The grumpy thread

[mercrocker]

At least they didn't write "seal"

[chaseracer]

"BUMBER."

 

Message ends.

[AlabamaShrimp]

'I work long hours driving a truck. It's dark and there are 60 signs glowing in the dark on the M62.'

 

'I think the best thing I can do is drive right up the arse, I mean within 4 foot, of this Frontera in front. It's definitely safe and when we get to the 50 section of road works, I'll over take and go a bit faster'

 

What a total cunt. I could see nothing but one of his lights he was that close.

 

This came after a trip to Ikea where Mrs Shrimp thinks its a good idea to waste £500 on a bed that lifts up. Apparently there's storage underneath. Year exactly like we've already got then..

[SierraMikeHotel]

I am in the market for a new sofa so I've been looking in all the shops.  Stunned at how poor the Harveys offerings are, and they are in fact still selling the 1970s delight that Stephen01 is trying to shift.  They're cheaper for a reason, is my impression.

 

My grump:

I drive very rarely these days, and every time I do someone tries to kill me.  This is probably true for you as well, but because you drive every day you're inured to it.

 

I drove a car on Sunday.  During my drive I drove through the village of Chiddingfold, which caused me to slow to thirty miles per hour.  A massive bellend was about an inch behind me for that whole painful period of about three minutes.  He's obviously so important that many people died because he was a little bit late.  The second we were out of the village he overtook me, even though there was a car coming the other way.

 

I remember thinking, very slowly and calmly: They're going to have a head-on.

 

i braked hard, hoping to lessen the effects, and somehow the massive bellend managed to steer between me and the oncoming car with something less than a Rizla between the three vehicles.

 

He pulled the same thing a couple more times before going out of my sight ahead.

[bramz7]

I posted a wanted advert on the 'shite cars for sale' facebook page, and was certain they were 'allowed', so to speak.

 

It got deleted without warning and then one of the admins (who is probably on here HI!) posted a photo which then magically says they are not allowed.

 

Dunno why I bother on these groups to be honest, it often feels like you can only do what the admins mood suits.

[Kiltox]

You need to pay serious money for good furniture these days - a £1500 DFS suite in 2018 funnily enough isn’t as good as a £1500 suite in 1990.....

 

£1500 in 1990 is aparrently £2400 today

£1500 in 1980 £4497

[SiC]

I posted a wanted advert on the 'shite cars for sale' facebook page, and was certain they were 'allowed', so to speak.

 

It got deleted without warning and then one of the admins (who is probably on here HI!) posted a photo which then magically says they are not allowed.

 

Dunno why I bother on these groups to be honest, it often feels like you can only do what the admins mood suits.

There is the problem. Facebook user participation rate is declining unsurprisingly (admittedly for many more reasons too).

[twosmoke300]

You need to pay serious money for good furniture these days - a £1500 DFS suite in 2018 funnily enough isn’t as good as a £1500 suite in 1990.....

 

£1500 in 1990 is aparrently £2400 today

£1500 in 1980 £4497

Exactly . Our sofa was 3400 I think and it’s brilliant . From a local small ish shop

[Jerzy Woking]

Up in Edinburgh just now for the week. Since my dad died in November, all of the things he used to do have mounted up, so I have a 'list'! Got 4 done yesterday, so one of today's was fit a new toilet seat in the bathroom upstairs. Should only involve a 13mm spanner to remove the old one. The tools that were actually involved were 2spanners, vice grips, 2 screwdrivers, pair of pliers, wd40, junior hacksaw and an angle grinder! Took 2 hours. FFS, I can do a Megane cambelt in less time. On the plus side, the new one I got from toolstation is all fitted from above, and took about 5 mins to fit. What my mum didn't tell the family was that she broke a rib when the last seat snapped and she fell off onto the bath. She didn't want to worry anyone! She was 80 last month!

 

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I thought I was the only one with such a bastard toilet seat. I too had to take an angle grinder to the two bolts securing it to the pan. Thank the Lord that someone devised fixings that are on the top - which begs the question "why has it taken so many years to do?"

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

We got a new sofa at Christmas, sounds cliche but our old one was totally fucked. The nicest one we found that suited our requirements was in fact in Harveys! I wanted a price limit of £1500 as we have kids and kids destroy stuff.

It was delivered in days. It's a very solid and super comfy recliner corner group and I can't stop falling asle

[Kiltox]

I bought a 3str sofa and an electric reclining chair from DFS last year for £1500 - the sofa looked a bit rubbish after a few months and the chair is cheap shit although holding up better. Neither of us are light which doesn’t obviously help

 

Meh.

 

Probably expected better than I got but it’s the first time I’ve spent more than £50 on a sofa.

[Tamworthbay]

Fuck all that, our sofa is brilliant, got it from Asda of all places about three years back for £350. £3k for a sofa? It needs fucking wheels and V8 thrown in to be worth that.

