on the floor I taste the water.. salty.

Some time ago my wife was given one of those utterly pointless gifts that ladies like to give one another to demonstrate that they care (whereas men simply have to grunt to one another preferably in the company if beer). The gift in question was a halite tea-light holder - a block of naturally occurring salt with a hole bored part way through into which you can insert a candle.

The problem with halite is that it's deliquesent - meaning it actively absorbs and collects water from the (damp because the heating has only just been turned on this year) air, which then condenses into drops, which pond and then dribble onto the floor giving amateur plumbers palpitations they could frankly do without.
 
chrismpw said:
Spent a few hours today wandering around the house trying to trace our central heating plumbing, with screwdriver, prybar in hand for the floorboards; bleed key and pliers for the valves and a thermal camera to work out what was going on. We have a nightmarish bodge of microbore, minibore and full bore pipes feeding radiators at various points and the system is completely unbalanced - especially since 3very time we (I) redecorate or do anything to a room, the female insists we should have a new radiator (one of her new ones has all but rusted through in about 5 years ffs). Two rads fail to get warm at all... I even tried flushing the pipes in the summer. Nothing.

So imagine my surprise and discomfort when, after faffing around with pipes for hours, in one room I find a puddle of water beneath some pipes and a radiator about the size of half a cupfull if water was visible. Kinell!

Then I notice a drop or two of water on the skirting that's above the pipes. Can't be pipes then. I look behind the rad ... dry as a bone. Odd. I look higher ... there's a small pond in the windowsill. I look higher and EVERYTHING higher than the puddle is bone dry. I see what's likely to be the culprit, sat on a soggy island amidst the puddle. Dipping my finger into the puddle on the floor I taste the water.. salty.

Some time ago my wife was given one of those utterly pointless gifts that ladies like to give one another to demonstrate that they care (whereas men simply have to grunt to one another preferably in the company if beer). The gift in question was a halite tea-light holder - a block of naturally occurring salt with a hole bored part way through into which you can insert a candle.

The problem with halite is that it's deliquesent - meaning it actively absorbs and collects water from the (damp because the heating has only just been turned on this year) air, which then condenses into drops, which pond and then dribble onto the floor giving amateur plumbers palpitations they could frankly do without.
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  • Which woman was responsible for this heinous crime?
  • Why didn't you start at the puddle instead of prying up boards and such elsewhere?
  • On your monthly decorating missions, did it occur to standardise the pipes as you went? a room here, a corridor there, soon adds up to a job well done.
  • What thermal camera do you have?
  • Do you have one of those magnet filters on the output of your boiler? If so, when did you last flush it?
  • Deliquescent*
  • Admit it, you were bored and fancied inventing a job to get riled up over. Come on, let's have it.
  • Have you considered the local model plane flying club? Or knocking raised planters together for some horticulturalist oaps?
You should log these little sojourns and make them into a diary, could be a best seller, 'how I spent my retirement and ended up working even harder somehow"
 
Rita_Poon said:
  • Which woman was responsible for this heinous crime?
  • Why didn't you start at the puddle instead of prying up boards and such elsewhere?
  • On your monthly decorating missions, did it occur to standardise the pipes as you went? a room here, a corridor there, soon adds up to a job well done.
  • What thermal camera do you have?
  • Do you have one of those magnet filters on the output of your boiler? If so, when did you last flush it?
  • Deliquescent*
  • Admit it, you were bored and fancied inventing a job to get riled up over. Come on, let's have it.
  • Have you considered the local model plane flying club? Or knocking raised planters together for some horticulturalist oaps?
You should log these little sojourns and make them into a diary, could be a best seller, 'how I spent my retirement and ended up working even harder somehow"
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That is the best and most apt book title I've ever seen.

I've probably written the word "deliquescent" a thousand times ... don't know what I was finking there.
 

Simon Buttle said:
Portsmouth Water: They decided for some unknown reason to start digging in my road this morning and due to them being a bunch of clueless numpties have now burst a pipe and there is water spewing everywhere down the road now and it looks like they are going to be here for the rest of the afternoon/evening fixing it as according to the bloke " It's a bit of a mess down there mate " :rant: :rant:
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Anything involving waterworks ‘down there’ usually are very messy I’ve heard
 
3 times this month I've booked Royal Mail collection from my house. 3 times on the day I get an email saying they can't collect. 100% failure rate including today.

This wouldn't be so bad, but the local post office, ½ mile away, has been shut on the 3 occasions I've carried my 15kg parcels to them and home again ffs. (It's shut because it's in Tesco- and some bean counter has seen fit to make 1 of the operatives in tesco redundant- so it's now ony staffed by 1 person who has 1. Taken a month's holiday (good for them) and 2. Is now ill (sorry for them) with nobody to infill. This is a town with a lot of old people, many don't drive, and the next post office is a 12 mile round trip away.

I've told tesco I won't be using their shop until they re-employ 2 staff (as if they care ... buy you have to try to show principles in a world that us increasingly about profits ). I have written to Royal Mail seeking explanations and demanding that they don't try to settle the issue with a glib apology.

This is 21st century britain ffs.

Privatisation of services doesn't work.
 
Garrick said:
As a regular cyclist, this blows my mind when I see people do it.

So much less likely to die when you're in a bike line, let alone a separated cycle path.

On this subject: Fellow cyclists who think traffic lights don't apply to them. Do you want to be thought of as an accepted part of normal traffic? THEN FOLLOW THE RULES.
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Cyclists are so annoying !!
 

People who are incapable of standing behind the line at the baggage collection belt at airports.

They HAVE to stand as close to the belt as possible.

The line is there for good reason! 1. So people can see from a distance when their bag is coming and 2. So there is space when they lift their heavy bag off the belt.

It is so frustrating and selfish. Bell ends.
 
Jamiednm said:
People who are incapable of standing behind the line at the baggage collection belt at airports.

They HAVE to stand as close to the belt as possible.

The line is there for good reason! 1. So people can see from a distance when their bag is coming and 2. So there is space when they lift their heavy bag off the belt.

It is so frustrating and selfish. Bell ends.
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If someone ever stands in front of me at the belt, I go and stand in front of them, and keep repeating the process until they get the hint.
 
technics 1210's on ebay, spares and repairs are fetching £250 now, it's gone completely insane. one sold today around £230 and the tone arm was utterly shagged. Official new arm is 4 ton. And some of the modifications, people with no taste shouldn't be allowed to alter music playing devices. Taking stuff back to stock isn't always easy.
Broken, spares repairs 250! And discogs, the cost of vinyl, it'd be cheaper to get the original artist in for a one off performance. Grotesque.
 
The annual three weeks of crap fireworks going off at all hours has commenced.

I mean, I like a proper firework display as much as the next man, but absolutely nobody is benefitting from your 50p Catherine wheel scream like a banshee for 5 seconds before ending itself.
 

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