The grumpy thread

[DeeJay]

On 4/4/2021 at 10:38 AM, MikeR said:

just got the third one ... 2 females and a male so far.

Nothing wrong with your eyes.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 minutes ago, R1152 said:

You've missed the point. It's precisely BECAUSE it's pointless bullshit it annoys me. It is unnecessary, it uses scarce natural resources to make it and for what? So some tech-obsessed twats can jerk off about it to their mates/YouTube? Could you PERSONALLY really justify a cup you control with a fucking app?

I have LONG rankled against unnecessary technology, far longer than I care to remember.

Can't stand coffee anyway....

[Talbot]

As I said.  a huge amount of things are un-necessary.  Do you carry a phone?  We coped just fine without them before they were invented.  How about a car?  Humans managed without them for thousands upon thousands of years.  Have central heating in your house?  Completely un-necessary really.

And calling Techmoan an "Tech obsessed twat" seems a little harsh.  He's doing reviews of both modern and vintage technology.  If you don't like it, why the living fuck are you watching it?  There's about a gajillion far more vacuous and wasteful youtube channels out there.  Absolutely any and all resources applied to Gaming are clearly utterly pointless, and yet it's a billion-dollar industry, using huge amounts of power and natural resources.  At least this mug actually has a function (albeit a completely ridiculous one)

 

Also, given the silly number of cups of tea I manage to let go just cold enough to not be able to drink, and hence then go and make a new one, I wonder what the break-even point is for the number of cups of tea one of these would *prevent* me having to re-make to actually mean I'm reducing power consumption.  6 months worth of use?  Maybe a year?

And no.  I could never bring myself to buy a mug that needs bluetooth and can have it's firmware updated.  Especially not for that price.

[Remspoor]

Here is a bit of new tech that might come in handy.

[Mally]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

Mouse No5 was evicted with some rubbish and ran off across the front garden ....

is No6 about ????

Yes!

No6 now becomes no1,  and there are another 5 after that. 

At least.

[R1152]

35 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Can't stand coffee anyway....

Mate of mine always decried it as "bourgeois middle class shite", even back in the 80s.

[R1152]

39 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Absolutely any and all resources applied to Gaming are clearly utterly pointless, and yet it's a billion-dollar industry, using huge amounts of power and natural resources.  At least this mug actually has a function (albeit a completely ridiculous one)

Where do you stand on the resources used for cryptocurrencies?

[R1152]

24 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Here is a bit of new tech that might come in handy.

I need a keyboard macro. That looks like hard work.

[Talbot]

12 minutes ago, R1152 said:

Where do you stand on the resources used for cryptocurrencies?

It's likely a complete waste of resources for nothing tangible.

However, it's not my place to dictate what other peoples' opinion should be, nor am I going to label anyone in a derogatory manner just because they mine crypto.  Some people have made a lot of money out of crypto currency.  Mind you some people have made a lot of money from a lot of other processes that use precious resources.  Crypto is no different to gaming really.

A lot of people drive less than a mile to go to the shops / take children to school / get a takeaway etc.etc.    Is that more or less wasteful than a mug that keeps you drink (not necessarily coffee) hot?  How about someone who buys a new car every year?  Or a new washing machine?  Or any other white goods that humankind has lived without for thousands of years.

There's some remarkably judgemental comments happened in the last few posts.  Opinions are great, but when it becomes mud-slinging at anyone who doesn't share your opinion, that's a step too far.  You might have a poor opinion of Techmoan, but he has over a Million subscribers, so clearly some people enjoy the content he puts out.  Hell, the videos that Colin Furze puts out are all UTTERLY un-necessary, and could be argued are a complete and utter waste of natural resources.  He has over ten million subs.

Your opinion is not shared by some other people.  Doesn't make them WRONG, it just makes them DIFFERENT.

[R1152]

Wotevs 🙄

[Bazfr69]

Techmoan is a great YouTuber imo, his restoration videos are fascinating to a layman like me and he freely admits the frivolous nature of some of the stuff he reviews. 
 

His recent video on Lemmy’s fruit machines a while ago is excellent. 

[OM646]

The surprise my Merc decided to give me:

[MikeR]

No 6 is dead , caught in the trap ..

never caught so many mice in such a short time !!

[New POD]

14 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Can't stand coffee anyway....

Neither can my kids, but i still tolerate them. 

I've been forced to drink mostly decaf since last year and I miss the hit. But am probably a better person as a result if not having 10 hits a day anymore. 

 

[hennabm]

19 hours ago, R1152 said:

As I often tell people, I woke up to deep snow (deeper than that pictured) on the morning of Good Friday in 1975: that was the year we had snow in June before going on to have a summer very similar to 1976.

