The grumpy thread

[Wack]

43 minutes ago, Saabnut said:

A couple of weeks ago on my way back home, I called in to see a very good friend as he had just been released from Hospital. No one was sure what was wrong apart from Noro Virus and Pneumonia which he was in for. He was very much better and his usual cheery self.

Travelling down to France Weds evening I had a call from my other friend there saying he had been taken back into hospital, but nothing to worry about, and as I was planning on spending 6 weeks in France decided to carry on and planned on visiting him on the way home.

Just had a call from my friend saying the other friend passed away at 0800 this morning. He was 65 years old and previously was the fittest man I knew.

FFS

Sorry to hear that

Hospitals employ staff to evaluate and send people home, it's the older generation that doesn't want to be there so agrees

2013 my wife felt bad so saturday at midnight we were in A&E, some halfwit asked her to walk a few meters which she did very badly then he tried discharging her , this wasn't happening so we kicked up a fuss and she got admitted, next morning she was paralysed ,in hospital for 6 weeks and almost a year to recover but her face is still paralysed on one side

If she had gone home she could be dead now

[Split_Pin]

Jings, just clicked your link, that sounds sinister. I hope your wife recovers full muscle function in her face. I agree sometimes that you have to press for action in hospitals/your GP.

[purplebargeken]

Not sure if a grump really, just a bit weird. Over the last couple of weeks we have had deliveries of food via Uber eats or whatever it is. All very nice but sadly none of it was ordered by us. Our address and post code, just not us. Tonight the doorbell goes, - small amount of chinese food, nope not mine matey, order name is Elaine R, the mobile number given isn't picked up. Poor bloke has to phone uber and I verify it isn't for me. He then has to wait for a specific time before he is authorised to dispose of the food.  He cycled all the way here too.

Even weirder is that the food has to be paid for prior to it being made and delivered, such a waste of food and time. 

[EssDeeWon]

That is very odd Ken. Someone somewhere surely isn't getting their grub, and for it to happen more than once. hmmm...strange.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, purplebargeken said:

Not sure if a grump really, just a bit weird. Over the last couple of weeks we have had deliveries of food via Uber eats or whatever it is. All very nice but sadly none of it was ordered by us. Our address and post code, just not us. Tonight the doorbell goes, - small amount of chinese food, nope not mine matey, order name is Elaine R, the mobile number given isn't picked up. Poor bloke has to phone uber and I verify it isn't for me. He then has to wait for a specific time before he is authorised to dispose of the food.  He cycled all the way here too.

Even weirder is that the food has to be paid for prior to it being made and delivered, such a waste of food and time. 

Some sort of mad psychological practical joke?

[myglaren]

Just set off for Yarm, one of my daughter's is doing a pop-up bakery today.

Five miles down the road and lots of vibration - feels like a wheel bearing.

Came off at a roundabout and head back home, strong pong of burning brake pads.

I have noticed that there seems to be a warped disc and now it looks like a piston has stuck, holding the pad on that disc.

Car is in for MOT on Monday and he is going to change that disc anyway.  Probably a new caliper too now :(

[Fumbler]

Decided to fix the driver's door problems today with the brother. Take off doorcard. No problems there. Look inside void to find the door latch. Found. Operate the outside door handle which is causing all of the problems... Ah, I see a problem. The rod that is meant to be transferring the handle action to the latch is in the bottom of the door. The latch module itself is fine. Great... £200 wasted on parts. Instead, the outside door handle itself has broken.

That black piece of plastic next to the spring is meant to have an arm with a hole come off of it. The arm has broken off. Luckily, we found it at the bottom of the door. Brother Fumbler had the door resprayed after he had some dents pulled out so we think the handle wasn't reinstalled properly. Oh well, a driver's door latch module is now part of the parts roster that goes with the car once we sell it.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Feck.

Feckin' spade connectors to the radiator fans sensor / switch have snapped.

Arse.

Need to make some sort of Autoshite temporary* repair* until I can get another pack of spade connectors.

