The grumpy thread

[Tamworthbay]

Does anyone know any cures for severe travel sickness? I got caught in the Hurricane on the North Sea on Saturday and still feel utterly shit four days later.

[Zelandeth]

6 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

Does anyone know any cures for severe travel sickness? I got caught in the Hurricane on the North Sea on Saturday and still feel utterly shit four days later.

From memory, travel sickness is one of the things Phenergan is used to treat.

Be aware though that it can make you really drowsy (insomnia is what it's used to treat in our household), so keep that in mind.

[davehedgehog31]

The radio has been on in our open plan office all morning. Have never given too much thought to it, apart from thinking it's shit.

It's tuned into Clyde 1, a commercial station and it's absolute brain damage. Constant advertising that all feeds on fear, shite tunes, vapid opinion and awful generic music in between. 

Away home at lunchtime to get my headphones! 

[Tamworthbay]

10 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

From memory, travel sickness is one of the things Phenergan is used to treat.

Be aware though that it can make you really drowsy (insomnia is what it's used to treat in our household), so keep that in mind.

Thanks, Can I get that over the counter? I was on Scopalamine which has worked before as I suffer due to injections I am on but it even beat that.

[captain_70s]

41 minutes ago, davehedgehog31 said:

The radio has been on in our open plan office all morning. Have never given too much thought to it, apart from thinking it's shit.

It's tuned into Clyde 1, a commercial station and it's absolute brain damage. Constant advertising that all feeds on fear, shite tunes, vapid opinion and awful generic music in between. 

Away home at lunchtime to get my headphones! 

Clyde 2 was about all I could tune into on the Acclaim's AM radio. Music selection was alright but they only played about 50 tracks and the adverts were maddening.

[Zelandeth]

57 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

Thanks, Can I get that over the counter? I was on Scopalamine which has worked before as I suffer due to injections I am on but it even beat that.

Yep, though it's a bit of a pain to find sometimes as only larger pharmacies seem to stock it and even then it's a bit hit and miss.

It's a general purpose antihistamine, but is one of those meds which seems to be used for a plethora of different conditions.

[chaseracer]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

It's too unusual a structure for any domestic roofers to touch, and none of the commercial guys will touch us because we're not a trade customer.  It's utterly maddening.

@puddlethumpermay well be your man here...

[purplebargeken]

Plumbing company engaged in some work for a house further down the road dumped an old boiler or something similar in the road the other day, took it out of his van and just left it there behind his van. Got the details of the van and stuffs on the CCTV. Cunts.

[chaseracer]

That wouldn't last two hours round here!

[dozeydustman]

3 hours ago, Tamworthbay said:

Does anyone know any cures for severe travel sickness? I got caught in the Hurricane on the North Sea on Saturday and still feel utterly shit four days later.

You can get anti-emetics over the counter at a pharmacy counter, but if it persists see your GP as you may have the start of or very mild Vertigo. I really hope you don't as it caused me absolute hell.

[somewhatfoolish]

3 hours ago, davehedgehog31 said:

The radio has been on in our open plan office all morning. Have never given too much thought to it, apart from thinking it's shit.

It's tuned into Clyde 1, a commercial station and it's absolute brain damage. Constant advertising that all feeds on fear, shite tunes, vapid opinion and awful generic music in between. 

Away home at lunchtime to get my headphones! 

Dob them in to the PRS stasi?

[Tamworthbay]

4 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

You can get anti-emetics over the counter at a pharmacy counter, but if it persists see your GP as you may have the start of or very mild Vertigo. I really hope you don't as it caused me absolute hell.

Hopefully not, I don’t travel well since starting the injections I am about 12 years ago, as in I can’t be a passenger for more than about a mile without throwing up so think it is the effects of the travel. I once went in a dead slow kids ride with my daughter when she was about 5 and it was about three days before I was right. Saturday into Sunday was horrific, 28 hours of very high winds with gusts over 60mph and 30ft waves. I was uttterly fucked the entire time. I am going to try and get some of the stuff mentioned above and also going for a curry. I know it sounds mad but I have often found that really spicy food settles dodgy guts down (yup I am weird).