Must be around that time, I remember the Transatlantic trophy been cancelled at Mallory Park, due to snow.

[Talbot]

16 hours ago, Talbot said:

given the silly number of cups of tea I manage to let go just cold enough to not be able to drink, and hence then go and make a new one, I wonder what the break-even point is for the number of cups of tea one of these would *prevent* me having to re-make to actually mean I'm reducing power consumption.  6 months worth of use?  Maybe a year?

This was playing on my mind and I had to go and throw some numbers at it.

With various assumptions about the cost of electricity, the amount of water I'm re-boiling, the energy needed to keep milk cold etc.etc. it works out that the cost break-even point would be a minimum of 3 years worth of my forgetfulness for the cost of the mug to make sense.  At which point it would likely be broken already, so that's rather pointless then.

Also, my forgetful tea costs are borne by my employer, whereas the cost of the mug would be mine, so it's a non-starter in the first place.

I do wonder about a tiny little fixed hotplate keeping my existing mug hot though.  They're much cheaper, and don't have to have a bluetooth device, or a battery, or firmware updates or any of that bollocks.

And I like hot tea.

[MikeR]

C1 oil has been changed  , wheels last put on with a ugga ugga gun when the brakes got redone , my scaffold tube did the undoing ,the oil filter was 2 hands and a rubber glove job    oh err missus  !  .... And the sump nut ...... Finger  tight !!!!! 

The oil was very black , start up is a lot less clattery . 

Shed side fixed with a tenners worth of wood ..... 

Wife lurking on new caravan sites and in spend mode ......

[New POD]

I've just saved £80 on my insurance for the omega by ringing up and saying. "You've obviously made a mistake in your calculation" 

It's still more than the cheapest quote, but not by much. 

[Inspector Morose]

4 hours ago, Talbot said:

And I like hot tea.

Two stainless rods mounted in a piece of wood, spaced about 1/8 inch.

Connect a two core flex, live to one rod, neutral to the other. Fix plug on to other end of flex.

Lower rods into tea and plug in. Hot tea in a matter of seconds. Just don’t use a metal spoon to stir it with.

Hot tea not safe tea.

[MarvinsMom]

so much for friggin' "april showers"......

 

[MikeR]

Last job of the day was to sweep out the shed of mouse droppings and bin some more stuff .... Looks like handy Andy was ok from the mice .....

[Vince70]

I decided to go ahead a fit a new door window seal today on the compact and managed to snap the end off on the new seal putting it on and the seal is £40 a pop.

I know I could just stick the end down with a bit of glue but it will bug me so I will end up getting a new seal lol.

 

[R1152]

1 hour ago, MarvinsMom said:

so much for friggin' "april showers"......

 

I had about five minutes of that before I took the E60 to have investigations. Of course, the bloody gearbox behaved itself today!

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, Inspector Morose said:

Two stainless rods mounted in a piece of wood, spaced about 1/8 inch.

Connect a two core flex, live to one rod, neutral to the other. Fix plug on to other end of flex.

Lower rods into tea and plug in. Hot tea in a matter of seconds. Just don’t use a metal spoon to stir it with.

Hot tea not safe tea.

PowerLumpTM ExSTEAMly...? 😃

[MikeR]

Fit bit thingy says 5k more steps to target ...

Fuck off , cant it read the weather info ..

Plus its not taken into account an oil change and tyre juggling .....

[hairnet]

Oh fuck off

[Mally]

2 hours ago, MikeR said:

Last job of the day was to sweep out the shed of mouse droppings and bin some more stuff .... Looks like handy Andy was ok from the mice .....

Made me shudder that. I don't find it at all funny.

I know someone involved with a ram who it happened to quite recently.

[High Jetter]

I take it that wasn't sheep-related?

[davehedgehog31]

Encountered this top tier fuckwit earlier this evening. 

I was heading straight onto the M8(W) but had to divert thanks to him. Pulled alongside him at the lights and looked as if to say "what the fuck?". Bit my tongue as I had my kid in the back. He proceeded to hurl abuse at me.

If he had just held his hands up I'd have just left it, worth reporting to the police, or will it be entirely inadmissible? 

[MarvinsMom]

the recent high winds have apparently shredded the cover thing we had over the slightly broken car on Kerry's drive.

what a shock, not.

i am so fuckin' sick of shitty, ungrateful, needy, broken shitboxes i have gone and listed the little turd for sale.

i am fed up of the "old car" thing as it has stopped been fun, in fact it stopped been fun along time ago.

i cannot wait to see the back of all of these crappy cars that i have ended up with.