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  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
    How can it just take one tiny leak from a battery to render my nearly-new Maglite useless? I noticed it wasn't working when it was pointed down so I took the batteries out, saw the leak and put new ones in. Now nothing, and it's barely 3months old (warranty doesn't cover battery leakage). Bah
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    marchant wrote:
    How can it just take one tiny leak from a battery to render my nearly-new Maglite useless? I noticed it wasn't working when it was pointed down so I took the batteries out, saw the leak and put new ones in. Now nothing, and it's barely 3months old (warranty doesn't cover battery leakage). Bah

    you can strip down a maglite cant you?

    just clean all the fuzz of all the contacts?

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  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
    Mini-Maglite. My bad :oops: I'm eyeing up the LED Lenser range in my local Maplins
  • aclivity
    aclivity Posts: 94
    msmancunia wrote:
    aclivity wrote:
    Manchester city centre was full of inattentive pedestrians walking out on to roads in front of me. And they have closed roads around Exchange square so wendyball fans can gather to watch the overpaid prima donnas on a big screen.

    That one caught me out tonight as well - had to hop on to the pavement and ped-dodge instead. Would be nice if they stuck something in the MEN to let us know.
    What time were you going through? I saw a couple of people hop on the pavement, but I just hopped off my bike and walked a couple of hundred yards. I'm only going from Oxford Road to Victoria in town (most of my ride is in Wigan) anyway.

    Going to change my route to go high street / Shudehill tonight, more pedestrians to avoid but will at least miss the ugs watching the kickyball.
  • jds_1981
    jds_1981 Posts: 1,858
    Can't just scrape the contacts with the end of a screwdriver?
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  • twist83
    twist83 Posts: 761
    bushu wrote:
    Sick to ******* death of my dead end job & pleb boss!
    Yea yea we've all got them I know + I've got the blues, very underpaid & have to jump through hoops for a promise of payrise for it to vanish into thin air once they get what they required out of me..

    Standard I'm guessing for small companies, but where do i stand when the MD is making me do tests logged in as him? I mean I've enough todo and revising for my own MS exams to keep them happy already (promised me a slight wage increase last time mind) so this is the last straw, well that and running the show while I'm the most junior in the IT department...

    I feel your pain! I dont have to take exams but since we have had a new system implemented every five minutes I have people asking me how to do this and that and when the boss isnt in, it is me they all come too. However I discovered I am the least paid in the office. I have brought it up however it seems to fall on death ears with promises not being kept.

    So instead of doing the usual 10-20 hours overtime a month (Unpaid!) I shall not be doing so. This is not a small company either. Rather a large one, where the stepup to the next level is probably less than they spend on stationary in a day.
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    marchant wrote:
    Mini-Maglite. My bad :oops: I'm eyeing up the LED Lenser range in my local Maplins

    could be worth sending the company whos batteries have leaked (assuming they are duracell etc) an email with pictures to say "look what your batteries did" they will replace it

    coudl save you a fair few beer tokens

    modern batteries shouldn't leak!
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  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    Cycling in this morning and I'm overtaken by a car driven by a lady texting - she is all over the lane and I'm thankful that she hasn't drifted into me. A cyclist a little ahead of me is slightly less fortunate as she clips him. Somehow he keeps himself upright. The lights ahead change and the cyclist right filters and comes up alongside the women's open window - 'trouble brewing' I think but he doesn't say a word, simply reaches into the car, plucks the phone out of her hand and hurls it over the fence that runs alongside the road before carrying on filtering. She leaps out the car shouting and gesticulating but the lights change and he turns right and disappears leaving the woman stood there in a state of shock.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Paulie W wrote:
    Cycling in this morning and I'm overtaken by a car driven by a lady texting - she is all over the lane and I'm thankful that she hasn't drifted into me. A cyclist a little ahead of me is slightly less fortunate as she clips him. Somehow he keeps himself upright. The lights ahead change and the cyclist right filters and comes up alongside the women's open window - 'trouble brewing' I think but he doesn't say a word, simply reaches into the car, plucks the phone out of her hand and hurls it over the fence that runs alongside the road before carrying on filtering. She leaps out the car shouting and gesticulating but the lights change and he turns right and disappears leaving the woman stood there in a state of shock.

