What have you done today thread?

[KungFooBob]

Dookie is a great album, all killed, no filler.

I'm sorry to say you have dropped a peg in my estimation.

Don't dis Nirvana, Faith No More or Stone Temple Pilots or you'll be dead to me.

[Noggin]

Dookie is a great album, all killed, no filler.

I'm sorry to say you have dropped a peg in my estimation.

I didn't know I had a peg to drop, so at least I wasn't at ground level before !!

TBF, I'm older than you and was a 50's chick or 80's pop music girl - I do like a fair bit in between but not a huge amount since the end of the 80's

But I can live with that

[.....]

Busy day today...... and yesterday tbh!
Sorting a clutch/dmf out on a 5008 pug.
I can see why he was quoted £2000+ from the garage.
It would have been easier to drop everything off the chassis in one piece, split it, sort it and re-install.
Whilst I was waiting for the correct thermostat housing to turn up as well ' could you have a look at my quad, doesn't want to start!'

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Horrible spiteful thing that fought me all the way out

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Funnily enough the carb was dry as a bone!

[Taipan]

Came home today after our little Cornwall jaunt. Visited loads of places, drank cider, scoffed pasties and even had a cream tea.Was going to south Wales but after spending the last couple of days with family who were staying in Perranporth, we both felt a little deflated this morning, so came home instead. After being in a campervan for 11 days, my little house feels mahoosive!

[Sunny]

Finished work for five days. Not quite @Trinity765 standards but I'll take it.

[Noggin]

Finished work till 1st september - not quite so cool cos as I've not been there long, it's unpaid

But, SDad, nephew, his girlfriend and an ex seasonnaire friend arrive Sunday for 6 days Can't wait

[ChrisW]

Successfully replaced a faulty rear parking sensor on the car - guessed right first time!

[MrLongbeard]

Finished work till 1st september - not quite so cool cos as I've not been there long, it's unpaid

Snap, although I'll be paid

[Yorick]

Finished work till 1st september - not quite so cool cos as I've not been there long, it's unpaid

Snap, although I'll be paid

I get paid for time off, starting today

Just worked it out. Working on 35 hours a week , state pension is paying me 8€ and hour.
That's what bar staff get here.

So I'm sat outside earning same as they are

[Mr. Dazzle]

I think I have lost a friend !! (probably not, but I think she's a bit horrified at me !! )

I messaged her on Monday to see if she wanted to go see a rockabilly band that evening and she said "right now I might be persuaded to go see Green Day but I'm not going out for anything else! "

I forgot to reply until today so said I was sorry about not replying but I had no idea who Green Day is or why she'd force herself out to see them. Finishing with - but I haven't listened radio for years and tend to pick what I like to listen to now so don't explore much !!

She said, blimey, they formed in '87 so you really haven't listened to the radio for years !! Lots of laughter between us so then I drove up to home listening to Green Day on Spotify

Unimpressed - who are they ? They sound like so many 90's bands I avoided (not the worst of the "the music is ok but the vocals make me want to slit my wrists" but not my thing at all!)

She also told me to listen to Basket Case - I thought it was a band Apparently it's a song by Green Day - another 90's sounding thing !! I just said, musics ok, not keen on the vocals - not joining you at a gig/concert !!!

She hasn't replied, so I think she has disowned me !! (I wasn't quite as harsh by text as I have been here !!)


I know - you lot will probably disown me too

I don't have the time to listen to you whine about nothing and eveything all at once.

[KungFooBob]

I think I have lost a friend !! (probably not, but I think she's a bit horrified at me !! )

I messaged her on Monday to see if she wanted to go see a rockabilly band that evening and she said "right now I might be persuaded to go see Green Day but I'm not going out for anything else! "

I forgot to reply until today so said I was sorry about not replying but I had no idea who Green Day is or why she'd force herself out to see them. Finishing with - but I haven't listened radio for years and tend to pick what I like to listen to now so don't explore much !!

She said, blimey, they formed in '87 so you really haven't listened to the radio for years !! Lots of laughter between us so then I drove up to home listening to Green Day on Spotify

Unimpressed - who are they ? They sound like so many 90's bands I avoided (not the worst of the "the music is ok but the vocals make me want to slit my wrists" but not my thing at all!)

She also told me to listen to Basket Case - I thought it was a band Apparently it's a song by Green Day - another 90's sounding thing !! I just said, musics ok, not keen on the vocals - not joining you at a gig/concert !!!

