The grumpy thread

[Datsuncog]

On 2/29/2020 at 4:59 PM, HillmanImp said:

Just took the bags outside to lob them in the back of the Legacy to take them to the tip and the boot appears to be broken and won't open FFS. 

Will look at it in the morning.

Any joy with the Legacy's non-opening boot? I had similar bother with my Forester; after worrying that the locking module was on its way out, all it took was a good squirt of 3-in-1 oil up into the mechanism and it's been grand ever since.

Took a while to persuade it to open first, mind...

[myglaren]

11 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

This has happened again to my daughter's (used to be mine) C4 VTS...

Some people are just bastards...

 

There's an Iranian family live opposite me, been here for at least 20 years and probably more.

The woman had a Crossfire until recently but now has a Peugeot sports thingy in a dark smoky blue and someone has done that all the way down the nearside of hers.

Absolutely mindless.

[myglaren]

I bought a new washing machine for one of the girls last August.  Packed up last week.

Engineer came to fix it.  Needs a new motor and control board, a week before he comes back.

I did her washing on Saturday & yesterday.  Put it on a 30° wash.  The washer is slow, checked after an hour and my washer had paused itself.  set it away again, an hour later, same thing and then again an hour after that.

Second lot was better, only did it before the final rinse & spin.

All day to wash two lots of clothes.

At least it worked properly yesterday at 40°

It is suspiciously quiet now, supposed to be doing my delayed washing.

[MikeR]

Try and check the water is getting heated . The washer will pause while it is done .

 

[MikeR]

Flat car battery ... It's only been stood a fortnight ... !!!

[myglaren]

3 hours ago, MikeR said:

Try and check the water is getting heated . The washer will pause while it is done .

It was only on the (rarely used) 30° cycle and then mainly the rinse cycle.

Pushing the 'go' button set it away again - go button flashes while paused, I use it occasionally when cleaning the machine - fill with bleach and cold water then abandon it for a few hours (until I remember it)

 

[gm]

I managed to clobber the civic's wing mirror off a wheely bin this afternoon and it's now gone all mr floppy

I'm not overly upset as  it's been previously bodged and had done well to last this long

but how long has it lasted ? There's a little bit of paper scrunched up in the hinge, which of the 9 previous owners did that ? 

Fixing shall commence later on, most likely involving self tappers and a blob or two of epoxy  

[SRi05]

1 minute ago, gm said:

I managed to clobber the civic's wing mirror off a wheely bin this afternoon and it's now gone all mr floppy

I'm not overly upset as  it's been previously bodged and had done well to last this long

but how long has it lasted ? There's a little bit of paper scrunched up in the hinge, which of the 9 previous owners did that ? 

Fixing shall commence later on, most likely involving self tappers and a blob or two of epoxy  

Not guilty m'lud

[garbaldy]

On 2/27/2020 at 2:13 PM, yes oui si said:

Yeah, just stick a space saver on the front end of several tons of Swedish steel with your kid in the back... 

Totally unrelated but that garden centre used to be a slaughter house when I where a lad. The locals never thought councillor Murray mbe could pull it off but it always apears to be busy.

[yes oui si]

51 minutes ago, garbaldy said:

Totally unrelated but that garden centre used to be a slaughter house when I where a lad. The locals never thought councillor Murray mbe could pull it off but it always apears to be busy.

A couple of relatives used to work there. 

Slightly disappointed that they've pulled down the buildings over the 697 for this new distillery - was kind of hoping that they'd repair and maintain them. 

[garbaldy]

I can remember standing on the peth watching brand new fords being unloaded and driven up the ramp to the upstairs storage area of that redpaths building, when the new reg came out they where driven back down and along to the haugh head garage for new owners to collect. 

The sandstone original bible school bit was quite nice shame they didn't incorporate it into the new distillery the rest was just tin shed really which was doomed the moment a young towrag fell through the roof trying his free running skills.

[djoptix]

On 3/2/2020 at 6:50 AM, Steve79 said:

Don’t let her sleep on the bed!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

On 3/2/2020 at 1:43 AM, Daviemck2006 said:

.....Why are folk such dicks?...

Inbreeding? Something to do with the genes being faulty?

