Nob of the Day.......

[husoi]

46 minutes ago, RideWithStyles said:

So your dentist is a legend (mentioned in a different thread) and a nob (in this post) at the same time?

Maybe he's a Gemini

[AstronautNinja]

49 minutes ago, RideWithStyles said:

So your dentist is a legend (mentioned in a different thread) and a nob (in this post) at the same time?

Yes. He's caused a vast amount of pain today whilst simultaneously reliving Saturdays pain. Ergo dual wielding nob status.

[husoi]

46 minutes ago, AstronautNinja said:

Yes. He's caused a vast amount of pain today whilst simultaneously reliving Saturdays pain. Ergo dual wielding nob status.

So basically, he refreshed the pain with a brand new one.

And you still complaining about it.

 

Some people are really hard to please, eh...

[AstronautNinja]

41 minutes ago, husoi said:

So basically, he refreshed the pain with a brand new one.

And you still complaining about it.

 

Some people are really hard to please, eh...

He replaced p=p*d with p=p/d

 

I'd imagine my rudimentary maths makes both my praise and fist shaking clear to all. 

[Tinkicker]

2 hours ago, AstronautNinja said:

He replaced p=p*d with p=p/d

 

I'd imagine my rudimentary maths makes both my praise and fist shaking clear to all. 

 

 

Not really...

[AstronautNinja]

1 hour ago, Tinkicker said:

 

 

Not really...

No I didn't expect so...... 

[husoi]

My nomination today goes to onecall insurance idiots.

 

Got a voicemail from some tw@t speaking so fast that would embarrass an AK47

Hardly could figure out the word onecall.

The number she tried to leave was not recognised or I couldn't decipher wtf she was saying

Went to the online chat. Which means you have to waste your time googling it because isn't available on their homepage.

To then the idiot on the chat try to sell me more garbage than what I need.

 

Talk about time wasters

[peepae]

It's @Simon Davey - I'm sure he's done some noobie things while on tour. Accidentally ofcourse.

[husoi]

Me

 

And may this be a warning for everyone else..

 

Brief story.

Was preparing lunch, chicken thighs in the oven.

After cutting the jalapeno peppers and put them in the tray, I promptly washed my hands. Abundantly to remove the oil from the peppers as I very well know how it will sting if you touch your eyes without washing.

All done, back to work, when I felt itchy in my private parts.....

 

Should have washed my hands twice.

[Simon Davey]

3 hours ago, peepae said:

It's @Simon Davey - I'm sure he's done some noobie things while on tour. Accidentally ofcourse.

Eh? 

But, how do you know?

[peepae]

1 minute ago, Simon Davey said:

Eh? 

But, how do you know?

I can't be sure certainly.. but I have my intuition 

[AstronautNinja]

2 hours ago, husoi said:

Me

 

And may this be a warning for everyone else..

 

Brief story.

Was preparing lunch, chicken thighs in the oven.

After cutting the jalapeno peppers and put them in the tray, I promptly washed my hands. Abundantly to remove the oil from the peppers as I very well know how it will sting if you touch your eyes without washing.

All done, back to work, when I felt itchy in my private parts.....

 

Should have washed my hands twice.

Hang on, so what your saying is a person can both be a nob AND a legend at the same time? 

[husoi]

10 minutes ago, AstronautNinja said:

Hang on, so what your saying is a person can both be a nob AND a legend at the same time? 

Advantage of a Gemini.

One personality is a legend the other a nob

Yin and Yang

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

The HGV driver who pulled out of a lay by on the A55 right in front of me. I had a solid line of cars in the outside lane so I had nowhere to go. In the end I opened the throttle and squeezed through the rapidly closing gap between the emerging truck and the car alongside me to the right. 

[Fiddlesticks]

11 minutes ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

The HGV driver who pulled out of a lay by on the A55 right in front of me. I had a solid line of cars in the outside lane so I had nowhere to go. In the end I opened the throttle and squeezed through the rapidly closing gap between the emerging truck and the car alongside me to the right. 

Shocking behaviour. Seriously some people have no clue.

[ColinWB]

The guy driving the black Audi in Gourock who thought his desire to reach a parking space on the opposite side of the road trumped my right of way when travelling in the correct direction on that side of the road. He pulled out of a queue of traffic and raced 100 yards into the space, head on to me. I left him and his wife in no doubt that he is a self pleasurer.

[Fozzie]

Hastings direct insurance. 

 

I have both my car and bike insurance with them this year, bike was easy. 

Car, not so much... They send me a renewal for £398. A £30 rise from last year. Not too bad given what has happened with the industry. 

 

I check online and find that my renewal is good. So I move to proceed with it. 

Their online system stops me in my tracks and tells me it has detected me looking for a quote elsewhere, and that one of my details was wrong, the mileage. I check, and that's not correct. The details match on both sites, must be a glitch, so I click the proceed button and it put £30 on the quote. 

 

Cheeky f**kers. 

 

I click the "not happy?" button and it gives me a chance to enter details where I've seen cheaper. I enter their own reference from the gocompare site, which matched the renewal roughly at £398. It comes back and says "good news, we can beat those guys!" and offers me a renewal for £388. 

