The grumpy thread

[sierraman]

11 hours 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.

You work to the side of it if that makes sense, start at most inaccessible bit, then work back towards where your ladder is. Also you usually use the plastic capped annular nails. 

[sierraman]

10 hours ago, strangeangel said:

 

Show me these people! Today's works on the pizza scooter feels like the first time anything went right on my thread for about 5 pages.

 

I had one of them days yesterday, everything I touched turned to shit. I just put my tools away and went back inside. 

[Wack]

11 hours ago, Wack said:

I got stuck on a shed roof , I built it at the side of the house only I managed to kick the ladder away , i thought about jumping but 58 and either end was a free broken ankle with all the debris I'd left strewn around , I'd sooner die than shout fat bloke stuck on the roof so started hitting the wall with the hammer like a football chant du du dududu du du dududu , my mrs carried on watching TV 

I was up there for about 45 minutes, it was about 8pm and I was still doing the hammer chant when saved , my daughter appeared 

Pass me that ladder , she did what teenagers do

Left me where I was and went to get her phone to record it 

 

I did ask mrs wack why she hadn't come outside , it must've been deafening in the living room

She said I thought you were banging nails in

Who the fuck bangs nails in to a tune , the 7 bastard dwarves 

[ruffgeezer]

My trusty Xiaomi has finally shat itself proper.

I've already replaced one screen, but now in addition to the cracks in the cheap replacement, the in call speaker has died along with any ability to take or make calls; attempting to do so just causes it to blank screen.

The question is what to get next?

[Garythesnail]

2 hours ago, Rovorsche said:

covered in Pinky Purple crystals

If you want to scare yourself, take the plastic engine cover off and look in the middle of the V with a flashlight.

My ZS180 has always lost a small amount of coolant - from new. I've changed the timing belts, water pump, thermostat and plastic pipes twice now and got no improvement. At 14 years old, over 130k (reliable) miles and having paid for itself a couple of times over (company funded car when new), I chucked some K seal in.

Job jobbed.

Shame it needs welding before it gets another MOT?

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, ruffgeezer said:

My trusty Xiaomi has finally shat itself proper.

Moto G7 or G8 is my vote

[ruffgeezer]

Caught a pot hole on my road and the ax has ejected it's washer bottle and contents all over the road.

[Stinkwheel]

Ok, so sisters car due a cambelt. Fine, take it all apart, no drama. Take off old belt. Compare to new belt, hmmmm.

Old belt 106 teeth and round section teeth.
New belt 88 teeth and square section.

I see a problem. Bollox.

[twosmoke300]

Euro car parts ?

[beko1987]

4 hours ago, ruffgeezer said:

Caught a pot hole on my road and the ax has ejected it's washer bottle and contents all over the road.

Could have been worse though, the air could have escaped from the tyre in a fatal sort of manner... 

[cobblers]

55 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Euro car parts ?

There's money to be made in ordering the cheapest thing ECP sell. Since about 50% of the time they seem to just randomly throw any old shit in the box, with each order you've got good odds on receiving something worth considerably more. Scale this up enough and you're basically the wolf of wall street.

[ruffgeezer]

55 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Could have been worse though, the air could have escaped from the tyre in a fatal sort of manner... 

It's on the naughty step now...

[Stinkwheel]

2 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

Euro car parts ?

Oddly, no. 

[Chas4545]

Comb your hair Boris.  Tosser.

[trigger]

Hit something on the A14 on the way to work this morning, don't know if it's a pothole or some debris as I never saw anything but it made a hell of a bang which results in my tyres looking like this and me changing to my spare in a layby with lorries thundering past my back, not a experience I'd like to repeat. 

The drive home with that bolge in the back tyre is going to be fun. 

[RayMK]

Low profile tyres are hopeless over potholes.  In my Mitsubishi Mirage, I wince if I see a pothole that I can't avoid. It makes a colossal bang, though no punctures yet.  The same route in my '94 Tipo has no such stress. It has 'proper' tyres and decent suspension.

[beko1987]

My xsara is similar... The zx it's based on, not a problem, I avoided them out of mechanical sympathy, but it wasn't too bad if I hit one. They lowered the xsara a bit and it makes one hell of a racket first from the front then from the back as its half stripped out so no sound deadening! Fucking potholes, hard luck trig. Pootle home, you'll be alright*

[dozeydustman]

Several days in the sun and something dodgy for lunch before we took sister in law’s birthday present to her has taken its toll on my and have spent most of the evening feeling bleugh. This is despite at least 8 litres of water a day since last Wednesday.

spent an hour or so in bed, went outside to water the garden and I knocked over the bucket of fence paint next door gave me. All over the sodding patio as someone had moved it from safe space to middle of patio while watering things.

[5speedracer]

That bloody "perf with Surf" ad. In which language do they actually rhyme, not fucking English anyway!

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[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, dozeydustman said:

Several days in the sun and something dodgy for lunch before we took sister in law’s birthday present to her has taken its toll on my and have spent most of the evening feeling bleugh. This is despite at least 8 litres of water a day since last Wednesday.

You can drink too much water; unless your quack is telling you to drink that much or you're visiting the Sahara I'd cut back a bit. If it is heat stroke/stress add some salt to the water or drink cups of weak tea or diluting squash for mineral content.