    This man should light the Olympic torch.
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  • hoolio
    hoolio Posts: 139
    marchant wrote:
    Mini-Maglite. My bad :oops: I'm eyeing up the LED Lenser range in my local Maplins

    Get a can of electrical contact cleaner (less than £3 from Toolstation ) and give it a spray.
  • msmancunia
    msmancunia Posts: 1,415
    aclivity wrote:
    msmancunia wrote:
    aclivity wrote:
    Manchester city centre was full of inattentive pedestrians walking out on to roads in front of me. And they have closed roads around Exchange square so wendyball fans can gather to watch the overpaid prima donnas on a big screen.

    That one caught me out tonight as well - had to hop on to the pavement and ped-dodge instead. Would be nice if they stuck something in the MEN to let us know.
    What time were you going through? I saw a couple of people hop on the pavement, but I just hopped off my bike and walked a couple of hundred yards. I'm only going from Oxford Road to Victoria in town (most of my ride is in Wigan) anyway.

    Going to change my route to go high street / Shudehill tonight, more pedestrians to avoid but will at least miss the ugs watching the kickyball.

    I went through around 7pm last night - decided to get the train after a few loops of Trafford Park last night so cycled up to Victoria from Salford. Normally if I'm getting the train I go up Quay St, through Albert Square and down Cross Street, but I might do the Deansgate and up through the back of Chethams instead.
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  • DrLex
    DrLex Posts: 2,142
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    Cycling in this morning and I'm overtaken by a car driven by a lady texting - she is all over the lane and I'm thankful that she hasn't drifted into me. A cyclist a little ahead of me is slightly less fortunate as she clips him. Somehow he keeps himself upright. The lights ahead change and the cyclist right filters and comes up alongside the women's open window - 'trouble brewing' I think but he doesn't say a word, simply reaches into the car, plucks the phone out of her hand and hurls it over the fence that runs alongside the road before carrying on filtering. She leaps out the car shouting and gesticulating but the lights change and he turns right and disappears leaving the woman stood there in a state of shock.

    This man should light the Olympic torch.

    Quality - hope she's learned her lesson, although it would be good if she was stupid enough to go to the PoPo and make a complaint...
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  • fill_uk
    fill_uk Posts: 52
    Came down with a virus while at work and had to ride/push 12 miles home with a splitting head and raging temperature. My normal 50 mins took 2 hours.
  • Tricycleboy
    Tricycleboy Posts: 373
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    Cycling in this morning and I'm overtaken by a car driven by a lady texting - she is all over the lane and I'm thankful that she hasn't drifted into me. A cyclist a little ahead of me is slightly less fortunate as she clips him. Somehow he keeps himself upright. The lights ahead change and the cyclist right filters and comes up alongside the women's open window - 'trouble brewing' I think but he doesn't say a word, simply reaches into the car, plucks the phone out of her hand and hurls it over the fence that runs alongside the road before carrying on filtering. She leaps out the car shouting and gesticulating but the lights change and he turns right and disappears leaving the woman stood there in a state of shock.

    While i don't neccesarily condone the guy's actions- thats absolutely hilarious. :lol:
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Paulie W wrote:
    Cycling in this morning and I'm overtaken by a car driven by a lady texting - she is all over the lane and I'm thankful that she hasn't drifted into me. A cyclist a little ahead of me is slightly less fortunate as she clips him. Somehow he keeps himself upright. The lights ahead change and the cyclist right filters and comes up alongside the women's open window - 'trouble brewing' I think but he doesn't say a word, simply reaches into the car, plucks the phone out of her hand and hurls it over the fence that runs alongside the road before carrying on filtering. She leaps out the car shouting and gesticulating but the lights change and he turns right and disappears leaving the woman stood there in a state of shock.
    Neat. I had an altercation once with a woman driver that ended abruptly when I took the fag from her hand and chucked it down a drain. She went ballistic; I went home.
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    Paulie W wrote:
    Cycling in this morning and I'm overtaken by a car driven by a lady texting - she is all over the lane and I'm thankful that she hasn't drifted into me. A cyclist a little ahead of me is slightly less fortunate as she clips him. Somehow he keeps himself upright. The lights ahead change and the cyclist right filters and comes up alongside the women's open window - 'trouble brewing' I think but he doesn't say a word, simply reaches into the car, plucks the phone out of her hand and hurls it over the fence that runs alongside the road before carrying on filtering. She leaps out the car shouting and gesticulating but the lights change and he turns right and disappears leaving the woman stood there in a state of shock.
    I bet she doesn't realise she hit him and doesn't think she did anything wrong and has no idea why he plucked the phone out here hand.
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  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    I need a new passport as we're going to Jersey (yes I know it's part of the UK but we need to give our passport numbers presumably for ID). So I get Father to take a photo of me.

