The grumpy thread

[richardmorris]

43 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

I've been cutting my own hair for the last 18 years. I've had loads of shite too such as a plethora of Rovers, a Mercedes, a BMW and a couple of Vauxhalls ?

Thing is, I can cut my hair to whatever style I want in the comfort of my own bathroom.  I have also cut hair for others at thier own request if they can't be bothered to go to the barbers/pay a mobile hair dresser etc....

I’d do mine if I could remove my head, it’s only a short back and sides after all.

[Cavcraft]

22 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Weirdly I don’t like men cutting my hair. Most of my haircuts for the last forty years have been from two hairdressers. Jan who used to have a salon in colnbrook when I moved there is now mobile and comes to me at 7am on a Saturday. £10. She also has loads of cars - vw up, golf gti, Porsche 944 turbo etc.

A hairdresser with a Golf GTi? There's a novelty!

[barefoot]

1 hour ago, Lord Sterling said:

I've been cutting my own hair for the last 18 years.

I haven't had my hair cut for the last eighteen years, think of the money I've saved.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Cavcraft said:

A hairdresser with a Golf GTi? There's a novelty!

Yes, but she’s always liked my motors.

[The Moog]

My brain hurts at the idea of an online system that only works 12 hours a day.

I think someone on here pointed out that actually it's not a bad thing. How many people are using the system at midnight etc. Therefore why not save the money and make it just work for half the time.

[SiC]

You don't save money by shutting an online system off at night!? It's not like someone on the back end is sitting there processing it by hand - at least I hope not. Even if it is the DVLA. 

If anything, it means you get greater load when it's active and that's more expensive. You either have a system specced and capable of managing peak demand or you have it dynamically adjust with a cloud provider. Both get more expensive at higher load periods. 

The nearest reason I could fathom is that they disable requests when the support phone lines are closed. 

[cobblers]

Ah yes, that niggling "you've forgotten something" feeling I've had for the last few days, now at 9pm on xmas eve I'm reminded what it was. 

So pleased with myself for finding the mrs a decent present, I forgot to actually purchase it. Brilliant! 

 

[mrbenn]

Just wanted to say take care out there, folks.

Two of my friends have been involved in a very nasty accident on the M6 today while on their way south to visit family for Christmas.

I won't go into details but, having seen pictures of their car, I'm absolutely staggered they're both largely ok.

[The Moog]

I think whoever it was, said it was no need for support so that saved costs. Made sense at the time.

[jakebullet]

I've been bollocked by my mum 'cos idiot sister has bought me a shitload of stuff, and I haven't and why can't I like her for 1 day a year?

I don't want anything from her. It will all be going to the charity shop.
1 day soon becomes 2 days and then I'm trapped in a living lie before you know it.

Fuck fucking christmas FFS.

[xtriple]

DO NOT READ IF SQUEEMISH!

Some may know (and fewer will care) that ever since Chester stopped me from snuffing it earlier in the year I have been afflicted with skin problems. Basically, he clawed my face and an infection set in which progressed through my cheek bone (bit of which now removed!) and kept popping up in strange and interesting ways.

The last bit (I bloodyhope!) has been round my left ear. As an early Christmas present it has just exploded! That sounds dramatic or unpleasant, but believe me when I say it is a bloody relief of epic proportions! Okay, I have a crator like Tanganuska and a sharp pain but nothing compared to what it has been for the past six months.

 

[dozeydustman]

Wanted a good lie in this morning.

 

forgot to turn 4:30am work alarm off on my phone.

 

Can’t get back to sleep.

[paulplom]

Why do cars always pick the most inopportune moments to let you down? Christmas eve and a warning light pops up on the 850. Apparently I need I new brake light bulb ffs! This is all I need right now. Who said running an old car is fun?!

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[Mally]

You need an older car.

When my brake lights failed on the Minor, the first I knew about it was a lady hammering on my window because she almost ran in the back of me when I stopped.

[loserone]

11 hours ago, SiC said:

You don't save money by shutting an online system off at night!? It's not like someone on the back end is sitting there processing it by hand - at least I hope not. Even if it is the DVLA. 

If anything, it means you get greater load when it's active and that's more expensive. You either have a system specced and capable of managing peak demand or you have it dynamically adjust with a cloud provider. Both get more expensive at higher load periods. 

The nearest reason I could fathom is that they disable requests when the support phone lines are closed. 

They've got a really good deal on EC2 reserved instances, and they had narrowed the support window by 50%.  Seems like value to me.

 

It might not be considered "cloud native" now, but when it was developed it was pretty early in taking advantage of what made AWS good value.  And I'd sooner they kept using it than wasted more money redeveloping it with newer technologies, when they still have legacy services to remake.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

11 hours ago, xtriple said:

DO NOT READ IF SQUEEMISH!

Some may know (and fewer will care) that ever since Chester stopped me from snuffing it earlier in the year I have been afflicted with skin problems. Basically, he clawed my face and an infection set in which progressed through my cheek bone (bit of which now removed!) and kept popping up in strange and interesting ways.

