The grumpy thread

[Wack]

On 9/2/2019 at 5:17 PM, paulplom said:

Van and v70 away to the accident repair centre today. Only 6 weeks since we reported it. V70 written off. The van is being repaired. The hire firm met me at the repair centre with a new transit. Minge bag spec. No air con, no elec mirrors, no blue tooth or dab. You even have to put the lights on yourself ffs.

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I don't know why anybody, business or individual specs a new vehicle without A/C today

Whatever it costs will be recovered in the resale value , I wouldn't buy a used car without it unless it was a classic or convertible.

A mate of mine bought a base spec dacia sandero without it for his wife , I think he said the one with a/c  was £500 more 

I know what would've been said in our house if I'd made that decision

[Tadhg Tiogar]

21 minutes ago, Wack said:

I don't know why anybody, business or individual specs a new vehicle without A/C today...

Because climate change is important?

[SiC]

37 minutes ago, Wack said:

A mate of mine bought a base spec dacia sandero without it for his wife , I think he said the one with a/c  was £500 more 

I know what would've been said in our house if I'd made that decision

That you would have got it in the ear for making the decision to buy a Sandero?

[strangeangel]

On 9/4/2019 at 8:11 AM, stuboy said:

amazon deliveries!! most drivers stash it behind the bin or in wooden porch cupboard, or on doorstep (in plain view too steal it) this with stuff 30 quid upwards, yesterday £9 doorbell ive had to reaarange delivery and give details of safe place to leave it..

 

i expect my new mobile to be lobbed over the fence..

 

I get that Herpes drivers etc. are badly paid and it's not worth their while to make a second trip, but I wish they'd use some common sense. There's a gazebo behind our house where you could reasonably leave something, and most do. The ones I complain about are those that can't even be arsed to do that, and dump the parcel on the front step in full view of the road, often after faking my signature on their device for proof of delivery.

 

[New POD]

2 hours ago, Wack said:

I don't know why anybody, business or individual specs a new vehicle without A/C today

Whatever it costs will be recovered in the resale value , I wouldn't buy a used car without it unless it was a classic or convertible.

A mate of mine bought a base spec dacia sandero without it for his wife , I think he said the one with a/c  was £500 more 

I know what would've been said in our house if I'd made that decision

It wouldn't be the house you were living in anymore ? 

[Supernaut]

8 hours ago, New POD said:

I do alot of driving and am now at that age where slower is quicker. 

And polite gets you there no slower. 

I have noticed that the drivers around Uttoxeter are very aggressive. Low gears high revs and foot to floor around town and lots of unnesseccary braking and angst. 

And tailgating on the A50.  Coming 2 foot from my bumper isn't going to make me move out of the fast lane, whilst we all wait for the trucks to overtake each over at 56 mph, so just leave a safe gap.  I've stopped brake testing people years ago. But I'm tempted to start again. 

Round here I get a lot folk tailgating me too. They're almost always in pointlessly huge SUV/Crossover type things, but have the seat set so low that you can barely see their eyes over the steering wheel.

"I bought it for the commanding driving position" FUCK OFF

[kirton]

On 9/4/2019 at 9:17 AM, Tetleysmooth said:

Mrs Tet sent to Barts hospital today for a specialist scan. I think this is more serious than we both thought.

If she's suitable for a stent to be fitted, she may possibly be home soon, the other possibility is a heart bypass.

She's been categorised as high risk.

Bloody, bloody hell.

Stents are wonderful;  I had mine done about 18 years ago and the next morning I felt supercharged and raring to go but was told you have a fortnight off work, SAD.  I think the insertion of the stents is easier than it was those years ago, and for me it was no worse than a trip to the dentist. The stents lasted me until about two years ago when further furring up slowed me down again;  I had a further angiogram two months back and was a bit set back by being told it was surgery not more stents and it would be sometime between September 2019 and September 2020 for the operations, bypasses and valve replacement.  Good news received yesterday  - rather than a long wait to be done in Plymouth I'm lined up for 4th October in a private hospital in Cheam - (Mrs K may be boarding out in Railway Cutting).  

Hopefully Mrs T will have as good an experience with stents as I had, and if not she will soon be referred on by the overstretched NHS to a private hospital to be bypassed.

 

Edited September 5, 2019 by kirton
Getting my Anthony Hancock right

[Pieman]

18 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

I bet they're the same dickheads who pretty much park in the door of the local supermarket when it so much as drizzles. Our Morrisons is a disaster area in such circumstances. If I'm on community minibus duty, I take great pleasure in blocking these lazy sods in while my passengers slowly get off. The bay is marked for buses, not lazy dickheads.

Part of me wants to quit what I do now and take a job in a supermarket warehouse, just so that when this happens I can drive outside on my forklift and dump their cars out of the way.