    His reaction after taking it...to burst out laughing and say I look like a convict :(

    I really hate getting my picture taken.
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  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    suzyb wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    Cycling in this morning and I'm overtaken by a car driven by a lady texting - she is all over the lane and I'm thankful that she hasn't drifted into me. A cyclist a little ahead of me is slightly less fortunate as she clips him. Somehow he keeps himself upright. The lights ahead change and the cyclist right filters and comes up alongside the women's open window - 'trouble brewing' I think but he doesn't say a word, simply reaches into the car, plucks the phone out of her hand and hurls it over the fence that runs alongside the road before carrying on filtering. She leaps out the car shouting and gesticulating but the lights change and he turns right and disappears leaving the woman stood there in a state of shock.
    I bet she doesn't realise she hit him and doesn't think she did anything wrong and has no idea why he plucked the phone out here hand.

    I think you're probably right!
  • merkin
    merkin Posts: 452
    marchant wrote:
    How can it just take one tiny leak from a battery to render my nearly-new Maglite useless? I noticed it wasn't working when it was pointed down so I took the batteries out, saw the leak and put new ones in. Now nothing, and it's barely 3months old (warranty doesn't cover battery leakage). Bah
    I thought that maglite's warranty did cover leakage if it is from Duracell or ever ready batteries?
    If not try pursuing the battery company.
    Personally I doubt I will ever buy another maglite. Good as they are, they are soo expensive compared to the decent torches on deal extreme.
  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    suzyb wrote:
    I need a new passport as we're going to Jersey (yes I know it's part of the UK but we need to give our passport numbers presumably for ID). So I get Father to take a photo of me.

    His reaction after taking it...to burst out laughing and say I look like a convict :(

    I really hate getting my picture taken.

    photo or it didn't happen.

    :lol::lol:
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  • Topaxci
    Topaxci Posts: 106
    Grrrrr, already down a road bike and having to commute on my mountain bike but this morning I nearly got taken out again in exactly the same spot as two weeks ago.
    Car just blindly rolling onto the roundabout as I'm going straight over, no other traffic in sight, they probably have the sun in there eyes (a bit) but he didn't even appear to look. Luckily I reacted faster today and managed to pull to my right and speed up so he just missed my rear tyre.
    What the hell am I supposed to do? Stop mid-roundabout just in case people aren't paying attention and get smacked from a car behind?? :evil:
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    was nearly squished last night by a one of them plastic 4x4 (qashqai) im riding along, cars parked up ahead so i do my checks (nothing there) move out when out of no where the qashqai skims past me.

    unfortunately for him he gets caught at the lights a few hundred yards down the road....

    an the whopper had bike carriers on the roof so obviously cycles grrr
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    suzyb wrote:
    I need a new passport as we're going to Jersey (yes I know it's part of the UK but we need to give our passport numbers presumably for ID). So I get Father to take a photo of me.

    His reaction after taking it...to burst out laughing and say I look like a convict :(

    I really hate getting my picture taken.
    I'll meet up with you for a furtive tryst then - we're going too. :wink:

    Reason for posting is that my passport has expired but photo ID will suffice, so a full driving licence is valid. We've checked & rechecked.
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    CiB wrote:
    suzyb wrote:
    I need a new passport as we're going to Jersey (yes I know it's part of the UK but we need to give our passport numbers presumably for ID). So I get Father to take a photo of me.

