The grumpy thread

[myglaren]

[anonymous user]

7 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

 

I tend to stick to a mixed grill or steak with a jacket potato and some fresh veg. Relatively healthy, tasty and (for me at least) allergy free.

I have no allergies that I'm aware of food wise, but that's my sort of meal.

 

[alf892]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

When this drove in I thought "Nice, R8 V10, not something you see every day."

This abruptly changed to "Typical sodding Audi driver!" when she very deliberately parked it taking up four spaces.

Really wish I'd been in the Invacar as I'd had totally gone and parked in the space by her driver's door and buggered off to the cafe for an hour...

Congrats lady, you went from looking quite cool to looking a total idiot in precisely ten seconds.

Yes I get that it's a wide, expensive car with big doors...there are no end of totally empty rows at both ends of the car park, but no...you felt this was appropriate.

Hope she gets four penalty charge notices...one for each space she's parked not fully within...

not exactly a lack of spaces though......why get tweaked about it?

[LightBulbFun]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Really wish I'd been in the Invacar

only on autoshite can someone driving their Jaaag say "wish id been in the Invacar"

(laugh is at the thought of Invacar based shenanigans/your thoughts, not the awful parking!)

[rusty_vw_man]

FFS when can’t I buy any pasta for the kids dinner next week - probably because every paranoid tosspot in the area is stock piling it ‘just in case’. Currently the only shortages are being caused by selfishness..... aaaarregghhhhh!! 

[clayts450]

On 3/11/2020 at 11:09 AM, dozeydustman said:

Nope. Same litter as since I met the wife. Some of the cat's other behaviour has been odd over the last few months, so I do think it's the start of Feline dementia/Alzheimer's.

Weird behaviour includes rejecting food if me or stepdaughter has put it down (other cat noms it up fine); excessive grooming (regularly brushed and flea treated and no skin issues), a lot of puking (not just hairballs), sleeping all day unless the wife is at home, whom gets harassment and constant miaowing from the moment she gets up until bedtime.

She's done it again since this morning, and giving that "I don't give a fuck" look that cats do when they know they're being naughty.

Get her to the vets, mate - odd behaviour like this can be the cat trying to tell you something's up.

[dozeydustman]

11 minutes ago, clayts450 said:

Get her to the vets, mate - odd behaviour like this can be the cat trying to tell you something's up.

As stated previously she has been to the vets and apparently all is well. She’s just an arsehole.

[LeahStornes]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

When this drove in I thought "Nice, R8 V10, not something you see every day."

This abruptly changed to "Typical sodding Audi driver!" when she very deliberately parked it taking up four spaces.

 

Deserves an appearance on YPLAC

[Minimad5]

So you have a bunch of keys.

This contains a key for the following :

Home garage keys, Unit keys, Work keys and a load of misc' padlock and other stuff ... Yep I've lost the lot.

Starting to think I'm going mad. As looked at the place I can see myself putting them - NOPE, even turned my house upside down.

Not having a good month ?

[clayts450]

30 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

She’s just an arsehole.

Agreed.

Sorry, been off site for a few days so missed that post re the vets

[Wack]

5 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

When this drove in I thought "Nice, R8 V10, not something you see every day."

This abruptly changed to "Typical sodding Audi driver!" when she very deliberately parked it taking up four spaces.

Really wish I'd been in the Invacar as I'd had totally gone and parked in the space by her driver's door and buggered off to the cafe for an hour...

Congrats lady, you went from looking quite cool to looking a total idiot in precisely ten seconds.

Yes I get that it's a wide, expensive car with big doors...there are no end of totally empty rows at both ends of the car park, but no...you felt this was appropriate.

Hope she gets four penalty charge notices...one for each space she's parked not fully within...

Why does it really you so much, the car park has hundreds of empty spaces 

This is shit parking , she couldn't find a space so chose the pedestrian entrance 

 

[clayts450]

Did a delivery into that there London yesterday. The shippers blind-sided me at pick up (was there to take a tiny wee box to Soho) and said 'can you pick up some shelving from the loading bay and take it onto Ilford after Soho'. Nae bother, says I, stick a few more quid on the job.

Into Soho from Notts was a breeze - the new 20 limit in the CC/ULEZ area makes it a very pleasant drive, if truth be told. Anyway, dropped off at Soho, rung shipper to confirm ETA for Ilford. Advised them 'Easter'.

