whats pissed you off today?

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Originally Posted by Stuart

Is the yacht more expensive though? Bit like trains are dull as fuck but they cost a butt load more than an Italian supercar

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Yea way more expensive, just doing the hydrofoils for one. 200kg each, 188 plys of carbon, finish about 4" thick with rohacell foams. Big clunky shit things. Hate boat work.

Monies the same as its for the same firm. Was building Renault F1 front wings last, now doing this tripe lol

F1 and LMP builds are great for both money & total lack of monotony, 20 of each component if your lucky. From whole wings down to daft tiny brackets, oil and air pressure pipes & even the pedals. Ive literally made it all.

Rang the body shop to to get a progress report on the nova to find he hasn't touched it this week . Had it 5 weeks now and done not much more than a weeks work on it. Seriously f#cked off

Cracked my blue top tint screen removing it. Well pissed off!!!

Tricky to remove a windscreen without damaging it, bad luck!
Best way is to cut the seal and get a replacement one to stick in when putting the screen back in. After all the seals are the same on every nova, but the top tint screens aren't as common.

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Originally Posted by Mike

Was building Renault F1 front wings last, now doing this tripe lol

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http://www.formula1.com/en/latest/he...sen-crash.html

Guessing you might be getting a call again soon Mike!!!

I wanna see workshop pics.iv been to a motorcycle race team workshop and that is a ridiculously brilliant place

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Originally Posted by House

http://www.formula1.com/en/latest/he...sen-crash.html

Guessing you might be getting a call again soon Mike!!!

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Its a very up an down business. Can go from pulling 18hr days one week to 5hr days the next week. Like yourself, im a director of a Ltd business, an with such an up/down line of work i have to make hay when the sun shines, mostly winter time & the aftermath of big shunts like yesterday lol

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Originally Posted by Andy

I wanna see workshop pics.iv been to a motorcycle race team workshop and that is a ridiculously brilliant place

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There great places to be! The LMP1 car i built up in germany, that was a blast, them cars were built with rock & roll by a great bunch of "englanders" an Germans pulling daft hours throughout a horrendous winter!

Buy as fun as the race bays can be, PAYE on a team aint all that, 40k salary at best, working away from home in digs at own cost, doing continental shifts, 2 weeks off in the slow summer, all nighters in the build season which is normally a 4 week slot to build 2 cars....

Altho it is fun spotting people i know on tv in the pit lane, id rather stay a subby & pick an choose where i work an when.

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Originally Posted by Mike

Its a very up an down business. Can go from pulling 18hr days one week to 5hr days the next week. Like yourself, im a director of a Ltd business, an with such an up/down line of work i have to make hay when the sun shines, mostly winter time & the aftermath of big shunts like yesterday lol

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Is that a lift fitter joke?!? It's all up and down in my business!!!

I love being a subby!! Would never ever go back to being employed!!

So how would that work Mike?! You get a call and they need some gear. You go to their works and build stuff or they send you plans and you build off site in your own premises?! I'm guessing if that's so you must have to sign something huge regarding confidentiality?!?

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Originally Posted by House

Is that a lift fitter joke?!? It's all up and down in my business!!!

I love being a subby!! Would never ever go back to being employed!!

So how would that work Mike?! You get a call and they need some gear. You go to their works and build stuff or they send you plans and you build off site in your own premises?! I'm guessing if that's so you must have to sign something huge regarding confidentiality?!?

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It was no pun intended lol lol

Same, i would never bother going back paye now, that £15 to incorporate a ltd business was the best 15 quid i ever spent!

I work labour only, so only invoicing xyz amount of hours per week to the client at an agreed rate +vat. They supply matierials, they take care of patterns, jigs, fittings etc. I just rock up with a well stocked selection of air tools and a respirator basically. Just so happens that where i am at the minute, they have kept me busy for the last 18months at there premises.

There are a load of composite companies out there that F1, Endurance, OEMs etc sub contract work too, in turn they need guys with the motorsport composite skills to help them fulfill those contracts. Im one of those guys lol

A guy i used to work with, ex Prost/Sauber/Porsche LMP/BMW DTM & currently Manor pit crew, has the same idea as me, start our own firm supplying teams. Eventually we'll have the capital between us to do it i hope.

Theres huge amounts of confidentiality crap i have to sign lol no photos, no talking about it etc etc. Its all BS basically.

I've come to terms that I might need to go talk to a shrink or something about this depression I'm going through. My sleeping schedule is out of whack and I'm eating every 4 days or so.

Genuinely, yesterday I got up at 3 in the morning after giving up on sleep, left for work at 6:30, got home around 3:30, went out at 9 and got home around 3. Slept around 3:20 and got up around 3:40 or so. After 24 hours of being awake, I slept for 20 minutes. Feels like I'm a zombie right now, to be honest. I'm so tired, my eyes are doing nothing but burning.