[Cavcraft]

I think every second counts for the likes of these delivery drivers, probs to the extent that 40 seconds to walk down a path and back, is 40 seconds wasted. Faking signatures is an old trick, it's amazing how easy it is to get away with in certain circumstances! It doesn't excuse drivers lobbing parcels over walls, leaving on door steps for everyone to see etc of course, but I expect they've decided that one or two official complaints aren't too much trouble for them, compared to running late or missing deliveries.

[Mally]

Minor irritant compared to some on here, but the motor on my lathe went up in smoke this morning.

Motors are expensive and can be difficult to wire for idiots like me it seems.

I'll take it off some day and read the label.

 

[colnerov]

 

 Read the instructions? What sort of man are you?

[DoctorRetro]

13 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

No they've been a pound for at least a year if not a bit longer. No special offer type promo.

It will be to put them at a higher price for 30 days so they can then reduce them and claim it is a special offer I reckon. 

[Spiny Norman]

1 hour ago, Cavcraft said:

I think every second counts for the likes of these delivery drivers, probs to the extent that 40 seconds to walk down a path and back, is 40 seconds wasted. Faking signatures is an old trick, it's amazing how easy it is to get away with in certain circumstances! It doesn't excuse drivers lobbing parcels over walls, leaving on door steps for everyone to see etc of course, but I expect they've decided that one or two official complaints aren't too much trouble for them, compared to running late or missing deliveries.

As anyone who has ever done delivery work will tell you, this is largely the case. You're targeted for an often unachievable number of drops per hour and one traffic snarl-up can totally fuck up your entire day.

Also, how many of these deliveries are actually paid for? I'm sure most of us will always seek out the 'free delivery' option when we're buying online but that Transit van isn't free and the poor sod driving it will be wanting some kind of remuneration at the end of their stressed 10 hour shift so it's no wonder the actual service is often shite.

Even if I do go for free delivery I always try to ensure it's Royal Mail so there is at least SOME chance it'll get here in one piece and if I'm not in  it'll just get sent back to the local depot two streets away instead of some warehouse 30 miles out out of town in some scabby industrial estate.

[Lankytim]

The V70 D5 has an injector rattle under load, during acceleration. I've been swapping No4 injector as it seems to be this one that's making the noise. The last injector I fitted made no difference but had a very low leak back test so I've decided to leave it in. Unfortunately I've installed it incorrectly as it's now getting slight blow-by meaning the copper sealing washer is leaking. No problem, i'll just replace it and reseat it. Can I get the two small T30 bolts out? Can I BOLLOCKS.  I don't remember over tightening them, but I must've as they're now stuck tight. 

OBV I've buggered about with them to the extent that both heads are nicely chewed up and I've now got zero hope of getting them out. The leak is slight and the car is still perfectly driveable so i'll just forget about it until I can bring myself to weld a nut onto the top of each of the stuck bolts and get them out that way.

Turns out lots of D5 engines make this weird rattle under load and it's seen as  just one of those things. They'll happily run for years with noisy injectors and most owners just put up with it, meaning the whole escapade was totally pointless anyway.

 

[brownnova]

On 9/4/2019 at 8:16 AM, Floatylight said:

The other day we had an Amazon delivery left in the green bin with all the household waste including the kitchen bin and week old bags of dog doop!

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One time we had an amazon package placed in the recycling bin... unfortunately it was recycling day and it was taken away with the rest of the cardboard!! 

Thankfully we got our money back for that one! 

[Tetleysmooth]

4 hours ago, kirton said:

Stents are wonderful;  I had mine done about 18 years ago and the next morning I felt supercharged and raring to go but was told you have a fortnight off work, SAD.  I think the insertion of the stents is easier than it was those years ago, and for me it was no worse than a trip to the dentist. The stents lasted me until about two years ago when further furring up slowed me down again;  I had a further angiogram two months back and was a bit set back by being told it was surgery not more stents and it would be sometime between September 2019 and September 2020 for the operations, bypasses and valve replacement.  Good news received yesterday  - rather than a long wait to be done in Plymouth I'm lined up for 4th October in a private hospital in Cheam - (Mrs K may be boarding out in Railway Cutting).  

Hopefully Mrs T will have as good an experience with stents as I had, and if not she will soon be referred on by the overstretched NHS to a private hospital to be bypassed.

 

She was told today that she will be going to St Barts tomorrow for the angiogram. She'll be gone all day. It'll seem strange not to be doing my usual two runs to the hospital

[Floatylight]

Arsebiscuits!!

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[chaseracer]

That's not good, Steve!  But hopefully far enough away from the sidewall to be repairable?

And now, over to our medical correspondent, who reports that kidney stone #3 is making itself known at Chaseracer Towers.  OUCH.

