The grumpy thread

[robinmasters]

14 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Sounds like a bit of a seagull manager.

Can you tell him to stop waking me up in the night, and shitting on my car?

[Split_Pin]

Another 2 knockbacks for internal applications from my current employer this morning and to add to that my colleague whom has been a nightmare to manage was successful in her internal job application. I have now accepted that I'm not worth anything like the job I currently have, after 27 rejections it's obvious. I'm just going to get my redundancy then apply for a much lower paid job. Fleet and home may need to be downsized as a result. Could die right now!

[loserone]

Either that or you're aiming too low? I've seen it plenty of times round here.

[xtriple]

Been out in the Jag for the first time post MOT,  they have removed the back seat to get at the seatbelt and now I can't get it back properly, dashboard was lit up like a Christmas tree due to the handbrake being on and a seatbelt being done up with no one sat in the seat and the seat was so far forward I could barely get in! I bloody hate it when they do shit like that.

 

Everything sorted apart from the back seat base, just cannot get the bugger to lock in place and there's no room and it hurts my poor little body trying to contort into tight spaces.

[BorniteIdentity]

10 hours ago, auld_ALS said:

Another 2 knockbacks for internal applications from my current employer this morning and to add to that my colleague whom has been a nightmare to manage was successful in her internal job application. I have now accepted that I'm not worth anything like the job I currently have, after 27 rejections it's obvious. I'm just going to get my redundancy then apply for a much lower paid job. Fleet and home may need to be downsized as a result. Could die right now!

You know difficult people get moved all the time, right? 

[TataBobu]

Wagon started misbehaving today. It got to accelerating from standing still to 2 km per hour in about 4-5 seconds. Looks like a clutch job. It's the second since I have it, the first one lasted about 20 k miles. Maybe I don't have to drive it like I've stolen it all the time.

[myglaren]

On 7/28/2019 at 10:02 AM, treehugger said:

Broddling in my ear absently yesterday n realised had gone almost deaf......start using bit of metal n earbuds got tonsa wax out, still not right though, can hear squelching. Suppose if try n get it syringed will have to wait 3 months.................if you're eating, bon apettite!

Oh and puss threw up on living room carpet at 6am.

Try a weak solution of Hydrogen Peroxide.  Fizzes - interestingly - and shouldn't be used too often.

Peroxide often available from women's hairdressers (daughter was a beautician once over)

 

Trick learned from a Leonard Cohen novel, The Favourite Game, half a century ago :)

[New POD]

Can I just say, those people who have just broken up from work for 5 weeks can get in the sea.....

Stop being grumpy and get in the sea......

Literally....it's only a mile away..

 

[HillmanImp]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

Try a weak solution of Hydrogen Peroxide.  Fizzes - interestingly - and shouldn't be used too often.

Peroxide often available from women's hairdressers (daughter was a beautician once over)

 

Trick learned from a Leonard Cohen novel, The Favourite Game, half a century ago

I pay £50 once every couple of years to get them professionally cleaned out with a sucky thing. Every time I go they say I can prevent the build up by popping some warm olive oil in my ear once a week but apparently that's too much like hard work and when I suddenly go deaf again a couple of years later I'm back again, hand in pocket.

Had them water syringed before at the doctors but it's a bit of a wait normally to get an appointment and £50 is worth it to be able to hear, although it has to be said I do sleep better being deaf as Mrs Imp has to get up about 10 times a night and I don't notice when I'm hard of hearing.

[loserone]

You're probably saving money over using decent olive oil

[MarvinsMom]

kerry and i have had a row over the lexus.

kerry wants to~"sort out the air conditioning" which worked for maybe 10 days when we first got the car 3 years ago.

i say no, don't waste money on that when the car is desperate for a service (not been done as long as we've owned it, 3 odd years and 15,000 miles) and even more for a cambelt (18 years and 35,000 miles since that was last done) but no, apparently i am wrong cos having a/c is more important, after all its been hot mow for a couple of weeks, and opening the window isn't an option....

i'm just going to leave Kerry to it., and wash my hands of the whole affair.

though when it blows up it will be "my fault"

EDIT - to force the issue i've gone and ordered a service kit, minus the spark plugs for the Lexus......

