halp, halp, I needs advice please from the petrolhead b3tans
My VW Polo had two new front tyres fitted in January when it had its MOT. I asked the garage to check the tracking and steering at the same time as the steering wheel was pointing to 10 o'clock when the wheels were straight. They did, so I put the new lighter feeling on the steering down to the new fluffy shiny properly inflated legally grippy tyres.

Then over the past couple of weeks it seemed as though the steering had grown a mind of its own, almost as if it wanted to carry on turning by itself - like driving on ice. So I took it back to the garage last week and asked them to check the steering etc. They said it was due to the suspension bushes which they replaced, and they also checked the front wheels which they said (and I have the invoice to prove this) were "okay".

However, yesterday on my way back home the front nearside tyre popped. When I got it off, it was down to the canvas on the inside edge. I mean you can see the wire, it's in a real state. The other one well on the way to being the same, there is no tread at all on the inside edge. Both still look like new on the outside edges. The nice man who helped me change the tyre took one look at the front wheels and said the tracking was visibly out.

So my query is this - what comeback do I have with this when I take it back to the garage? Tyres don't wear out in 6 weeks, do they? I do about 1500 miles a month on twisty country roads, but I'm not exactly Felipe Massa. Surely they should have noticed the state of the tyres?

fankoo ver' much

*cakes*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 16:56, 13 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Some recommendations for the music nerds -
Maybe you've heard of them already but I had to share.

Fleet Foxes - their eponymous album and the accompanying CD 'Sun Giant' is just gorgeous pastoral folk. It's not twee at all IMO. Imagine CSNY at their peak had had children not ruined by a life of privilege.

Beirut - all of their stuff is lovely and hopelessly romantic European trad but the latest, 'March Of The Zapotec' might just surpass their prior work.

Imagine a man with a Scott Walker-esque warbly vocal and a passion for traditional European music recorded an EP with a Mexican marching band - it is oom-pah-pah tastic and the brass section soars in tandem with the vocal.

Lovely, skin-tingling, hair-on-end old-world romantic stuff.

rafter
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 12:58, 20 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I remember someone alluding to this in QOTW suggestions
What would be your motto or tagline?
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 12:06, 17 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

It's Monday bitches


Another glorious day in the salt mines, comrades!
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 7:55, 244 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Caption Compo
Photo in the reply.

Can you please add a suitable caption to this old black and white photo.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 0:38, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I am a racist apparently because I used to have short hair.
[This is a normal post] Mind you, it's all the more amusing
when you consider she herself looks like she just failed to make it through the BNP auditions.
(I helped save b3ta! I Can't Believe It's Not Woodside Industries 2: The Klumps, Sun 15 Mar 2009, 17:07, Add friend, Ignore, Hide, I like this! Reply)


Even more strange is the fact he saved my picture when it used to be on my profile.
( girlinthehole, Sun 15 Mar 2009, 18:56, 13 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

oi! cunts!
Have a Home sweet fucking Home thread already! GOSH!



I love you all really. How are you all today??
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 15 Mar 2009, 5:43, 161 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

what do you think is better than sex?

(Just Harry What should I put here?, Sun 15 Mar 2009, 3:28, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Ahhh to live in Victoria.
We've had bushfires and blistering heat, and now the rain is back. I love home.

For the last four days we've had rain nearly nonstop where I am, thunder and lightening storms every day.

I love Rain. I love autumn and winter.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 15 Mar 2009, 2:21, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I haven't laughed as hard
as I did today.

Camped last night at the lake and fished today with the team, we spent the entire day cracking each other up.
It was brilliant!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 14 Mar 2009, 22:24, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Whenever I drunk drive to the off licence for more booze
I always put my change in the collection box for the Air Ambulance.

Do you donate to charities that might one day help you?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 14 Mar 2009, 21:54, 8 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm leaving the door on the latch 'cos i'm off to work...
Please don't wreck the place in my absence!

( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 14 Mar 2009, 8:04, 15 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

It's one of those Home Sweet Home threads without an image


  Home Sweet Home



_{I'm on my iPhone so writing HTML is awkward}
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 19:01, 21 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

These are fantastic
www.supermandolini.com/acatalog/console_wars_veteran.html
www.supermandolini.com/acatalog/console_wars_veteran_II.html
www.supermandolini.com/acatalog/console_wars_veteran_III.html
www.supermandolini.com/acatalog/console_wars_veteran_IV.html



*wants*
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 17:53, Reply)

Welcome all to off-topic or as we like to call it.......
The Bert and Al show.
( girlinthehole, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 16:51, 16 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I found what I want in my next house.
Per Bert's request, I'm putting this in its own thread:


( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 13 Mar 2009, 15:19, 9 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Rob says he's shutting down /talk in 15 days. So we're all moving here.
Come on. Pack your bags. Out with the lying and in with the obese.
( Jam Master Geordie Hero of B3ta., Fri 13 Mar 2009, 14:53, 28 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Thanks very much
To those who posted 'jokes' following my plea for help.

The Madness/Suggs joke won. Meaning I'm not trying to wipe UHT sqirty cream off my hair and face.

No such luck for Julie from the Operations Team though, her 'knock knock' joke was both shit and lacking in any originality. She lost.

Oh, a massive NINE QUID was raised for red nose day. (more has been spent putting these awful events on today than has been raised).

If you've got no idea what I'm rabbiting on about - never mind.

Mullered.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 14:24, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Now as you all know I'm not a big car buff.
But my step-dad has just arrived in his newly purchased Aston Martin Vantage. It's a deep red colour and it sounds like a tiger warning you to get the fuck out of it's way.

It's beautiful.


Of course, he's grinning like a mad fool.
( girlinthehole, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 14:18, 13 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Right-oh.
Further to Lord Mue's post below, I've suggested we have the choice to give threads a nested reply. That way, Home Sweet Home threads can stay how they are, and we can choose if we want other threads to have nested replies or not.

www.b3ta.com/questions/bugs_and_feature_requests/post387130

If you think this is a good idea, please visit the link, click it and add any comments over there, not here.

Thanks!

Fuck the lot of you.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 13:18, 13 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Another new comic
Is up on my site.

Enjoy!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 12:31, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

*Noses about this side of the classroom*
Someone tell me again why you *special* kiddies had a fit when the nice teacher tried to give you indented replies?
( Mu Dinofiddler, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 10:23, 56 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

New QOTW
I know it's probably been said already, but I shall say it again. The new QOTW is shit.

BUT, and it's a big but, there have been some brilliant replies so far, so well done everyone who has chosen to contribute rather than just slag it off.

And yes, this may have just been a post to get the words "big but" into the minds of everyone reading, and in turn have everyone singing "I like big butts and I cannot lie..." all morning :)
( SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Fri 13 Mar 2009, 10:05, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

It's Friday,
You shit-bags.


( Cawl, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 9:36, 206 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Good morning!
Anyone else awake / still up?
have been working on a presentation all night
and am still up.
Said presentation being at 10 i don't want to
fall asleep now and miss it.
fucksocks.

EDIT:Can anyone recommend something that will keep me awake that is better than coffee / redbull etc? some sort of combination maybe? with added blue smarties?
:D
( mr schteven In a staring competition with a squid on, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 6:15, 9 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I would just like to say
I fucking hate friday's when I've had 3 and a half hours sleep over two days.

I especially hate them when I have to go to work soon after school.

Also - the most embarrassing thing I ever did with a penis was to chuck it at someone's head. And when I say chuck, I mean squirt large amounts of jizz. And when I say At someone, I mean all over your mum. Yes - I know she's been dead these ten years but she's still good!

That's all folks!
take care I'll see you after work.
I'm just kidding on the "squirting jizz all over your dead mother" bit. I only did that while she was alive! Don't fret! :-D

EDIT: I am claiming responsibilty for sending Halfy the Jesse Younan albums.
(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 13 Mar 2009, 5:46, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Life
is good. That's all.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 5:08, Reply)

I had sex with a girl once
saw her tits and everything
( Malaka omdz, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 21:51, 6 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Is it just me,
or has the layout of FaceBook changed recently?
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 20:53, 7 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Haemorrhoids, Sweaty Haemorrhoids


Our current bog roll is shite. Andrex aloe vera. It tears when one wipes one's arse, resulting in poke-through. It also skids a bit, although not as bad as Izal. Luckily I crap 4-5 times a day minimum, so it won't last much longer. It is ok for blowing one's nose - and the silver lining is I have short nails.

* EDIT/
DG says it's inappropriate to post a picture of my arse here as it'd be NSFW, hence the Pink Panther allusion*

Fancy talking shite?
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 18:25, 62 replies, latest was 16 years ago)