Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[Dave7]

I have just found out that Everest double glazing went bust in January owing a massive £30 MILLION.
How does that happen ?

 

[Electric_Andy]

The back door here has been catching ever since I first opened and closed it 8 years ago... Today, I thought I would finally see if I could sort it out!

30 seconds later I had spotted holes in the flaps covering the hinge plates attached to the door. I quickly guessed that there would be something inside which could be turned to move the door in or out. It would be a Posidrive or Allen screw...

Shone torch beam into the hole... Allen screw.

I guessed the size... Got it second time.

Which way to adjust? Nope, that made it worse. Other way... Sorted!

Less than 5 minutes to fix something which bugged me for 8 years!

Then it struck me that YouTube is probably full of videos explaining how to do that... Ah, yes!

Yes I had similar and there are plenty of YT videos on it (and everything esle of course). My problem was that the doors weren't sealing properly. I always wondered why the house was so cold in the winter, but I sort of got used to it and put up with it for 5 years. Then my tenants moved in and asked me to sort it; tried to follow the videos but I didn't have any of the adjustment points that they were referring to, so I got a Door Dr in and it was sorted.

 

[raleighnut]

I have just found out that Everest double glazing went bust in January owing a massive £30 MILLION.
How does that happen ?

Crap 'overpriced' products

 

[Dogtrousers]

I have just found out that Everest double glazing went bust in January owing a massive £30 MILLION.
How does that happen ?

Does anyone remember the "Ted Moult's dead" joke?

If you do, have a little chuckle to yourself. If you don't, I'm afraid it doesn't translate to text from.

 

[Dave7]

Does anyone remember the "Ted Moult's dead" joke?

If you do, have a little chuckle to yourself. If you don't, I'm afraid it doesn't translate to text from.

I had forgotten Ted Moult.
Ha died aged 60 by suicide.... he shot himself.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I had forgotten Ted Moult.
Ha died aged 60 by suicide.... he shot himself.

Indeed, very sad.

But it didn't stop us making poor taste jokes about it - and his Everest double glazing adverts.

 

[Dave7]

Indeed, very sad.

But it didn't stop us making poor taste jokes about it - and his Everest double glazing adverts.

Really?
Ba k in the day I was one for poor taste jokes but don't recall them.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Really?
Ba k in the day I was one for poor taste jokes but don't recall them.

It was a take on his advert where he was shouting but inaudible behind the window because the soundproofing was so good. The joke teller mouths some words but the listener can't hear them. This is repeated a couple of times. The joke teller then mimes opening a window and shouts "Ted Moult's dead!". Hilarious.

We had to make our own entertainment in those days

 

[albion]

I took a few Magnums to the cricket Sunday in a food flask I bought a year or two ago.
Which then led me to try cooking noodles. That worked. Today it also worked a treat for cooking rice, the fluffy rice bonus being, nothing stuck.

Looking good for winter. Freshly cooked warming meal stops ahead/ready and waiting my ride return.

 

[Chris S]

I don't need to cut-up tyres to put them in the bin, I can just fold them. It doesn't matter if the beading gets damaged.

 

[Chris S]

Mensi from the Angelic Upstarts died from COVID in 2021.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I had forgotten Ted Moult.
Ha died aged 60 by suicide.... he shot himself.

Not making light of his death, but how would he and other farmers have coped in these constantly peeing it down days.

'Death. Ted Moult died by suicide by gunshot in 1986 after a period of depression after several weeks of wet weather that worried arable farmers. After a private funeral, his life was celebrated at a public ceremony in Derby Cathedral. He is buried at Ticknall churchyard'

 

[Accy cyclist]

I only recently found out that there was a distinct type of shoe heel style known as 'Cuban Heels'. I grew up in the 1970s when they were probably the norm on women's shoes.

Popular with the Rolling Stones and The Beatles members I believe. Not only them, but many 'pop groups' in the early to mid 1960's wore them.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've been hearing the term 'turkey teeth' quite a lot lately. I've used a small t for the word turkey as I thought they meant the bird, not the country. I kept thinking "what are they on about, turkeys don't have teeth"!🤔 Now I know.

 

[dicko]

‘Wash n Go’ isn’t shower gel it’s shampoo.