And it’s carcinogenic don’t you know… apparently. I used to splosh it all over the shop as a fitter (not on brake calipers, mind you).
My dad spent his entire working life in the chemical industry, breathing in carcinogenic fumes, being doused in all sorts of toxic liquids and ingesting hazardous substances with his lunch and whatnot, yet he is in his 80s and it looks as if he's about to outlive his second missus as she's just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, while he is still going strong and could be mistaken for someone in their 60s. Ironically, he's a massive hypochondriac.
I'm not sure that it's 'trivial', but people who complain about occasional motorbike exhaust noise but don't seem to care when it comes to petrol powered blowers, mowers and god knows what, which are interminably droning away in their gardens.
Yup, I knew a bloke that used to blend blue asbestos before it became infamous. Knee deep in the stuff shovelling it all day. No face masks of any description required. He’s deed now but he lived to a good age and died of something completely unrelated.
Ha ha, I do feel a bit bad when I’ve got my 2 stroke leaf blower out… and it’s not so much fun since my enormous Mastiff died. He loved a blast of air to his chops But I don’t complain about noisy motorbikes… cos I’ve got one of those too
D'you think that might be due to everyone knowing you deliberately spent £3K to make the bike loud, unlike the garden tools?
If all a biker wanted to do was to make noise, he/she needn't spend £3000 on an exhaust when, for considerably less, he could just buy some noisy garden equipment rather than a rake, brush or electric mower.
More driving gripes... This one has been happening a lot lately: Drivers on a roundabout you're waiting to join who don't bother to indicate when they exit. And much worse, drivers who indicate they are going to take the next exit and then don't. One is bloody discourteous and the other is plain dangerous. The second one, drivers who indicate well before an exit and then continue driving past it, is something I see almost every day now. I don't know why driving is getting so bad.
Other than councils workers clearing the mess they've made off the pavement, I've never seen the point of leaf blowers, especially in gardens. A leaf sucker might be useful, but a blower? Unless you pursue the leaves for a good mile up the road, blowing them from one spot to another is about as productive as pushing water up hill with a brush.
People cleaning their Patio Slabs with a Pressure washer, and somebody else seemingly waiting for the first person to finish before starting their noise doing the same thing for another few hours. Why can’t you Wankers all do it at the same time so we can all have some peace and quiet at the weekend for a little while. When I’m president of the people’s republic of lesser Britian I’m going to declare a Pressure Washer public holiday twice a year, which will be the only time the annoying pricks will be able to use them. Although that is probably only about number 15 on the list of executive orders I’ll be signing.
Really? You just blow everything into the corner and just rake it up. Saves hours of raking and messing about, and the best thing is, you get to wind your neighbours up at the same time. I love ours.
On the subject of driving, I've lost count of the number of car drivers that aim at me when I'm driving or riding down the road. At first I thought it could be people avoiding potholes, but it's not a sudden jolt, it's as though they are in a trance of some sort.
You should try driving in Marseille, I almost got taken out by a guy racing his friend though heavy traffic on the motorway last week, they were weaving across all lanes in between all the other cars, even using the hard shoulder to get ahead of each other...crazy idiots