[Marm Toastsmith]

On 7/19/2019 at 10:19 PM, purplebargeken said:

Not sure if a grump really, just a bit weird. Over the last couple of weeks we have had deliveries of food via Uber eats or whatever it is. All very nice but sadly none of it was ordered by us. Our address and post code, just not us. Tonight the doorbell goes, - small amount of chinese food, nope not mine matey, order name is Elaine R, the mobile number given isn't picked up. Poor bloke has to phone uber and I verify it isn't for me. He then has to wait for a specific time before he is authorised to dispose of the food.  He cycled all the way here too.

Even weirder is that the food has to be paid for prior to it being made and delivered, such a waste of food and time. 

I've had similar quite a few times recently although not being as kind or as patient as you I didn't hang about to hear their story, rather I just said, "nah, not me mate" and closed the door.

I wonder if it's a coincidence or what.

[Timewaster]

Is there a similar named road close by?

There is a road in the next village with the same name as ours and no sat navs seem to recognise ours as it is a numbered row of houses on a main road rather than an actual separate road.

They get loads of our stuff delivered there.

Not just parcels, they got two sofas and an entire IKEA kitchen once.

Luckily we know them and they are nice enough to bring stuff round or text us or redirect the driver.

 

Incidentally, my mates brother got substantial compensation from the met police a few years ago after they smashed his front door in at 3am and dragged him and his partner out of bed in a heavy handed manner and had then cuffed and laid face down in the street at gunpoint still in their underwear before it became clear they were at the wrong address. So it could be worse!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

36 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

..... my mates brother got substantial compensation from the met police a few years ago after they smashed his front door in at 3am and dragged him and his partner out of bed in a heavy handed manner and had then cuffed and laid face down in the street at gunpoint still in their underwear before it became clear they were at the wrong address. ...

That sounds like the Met alright

[somewhatfoolish]

On 6/24/2019 at 10:57 AM, captain_70s said:

Yup. I'd just park elsewhere. A 10min walk is a lesser evil than vandalised cars... A sad state of affairs but that's the way of things.

I was out on the roads on Friday around 16:30, an unusual time for me because shift work. The amount of yelling and horn blowing and angry wheelspin starts was quite the eye opener... A lot of people VERY angry over not a lot... GCC's buslanes-for-fucking-up-traffic-flow policy.

EFA

 

On 7/16/2019 at 9:22 PM, Zelandeth said:

Just finished this.

My last can of old recipe Irn Bru.  Therefore probably my last one, period.  Which is a shame as it used to be a personal favourite.

I'm intolerant to Aspartame (causes me crippling migraines even in small quantities) and the other sweeteners that were dumped into everything not using Aspartame with the introduction of the sugar tax taste to me as though someone has dumped a couple of spoons of vinegar in the drink.

Go take a look in your average supermarket and see what options you have not including Aspartame, Stevia, Steviol, sucralose etc as a sweetener these days.  You'll find that your options are basically Classic Coke and Pepsi.  Though I have discovered that Tesco now stock Mtn Dew (the proper stuff, not the Energy version which tastes well different) in their Jamaican section...so have been basically clearing them out every time I pass by.

There was a newspaper article in the last couple of weeks that Barr's sales figures have fallen off a cliff as a result of the recipe change, so there may be a "new! improved! actually the same old sugary death! recipe" introduced at some point, no doubt at a premium price.

[Lankytim]

17 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

That sounds like the Met alright

Similar happened to my sister, police smashed the door in looking for drugs but found out after 5 mins of ransacking the place that they had the right house number on the wrong road. 

[captain_70s]

45 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

EFA

I rarely encounter bus lanes apart from on GWR, although the traffic along there is diabolical at times.

It's the Kingston bridge end of the clydeside expressway which seems to cause the most rage.

[Dippy]

According to the advert for new Fords I heard on the radio most of us need to scrap our cars because if the Aircon doesnt work and you cant connect your phone to  play music it needs to be scrapped.

Good news is they will give you £2000 towards a huge debt for the rest of your life.

[Floatylight]

According to the advert for new Fords I heard on the radio most of us need to scrap our cars because if the Aircon doesnt work and you cant connect your phone to  play music it needs to be scrapped.

Good news is they will give you £2000 towards a huge debt for the rest of your life.