[xtriple]

She doesn't sleep on the bed as I don't sleep in a bed! I sleep on the floor with Chester under the blanket with me and Phoebe on a huge pillow/dog bed thing next to me. I try to keep her and her bed next to the heater to keep her warm (Chester keeps me warm) but sometimes she turns around and her bum end up where I'd prefer it to NOT be.

So I don't let her 'sleep on the bed' as she#d never get on or off if I did.

 

[djoptix]

3 minutes ago, xtriple said:

She doesn't sleep on the bed as I don't sleep in a bed! I sleep on the floor with Chester under the blanket with me and Phoebe on a huge pillow/dog bed thing next to me. I try to keep her and her bed next to the heater to keep her warm (Chester keeps me warm) but sometimes she turns around and her bum end up where I'd prefer it to NOT be.

So I don't let her 'sleep on the bed' as she#d never get on or off if I did.

Oh. Well, now I feel bad. Carry on ?

 

[xtriple]

Just now, djoptix said:

Oh. Well, now I feel bad. Carry on ?

 

So you should!   

[New POD]

On 3/2/2020 at 10:14 AM, MikeR said:

Flat car battery ... It's only been stood a fortnight ... !!!

My bad. I'm back on Friday, but  I think my jump leads are in the boot of the mx5, with battery charger. 

[MikeR]

I just charged up my spare battery and swapped it ...  the charging is at 14.3v on  the car and its turning over ok ...

[Bobthebeard]

On 24 February 2020 at 7:01 PM, eddyramrod said:

People.

Fucking people.

Fucking ignorant people.

Fucking ignorant, mannerless, shouty, aggressive, bastarding people.

Why do I have to share this planet, this life, with this rubbish?

I am the most timid, law-abiding, pleasant person you could possibly meet, and I'm walking the smallest dog.  Well ok, as Chihuahuas go she's quite big, but you know what I mean.

So tonight at 1730 I was walking her a couple of streets from home and she stopped to do a poo, just by a much bigger poo done by another dog.  Now having had freshly-cooked meat yesterday (doggy bag from the carvery we went to) Memphis is a bit constipated.  It'll be a day or two before she does any more than little bullets.  So I dug a bag out of my pocket and picked up what she'd done, and walked on, just as a black diesel Audi parked up where we'd been.  As we got near the end of the street, from behind me comes "Hey, dogshit!" at a wake-the-dead volume.  I turned, holding up my bag.

"Not mine, I pick hers up!"     

"Aye, fuck you did!"  (Want to guess where he's from?  I think I've written enough of his accent...)

"That wasn't us!"  And we carried on round the corner.

1: Don't talk to strangers like that, you don't know what they might do!  (In my case, fuck all, which does nothing but fill me with frustration.)

2: Get your facts straight.  Did you see my dog do that poo?  No you fucking didn't.  There is no way on this or any other Earth you could have, even if you'd been walking with us, because she didn't do it, and what she did do, I picked up.

3: You really want to have this row at maximum volume in the street where you live?

 

Do I really have to admit to being the same species as that?

Have had a similar experience. Picked up the poo,  dogbeard and I went on our way with me holding the poo bag. Mr Angry Bloke comes running up to me a few minutes later. " Oi, fucker, my kid has just stepped in your dogshit " Showed him the poo bag, explained that I had clearly picked up and whatever his kid had stood in was nothing to do with me. He just got angrier and more abusive before storming off claiming " got your picture fucker, you are going on Facebook ". I was shaking with rage and injustice but could do nothing else but go. This was last year and it still upsets me. The Angry and Entitled win every time. He probably forgot about it ten minutes later when the next 'reason to be angry' occurred. I am still clearly affected  by the confrontation. Not on your own Eddy! 

[barmatt]

23 hours ago, gm said:

 

 

Someone's been buying expensive tat from my former employer.

[captain_70s]

I went to Halfords t'other day to buy wiper blades and the whole surrounding area was littered with AdBlue containers, ludicrous amounts of the fucking things.

I guess nobody wants them cluttering up their cars/bins... 

[xtriple]

Some prick once hung out of their bedroom window to shout at me because Phobe had pee'd on their cars wheel.

Phoebe.

