Geez! I hate that! - Page 60

**fordomatic** · 05-02-2015, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by GasOLane

4 weeks before you go on holiday and you hear that fuel prices are on the way back up !!

Did they even go down in Wagga?

Thank god for Costco here, i have saved $160 so far, most our other stations are just keeping the high prices

**GasoLane** · 05-02-2015, 09:49 PM

Yep, another massive drop in LPG, now down(?) to 78.9cpl and ulp98 is down to $1.38! wow!

**supershifty** · 05-02-2015, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by GasOLane

Yep, another massive drop in LPG, now down(?) to 78.9cpl and ulp98 is down to $1.38! wow!

Struth Gas0. In town (20 kms from Brisbane) we're paying 101 cents for 91 and 65 cents for lpg. 98 is about 118 cents.

You country fellas are getting shafted.

Cheers!

Road Games · 06-02-2015, 12:47 AM

Mosquito' s !!!

poppa smurf · 06-02-2015, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by GasOLane

4 weeks before you go on holiday and you hear that fuel prices are on the way back up !!

fuel prices never dropped here, nor when I went up north.........you city slickers get it too easy.

heading west shortly, not looking forward to that fill up at the nullabor roadhouse!!!

tut0r · 06-02-2015, 11:06 AM

I just had a dream petrol went up to 1.19.....*shivers*

TheSneakiness · 06-02-2015, 01:09 PM

Static electricity, I get it that bad in the mrs car I've convinced it has an electrical problem.

**GasoLane** · 06-02-2015, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Rapid_Axe

Static electricity, I get it that bad in the mrs car I've convinced it has an electrical problem.

I get that in my cars.... depending on what shoes I'm wearing.

Addidas and Asics no zap....

El Cheapo Rivers or the like, ZAP!

**hawkgirl** · 06-02-2015, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by tut0r

I just had a dream petrol went up to 1.19.....*shivers*

it did

Bushbasher · 07-02-2015, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Rapid_Axe

Static electricity, I get it that bad in the mrs car I've convinced it has an electrical problem.

Just fit an earth strap that hangs down under the car. We used to see them all the time. Basically a rubber strap with a brass ring at each end, presumably connected with a wire in the rubber, that you screw to the chassis so it just touches the ground when the car is stationary. When moving the strap just waves around in the breeze off the ground but touches down when you stop and bleeds off the static electricity.

tut0r · 07-02-2015, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by hawkgirl

it did

Really? Where? Not in Melbourne!

Franco Cozzo · 07-02-2015, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by tut0r

Really? Where? Not in Melbourne!

98 cost me $1.38/L in Lancefield last night.

Still cheap though lol.

**MercurySilver** · 07-02-2015, 11:09 AM

apparently its back up to 1.19 ish out my way too
off to do some shopping in a bit so ill check out the prices

poppa smurf · 07-02-2015, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by DAZZLR

Mosquito' s !!!

we had one land out at the airport back a while ago.......pumped 500 litres of avgas into it before we woke up and shooed it away.

Vincenzo · 07-02-2015, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by poppa smurf

we had one land out at the airport back a while ago.......pumped 500 litres of avgas into it before we woke up and shooed it away.

You'll enjoy this ad Poppa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaeMzI2QUaA

Cheers Vincenzo

**hawkgirl** · 07-02-2015, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by tut0r

Really? Where? Not in Melbourne!

no, western sydney

the BP down the road is 121.9 today

**DFB FGXR6** · 09-02-2015, 06:21 PM

People who know me understand that my cars are sacred, should be admired but NOT touched. So why would a person think it would be ok to rub their hands over the paintwork as some sort of joke?

Geez! I hate that! and I reckon it shows a complete lack of respect.

**supershifty** · 09-02-2015, 06:44 PM

Had the same with my motorbikes DFB FGXR6. Took pride in them being fingermark and spotless. When I was single I had a "kitbag" and rack on the back to do my limited shopping and parked my bike near the lifts in the bike park bays that where near the lifts.

Most times I'd come back to on my GPZ900R or ZZR1000 with fingermarks all over the tank from "Mum" letting them sit on the pretty bike.

Never caught them at it. but geez I'd like to give them a dose of my frustration.

No touch the rides - ever!

Cheers!

**fordomatic** · 09-02-2015, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

People who know me understand that my cars are sacred, should be admired but NOT touched. So why would a person think it would be ok to rub their hands over the paintwork as some sort of joke?

Geez! I hate that! and I reckon it shows a complete lack of respect.

Mate i totally get this. My mum did this when she was visiting and i had a proper go at her. She lost it and was going on and on about how it was just a joke. What she couldn't get was that i have spent over 20 hours on that paintwork making it completely immaculate.

Jeez i hate that people that do this actually dont understand in there pea brains what it is to respect others property.

nuthin' fancy · 09-02-2015, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by fordomatic

Mate i totally get this. My mum did this when she was visiting and i had a proper go at her. She lost it and was going on and on about how it was just a joke. What she couldn't get was that i have spent over 20 hours on that paintwork making it completely immaculate.

