Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
My old Allegro.
Your inanimate objects you love to hate and even 'assault'
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I can feel a “what’s the worst car you’ve ever owned” thread coming soon
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
AKA the All agro.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I was tempted to torch my Allaggro for the insurance, but it was worth less than the excess.
- Location
- Glasgow
I don't do that, but you made me
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
A Bosch petrol-powered chainsaw. One of my late father's "boys toys" buy, inevitably bought on the cheap and without doing any adequate research.
While he was alive, we had to stick with it and say how wonderful it was (NOT!). But it only got used about half a dozen times because it had no "easy start" function, and was a complete b*tch to get going. It was easier to use the electric one. But one day, after an hour of fruitlessly trying to get the damn thing started to do a job where the cable of the electric one couldn't reach, I ended up kicking it down the length of the drive whilst wearing steel-capped work boots.
The next day, it was traded in for a Stihl that was lighter, more powerful, and best of all, starts like a dream.
Another of my late father's "boys toys" purchases was a compact Pentax camera with a rather big built-in zoom lens - another one of those "looks good but works pants" kind of things. I was occasionally allowed to borrow it, as my then Olympus only had a fixed 28mm lens, but it inevitably did my head in. The zoom was handy but the glass had very pronounced chromatic aberration. And the AF would either hunt like crazy or would lock on, but you could measure the time lag with a calendar. So a lot of wasted shots, which is very irritating when shooting film. After one day where far too much film went down the ca, I tossed it in his lap, raided my savings, and bought my first SLR camera.
While he was alive, we had to stick with it and say how wonderful it was (NOT!). But it only got used about half a dozen times because it had no "easy start" function, and was a complete b*tch to get going. It was easier to use the electric one. But one day, after an hour of fruitlessly trying to get the damn thing started to do a job where the cable of the electric one couldn't reach, I ended up kicking it down the length of the drive whilst wearing steel-capped work boots.
The next day, it was traded in for a Stihl that was lighter, more powerful, and best of all, starts like a dream.
Another of my late father's "boys toys" purchases was a compact Pentax camera with a rather big built-in zoom lens - another one of those "looks good but works pants" kind of things. I was occasionally allowed to borrow it, as my then Olympus only had a fixed 28mm lens, but it inevitably did my head in. The zoom was handy but the glass had very pronounced chromatic aberration. And the AF would either hunt like crazy or would lock on, but you could measure the time lag with a calendar. So a lot of wasted shots, which is very irritating when shooting film. After one day where far too much film went down the ca, I tossed it in his lap, raided my savings, and bought my first SLR camera.
FrankCrank
Old layabout
One that comes to mind is the chuck key for drills. Always putting it down, and can't find it amongst the clutter of other tools lying around.
Guess I'm not doing too bad if that's all I've got that irks me
Guess I'm not doing too bad if that's all I've got that irks me
Mike Ayling
Veteran
- Location
- Melbourne Downunda
All my drills with chuck keys had cords and the keys were attached to the cords.
Mike Ayling
Veteran
- Location
- Melbourne Downunda
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Me too!
Chief Broom
Veteran
I once beat an alarm clock to death 
i was living in a caravan in the sticks and the dawn chorus was enough to wake me, anyhow this clock went off like a damn bomb so's i smashed it into ffff'n pieces...completely reasonable if you ask me....nurse more medication!
i was living in a caravan in the sticks and the dawn chorus was enough to wake me, anyhow this clock went off like a damn bomb so's i smashed it into ffff'n pieces...completely reasonable if you ask me....nurse more medication!
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Went to a job where a guy died from that. Forgot to remove the chuck key, hit start, in a second the mains lead was an awful tangled mess and torn from the drill with electrons all over the place.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
One of my passwords on a site I sometimes visit is " Do you really effing want one?"
It was accepted and works.
It was accepted and works.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
I once assaulted a dial gauge sat on a magnetic stand....
If been overlooked for a pay rise and in my mind, it was entirely unjust, simply based on an off the cuff comment I made 6 months earlier. I was furious.
So I strutted off to smoulder in a quiet corner, I'm not doing anything, ferk em. As I walked past a bench, the dial gauge popped out to me, I had a spanner in my hand and smacked it as i passed.
It fell to the floor and smashed..
Oh now I felt guilty..and a sense of 'serves them right' all at the same time.
I didnt do any work for the rest if the week...
If been overlooked for a pay rise and in my mind, it was entirely unjust, simply based on an off the cuff comment I made 6 months earlier. I was furious.
So I strutted off to smoulder in a quiet corner, I'm not doing anything, ferk em. As I walked past a bench, the dial gauge popped out to me, I had a spanner in my hand and smacked it as i passed.
It fell to the floor and smashed..
Oh now I felt guilty..and a sense of 'serves them right' all at the same time.
I didnt do any work for the rest if the week...
