The grumpy thread

[Slartibartfast]

I've noticed a marked difference in the way people treat me when I'm driving the Tourneo to when I was driving a Mondeo. I can't remember the last time I got flashed.

[Talbot]

I've noticed a marked difference in the way people treat me when I'm driving the Tourneo to when I was driving a Mondeo. I can't remember the last time I got flashed.

At one point I had a tatty old Citroen BX and a tatty old Citroen C25 on the road. The difference in the way people treat you when driving these two different vehicles is staggering. Worth driving a van just for the lack-of-twattery aimed at you.

[dozeydustman]

there was Dr's doing extra tests just to cover their backs .

 

 

 

Sounds like a routine sort of practice. First time I had vertigo they did blood tests for anything and everything to rule out infections that could interfere with (what is left of) my brain. 

 

 

and the computer system , it was like your grandma trying to program the freeview box to record ....only worse .

Plenty of staff , just all in the wrong place and doing the wrong jobs and struggling with the system and people who wont listen  !

 

Yep, there's more advanced technology in my Sinclair ZX Spectrum than the NHS system. Even my GP practice struggles getting hospital information for patients who are currently undergoing treatment. You'd have thought in this day and age the NHS computer network would work countrywide in all hospitals, surgeries and clinics &c.

 

 

At the moment I am still waiting for a scan to check whats happening in my head ,( no jokes ! )  they dont do scans over a weekend ??  , so hopefully over the weekend I have not suffered any lasting damage that could of been spotted earlier !

 

 

Not all NHS practices are like that. Some do have X-rays and scans for outpatients over weekends, whilst others only have them for emergency cases. As long as I never have to go near an MRI machine again, I don't mind what the opening hours in radiology are!

[Kiltox]

Even better driving a van with half it’s drivers side stoved in - people assume you are properly batshit and stay well out of your way

[eddyramrod]

Because everyone treats him with distain. Other road users, customers, his employers probably. Nobody wants him to park anywhere, even briefly, despite the fact that almost everything that everybody owns has been on a van or truck at some point.

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!

[cort1977]

They are a Dutch design, for excatly that reason: you can inspect your turd before flushing it. It was explained to me many many years ago when I lived there that there's some sort of intestinal parasitic infection that the Dutch used to suffer from, and the only way to tell you had it was to have a good look at your steaming pile for whatever the tell-tale was, and if you were infested, you could then notify your Doc.

 

All bogs in NL are like it. Very odd untill you understand why.

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.

[Slartibartfast]

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.

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.

[alcyonecorporation]

I think it's great when people moan about cyclists, especially all that nonsense about not paying road tax. The more bad driving and the more people have a go, the more people will drive to work instead of cycle then the queues are longer for the moaning fuckers who've had to wait a nano-second before overtaking some fat bloke trying to keep fit.

 

Or - the tiny minority of cyclists who act like bell-ends could learn some manners. 

That charming little race event turned a 20 minute journey on Saturday into a near 35 minute one when I didn't really have the extra time. 

 

[tooSavvy]

"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."

 

Out in redneck USA they have 'pattie bingo' = grid of squares + a cow!

 

I'd rather bet on the cow than on missing my shoes

 

TS

[oldcars]

My mum passed away tonight.

 

 

Dementia is a bitch that can fuck right off.

Sad news indeed. Thoughts are with you and your family.

[Coprolalia]

Sounds like a routine sort of practice. First time I had vertigo they did blood tests for anything and everything to rule out infections that could interfere with (what is left of) my brain. 

 

Yep, there's more advanced technology in my Sinclair ZX Spectrum than the NHS system. Even my GP practice struggles getting hospital information for patients who are currently undergoing treatment. You'd have thought in this day and age the NHS computer network would work countrywide in all hospitals, surgeries and clinics &c.

 

Not all NHS practices are like that. Some do have X-rays and scans for outpatients over weekends, whilst others only have them for emergency cases. As long as I never have to go near an MRI machine again, I don't mind what the opening hours in radiology are!

 

It's the rise of defensive medicine. If someone comes in with a rare problem, say 1/1,000 people I see with the same symptoms have it, and there's a £50 test I could have used to check for it, if I haven't done that test I can get sued for negligence. 30 years ago before you could sue the NHS we just didn't bother and if you had a rare disease tough luck. Over-simplification. 

 

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.

[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 !