Jeez i hate that people that do this actually dont understand in there pea brains what it is to respect others property.

Spot on, I don't care if you don't care about my car but if you respect me you will understand and care that I care about it.

I had an immaculate XY GS Fairmont wagon which, at the time, was unrestored with 35,000 original miles on it. It was a vey tidy, original car. A 'mate' of mine thought it was funny to put an esky on the roof.

I still get angry that after all I had done for him (through the death of his daughter and his wife leaving him) he had no concern for the things that were valuable to me.

15 years later he has never been game to face me, and probably just as well.

**Charliewool** · 09-02-2015, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by fordomatic

Mate i totally get this. My mum did this when she was visiting and i had a proper go at her. She lost it and was going on and on about how it was just a joke. What she couldn't get was that i have spent over 20 hours on that paintwork making it completely immaculate.

Jeez i hate that people that do this actually dont understand in there pea brains what it is to respect others property.

Agree with looking after your precious polished paintwork with ANYONE....
Bar your MUM! If I had of been her I would have suggested that you should have changed your own ****** nappies!
Respect for ya car.. Sure! But Mums are forever!

AD07 · 10-02-2015, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

People who know me understand that my cars are sacred, should be admired but NOT touched. So why would a person think it would be ok to rub their hands over the paintwork as some sort of joke?

Geez! I hate that! and I reckon it shows a complete lack of respect.

You do realise its just a car right........
Although annoying , & I guess, disrespectful, hand marks car be removed from a cars paintwork. Its not the end of the world.......

brennan. · 10-02-2015, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by AD07

You do realise its just a car right.

Mr Ingall would have a lot to say to you.

AD07 · 10-02-2015, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by brennan.

Mr Ingall would have a lot to say to you.

Just pointing out that claiming a car was "sacred" might be perceived as being a bit over the top!!!!!!
Don't get me wrong , we all obviously have a passion for them, but there is a limit.....

**DFB FGXR6** · 10-02-2015, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by AD07

You do realise its just a car right........
Although annoying , & I guess, disrespectful, hand marks car be removed from a cars paintwork. Its not the end of the world.......

True. But......

Everyone has their passion or special interest, be it cars, bikes, food, art or music. For someone to do what they did shows a lack of respect for my special interest and physical property.

AD07 · 10-02-2015, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

True. But......

Everyone has their passion or special interest, be it cars, bikes, food, art or music. For someone to do what they did shows a lack of respect for my special interest and physical property.

Fair enough.... I was just assuming it was a hand mark from someone admiring you car a little too closely, but if it was intentional wiping of their hands over your car, you have every right to be ****ed off!!!!

Yellow_Festiva · 15-02-2015, 09:55 PM

I hate the fact that there is next to no decent 4" mobiles being made anymore. There are a few decent 4.3" ones left around but everything seems to be 5" and above.

I bet there is a market for people who are happy to pay good money for a smaller handset. Throw in the fact I need dual sim capability and the options are next to nothing.

Heaps if you want a 5" screen however...

poppa smurf · 19-02-2015, 10:32 AM

dropped my son off yesterday (sparky late again), on the way home I hit the button to send the drivers side window back up, yep!.....clack, clack, clack another mechanism gone (makes the four now) so there goes my weekend repairing that bloody thing.

sparky eventually turns up, let him in and after a cuppa he starts work, I go to do the washing, try to open the door of the washing machine after the final cycle and the whole assembly flies to pieces, 3rd time it broke, I repaired it twice before but this time it was terminal, plastic had run it's course (14 year old so probably time it went).....took the carcass up the recycle yard and got my $2.50 (75 bloody kilo's it weighed, hell I struggled to get into the trailer) and went and bought a new one.

went to see how the sparky was getting on and he was gone, when he returned he said that he had broken two drill bits going through a steel purlin and had to go and get a new one, by the way he said that they were my bloody drill bits, didn't think to replace mine while he was at the shop, wasn't going to tell him that I have umpteen dozen bits in a greasy bag under the bench so I wasn't too worried.

he then borrowed a tape measure, the one I grabbed to pass to him, that was close at hand was my brand new, $40 Lufkin.

when he left that afternoon of course it was gone.

what a shot of a day.......glad it's over.

Uncle Niceguy · 19-02-2015, 04:49 PM

them days are bound to happen randomly and to anyone poppa, like myself today, although no where near as bad as yours l gotta decide weather l pay a water bill, or pay for mum & dads 25th anniversary gift witch l've already poured a fair amount of cash into and if it don't get paid good bye to the money already invested, what would you guys do?

poppa smurf · 19-02-2015, 06:24 PM

can you ask the water department for an extension until you can pay it as well as the amount owing on the gift.

for future reference us old farts much rather see our kids happy, healthy and in financially good stead rather than a gift of any large amount.........

just a visit and a box of chockies along with a beer and a good chinwag with our kid's see's me and mine very happy.

give the water mob a ring, I think you will be surprised, just tell them you can't afford it just yet and then you and them will work something out.