The grumpy thread

[Jerzy Woking]

2 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Really don't know how that happened as the notarías in Spain were closed unless it was to deal urgent issues. You was very lucky. still not getting here  until maybe July. 

https://www.larazon.es/espana/20200315/dwapflidhfe37mynk6kqwcx7ha.html

I gave my solicitor Power of Attorney to get the sale through. 

Rebooked my Eurotunnel ticket 5 times now (originally 12th March), and maybe I will be allowed to traverse France and Spain at the end of June, if not, then July it is. 

My Eurotunnel grumpy will wait a few more days...

[New POD]

2 hours ago, Jazoli said:

Lots of false indignation for the 201mph Audi, just imagine what would have happened if he did it in Germany...... Oh hang on, nothing! Filming it was silly but its hardly a crime to be locked up for, some need a sense of perspective, it wasn't rush hour traffic or past a school ffs. 

I have vmaxed pretty much every car and bike I have owned, some of them did over 180mph, at over 186mph the speedo used to read  - - -  on the S1000RR but it was still accelerating

I don't have indignation, just amazed that sallon cars are so quick.  

[Zelandeth]

Well went back today. The queue to get into the store was all the way down the side by the door, around the corner, all the way around the overflow car park and was heading back up the access road.

Nope...standing for probably about an hour and a half with my back, that ain't happening.

Homebase (which is usually dead) was very nearly as bad.

Of course everything I'm after is showing as out of stock for delivery from any of the usual suspects.

Guess that's another item to stick on the "waiting for some semblance of normality to resume" list then.  That list is a good 3/4 of a whiteboard now.

Just really surprised the DIY stores are so busy given they never closed down!

[LightBulbFun]

10 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Nope...standing for probably about an hour and a half with my back, that ain't happening.

shame TPA is not back on the road yet, you could probably join the foot traffic queue in it and no one would say anything (or would be too afraid to say anything!)

and gr8 for social distancing given your in your own little 9ft long fibreglass bubble LOL  

(bonus points if they actually let you inside the store with it LOL)

[LostnotFound]

Well if you have to get to Durham because you aren't feeling very well it's perfectly understandable that you'd do so as quickly as possible. Any pleb questioning if you need to do 200 to get there quickly is a traitor and should be hung.......

For me it's the using his phone while driving that rankles me more than the speed. I also can't see anyone being caught, our entire road policing system relies on the number plate shown being connected to the person driving in some manner. If you choose to drive like that there is a small* chance you may not be playing by other rules so once the DVLA details don't match it'll be filled under too much work and ignored.

 

 

[vulgalour]

My work chair broke spectacularly last night, throwing me on the floor when the back snapped off.  I was full of praise for how comfortable this chair was when I first got it.  Annoyingly, it has not proven particularly robust, like pretty much every office chair I've ever owned, new or old, with one notable brown 80s exception that lasted forever and came out of a skip.  Ordered a new chair which will take about a week to arrive (couldn't find anything suitable within sensible collecting distance) which is going to knock my hours down a bit.

I'm also thoroughly fed up with doing anything related to engines.  Tedious, messy, fiddly work that always leaves me feeling stupid and stressed because for other people it's apparently this wonderful experience where nothing goes wrong.  I'd rather be sanding filler by hand than having to faff about any longer with fiddly awkward engine nonsense.  Oh, and apparently the injection pump on the BX is "unusual" so that's making finding the correct throttle shaft to replace the one I broke somewhat problematic.  It does also explain why I haven't been able to find an exact match for the pump.  Did you know, there's about forty eight million variations of the Bosch VE pump?

[gm]

I bashed my finger yesterday whilst stripping the mx5 steering rack, overnight the nail has gone black and the finger swollen up like a badly cooked sausage  

grump is that I can't use the tried and tested technique of heating a pin on the cooker to make a wee hole in the nail as I've got a stupid halogen hob. The only alternative I could think of was using the smallest drill bit I can find and being very, very careful. Amazingly, it has worked, a wee hole has been made, pressure is relieved and the swelling has reduced. But it didn't half fupping hurt ! 

Following my trip to casualty last month after a circular saw incident, I feel I'm starting to resemble Reg Prescott off the Kenny Everett tv show 

maybe I should take a couple of days off from the diy  

 

[camryv6]

50 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

shame TPA is not back on the road yet, you could probably join the foot traffic queue in it and no one would say anything (or would be too afraid to say anything!)

and gr8 for social distancing given your in your own little 9ft long fibreglass bubble LOL  

(bonus points if they actually let you inside the store with it LOL)

What is TPA ?

