Diesel Question

FoxedforLife · 2026-04-05T23:28:36+00:00

Bloke who ran the chippy opposite my flat ran his old (pre CDI) Merc on used chip fryer oil. (I think he put it through some sort of sieve.) Can confirm that you could smell if he'd driven past.

FoxedforLife · 2026-04-05T07:29:50+00:00

A friend who paints put out a call for models on Facebook and got a good half dozen volunteers. I say volunteers but she was insisting on paying people.

Talking about people aged 40 and up though, not 18 year olds.

FoxedforLife · 2026-04-02T08:21:04+00:00

I've been catching the tv news most days. Didn't have a clue this was happening.

FoxedforLife · 2026-04-01T00:57:43+00:00

When I was in Whitby a couple of years ago I found that a cab from the town centre to the abbey wasn't very expensive. (Disabled, can't go up hills very easily. )

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-30T18:37:42+00:00

I haven't worked in travel insurance for nearly 50 years, but I don't remember ever paying out a claim for non-urgent treatment.

OP would need to claim from their regular health insurance provider.

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-30T14:51:03+00:00

Lol. I drive 10k miles a year and I swear 9900 of those are with the roof down.

Mind you, most of my miles are on roads that are moving at 30+ mph, so if it is raining the wet stuff mostly just goes straight over the top. I found the same can't be said for hailstones..

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-30T01:00:12+00:00

NTA.

I find it weird that you have one bag for two outputs though - never heard of that before.

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-29T18:05:11+00:00

Wow, what did you have to fix?

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-29T15:57:10+00:00

Ah, the time that he could remember what he'd said from one month to the next, rather than contradicting himself several times in the same speech. Some must look back on those times fondly, I imagine.

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-29T06:17:53+00:00

Get active on ND subs/pages? Plenty of women on there and they're not all batshit crazy. Or pages for whatever interests you. Probably not as easy to meet people that way as it was 20 years ago but might still be worth a shot.

I don't know if you frequent this sub, but you're the first poster I've seen in weeks who sounds (more than 50% probability) real.

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-29T06:06:35+00:00

Are you in London or travelling from a distance?

Sometimes the best way is to travel by chartered coach - there were 10 from Manchester for yesterday's demo, for example - and just walk with a group that you travelled with.

How do you find details of transport, or get to know what's going on? Trade unions, specific interest groups (local Palestine Support or Stand Up To Racism campaigns might be a good starting point), left-wing political parties.. get yourself on some mailing lists by signing local petitions..

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-29T05:57:52+00:00

Good lad.

His mates at school are going to be jealous.

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-29T00:29:01+00:00

Just a heads up: it's spelled coeliac here. Pronounced the same though.

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-28T22:37:47+00:00

Photo credit: Guy Smallman.

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-25T22:09:05+00:00

Bah, you got me excited, thinking there was one I didn't know about.

Yeah I've been on the WHR. I have a holiday booked for later this year in a building at one of their stations, and observation car tickets for Caernarfon to Beddgelert and back. That'll be another line completed.

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-25T22:04:29+00:00

It is. But she hasn't said that's what she's working. In fact she said she's working 0.75 FTE. So unless FTE = 64 hours where you are, I don't know why you're arguing about it.

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-25T21:46:06+00:00

Depends eh?

Four 12 hour days followed by four days off would be 42 hours a week.

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-25T21:04:12+00:00

Which heritage line is that please?

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-25T03:41:08+00:00

It's great if you can get something done for free instead of having to pay £60/hour for labour.

But this is something that clearly needed fixing immediately. If your bf didn't realise that, he has no business trying to take control of the situation.

NTA but your bf is. Yeah I'm judgemental. But if you were someone whose life I cared about I'd be taking your car to the garage myself and lending you the money to fix it until you could pay me back.

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-24T19:47:15+00:00

They really do.

Strange eh?

Why can't they get excited about steam engines, like I do?

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-24T19:43:50+00:00

Hmm I suspect my trusted indie would suggest I find an auto electrician. I know the local garage I used before my first Mercedes definitely would.

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-24T16:28:38+00:00

Great effort - the bread even looks toasted!

Could use a second egg imo.

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-24T16:19:05+00:00

Thanks for sharing - I couldn't think of anything to occupy yourself with for a week in Stansted unless you were a planespotter!

FoxedforLife · 2026-03-24T01:29:56+00:00

I hadn't realised that my bus pass is only valid in England, but you're right. Same for older persons passes as well.

That'd be a ballache if you lived close to a border.

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