[mk2_craig]

It's a very solid and super comfy recliner corner group and I can't stop falling asle

ROFL

[320touring]

My sofa cost a bottle of chateau neuf De pap (co -op, £15) and a 6hr van hire (2.5hrs each way on fast A roads, total of 13 cars passed).

[New POD]

I am pissed off by people where I have just started working who are in senior positions and like to stamp their authority on things that should not concern them. I am pissed off by automation suppliers who fucking lie about their plan. and 6 weeks into a 24 week plan are now 5 weeks late.  I am pissed off by people who seemed intent on making a simple job difficult. I just want to send some scrap parts to another automation supplier so they can do an experiment. These have been recorded and written off by quality, who say "just take them". Ah but no. You need to raise a special form, and get it signed by the international trade compliance officer. Where do I get this form? Ah well you need to talk to Bob twatface who was last seen fucking a prostitute in Haiti, because he does them all the time. And who is the ITCO ? ah well he's on holiday until a week Wednesday. Does he have a delegate? No. I need them there tomorrow.

I printed off an address label using word. Took the parts to dispatch, asked them to ship them, and explained I didn't have anypaperwork because they were scrap and they'd be either breaking them or I'd be bringing them back. I went back later with some samples for another company, and the first lot had been packed and a man in a van was taking them away. So FUCK you and your stupid procedures which mean feck all. (They weren't military parts - I'm not THAT stupid). If anyone finds out I'll probably be sacked.

But fuck me, week 8 in a new job and it took 6 weeks to be able to see drawings of the parts, and 7 weeks to get autocad.

And Last week I had a demand, to move a bench with a press on it, because it was named in an ergonomics risk assessment. So I raised a ticket with WED, who move it, but don't bolt it down. When I ask nicely if they can come back and bolt it down, I'm told the bench. (The same bench that was fine for 3 years), isn't suitable and they've put a do not use note on it. So I've raised a requisition to buy a suitable bench having checked with 36 operators on 3 shifts that the colour is alright and the work top has the right sort of finish.

Now it's on a 2 day lead time, so I should have it sorted by the end of the week ? No? There are now 6 more people who have to approve the spending of £178.  The first one asks me, if I've checked the factory for any spare benches. I lied. I've not been able to find anything suitable that's not being used, so I get his approval. Now another 5. I've raised another WED ticket because it's self assembly, and I'd have to raise a requisition to buy some tools, If I was going to do it myself and I know how they like to test apprentices with stuff like this.  

[Pillock]

Warning, Boring modern content (also Vauxhall Insignia content)

 

This morning's warning light bingo brought to you by Vauxhall...

 

Bastard thing is idling @ around 2500rpm, engine fan is running flat out and the temp gauge isnt moving past the 1/4 mark. Spluttering like a good one and dropping into limp mode too.

 

Oh yeah and the fucking esp has faulted out, again. Despite spending £££ diagnosing and supposedly fixing it.

 

My Astra of similar vintage used to throw up an immobiliser fault when it was cold, and if I ever plugged my diagnostic thing into the OBD socket (not even a cheap one, a halfway decent branded one) it used to throw up ESP, PAS, ABS, MFI, LOL faults or whatever. Just cycle through the whole lot.

I thought it was just displaying errors but no, it did it whilst I was driving once and the bastard cut the power steering halfway around a corner.

 

Many a cross word at the garage when they couldn't diagnose "immobiliser fault when car cold" after it had finally started and I'd driven it 20 minutes there. "Sorry mate, not doing it here". "Well, can you keep it overnight?" "No, because there's no faults showing".

[chaseracer]

 

Private sector, right? 

[twosmoke300]

I am pissed off by people where I have just started working who are in senior positions and like to stamp their authority on things that should not concern them. I am pissed off by automation suppliers who fucking lie about their plan. and 6 weeks into a 24 week plan are now 5 weeks late. I am pissed off by people who seemed intent on making a simple job difficult. I just want to send some scrap parts to another automation supplier so they can do an experiment. These have been recorded and written off by quality, who say "just take them". Ah but no. You need to raise a special form, and get it signed by the international trade compliance officer. Where do I get this form? Ah well you need to talk to Bob twatface who was last seen fucking a prostitute in Haiti, because he does them all the time. And who is the ITCO ? ah well he's on holiday until a week Wednesday. Does he have a delegate? No. I need them there tomorrow.

I printed off an address label using word. Took the parts to dispatch, asked them to ship them, and explained I didn't have anypaperwork because they were scrap and they'd be either breaking them or I'd be bringing them back. I went back later with some samples for another company, and the first lot had been packed and a man in a van was taking them away. So FUCK you and your stupid procedures which mean feck all. (They weren't military parts - I'm not THAT stupid). If anyone finds out I'll probably be sacked.

But fuck me, week 8 in a new job and it took 6 weeks to be able to see drawings of the parts, and 7 weeks to get autocad.

