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On Sun, 05 May 2019 19:08:24 +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 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.
I use proper English.
I couldn't care less what stupid poms claim is proper english.
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.
It's called English, because it's from England.
Wrong again, and it isnt from that soggy little
frigid island anyway, its stolen from all sorts
of places all over the world, even from the pakis.
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.
I am logical with some words. I say and write pronounciation, because it
comes from pronounce, not pronunce.
I couldn't care less where it comes from.
What matters is whether the individual reading it knows what I
am referring to, and they do when I spell it tire, from the context.
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 costs 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.
That can happen with sporty BMWs with unusual tyres.
I don't recall it was one of those, one of the smaller
asian things that someone had got for his daughter
and she turned her nose up at and signed up for a new
car just after starting her first job with a bank loan.
But if you have a car many others have, hey should be in stock.
Mine have always been and most of the time others have
showed up while I was there, theirs has been in stock too.
Not always tho. I don't care if they don't have some in stock
and so can charge lower prices for the common tires like mine.
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.
At that time the car was almost undriveable, I couldn't be bothered taking
it back home and in again.
And you know so little about cars that you didn't know what needed doing.
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'm a **** mechanic. I've never even replaced a brake.
I've done a lot more than that, including wheel bearings.
That mate of mine has just bought a Merc C180 for
just $1500 which had a bit of miss in the engine and
got the non genuine part needed to fix it for peanuts.
But after what Clare and 'Arlen' have said about high end kraut cars, it
will be interesting to see what else ends up needing fixing over time.
Him and his son had previously had 3 Hyundai Grandeurs
that also cost them peanuts and ended up with 2 good ones
and have cost them nothing because they have sold what
parts they didn't need themselves of the third on ebay etc.
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.
Any animal or human will avoid what makes it be punished.
I'm not actually stupid enough to have a
dog on a lead when out walking with a dog.
Why do you think people smack their kids?
Dogs work differently to kids.
No, they learn just like us.
Thanks for that completely superfluous
proof that you have never had one.
Why do you think you can make them sit, fetch, etc?
Because they like doing it with fetching.
And can't teach a cat to fetch, for a reason.
I find most cats are trainable. If you get angry enough, they
eventually stop doing things.