The grumpy thread

[Tamworthbay]

Doesn't Renault do that with their electric cars?  It's why the purchase price looks so cheap compared to Leaves and E-Golfs - until you read the "batteries not included" small print.

Yup, it’s a bit a different as the batteries aren’t removable simply to get a fullly charged set but yes you lease them at about £100 a month which kills the whole idea unfortunately.

[DodgeRover]

Lithium cell chemistries don't seem to care about cycle depth or being left unattended for long periods; as long as the charge state is kept between 10% and 90% they're proving to be very durable, the original maker's life predictions being quite conservative.

What they absolutely do care about though is cold, witness 5 lipo dewalt battery packs discharged on a Monday morning if left in the van for a weekend of sub zero temperatures. My AEG and Hitachi packs are just the same.

[Parky]

I read that, how Tesla owners are finding their range is noticeably lower in cold temperatures.

 

Of course you could always fit battery warmers for the winter months. Maybe kerosene ones so the warmers don’t use up all the charge while attempting to improve the charge. Or something.

[SiC]

See that blue glow on the houses behind?

 

That's the glow of fire engines. 4 in-fact, plus 2 fire Marshall cars. Smoke Janeen billowing up from a house just over there for a while. They've been there a good 2 hours now and smoke is still billowing up.

 

Had a quick wander/nosy past earlier. The house has no windows now and the crew were just suiting up with breathing apparatus. No police or ambulances, so fingers crossed no one is hurt or injured.

 

The smoke was foul tasting and nasty, even from a distance. Given the age of the house, I dread to think what noxious chemicals are in the air.

 

Fingers crossed it's only property damage.

[somewhatfoolish]

George "Amaaazing!" Clarke's hipster hat wearing mockney irritant sidekick eulogising about some painfully pointless modular wendyhouse decorated externally with multicoloured nylon webbing. Cities do not need this shit, they need sensible high density housing that can be put up for a fraction of the 30 large per unit the wendyhouse supposedly cost.

[somewhatfoolish]

What they absolutely do care about though is cold, witness 5 lipo dewalt battery packs discharged on a Monday morning if left in the van for a weekend of sub zero temperatures. My AEG and Hitachi packs are just the same.

 

They definitely won't be discharged(unless they were discharged when you left them on Friday); low temperature will result in poor performance mimicking a drained battery though(especially at high discharge rates), the act of recharging may well heat the battery enough for it to appear like a miraculous recovery.

 

[DodgeRover]

According to the onboard battery level sensor they were way down, will try sticking them in front of the fire along with the paslode gas when we get another cold snap.

 

It'll make a change from is that a gas canister in your pants or are you just pleased to see me.

 

For those still reading and not in the building trade the nail guns that work by exploding gas just don't if the gas temp gets too low. The usual remedy is to put the canister somewhere next to the skin to warm it up..you can buy winter gas but nobody does.

[alcyonecorporation]

Dear Universe,

 

Can you just fuck off and let me be, please?

 

Some shitbag reversed into my car and destroyed the grille, coincidentally just before I started it up and a low coolant light came on. Hope those two aren't related.

 

Next came a baffling exchange with someone in a busy filling station who accused me of being illiterate, stupid and selfish because I was using the only diesel pump on the entire forecourt (to fill up a diesel car).

 

Him: 'Do you speak English? Can you even read??????????'

 

Me: "I beg your pardon?"

 

No mate, I'm not filling a diesel car with petrol because you think me brimming it at the one diesel pump on the entire site is somehow an affront to fair and honest conduct on a forecourt; I didn't fucking design it and if you really wanted to, I left enough space for you to drive round and pull in front to the one remaining petrol pump.

 

After five minutes of extended abuse (where I could not fucking get it through your thick skull that there was but ONE diesel pump on the forecourt so that was the only one by definition that I could use), I lost my shit with you and mouthed off. I could say I was sorry, but I wasn't. I wasn't then and I'm not now. You deserved it. In fact, if you carry on speaking to people in the way that you did to me, sooner or later someone's going to hammer you into the pavement. Perhaps that hasn't happened to you yet. Perhaps it needs to.

 

Of course (of course!) you then fire back with the only thing your type can manage when confronted with arguments better than yours (things called 'facts'): a piss poor, feeble attempt at the moral high ground; 'Don't you dare swear in front of my grand kids.'

 

Well, you stupid arsehole, I can read, yes, thanks for asking, and.....I don't know, maybe you should be teaching your grand kids to read situations better than steaming into them on a tidal wave of assumption, eh? That way they won't get sworn at for verbally abusing someone unprovoked.

 

Perhaps, instead of flapping your gob, you could have got in the car and got to the other pump, no? Someone else managed that (in a larger car) while you were having a go at me. I pointed that out to you, too. You didn't like that, either.

 

Now, ram that private plated Ford Kuga up your arse, and stop hassling me.

Thank you so much, cheers.

[DodgeRover]

^^^ have that lots whilst waiting for someone to shift so I can get to the LPG pump, then appear to be doing nothing but lean on it when I'm there (clue you need to hold the button in continually)

[sheffcortinacentre]

Yep dodge rover had that at Darnell in Sheffield wagon on disel pump driver in it but waiting for his mate stocking up on yorkies so I get down side as I'm blocking entrance to other empty pumps.

