The Grumpy Old Git thread.

[Feltwell]

Rob, I would gladly have given someone the £76 to change the tank, it was a right pain in the ar@e to do! Those magnetic "scale preventer" thingies are highly questionable as to if they do anything at all.

A water softener definitely works - we bought one because my baby (at the time) daughter had really dry skin, my wife also noticed that that she had very dry hands compared to when we lived in a soft water area. I fitted the softener and it made an instant improvement to my daughter's skin and Mrs F's hands. The taps and toilets stopped getting limescale straight away, the shower became easier to clean etc.

Softener's aren't cheap and they are a pain to fit so in all honesty we wouldn't have bothered if it hadn't have been for our daugher's skin problem and that we lived in a very hard water area. You also have to retain "hard" water to the kitchen sink for drinking purposes, as softened water has a definite saline taste.

 

[Penners]

You also have to retain "hard" water to the kitchen sink for drinking purposes, as softened water has a definite saline taste.

Drinking artificially softened water also increases your sodium intake, which is not good for the jolly old blood pressure.

 

[Feltwell]

Drinking artificially softened water also increases your sodium intake, which is not good for the jolly old blood pressure.

And there was I thinking that blood pressure problems are primarily caused by having kids....

It's "sibling wars" here at Feltwell Towers today. Why can't kids say "no" to each other, rather than having to scream it at each other??

 

[Penners]

It's "sibling wars" here at Feltwell Towers today. Why can't kids say "no" to each other, rather than having to scream it at each other?? [/size]

Ah yes, I remember it well. Probably the most pointless sibling argument I can remember is when a friend's two boys were sitting in the back seat of the car. Constant sniping was going on, as usual, and this culminated in a cry of anguish from one brother:

"Mummy - Jonathan's looking out of my window. Make him stop!"

:roll:

 

[robgil]

here is my grump for today.

whilst walking along windy country roads the idea of walking towards the traffic is so you can GET OUT OF THE WAY! and not so you can watch the oncoming cars slow to an almost stop whilst trying to navigate around you and possibly get into a sticky situation with the truck speeding around the blind bend on the other side of the road.
given the choice id plow through the idiots walking on the road!
grump over.

yes water softeners , ive yet to fit one but will give all careful consideration. edit - i only drink bottled water , i know what can be found in tap water. :shock: :shock:

 

[JohnB]

whilst walking along windy country roads the idea of walking towards the traffic is so you can GET OUT OF THE WAY! and not so you can watch the oncoming cars slow to an almost stop whilst trying to navigate around you and possibly get into a sticky situation with the truck speeding around the blind bend on the other side of the road.
given the choice id plow through the idiots walking on the road!

No it's not. It's so you can see the idiot who tries to plough through you, in time to jump out of the way :evil:.

I regularly walk half a mile down an A road to get to the shop at the local petrol station. On the way there I walk facing the traffic, and if I got out of the way for every car it would take ages to get there. On the way back I walk with my back to the traffic, as there's a steep bank and a blind bend on the other side of the road, so drivers wouldn't see me in time and there's nowhere to jump to.

Why is everyone in such a hurry? A car is still much quicker than walking, even if you do have to slow down sometimes!

 

[Me!]

76 quid in fact

Blimey I'm impressed! A few months ago I was only offered £15 for a large tank when I took it to a scrap metal dealer in Bury St Edmunds. I refused to sell it for that, so it is still sitting in my shed waiting for me to do something useful with it. I'm sure a big sheet of copper like that must have the makings of a DIY solar water heater. Or maybe I could strip the foam off, solder up the leak and keep it as a spare cylinder for when the next one fails?

 

[FamilyWiggs]

50 quid.

FW wins the prize!

Prize? That's very decent of you. Do I have to collect it, or will it be sent to me?

What is it, by the way? No doubt it will be expensive, seeing as you've just come in to some money!