 

I accept. And I think I've beat the system for a minute, but then I start to think that it possibly worked as designed. It tried it on, seeing if I would just pay the extra £30, and when I didn't, and put in details of a quote that would flag as being from their own system, it offered me £10 off the original renewal price as a bit of a "sorry, we thought we'd try". It's something along those lines, or genuinely is a glitch, but either way. 

 

Nobs. 

[Simon Davey]

Cheeky buggers

[RideWithStyles]

Yea defo a psychological tool factored to push you into buying or make you feel good/better about buying the same thing…

[Bender]

Me.

 

Don't spend all day welding wearing a tee shirt.....

 

 

[onesea]

Going to nominate me, did 500 miles on my Himalayan this weekend.  Including some camping having installed heated grips, USB charging wireless charging for phone. 

 

Cheap heated grips didn't work, I had tested before fitting. I ordered some more (none cheap Chinese grips).

 

Yesterday took tank of to change grips, I hadn't connected the negative wire for grips. Cheap Chinese grips still installed.

 

Now have spare heated grips Biktech if anyone's interested.

[Fiddlesticks]

3 hours ago, onesea said:

Going to nominate me, did 500 miles on my Himalayan this weekend.  Including some camping having installed heated grips, USB charging wireless charging for phone. 

 

Cheap heated grips didn't work, I had tested before fitting. I ordered some more (none cheap Chinese grips).

 

Yesterday took tank of to change grips, I hadn't connected the negative wire for grips. Cheap Chinese grips still installed.

 

Now have spare heated grips Biktech if anyone's interested.

Already have a backup pair for similar reasons

[ColinWB]

You know what they say about buses coming in threes? Nobs as well, apparently. The 13.5 miles up the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond from Tarbet took 45 minutes, thanks to a camper van driver whose max speed was 35mph, slowing to 15mph for every bend and every vehicle that came in the opposite direction, just often enough that I didn't want to risk filtering up the queue behind him. That didn't stop a 4x4 racing up the opposite side of the road to overtake the ever growing queue behind the camper van, going into a blind right hander - cue a queue of brake lights when a car appeared coming the other way around the bend. Having seen how obliging we all were to prevent nobs from killing themselves and others a Merc180 decided to copy the 4x4 but by this time I could see the next car coming the other way round another right hander, so waved for the Merc driver to pull in behind me - nope, wasn't going to happen, he passed me and the car in front, both of us slowed to a crawl and he pulled in just a the car with right of way appeared around the bend. Yes, it's frustrating getting stuck behind a ditherer but that's no excuse for being a reckless nob.

[Fozzie]

The person who bought my last house. 

 

She gossiped to a neighbour that the house I sold her "needed a lot doing" and apparently disparaged my DIY skills, she apparently rectified it all and implied it was at quite a high expense. This neighbour told me and at the time I heard it I sort of agreed, as while I lived there for just shy of 3 years, around 1 year after the move in date a lot happened and I realised I'd be selling up when I could. But this took nearly 2 years to happen, during which I was just doing the basics to keep the house water tight essentially. It irritated me a bit as this person knew I'd inherited a bit of a mess from the last owners.

Just before the handover, I'd been out of the house for 4 months or so, and returned to find the garden overgrown half way up the windows, and cut it all back, and I sort of looked around the house and felt a bit bad for the new owners. As there were so many botch jobs by the previous owners that irritated me, but I never did anything about, and I almost felt a bit grubby handing it over that way.

 

She's on a group I'm part of, whacked up some pictures today to sell stuff and I see the same kitchen, just with painted cupboards, bit of new carpet and a colour change, and a step put in at the front door. And in short, mostly just painted over or hid the other defects, I'd be surprised if this cost more than a couple of grand. In my view it needed a good £20k putting into it. 

 

But, needed a lot doing? I have bad DIY skills? Pah! Nob.

 

 

[husoi]

38 minutes ago, Fozzie said:

The person who bought my last house. 

 

She gossiped to a neighbour that the house I sold her "needed a lot doing" and apparently disparaged my DIY skills, she apparently rectified it all and implied it was at quite a high expense. This neighbour told me and at the time I heard it I sort of agreed, as while I lived there for just shy of 3 years, around 1 year after the move in date a lot happened and I realised I'd be selling up when I could. But this took nearly 2 years to happen, during which I was just doing the basics to keep the house water tight essentially. It irritated me a bit as this person knew I'd inherited a bit of a mess from the last owners.

Just before the handover, I'd been out of the house for 4 months or so, and returned to find the garden overgrown half way up the windows, and cut it all back, and I sort of looked around the house and felt a bit bad for the new owners. As there were so many botch jobs by the previous owners that irritated me, but I never did anything about, and I almost felt a bit grubby handing it over that way.

 

She's on a group I'm part of, whacked up some pictures today to sell stuff and I see the same kitchen, just with painted cupboards, bit of new carpet and a colour change, and a step put in at the front door. And in short, mostly just painted over or hid the other defects, I'd be surprised if this cost more than a couple of grand. In my view it needed a good £20k putting into it. 

 

But, needed a lot doing? I have bad DIY skills? Pah! Nob.

 

 

Unless they were blindfolded when they viewed the house, why would anyone complain about it?

I'm.sure they saw what they were buying.

Second question would be.

Why do you give a f@ck about what they say?

For what you say you're happy with what you did and you don't come across like a crook selling a house full of problems for someone else to deal with.

Screw them. Moaning morons