And Last week I had a demand, to move a bench with a press on it, because it was named in an ergonomics risk assessment. So I raised a ticket with WED, who move it, but don't bolt it down. When I ask nicely if they can come back and bolt it down, I'm told the bench. (The same bench that was fine for 3 years), isn't suitable and they've put a do not use note on it. So I've raised a requisition to buy a suitable bench having checked with 36 operators on 3 shifts that the colour is alright and the work top has the right sort of finish.

Now it's on a 2 day lead time, so I should have it sorted by the end of the week ? No? There are now 6 more people who have to approve the spending of £178. The first one asks me, if I've checked the factory for any spare benches. I lied. I've not been able to find anything suitable that's not being used, so I get his approval. Now another 5. I've raised another WED ticket because it's self assembly, and I'd have to raise a requisition to buy some tools, If I was going to do it myself and I know how they like to test apprentices with stuff like this.

Fuck my life - I’d have quit by now but not until I’d verbally torn someone a new asshole

[Kiltox]

POD - just keep fucking billing mate

 

My current gig gives me the rage sometimes but then I remember I don’t care and that their inefficiency makes me money

[AlabamaShrimp]

Did you say "yes dear" and cough up the five hunnert, or did you tell her to fuck right off?

 

I speak as a man whose wife also wanted a lifting bed.

It was a subtle fuck right off! £500 for a bed that's probably got less storage than we already have and a wobbly headboard isn't for me.

 

Tbh the bed we've got is quite old. It cost £50 from something stupid (a few hundred) years ago from Homebase and is solid wood.

 

Only one tiny problem. I cracked one of the side bits on the corner and it's held up with a jack. Might have been like that for quite a while now...

[SiC]

We spent around £700 on a frame and 600ish on a mattress 8 years ago. Just got a new mattress finally, but as a decent wood sprung frame that it perfectly fine. Decent new mattress seems expensive, but then if you spend like 900 quid or so and it lasts another 8 years, then that's only £110 or so a year. Which doesn't feel so bad. Especially as it's something that you spend a third of your life on. A good bed can really help get a good night's sleep which massively helps both physical and mental health.

 

My grump though is that we received the new mattress today and the wrong one was sent. Less of a grump because it quickly got resolved. Turned out Leekes who I bought it from ordered it correctly but Hypnos (who made the mattress) buggered the order up. Told me to keep it and use it until they get a replacement sent to me in 2 to 4 weeks.

 

Good customer service, but I suspect they make enough from these mattresses to afford to do that! No idea what will happen with the one we've got though when it gets sent back. Maybe sold in an factory outlet shop? Or sent as a store trial mattress? Dunno.

[scaryoldcortina]

 

Only one tiny problem. I cracked one of the side bits on the corner and it's held up with a jack. Might have been like that for quite a while now...

I can see her point, jacks are for lifting only. You should put an axle stand under there instead.

[beko1987]

Must not buy shit... Must not but shit... Ooooh look, shit to buy... Skint until Thursday now...

[warren t claim]

Fascist mods have shat themselves as usual and closed the thread we had about drones. 

 

This takes the piss as I was hoping to sell this one here.

 

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Sell it that guy with the Irish type name. I heard he's got some spare engines

[MorrisItalSLX]

Fucking Australia Post.

 

A bunch of cunts, run by cunts.

 

That is all.

[Lord Sterling]

I hate when employers are vague or lie about money then you find out you'll be earning pittance

Further to this, a so-called 'mate' who got me I to this telecommunications malarky has decided not to let me know he'd left to go to work earlier than me. We're meant to be in the same van to go and meet some other operatives, his excuse was that he hadn't any credit on his phone (despite apparently being £minted and 'doesn't have to work). Spoke to our manager this morning (who happens to be an old school chum of this so-called friend) and explained to him the circumstance, he said he'd call me back and so far for the last 3 hours he hasn't called back and isn't answering his phone.

 

I've now, as an emergency measure, signed on the dole.

 

Fuck.

[DVee8]

I came in last night 23.30,over the road had put their 3ish year old 2 three seat sofa's on the drive in the rain,could have put them in the garage. So the new ones must be coming today.

[Talbot]

Fascist mods have shat themselves as usual and closed the thread we had about drones.

Hardly surprising given the genuine abuse that was being thrown about in that thread. I think I would have shut that down too, and I barely ever lock threads on the forums (fori?) I administer/moderate.

[eddyramrod]

Winter Olympics.

 

It used to be fun, there'd be ice dancing, ski jumping, slalom, four-man bob....  This time round it's ice hockey, which is just war; curling, slightly less exciting than watching paint dry; and various snowboarding stuff, which is just puzzling.  And are there any men involved at all?  All the Beeb's presenters are female, as are their experts; and whenever I look (which, not being a sports addict, is little-and-random) so are all the competitors.  I've managed to catch some two-man bob this morning, except, you guessed, it's two-woman.  Where are the men?  And how has it taken a week and a half to get even this?

 

FFS BBC, pull yourselves together!