The grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

It does but they didn't trip. Don't think I took enough current to trigger it.

 

An RCB should trip before you feel it, they take milliamps to trigger. Sounds like you've just got MCBs.

[Guest Hooli]

The mighty* Synergie keeps sticking with one indicator on, so I locked it and then took the negative lead off the battery overnight.

 

Next morning, taking kids to school. Get out of house with littluns. Remember about battery (car is on other side of the road) - can't unlock the car until battery is reconnected! Fuck. Tell kids to wait on pavement, go over other side of road, put bags down. Reconnect battery, unlock car. At this point, lots of traffic comes by. Stress about kids being on pavement right next to cunts in BMWs doing 40 down our road to get to the station. Cross road, collect children, strap them in, get in myself, start, drive off. BUMP. What the fuck was that?

 

Go round front of car. I left my bag on the floor in front of the car. I have just driven over my laptop bag containing phone, macbook, good headphones (Beyer DT250s), etc etc. Fuck. Pull bag out from under wheel. Get back in car. Drive off. BUMP.

 

Go round front of car again. I have now run over my camera bag as well, which I also left on the floor but must have been hidden by the bumper when I was extracting the laptop bag. Canon 60D, lenses, shotgun mic, flash...

 

Liked as you couldn't write comedy that good.

[djoptix]

Liked as you couldn't write comedy that good.

 

I may well have said "you couldn't fucking make this bullshit up" at the time, actually...

[Pillock]

Bub get your RCDs checked out. They trip at 30mA which is tingly but not throw-you-off. Also potentially there's an earth fault for it not to react until you touched it. Glad you're still with us but get that looked at so it doesn't happen again...

[Zelandeth]

Additional to my 2am grump - has come to light that someone else wound up in hospital last night after having their drink spiked, and a few other things also went missing during the closing ceremony.

 

Seems there's some bastard out there set on wrecking things for us.

[AMC Rebel]

Liked as you couldn't write comedy that good.

 

That reminds me of the time in Reading Station multi-storey car park when I saw a guy get his lappy bag out and put it down, just as a woman in a Range Rover came around the corner and ran straight over it.  Last thing I saw was the guy chasing after her waving his arms around.

[djoptix]

Additional to my 2am grump - has come to light that someone else wound up in hospital last night after having their drink spiked, and a few other things also went missing during the closing ceremony.

 

Seems there's some bastard out there set on wrecking things for us.

Comics? Or LARP?

[chaseracer]

I thought she was doing cruise liners. Best fucking place for her, 500 miles out into the Atlantic.

 

And eight miles down.

[Zelandeth]

Comics? Or LARP?

Close, furcon.

[Mally]

The mighty* Synergie keeps sticking with one indicator on, so I locked it and then took the negative lead off the battery overnight.

 

Next morning, taking kids to school. Get out of house with littluns. Remember about battery (car is on other side of the road) - can't unlock the car until battery is reconnected! Fuck. Tell kids to wait on pavement, go over other side of road, put bags down. Reconnect battery, unlock car. At this point, lots of traffic comes by. Stress about kids being on pavement right next to cunts in BMWs doing 40 down our road to get to the station. Cross road, collect children, strap them in, get in myself, start, drive off. BUMP. What the fuck was that?

 

Go round front of car. I left my bag on the floor in front of the car. I have just driven over my laptop bag containing phone, macbook, good headphones (Beyer DT250s), etc etc. Fuck. Pull bag out from under wheel. Get back in car. Drive off. BUMP.

 

Go round front of car again. I have now run over my camera bag as well, which I also left on the floor but must have been hidden by the bumper when I was extracting the laptop bag. Canon 60D, lenses, shotgun mic, flash...

 

Very reminiscent of a Dave numbers report.

[djoptix]

Close, furcon.

 

Oh dear. I was going to post a picture of a girl looking unbelievably hot in her Bowsette costume to cheer you up but I shan't bother now

[chadders]

From local Gumtree for a 3k Mazda:

 

"This car is for sale only for sale only for very Intrested buyers only because I am very busy man and no time to lost"

[Datsuncog]

My latest antivirus security update has been so successful that it now routes all my Nigerian Prince and HMRC Re-fund to Yous URGENT ONE DAY ONLY emails directly to my focused mailbox (with an alert), while sending all my client emails directly to the Deleted folder. I'm now a digital binhoker, having to check it every few minutes like a paranoid squirrel. Cheers, lads.

 

However, the PC's apparently about to blow up anyway, since the cooling fan's reportedly been running full tilt all weekend (having been fully shut down, it apparently decided to turn itself on to make noises akin to a Rolls-Royce Trent engine throttling up). Only replaced a year ago, it's dust and fluff-free inside so I can only assume a temp sensor's gone screwy. This is why I'll never buy another HP product with my own cash.

 

Still, IT Assist will send someone out tomorrow to look at it, so I get to enjoy what sounds like a hair dryer blasting for the rest of the day.

 

FFS.

