The grumpy thread

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Hi,

 

Sorry but CBA to read any of the backstory about this (yet again) but there are   "  96 user(s) are browsing this forum " and probably only a few going on and on and on and on (yet again)   so if you want to kick them out please have my support.  I'm off to try a 6 pound bottle of k seal in a k series engine before the scrappy arrives.

 

 

 

What does it smell like up there?

[danthecapriman]

Bollocks....

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That’s the end of my ratty Nexia.

Anyone need any parts off it, before I weigh it in?

Shit!!

 

Glad your ok though Nige, that looks like a very sore back/neck to me.

[320touring]

Hope you are ok Nigel, sorry to hear you having hospital time!

 

Keep an eye on yourself:)

[timolloyd]

I must be the slowest driver in the world.

 

I don’t seem to encounter any problems on NSL roads, dual carriageways or motorways. Here I make good progress as do others ahead and behind me.

 

But as soon as I reach a tight corner on smaller roads, or a roundabout or 30mph zone, and suddenly I seem to create tailbacks that are measured in years. Worse, my mirrors are filled with people trying to overtake. The same people who were nowhere to be seen in the NSL or in straight lines, but seem to think they’re bloody Schumacher on the roundabouts.

 

I swear to god I could be driving a Veyron at full tilt through narrow country lanes and there would still be some six fingered clot trying to pass me on the blind bends.

[loserone]

That sounds awfully like you need to learn to drive round corners, there's little more frustrating than being stuck behind someone who slows down unnecessarily for everything then speeds up at the only overtaking opportunity.

 

Sorry.

[Christine]

Expect the unexpected on small country roads , you're driving correctly timolloyd   

[loserone]

Unless you are actually driving something as wide as a veyron, you should not need to slow to a crawl round blind bends. As long as your stopping distance is less than you can see, you should be slow enough

[Christine]

Exactly ..so the guy behind on tims bumper is at fault      

 

Actually half the distance you can see,  as the other car coming the other way will need to slow too .

[timolloyd]

Unless you are actually driving something as wide as a veyron, you should not need to slow to a crawl round blind bends. As long as your stopping distance is less than you can see, you should be slow enough

And that’s the rule I’m driving to. My grump is with drivers who seem to want to exceed this on the bends, but then lose their bollocks on nice straight bits of road where my 50-60 might be too slow for them.

 

Even when I back right off to let them pass as safely as possible, they seem to wait for a roundabout or some other stupid opportunity.

[Remspoor]

See this :

 

https://youtu.be/Xjs6fnpPWy4

 

Our little ball of life, their are unspeakable numbers of others, but this is ours, and here we are bickering about bloody moderation, politics and other small stuff. 

 

Can we just move on now.

Like I said before third world problems.

 

I am glad I am not the only one with these views.

[somewhatfoolish]

Just been subjected to 'The Foreigner'; unpleasantly surprised at how bad Pierce Brosnan is at doing an Ulster accent.

[Tamworthbay]

Everyone else here is watching The Ant, yet another piss poor ‘superhero’ film. I am so sick of Marvel crap. Not one decent film amongst the lot of them.

[scaryoldcortina]

^ don't worry, Mrs Brown's Boys is on after, that should make the licence fee worth it!

[MikeR]

June Whitfield ...  rip

[cobblers]

Drove all the fuppin way to robin hoods bay on holiday. I love that place, good walk, few nice pubs and then some lovely fish and chips from my favourite chippy.

 

We'd been out walking all day and I was starving, but before I went down the hill I thought I'd better google to see what time they're open.

 

First result:

 

 

[cort16]

I take it you still got some? Can you double fry these mate?

[Tamworthbay]

It’s fried, wcpgw?

[red5]

Like I said before third world problems.

 

I am glad I am not the only one with these views.

 

 

See this :

 

https://youtu.be/Xjs6fnpPWy4

 

Our little ball of life, their are unspeakable numbers of others, but this is ours, and here we are bickering about bloody moderation, politics and other small stuff. 

