The grumpy thread

[D Spares & Tyres]

There's no almost about it.  The car you drive, the house you live in, the clothes you wear, the food you eat, the computer you're reading, the cigarette you're smoking... literally is the word here!

I nearly wrote everything as opposed to almost but our house was built before trucks were invented, and we picked the cat up ourselves but yes everything else has been on a truck

 

I suppose though, even my house bricks were delivered on a horse and cart, the white van man of yesteryear!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

My mum passed away tonight.

 

 

Dementia is a bitch that can fuck right off.

 

My condolences and all the best to you and your family.

[Lord Sterling]

Sorry to hear of your loss Mr A L

[fordperv]

My mum passed away tonight.

 

 

Dementia is a bitch that can fuck right off.

My condolences to you and your family, I agree it is a horrible thing i see varying states of dementia at work every day it saddens me

[dozeydustman]

My mum passed away tonight.

 

 

Dementia is a bitch that can fuck right off.

 

 

My sincere condolences. Dementia is truly horrible.

[wuvvum]

I nearly wrote everything as opposed to almost but our house was built before trucks were invented, and we picked the cat up ourselves but yes everything else has been on a truck

If you think you own your cat then you are sadly deluded.

[wuvvum]

My mum passed away tonight.

 

 

Dementia is a bitch that can fuck right off.

Dementia is indeed a bitch.  My grandma had Alzheimer's for almost 30 years, the last 10 of which she had no clue what was going on.  So sad.

[dollywobbler]

I thought it was more of a German thing, supposedly because of all the pork in their diet that used to be infested with parasites.  Presumably you would inspect your jobby on the platform and if anything waved back at you it was off to the docs.

 

In France you used to get squat toilets with a place to put your feet and a hole in the middle.  Takes a bit of getting used to but I quite liked it after a while.

 

I once had the misfortune of a stomach upset at Glastonbury one year. My favourite toilets were the 'third world' drop holes, because the unpleasantness goes a nice distance away. Far nicer than the plastic tardis nightmares.

[Guest Hooli]

Wales has linked data, but England spent billions trying to reconcile all the different IT systems. Problem was confidentiality... how do you prove who gets to see what? Couldn't make all parties agree. 

I used to work 5 years ago on a system in a backwater NHS trust that was still using DOS command line on Windows 3.1 for their blood test network.

 

It's down to the stupidity of pretending all the trusts are their own business.

Any competently managed NHS would have said nationally we're using THIS system. Then amazingly enough every trust would be able to integrate really easily. At a minimum the database schema should have been enforced so they could read each others DBs.

As for user access, that's what smartcards & the spine is for.

[DodgeRover]

Grumpy because 3 local stations are sold out of lpg one of which I pumped the tank dry at, great 7l of heavy ends and iron filings, I may as well order a new filter now

[alcyonecorporation]

Most pathetic first world grump ever.

 

Cut the end off a beautiful JDM Alycone brochure I'd bought off eBay by mistake. The seller used a piece of packing card the exact same size and width as the envelope and brochure. Had to stick it away in a drawer somewhere - so that I couldn't see it. Left negative feedback because having looked at the envelope again to make sure I wasn't being dense, it was impossible to feel where it was without X raying it.

 

It was bloody amazing for what I paid (88p) and I'm never getting one for that money again.

I'm fucking furious at myself. Had a bloody terrible day and was trying to relax.

[mercrocker]

Feel your pain, there....Exactly the same happened to me with an Isetta brochure that the seller had put with cardboard a half-inch shorter than the brochure.  I felt through the envelope, sliced above the cardboard and was greeted with a four half-inch slivers of brochure pages.   Still gripes me now and I found it very difficult not to obsess about it for nearly a month.

[alcyonecorporation]

Feel your pain, there....Exactly the same happened to me with an Isetta brochure that the seller had put with cardboard a half-inch shorter than the brochure.  I felt through the envelope, sliced above the cardboard and was greeted with a four half-inch slivers of brochure pages.   Still gripes me now and I found it very difficult not to obsess about it for nearly a month.

Hear you, fam.

 

Am looking for a replacement, but they're mad money. That's why I didn't have one until now.

Technically I still have like 97 per cent of one. RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

[captain_70s]

A NOS Dolomite rear wheel arch repair panel cropped up on eBay prompting much excitement. Until it sold for over £140. Fuck spending that sort of money on a single non-structural panel (it was also the O/S which is my car's better side).

[AlabamaShrimp]

I'm not good with sympathy so as I've said before take it as read that I empathise and send my condolences in all matters like this even if I don't post it.

[dome]

Grumpy because 3 local stations are sold out of lpg

Funny, I had this with 2 stations on Sunday in Ayrshire and Glasgow. Where are you?

[DodgeRover]

Funny, I had this with 2 stations on Sunday in Ayrshire and Glasgow. Where are you?