[Timewaster]

13 minutes ago, 5speedracer said:

That bloody "perf with Surf" ad. In which language do they actually rhyme, not fucking English anyway!

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Its Perf wiv serf.

Ain't English, its Essix init.

[Amishtat]

30 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

Its Perf wiv serf.

Ain't English, its Essix init.

Yeah but even as a native it's fucking annoying.. Who is it anyway, someone we're supposed to recognise? 

[dozeydustman]

41 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

You can drink too much water; unless your quack is telling you to drink that much or you're visiting the Sahara I'd cut back a bit. If it is heat stroke/stress add some salt to the water or drink cups of weak tea or diluting squash for mineral content.

I have always drunk a lot of water, it’s not all in one big gulp but around 750ml (pint and a half) over an hour from an insulated sports bottle, along with 3-4 cups of tea, 2 coffees with breakfast and a sachet of electrolytes once a week. Perked up a bit after coca cola and ready salted crisps for dinner.

Always thirsty, I’m not diabetic, only add sugar to porridge (along with a pinch of salt) if I have it for breakfast (get most of my sugar from fruit & veg). Been like this since I was young and had many tests over the years and always come back as dehydration as I don’t pee much and always hot, even in the cooler months.

[Agila]

11 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Yeah but even as a native it's fucking annoying.. Who is it anyway, someone we're supposed to recognise? 

A quick goggle suggest dani Dyer from love island. Daughter of actor danny Dyer.

[5speedracer]

A quick goggle suggest dani Dyer from love island. Daughter of actor danny Dyer.

Did he want a boy?

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[puddlethumper]

^^ Never heard of him.                                        Thank fuck.

[puddlethumper]

Or her. Woops.

[Volksy]

Today I did mine and my octogenarian Mothers weekly shop at my local Supermarket, which over recent weeks has become a less chaotic experience due to less bulk buying/hoarding and the general populous getting used to the idea of the 2m social distancing rule.

Today was carnage.

As a family we have been directly affected, like most, by the Covid 19 pandemic; which has resulted in the tragic loss of my Father, the inability for my family to have a proper funeral, retraction of employment offers for me, loss of business for other family and friends – need I go on..

Standing patiently in the queue for the supermarket I suddenly realised a huge change in the demographic of those with me in the waiting line. I would say that 75% of the people waiting were over the age of 70, many with walking aids and one would assume the kinds of underlying health conditions that would make them very very susceptible to this terrible virus.

As a family we have stuck to the original instruction given to us by Mr Johnson.

Having had a direct experience with the death of my father, I was allowed to attend the hospital in his last few hours, which whilst a small comfort for me, is not an experience I would wish on anyone. My poor Mother has not left the house, where she lives alone, for three months. This is to keep her as safe as she can be. Which in my opinion is the best option. We as a family will continue to do this until such a time as we feel that we are in a situation where the risk is low.

Overheard whilst waiting to enter the store, the topic of conversations around me through the waiting queue was along the lines of:

“Ooh hello, not seen you in ages”

“Yes, it’s nice that we’re allowed out again”

“Well it can’t be that bad, as that MP hasn’t really got into trouble” etc etc.

Once in the store, things got far far worse, the older generation – through no fault of their own, have, in my opinion, not the slightest concept of social distancing, only about 10% were wearing masks and as they move at a slower pace bottlenecks appeared all over the place. Now this may be that that generation have just now immerged back into society, and may soon get used to the new etiquette that most are now adopting. However I fear that it won’t be the case.

Now, please understand that I’m not saying that our parents, grandparents and older members of society should be locked down indefinitely, as the psychological damage would be immeasurable. But I think that the recent events at the core of our governing party, and the subsequent public perception of the guidance given, coupled with, again in my opinion, the abuse of that guidance by prominent figures has caused a new danger to this part of our society. Culminating in a Laissez faire attitude in those that we are so desperately trying to protect. I personally believe that a far more structured emergence for those ‘at high risk’ should have been in place. Rather than the ‘up to you and your perception of risk’ guidance we have been given.

I appreciate that things are improving, with infection slowing and thankfully the mortality rate also reducing. I truly hope that this continues and a second wave does not happen due to the ineffectual and deliberately vague, and easily manipulateable advice given to our society.

I shall not be visiting the Store at peak times from here on. As I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself if I indirectly caused another family to experience what my family have been through.

Stay safe please and keep those others safe around you.

[Jerzy Woking]

Got my recently purchased Avensis on my driveway at the back of the house. Not had a car on the driveway since I sold my Saab in December.

Son of the woman next door insist on parking half on and half off the marked driveway (about 10 feet further back than in this photo). Made it a bit difficult reversing onto my drive as couldn't give it the full swing. This is what I mean:

I don't know why he parks like this EVERYDAY.

He must hate the Avensis as when I went out to my garage early this morning, this is what I see:

Yep, right across my driveway. He had nothing parked behind him at all, just parked it way forward of the driveway. What the hell does he think he is doing?

Still, I'm going out at 4 am tomorrow morning, so I'll knock at his door then and politely tell him I can't get my car off of the drive, and so can he move his?

As he is moving it, I'll drive off in my van parked out the front. It will serve the fucker right.

[xtriple]

Washed the SuLK the other day and every day since the car has been covered in bird shit, no other car nearby has any but mine is proper splattered. If I see the budgie what's doing it it's going to get its tail feathers set alight.