Geez! I hate that! - Page 120

Citroënbender · 10-07-2021, 07:34 PM

What flavour - double apple?

I left-footed it in the local Lebanese grocery once, by referring to a nargila; didn’t go down well.

**DFB FGXR6** · 10-07-2021, 07:51 PM

Well, anyone who has worked in retail will know, some days seem to bring all the nuff nuff's through the door. Today was one of those, both in store and on the phone.

I tend to think tonight will be a full moon.

At least my final customer for the day was "normal".

Yellow_Festiva · 10-07-2021, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Citroënbender

What flavour - double apple?

I left-footed it in the local Lebanese grocery once, by referring to a nargila; didn’t go down well.

Apple is my favourite I must confess.

In Egypt I even found Cola flavour. Was tempted to bring some home but didn't think it would get through customs.

slowsnake · 10-07-2021, 10:04 PM

Wonder if they could make "cat" flavoured?...
Siamese..
Burmese..
Tabby..
Ragdoll..
Felix!..

Cheers King Billy

ford71V8 · 10-07-2021, 10:12 PM

YF, love the photo share there.

Citroënbender · 11-07-2021, 07:12 AM

Been browsing the latest issue of Sydney Covid exposure locations and got distracted by a manoosh shop mentioned there. Checked their reviews, menu, customer photos - now all I can think is how badly I would like to try their triple cheese kaak.

At least it’s “broken the spell” of desiring chocolate mudcake.

Yellow_Festiva · 11-07-2021, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by slowsnake

Wonder if they could make "cat" flavoured?...
Siamese..
Burmese..
Tabby..
Ragdoll..
Felix!..

Cheers King Billy

Doubt it... not all that popular in the Asian countries I found

**mad2** · 11-07-2021, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

Or when you are actually starting to close the gates for the day and a customer asks "are you shutting?"...............hmmm, no just making sure the gate still swings.

i actually walked up & said "are you shut"? .... we got served but the next people didn't

slowsnake · 11-07-2021, 01:07 PM

Had a small metal fabrication shop in or near Cabramatta, dudes would walk into the workshop and usually ask " is the boss around " and depending wether I had a good day or not I would answer " no mate, he's a truncated cone "....lol...

Cheers King Billy

CoupeKing · 12-07-2021, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

That ain't me... I enjoy my food much more than that guy

image

Just after dinner while on a dessert trek in Dubai

And you worry about Covid?

LOL.

ford71V8 · 12-07-2021, 09:08 PM

Good point...Dont share bongs, people. And no more passing dutchy to the left hand side.

Yellow_Festiva · 13-07-2021, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by CoupeKing

And you worry about Covid?

LOL.

Not at all, looking forward to the borders opening so I can bugger off overseas.

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Citroënbender · 13-07-2021, 10:43 PM

Poor bloke, it was not an “investment” collection but a bunch of stuff he enjoyed having.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-...eyan/100286576

Citroënbender · 19-07-2021, 04:54 PM

I’m swearing at a nameless electrician who decided a cavity drop was the clever way to get power to a wall socket. The brick is grabbing the sheathing, I can’t push it out the way enough to do my thing.

shedcoupe · 19-07-2021, 06:06 PM

And what is the thing you’re trying to do ?

Citroënbender · 19-07-2021, 06:25 PM

Cut into the wall about 75mm above it, then drill through, without damaging the cabling.

shedcoupe · 19-07-2021, 06:47 PM

Is it possible to do the last 10 mm with a masonry bit on rotate but not hammer ? ie. gently avoid wrecking the cable. Or hand chisel ?
Alternatively attach a tough draw wire to the cable and pull it up into the roof space. If there is one.

Citroënbender · 19-07-2021, 06:59 PM

I’ll get there, plan A is to work carefully, if the brick is crumbly I go to Plan B which is to pull it up temporarily as you describe. It’s a bit harder because the cabling is older single strand; less supple. I’ve also got a couple of worn out 5 and 6,5mm SDS bits that I use as small chisels (hammer setting only) to finesse cutouts. If the cable had been laid in conduit I’d be finished three times over.

slowsnake · 19-07-2021, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Citroënbender

I’ll get there, plan A is to work carefully, if the brick is crumbly I go to Plan B which is to pull it up temporarily as you describe. It’s a bit harder because the cabling is older single strand; less supple. I’ve also got a couple of worn out 5 and 6,5mm SDS bits that I use as small chisels (hammer setting only) to finesse cutouts. If the cable had been laid in conduit I’d be finished three times over.