[dozeydustman]

1 hour ago, Tamworthbay said:

Hopefully not, I don’t travel well since starting the injections I am about 12 years ago, as in I can’t be a passenger for more than about a mile without throwing up so think it is the effects of the travel. I once went in a dead slow kids ride with my daughter when she was about 5 and it was about three days before I was right. Saturday into Sunday was horrific, 28 hours of very high winds with gusts over 60mph and 30ft waves. I was uttterly fucked the entire time. I am going to try and get some of the stuff mentioned above and also going for a curry. I know it sounds mad but I have often found that really spicy food settles dodgy guts down (yup I am weird).

 

If medication was making me travel sick or worse then I would be straight back to my GP to have a review and an alternative treatment if possible.

Ginger is good for the stomach bit (and is found in a lot of curries as a spice), also peppermint. Next time you have to go somewhere in a car as a passenger look at a fixed point, plenty of fresh air/open windows and don't read or look at your phone. Really does help for me

[Tamworthbay]

1 hour ago, dozeydustman said:

 

If medication was making me travel sick or worse then I would be straight back to my GP to have a review and an alternative treatment if possible.

Ginger is good for the stomach bit (and is found in a lot of curries as a spice), also peppermint. Next time you have to go somewhere in a car as a passenger look at a fixed point, plenty of fresh air/open windows and don't read or look at your phone. Really does help for me

For most people I would agree and it’s generally sound advice,, but being able to function at 99% of previous levels compared to being crippled with arthritis for two months of the year means you accept a certain level of side effects. I have been offered alternatives (but not because of the travel sickness) but am loathed to give up a drug that basically gave me my life back after ten years of hell. Generally I can manage it pretty well but the North Sea in a hurricane just killed it! I have tried pretty much every alternative therapy/ food etc and none of them work. To get even a mile I have to hang my head out the window like a bloody Labrador. It’s not a major issue as I like driving usually and can use these patches when I travel as they work perfectly for normal transport.

[puddlethumper]

Sh*t ! F*ck ! B*ll*cks !  My van won't start. On the way to work today

it cut out for a few seconds 3/4 times. I'm pretty sure its the injector 

pump and I'm well pissed off as I had it reconditioned about 18 months

ago for £200. 

Took an injector pipe off to find nothing coming out, but fuel getting to 

the pump. Now I've got to find someone to haul/tow it to the mechanic who is 

less than a mile down the road. Hopefully he knows someone. 

I don't suppose there is a shiter in the West Mids who could lend me some/any

wheels for a few days is there ? in exchange for some beer tokens ? No ?  Probs not.

 

[Saabnut]

30 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

I don't suppose there is a shiter in the West Mids who could lend me some/any

wheels for a few days is there ? in exchange for some beer tokens ? No ?  Probs not.

 

Would be more than happy to lend you wheels but fear Aberdeen is a bit far away and I am in France so cannot help with collection either. But can give this a free bump.

[artdjones]

54 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

Sh*t ! F*ck ! B*ll*cks !  My van won't start. On the way to work today

it cut out for a few seconds 3/4 times. I'm pretty sure its the injector 

pump and I'm well pissed off as I had it reconditioned about 18 months

ago for £200. 

Took an injector pipe off to find nothing coming out, but fuel getting to 

the pump. Now I've got to find someone to haul/tow it to the mechanic who is 

less than a mile down the road. Hopefully he knows someone. 

I don't suppose there is a shiter in the West Mids who could lend me some/any

wheels for a few days is there ? in exchange for some beer tokens ? No ?  Probs not.

 

Have you made sure the pump solenoid hasn't stuck shut?

[puddlethumper]

2 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Have you made sure the pump solenoid hasn't stuck shut?

Ooh, good shout on that. I've had trouble with solenoids before. Doh and ting.

Will hook it out tomorrow.

[artdjones]

Just now, puddlethumper said:

Ooh, good shout on that. I've had trouble with solenoids before. Doh and ting.