[LightBulbFun]

2 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

What is TPA ?

are you asking genuinely or are you just having a laugh? (same question goes for the question you asked me in SiCs ADO16 round 2 thread!)

I do apologize but the emoji is making it hard for me to figure it out!

[camryv6]

3 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

are you asking genuinely or are you just having a laugh? (same question goes for the question you asked me in SiCs ADO16 round 2 thread!)

I do apologize but the emoji is making it hard for me to figure it out!

Having a laugh

[LightBulbFun]

5 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

Having a laugh

ah thanks for clarifying

I had thought so based on the emojis etc, (and the fact that people in general like to take the piss out of Invacars and my Invacar obsessions) but I did not want to assume and end up accidentally upsetting someone because I thought they were just having laugh when they were genuinely asking!

so figured it would be best to play it safe and clarify!

(especially as in the past there was a case where I had thought/assumed someone was having a laugh but it turned out to be a genuine enquirery, thankfully no one got upset, at least not that I know of!)

[camryv6]

Just now, LightBulbFun said:

ah thanks for clarifying

I had thought so based on the emojis etc, (and the fact that people in general like to take the piss out of Invacars and my Invacar obsessions) but I did not want to assume and end up accidentally upsetting someone because I thought they were just having laugh when they were genuinely asking!

so figured it would be best to play it safe and clarify!

(especially as in the past there was a case where I had thought/assumed someone was having a laugh but it turned out to be a genuine enquirery, thankfully no one got upset, at least not that I know of!)

No I  was having a laugh,  I thought they hadn't been mentioned for a while, but if it is too soon I apologise 

[LightBulbFun]

5 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

No I  was having a laugh,  I thought they hadn't been mentioned for a while, but if it is too soon I apologise 

haha its not me you have to apologize to, its probably the rest of the forum you have to apologize to for trying to get me to post even more invacar content 

 

[camryv6]

2 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

haha its not me you have to apologize to, its probably the rest of the forum you have to apologize to for trying to get me to post even more invacar content 

 

Ok...….……………………………………...Sorry forum

[NorfolkNWeigh]

On 5/22/2020 at 9:39 PM, Wack said:

With it being quiet on the crime front I'd think the police will have a whole team out looking for this plank

 

I’d love to comment on this, pointing out that the brakes and tyres on a new RS6 probably mean it can stop from 200 in the space most of our old heaps take to stop from 100. Also I’d wonder if there would be as much hate and vitriol if it was a Rover or Dacia instead of an Audi.

But he spoils all my halfhearted defence by filming it with his phone in his hand, twat! At those sort of speeds you need to be on it, big time. Both hands at10-2, left foot hovering over the brake , eyes looking so far ahead you almost give yourself a headache. Probably. Anybody stupid enough to film it and make it public, is probably also stupid enough not to disable his tracker and telemetry either.
 

To be clear, I have never driven at 200 mph on a British public road .

[Spiny Norman]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Just really surprised the DIY stores are so busy given they never closed down!

DIY shops were exempt from the lockdown as they sold 'essential' home repair items but with everywhere else still shut lots of bored people are coming to B&Q for a day out to buy paint and gardening supplies and other essentials.
The click & collect system has collapsed under the sheer volume of orders in most stores and is barely functioning. We usually got 80-100 a day, now we're into 4 figures and we're having to process that with fewer staff. I think a lot of the call centre and backroom staff are still on furlough so there's feck all happening with  normal customer service stuff.

I don't know if it's our fault for not restricting items on sale to those essential home repair bits & bobs, the government's fault for allowing such a cash hungry business to carry on trading under lockdown or the general public's fault for swarming into the few shops that are allowed to open because they've got nothing else to do but it's all a total clusterfuck.

[Zelandeth]

Bloody mindedness meant I wasn't going to accept defeat and went back a bit later in the day and had more success.

Inside the store however was complete, utter mayhem.

The one way system fell apart virtually the moment you were through the door because the queue for the tills had looped the entire way around half the store so was totally blocking one of the aisles they were trying to funnel everyone through.  The only way to actually get to anywhere beyond the lighting and paint section was to go the wrong way.

Also being hurried along on the way to the tills by the member of staff left a very bitter taste in my mouth.  Sorry, if someone is visibly limping it should be a pretty obvious indication that they're going as fast as they can.  I couldn't go any faster without overtaking the person in front of me anyway!  Customers were mostly doing a reasonable job of keeping their distance, the staff less so.