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Originally Posted by ShawnAzzopardi

I've come to terms that I might need to go talk to a shrink or something about this depression I'm going through. My sleeping schedule is out of whack and I'm eating every 4 days or so.

Genuinely, yesterday I got up at 3 in the morning after giving up on sleep, left for work at 6:30, got home around 3:30, went out at 9 and got home around 3. Slept around 3:20 and got up around 3:40 or so. After 24 hours of being awake, I slept for 20 minutes. Feels like I'm a zombie right now, to be honest. I'm so tired, my eyes are doing nothing but burning.

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Do you do any exercise? it might help get you into a better sleeping routine, and make you feel better about yourself generally too.

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Originally Posted by paul james

Do you do any exercise? it might help get you into a better sleeping routine, and make you feel better about yourself generally too.

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This might sound like excused, but genuinely almost no time for me to exercise, and especially in this heat. Maybe as the colder weather starts rolling around and school starts, I might have a bit more time on my hands and might start going for runs or something. I am taking some sleep controllers, but it'll take a couple weeks for them to build up in my system.

I've tried changing my diet and the whole 9 yards. I'm too young to be prescribed proper sleeping pills and all that jazz.

When it comes to exercise, anything is better than nothing I think. If you set silly goals like running a marathon straight away your more likely to get fed up with it as thats a big commitment of time and energy. I tend to fit it in where I can, go on short runs often, do sit ups between doing other things. I tend to run a mile quickly and do that several times a week. It doesn't take long to run a mile, I generally do it in about 6 minutes, easy to fit that in the day or night.
Exercise certainly makes me feel better, like I'm accomplishing something as well as the 'natural high' the body releases from doing it. It takes my mind off having a low paid dead end job and no nice lady in my life, and when I do meet a nice girl I'll be in decent shape too!

Spending the last few days wire brushing the underside of the Nova, seam sealing and finally painting it only for it to react. Oh well time to start again, it's only time and money wasted.

Tablets aren't the answer.theyre as bad as illegal drugs,they're just more socially acceptable.

Blaze some gear up, that'll help you sleep

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Originally Posted by Jack

Niek, are your police very polite?

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Yes, in my case they always are. Approach them friendly (grovel like hell, act humble and that) and they fine you with a smile on their faces. lol

Watts linkage failing on my Land Rover only 1year after a brand new one was fitted,damaging my pocket 150quid.
im fucked if I'm paying that again for a box of scrap
and having 6or so weeks to sort out some storage for all my tools grasser and trailer as losing my garage.

Finding out that the guy who bought the Nova off of me, is selling it for 4 times the price AFTER he's crashed it.

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Originally Posted by ShawnAzzopardi

Finding out that the guy who bought the Nova off of me, is selling it for 4 times the price AFTER he's crashed it.

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Gutted, could be worse though, I sold one of the best cars i owned/built and it's not moved an inch since.

Some clown in a Porsche who follows me down my street after I overtook him a few miles before in my Discovery as he was dawdling miles back from a 25mph tractor.hammers up behind me with lights on full beam further ahead then turns with me I get out and he drives by.i live in a cul de sac btw.why? Get out ya car and let's do summat eh???

People in general that make my wife feel very sad and upset... I'd love to say what it is but this isn't the place to do it.

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Originally Posted by Andy

Some clown in a Porsche who follows me down my street after I overtook him a few miles before in my Discovery as he was dawdling miles back from a 25mph tractor.hammers up behind me with lights on full beam further ahead then turns with me I get out and he drives by.i live in a cul de sac btw.why? Get out ya car and let's do summat eh???

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They never want the slap they are begging for

Flo Flex tie bar bushes have cracked up and worn out after only about 1000 miles, not too impressed with those. Guess I should have spent more and bought the Powerflex ones to begin with. On the plus side the Nova passed the MOT anyway, and a pretty lady there was impressed by it.

Ladies love the bad boy novers.
they do at grassing when you tan them off the limiter

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Originally Posted by turbojolt

They never want the slap they are begging for

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id say I had an ice hammer for a spine waiting but as there clearly wasn't one it's not needed

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Originally Posted by Southie

People in general that make my wife feel very sad and upset... I'd love to say what it is but this isn't the place to do it.

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Mate, my wife has just left her job after 10 years, it was the most energy draining soul destroying place for her. She spent the last 3 years working in the trade office where the head trader believed it acceptable to tell her to "fuck off" and call her a "butch fat lesbian" (she's 5 foot 3 and 8 stone in the rain!!!) when this guy heard she was leaving but didn't have a job to go to he told her not to worry as she could prostitute herself.