[Supernaut]

Applying for jobs.

I really should apply directly, instead of through agencies, but it seems like a lot of companies are using agencies. The joy* of this is that you see a listing on s1jobs and it's just the agency name, not the actual company who are looking for somebody.

I applied for 4 jobs advertised by the same agency this afternoon, and the representative got back to me pretty quickly as they're somebody I've dealt with before.

2 of them were positions I interviewed for roughly this time last year and didn't get, and one was a position I interviewed for only in July! I still remember that one, and I thought the guy interviewing me was a bit odd, he'd only been with the company 9 months and seemed to want somebody who would do pretty much everything, at any hour. Seems like he's having a lot of luck finding somebody, eh?

 

The mind boggles.

[Garythesnail]

36 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

.......... kidney stone #3 is making itself known at Chaseracer Towers.  OUCH.

You have my deepest sympathy. I've now got a collection of five of those little bastards in a pot. Only about 7mm but shaped like mini-fucking-meteorites with tiny little jagged edges.

0 star rating, do not recommend, would not use again.

[Fumbler]

In an attempt to fix our partially broken telephone and Internet, I made this!

Since the voice line extension was fucked I left it out of the socket. This works and hopefully won't be needed tomorrow when the filter faceplate comes in the mail.

[MarvinsMom]

16 hours ago, Wack said:

I don't know why anybody, business or individual specs a new vehicle without A/C today

Whatever it costs will be recovered in the resale value , I wouldn't buy a used car without it unless it was a classic or convertible.

A mate of mine bought a base spec dacia sandero without it for his wife , I think he said the one with a/c  was £500 more 

I know what would've been said in our house if I'd made that decision

me mam has done that TWICE! on each of the nissan micra's she has bought new, she has specifically omitted the a/c "cos its just something else to go wrong"

and it saved a few hundred quid on the car. another reason why both were in cheapest solid white, the only colours that they came in that didn't cost any more.

mother couldn't give a toss about climate change, the bottom line on the road price of the car was more important.

plus as mother will keep the current one until she gives up driving (she is now 70) so resale value will not be an issue. the last one covered  18000 miles in 7 years.......

[The Moog]

I was asked to do 10 minutes talk at an awards ceremony last night about my achievements. Being it is my new employer I said yes and wished I hadn't.

It was free bar with free food. I was at the end of the session when I stood between them and the free bar. About 200 people there who were either employers or parents of the winners - so had no interest in my achievements.

Wasn't my finest 10 minutes as I hate talking about myself and the jokes in it didn't go down well. Nothing quite like 200 people just staring at you silently.

Oh well ... Next time (not that I am invited back) will be a no I think .

[clayts450]

4 hours ago, snagglepuss said:

I was asked to do 10 minutes talk at an awards ceremony last night about my achievements. Being it is my new employer I said yes and wished I hadn't.

It was free bar with free food. I was at the end of the session when I stood between them and the free bar. About 200 people there who were either employers or parents of the winners - so had no interest in my achievements.

Wasn't my finest 10 minutes as I hate talking about myself and the jokes in it didn't go down well. Nothing quite like 200 people just staring at you silently.

Oh well ... Next time (not that I am invited back) will be a no I think .

Sorry but I didn't read past 'free bar'.... what was your grump again ?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Applying for jobs is fucking grim.  I haven't used my brain in five years and I'm looking for something that might stretch me a bit... narrowed it down.

I got offered a job a few months ago but turned it down because I would have been worse off, even though the base pay was higher I was travelling three times as far.  Feeling like I should have just taken the fucker anyway...

[The Moog]

I wasn't partaking of free bar cause a) I wasn't told in advance so drove and 2) was presenting and thought I might end up making an idiot of myself ( which with hindsight probably was best plan!)

[eddyramrod]

Telly adverts.  Some are positive gems (Talk to me, Katowski!) but most are just shit.  And has it now become illegal to cast a family for an advert who are all of the same racial origin?

 

There... that's both sides of the topic covered.

[stonedagain]

Royal fucking mail! Waiting for a tracked parcel to arrive, it seems to be being shunted back & forth between sorting offices for 2 days now. It was only 4 miles from my house yesterday, now it's at North Tyneside!

[anonymous user]

53 minutes ago, stonedagain said:

Royal fucking mail! Waiting for a tracked parcel to arrive, it seems to be being shunted back & forth between sorting offices for 2 days now. It was only 4 miles from my house yesterday, now it's at North Tyneside!

Well that's what happens when you order a boomerang by mail

[Fumbler]

Underground engineer came round to fix our telephone problem. No, couldn't do it because it's under a manhole... in the middle of the fecking road. At least TalkTalk has now set all calls to the house to divert to a mobile phone.