 

[Schoolmarm]

It was a large dollop of Kudos and it is in the post.

 

[robgil]

whilst walking along windy country roads the idea of walking towards the traffic is so you can GET OUT OF THE WAY! and not so you can watch the oncoming cars slow to an almost stop whilst trying to navigate around you and possibly get into a sticky situation with the truck speeding around the blind bend on the other side of the road.
given the choice id plow through the idiots walking on the road!

No it's not. It's so you can see the idiot who tries to plough through you, in time to jump out of the way :evil:.

I regularly walk half a mile down an A road to get to the shop at the local petrol station. On the way there I walk facing the traffic, and if I got out of the way for every car it would take ages to get there. On the way back I walk with my back to the traffic, as there's a steep bank and a blind bend on the other side of the road, so drivers wouldn't see me in time and there's nowhere to jump to.

Why is everyone in such a hurry? A car is still much quicker than walking, even if you do have to slow down sometimes!

so when a car comes around a blind corner and you are on the inside of this corner facing the car , the car cannot pull out around you safely because of a lorry on the other side and is obviously struggling to miss you , you would feel reluctant to get off the road and then call the driver an idiot? i wasn't even in a hurry , i never rush , im way to chilled out to do that rushing thing but thers no way id have a head on with a lorry just because someone is on the road and would rather see an accident happen than make an effort to get out of the way.
but the idea is you face traffic so you can get out of the way should such an incident occur as the one i described above , a walker can easily get out of the way should a car come tight around a bend , if he cannot the surely that's j walking?

 

[Schoolmarm]

I thought jay walking was crossing the road dangerously in the USA.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

<grump>
Deficit denying TUC threatening co-ordinated demonstrations against the government's spending reductions. Looks like an Autumn of Discontent.
</grump>

 

[Schoolmarm]

Oh no :shock:

 

[EricD]

i saw that ont he news
its not going to end well is it, hope things don't go down again, i read in the news that were closer to going into recession again.
:shock:

 

[Penners]

i only drink bottled water , i know what can be found in tap water.

Wow - you must be rich, Rob! The cost difference between drinking tap water and bottled water is roughly the same as the difference between buying a Ford Fiesta and a Bugatti Veyron.

The difference in the water? Virtually none.

 

[Flyfisher]

i only drink bottled water , i know what can be found in tap water.

Whatever is in it, it doesn't seem to do the millions of people who drink it too much harm (cue some conspiracy-theory denial :lol: ).

FF junior's girlfriend is, like FF junior, a keen kayaker and both spend considerable periods of their spare time upside down in rivers of varying quality. They also frequent the National Whitewater Sports Centre in Nottingham, which is periodically closed because it is fed from the Trent and rainfall can sometimes cause, er, 'problems' with the upstream sewage tratment works Consequently, the term 'Trent-belly' is well-known within whitewater kayaking circles, though it usually only affects new or infrequent kayakers, presumably because the regulars build up an immunity.

I mention all that to provide some context to the fact that the girlfriend in question recently returned from a 3-week school trip around India and was the only one in the party not to suffer from 'Delhi-belly'. Coincidence? You decide.

 

[philpjuk100]

i only drink bottled water , i know what can be found in tap water.

Wow - you must be rich, Rob! The cost difference between drinking tap water and bottled water is roughly the same as the difference between buying a Ford Fiesta and a Bugatti Veyron.

The difference in the water? Virtually none.

 

[Schoolmarm]

Very clever. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[robgil]

nope , i wont be drinking any of that tap water guys , bottled water was good enough for the romans its good enough for me.
if i want human poo and chemicals in my water i will put them there my self!
although admittedly there can be some quite nasty contaminants in bottled water as well.

 

[Flyfisher]

But your gut is already full of bacteria (or should be) so I'm sure that topping up your internal population a little every now and again will do you no harm.

Perhaps we should abandon this digression as it could be come rather too, er, 'informative' for those of a delicate constitution.