Who is a girly dog and they squat not cock their leg. Twat wouldn't have it so I blew him a kiss and walked(hobbled) away. If he wasn't incandescent with rage before, he was after I blew him a kiss  

[Saabnut]

Spent the day removing and skipping the 3 year old carpets and flooring from my rental mentioned earlier. Every carpet, underlay and floorboard soaked in dog piss. Tomorrow I will go back and disinfect the place. Lovely people.

[eddyramrod]

Just now, Bobthebeard said:

 This was last year and it still upsets me. The Angry and Entitled win every time.

Sadly they do, because Real People like you and I won't lower ourselves to their level.  If only...  Anyway, thank you for the support.

[Cavcraft]

1 hour ago, xtriple said:

Some prick once hung out of their bedroom window to shout at me because Phobe had pee'd on their cars wheel.

Phoebe.

Who is a girly dog and they squat not cock their leg. Twat wouldn't have it so I blew him a kiss and walked(hobbled) away. If he wasn't incandescent with rage before, he was after I blew him a kiss  

 

Some stupid old bat shouted at my missus because our dog pissed on the pavement outside her neighbour's house. Every opportunity I get he gets walked that way now. Also, he's pissed on a mobility scooter,  my foot, other dog's faces (who were sticking their noses in) and actually  crapped on someone's car wheel once. He also has a fantastic habit of only seeming to have a 'Richard' at the end of people's drives if they're either in the garden or looking out of the window.

[anonymous user]

Dogs know how to embarrass you, Ted rarely comes into a town as ( like me) he is a bit scared of people. On one of the few occasions he came with me to Cowbridge he decided to poo in the doorway of the Co op, it has automatic doors which opened as he was squatting. Luckily it was not a runny poo (I do carry paper towel and wet wipes) so it was easy to clean up. He later showed me up in the pub, by helping himself to a croissant off someone else's plate. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

With this high* standard of parking, I do wonder how some drivers passed the practical part of their tests....

[FakeConcern]

It's everywhere...

[captain_70s]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

With this high* standard of parking, I do wonder how some drivers passed the practical part of their tests....

That was the last hour of driving that they bothered to apply effort or thought. From that point it's been an application of casual vacancy and assuming correctness. 

[catsinthewelder]

As seen in the grin thread I collected a 3 year old Renault Traffic minibus from a main dealer in South London earlier (arrived at 1:30).  They knew I was coming with 3 days warning but only spotted it needed a software update when they went to move it so I waited round for about 40 minutes.  I suspect this was a ploy to make me rush looking around it as I said I needed to be back in Shropshire by 5pm.

 

Nothing looked too awful so I signed for it and headed up the road, got about a mile before the fuel light was joined by the tyre pressure warning.  Jumped out and looked round 4 inflated tyres so continued to the garage and filled the tank, rechecked the tyres and found a huge cut in the OSF.  Pottered up to a layby to change it before thinking fuck that and drove back to Renault.  They drove it into the workshp and 20 minutes later came out to say they didn't have any tyres in stock but they'd rung their tame tyrefitters and I could just call by and he'd sort it.  I asked at this point about the hole in the rear seat squab and was told they didn't know about it but could get their man to look at it if I was in the area again.  At this point I spotted it had 2 missing headrests but wasn't too fussed as the old buses still here.

Tyrefitter was spot on and quick and I was soon on the M25 until bing low tyre pressure FFS.

Pulled onto the hard shoulder just behind a bridge for safety and had a quick look round.  Smaller cut on NSF tyre FFS.  Rang the gaffer and told him to ring Renault, I'd drive straight to the tyrefitters.  Helpfully it was 10 miles till the next junction so 30 miles back to the tyrefitters.  Thankfully he was expecting me and did it straight away while I made some calls and found some dinner.  Being super competent for a tyrefitter he spotted that the smaller cut shouldn't be leaking air so did some investigation and the valve didn't have a tyre pressure monitor in.  He didn't have one in stock and being as it was now 4:45 I thanked him and headed home just in time to hit all the traffic on the M25.

 

The garage was apologetic and paid for the tyres but if you have to put up with this shit what is the point of buying from a main dealer?

 

I got home about 8pm by driving none stop and engaging hyperdrive on a private racetrack that looked like the M40,  my arse is now numb but thats probably from the GWR class 800 I came down in.