The number of people at the tills with one house plant, one paint brush, a single hosepipe fitting etc blew my mind.  I was in there for a 2.5 metre long chunk of furniture board which I've not been able to find anyone who would deliver (I had tried three times by places that said they would, but they all fell through)...but the vast majority of the stuff people were there for seemed to be random bits and pieces that could be ordered for delivery from any number of sources online.

Meh, I'm just a grumpy old man I guess!

At least I got what I went out for.

[Timewaster]

2 hours ago, gm said:

I bashed my finger yesterday whilst stripping the mx5 steering rack, overnight the nail has gone black and the finger swollen up like a badly cooked sausage  

grump is that I can't use the tried and tested technique of heating a pin on the cooker to make a wee hole in the nail as I've got a stupid halogen hob. The only alternative I could think of was using the smallest drill bit I can find and being very, very careful. Amazingly, it has worked, a wee hole has been made, pressure is relieved and the swelling has reduced. But it didn't half fupping hurt ! 

Following my trip to casualty last month after a circular saw incident, I feel I'm starting to resemble Reg Prescott off the Kenny Everett tv show 

maybe I should take a couple of days off from the diy  

 

My mate with the classic 911 decided to refurb his calipers. 

In order to get the pistons out he decided to use an airline. 

Worried about damaging the pistons when they popped out he cleverly put his hand in the caliper to retrieve the them, then blew the airline.

Yeah.....

It went well! 

?

[LightBulbFun]

8 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

The only way to actually get to anywhere beyond the lighting section

not sure why you want to go past that section anyway

(although I imagine its all LED tosh now, I always regret not getting a few GE F40T12/BLBs back when B&Q stocked those for some reason! was always limited by the fact you have to go someways out of your way to find a B&Q when you live in central London!)

[Out Run]

3 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

shame TPA is not back on the road yet, you could probably join the foot traffic queue in it and no one would say anything (or would be too afraid to say anything!)

and gr8 for social distancing given your in your own little 9ft long fibreglass bubble LOL  

(bonus points if they actually let you inside the store with it LOL)

I’d say there would be plenty to say, if some nugget was sat there, coughing clouds of smoke out and giving everyone tinnitus.

May as well breathe in the ‘rona!

They are only a foot shorter than a Mini? Yet have four less seats, no boot, a tiny engine and one less wheel.

[camryv6]

1 hour ago, Timewaster said:

My mate with the classic 911 decided to refurb his calipers. 

In order to get the pistons out he decided to use an airline. 

Worried about damaging the pistons when they popped out he cleverly put his hand in the caliper to retrieve the them, then blew the airline.

Yeah.....

It went well! 

?

I "liked" because I didn't know to either "laugh" or "sad" but it needed acknowledging  ?

[Timewaster]

1 hour ago, camryv6 said:

I "liked" because I didn't know to either "laugh" or "sad" but it needed acknowledging  ?

It's fine. I laughed! 

And I've been calling him Jeremy Beadle! (Although he will make a full recovery,  eventually. )

[camryv6]

6 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

It's fine. I laughed! 

And I've been calling him Jeremy Beadle! (Although he will make a full recovery,  eventually. )

Did he see the funny side ?

[Timewaster]

9 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

Did he see the funny side ?

He was laughing while he told me. Probably more out of embarrassment than anything.

[camryv6]

1 minute ago, Timewaster said:

He was laughing while he told me. Probably more out of embarrassment than anything.

I must admit I nearly did the same once, but I came to my senses before my fingers even went into the caliper and went off to look for a piece of wood

[Bren]

My shed roof was knackered - rather than waste money on plywood and felt that would be fucked again in a couple of years I bought corrapol sheets.

It looks lovely but how the fook are you supposed to screw it down because standing on it just deforms it.

[camryv6]

4 minutes ago, Bren said:

My shed roof was knackered - rather than waste money on plywood and felt that would be fucked again in a couple of years I bought corrapol sheets.

It looks lovely but how the fook are you supposed to screw it down because standing on it just deforms it.

Screws with rubber caps and don't stand on the roof, good luck with that !

Like these in black or clear rubber

https://www.screwfix.com/p/hardened-steel-roofing-screws-8-x-60mm-20-pack/50983

[Bren]

I have the correct screws - but the roof is giving when I fitted the ridges. And it's not as if I am a fat bastard.

 

[nomiST]

37 minutes ago, Bren said:

I have the correct screws - but the roof is giving when I fitted the ridges. And it's not as if I am a fat bastard.

 

Boards across the span, stand on those and spread your weight!

 

[Bren]

It's a sloping roof unfortunately.

I'll think of something. When I'm in A&E.