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Re: Merry Christmas
Afrikaans: Geseënde Kersfees
Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic: Milad Majid
Argentine: Feliz Navidad
Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
Bosnian: (BOSANSKI) Cestit Bozic i Sretna Nova godina
Brazilian: Feliz Natal
Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan’Gung Haw Sun
Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian: Pace e salute
Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Croatian: Sretan Bozic
Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish: Glædelig Jul
Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast
English: Merry Christmas
Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian: Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi
Ethiopian: (Amharic) Melkin Yelidet Beaal
Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French: Joyeux Noel
Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Galician: Bo Nada
Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German: Fröhliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Haiti: (Creole) Jwaye Nowel or to Jesus Edo Bri’cho o Rish D’Shato Brichto
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo’adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.
Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags
Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Lao: souksan van Christmas
Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian: Prieci’gus Ziemsve’tkus un Laimi’gu Jauno Gadu!
Lausitzian:Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un ‘n moi Nijaar
Luxembourgish: Schèine Chreschtdaag an e gudde Rutsch
Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori: Meri Kirihimete
Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Navajo: Merry Keshmish
Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado
Papiamento: Bon Pasco
Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philippines: Maligayang Pasko!
Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese:Feliz Natal
Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
Romanche: (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele or Craciun fericit
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil huibh
Serbian: Hristos se rodi.
Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene: Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in srecno Novo leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tamil: (Tamizh) Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Srozhdestvom Kristovym or Z RIZDVOM HRYSTOVYM
Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye’dun!Re: S’now joke
Sorry to hear about your injury. I’ve given it up as a bad job so I’m not doing any more jobs until either the snow goes or some of the minor roads get ploughed.
Re: Busy? I am turning work away
bagman wrote:
kwatt wrote:
Can I just ask a simple question please, I beg your indulgence for a moment even if this goes wildly off-topic and, if it does, one of us will split the thread…
With the collective knowledge on this site, is there any real excuse for a less than competent engineer/repairer?
K.
Knowledge doesn’t endow competence. You can can have all the information in the world at your fingertips, but if you don’t have the ability to use it properly then it’s useless, possibly dangerous.
I agree entirely. It’s not just down to knowledge or even IQ. I’ve met people with brilliant minds who are useless at physical tasks. As a kid I had very poor manual dexterity but this improved after I left school. Now I’m getting older and I seem to be getting more clumsy again but that might be mainly down to failing eyesight. Some of the jobs on modern machines are a bit like keyhole surgery. An example is changing the drum paddles on Hoover machines. They are held with one tiny stainless torx screw that you can get at through the sump hose outlet. As the screw is stainless you can’t secure it with a magnetic bit and its over to one edge of the sump outlet so you don’t have good access.
Re: S’now joke
I had to go to the shops anyway so I did venture out but it was not easy. Nearly all the other vehicles I saw were tradesmens vans, most other people had the sense to stay at home 😆 It took me about 10 minutes to do about 200 yards up one hill then it was like a tobbogan run coming away from the job down the same hill. Parking was also a nightmare. It’s so deep now that it’s difficult to even get near the curb on the sideroads. You have to stop, blocking the road and dig enough snow to be able to pull off the middle section of road that’s still in use.
Re: You live where?
At one time I kept getting calls from towns around Glasgow, a similar 190 to 200 miles from me. I think they got my number from some kind of search engine which takes a very liberal view of the term “local”. 😆
Re: How would you deal with a customer like this??
Yes, there’s no need for a slanging match. I’ve had that sort once or twice. As others have said, it’s best just not to attempt any kind of repair for people with that attitude. I would just say, “Sorry, I can’t help you, I suggest you try someone else.”
I sometimes get customers who say “Don’t make a special trip, just drop in when you’re passing.” I do just that but I still charge them the usual call-out charge. 😉Re: Bosch T/D WTE84102/GB05
I went to one of these today. It runs for about a minute then goes dead, no lights lit or flashing. I tried bypassing the TOC on the heater but that made no difference. It will sometimes come on again after a minute or two, sometimes longer. There is a small PCB with a relay, mounted on the side at the top of the machine. I assume this must control the heater, as the motor still runs with the 2 thick wires to the board disconnected. With these wires off it still cuts out after about a minute. Any suggestions?
Re: DHL DELIVERY
My element from CDA arrived yesterday. Ironically I think it must have already been here when I rang the customer to give an update of the situation. Later I was going outside for something and found a very battered looking box on the doorstep.
Re: How to get to the top.
Yes, when he’s going up the caged bit it does not look too bad. Perhaps a lot of jobs do not require them to go right up to the top. They don’t say how much the thing sways about in the wind but it must be quite bad.
Re: DHL DELIVERY
Oh great! I rang CDA on Friday to see what’s happened to my oven element (saga described elsewhere). They say they sent it by DHL on 2nd December :bang:
Re: Switch ratings. e.g. 16A(4) /250V ac. What is the 4 for?
I wish I had concerns as trivial as that to keep me awake. 😆
Re: S’now joke
funkyboogy wrote:one of our engineers stuck on the A80 yesterday joined at cumbernauld 8.30 am left 9pm …took 12 nad a half hours to travel 2 miles ..
Ah, sounds like we have got off quite lightly here in darkest Banffshire. I’ve had no bother getting to the few calls I’ve had for the last week or so but I did have a bit of trouble getting away from one today. It was a customer I know quite well who lives down a rough track but not far from the busy A98. There is quite a steep uphill incline where the track meets the A98 and that bit was thick, solid ice. There was a bit of clear road about 20 feet or so before the junction so it was possible to get out if you set off from there and didn’t have to stop to give way at the icy bit. I must have rolled back and started forward from that grippy bit about 20 times before I struck lucky and arrived at the junction when there was a gap in the traffic.
Re: Private Messages
Some websites send you an email to tell you there’s a PM waiting for you but the default setting for this site appears to be not to notify you by email.
Re: Belling ceramic hob Constantly on
Yes, I don’t know why they can’t have an industry standard for simmerstat terminal numbering. Even different ones from the same manufacturer can have the same numbers / letters for completely different connections, Despite having information from this site and other places I have several times had to open them up to work out which terminal is which.
