The grumpy thread

[New POD]

Just now, MikeR said:

more like 1962 ,,,,

He was okay trying to light my bonfire in 1989. 

[omegod]

58 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Rear doors or seams near the tailgate hinges ?

Both,,,,,,, for starter's I've dug out the sealant in the roof gutters and hinge area and resealed the numerous small cracks yesterday, whipped the rear door cards off today and resiliconed the membranes, floor is soggy so threw a few of those troughs filled with absorbent media in it.  

[Minimad5]

SORN two cars a few days ago.

Come today and they've taken the direct debit out... rather nice, thanks DVLA

[loserone]

They need 10 working days to stop the DD run.  You should get it back in 5 days or so if you keep the DD running

[MikeR]

The old sx200 Printer played up today , the yellow tank went off , so full set of full tanks later and some head cleaning with the adjustment program and all was ok 

So a quick visit to amazon and the ink supplies are drying up ! , so a ltb of some 20 ink tanks .. and look for a new printer ...

How much !!! , Is there a run on printers 

Keep the old printer working ....

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

SORN two cars a few days ago.

Come today and they've taken the direct debit out... rather nice, thanks DVLA

Not their fault, it takes a while for banking adjustments to work through. Should be refundable.

[Cavcraft]

Remember the old days when it was pretty much impossible to get hold of Paypal on the phone? Well, now its possible but an absolute waste of twatting time. They're just as fucking useless as they always were.

[beko1987]

20 hours ago, MikeR said:

The old sx200 Printer played up today , the yellow tank went off , so full set of full tanks later and some head cleaning with the adjustment program and all was ok 

So a quick visit to amazon and the ink supplies are drying up ! , so a ltb of some 20 ink tanks .. and look for a new printer ...

How much !!! , Is there a run on printers 

Keep the old printer working ....

I keep meaning to replace my boring little Canon printer, but looking around, it copes with being sat unused for 3/4 months then suddenly printing an page out then back on the shelf... Not sure what other printers would do that May as well spend the £30 on a set of ink and stay safe! (after mooching around tesco incase they've still got any £30 printers...) 

[MikeR]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

I keep meaning to replace my boring little Canon printer, but looking around, it copes with being sat unused for 3/4 months then suddenly printing an page out then back on the shelf... Not sure what other printers would do that May as well spend the £30 on a set of ink and stay safe! (after mooching around tesco incase they've still got any £30 printers...) 

Presently trying to unblock the heads on a xp 412 all in one , 2 are done 2 to go !!

[beko1987]

Mines got the heads in the cartridge and I think that's why I have less trouble vs expensive ink and the head being seperate. 

My granny makes cards and stuff though and swears by the Epson tank printers, but they use it every day and put gallons of hooky ink through it, they break due to heavy use with them, rather than the other way round! She's never had a clog though

[dozeydustman]

My first week’s leave of two consisted of rain rain rain rain rain garage roof leaking rain rain rain shed leaking rain rain rain rain.

FFS can’t do anything on the cars as garage floor is wet, constantly pissing down with liquid precipitate, and the one break in the weather when I might get a chance to do something I’ve had to do an emergency plumbing job as the cistern in the upstairs bog didn’t stop filling - as it can be shut off letting agents don’t consider that an emergency so they’re getting my screwfix receipt as a bill.

[PhilA]

I bought 3 new 4-foot led strip lights today. I had bought some switches and stuff a while back so went to get dug in putting it up.

Can I find the Romex I bought a few years ago? Can I hell.

The price of it has gone up too, which means running 30 feet of wire is in the $50 range.

Why the hell copper got so ludicrously expensive?

[omegod]

Fuck Hermes

Fuck cars

Fuck driveshafts that are stuck in hubs 

Fuck balljoints that refuse to come out of their taper 

[wuvvum]

Sounds like you need a bigger hammer.

[wuvvum]

Although that won't help with the Hermes problem unfortunately.  Unless you find a creative use for it of course.

[omegod]

14 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Although that won't help with the Hermes problem unfortunately.  Unless you find a creative use for it of course.

To expand slightly.... Ordered a driveshaft for my Focus on 25/01 and it was despatched same day with bloody Hermes and due to be delivered 30/01 no sign of it and tracking just says it's with the local courier.  I have a shaft off my spares car but doubt it's much better than the one that's on it. Shaft I'm supposed to be removing will not budge regardless of hammering so plan is to remove the hub and get it popped out by local friendly garage on their press, oh yeah...but the balljoint won't split so I have ordered a scissor type splitter 

[louiepj]

The old sx200 Printer played up today , the yellow tank went off , so full set of full tanks later and some head cleaning with the adjustment program and all was ok 
So a quick visit to amazon and the ink supplies are drying up ! , so a ltb of some 20 ink tanks .. and look for a new printer ...
How much !!! , Is there a run on printers 
Keep the old printer working ....