It might be the same ad, but I heard one the other day offering to accept anything for scrapping registered before 2012, that's almost a new car!! Absolute madness for the plebs to believe this is anything other than sales tactics and bugger all to do with the environment

 

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[HH-R]

I've had to pretty much give up on drinking pop, probably a good thing really, but due to the artificial sweeteners which give me a banging headache too.
I'm not paying £2 for a bottle of proper Pepsi too which is what ASDA often have it on sale for.
Used to be able to get away with non diet lemonade but I got crippled with a migraine from Morrisons' lemonade the other day so I'm finished with pop.

 

[dozeydustman]

Internet and landline went offline since Friday evening with the pathetic attempt at a thunderstorm, was on sporadic yesterday, and only came back on with some degree of stable connectivity at half 8 this morning, following a day offline on Wednesday. We don't have strong aerial reception for the TV so we stream most of what we watch. Neighbours were also affected (some still are) so I don't think this was a supplier specific thing. Friday evening's thunderstorm was disappointing as well. Connection is woefully slow at the moment as there is still an outage showing in the area around Chichester on istheservicedown.co.uk

Quite ironically I need to fit a new telephone socket at my father-in-law's place later today.

This isn't the grump, what is the grump is myself, Mrs D and stepdaughter are so engrossed in our tech we haven't got a fucking clue (as an fambly) what to do without an internet once all the daily running of the household was finished and the only board game we have is scrabble.

[Jazoli]

Why not use your mobile as a hotspot? provided you have a decent data plan you could have carried on as normal.

[dozeydustman]

57 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

Why not use your mobile as a hotspot? provided you have a decent data plan you could have carried on as normal.

Simples - None to poor mobile reception at home.

[somewhatfoolish]

16 hours ago, captain_70s said:

I rarely encounter bus lanes apart from on GWR, although the traffic along there is diabolical at times.

It's the Kingston bridge end of the clydeside expressway which seems to cause the most rage.

The whiteinch end of the expressway is bad for complete bawbags not knowing what the fuck they're doing too.

[clayts450]

Day 2 of the school holidays....FFS

[myglaren]

Taking the C5 for some doctoring and MOT in the morning.

Pool of brake fluid beside front n/s wheel today.  Had to go to Halfords for DOT4, only place open.  eleven quid and it's nearly all gone.

[purplebargeken]

There is another road with the same name but it is in Enfield. The deliveries have the correct address and postcode. Just the wrong name and number. 

[dave j]

On 7/7/2019 at 8:26 AM, dave j said:

Saw this tyre on a car parked next to me yesterday. It was a 13 plate c max. Scary to think people drive with tyres in this state! 

Update- walked the dog in the same spot today, came back to find a 13 plate white c max parked next to me with 2 very recent new tyres on the front, hopefully this is the same one I left the  note on and they actually got it sorted! 

[Rovorsche]

Today I needed to put two cars outside my garage, not a big deal you might say but I had to move a lot of crap off the drive and hopefully mow the standing area.

Mowing has been abandoned.
My year old Mountfield will start but not run, hit the primer and it will run a bit longer.
Just needs cleaning I thought, fuel is fresh it started fine on the first tank of the year.

I looked at many videos of how to clean the jets and checked every one was blockage free and would blow through ok.

Even the one hidden behind a blocked off passageway, a gentle squeeze with pliers pops out the ballbearing that blocks this bit off

An unrewarding result, the bloody thing will not run unless you reach over and jab the primer every four seconds.

Out of curiosity I thought I would check if you can buy a new jet as a spare, you can as a whole carb for a tenner delivered!
Order placed!
Then an advert popped up for a carb that fits old faithful, a 15 year old mountfield that I put in the shed when a plastic bit sheared off the top of the throttle spindle, Five pounds delivered !
GET IN! Its an Omen, the old beast wants to rise again.

Tupperware Carb didnt turn up, old school aluminium one did.
Five minutes to fit, airduster the fuel tank to evict any spiders, clean the plug.... Pull the starter

Oh, fuck all compression and no more spanner time available for bastard mowers.

 

So both cars are parked in the rolling savannah at the bottom of the garden awaiting spanner time.