She hasn't replied, so I think she has disowned me !! (I wasn't quite as harsh by text as I have been here !!)


I know - you lot will probably disown me too

I don't have the time to listen to you whine about nothing and eveything all at once.

Are you just paranoid, or just stoned?

[Noggin]

Green Day on Spotify

Unimpressed - who are they ? They sound like so many 90's bands I avoided (not the worst of the "the music is ok but the vocals make me want to slit my wrists" but not my thing at all!)

She also told me to listen to Basket Case - I thought it was a band Apparently it's a song by Green Day - another 90's sounding thing !! I just said, musics ok, not keen on the vocals - not joining you at a gig/concert !!!

I don't have the time to listen to you whine about nothing and eveything all at once.

I had to google to make sure I was right about what you were doing

Green Day on Spotify

Unimpressed - who are they ? They sound like so many 90's bands I avoided (not the worst of the "the music is ok but the vocals make me want to slit my wrists" but not my thing at all!)

She also told me to listen to Basket Case - I thought it was a band Apparently it's a song by Green Day - another 90's sounding thing !! I just said, musics ok, not keen on the vocals - not joining you at a gig/concert !!!

I don't have the time to listen to you whine about nothing and eveything all at once.

Are you just paranoid, or just stoned?

you too

[Noggin]

Finished work till 1st september - not quite so cool cos as I've not been there long, it's unpaid

Snap, although I'll be paid

i "think" that I'll get the holiday pay for the first 6 months at the end of the year, so it'll be paid eventually, just not right now

But, worth it cos I get to spend time with some of my favourite family !!

(Hopefully the other three awesome ones will come next year )

[Mr. Dazzle]

I had to google to make sure I was right about what you were doing

BTW if you think Green Day are just 90's noise - listen to the Drummer. He has no fucking business being in that band

[Noggin]

I had to google to make sure I was right about what you were doing

BTW if you think Green Day are just 90's noise - listen to the Drummer. He has no fucking business being in that band

I actually don't think that, completely - well I probably did in the 90's !! But listening to it the other day I bloody love the drummer and actually the music.

But as with a lot of 90's or 90's type music, the vocals sound flat.

No idea if they are, but whilst they aren't as depressing as some, back in the 90's I'd have just put them in the "music that makes me want to slit me wrists" pile and ignored them - which I guess I did successfully as none of the songs I've listened to so far do I recognise !!!!

TBF, the singer is probably just fine, and maybe it's the style or the way the songs are written?


A shame really but I'd 100% listen to the music without the vocals probably close to all day !! Add the vocals and it's a definite NO from me

[Mr. Dazzle]

TBF, the singer is probably just fine, and maybe it's the style or the way the songs are written?

Billie Joe Armstrong, one of Mrs. D's crushes and maybe the reason I know how to do eyeliner and mascara

[ZRX61]

Busy day today...... and yesterday tbh!
Sorting a clutch/dmf out on a 5008 pug.
I can see why he was quoted £2000+ from the garage.
It would have been easier to drop everything off the chassis in one piece, split it, sort it and re-install.

I hope the trans was clean/dry when it went back in...

[ZRX61]

Got my results from the recent visit to the vampires at the stab lab, we've ruled out a heart attack & EVERYTHING was in the green*... except glucose which was 191 because I'm off the Ozempic & I'd been eating.

*The results are laid out in color with red at each end & green in the middle, it's all rather spiffy.

[Taipan]

Fitted a compressor fridge in step f-i-ls caravan. Nifty little thing and am interested to see how it works out.

[Silly Car]

In no particular order:

Moved furniture around, a lot

Ripped up carpet, underlay and gripper rod and deposited it at the tip

Made 2.7kg of pizza dough, prepped fennel sausage mix, grated and shredded cheese ready for tomorrow’s pizza event with the daughters.

Laundry and house work.

Uncovered a can of worms from the house that keeps on giving which means I’ll be spending some of tomorrow and Monday hacking out plaster and bonding coat, cutting back a timber frame that protrudes past the line of the plaster, studding out and plastering a 3m x 2m section of wall before pva-ing and skimming a 5m x 2.5m section of wall to straighten out the previous bodge job…

The good news is I’ve salvaged 7m of usable skirting board (used to frame the previously bodge up closure of an opening) and I won’t need to undercut the rest of the skirting boards as I’m removing them before laying the new flooring. Once refitted they’ll make the flooring a better job.

The bad news is none of the above helps in getting the flooring completed by next Sunday, I’ve created a whole load of decorating and I need to remove the remaining skirting boards.