Two fucking hours to do 9 miles. Two HOURS.

Tipped at Ilford. Drove 126 miles home. Two HOURS 15 minutes.

Fuck London.

[robinmasters]

Fucking memory.  

I've done drop links before, but forgot how I managed to get them off last time (for the uninitiated, the threaded part spins when you try to take the nut off, and the allen key hole in it is invariably rusted to fuck and unusable).  Spent at least half the day pissing about with heat, angle grinder, drill etc etc trying to get the first one off, about a quarter of the day walking to the tool shop to buy a nut splitter, then an eight of the day actually changing the things.  

Oh, and my ageing brain also allowed me to carefully don some protective goggles when using the angle grinder, but completely forget about gloves, whilst working in an enclosed small space trying to cut through something with a different material halfway through it.  

[warch]

The drop links on my Qashqai have a square section behind them that'll accept a 17mm spanner, so no problem there. I don't know why other manufacturers can't do this.

[Snipes]

They do but they also rust away.

[Wack]

8 hours ago, clayts450 said:

Did a delivery into that there London yesterday. The shippers blind-sided me at pick up (was there to take a tiny wee box to Soho) and said 'can you pick up some shelving from the loading bay and take it onto Ilford after Soho'. Nae bother, says I, stick a few more quid on the job.

Into Soho from Notts was a breeze - the new 20 limit in the CC/ULEZ area makes it a very pleasant drive, if truth be told. Anyway, dropped off at Soho, rung shipper to confirm ETA for Ilford. Advised them 'Easter'.

Two fucking hours to do 9 miles. Two HOURS.

Tipped at Ilford. Drove 126 miles home. Two HOURS 15 minutes.

Fuck London.

I did what you're doing in 2014 for 9 months , I hated going to London 

Final straw was when I picked up some IT equipment , the guy gave me an A4 sheet with a phone number on , ring him the second you get there 

Only is was the email from the courier co I was subbing for I read it after the delivery , they were charging over double what they were giving me so I fucked them off there and then 

Dont miss driving in london one bit 

[Saabnut]

Major grump for me this morning. Was just about to leave for the airport for the first offshore trip in 4 years when the phone rang informing me that Norway has introduced a compulsory 14 day isolation for anyone arriving outwith the Nordic region. My boat sails on Sunday. Trip cancelled, so another month and probably more without money. Time to start selling the chod.

[purplebargeken]

I went to Chase Farm Hospital 2 weeks ago, parked in the pay as you see the Dr parking area, dutifully bought a ticket for a couple of hours just in case. A parking fine plops onto the mat today with a 60 quid demand for not paying. Fuck off.  Of course I paid by cash, binned the ticket when the Rover toddled off to its new home. I phoned explaining this and the pleasant girl said for me to appeal and they can check the machine for the details. FFS

[yes oui si]

On 3/11/2020 at 9:53 AM, Saabnut said:

FTFY

They're alright, actually. 

[barefoot]

I edit a magazine that reports on VW's & VW shows, Volksworld, Dubs Of Ages and Bus Stop Over have all cancelled today, according to social media. Looks like I'll be making stuff up!

[New POD]

1 hour ago, barefoot said:

I edit a magazine that reports on VW's & VW shows, Volksworld, Dubs Of Ages and Bus Stop Over have all cancelled today, according to social media. Looks like I'll be making stuff up!

How would you like to do a week with Dan my lodger. See how a real mechanic makes his money Servicing shite? I'm sure he'd let you rent one of his 4 poster lifts to do your own research? 

[New POD]

3 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Major grump for me this morning. Was just about to leave for the airport for the first offshore trip in 4 years when the phone rang informing me that Norway has introduced a compulsory 14 day isolation for anyone arriving outwith the Nordic region. My boat sails on Sunday. Trip cancelled, so another month and probably more without money. Time to start selling the chod.

Would you take this as a joke:

One random please.

In all seriousness if there's going to be a world economic melt down we are all going to be selling something

 

[Parky]

Supposed to be on a plane to the Ukraine right now but instead am at home.  Haven’t got over my tonsillitis as quickly as I would have liked and as my temperature is up I will almost certainly get picked up by the Ukrainian medical testing at the airport and probably refused entry.

