The grumpy thread

[strangeangel]

Off work today, new alternator arrived yesterday. Will I be fitting it to the BX this morning?

 

 

Will I fuck

[Ghosty]

Another work grump. Apparently one rider has 7am priority, that was never mentioned to us. I know he works for the company a lot, but what the fuck? Why the fucking fuck is he getting special treatment?

I wonder how the scheduling works if you’re a trainer too.

If I don’t get any work again next week I’m going to start talking to the IWW.

 

On a half related note, tech grump. Apple have made it so the WiFi and Bluetooth switches in the slidey menu are just ‘disconnect’ buttons and don’t actually disable them, you have to go into the settings app to do that.

That’s just fucking stupid, they claim it’s to ‘keep you connected’ to stuff like Apple Watches and other shit.

I have a couple of Bluetooth bits like a speaker and headphones, but WiFi is basically useless to me and I want to have it off. It’s actually inconvenient to have it on at work because it connects to random WiFi hotspots I’m passing, and if they have a landing page then you connect but don’t get any internet. If that happens while I’m trying to do something in my delivery app, the bugger times out and you have to stand about waiting for it.

Nothings ever simple is it?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Another work grump. Apparently one rider has 7am priority, that was never mentioned to us. I know he works for the company a lot, but what the fuck? Why the fucking fuck is he getting special treatment?

I wonder how the scheduling works if you’re a trainer too.

If I don’t get any work again next week I’m going to start talking to the IWW.

On a half related note, tech grump. Apple have made it so the WiFi and Bluetooth switches in the slidey menu are just ‘disconnect’ buttons and don’t actually disable them, you have to go into the settings app to do that.

That’s just fucking stupid, they claim it’s to ‘keep you connected’ to stuff like Apple Watches and other shit.

I have a couple of Bluetooth bits like a speaker and headphones, but WiFi is basically useless to me and I want to have it off. It’s actually inconvenient to have it on at work because it connects to random WiFi hotspots I’m passing, and if they have a landing page then you connect but don’t get any internet. If that happens while I’m trying to do something in my delivery app, the bugger times out and you have to stand about waiting for it.

Nothings ever simple is it?

The only bit of this that I really understand is; " I want to have it off " ...

[Pillock]

If you go into settings, you turn it off and it stays off. 

You can also "forget" any networks you don't want it to connect to and leave the ones (such as your home wifi, or anything that doesn't need a landing page) so you save a bit of data but don't experience the lack of connection.

[Supernaut]

My android phone doesn't connect to an unknown network unless I tell it to. Surely you can set your iPhone to behave the same way?

 

Sounds to me like it's just automatically connecting to anything and everything at the moment.

[Snipes]

My android phone doesn't connect to an unknown network unless I tell it to. Surely you can set your iPhone to behave the same way?

 

Sounds to me like it's just automatically connecting to anything and everything at the moment.

No o shouldn’t connect to just any old network. I have bt WiFi and it’s always tripping over their WiFi hotspots.

[Noel Tidybeard]

you could always do the sensible thing and throw your appleshite in the bin and have an android phone that does what you want it to do

[Guest Hooli]

Another work grump. Apparently one rider has 7am priority, that was never mentioned to us. I know he works for the company a lot, but what the fuck? Why the fucking fuck is he getting special treatment?

I wonder how the scheduling works if you’re a trainer too.

If I don’t get any work again next week I’m going to start talking to the IWW.

 

On a half related note, tech grump. Apple have made it so the WiFi and Bluetooth switches in the slidey menu are just ‘disconnect’ buttons and don’t actually disable them, you have to go into the settings app to do that.

That’s just fucking stupid, they claim it’s to ‘keep you connected’ to stuff like Apple Watches and other shit.

I have a couple of Bluetooth bits like a speaker and headphones, but WiFi is basically useless to me and I want to have it off. It’s actually inconvenient to have it on at work because it connects to random WiFi hotspots I’m passing, and if they have a landing page then you connect but don’t get any internet. If that happens while I’m trying to do something in my delivery app, the bugger times out and you have to stand about waiting for it.

Nothings ever simple is it?

 

 

Who are IWW?

 

On the other note, Crapple - it just works (sometimes). I can't stand it, it's annoying & intrusive without the ability to actually do anything you want to do.

[MikeR]

picture of a black bike with a black clad rider doing a wheelie on a black road on a dark side street , mate following behind in black gear on a black bike , reflection from brake peddle just visible    , screen shot from the car cam ..even the camera struggled to see them !!

 

meanwhile if I do 21 in a 20 zone some volunteering half wit of a jobsworth will report me !!!

 

[Ghosty]

Industrial Workers of the World, they’re a union that ask us to join them sometimes, looking for more rights etc. With conditions going down the pan talking to them is starting to gain appeal.

