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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Canberra
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I spent a great deal of effort cleaning up around my place including tree branches from mine and my neighbours roofline just to look over the fence and see **** everywhere, literally no effort at all to clean up and looks like that for most of the houses in my complex too. I hate that
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Cabover nut
Join Date: Aug 2015
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Advice get the hell out of there you can not fight fires with garden hoses. Hope it doesn't come to that.
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heritagestonemason.com/Fordlouisvillerestoration In order that the labour of centuries past may not be in vain during the centuries to come...... D. Diderot 1752
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Onsite Eastcoast
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Well it happened again.
Railway closed down due to a fool driving a freight train to fast on a badly maintained, speed restricted track in the heat. 42 deg, I was outside and happened to watch this train speed through Chiltern and thought geeze he is really travelling. 10 mins later I start hearing sirens and a heap of firies heading out of town, later learning the freight train left the tracks spilling its containers all over the opposite line and starting a fire alongside the freeway, just as the southbound passenger service came around the bend. They made heavy contact but fortunately no one was injured. No trains have been running since.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Canberra
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Yeah won't be risking it. Should be fine for today at least based up the latest updates but always can change. I'm not too worried but just being aware of what is going on.
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The very definition of laziness! Why throw rubbish in the bin, that's just too hard, someone else will deal with it. It will come as no surprise to learn then that this image was taken in front of the local Centrelink this morning.
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 885
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I have been a member of the local tidy towns group (which is made up of retirees) for 9 years, and I am sick of collecting other people’s rubbish on our working bee days. Plastic drink bottles, pizza containers, Maccas boxes and all the other debris left by the younger generation that wants us to save the world. Beer and alcohol cans surprisingly are absent. A couple of months ago, I drove past one of our projects and saw a pile of rubbish, which turned out to be a huge boxful of dirty nappies and used tampons. I cleaned it up and put it in the community waste bin. Probably not the correct hazmat procedure ….. but. This year’s ‘clean up Australia’ day will be done without me …….. I’m over it. |
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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People turning good cars into busted, flogged-out, mobile rubbish bins by simply neglecting a touch here and a dab there, of proactive stewardship.
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Cabover nut
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Onsite Eastcoast
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Bummer, had the water pump go in my little Ford Trader yesterday. Thinking it was the gasket that had gone bad due to coolant dripping around the lowest bolt.
10 minute job to replace as the radiator doesn't even need to come out but found I didn't have a spare in the inventory. Oh well looks like waiting on a parcel delivery early in the week.
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Where to next??
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Sydney
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Things that require 3 batteries... why 3?? Can't be 4 or 2??
Batteries don't come in odd numbers. Same with those kids toys that use several small button batteries end to end... great when they are supplied in China for a few cents each, crap when you need to replace them. Why not just a single AA or AAA??
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Pt Lincoln far side South Oz
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its called good marketing, you buy extra batteries and by the time the old ones need replacing you have lost the spares, so you buy double again....
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: NSW
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Trying to explain annoying car noises to the dealer:
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Miranda, NSW
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Not sure if it's just me or most people are finding this, but I find the older I get the less I can tolerate poor service or being ripped off and feel that it happens quite a lot…..everything from grocery shopping, eating out at a restaurant to getting a tradie in to do some work around the house.
There was a time i'd let things like that go and not let it bother me, but these days I get quite irrate about it,
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Location: Kenthurst
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Maybe that's why you are noticing it more and more .... I know I am. Never used to be this bad.
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Onsite Eastcoast
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Just got our local train back running a couple of days ago after the freight train accident now after loosing an XPT at Wallan the system has been shut down again until further notice.
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Kicking back
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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Its becoming more and more inconvenient the halt on chinese imports. For a job this morning i needed 3 specific hand dryers. My manager did the ring around and found 3 in silverwater. So he got them put aside. I go there on my way to work and what do you know, they had 3 in the system but didnt have them. In true customer service style i ask the guy on the desk to look up who has. He says artarmon. So i ask him to call them and confirm. All he does is hand me a post it note with a phone number and says for me to call. So i did and asked them to physically check. Sure enough, no dice. So i called another wholesaler and they did the right thing amd found and confirmed that there were the 3 i need in north parramatta. So i drove almost home and got them. By this time it was now peak hour. So it took an age to get to alexandria to the job. Its frustrating how wholesalers make false promises at times. Later in the day i chased up a quote i asked for at works preffered branch. The response was the good old i forgot. Seriously, do these guys even want to make sales or not? So i got that quote for parts, and even though it was slightly cheaper, we are going with the other quote we got the day we asked, out of spite.
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Wait, what?
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: South eastern melbourne
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Giving my cars to anyone to work on.
Falcon in for a service today, pick it up jump in, good to go, give it a little throttle and the intercooler intake pipe blows off. Back to the shop. Last time: Was getting the front camber corrected on the falcon, came back with a massive chunk out of a rear rim and tyre Time before: replacement stripes on the Mustang were incorrect Time before: paint on the Mustang was failing Time before: plug on the header tank on the falcon wasn’t put on, took me a while to work out that that’s why there was coolant everywhere. Time before: icc had failed but they gave me the car back anyway ( what you think I wouldn’t notice ?) A couple times before: bought the rims brand new from a shop but was given 4 rims from 3 different sets, 2 of which were 2nd hand.... I shouldn’t have to check over everything that’s done straight after paying for it to be done.. isn’t that the ******* point? Why are so many people in the auto industry ****? A few years ago I also had to send the falcon back to the panel shop because their repair respray was shrinking and they broke the clips on the grille Last edited by GasoLane; 24-02-2020 at 08:04 PM. |
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: NSW
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I went through stuff like this for over 20yrs, thankfully I found a great mechanic a few years ago. |
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#3025 | ||
DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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Broke a pair of garden shears yesterday evening. Thought “no worries, Bunnings will have some the same”. Well, they don’t!
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Cabover nut
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Onsite Eastcoast
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CB, Imaging owning a house between Bunnings and Pick a Part.
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Join Date: Aug 2015
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I can't talk I want to move into Wodonga caravan park......Cummins next door, Kenworth up the street and APCO/IGA around the corner.
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Got sent a bowel screening kit in the mail :(
It's official... i'm old !! |
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