The grumpy thread

[Remspoor]

Off work due to an inner ear infection, an ideal time to catch up on my accounts, except the laptop has decided it's an ideal time to update windows 10 with massive downloads. Bloody thing, I'm only using it rather than the proper PC running Linux as it's in the coolest part of the house.

 

The coolest part of your house is???? The Garage. That art is always cool for an Autoshiter. Unless you do repairs in your front garden.

[dozeydustman]

I really don't understand what is wrong with my family? My parents are on holiday and asked if we can pop up and see my grandmother while they're away. We only had 1 day over the 3 weeks where we could get up to Kent, put it on the calendar as it's also my brother's birthday.

Aunt has booked my nan all day carers for Sunday who won't let any guests in, and it's my fault as she didn't know (even though it's on mine, my mum & dad's, my brother's and my nan's calendars).

[3VOM]

Oh and can I raise a bug about the grammar on that '1 warning points' text? Do we have an autoshite jira project?

All your warning points are belong to us.

[dave21478]

This new 80kph speed limit is doing my fucking box in.

 

Initially when it was proposed I wasnt fussed - the roads locally and to work are so twisty and bumpy its a struggle to hit 90 anyway, and I had assumed that nobody would obey it on better roads, since nobody obeyed the 90 limit anyway, but no....most folk are sticking to the new 80 limit and its fucking annoying....its just slow enough to be irritating and in the pickup its right at the point in the rev range where its off boost in fifth gear so much pudding stirring is required at hills etc.

 

But we are all so much safer now though eh? yeah, not at all...in fact, the roads are significantly worse as tailgating is even worse than previously.

[Guest Hooli]

I couldn't see the point in that at all, must be annoying as hell.

[purplebargeken]

I needed something to wrap round my bits of pig. 

 

Waaaay too much information there Bub, way too much.

[bub2006]

You love me really

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Autoshite mods go Minority Report. Who'd a thunk it...

 

 

Fuck.  I was trying to work out how to wangle that reference in.  Well done sir.

[Kiltox]

jira project?

You can get yourself right to fuck with that kind of talk

 

Ffffuuuuuuu

[beko1987]

You can get yourself right to fuck with that kind of talk

 

Ffffuuuuuuu

Ill make a new build and close the old one down tomorrow boss

[Cavcraft]

Dear The Train Line, soz I rang your information desk to actually enquire about train times and costs. Clearly between sighing, a steadfast refusal to use any words like 'please' or thank you' and the apparent conception polite customer enquiries are probably interrupting you from torturing small mammals in your work time, you aren't really a help line at all.

To that end, please accept my humblest apologies for bothering you and note my most sincere and utmost desire for yourselves to SHOVE YOUR FUCKING TRAINS UP YOUR ARSE, YOU MISERABLE TWATS.

[Guest Hooli]

Dear The Train Line, soz I rang your information desk to actually enquire about train times and costs. Clearly between sighing, a steadfast refusal to use any words like 'please' or thank you' and the apparent conception polite customer enquiries are probably interrupting you from torturing small mammals in your work time, you aren't really a help line at all.

To that end, please accept my humblest apologies for bothering you and note my most sincere and utmost desire for yourselves to SHOVE YOUR FUCKING TRAINS UP YOUR ARSE, YOU MISERABLE TWATS.

 

Why was I reading that to this tune? https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x56w8d1

[SiC]

You can get yourself right to fuck with that kind of talk

 

Ffffuuuuuuu

+ Ninety Nine Quadzillion percent.

 

JIRA and especially Atlassian can get right in the sea.

 

As a good marker of how shit Confluence is, if you paste a link to a article on the mobile site, it's inaccessible using a desktop browser. It's almost that the concept of responsive web design has passed them by.

[Zelandeth]

This new 80kph speed limit is doing my fucking box in.

 

 

That would be an absolute PAIN in an early Jag XJ...The gearbox clicks into overdrive at exactly 50mph...and drops back out at exactly 49mph...With a limit that's 49.7mph if my math is right...That would get maddening in a hurry.

[chaseracer]

I'll manage. Survived worse. Just a bit banged up and feeling low.

 

Christ Bubster, what are we going to do with you? 

 

Up for a visit this weekend?

[bub2006]

I'm not well enough to go visiting bit feel free to pop up Mr racer

[MikeR]

F in plastic back door has bust ,

 

the latch jammed into the latch plate ...

 

umpteen years of ..bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang

 

interspersed with " dont bang the F in door !!  "  and a sore throat

 

this finished off the 2nd replacement gearbox .....

 

took a crow bar and 2 of us the bend and shove  the door to  open it

 

now the door relies on its bolts , 2 dogs to guard   and twist to  latch and open  ........

[chaseracer]

I'm not well enough to go visiting bit feel free to pop up Mr racer

 

I did mean it that way round, yer Derbyshire dipstick 

[sierraman]

Other half has managed to run out of fuel again. "It said 33 miles on the trip computer!" The gauge was sat on the fucking needle surprise surprise. Its the cars fault apparently. Idiot.

