Be Excellent To Each Other

Good job I have a set of those too...

Can't you solve that problem with a drill?

I am so chuffed with having the Xbox working again, as it's been a week or two since I could really play it. This is quite sad.

What's worse is that I'm almost even more chuffed by the Coffey-tastic green glow coming from the back of the Xbox now.

Can you get custom 360 cases?

Test the new cooling prowess of that Carlos Fandango fan by making one out of chocolate.

I hear there's someone on here with some to spare...

What, drill a 2mm hole in the hardened steel tip of a torx bit? Rather you than me!

Or...drill out the pip?

Buy the right screwdriver?

Even more difficult without trashing the rest of the cap.

FUCKING EGGS EVERYWHERE!

Or just not bother trying to break into something that you shouldn't really be breaking into anyway?

Erm...

Or get a sonic screwdriver?

Which comes first?

Making your own creme eggs eh?

Trial Balance problem found, bank reconciled and nominal ledger analysed.

I also managed to confirm my refund from BMW for an overpayment on the final instalment on my car so on that basis I deserve a small amount of pew pew before getting back to it after lunch.

Is it ZOMFG?

Please let it be ZOMFG.

It'd be fairly easy to lathe out.

Well, I have a lathe and I wouldn't bother trying. It wouldn't be that easy, you'd still want to end drill it and it's still hardened.

Far easier to buy the right bits

Not if you need them now. I've got plenty of spanners that have been cut in half or angle-ground away to make the fit somewhere they didn't want to

Competent.

Have you tried eating them? Chocolate is awesome.

Feck off.

You texted me saying "Pub. Now." while I was on my way to Blackheath. That normally means meet in pub in Blackheath, you dolt!

A friend of mine is currently doing a Top Gear style 'Buy the cheapest second hand car you can find and drive it a long distance' thing.

Not intentionally, mind. He was stuck in Portugal after going on holiday and this was the only way he could think of getting home that didn't involve waiting around for a week and a bit for a flight!

Someone from the place I volunteer called from Spain, where she is currently stuck on holiday with her husband because of the ash 'crisis'. Of all the times for your husband to find you you have been having an affair by checking your text messages and finding some rather fruity ones from his own best friend, it happening whilst you are on holiday in Spain with no way of returning home in the near future would be the least popular, I'd presume

Ouch, that's going to make for an awkward 72 hours sitting in a Spanish departure lounge.

He found out four days ago, they've been stuck in a hotel since then apparently. I cannot imagine.

Got my new 4 piece bars today. Not a fan of two piece. Got some lovely ODI mushroom grips with bar ends too. All I need now are my pipe cutters and I can add a 2" rise to the front end of the bike which will help me muchly.

See? I didn't even mention P.C parts.

My god. That's just... god.

one of the guys I play rugby with, told his wife he was on a course, bit is stuck im Malta with his mistress.. That should be a fun explination..

The thing about living in the country is that I've just had to cycle a mile to the post box. Wouldn't have minded but it looked warm outside so went out in shirt sleeves and froze my arms off. And this is from someone who goes cycling at -5c.

Need a hand with your luggage, dear? GTFF.

Awesome! Let us know how that turns out.

If he's able to carry a couple of paying passengers he could possibly break even on the deal too.

And then sell the car to Gill.

Rubbish, you could have driven.

Wow! Just been in a really awesome bookshop that stocks all manner of books from pre-history to medieval times! The Roman section alone was huge. And it's two minutes from my office, I've walked past it everyday for years, and nobody bothered to tell me about it. Going to be hard not to spend a fortune in there.

I have when it is raining but I'm not keen on any run that barely starts to warm the oil frankly. In fact in the past I've driven the 3 miles to the village post office just because at least the car will have warmed up.

Drive past then stop on the way back.

Get an electric car.

It's a GT, you've got to do that, you know.

This is ZOMG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Ig19gYP9o

It reminds me of monorail cat.

That's a most excellent idea, though.

The whole "short journeys are bad for cars" thing is pretty much a myth with some truth thrown in.
Yes, engines (and gearboxes) lubricate best at running temperature, but most modern oils are so insanely thin that it's a non-issue. Also in some cases you can get condensation in the exhaust that doesn't boil off because it never gets hot, therefore increasing corrosion.
If you ran frequent (and I mean five times a day) short journeys of only a few hundred meters and didn't service the car at all then you might theoretically start to see problems. But keeping a car well-serviced is far, far more important than not driving it short distances.
Also, a two-mile round trip should be plenty enough to warm the car up - it might not be enough to register on your temperature gauge but you won't want to be holding onto the radiator afterwards.

To be fair if you were concerned about the engine lasting forever you should have got the non-mental-turbo version

Guy on one of the VW forums let his wife use his car (same as mine) for the school run for 2 weeks. When he got it back it was running like a dog. Got a mechanic friend to look at it who advised him to take it down the dual carriageway and cane it. Sure enough black smoke shot out the back and the car was as good as new.

Yeah it'll be fine, but its sunny and I have a bike so screw it.

Can we keep the dull car conversation to the dull car thread please? This page has gone from awesome infidelity stories to yet more bollocks about someone's Golf GTi/TDi/STI/whatever it is.

He's actually made it to Calais now.

2462+km and 69 hours after setting off in his cheapo car that he called 'Olive'.

He had a few issues, as updated by his Facebook page, such as:

"Person's Name is concerned about Olive. The only way I could stop her engine yesterday was to turn her lights off!"

I did like his most recent one, which says:

"Hurrah! Calais! I've never been so pleased to see this sh**hole before in my life!"



I think the car only fit in him, his fiancee, their luggage and 346 bottles of Leffe.

If Chinny's village looks anything like mine it's worth the ride.

Can we keep the dull moaning in the dull "moaning about the forum" thread/threads/splinter forums, please?

See? We need sub-fora! And topic icons!

or you take happy pills