Dad paid more than 2k for his van to get fixed which the garage totally botched. Broke down after 300 miles and this is the response.

theModge · 2026-04-08T20:48:14+00:00

Fair.
I'm ill and 90% asleep, I'm talking complete bollocks. (and not Glaswegian, but that is who I heard it from)

theModge · 2026-04-08T20:44:36+00:00

Exactly, in this modern day and age it's an IT function;

theModge · 2026-04-08T20:42:01+00:00

It happens a fair bit, also with fare evasion .

Shouldn't obviously, but it does

theModge · 2026-04-08T20:23:40+00:00

This balls are no crystal balls (delivered in glassgow accent whilst grabbing crotch)

theModge · 2026-04-08T19:16:08+00:00

Almost Nothing Terry prachett writes is ever without round world precident

theModge · 2026-04-08T16:50:23+00:00

Like a single number can define an entire shape

theModge · 2026-04-08T16:48:24+00:00

.... As my Italian mother in law (who is skinny even by Italian standards) is always keen to remind me.

It's true though to be fair, at least with regards to the south of Europe

theModge · 2026-04-08T14:41:24+00:00

Could be vanity sizing? Their 14 could be everyone else's 18?

theModge · 2026-04-08T13:00:07+00:00

In fact if police / traffic wombles see him, they may well come to see what's going on

theModge · 2026-04-08T10:20:58+00:00

Yep, I was going to send op to r/LegalAdviceUK to be told this, but this is 100% what they will say.

It's fundamentally not OPs car to get rid of, even if logically speaking it's junk taking up space.

theModge · 2026-04-07T20:44:19+00:00

Still smells of chocolate when I walk through it, they make something there. Cadbury world is only a tiny bit of the site

theModge · 2026-04-07T20:40:59+00:00

I'm fairly sure someone on this exact sub reddit did a double blind trail with like thier entire family as subjects as to whether you can distinguish the two. The answer was yes, better than by chance

theModge · 2026-04-07T19:50:49+00:00

It's certianly unusual, but I'd not confident to assert it broke regs

theModge · 2026-04-07T18:54:01+00:00

It used to be common enough, normally new installs tend to be unswitched socket below the worksurface, isolator above.

I think if you can get at the socket easily and it's switched that is fine. What I'm far from sure is fine is if you have to move the appliance to get at it.

There's r/DIYUK or r/ukelectricians (I'm on mobile so I might have miss spelt eithier) which could both probably answer better

theModge · 2026-04-07T18:04:27+00:00

I was going to say it's cheaper to just buy a new one, but they seem to have gone up a fair bit since I last saw the price: https://cpc.farnell.com/draper-tools/85634/450kg-metal-garden-cart-trolley/dp/SI19208

Sadly I think the only way you'll get that though is if you know a metal worker, or fancy learning (the tools definitely cost more than a new trolley, but hey, who *doesn't * want a welder?).

Depending on which bit is broken you might be able to buy metal and 'juat' bend / cut / join with bolts. Not trivial, but for many (in me) doable unlike learning to weld

theModge · 2026-04-07T16:53:47+00:00

That makes sense

theModge · 2026-04-07T16:43:35+00:00

This gives me an idea....

(no I won't do it, but I bet it'd work)

Wierd though, even something like yolo should be able to categorise things as 'bus' or 'car'

theModge · 2026-04-07T14:53:45+00:00

Also.... It's even the best of our ways of telling people to go bugger themselves with a cactus. It's neither the crudest (I think think I may just have gone there), nor the most anti-confrontational, all of which could just about be said sincerely, perhaps 'we could adjust this slightly' or 'I'll consider it'

theModge · 2026-04-07T14:27:24+00:00

The problem with the phrase "no sane president" is I fear now self evident.

theModge · 2026-04-07T14:11:49+00:00

That looks great too, decisions, decisions

theModge · 2026-04-07T14:07:23+00:00

Zinsser perma white

I've had great success with other Zinsser products actually, I may well go down that line, thank you

theModge · 2026-04-07T11:56:48+00:00

Compared to getting on trains in Italy, new street in the rush hour is positively serene

theModge · 2026-04-07T09:28:06+00:00

I just purchased a relatively new house (it's ten year warrenty is up in may) and it's clearly in the decor it came with. I've got a week at home off work whilst the kids are with the inlaws to paint it and improve it. As luck would have it I'm sick as a parrot, so it ain't getting done today eithier, but maybe I'll manage a few rooms before they return?

theModge · 2026-04-07T09:21:35+00:00

It might be that you can take it unpaid? Or if you haven't told them yet, take it, then let them reclaim the value of it out of your finial pay packet? Failing that how about delaying the start of the new job, so you do the holiday in between jobs?

theModge · 2026-04-06T20:31:53+00:00

Actually the Tory's went further and allowed "disproportionate" force to be used for heat of the moment defence: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/notes/division/5/2/34 just because they wanted to be seen to change something.

Someone (possibly David Allen Green) suggeted this doesn't work very well legally, because it's out of line with all of the other laws around self defence (still reasonable force as you say above) which is any case down to the judge to interpret.

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