The grumpy thread

[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.

[Meter rat]

Buying a new middle exhaust. Then finding out you are possibly being made redundant, due to management fuck ups.

 

[busmansholiday]

Are you returning that ? Asked the young lady behind the counter (bit obvious given I had two boxes (with wiper blades in) and a receipt in my hand).

Yes, one box is missing parts, the other is complete bit doesn't fit.

Check computer, oh, shrug shoulder,.

Store manager wanders in (been there nearly long enough to grow a beard by now).

Those bits don't fit your van (fucking tell me something I didn't know) says the manager.

That's the ones on your website.

No, cannot be, there not listed here.

Turn on phone, show manager their website.

Oh, that shouldn't happen he replies

So?

There's only one for your van.

And?

 

Anyway, finally ended up with correct parts.

You don't need to guess where I was do you......

 

[Fumbler]

Burned my fingerprints off reflowing a bad solder joint on some new central heating pipework. Also feels like they're still touching the hot copper even though I finished two hours ago!

[anonymous user]

Well with no fingerprints now is a good time to commit all those crimes you've always wanted to, before they grow back.

[Fumbler]

Exactly what I thought!

[HillmanImp]

1 hour ago, anonymous user said:

Well with no fingerprints now is a good time to commit all those crimes you've always wanted to, before they grow back.

That doesn't work with cyber fraud, just so you know. 

[MikeR]

went for a trip in the Focus today

felt like it had a lumpy tickover

it was the dog panting in the back

[Rovorsche]

13 hours ago, Stanky said:

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.

Its a "300 series" possibly an E, photo to follow in daylight, much appreciated

[Wack]

8 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

That doesn't work with cyber fraud, just so you know. 

Or dixon of dock green detective methods , mind you youd have to rob a post office or somebody who's important for them to give a shit