Sounds like it was done in the Middle Ages, I wouldn't put anything metal around something I can't see "electricity "
especially if the insulation is suss?

Cheers Billy.

Citroënbender · 20-07-2021, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Me

I’m swearing at a nameless electrician who decided a cavity drop was the clever way to get power to a wall socket. The brick is grabbing the sheathing, I can’t push it out the way enough to do my thing.

I win; pass the chemset and it’s a job.

slowsnake · 20-07-2021, 07:14 PM

Looks good, but why not get a router and just rout a channel on the wall surface and bog it up?

Cheers Billy.

Citroënbender · 20-07-2021, 07:26 PM

I’d still have to hand finish the top of the chase, then it’s 28 days of raw concrete before I can skim and paint again, rather than a small margin of repair around the panel. Trying to keep the chaos to a working minimum. My biggest concern now is, if we’re locked down until late September it’s literally going to be months before the real sparky can inspect and alter as needed.

shedcoupe · 20-07-2021, 08:31 PM

Coulda used a wall mounting plate eg Clipsal 449asd

Citroënbender · 20-07-2021, 09:11 PM

That would have been an OK compromise, didn’t think of it at the time.

I worked in one brick house from about 1920 which had heavy gauge copper plumbing inside the wall cavity. That did my head in, because the roof was pitched on the outside wall - so they must have put up the internal walls first, roughed in the water and gas (it had lead pipes buried in the wall for gas lamps) then finished the outer skin off.

jaydee · 23-07-2021, 02:31 PM

Got the latest Repco clearance catalogue email.
Had a look, heaps of stuff for panel and paint, rust inhibitor, sound deadener etc really, really cheap, I selected about 8 items.
Sorry not available in Perth. F.O.!!

xkxlxm · 23-07-2021, 07:05 PM

Just back from a walk; picked up a piece of polystyrene foam; my inner compulsive rubbish-picker-upper can't leave it there; that street had its rubbish collection today; why have we got so many morons who insist on putting this **** loose in their bins so that when the truck's arms pick the bin up and flip it over above the truck to empty it, it floats away ... Some of these brightest of sparks will even put loose polystyrene beads in their bins ... I would ban polystyrene if I could.

Then you get the builders who use it under concrete slabs and allow the left-over polystyrene to float away whenever the wind blows. I should suggest to my local council that builders using this **** be required to put up a $2,000 or so bond in case the wind blows ...

marty351 · 23-07-2021, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by xkxlxm

Just back from a walk; picked up a piece of polystyrene foam; my inner compulsive rubbish-picker-upper can't leave it there; that street had its rubbish collection today; why have we got so many morons who insist on putting this **** loose in their bins so that when the truck's arms pick the bin up and flip it over above the truck to empty it, it floats away ... Some of these brightest of sparks will even put loose polystyrene beads in their bins ... I would ban polystyrene if I could.

Then you get the builders who use it under concrete slabs and allow the left-over polystyrene to float away whenever the wind blows. I should suggest to my local council that builders using this **** be required to put up a $2,000 or so bond in case the wind blows ...

Actions speak louder than words.

ford71V8 · 24-07-2021, 02:37 PM

Saw a long stretch of Barkly Hwy with bits of polystyrene strewn either side. Initially thought they were little flowers and then realised...it went on for many kms, near impossible to collect up.
Next town we saw a council guy picking up litter by the road as we entered... if he knew what was further down the road he would be defeated.

xkxlxm · 24-07-2021, 07:06 PM

Polystyrene is a real problem. It breaks into smaller and smaller pieces, over and over and over. It could be from building products, white goods packaging, fruit/veg. boxes, whatever. But it stems from people just not giving a **** about the environment. Two or three years ago I was driving on a freeway and ahead I could see all this white stuff ... some moron must have had a refill bag of foam beads in the back of a ute, unsecured ... it had blown out (surprise!!!), got busted and the beads were blowing all over the place.

Today, at a train station: 'they' use plastic zip ties to fix the latest cor flute advertising poster to a fence and when it's time to remove it, use the Stanley knife to cut the zip ties and just leave them there. Too hard to pick them up and bin them. This happens all all over the place, not just train stations.

There are more good-spirited people out there picking up rubbish, but the amount of rubbish is incredible/insurmountable.

shedcoupe · 24-07-2021, 07:40 PM

Luckily no idiot backpacker has ever taken a beanbag to the beach and breached it.
Oh wait ....