Nob of the Day.......

[Fozzie]

5 minutes ago, husoi said:

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

 

Usually, you're right, I wouldn't care. It was knowing I felt bad about it at the time, that has miffed me  

I like to give things to people in a better condition than I got it, when I can. And sometimes this blinds me to people trying to pull the wool over my eyes. 

 

The buyer tried to knock the price down, and I declined as when it went up on sale there was a bit of a pile on. They later took a "friend who is a builder" to inspect the flat part of the roof, and said it needed doing, trying again to knock the price down, so I presented the 15 year guarantee from the company that last repaired the flat dormer rooftops that had 8 years left on it, and again said no.

So it just dawned on me that this gossip was likely just typical shit talking people do when things don't go their way. And now I feel daft for feeling bad!

[Fiddlesticks]

The person who chose to put my toaster together with Triwing screws.

What kind of psychopath does such a thing?

[husoi]

23 minutes ago, Fiddlesticks said:

The person who chose to put my toaster together with Triwing screws.

What kind of psychopath does such a thing?

Despite the best efforts to stop it, you still have eejits messing with toasters.

[Fiddlesticks]

14 minutes ago, husoi said:

Despite the best efforts to stop it, you still have eejits messing with toasters.

All I'm trying to do is put a longer flex on it so I can enjoy toast in the bath

[Ian Frog]

1 hour ago, Fiddlesticks said:

All I'm trying to do is put a longer flex on it so I can enjoy toast in the bath

Why not just twist the wires together with the ones that go into the plug for you 2 bar electric fire and use an extension lead to get them both to beside the bath for maximum luxury.

Cheers

Ian

[husoi]

2 hours ago, Ian Frog said:

Why not just twist the wires together with the ones that go into the plug for you 2 bar electric fire and use an extension lead to get them both to beside the bath for maximum luxury.

Cheers

Ian

Even better to use a pair of flipflops or crocs and have a floating toaster

[Fiddlesticks]

On 19/09/2024 at 16:08, husoi said:

Even better to use a pair of flipflops or crocs and have a floating toaster

It lives!

[Fiddlesticks]

Today's NOTD was white van man, swerving all over the M56 while trying to send a text message.

[husoi]

Maybe, just maybe...

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[Davidtav]

I’m nob of the day.  But a lucky one. So I’m doing some gardening yesterday and using this new garden strimmer. Quite a vicious thing with a metal blade. And manage to puncture the pipe work from my heating oil tank. No sign of a stop valve on the tank. The property is new to me and just getting acquainted with things. Manage to improvise with cable ties and an old inner tube and slow the leak considerably. I think that surely there must be a stop valve somewhere and took a cover off at the bottom of the tank.  And there is a stop valve!  … anyway 24 hours later and the pipe work has been properly repaired. Heating back on. Actually hardly any oil leaked out so no issues really. … one thing is for sure. I won’t do that again!

[Simon Davey]

Phew, great improvisation 

[Davidtav]

21 minutes ago, Simon Davey said:

Phew, great improvisation 

I was looking for jubilee clips. But couldn’t find any. Before I discovered the stop valve I was planning to make a tapered wooden plug and then hacksaw the pipe and jam it in. Fortunately I didn’t have to do that. 

[AstronautNinja]

2 hours ago, Davidtav said:

I’m nob of the day.  But a lucky one. So I’m doing some gardening yesterday and using this new garden strimmer. Quite a vicious thing with a metal blade. And manage to puncture the pipe work from my heating oil tank. No sign of a stop valve on the tank. The property is new to me and just getting acquainted with things. Manage to improvise with cable ties and an old inner tube and slow the leak considerably. I think that surely there must be a stop valve somewhere and took a cover off at the bottom of the tank.  And there is a stop valve!  … anyway 24 hours later and the pipe work has been properly repaired. Heating back on. Actually hardly any oil leaked out so no issues really. … one thing is for sure. I won’t do that again!

Don't worry. I was cooking meth in and set my garage on fire with a heating tank at the side of me. Fire brigade and hasmat guys weren't overly impressed. No harm no foul. 

 

For reference, touelen isn't water soluable and is very flammable when sprayed with a hosepipe whilst on fire. 

[RideWithStyles]

yes and Toluene is really nasty stuff and quite toxic with contact (skin permeable), breathed (even after flaming) or ingested.