[Mally]

Tarmac patch on the drive tonight, 5 bags of tarmac and a whacker plate hire.

Tried whacker, fine. Cut hole, swept, sprayed edge with gluey stuff, heaped tarmac in, raked.

Started wacker, brrmm splut. More fuel in, splut. spark ok, bowl off carb, full of shit, main jet blocked.

Fixed it, all done now. 

Take it back to hire shop in morning. I reckon he owes me.

Problem is he used to deliver coal to me in the distant past and didn't charge me for the hire so I can't bollock him...much.

[dollywobbler]

Another exciting Friday night trying to get Linux to work. What a bunch of arse. I've a nasty feeling I'm going to have to go crawling back to Windows, and that makes me grumpy. Not sure what the problem is, but stuff just will not work. Apps won't load properly. Or at all quite often. 

 

Also, my 2GB hard drive is almost as noisy as an Invacar. Sodding thing. I'm wondering if I'll find an Iveco badge on it.

[beko1987]

Noisy hard drive is probably your woes there... Lob windows 7 on and have done with it

[dollywobbler]

Noisy hard drive is probably your woes there... Lob windows 7 on and have done with it

 

That hard drive isn't even fitted at the moment and stuff still doesn't work. Plus it turns out that Google's Back up and Sync doesn't work on Linux. It's like being given the keys to a 1990s Rover, but not the fob. You're so close to having a functioning vehicle, but no matter what you do, it just won't work.

[bub2006]

I did mean it that way round, yer Derbyshire dipstick

Ok mate! Let me know when

[Zelandeth]

Tarmac patch on the drive tonight, 5 bags of tarmac and a whacker plate hire.

Tried whacker, fine. Cut hole, swept, sprayed edge with gluey stuff, heaped tarmac in, raked.

Started wacker, brrmm splut. More fuel in, splut. spark ok, bowl off carb, full of shit, main jet blocked.

Fixed it, all done now. 

Take it back to hire shop in morning. I reckon he owes me.

Problem is he used to deliver coal to me in the distant past and didn't charge me for the hire so I can't bollock him...much.

Sounds like the one we got from Travis Perkins a couple of years back.

 

Came with a full tank of fuel. Shame it was a full tank of diesel rather than petrol.

 

They then tried to pin that on me.

[Zelandeth]

That hard drive isn't even fitted at the moment and stuff still doesn't work. Plus it turns out that Google's Back up and Sync doesn't work on Linux. It's like being given the keys to a 1990s Rover, but not the fob. You're so close to having a functioning vehicle, but no matter what you do, it just won't work.

Bring it with you when you come over to FotU?

 

I've been using Linux as my "daily driver" OS for more than a decade now, and 99% of the time it "just works" - though there are some traps that it can help to be guided around.

 

Should be able to have it up and running in less than an hour. Probably got a drive you can have too in the Stack of bits from dead computers in my office.

[Spottedlaurel]

This new 80kph speed limit...........

 

Glad I read this, didn't know about it. Do a lot of our French holiday driving on roads where that will be in place. In the hills and mountains I doubt it'll be an issue, but 50mph on those lovely straight roads elsewhere?......

[oldcars]

This new 80kph speed limit is doing my fucking box in.

 

Initially when it was proposed I wasnt fussed - the roads locally and to work are so twisty and bumpy its a struggle to hit 90 anyway, and I had assumed that nobody would obey it on better roads, since nobody obeyed the 90 limit anyway, but no....most folk are sticking to the new 80 limit and its fucking annoying....its just slow enough to be irritating and in the pickup its right at the point in the rev range where its off boost in fifth gear so much pudding stirring is required at hills etc.

 

But we are all so much safer now though eh? yeah, not at all...in fact, the roads are significantly worse as tailgating is even worse than previously.

Read about this last night. Had a tom tom update email saying to update my maps. What was the reason for the change was it OMG SAFETY?

[dollywobbler]

Read about this last night. Had a tom tom update email saying to update my maps. What was the reason for the change was it OMG SAFETY?

 

Pretty much. The death rate on French roads is terrifying. We might complain about driving standards in the UK, but despite the traffic density (or maybe because of it?) our roads are pretty safe. 

 

 

Bring it with you when you come over to FotU?

 

I've been using Linux as my "daily driver" OS for more than a decade now, and 99% of the time it "just works" - though there are some traps that it can help to be guided around.

 

Should be able to have it up and running in less than an hour. Probably got a drive you can have too in the Stack of bits from dead computers in my office.

 

Thanks, but once again, I've fallen back on Windows. Found a website selling licenses for £20. That'll do. Windows 10 annoys me in quite a few ways, but it does at least just let me get on with the day job (now our broadband connection can actually handle update packages).

[beko1987]

If you've got windows 10 Pro, there's ways to make it not automatically download and apply updates thanks to the group policy editor...

 

Ive got my loft pc set up so it doesn't reboot halfway through an upload or encode, it just sits there politely in the task bar occasionally asking me if it can do its job