 

Can we just move on now.

 

Feel free to chap  - just because you don't see a problem with something doesn't mean others don't. That is kind of the point - I disagree with approx 50% of opinions and views on here and long may that continue. Feel free to pass over posts/threads that you don't agree with, or ignore them, or discuss them. 

 

Or complain about it so you get your own way. It's a relatively lightly moderated, easy-going forum and long may that continue (due in no small part to sterling efforts from the IT lot and the Mods) but it needs to be the place that makes it the place or, well, it's not. Then it will die. Or become PistonRetroClone forums. Or Facebook - which is the same thing.

[Cheggers]

I just paid good money to take the gf to see Holmes & Watson at the local cinema.

 

I'm sure I must have seen a worse film at some time, but I honestly don't remember when it would have been. Utter, utter shite from start to finish.

[red5]

It’s fried, wcpgw?

 

Well, both times I've had actual food poisoning it's been from fried fish/chip shop so I'd guess (judging by my genuine 'I'm dying' for three or four days/copious sweat/puke/water masquerading as poo) quite a lot   

 

 

Seriously, wouldn't even wish it on a politician.

Probably.

[cobblers]

Yeah I'd 100% have taken the chance if I hadn't had food poisoning a few weeks ago to remind me how miserable it really is, days of firing grot out of every end without even being able to keep a glass of water down.

 

I can name many politicians I'd recommend a chippy to.

[Floatylight]

I just paid good money to take the gf to see Holmes & Watson at the local cinema.

 

I'm sure I must have seen a worse film at some time, but I honestly don't remember when it would have been. Utter, utter shite from start to finish.

Wanted to go to the cinema with family today, we've got into a habit of me & Mrs FL going to see one film and FL teenagers going to see another, none of us could find anything we wanted to watch...

 

And we watched the trailer for Holmes & Watson and it did look awful..

 

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[Tamworthbay]

Well, both times I've had actual food poisoning it's been from fried fish/chip shop so I'd guess (judging by my genuine 'I'm dying' for three or four days/copious sweat/puke/water masquerading as poo) quite a lot   

 

 

Seriously, wouldn't even wish it on a politician.

Probably.

I have had a few doses over the years, possibly due to my love of a wide range of cuisine and the odd dodgy chillie burger here and there. Had some SERIOUSLY ropey stuff from chippys but never had food poisoning off them. I must be lucky

[Zelandeth]

It's that time of the year...fridge and freezer are filled to bursting etc...and this evening we notice that it's running a bit warm.  Odd.

 

Closer investigation revealed that yes, it's quite warm and doesn't appear to be cooling though the internal fans are running.

 

Cue frantic redistribution of everything out the fridge into the old one which is usually the drinks fridge (the previous owner left us the huge dual door thing in the kitchen as they couldn't fit it into their new house), the chest freezer in the garage...just managed to make it fit...

 

 

...and some overflow has been thrown in the fridge in the van which is now also cooling.  Just bloody lucky we *have* more than one fridge freezer!

 

Me being me, this was 30% "Fluffing hell, it's broken" and 70% "Yay an engineering challenge!"

 

Fridge out from the wall, lower cover off (I really don't know why the hell I keep putting all eight screws back in given it comes off every month or two to hoover the dog fluff out the damn condenser), quick check revealed the condenser fan was running but the compressor wasn't and was stone cold.  Start circuitry is all built into one module in this and it only has two wires to it, power and a common ground.  Was quickly determined that there was no power getting to it...so no surprise it wasn't running.

 

Now this being a modern fridge, there's not just a thermostat but a whole bundle of bloody over complicated microprocessor controlled nonsense.  However I was pretty sure that the actual compressor motor control would be via a relay.

 

What then followed was a twenty minute fight with the cover on top of the fridge which contains the brains of the operation.  Two screws and two bloody clips which eventually succumbed to my will when I made it clear that I wasn't *asking* it whether it would open...I was *telling* it that it bloody well *would* open.