Edited September 27, 2024 by RideWithStyles
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[Saul]

I think I have spotted a new form of car nob recently.   The first 12 miles of my commute is along typical Cornish B roads sometimes narrowing down to single lane then back out to normal road with pretty standard down here. It usually involves slowing down to pass each other in the narrow bits then back up to national speed limit in other spots.  Which in itself is probably less than safe but anyway you get the picture.   Most people just drive normally but I have encountered several electric car nobs who speed away at full tilt as soon as the road widens then totally achor up to a stand still if they encounter anything in the narrows.  Squirt and stop, squirt and stop over and over.  Very disconcerting when behind you at night or any time really. Three times this summer I have just pulled over to let one of these idiots past, I would rather have them in front of me than behind.    I can imagine meeting one of them coming the other way can be quite disconcerting.  

[AstronautNinja]

23 minutes ago, Saul said:

I think I have spotted a new form of car nob recently.   The first 12 miles of my commute is along typical Cornish B roads sometimes narrowing down to single lane then back out to normal road with pretty standard down here. It usually involves slowing down to pass each other in the narrow bits then back up to national speed limit in other spots.  Which in itself is probably less than safe but anyway you get the picture.   Most people just drive normally but I have encountered several electric car nobs who speed away at full tilt as soon as the road widens then totally achor up to a stand still if they encounter anything in the narrows.  Squirt and stop, squirt and stop over and over.  Very disconcerting when behind you at night or any time really. Three times this summer I have just pulled over to let one of these idiots past, I would rather have them in front of me than behind.    I can imagine meeting one of them coming the other way can be quite disconcerting.  

I thought this was known as Cornish pasty racing? Derived from the shape of a pasty being similar to that of the road structure in question 

[Mickly]

1 hour ago, Saul said:

I think I have spotted a new form of car nob recently.   The first 12 miles of my commute is along typical Cornish B roads sometimes narrowing down to single lane then back out to normal road with pretty standard down here. It usually involves slowing down to pass each other in the narrow bits then back up to national speed limit in other spots.  Which in itself is probably less than safe but anyway you get the picture.   Most people just drive normally but I have encountered several electric car nobs who speed away at full tilt as soon as the road widens then totally achor up to a stand still if they encounter anything in the narrows.  Squirt and stop, squirt and stop over and over.  Very disconcerting when behind you at night or any time really. Three times this summer I have just pulled over to let one of these idiots past, I would rather have them in front of me than behind.    I can imagine meeting one of them coming the other way can be quite disconcerting.  

Unfortunately the sudden braking is a symptom of the regenerative braking system, when they take their foot off the accelerator the regen system causes the car to slow quickly ( more than a ICE vehicle) without the brake being applied.

[Saul]

36 minutes ago, Mickly said:

Unfortunately the sudden braking is a symptom of the regenerative braking system, when they take their foot off the accelerator the regen system causes the car to slow quickly ( more than a ICE vehicle) without the brake being applied.

I do understand that but surely the driver is always in control.   Also the violent acceleration is something the driver chooses.  

[AstronautNinja]

29 minutes ago, Saul said:

I do understand that but surely the driver is always in control.   Also the violent acceleration is something the driver chooses.  

Regen is a surreal experience. What ice drivers would expect to be a mellow loss of speed, leccy drivers end up with the ice equivalent of moderate+ braking. Yes the driver is in control but the general approach is far more on and off rather than a wide band of I between. 

 

Yes they are still cocks, this is evident by their choice of a spakky Tesla but the degree of cockishness is lessened by the actual function of said spakky drive train. 

[S-Westerly]

On 27/09/2024 at 23:50, AstronautNinja said:

Regen is a surreal experience. What ice drivers would expect to be a mellow loss of speed, leccy drivers end up with the ice equivalent of moderate+ braking. Yes the driver is in control but the general approach is far more on and off rather than a wide band of I between. 

 

Yes they are still cocks, this is evident by their choice of a spakky Tesla but the degree of cockishness is lessened by the actual function of said spakky drive train. 

My son has a Tesla (company car) and I've had a drive of it. Don't knock it until you've tried it. Wouldn't want one myself although my wife seriously considered getting one but decided against in the end due to my son's experiences on long journeys and charging. 

[manxie49]

Regenerative braking is also used on some hybrids, I use my wife's car as an example.  When she first started driving it she found it was quite disconcerting, taking her foot of the accelerator with the ensuing amount of sudden braking. Not sure about full EV's, but I found in the settings, the regenerative braking can be reduced or increased to suit your driving style.  I knocked the system down to 1 for her and it slows down now, when in EV mode, just the same as any other petrol car.  But yes, I have witnessed what @Saul is alluding to myself, quite frequently.  I also see a lot of EV's going down long hills with the brake lights permanently on.  I now realise that they're not actually physically braking, but the car is in regenerative mode, and on most EV's apparently, the brake lights will also illuminate.

