The grumpy thread

[LightBulbFun]

and of course I make a pissing typo...

 

(I meant to say without)

 

 

 

ill blame it on this head ache i have woken up with, where it feels like the fluid in-between my ears is disconnected from the rest of myself...

[myglaren]

Plumb it in with a new account then switch it to a local account (presuming windows 10)

Got his password and it rejects that account, wants a microsoft account.

Of course he has gone to work and won't be back until 07:00.

 

Never get this kind of shit from Linux

[SiC]

Never get this kind of shit from Linux

With Linux, instead you'll just be still trying to get the Audio or WiFi driver working.

[Pillock]

You can just click Skip on the Cortana stuff and set up a local account.

[myglaren]

With Linux, instead you'll just be still trying to get the Audio or WiFi driver working.

That has never happened.

That was what I was told when I first got SuSe Linux twenty years ago.  Turned out to be far simpler to set everything up, including networking and setting up the modem that Windows 95 didn't want to know anything about.

Not filled with snoopy stuff either.

[beko1987]

I had to download drivers for Windows 7 to work yesterday. My granny was very confused and thogght I was going to break her desktop as I downloaded the drivers and stuck them on my USB stick.

 

On her vista pc... Which hasn't seen anything regarding updates for a decade! Did the ones I could and hacked the chrome nag screen away which confused her even more...

[HillmanImp]

I think someone's sat on the front of my car squashing the drivers side light.

 

 

Gits.

[HillmanImp]

Actually, thinking about it I wonder if the culprit is about 110cm tall, loves Citroën Visa's and BMXing?

 

 

*Its not me, I might be short but I'm not that short.

[BavarianRetro]

Bastard BMW keys. Bastards!....

 

I mean really.

 

Send me the EWS module and I'll give you chip and board you can put into the case.

 

A couple of years ago I picked up a Diamond-shaped BMW key identical to mine off the bed of an old car-transporter trailer. I thought I could gut the scrap key to repair my own key. Turns out it's a bit harder than I thought.

 

The transponder bit is wrapped in copper wiring, easy enough to remove no worries. Unfortunately, the copper wiring in the scrap key has snapped in a tight place where it is supposed to be held in. I could try and shove a bit of wiring on there but knce the key is back together the chances of it coming loose is too high.

 

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The reason for the failure is the battery track which conducts the leccy between battery and board has snapped.

 

Everywhere it's £30 to get the key sorted, £25 more than I usually have. I am getting fed up this. Plus the BMW now just opens all windows when I use the remote on the other key.

[hairnet]

will be in usa in september

 

was looking for omd gigs here - all sold out apart from a couple i cant make as theyre the opposite end of the country on weeknights

 

found out theyre on same time as im in usa

 

three grumps - its an outdoor venue

 

i have to fly from alabama to philiadelphia

 

omd arent the headline - thats the b52s (barf) but berlin are also on the card.......... this also happened last time I saw them simple minds were the headline omd were the support - who were far better

 

oh well more time in north carolina then

[Redfred]

Gorgeous glorious day to be off work.

 

And I’ve been stuck indoors all day writing an application for the permanent version of the job I’ve been doing for the last 12 months. I hate writing applications at the best of times, but particularly when it’s for a job you’re already doing, to be reviewed by people you work with for an organisation you’ve worked for for years and years. All being well I’ll be interviewed next week. When I’m off on leave.

 

If this one isn’t successful I’ll then have to interview for my own permanent job because we’re going through a structural redesign. Also means I have to complete a skills and experience document separate to the application process as there’s a risk I’ll be displaced. Sodding thing has to be in for 8am on Tuesday. I was going to do it today to get it out the way but after writing that application by brain is fried so it can feckin well wait.

[omegod]

Motivated myself to get out with my metal detector for the first time this year, got a cracking signal and in my excitement knelt down into a load of nettles in my shorts, ouch !

 

Fucking signal was just an old car thermostat !

 

Going to try to find the WW2 incendiary bomb I discovered last year in  local parkland and get the bomb guys to sort it , had my little one with me so reburied it and I haven't been able to find the fucker since    

[MikeR]

M6 traffic bollocks . car even had a few moments spewing out clouds of oil smoke after idling for f in ages

5 hours to do a 1.5 hour journey !!! Via the scenic route .....

[somewhatfoolish]

Gorgeous glorious day to be off work.

 

And I’ve been stuck indoors all day writing an application for the permanent version of the job I’ve been doing for the last 12 months. I hate writing applications at the best of times, but particularly when it’s for a job you’re already doing, to be reviewed by people you work with for an organisation you’ve worked for for years and years. All being well I’ll be interviewed next week. When I’m off on leave.

 

If this one isn’t successful I’ll then have to interview for my own permanent job because we’re going through a structural redesign. Also means I have to complete a skills and experience document separate to the application process as there’s a risk I’ll be displaced. Sodding thing has to be in for 8am on Tuesday. I was going to do it today to get it out the way but after writing that application by brain is fried so it can feckin well wait.

What is the point of this administrivia? I'd be giving them one line, "I am eminently suitable for this job as I'm already doing it" and put whoever the line manager is as reference. Unless the job is filling in application forms it's not wrong. 