I wanted to kill the **** but alas on her wishes I've left him alone.

It's shit coming home from a hard day yourself and your normally happy wife is upset and angry because of her day at work, I'd rather have the stress of finding all
the money than coming home to that everyday.

I feel your pain mate, just try and do some cool stuff together cheer her up, worked for us!!!

As for what's pissed me off, Amazon need to stop buying the world and expecting it to happen yesterday!! Totally unworkable deadlines!!!!

I'd have stroked the **** house.Really would've gone to town on him.Fair play for keeping ya cool.

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Originally Posted by House

As for what's pissed me off, Amazon need to stop buying the world and expecting it to happen yesterday!! Totally unworkable deadlines!!!!

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I know that feeling, we have done alot of work for ge avaition over the last year or so. I ended up running the guys 24hrs on split shifts 7 days a week etc which also meant 2 site managers and basically double everything. I did negotiate a decent bonus for the lads from our lot and the PC if the deadline was met/beat. We did an incentive of X amount for each day target beat but a bog standard amount for hitting the deadline. They beat it by 10 days.

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Originally Posted by Dan

I know that feeling, we have done alot of work for ge avaition over the last year or so. I ended up running the guys 24hrs on split shifts 7 days a week etc which also meant 2 site managers and basically double everything. I did negotiate a decent bonus for the lads from our lot and the PC if the deadline was met/beat. We did an incentive of X amount for each day target beat but a bog standard amount for hitting the deadline. They beat it by 10 days.

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Everything I do is on a price mate so the faster it's done the more we make but being in 3 different countries on 5 different sites with 7 different languages is proving difficult to manage!!!! hahahaha

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Originally Posted by House

Everything I do is on a price mate so the faster it's done the more we make but being in 3 different countries on 5 different sites with 7 different languages is proving difficult to manage!!!! hahahaha

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Sounds like us, except it's only 2 languages but one lot are stubborn asshats (Japanese) lol

I was “confronted” by my ex's ex on my fake Facebook account through her account pretending to be her, and then had the audacity to call me a pussy for not giving him a straight answer.

Mate, if you want a straight answer, meet me face to face and I’ll tell you everything you need to know.

I miss this fucking girl, and it kills me. I won't get into details what happened between her and I, but it's all my fault and I can't do anything to change the past unfortunately.

/rant.

Sounds like you need to go out and shag some randoms, take it from a slightly older bloke, girls come and go when your young, you'll soon forget about them and one day you'll look back and think to your self " god I was mad wasting my time on a girl like that"
Chin up mate, in a month it will hurt less and so on.

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Originally Posted by totalnova

Sounds like you need to go out and shag some randoms, take it from a slightly older bloke, girls come and go when your young, you'll soon forget about them and one day you'll look back and think to your self " god I was mad wasting my time on a girl like that"
Chin up mate, in a month it will hurt less and so on.

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Can't bring myself to do that mate. It's been 2 and a half years. When her and I were together, she was genuinely the only person I had in my life. I had no friends, I had nothing. She was there for me when my grandfather passed away. I can't even say that about my mother.
Just never got over it.

Iirc wmmwwwwww was keen, he's a beefcake too

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Originally Posted by totalnova

Sounds like you need to go out and shag some randoms

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Spat tea, everywhere! hahahahaha

Having to make two 50 mile round trips after missing DPD open times due to traffic just to collect a *SWEAR WORD* phone Carphone Warehouse refuse to send to my work address because of "security issues".

I WILL BE ABLE TO RECEIVE THE PHONE AT WORK, I WILL EVEN BE READY WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC I.D, A UTILITY BILL AND THE DEBIT CARD ASSIGNED TO THE CONTRACT'S DIRECT DEBIT!

"It's just something we don't do sir..."

FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Botedly

Having to make two 50 mile round trips after missing DPD open times due to traffic just to collect a *SWEAR WORD* phone Carphone Warehouse refuse to send to my work address because of "security issues".

I WILL BE ABLE TO RECEIVE THE PHONE AT WORK, I WILL EVEN BE READY WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC I.D, A UTILITY BILL AND THE DEBIT CARD ASSIGNED TO THE CONTRACT'S DIRECT DEBIT!

"It's just something we don't do sir..."

FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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We (Dan and I) tried to order stuff from AutoVaux and they wouldnt post to the non card address :( sale lost and we went elsewhere. Shame really.

Realizing I'll never get to own the car of my dreams, because registering it alone is more than 3 times it's actual value.
http://oi65.tinypic.com/ws31up.jpg

Easy answer, move to a country that isn't antiquated in its vehicle taxation laws lol