I'm down in "Arctic" Surrey, stations all over the UK are out according to FillLPG the rumour is flogas who supply most stations are making far more profit from flogging domestic supplies than road fuel so aren't bothering delivering to stations!

[dome]

I'm down in "Arctic" Surrey, stations all over the UK are out according to FillLPG the rumour is flogas who supply most stations are making far more profit from flogging domestic supplies than road fuel so aren't bothering delivering to stations!

 

 

[Christine]

My Pajero 2.5 td  hasn't had any antifreeze in it in 7 years , the water is very thick brown,  i suspect  k seal but its never used any water in that time , and starts instantly and runs great .. The -7  forecast at the weekend saw me dash down halfords  on sunday 4pm , spending 18 quid on some antifreeze , grovelling on the ground ,draining half a gallon of  brown water from the rad ,all up me sleeve , and refilling with the antifreeze . The bucket of brown shit water still  hasn't frozen  anyway , just hope the engine doesn't spring loads of leaks !

[chaseracer]

"If it ain't broke..." 

[Christine]

"If it ain't broke..." 

Quite.. Cambelt's at least 8 years too ,an the oil's like treacle

[Talbot]

Quite.. Cambelt's at least 8 years too ,an the oil's like treacle

One careful owner. Not the current one.

[Mally]

I used to syphon an egg cup full of water out of the rad and stick it in the freezer.

If it didn't freeze, no need to buy antifreeze.

[mercrocker]

My Pajero 2.5 td  hasn't had any antifreeze in it in 7 years , the water is very thick brown,  i suspect  k seal but its never used any water in that time , and starts instantly and runs great .. The -7  forecast at the weekend saw me dash down halfords  on sunday 4pm , spending 18 quid on some antifreeze , grovelling on the ground ,draining half a gallon of  brown water from the rad ,all up me sleeve , and refilling with the antifreeze . The bucket of brown shit water still  hasn't frozen  anyway , just hope the engine doesn't spring loads of leaks !

 

Sure this won't happen to you, but......A day or so before a summer tour around the West Country in my Morris I started fretting about hot weather, hills and lack of a temp gauge.   Took the rad out to hose it out as there seemed to be the odd cold spot.   Must have flushed out a previous owner's dog turd (Radweld) because after I put it all back together it leaked like a bloody colander.    

 

Thankfully one of the otherwise-useless Minor specialists sent me a new rad which arrived the following morning.   It isn't just laziness and lumbago that prompts me to leave things alone these days

[320touring]

Insurance companies that take 30mins of fucking about on the phone to set up a policy

[richardmorris]

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Most toilets in India are like this. And you get a tap with a little pot under it to clean up with. I don't miss that particularly.

 

Ah, the footprints of doom. 

[alcyonecorporation]

Insurance companies that take 30mins of fucking about on the phone to set up a policy

 

Yup, missed out on buying the C15 the first time around because of that. 

[xtriple]

Yes indeed, I was on the phone for a good 25 minutes just now insuring the Mazda, all I wanted to do was renew (£112 fully comp, can't complain at that!)

[somewhatfoolish]

Insurance companies that take 30mins of fucking about on the phone to set up a policy

The opposing problem is no better; I speak of the Adrian Flux model of insurance sales where the telesales person presumably has sensitive parts of their body wired up to receive shocks if they drop below 180 words a minute; by the end of the exchange I'd lost the will to live and despite them being the cheapest quote I gave my business to someone else who didn't appear to be paid by the words per minute. They also can't fill out simple forms; when they emailed the policy paperwork it was riddled with basic errors demonstrating that the drone was waiting to talk rather than listening to a word I said. I ended up with AF insuring my other car but as I did it all online I was not exposed to the awfulness of their telesales experience; needless to say that policy will not be getting renewed.

[alcyonecorporation]

The opposing problem is no better; I speak of the Adrian Flux model of insurance sales where the telesales person presumably has sensitive parts of their body wired up to receive shocks if they drop below 180 words a minute; by the end of the exchange I'd lost the will to live and despite them being the cheapest quote I gave my business to someone else who didn't appear to be paid by the words per minute. They also can't fill out simple forms; when they emailed the policy paperwork it was riddled with basic errors demonstrating that the drone was waiting to talk rather than listening to a word I said. I ended up with AF insuring my other car but as I did it all online I was not exposed to the awfulness of their telesales experience; needless to say that policy will not be getting renewed.

 

 

Ended a policy with Flux because the policy certificate kept getting 'lost' in the post. Five times.  Said the only way they could guarantee it was for it to be sent by recorded delivery which they refused to pay for. 

Was in my 14 day cooling off period, threatened to cancel unless they sent it by recorded delivery, they tried to call my bluff and they lost the policy for the sake of a £3.50 recorded delivery envelope. 

 

Flux clearly didn't care, but the message was loud and clear: if we're this tight over a policy cert, we're really not going to give sweet fanny adams if you have a bump.