 

Start filling then Yorkie boy comes sauntering across glareing & shaking his head, so I look back & say only lpg pump they've got, don't help when people do their shopping instead of vacating pumps like the signs say.

 

Sheepishly climbs in cab.

[BorniteIdentity]

(Personal views about Comic Sans removed at the request of a member.  Apologies to all concerned and offended.)

[Cavcraft]

SCC's comment reminds me of when I was driving 7.5 tonners. Some bum nugget in a ytruck blocked the entrance to a factory in Wem off and when I asked him to move, he refused.

I managed to get past with my trolley through a side entrance, not before I'd backed up to his shit arsed Swedish light parade though. When I got back he asked me to move so I just told him I was on a tacho break and couldn't. It seemed like the longest 15 minutes of his life the way he paced up and down muttering to himself before revving the bollocks off his truck.

[Tenmil Socket]

Oil filter change on an MX5 NA, what a right PITA !

[The Moog]

 

But, please.  NO.  MORE.  COMIC.  SANS.

 

Understood?

 

I quite like comic sans. ... its jaunty 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I quite like comic sans. ... its jaunty 

 

 

Dear Lord.  I think we've identified another subject we really should just agree not to discuss.  Politics, religion and Comic Fucking Sans.

[SiC]

See that blue glow on the houses behind?

 

That's the glow of fire engines. 4 in-fact, plus 2 fire Marshall cars. Smoke Janeen billowing up from a house just over there for a while. They've been there a good 2 hours now and smoke is still billowing up.

 

Had a quick wander/nosy past earlier. The house has no windows now and the crew were just suiting up with breathing apparatus. No police or ambulances, so fingers crossed no one is hurt or injured.

 

The smoke was foul tasting and nasty, even from a distance. Given the age of the house, I dread to think what noxious chemicals are in the air.

 

Fingers crossed it's only property damage.

Detoured past the house this morning, I think it was their attached garage as the door was half open and crispy this morning. Looks like their house possibly is ok (apart from probably smoke damage). Garage fire is something I always worry about, especially when doing metal work. As I intend to work inside the garage in the new place I probably need to make sure I take extra precautions. Especially from welding fumes and smoke from when things smoulder.

[loserone]

Dear Lord. I think we've identified another subject we really should just agree not to discuss. Politics, religion and Comic Fucking Sans.

There's nothing to discuss, it should be banned.

[John F]

There's nothing to discuss, it should be banned.

 

Y tho?

 

lol

[Tamworthbay]

I quite like comic sans. ... its jaunty

 

And it’s fantastic for kids with learning disabilities as it’s much closer to hand writing.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Both my other half and I are dyslexic.  She finds Comic Sans easy to read and this is the only justification for its existence that is reasonable.

[Cheggers]

Airport valet parking.

 

I understand I'm not the tallest so you may have to move my seat back a few inches for your drive to and from the compound, but do you really need to change the height, seat back angle, interior mirror, both exterior mirrors, dash light intensity and retune the radio to drive the bloody thing 2 miles?

[Jazoli]

Airport valet parking.

 

I understand I'm not the tallest so you may have to move my seat back a few inches for your drive to and from the compound, but do you really need to change the height, seat back angle, interior mirror, both exterior mirrors, dash light intensity and retune the radio to drive the bloody thing 2 miles?

It's probably been used as a taxi for the last week

[Cheggers]

It's probably been used as a taxi for the last week

Unlikely

[John F]

It's probably been used to deliver drugs for the last week

 

FTFY

[Cheggers]

FTFY

No change there then...

[New POD]

Oil filter change on an MX5 NA, what a right PITA !

Meh, just requires dexterity and eyes on the end of you fingers.

 

Not nearly as painful and sweary as a 2001 Bini Cooper.

[MikeR]

your donation of door sealing strip has worked wonders on the back door ....  

 

 

it no longer shakes the house when it is "gently" closed

 

 

and I have just spent nearly 30 spondolies on another coil pack .... hope that fixes the misfire ....

 

but when I did the swap

 

some one had been there before !!!!

[New POD]

your donation of door sealing strip has worked wonders on the back door ....

 

 

it no longer shakes the house when it is "gently" closed

 

 

and I have just spent nearly 30 spondolies on another coil pack .... hope that fixes the misfire ....

 

but when I did the swap

 

some one had been there before !!!!

Buy the best spark plugs you can.

[Cheggers]

Meh, just requires dexterity and eyes on the end of you fingers.

 

Not nearly as painful and sweary as a 2001 Bini Cooper.

A Pela pump is the way to go, made short work of my daughter's Mini oil change.

[treehugger]

Am on zero hours. Got text at 8.39am for shifts today, rung, booked in. Had to go out, n drive, so turned phone off for 1 hour while out. Get back, phone on. Text 45 min earlier saying our system crashed, we lost all bookings, please ring to re book. Just rung, got the pre recorded message saying no shifts available, in otherwords, they've all gone. Brill.

Might as well go for a walk then.

FFS bloody computerised systems, cant they back it up with screenshots or written notes? Jesus wept.