Little story about a nightmare job I did once, Idiot Builder fitted a large plastic stormwater tank into an eave on a 6 story building failing to waterproof under it. To fix the leak you needed to either demolish half the roof or cut the tank to bits to remove it. One of the first design rules you learn, allow maintenance access to stuff. Dont build shit into places you cannot assess,
Getting old
- Thread starter Dellortoman
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Best to remain sceptical...and get a second opinion.
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Andy J
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- Isle of Man
A bit like when they build motorbikes..
Motorbikes aren't built to be maintained anymore, they're built to be recycled.
Paul
Andy J
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- Isle of Man
When you first posted about your accident everyone could see what a crap service you received. I heard about another today involving our NHS and graphically demonstrates my often stated ‘ there is always someone worse off than you’.
I’ve been moaning a bit about my self-inflicted abdominal injury but I bumped into a former colleague I hadn’t seen for a few months. I asked how she was, she was looking okay to me, to be told she had a kidney removed a few months back. She’d been complaining of pain in her back for a year or so but her quack had said is was likely to be due to her diet and triathlon activities. However, a routine blood test showed up a kidney function issue so she was sent for a scan. As soon as she had the scan they sent her straight to A&E as the kidney on the side she had been complaining about was apparently 60% enlarged due to blockages. Faced with regular stent inserts to drain the blockages, along with the increased risk of infections, she opted for removal and now has to change her lifestyle all because someone didn’t take her condition seriously. She’s only in her thirties.
Ha.
You should work on ships/yachts.
I think they design the damn things to be difficult to be worked on.
If they can’t put something in an impossible location, they put something in front of it to make it f#*<ing near imposible to work on.
Then the gods rock the ship.
I’m to old for this shit.
Andy
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- Auckland, roughly
I don’t do boats very well. One day my boss sent me to tidy up a bit of wiring on a little launch moored at a marina. I worked my way through it while it was bobbing around randomly, feeling greener by the minute. As I was crouched in beside the engine, with the smell of bilge water, diesel and fish, wondering how the hell anyone could work on the motor and feeling like I was about to throw up, someone started stomping around on the deck above my head: “clack clack” and suddenly the engine compartment hatch was open and a bloke looked down at me with a start, “do you want me to show you how to open this…?”Ha.
You should work on ships/yachts.
I think they design the damn things to be difficult to be worked on.
If they can’t put something in an impossible location, they put something in front of it to make it f#*<ing near imposible to work on.
Then the gods rock the ship.
I’m to old for this shit.
I have a mate who’s a genius with electrics and hydraulics.I don’t do boats very well. One day my boss sent me to tidy up a bit of wiring on a little launch moored at a marina. I worked my way through it while it was bobbing around randomly, feeling greener by the minute. As I was crouched in beside the engine, with the smell of bilge water, diesel and fish, wondering how the hell anyone could work on the motor and feeling like I was about to throw up, someone started stomping around on the deck above my head: “clack clack” and suddenly the engine compartment hatch was open and a bloke looked down at me with a start, “do you want me to show you how to open this…?”
He was sent out to a vessel at anchor.
He lost his lunch in the tender going out to the vessel.
Poor bastard, was only in the bay.
It gets some people like that.
Nothing to be ashamed of.
Everyone who has been to sea, I mean BEEN to sea has been sick at some point.
Andy
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My grandfather was a seaman, he used to be sick for his first few days on ship, all his life. Same thing when he arrived back on shore, which used to intrigue us kids.
Yup! Done that too. Crew giggling because Chief Eng. was sick on the dock.
Then someone worked out how long I’d been below deck.
I have it easy.
Submariners have it tough.
That; I never forget.
Andy J
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- Isle of Man
I have a healthy dislike for ships. If we were intended to travel by sea we would have been born with gills.
Bugger, that reminds me, I have a ferry crossing next week...
Bugger, that reminds me, I have a ferry crossing next week...
Go midships low. You’ll be fine. Get a good night’s sleep before you sail. Eat ginger before you sail. It settles your stomach. Or stay on deck and watch the horizon.I have a healthy dislike for ships. If we were intended to travel by sea we would have been born with gills.
Bugger, that reminds me, I have a ferry crossing next week...
piranha-bro2
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- Melbourne
Do subs do the bobbing and lolling thing when steaming underwater? It's the slo-mo roll when I'm below deck that gets to me - up on deck I've never succumbed.
chrisk
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- Brisbane, Australia
While on the subject of getting old
If anyone sends me another message saying “thanks for reaching out to me” I’ll ‘reach out’ to them and rip their fucken throats out.
I wasn’t reaching out to you, I was asking a fucken question, you stupid cunt!
If anyone sends me another message saying “thanks for reaching out to me” I’ll ‘reach out’ to them and rip their fucken throats out.
I wasn’t reaching out to you, I was asking a fucken question, you stupid cunt!
Andy J
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- Isle of Man
Sounds like good advice to me, but unlike some of the earlier Steam Racket boats you don't get an option to go low so you end up victim of the slo-mo roll, but it's made worse by the height above the water line.
Fortunately the crossing on Tuesday evening should be fine, but at this time of year it's a bit of a lottery. On a recent trip people were still chucking up on the latter stages of the crossing and by then we were in the relative calm of the Mersey! Generally I'm fine until others start chucking up around me.
Image is of the recently replaced Ben on a not untypical crossing. We have a new, larger ferry now, the Manxman, which is what I am traveling on for the first time on Tuesday. I did a lot of rough crossings when the Ben was new, and before they added extra ballast. Now they weren't fun at all. Hopefully they've got it right with the new boat.
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Andy
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- Auckland, roughly
Dear Mr/Mrs/Miss/They/Them/who/what/etc: K,
Firstly can I apologize for causing you any distress this morning. We are soooooo sorry.
And thank you so much for your kind message of recommendation, we will certainly be looking in to how we can serve you better in future and in the meantime I will be further encouraging our counter staff to get fucked at the earliest opportunity.
If there is anything at all we can do to make your day easier please don't hesitate to reach out and...
aaaahhhgh!!!!
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gurgle gurgle....
Perry
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- West Sussex UK
Can you also use your throat ripping skills on people who begin sentences with 'So'. As in ' So, today I blah blah .... When and how did this start ??
GregT
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- Christchurch NZ
Crossing our Cook straight after attending a WSB round in the North Island I witnessed the start of a marriage breakdown. Well known South Island rider hadn't had a good meeting at all. When his wife threw up her meal, his very public comment was "Well, that's a waste of $12 " Separated inside 3 months.
Kiwi Andy and I have been across on our ferries many times. It's generally regarded as one of the roughest ferry crossings in the world. Not fun at all.