The Galaxy has properly lunched its gearbox but its a scrapyard box that had unknown miles and third gear always crunched if hurried.
The epic grinding and snapping noises make me wonder if the drain plug will dispense more metal than oil!

On its way down the garden, even though I walked the course I managed to drive over a garden tool and bugger up a tyre on the Galaxy, at least it wasnt a new one

I would have been much less pissed off if it was the Micra, all those tyres are up for replacement.

Guess what noise the Custurd the Micra made when I did a full lock turn to park it ?
Yes, that noise.

This is all for the greater good though, I have to make space for an R8 and a StreetWise with 70,000 miles between them and I know nothing about K-series engines, what could possibly go wrong ?

 

[Supernaut]

Yesterday, I was meant to be on a train down to Stoke on Trent.

However, I did not get on that train, and I am still at home.

 

I was meant to start training with Openreach today to be a fibre installer. However, on Friday afternoon they phoned me to say they still hadn't got any paperwork through from the 3rd party medical assessment company they use.

I had an appointment with said company at the beginning of July. They only sent me a request form for my GP's contact details on Friday morning.

Thanks to this, I've been bumped onto the next fibre training course, which is a month from now.

 

Meanwhile I have interest from other employers and I'm this close to telling Openreach to shove it.

[loserone]

Not until you're in the door.

 

Open reach will be full of catastrophe, but much like the public sector there's a lot of benefits if you can put up with them

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

Yesterday, I was meant to be on a train down to Stoke on Trent....

The weird thing about Stoke is that I've only been there twice, and each time I ended up bringing a car home....

[Stanky]

13 hours ago, Rovorsche said:

Today I needed to put two cars outside my garage, not a big deal you might say but I had to move a lot of crap off the drive and hopefully mow the standing area.

Mowing has been abandoned.
My year old Mountfield will start but not run, hit the primer and it will run a bit longer.
Just needs cleaning I thought, fuel is fresh it started fine on the first tank of the year.

I looked at many videos of how to clean the jets and checked every one was blockage free and would blow through ok.

Even the one hidden behind a blocked off passageway, a gentle squeeze with pliers pops out the ballbearing that blocks this bit off

An unrewarding result, the bloody thing will not run unless you reach over and jab the primer every four seconds.

Out of curiosity I thought I would check if you can buy a new jet as a spare, you can as a whole carb for a tenner delivered!
Order placed!
Then an advert popped up for a carb that fits old faithful, a 15 year old mountfield that I put in the shed when a plastic bit sheared off the top of the throttle spindle, Five pounds delivered !
GET IN! Its an Omen, the old beast wants to rise again.

Tupperware Carb didnt turn up, old school aluminium one did.
Five minutes to fit, airduster the fuel tank to evict any spiders, clean the plug.... Pull the starter

Oh, fuck all compression and no more spanner time available for bastard mowers.

 

So both cars are parked in the rolling savannah at the bottom of the garden awaiting spanner time.

The Galaxy has properly lunched its gearbox but its a scrapyard box that had unknown miles and third gear always crunched if hurried.
The epic grinding and snapping noises make me wonder if the drain plug will dispense more metal than oil!

On its way down the garden, even though I walked the course I managed to drive over a garden tool and bugger up a tyre on the Galaxy, at least it wasnt a new one

I would have been much less pissed off if it was the Micra, all those tyres are up for replacement.

Guess what noise the Custurd the Micra made when I did a full lock turn to park it ?
Yes, that noise.

This is all for the greater good though, I have to make space for an R8 and a StreetWise with 70,000 miles between them and I know nothing about K-series engines, what could possibly go wrong ?

 

Yo Rovorsche, what engine does the mower have? That carb doesn't look familar but the symptoms sound like the issues you get with Briggs and Stratton 148cc engines when the carb diaphragm stretches, which they all do after about 3-4 years. To begin with the primer bulb works, but the diaphragm won't maintain vacuum so new petrol isn't sucked in during running - hence it runs for whats been squeezed in by the priming bulb then conks out when they is used up. if you can get a photo of the engine i can give more info, but its almost certainly not terminal.