The last bit (I bloodyhope!) has been round my left ear. As an early Christmas present it has just exploded! That sounds dramatic or unpleasant, but believe me when I say it is a bloody relief of epic proportions! Okay, I have a crator like Tanganuska and a sharp pain but nothing compared to what it has been for the past six months.

Tetanus?

[Cavcraft]

Found a message from 1.30am today:

 

'Is this still available?'

 

I merely told him to have a day off, then used the block facility.

 

[MikeR]

Oh those sprouts

Parp

Parp

Paaarrrrp 

[Floatylight]

Just had to leave the room at the in-laws as discussion turned to politics, which is something that has the possibility of turning into quite a row if I get started, it's Ok though one of them has just had an Echo dot for Christmas and I've said enough that they are all paranoid about cyber security, personal data and every device listening to and watching them, sure that will rumble on with devices all being turned off every night like they were in the 70's so in a way the Daily Fail were right, (discussion about) Corbyn will drag us back to the 70's...

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[Crackers]

On 12/16/2019 at 5:36 AM, paulplom said:

Sore subject. Partner wrote MY v70 off by driving it down the side of MY van.

My mum dragged the side of her X-trail down the driveway fence of the house she'd lived in for 15-odd years and driven various cars out of several thousand times. Pretty good going that.

 

And I've never crashed into my own garage either.

[Floatylight]

Just had to leave the room at the in-laws as discussion turned to politics, which is something that has the possibility of turning into quite a row if I get started, it's Ok though one of them has just had an Echo dot for Christmas and I've said enough that they are all paranoid about cyber security, personal data and every device listening to and watching them, sure that will rumble on with devices all being turned off every night like they were in the 70's so in a way the Daily Fail were right, (discussion about) Corbyn will drag us back to the 70's...

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FFS! They've now started on what constitutes Black / Coloured, Gollywogs, Black & White minstrels etc... I'm regretting not having started.on the drink... At least I'm not on my own on this one..

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[GrumpiusMaximus]

Just now, Floatylight said:

FFS! They've now started on what constitutes Black / Coloured, Gollywogs, Black & White minstrels etc... I'm regretting not having started.on the drink... At least I'm not on my own on this one..

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I crashed a Transit into a Cathedral once.  I don't think I've been cursed with eternal damnation either, so I'll consider it a success...

[Floatylight]

FFS! They've now started on what constitutes Black / Coloured, Gollywogs, Black & White minstrels etc... I'm regretting not having started.on the drink... At least I'm not on my own on this one..

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Full house - Someone's just started talking about poofs.... Pass me a drink...

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[SiC]

20 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Full house - Someone's just started talking about poofs.... Pass me a drink...

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Now is the time to say "So? What's the problem? I'm gay!" and see what the reaction is. 

[cort1977]

38 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Full house - Someone's just started talking about poofs.... Pass me a drink...

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I'm sorry for you but that's made me realise my in laws aren't so bad after all..

[GrumpiusMaximus]

1 hour ago, Floatylight said:

Full house - Someone's just started talking about poofs.... Pass me a drink...

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Just mention that you're claiming benefits, gay and moving to Amsterdam with your new boyfriend, Big Hans to breed Teacup Chihuahuas.

[chaseracer]

This might give the small but scary (and very lovely!) Mrs FL a bit of a surprise!!

[New POD]

You know how parents should never contradict the other parent in front of the children ? Always be consistent and agree with the other? 

Sensible parenting right?

How old before you should be allowed to say, "Son, that's fine, ignore your mother " 

 

Like our son aged 26, is home for a few days and has forgotten his phone charger, so i lent him mine, at 11pm and my wife told him to turn it off and unplug it before he goes to sleep. 

I am in the dog house for saying, "I think we'll survive, as your room has a mains smoke alarm linked to the other smoke alarms, so if it did burst into flames we'd definately get out alive" 

 

[captain_70s]

I'm visiting my parents for Crimbo and I don't think they've agreed on anything since I arrived. ?

[wuvvum]

Driving back from Somerset late last night, I decided to go motorway all the way as although it's longer distance-wise, when the roads are clear it's quicker.  Fuck me, I have never seen such a concentration of brain-dead cretins on the road in my life.  Lane discipline was the worst I've ever seen (the Focus sat resolutely in lane 3 of 4 of the M25 at 58mph despite being passed on both sides by honking traffic and the Fiesta in front of me actually trying to physically barge him over to the left was just one example), and then on the A-roads I had innumerable vehicles coming towards me with main beam and refusing to dip even when I flashed at them.  What should have been a nice relaxing drive home (traffic density wasn't high so I sat with the cruise set to 74 all the way back) ended up stressing me out and making me wish I'd come the back way.

Also there were no petrol stations open in my parents' town by the time I left, so I had to peel off the M4 and go diesel-hunting in Swindon, which itself wasn't the most uplifting of experiences. (But fuck paying £1.55 a litre on the motorway.)