[MikeR]

Scart sockets on the back of flat tv's ... Wtf

[Kiltox]

My latest antivirus security update has been so successful that it now routes all my Nigerian Prince and HMRC Re-fund to Yous URGENT ONE DAY ONLY emails directly to my focused mailbox (with an alert), while sending all my client emails directly to the Deleted folder. I'm now a digital binhoker, having to check it every few minutes like a paranoid squirrel. Cheers, lads.

 

However, the PC's apparently about to blow up anyway, since the cooling fan's reportedly been running full tilt all weekend (having been fully shut down, it apparently decided to turn itself on to make noises akin to a Rolls-Royce Trent engine throttling up). Only replaced a year ago, it's dust and fluff-free inside so I can only assume a temp sensor's gone screwy. This is why I'll never buy another HP product with my own cash.

 

Still, IT Assist will send someone out tomorrow to look at it, so I get to enjoy what sounds like a hair dryer blasting for the rest of the day.

 

FFS.

What mail provider - Hotmail/Outlook.com ?

 

They fuck up their spam filters every now and again.

[Datsuncog]

What mail provider - Hotmail/Outlook.com ?

 

They fuck up their spam filters every now and again.

Heh, how did you guess?!

 

Yeah, nothing new but this time I'm especially impressed how they've managed to give Viagra spambots the gold star treatment, whilst not just marking as junk but *actively deleting on arrival* emails from longstanding trusted clients who I've flagged as safe senders.

 

Also: it doesn't look good to be sat in a review meeting and your work phone on the desk pings with "Horny babes in your area want hard dick!" as the alert line.

 

But this is all our Comms Unit's fault as a few years ago they put a sample advert up online that contained my (real) work email and phone extensions, without my knowledge, and I've been plagued on both fronts ever since... and no they won't change them either.

 

Calls regarding "your PPI refund", "your recent accident" and "your Windows computer needs an urgent update" already this morning.

 

Fucking scammers can get in the sea.

[Guest Hooli]

Google maps becoming cunting stupid & not being able to find where I'm training this week. It consistently refused to admit the road was a good mile from where it kept taking me so I gave up & parked there to walk across the hell hole that is Leeds. It could tell me how to walk here, but was pretending the car park next to the building I'm in is a mile away... Now I've got to find the car once I finish for the day to get home.

 

Tomorrow I'm getting my sat-nav out as that loses it's mind less often...

[dozeydustman]

Came home from work feeling fine. Had a cuppa, went outside for a vape, done some laundry.

 

Gone from happy to grumpy for absolutely no reason in the space of minutes. WTF?

[davehedgehog31]

The mighty* Synergie keeps sticking with one indicator on, so I locked it and then took the negative lead off the battery overnight.

 

Next morning, taking kids to school. Get out of house with littluns. Remember about battery (car is on other side of the road) - can't unlock the car until battery is reconnected! Fuck. Tell kids to wait on pavement, go over other side of road, put bags down. Reconnect battery, unlock car. At this point, lots of traffic comes by. Stress about kids being on pavement right next to cunts in BMWs doing 40 down our road to get to the station. Cross road, collect children, strap them in, get in myself, start, drive off. BUMP. What the fuck was that?

 

Go round front of car. I left my bag on the floor in front of the car. I have just driven over my laptop bag containing phone, macbook, good headphones (Beyer DT250s), etc etc. Fuck. Pull bag out from under wheel. Get back in car. Drive off. BUMP.

 

Go round front of car again. I have now run over my camera bag as well, which I also left on the floor but must have been hidden by the bumper when I was extracting the laptop bag. Canon 60D, lenses, shotgun mic, flash...

 

Liked for creative writing.

[pandamonium]

Don't know what to do.

Sell Wagon for a profit, buy another car with the original amount, pocket difference. Or keep Wagon, as it's a known quantity and has a longer MOT...

 

(car in question is a 95 Peugeot 205 1.6 auto)

 

I'm shit at making decisions, and shit with money, so whatever I do will no doubt be wrong.

[SierraMikeHotel]

There's a little patch of paint that's been knocked off one the Merc's doors.  It's obviously happened really recently because there are a couple of specks of rust showing which weren't there when I bought it, so it needs sorting straight away.

 

So, last night I sent enquiries to a couple of mobile repair places.

 

One rang me today, we swapped all the necessary details, then she asked when I'd be coming in.  Erm... it said you did mobile repairs......?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....Hard to believe that someone who's made the effort to come to the event would do this....

 

You'd be surprised.

 

In the world of finescale model railways, I know of a kit manufacturer who had a Great Eastern Y5 tank, built to P4 standards and fully finished, nicked from his trade stand at a show in Manchester - the only one of several other finished models on his stand to go missing. Two years and counting: it has never resurfaced. Someone clearly wanted it really badly.

[castros_bro]

Don't know what to do.

Sell Wagon for a profit, buy another car with the original amount, pocket difference. Or keep Wagon, as it's a known quantity and has a longer MOT...

 

(car in question is a 95 Peugeot 205 1.6 auto)

 

I'm shit at making decisions, and shit with money, so whatever I do will no doubt be wrong.