Think everyone working from home has bought a printer and webcam in these lock downs as you cannot really get many printers for under £100 and webcams now seem to be £30.
I am also surprised that countries such as China haven't been making fake/copy printers before now bundled with ink, as once used or tried they would be unreturnable.

[camryv6]

19 minutes ago, omegod said:

To expand slightly.... Ordered a driveshaft for my Focus on 25/01 and it was despatched same day with bloody Hermes and due to be delivered 30/01 no sign of it and tracking just says it's with the local courier.  I have a shaft off my spares car but doubt it's much better than the one that's on it. Shaft I'm supposed to be removing will not budge regardless of hammering so plan is to remove the hub and get it popped out by local friendly garage on their press, oh yeah...but the balljoint won't split so I have ordered a scissor type splitter 

Take the whole arm off ?

[Remspoor]

Having to deal with Spanish electrics. The house has three switch fuse boxes. All with differing amount of switches. This one is in the laundry room.

The issue for me is they have all got the wiring jammed into a small space. Cables are sold and not flexible. Most pairs are tied together making it more difficult to make repairs.

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, louiepj said:

Think everyone working from home has bought a printer and webcam in these lock downs as you cannot really get many printers for under £100 and webcams now seem to be £30.
I am also surprised that countries such as China haven't been making fake/copy printers before now bundled with ink, as once used or tried they would be unreturnable.

Try cartridgesave.co.uk 

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Having to deal with Spanish electrics. The house has three switch fuse boxes. All with differing amount of switches. This one is in the laundry room.

The issue for me is they have all got the wiring jammed into a small space. Cables are sold and not flexible. Most pairs are tied together making it more difficult to make repairs.

I've been in restaurants in Spain and Spanish islands, nervously looking at their fuseboxes that are proudly on display. Get a Spanish electrician, manyana, obs

[Jazoli]

I'm especially grumpy today and people using words such as Halfrauds, eGay, bookface, Aldi ,pickarse and the like are really getting on my tits, we are not at school any more (and I haven't been for 34 years) and it winds me up, bloody sheeple.

[Split_Pin]

My Accident, Sickness and Unemployment insurance renewal has landed in my inbox. 

Because of the Covid impact you can't get unemployment insurance easily just now and my monthly payment will increase from £15.90 to £36.50.

Unsure how to proceed as I've been no stranger to redundancy in the past 2 years although I didn't need to call on it.

Thinking I might just phone them to try and barter a bit and then just roll with it. Looks like it's that or nothing.

[Kiltox]

Cor, one make/model owners clubs are a bit tedious aren’t they?

Someone found my 3 month / 1500 mile ownership report of my ZS EV and now pensioners are beying for my blood because I didn’t say it was the best thing since sliced and it had a clickbait title  

[Split_Pin]

11 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

Cor, one make/model owners clubs are a bit tedious aren’t they?

Someone found my 3 month / 1500 mile ownership report of my ZS EV and now pensioners are beying for my blood because I didn’t say it was the best thing since sliced and it had a clickbait title  

I posted up what I thought was a helpful video on the 75 Facebook page that I had made about how to take off the doorcards, because the Haynes manual says you need to break the clips.

I've never seen such an ungrateful and pedantic response. "You've made a mistake", "They didn't do it like that on the production line". The smell of piss and steak pie was practically oozing from my phone over it. 

I'll never link to one of my videos or anything I think might be helpful again on any FB owners group. It's simply not worth the aggro. There are always one or two big cheeses on owners groups. I just let them get on with it.

[Kiltox]

 “piss and steak pie”

The vast majority of angry racists in my comments section are Rover Dereks banging on about the octagon, it’s hilarious. 

 

[Split_Pin]

On the subject of videos, the camera on my phone finally died mid-take yesterday. 

I had tried to go off-track with this choice of phone on the back of a recommendation from someone but it's a steaming pile of Labrador shit.

Redmi 8XT, lasted about 8 months. It has a lot of other bugs too, like freezing regularly and when I click a link I just get a plain white or black screen and no activity.

I pick up my Samsung A21 at lunchtime. Decent camera and 32gig for £150. My wife has the same one and likes it, that will do.

[Split_Pin]

1 minute ago, Kiltox said:

 “piss and steak pie”

The vast majority of angry racists in my comments section are Rover Dereks banging on about the octagon, it’s hilarious. 

 

Angry Rascists on Rover Pages, that's an idea for a Facebook page in itself!

[Kiltox]

I take these cunts head on, not going to be intimidated by a Poundland knock off of the Teslarati

[Kiltox]

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

On the subject of videos, the camera on my phone finally died mid-take yesterday. 

I had tried to go off-track with this choice of phone on the back of a recommendation from someone but it's a steaming pile of Labrador shit.

Redmi 8XT, lasted about 8 months. It has a lot of other bugs too, like freezing regularly and when I click a link I just get a plain white or black screen and no activity.

I pick up my Samsung A21 at lunchtime. Decent camera and 32gig for £150. My wife has the same one and likes it, that will do.

Not an Android fan at all, apple bell end through and through but I can’t imagine much worse than a knock off one