Will hook it out tomorrow.

Just remove the small moving part inside,replace it on the pump and see if it runs then.You can use the manual lever to switch off.

[puddlethumper]

5 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Just remove the small moving part inside,replace it on the pump and see if it runs then.You can use the manual lever to switch off.

Agreed Art, I had probs a couple of years ago with solenoids that I bought and didn't work. 

I got it down to about 5 mins to hook it out, after the first two shit ones.

No manual lever so I just stalled it till a new shit one arrived, rinse and repeat.

Went through about four I think. First one lasted 3 f*ckin days, FFS, and the next

2 about two weeks. Chinese probably.

[robinmasters]

I'm usually quite good at buying the right thing off the right person on eBay.

Before thing arrived, item was removed from ebay (so I now can't request a return, should have rung alarm bells).

Thing arrived today, didn't work, after an hour or so of trying to make it work, five minutes of googling suggests it's a fake, twenty seconds looking at the seller's feedback shows previous buyers have bought a fake version of the same item off of him. 

Whilst ebay may well refund me (I've started that process) I feel like a right mug. 

[MikeR]

outer shield has blown off the hot water heater terminal ......  only held on by some welds to expanded metal ..

 

I see a set of ladders and some galvanised wire in its future

 

when the wind dies down !!!

[purplebargeken]

Was having a brilliant dream about zombies this morning, really detailed. I'd just found a couple of chainsaws in this deserted building and was getting ready to end a few walkers, next thing the Alpha from The Whisperers turns up and is in charge of the bloody Saviours. They proceeded to take the chainsaws and others bits and pieces and then demanded a regular quota for me to fill. Fuckers, am pissed off and grumpy. Why couldn't they just bloody well leave me alone. Cunts.

[myglaren]

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, purplebargeken said:

Was having a brilliant dream about zombies this morning, really detailed. I'd just found a couple of chainsaws in this deserted building and was getting ready to end a few walkers, next thing the Alpha from The Whisperers turns up and is in charge of the bloody Saviours. They proceeded to take the chainsaws and others bits and pieces and then demanded a regular quota for me to fill. Fuckers, am pissed off and grumpy. Why couldn't they just bloody well leave me alone. Cunts.

sounds more thrilling than the dream I had today

which was set in 2003, and I REALISED it was set in 2003

so I sort of went off the plot and I tried to look for the Invacar that used to be parked up on Hackney road

I shit you not LOL

talk about lucid dreams!

for those wondering I did find an Invacar in the dream somewhere else (after the dream snapped back to 2019) but it was clear my brain was just making crap up this point (UAR188S is on a Mazda, the Invacar UAR-S block does no start until UAR879S LOL also it was on a Y reg in the dream until I said to the person with me in the dream thats not right and when I looked back it was on an S reg...)

and then some other things happened that I dont quite remember LOL

[xtriple]

Reading the above two tales of dreams... and I thought I was weird!   

[MikeR]

FFS . its still the summer hols

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/farmer-teds-christmas-events-2019-16752964

[Supernaut]

At what point do I tell my new potential employers to fuck off?

They've already delayed my start date by a month due to a paperwork fuckup by their 3rd party medical company, and my next start date is due to be this coming Monday. However, it looks like things are going pear-shaped again.

If I get delayed again, it'll be another month too.

All this time I've been holding off on putting in too many applications because I had a job lined up already. Now I'm just utterly, utterly, completely fucked off with them.

[brownnova]

About 15-20 miles from our holiday destination having driven for 5 hours.,. On our first motorway stint the van decides to blow out its rear tyre!! Big style! Mrs_brownnova who was driving at the time controlled it superbly! 

Now awaiting the RAC as it’s far too dangerous to change on the side of the M5! 

[LightBulbFun]

meanwhile I have a moment every time I get a bad bit of bump steer in the invacar!

top marks to @Mrsbrownnova for bringing it under control safely

I wonder what caused the tyre to blow out? (wasn't sticky brakes overheating it was it or something was it?)