[busmansholiday]

6 hours ago, myglaren said:

Try a weak solution of Hydrogen Peroxide.  Fizzes - interestingly - and shouldn't be used too often.

Peroxide often available from women's hairdressers (daughter was a beautician once over)

 

Trick learned from a Leonard Cohen novel, The Favourite Game, half a century ago

Boots ear wax solution, about £4, does job.

[loserone]

5 minutes ago, busmansholiday said:

Boots ear wax solution, about £4, does job.

Is that for polishing shoes?

[Jerzy Woking]

Going back to a former job is like going back with a former girlfriend.

They are ex's for a reason.

[Lankytim]

eBay have frozen my account for 7 days as I communicated with a buyer outside of their message facility, so if someone wants to come and view an item they need to buy it first.

 

I had a warning recently because a potential buyer tried to send me their number too!

 

FUCK EBAY. 

[loserone]

The guy I bought my 305 wings from had a persistent auction for a body panel with a sticker on with a "part number" on.

[Lankytim]

24 minutes ago, loserone said:

The guy I bought my 305 wings from had a persistent auction for a body panel with a sticker on with a "part number" on.

I had a photo of a post it note with my number on, seems they caught me out. Didn’t help that the guy sent me a request for my number and address about 4 times though. 

[Parky]

Son has spilt a load of water into his expensive monitor and now the colours are “all funny”

Fuck it.  He isn’t getting another, I am sick and tired of replacing tech such as iPads and phones because he is a technological retard.  I had told him so many times not to leave a glass of water on his window sill in case the wind caught the blind and swept the glass down onto the monitor but apparently i’m a bloody idiot as that couldn’t happen....

[adw1977]

For fucks sake! 

[SiC]

14 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

For fucks sake! 

Unsubscribe. 

Bet they'll get quite a few with an email like that. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Lankytim said:

eBay have frozen my account for 7 days as I communicated with a buyer outside of their message facility, so if someone wants to come and view an item they need to buy it first.

 

I had a warning recently because a potential buyer tried to send me their number too!

 

FUCK EBAY. 

There's always subhuman life on Bumtree....

[adw1977]

13 minutes ago, SiC said:

Unsubscribe. 

Tempting, but they do occasionally send me useful offers. 

[Cavcraft]

3 hours ago, Lankytim said:

eBay have frozen my account for 7 days as I communicated with a buyer outside of their message facility, so if someone wants to come and view an item they need to buy it first.

 

I had a warning recently because a potential buyer tried to send me their number too!

 

FUCK EBAY. 

Hearing quite a lot of this recently. They even refused to send a message to the person who won a bike on eBay because I put my phone number on the message. How the fuck else is he supposed to arrange to collect it, telepathy or something?

[chodweaver]

If the problem with ebay (apart from their paranoia about losing their commission) is that they have a system that automatically checks listings for phone numbers, perhaps an image like the Captcha ones we see on forum sign up pages etc. could be used to get your phone number seen, without tripping their scanners...

like these...

[chodweaver]

Or even pop an animated gif like this as the last pic of your item...

[EssDeeWon]

Another ebay grump..  I ordered a steering lock for an old boy who doesn't have a computer / internet etc.  Paid on Monday, email to say it was dispatched yesterday and another email today to inform me I have been refunded!!

[Fumbler]

Fuel door doesn't open on the Land Cruiser. Got it open eventually but it seems a screwdriver might become a permanent accessory for the car.

[Lankytim]

Another grump... The only panel on this caravan I broke up that was clean aluminium with no bonded on insulation or shite was the roof, it was a huge sheet of clean ally, painted on one side and shiny on the other. It's been folded up to fit in the boot of the car and today I tried to weigh it in (all 10 Kg or so of it)

Apparently the metal used in caravans is such a low grade that they refused to buy it. I needed my car empty and they wouldn't even have it for free! I'm starting to see why caravans get dumped in laybys so often. 

 

[colnerov]

 

 Leave it out the front and half cover it up like you're trying to protect it, someone will be along shortly and 'lift' it.

[cobblers]

 

 

Three weeks ago I fitted some new exhaust rubbers.  Noticed a clonk over bumps so I stuck my head underneath. One has snapped and the other three are 90% of the way there! FFS