[Redfred]

What is the point of this administrivia? I'd be giving them one line, "I am eminently suitable for this job as I'm already doing it" and put whoever the line manager is as reference. Unless the job is filling in application forms it's not wrong.

 

Frustration levels are high with this process. What’s even more stupid is that if I’m appointed in to the permanent post I have to go through the whole proving identity and eligibility to work in the UK thing, even though I’ve worked for this organisation for *years*. Oh and will also have to get another disclosure check done and reapply for security screening.

[mercrocker]

A random and inconsequential grump, nonetheless, but one I feel aggrieved about...... 

 

Watching Pointless tonight on t'telly (it is literally the only thing I watch) and there was a question about Roman Britain.   I understood the questions well enough and even knew one or two answers but who the flippity fuck has renamed BC and AD as BCE and CE?   More to the point - Why?   Is it a problem to understand or accept the meaning of Anno Domini?   Or, more likely, just another attempt to re-write history?  

 

I haven't been so narked about Pre-Arthurian Britain on a game-show since that bloody Icelandic bloke started calling Boadicea "Buddica".    

 

That was c. AD 1989 by the way....

[iainrcz]

The lazy fucking wankers on other shifts.

Leaving shit for others to do.

 

Pisses me right off.

 

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[Tamworthbay]

A random and inconsequential grump, nonetheless, but one I feel aggrieved about...... 

 

Watching Pointless tonight on t'telly (it is literally the only thing I watch) and there was a question about Roman Britain.   I understood the questions well enough and even knew one or two answers but who the flippity fuck has renamed BC and AD as BCE and CE?   More to the point - Why?   Is it a problem to understand or accept the meaning of Anno Domini?   Or, more likely, just another attempt to re-write history?  

 

I haven't been so narked about Pre-Arthurian Britain on a game-show since that bloody Icelandic bloke started calling Boadicea "Buddica".    

 

That was c. AD 1989 by the way....

Ask them in church this Sunday whose fault it was, you do go to church don’t you?

[Pete-M]

Some fucker has nicked the spare wheel from under my works van.

 

Bastards. It'll need a wheel (£50), tyre (£130) and the hanger mechanism replacing. (£100?)

 

That's kinda ruined my weekend.

[Supernaut]

The lazy fucking wankers on other shifts.

Leaving shit for others to do.

 

Pisses me right off.

 

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I hear that.

 

Ticket opened at the start of day shift, it sat for 12 hours with no updates and was passed to me on night shift.

 

It was a piss-easy ticket to sort, too.

[somewhatfoolish]

Unless you get earache for the 12 hours' latency shirley that's a win? Or are your superiors just huge members about everything?

[Zelandeth]

It is half past three in the morning.

 

As of approximately half an hour ago I have a rather violent case of the hiccups.

 

I. AM. NOT. AMJSED.

[Supernaut]

Unless you get earache for the 12 hours' latency shirley that's a win? Or are your superiors just huge members about everything?

 

My direct superiors aren't. However people above them are.

 

The fuck do I care though? I handed in my notice on Wednesday because I don't particularly like working for a company that normalises the act of defrauding their customers. My direct superiors are making moves to change this, but then it's a shit job anyway and I have other options on the table.

[New POD]

M6 traffic bollocks . car even had a few moments spewing out clouds of oil smoke after idling for f in ages

5 hours to do a 1.5 hour journey !!! Via the scenic route .....

[New POD]

What is the point of this administrivia? I'd be giving them one line, "I am eminently suitable for this job as I'm already doing it" and put whoever the line manager is as reference. Unless the job is filling in application forms it's not wrong.

Esspevially if the job was one of improving business efficiency.

 

I keep asking. So why are you filling in this form and signing it again.

[dozeydustman]

Bollocks.

 

[Zelandeth]

The bloody kids next door. They have been screaming at each other (there are four of the buggers) since about 7am this morning when they woke me up.

 

Same as every day for the last week.

 

Can't help but feel that there's something unfair in that we get a royal ear full if our dog gets a bit excited and barks at a squirrel in the garden because that "causes them distress" over the fence...yet their hellspawn are apparently allowed to make enough noise to wake the dead at any hour of the day or night.

 

I really have living in town. I'm sure someone who grew up in town wouldn't even bat an eyelid at this sort of stuff...but I didn't, I grew up 15 miles from nowhere. Where there were a total of six houses within visual range, and one of those had been empty for decades. Suburbia and me are not getting along well.

 

Oh, this grumble is also attached to the same household who basically mean we can't open the windows on roughly 1/3 of the house because they stand against the bottom wall of their garden (the boundary we share) smoking what seems like 24/7.

 

I realize it's their garden and all, but I'd rather not have my house reek of cigarette smoke thanks very much.

[Aston Martin]

Welcome to Hull

 

[dozeydustman]

Not only has the fuel system on the Saab gone tits up, someone's driven into the Corolla.

[Tamworthbay]

Welcome to Hull

https://youtu.be/4IiZHaGddN0

Wtf? Why was he not tasered for that?