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Nothing wrong with Wales or the welsh considering I'm one of them

It's just the sun doesn't shine there very often.

Jordan C wrote:Whass'up now with it???

Guys at the local garage can't seem to sort out the steering, done all the smaller stuff - greasing the links, topping up fluid etc. so that's going to have to go to the dealer (which you just know will be expensive...)

Had the catalytic converter done the other day which I hoped would sort out the problem of the engine electronics light coming on intermittently (perhaps the oxygen sensor was doing it's job!) but no, the light came on yesterday so now I'm stuck waiting for the garage's electrician chap to come and read the ECU - £35 whatever the results - and I actually have no bl**dy clue what the problem is, could be a sensor worth £50 (actually worth £5 for what it is, but hey...), could be one of the expensive ones or worse, it could be yet another problem with the engine and really the sky's the limit on that one. I tried to read it with the paperclip test (crude way of home-reading the ECU) but nowt.

I just hate this feeling of having a car outside that runs, but not wanting to actually go anywhere in it because it's theoretically something that could do further expensive damage if I don't sort it out. The steering I'm not so bothered about - it's driveable, and whatever needs fixing needs fixing whether it's tomorrow or next week, but the intermittant engine light is really bugging me as it could be something or nothing, but I am perpetually waaaaaaiiiting. To be honest I don't really even care about the cost now - if they turn round and tell me it'll be £800 to fix, fine, I just need closure and a car that WORKS!

greedoniz wrote:1) Cyclists who believe that somehow traffic lights dont apply to them and just go straight through a red nearly running over my pedestrian ass in the process. I wouldn't mind being run over it's just they haven't got insurance!!

The local council has put in highly expensive cycle paths and yet the buggers will ride on the pavement NEXT to them!!!!!

I will redress the balance of that moan with a cyclist's moan - or any road user really - pedestrians who assume that because a pedestrian crossing has stopped the traffic, "no one will be moving" for 500 yards either way, and therefore step out into the middle of the road without looking though they be miles away from the actual crossing.

Only to be mown down by me on my road bike, having calculated the lights to perfection

Iv got to moan about my bad day at work

First i turn up 15mins early. The place looks like a bombsite and the only member of staff is chatting with her friend. I have to clear up (without pay) before i can even start work

Second, as im running round like a blue-bottomed fly, she continues chatting away. As i am moving behind her, she takes a large step back, knocking me against a 250 degree celsius oven. My whole lower arm ends up stuck to the oven door

Oblivious to that she continues the conversation as im peeling my arm off and running to the sink. Im running cold water over it and she decides to come over to take a cursory glance. She grabs my arm ON THE BURNT SECTION and says its nothing, then tells me to serve some customers while she has a sit down. I tell her to do it herself or im going to hospital right now and she can deal with them

Later she soaks me with scalding hot water from the tap as its running. I shout watch out and she replies that she has asbestos hands so she wont get hurt I say well i havent have i!!!

Later still, I'm washing up. when i begin to put some stuff away she dunks a load of razor sharp knives in the sink without telling me. Back i go to the sink and voila! nearly end up one finger less. Guess what - no first aid box!

That night she also left a big puddle of water on the floor (right in front of the oven!) after mopping up and didnt warn me. I ended up slipping over and falling

Grr staff member from hell! Iv spoken to the manager and she doesnt see a problem. Letter of resignation going in this week

Sounds like you ought to have a quiet word with the local council Health and Safety Department - that's a hell hole just waiting to main or possibly kill someone.

Mandrake wrote:Sounds like you ought to have a quiet word with the local council Health and Safety Department - that's a hell hole just waiting to main or possibly kill someone.

Absolutely! I was in the hotel and restaurant business for two decades (until I finally saw sense five years ago!) and the EHO would have been all over bad practice like this. The knife incident is inexcusable, I would have gone mental if I saw any of my staff putting their knives in a pot wash sink, my chef's always cleaned their own knives!

Have your incidents been recorded in an accident book? If the manager isn't taking your observations seriously then maybe Mandrake's suggestion would be a sensible course of action.

Eesh, suddenly my frustrations pale into insignificance compared to being seriously burnt...

Still, I shall share with you that the lovely young lady at the RBS who was dealing with transferring my overdraft from HSBC and sorting out my loan has decided to pack bags and ship off to India, and the other staff seem singularly incapable of overtaking the work she was doing.

So when I thought all this would be sorted out by *latest* last friday, I phoned up yesterday to find out I have go in today and basically re-apply for everything
I actually have no money, not a penny to my name (other than the bag of coppers I keep for practicing magic...!) If it wasn't for my credit card (which is a second card for one of my mums accounts and is really for emergencies only) or borrowing food from my housemates I would actually starve this week, how damned annoying is that.

i have a moan. I'm pi**ed off about last friday night, and the few days between then and now. it all started off grand, went out to the AU Ball at uni and me and a fellow student magician got paid nicely for doing a couple of hours of walkabout magic round the bar, it was all off to a great start. then i went out to our local rock club, met up with some friends, had 2 beers, and the rest is all a bit fuzzy, i can barely remember the night and spent the majority of saturday (that being from about 12:01AM onwards) being quite violently ill. now, being a borderline alcoholic, 2 beers (bottles too) is not a lot for me to drink, so it has been suggested by many people that i got my drink spiked (lord knows what kind of sick puppy would want to spike me). so now I'm very angry at having spent 3 days being very ill, so much so that i think i've compramised the hernia repair i had a while back! GAH!

although, on that note, i am very VERY thankful that i had (and have) such a nice person to look after on friday night.



i'd also like to moan about RSA being a bu**er to crack (any cryptographers around?)

lozey wrote:Grr staff member from hell! Iv spoken to the manager and she doesnt see a problem. Letter of resignation going in this week

Now, don't get me wrong. I hate those ambulance chasing firms as much as the next person, but in this case, STITCH EM UP LIKE A KIPPER!

Lawrence wrote:i'd also like to moan about RSA being a bu**er to crack (any cryptographers around?)

I'm not an expert, but isn't being hard to crack the point of RSA?

RSA?

Tomo wrote:

Lawrence wrote:i'd also like to moan about RSA being a bu**er to crack (any cryptographers around?)

I'm not an expert, but isn't being hard to crack the point of RSA?

the one actually used for encryption is damn near impossible, which is exactly the point in public key encryption. it's like "hey, here's how you encrypt something, good luck trying to decrypt it without my key though, mwahahaha".
but we're just doing small scale RSA which still isn't very easy

Jordan C wrote:RSA?

it's a form of public key encryption. basically how all your e-mails are encrypted.
the principal is this: you tell everyone is the world how to encrypt a message, but only you can decrpyt it, so anyone can send you a message safely.

I should have known that lol... not long got up though so brain not switched on!!