 

Immediately greeted with the unmistakable whiff of burned electronics...the magic smoke had obviously escaped from something...

 

...Oh look...a relay which appears to have died a death...

 

 

Which sure enough is clearly the one for the compressor (board is actually quite nicely labelled).  Coil is open circuit unsurprisingly.  Bridging out the contacts immediately resulted in the compressor buzzing into life and sounding quite healthy. 

 

£2.29 later we've got a new relay on the way.

 

The question of course is whether the signal to switch it will be present ..but this thing won't call for cooling until it's been running for about ten minutes and I wasn't waiting that long.  If all else fails I'll wire up a separate thermostat control for it if need be!

 

Shudder to think how many households would have just binned it for the sake of this and blown £800 on a new one (it's one of those huge American style things which are stupidly bloody expensive), given getting an engineer in to look at a ten year old fridge these days is unlikely to happen...

 

So hopefully we'll be back up and running soon and I'll have the satisfaction of fixing it...but still, FFS... couldn't it have waited a week...

 

Also...WHY THE FLUFF does a fridge need this much control circuitry?!?

 

 

At least this one uses relays.  Last one I looked at used solid state control and had suffered absolutely catastrophic meltdown of the control transistors...which had then nuked the software control side.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....'; unpleasantly surprised at how bad Pierce Brosnan is at doing an Ulster accent.

That's 'cos yer man comes from Navan.

[MikeR]

had to take the Xmas tree down in the car ...

 

turns out that it picked up the phone struggling to find a signal in the Mersey tunnel and passed it back into the car

 

and caused the car to miss and stutter on the uphill bit .....

[Cheggers]

had to take the Xmas tree down in the car ...

 

turns out that it picked up the phone struggling to find a signal in the Mersey tunnel and passed it back into the car

 

and caused the car to miss and stutter on the uphill bit .....

Eh, sorry. That makes no sense at all.

[MikeR]

the phone would be struggling to get a signal and the non flashing lights on the tree started flickering !!

 

then the car started missing ...    

[Ghosty]

I just paid good money to take the gf to see Holmes & Watson at the local cinema.

 

I'm sure I must have seen a worse film at some time, but I honestly don't remember when it would have been. Utter, utter shite from start to finish.

 

 

Will Ferrell (especially alongside John C Reilly) is a cinematic red flag. 

 

 

In other news I had a friend off to the continent - wahey, nice excuse to get some Gauloises. Told them to go to a tabac of some sort.

 

Stupid fucker went to duty free, where you can't buy them.

[cort16]

I found some time today to get some MOT work done on the Z4

 

Things went in this order

 

I drove it down to my garage after jump starting at the house then once at the yard it wouldn't restart so I had to push it into the garage

Someone over keen with the impact gun has put my wheels on in the past. A few weeks ago removing the wheels to pump up the tyres broke my main A game breaker bar.

Removing the wheel nuts on another wheel today broke my B breaker bar.

 

Okay, okay I'll just do one side of the car but without a breaker bar or an impact gun I have no chance of getting the bolt on the shock absorber undone, which I need to change the spring and it also makes taking the calliper off, much much easier.

Okay so I can't get that off I'll at least change discs and pads. Nope the allan bolt on the calliper is a size I don't have even though I have a lot of different drive bits.

Wheel put back on. Pushed outside.

I'll speak to the garage down there tomorrow it's been off the road long enough.

 

 

I think this may have made a decision for me regarding working on cars as I'm not into the old stuff the way I used to be and new cars are shite to work on.

I don't want to give up on my lockup but my landlord hinted he wouldn't be against me sub letting so I may put up a wall in the middle, get rid of all the cars and build myself a little tinkering workshop man cave and rent out the otherside, which will help with the monthly rent. I also still have my council lockup, which is so cheap it'd be daft to get rid of it.

 

I think 2019 may be the year I sell everything and buy one thing really, really stupid.