Coupled with border closures last night it’s too risky getting trapped there so my Chernobyl trip bites the dust.  Of course because I have elected not to go because of travel difficulties and Coronavirus it is classed as a personal choice so the travel insurance doesn’t cover any of it.  A country closing most of its borders isn’t classed as adequate enough excuse so bang goes my birthday present.....
 

in 2010 Mrs P was stuck in the US for three weeks because of the Iceland Volcano.  She had friends to stay with, but I have no contacts in Kiev so have no choice but to pull it.  Not repeating that

[omegod]

I've had 2 MOTs at different garages tomorrow cancelled due to the staff having to self isolate , what a pisser ! 

[Craig the Princess]

On 3/12/2020 at 2:56 PM, Wack said:

EXACTLY

A young girl in Blackburn died after eating nuts in a takeaway dish , why on earth you'd take that chance if your life was at stake I have no idea, somebody is in prison now

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-48300528

Probably because they want to have a life. Go to the pub or restaurants with friends? No, go and sit alone at home.

[Wack]

4 minutes ago, Craig the Princess said:

Probably because they want to have a life. Go to the pub or restaurants with friends? No, go and sit alone at home.

Perhaps you can see the irony in your post now I've quoted it

[clayts450]

11 hours ago, Wack said:

I did what you're doing in 2014 for 9 months , I hated going to London 

Final straw was when I picked up some IT equipment , the guy gave me an A4 sheet with a phone number on , ring him the second you get there 

Only is was the email from the courier co I was subbing for I read it after the delivery , they were charging over double what they were giving me so I fucked them off there and then 

Dont miss driving in london one bit 

I've had that happen twice to me this week where I've accidentally seen the actual end user price.  I'm quite philosophical about it - as long as they don't take the piss too much and pay the going trade rates (round about 65 to 70p per loaded mile) I'm happy. I'm becoming a hard negotiator. One company wanted me to go to Leominster for 57p a mile. Uh-uh, not on my watch. Made a counter offer which they reluctantly accepted. Companies do have overheads (staff, premises etc) so I don't begrudge them making money out of the deal, but not at my expense.

[Zelandeth]

01:56.  A fire alarm, smoke alarm... something like that...starts sounding in one of the houses off to the side of our property.

Gave it five minutes, still going...so time to investigate as it's obviously not just someone burning their toast.  Figure out which house it is after nearly breaking my neck peering over the fence in the pissing rain.

Can't see anything amiss, but can't see any signs of life either.  Went round and knocked on the door.  Unsurprisingly no answer.

At this point I called the fire brigade - it's now been 15 minutes and the alarm is still going off.  Probably a false alarm in an empty house...but I don't want to make that assumption when the cost is potentially someone's life.

Took longer to get the sodding address through to the operator than it did for a response to arrive.  Nearly ten minutes...is their address lookup system really that bad?!?  If I'm trapped in a burning building I really hope I don't need to explain how to get there from the main road step-by-step with my last breath!  We're in the middle of a major town...so the postcode alone will get you to within ten houses. 

I really don't want to come across as a xenophobic asshole, but seriously...if it's really blatantly obvious that English isn't your native language and isn't your strong suit...maybe an emergency services call handler, where every second can count, isn't the right job for you?  Or is that me just being cranky?

Six minutes after I put the phone down I got a phone from the response team who were on site (two streets away, having been given the wrong address...), and found exactly the same as I did.  Their investigation leads them to believe the property is empty and there's no visible sign of fire...so hopefully nothing more than a false alarm.

So cracking quick response from the fire department...just a shame the actual call handling was so poor. 

Now it's 3am and I'm still buzzing on adrenaline...so much for sleep.

Oh...and as I was about to click submit the damned alarm has just started going off again!

[Cord Fourteener]

@Zelandeth it's not going to help you get any sleep now but the emergency services use the What 3 Words app. In fact I only know of it because someone was calling emergency services as using it. It's a map that can be used offline edgers every 3mx3m area in the world has a unique name of the words so you just tell them what 3 words you or your neighbours house is in.

I hope you can get some sleep now anyway.

[bunglebus]

Fucking rain.

I've got front and rear pads and discs, a caliper, oil and fuel filters, gearbox oil, an engine mount and two CV joints to fit this weekend, flew around yesterday getting all the parts and tools ready.

No garage.