[Kiltox]

I hate the iOS 11 control centre changes too - don’t get why they’ve done it.

[Pillock]

I hate the iOS 11 control centre changes too - don’t get why they’ve done it.

Because if you turn things off, things (headphones, location, watch etc) stop working and it generates a massive amount of support queries when things stop working.

 

It's more a reflection on a *typical* Apple user than Apple themselves

[Kiltox]

I think it’s a bug - my phone currently shows that Bluetooth is turned off (icon is grey in the control centre and there’s no Bluetooth symbol next to the battery) yet my watch still works.....

 

Surely this isn’t intended functionality? Surely?

 

EDIT - holy shit it is - “allow new connections” is all that’s turned off

 

Get fucked.

[Ghosty]

It’s fucking daft.

As well my phone keeps crashing and Spotify connectivity is buggered, doesn’t show up anywhere and my headphone remote stops responding to it.

[Kiltox]

Also fuck me how hard is it to delete iCloud contacts.... can I get it to stop suggesting who it might be?!

[neil1971]

Now that it's dark on the journey to and from work, time for the old seasonal grump of all the daytime running light brigade failing to realise these lights only work on the front.and merrily driving round with no illumination on the back, great work

[Kiltox]

Now that it's dark on the journey to and from work, time for the old seasonal grump of all the daytime running light brigade failing to realise these lights only work on the front.and merrily driving round with no illumination on the back, great work

This is why I love the fact my Duster doesn’t turn dashboard illumination on until you turn the lights on.

[hennabm]

picture of a black bike with a black clad rider doing a wheelie on a black road on a dark side street , mate following behind in black gear on a black bike , reflection from brake peddle just visible , screen shot from the car cam ..even the camera struggled to see them !!

 

meanwhile if I do 21 in a 20 zone some volunteering half wit of a jobsworth will report me !!!

 

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In central Brizzle yesterday I was waiting at a red light with a plod motor alongside me.

 

Matey boy on a cycle goes straight through the red and the reaction from the plod;

 

 

 

Absolutely f***** nothing.

Yet do 32 in a 30 and you are the world most heinous criminal - or easy money.

[purplebargeken]

Probably just about to return to base to commence mealing and cba with the hassle.

[twosmoke300]

Probably thought " organ donor" and let him get on with it !

[Pillock]

Probably realised the chances of a cyclist pulling over for the police is miniscule compared to the chance of them just bombing off down a path somewhere and optionally hitting a pedestrian.

[hennabm]

Probably realised the chances of a cyclist pulling over for the police is miniscule compared to the chance of them just bombing off down a path somewhere and optionally hitting a pedestrian.

 

And so why do the police have tazers????????????

that would stop him getting too far ahead.

[Pillock]

Because appropriate reaction.

[Cavcraft]

Yep, difficult to spot any issue at all with tazering someone off a bike and it's completely appropriate punishment.

[DodgeRover]

Caltrops....

[Guest Hooli]

Yep, difficult to spot any issue at all with tazering someone off a bike and it's completely appropriate punishment.

 

I can think of a few occasions it'd have been seen as too lenient.

 

Such as the yoblet who knocked an old granny over while cycling through a pedestrian area at twat-like speeds years ago. No plod needed at the time though as I made a grab for him as he went past & happened* to get the front brake with results you can guess. I wish my reactions where still that good.

 

 

*Yes I aimed for it, but never expected to be successful.

[Bianconeri]

Now that it's dark on the journey to and from work, time for the old seasonal grump of all the daytime running light brigade failing to realise these lights only work on the front.and merrily driving round with no illumination on the back, great work

Saw a Magistrates Court report 2-3 years ago where the defence to driving without lights (one of a long list of offences) was that they are automatic and so it was the manufacturer’s fault they didn’t come on. While I and many others hope idiots like that should never get a driving licence there is a sizeable minority who will doubtless be in agreement with the offender, will know every last nuance of the ‘infotainment system’ and other driver distraction devices but will be clueless about turning lights and wipers on (or checking levels and tyre pressures......).

[robinmasters]

Fucking Facebook group can get to fuck.

 

There was a middle-aged man on yesterday asking what a car he'd spotted was. It was a Ford fucking Granada. Unbelievable.

 

The ignorance amongst people who have supposedly joined a group connected with something that interests them is unreal.

 

Add that the derision poured upon actual shite, the constant 'Have I won?' posts, and the desperate attempts to impress Prab the mod.

 

Fuck right off.

[chaseracer]

^ I got banned ages ago.

[eddyramrod]

The ignorance amongst people who have supposedly joined a group connected with something that interests them is unreal.

Sadly, no it isn't, it's all too real.  In fact it appears to be normal these days.  People really are getting stupider and stupider.  Which wouldn't be so bad, except they're breeding like fucking germs too!