[manxie49]

37 minutes ago, S-Westerly said:

My son has a Tesla (company car) and I've had a drive of it. Don't knock it until you've tried it.

Couldn't agree more.  Like you I certainly don't want an EV, couldn't afford one anyway.  But I did drive one at work and was amazed at how quickly it could accelerate.  The downside of that was basically consumption of power.  The battery charge was indicated as a percentage on the dash, and the minute you put your foot down, you could literally see the charge dropping away before your eyes.  I certainly wouldn't want that stress on a long journey, especially, for instance, when heading up to the somewhere like Oban to see friends, charging points seem to be few and far between up there.

[Saul]

38 minutes ago, S-Westerly said:

My son has a Tesla (company car) and I've had a drive of it. Don't knock it until you've tried it. Wouldn't want one myself although my wife seriously considered getting one but decided against in the end due to my son's experiences on long journeys and charging. 

I know a chap locally that has a dual motor Tesla, when he got it a couple of years ago he took a couple of us out for a spin, basically to show us what it would do.    Very quick, brutally so I would say.   I am not sure I liked it to be honest, yes it was very quick but just didn't really feel right to me.  Normally when you are cracking on, in or on a piston engined vehicle you have all the drama of the noise and gear changes that builds the whole experience.    In my friends 'Dual Motor' as he calls it, it just felt like you were being thrown around both in acceleration and regen, took a lot of the fun out of it for me.    I know my friend was showing off, showing us what it could do and that was probably the whole point of taking us out.   So I haven't driven a EV but have ridden in a few, Zoe, ID3, Polstar as well, none of the drivers have behaved in the way I described in my first post.    I think using the extremes of the performance of any vehicle on a public road can be dangerous to other road users.    I have seen 3 EV Nobs locally, don't get me wrong I have seen plenty Piston engines Nobs as well as 2 wheeled Nobs.   

I don't know if I fancy an EV, although it would suit the sort of motoring we do, very rarely go more than 50 miles from home in the car.    My Mrs loves her old E81 BMW too much.   I wish she would sell it for something more economical.  

[Mickly]

I spoke to an old colleague who drives a Jaguar I-Pace, he was convinced that accelerating hard and then taking his foot of charged his battery, he wouldn’t have it that is a negative net game & and he used to work for them !!

[RideWithStyles]

braking regenerative are selective in most recent electric cars. Most Ranging from 1-2 but some 5.
Some are better than others with more or less consistent control. Plus some people are better at being smoother with said.

Of the cars I have driven:

full regen is what some would say a dodgedum car of a single pedal use, it’s almost like a very large aggressive v twin engine compression (and off throttle slowing down) while in first with the rear brake on so quite aggressive and somewhat difficult to get a smooth transition to modulate with just the throttle as you don’t use the brake other wise it’s a emergency stop with the anchor thrown out the back. it doesn’t move off the line (unlike a auto) if you let your your foot off the brake so best in stop start traffic below 20 moderate with the throttle. But people do use this setting a lot ive found out really this is the most lazy and horrible experience that really degrades driving standards let alone add the stress to anyone infront or behind.

 

inbetween is a mosh but its consistency at any given speed can be viewed as rather inconsistent to an ice mostly due to the lack of gears in the gear box, electric motor and braking itself with all three having there own impact at various times.

 

To the other end of no re gen it’s like a free

rolling automatic with a race engine 2stroke with the clutch pulled in that has lack of slowing down through engine and transmission drag what people would expect with an 4stroke that most people know Is quite something.

 

the lack of engine characteristics, masses of torque from so few revs, no gears to mess with or instant drive forward even from a low to middling EV motor  is an experience and somewhat a giggle.

 

on top of the regen is the mode which adds another element ( that behaves differently depending on each different section) then some have a sub selection of character to certain parameters which add another layer of out comes.

 

Personally I prefer sport mode which gets rid of the pause or delay with little if non regen in the car just because I don’t like the idea and feel to take speed away (braking) just “to put back in the battery” while just maintain speed when energy went in to build it up in the first place. 

 

about the charge dropping…depending on ev power (normal family car to middling) is comparable up to Audi rs3/4 or 6 running at 450hp or a lot more which I had the honour to run for a while and at 26mpg normal road use- mid 30s if your  very lucky with a nearly 90ltr tank can be polished off in less than 100 to 200miles if your very lucky…doesn’t take a genius to work out its a lot of fill ups and money….sor for the performance the EV can easily achieve its abit more like a very fast car but miles better in the towns and city’s.

the rs6 made more sense on motorways And autobans but in town it was daft. 

the ev makes great sense in town and city’s but takes a hit on fast motorway use. 

Edited September 30, 2024 by RideWithStyles