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On Sun, 05 May 2019 17:20:30 +0100, Rod Speed
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On Sun, 05 May 2019 00:15:43 +0100, Rod Speed
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On Sat, 04 May 2019 22:44:59 +0100, Rod Speed
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On Sat, 04 May 2019 21:28:08 +0100, 2987pl wrote:
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On Sat, 04 May 2019 00:58:18 +0100, Frank "frank
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On 5/3/2019 3:43 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
I'm interested as to how this happened:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/elnf9fysu2...rcles.JPG?dl=0
Perfectly formed circles, after the monitor got wet (ok, my cat
"scented" it, which I assume is salty water) - why the circles?
I
can't
believe the "water" physically spread that evenly. And I'm
unaware
of
any connection in an LCD monitor activating a circle - wouldn't
I
short
out a horizontal band or something?
Looks like you are not the first to have this problem:
https://www.overclock.net/forum/44-m...r-problem.html
Others mention similar cat problems.
I like the advice "upgrade from a cat to a dog". Trouble is you
have
to
walk them.
Nope, plenty of them are happy to walk themselves. When I was
building
the
house, one of the neighbours dogs used to have a regular circuit
every
single
day, regular as clockwork, around the same route, sniffing and
****ing
in
the
same places every day. Hilarious to watch.
Let them do that in the UK and the moronic authorities will snatch
them
up.
When I walked back to the place to pick up my car after getting a
wheel
alignment done,
Isn't that something garages do to rip you off? I've never found it
necessary.
I did, the tire
You spell it the yank way?!
I actually spell it my way, like I do with most ys instead of ies too.
The trouble with putting a tire on your car is it's not distinguishable
from running out of energy.
Of course its distinguishable from the context.
It still makes you look like an American dumbass.
Only to fools like you.
Do you also say aloominum, erb, stoopid, stoodent?
Nope, and I say tire the same way you do too.
But I know how to spell it properly.
I know how you poms spell it and arent silly enough to spell it that way.
We invented the language.
Nope, you stole it from everyone else.
Why copy a yank instead of a Brit?
I don't copy anyone. I do what makes sense.
That's why I don't fart around with ies and use ys instead.
was wearing on one side and so needed to
be replaced sooner than it would otherwise need to be.
The alignment was well out and I don't get that effect
anymore now that the alignment has been fixed.
Ah, fair enough, I did that once too. What annoys me is garages who
seem
to think it should be done every time you replace a tyre.
I've never had one do that but I mostly use the cheapest tire
specialist
when I need a new tire.
The one that wanted to align it was Kwik Fit. They also sold me a brand
new battery which registered 4 volts, and didn't know how to change a
brake calliper (we only do the pads mate).
Clearly an operation best avoided.
Most garages are best avoided.
I havent found that with any of them, but then I do almost
all of the work myself and only get stuff like the tires done
for free because I don't have the equipment to do a proper
dynamic balance or wheel alignment myself and can't
justify the cost of that equipment when I need stuff like a
wheel alignment so rarely. Just the once in 60 years in fact.
And it cost peanuts to get it done by a pro who knows
what he is doing and did a brilliant job. Cost just $66 and
he identified why I was getting a significant wheel tramp
at a particular speed which neither me or my mate who is
also an excellent mechanic didn't realise what the cause was.
I often went to SMS for tyres, since they have every size in stock and fit
it while you wait without booking, just turn up, and they're cheap.
Same with the operation I use except I did notice that one customer
had to have their tires ordered. Dunno how common that is with
them. Cant even remember what those tires were for.
One day I got them to fix my brakes - they charged me £93
(before labour) for a calliper I could have got for £30 on Ebay.
So you should have checked that before you got them to do that.
Another garage, Farmer's Autocare, I took the car for an MOT, and they
gave me a list of what needed doing. I bought all the parts, handed them
to the guy, and he refused to fit them, he wanted markup on his own parts.
I called them cowboys, reported them to a few trading bodies, and went to
Foz Sports, who did the work without question.
We fit them ourselves.
I go to Foz all the time now, the last visit, he replaced an exhaust
bracket (£3.50) and topped up the gearbox oil (a litre for £2), then only
charged me half an hour labour on top of that for both things.
came across a big alsatian out on its own doing something
very similarly with most of the trees and gates on the street
verge,
and
going right down the driveway of some houses and bailing up the dog
behind the gate at the end of the drive. Hilarious.
What annoys me is when people allow their dogs (while still on the
lead!)
to **** on people's property.
You've clearly never walked a dog on a lead.
There is no way to stop that dog behaviour.
You pull the dog away from where it's ****ing.
Doesn't stop it ****ing on the next one.
Pull it again, if it continues, kick it.
Doesn't stop it, psychopath.
They prefer not to get beaten.
Thanks for that completely superfluous
proof that you have never had a dog.
Why do you think people smack their kids?
Dogs work differently to kids.
I find most cats are trainable. If you get angry enough, they
eventually stop doing things.