 

I'd advise getting a Pug 205 as you can never have too many Pug 205s, mine has just returned from someone who borrowed it - obviously without an MOT but with broken hand brake cable, broken bonnet hinge and a flat battery - so really it hasn't returned by is immobile parked in a growing pile of leaves by the side of the road somewhere random. BUT you can never have too many Pug 205 (1.6i Autos)s.

[Aston Martin]

I had to go to Scotland, (someone has to) I saw this and teared up. It looked fucking horrendous.

 

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/lorry-drivers-hospital-a69-northumberland-15372179.amp

[dozeydustman]

My job has an on-call function and I was up all last night dealing with something.  That's a bit annoying, but not the grump - it's just a part of the job.

 

Mrs H and I were supposed to go to a gig in Greenwich with my mum and sister tonight but having had just a couple of hours of dozing I don't feel up to going.  Again, that's annoying but not the grump - I gambled with my on-call and lost.

 

The grump is that my mum and sister have both been trying to guilt trip me into going.  No, I am absolutely not travelling 60 odd miles up from the south coast when I know I would just hate every minute of it because I'd be feeling tired and sick, then face the journey home.  I do not like being guilt-tripped.

 

It's all so bloody one-sided, as well - Mum tried to argue that it's not hard to get to London, so then why has she not visited us once since we bought our house?  And we can't sleep there afterwards because it's too hard for her to have overnight guests.

 

She has a lot of issues and my sympathy is large but it's reached its limits at the moment...

 

 

That gets me with my family as well. Appreciate nana dustman is in a home and needs a visitor once a day to stop her going completely doolally. I get guilt tripped into not being in Kent enough to see my family, yet my parents, aunts/uncles, brother only come here every 3 months at the most, yet mrs_d and I must go to Kent at least twice in a month, and then moan because we ran out of time and couldn't see my nan. We have somewhere they can sleep, a bigger home than before so entertaining isn't a problem.

 

My brother gets away with doing bugger all in the meanwhile....

[SierraMikeHotel]

I feel your pain mate. I've made a lot of effort to go and see my sister at least once a week while she's been in hospital (since February) and while I want to help and I don't begrudge it, it has been a lot of work getting to London after work every week.

 

I cancel one thing (not because I wanted to, but because of work - and believe me, the job was really worthwhile) and it's like the roof's fallen in...

[DodgeRover]

Pauxhall Meriva as mentioned previously anti roll bar links/ drop arms fitted upside down, no bastard jack, wheel brace or spare, apparently it's cost saving. Bollocks to that, NS one now fitted correctly, lower nyloc was only finger tight.

[New POD]

My job has an on-call function and I was up all last night dealing with something. That's a bit annoying, but not the grump - it's just a part of the job.

 

Mrs H and I were supposed to go to a gig in Greenwich with my mum and sister tonight but having had just a couple of hours of dozing I don't feel up to going. Again, that's annoying but not the grump - I gambled with my on-call and lost.

 

The grump is that my mum and sister have both been trying to guilt trip me into going. No, I am absolutely not travelling 60 odd miles up from the south coast when I know I would just hate every minute of it because I'd be feeling tired and sick, then face the journey home. I do not like being guilt-tripped.

 

It's all so bloody one-sided, as well - Mum tried to argue that it's not hard to get to London, so then why has she not visited us once since we bought our house? And we can't sleep there afterwards because it's too hard for her to have overnight guests.

 

She has a lot of issues and my sympathy is large but it's reached its limits at the moment...

 

I feel your pain. Without getting into it too deep.

 

My parents retired to Anglesey 17 years ago. They could have gone anywhere.

At the time, I pleaded with them to think it through.

I said

It's a minimum of 2 hours door to door.

We both work.

The kids are at school.

We will probably visit 3 times a year.

You are thus unlikely to form any lasting bonds with your grand children.

And when you get really old we are not going to be able to help you much.

And so it is. Kids now adults, barely tolerate my parents. Would not choose to visit even if they had time on their hands.

 

On the other hand we live close to my wife's family and there isn't a week goes by where I wish we were 2 hours from them so we could ignore them.

 

In my humble opinion, My wife has basically become Cinderella for her sister, brother and her parents. When it suits them they are all pleasant and kind, but only when they are getting their own way. They take advantage because they can use her good nature and strong conscience and apply a little emotional blackmail to get her running around sorting things out.

 

Its illogical for me to live in Merseyside, because there is very little work in my field within 90 miles.

[SierraMikeHotel]

That's shit

 

Attitude comes into it as well as distance though... Mrs H grew up in Poole - about 100 miles away and the roads and rails between aren't great so it's usually 2-3 hours - but we see them more often than we see my parents (50 miles, one hour, connected by a motorway and a really good train service). They are lovely, too, so at least we get support from one direction.

[iainrcz]

The tart has just come waddling in to the living room with a lump of cake on a plate.

 

Never even offered me any, what's that fucking game.

 

Eating cake in my house and not even asking if I want any.

 

Jesus.

 

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