    His reaction after taking it...to burst out laughing and say I look like a convict :(

    I really hate getting my picture taken.
    I'll meet up with you for a furtive tryst then - we're going too. :wink:

    Reason for posting is that my passport has expired but photo ID will suffice, so a full driving licence is valid. We've checked & rechecked.
    I thought so too but it specifys passport on our package documentation we have to send back to the travel agent. So Mother is now panicking cause my passport will be out of date.

    I'm going to get a new passport anyway, you never know when you might need to leave the country quickly :wink:

    But if it's not here in a few weeks (which I doubt given it's the busiest period) I'll get Mother to call the travel agent and tell them.
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  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,974
    suzyb wrote:
    I thought so too but it specifys passport on our package documentation we have to send back to the travel agent. So Mother is now panicking cause my passport will be out of date.

    I'm going to get a new passport anyway, you never know when you might need to leave the country quickly :wink:

    But if it's not here in a few weeks (which I doubt given it's the busiest period) I'll get Mother to call the travel agent and tell them.

    Get two passports, it makes life much easier
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  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    gbsahne wrote:
    suzyb wrote:
    I thought so too but it specifys passport on our package documentation we have to send back to the travel agent. So Mother is now panicking cause my passport will be out of date.

    I'm going to get a new passport anyway, you never know when you might need to leave the country quickly :wink:

    But if it's not here in a few weeks (which I doubt given it's the busiest period) I'll get Mother to call the travel agent and tell them.

    Get two passports, it makes life much easier
    +1 especially if the first identity gets in a spot of bother
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  • adskis
    adskis Posts: 85
    So last night on the way home, I'm going straight through a roundabout. Tw@t in a red hot hatch enters roundabout from my left and turns left right in front of me. Emergency braking and swerving from me and I just miss being munched. As I end up alongside his open window I said "You didn't even look!" and rode off shaking my head. (no swearing, etc)
    So, said tw@t then follows me up a side street and stops his car in front of me and jumps out. Blah, blah, blah from both of us (as you do).
    His parting shot as he gets back in his car “I’m a cyclist too, you know!” and drives off.

    At the red light about 50m up the road he stops his car completely in the ASL box. :roll:



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  • iclestu
    iclestu Posts: 503
    Adskis wrote:
    So last night on the way home, I'm going straight through a roundabout. Tw@t in a red hot hatch enters roundabout from my left and turns left right in front of me. Emergency braking and swerving from me and I just miss being munched. As I end up alongside his open window I said "You didn't even look!" and rode off shaking my head. (no swearing, etc)
    So, said tw@t then follows me up a side street and stops his car in front of me and jumps out. Blah, blah, blah from both of us (as you do).
    His parting shot as he gets back in his car “I’m a cyclist too, you know!” and drives off.

    At the red light about 50m up the road he stops his car completely in the ASL box. :roll:



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    Some people just need dragged out into the street and shot in the face.

    Ill add him to my list
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,900
    iclestu wrote:
    Adskis wrote:
    So last night on the way home, I'm going straight through a roundabout. Tw@t in a red hot hatch enters roundabout from my left and turns left right in front of me. Emergency braking and swerving from me and I just miss being munched. As I end up alongside his open window I said "You didn't even look!" and rode off shaking my head. (no swearing, etc)
    So, said tw@t then follows me up a side street and stops his car in front of me and jumps out. Blah, blah, blah from both of us (as you do).
    His parting shot as he gets back in his car “I’m a cyclist too, you know!” and drives off.

    At the red light about 50m up the road he stops his car completely in the ASL box. :roll:



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    Some people just need dragged out into the street and shot in the face.

    Ill add him to my list

    No, it's fine. Because he's a cyclist too (for which read once rode a BSO) murderising other cyclists to death is perfectly acceptable. Perfectly logical if you think about it.
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  • fill_uk
    fill_uk Posts: 52
    fill_uk wrote:
    Came down with a virus while at work and had to ride/push 12 miles home with a splitting head and raging temperature. My normal 50 mins took 2 hours.

    Its bloody chicken pox!! my kids have given it me. Turns out i only had a mild dose as a kid and have got it again. Adults get much worse symptoms than children so my two boys are running round like nutters covered in spots and im slowly falling apart.

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