The grumpy thread

[Pieman]

People who put "asking for a friend" on the end of every question they post online.  It's not fucking funny any more.

[wuvvum]

Why does it annoy you so much?  Asking for a friend.

[somewhatfoolish]

This bloke dying, although it raises the question; will @Jim Bell be making a move on the merry widow?

[Zelandeth]

Yep...they have arranged things at the tip in a way to make things about as awkward and inefficient and to maximise the degree to which you have to walk around people as far as possible.  Which given prior experience with that place on a normal day I fully expected.

Carting 40 odd litres of oil from one side of the site to the other was fun...as was carrying about 2/3rds of a bootload of rotten chipboard halfway around the site, and getting shouted at for dropping things.  Really enjoyed getting told to hurry up when my 15 minute window was nearly up too.

Seriously...just let us park up near to the bloody bins... especially as you're only letting half a dozen cars at a time into the site at a time.  Would vastly minimise the amount of time people were there and the amount of walking around they'd be doing.

Think I saw one person other than me there with a mask on, which given the signs plastered everywhere and red bold letters in the appointment email saying they're mandatory just hacks me off.

[MikeR]

Our tip is like that , sort of arrange the shite in the car to be in  order for unloading at each skip , then they change the order of the skips , now i tried using  each door for different classes of shite , only for the doors to be  in the way , so i bag the shite and in it all goes to the same skip ....

[New POD]

@MikeRcheck before you go. 

https://www.veolia.co.uk/merseyside-and-halton/formby

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Totally unrestricted tip at my parents so it seems.  Told them I'd booked an appointment for Sunday and they were surprised I had to even book.  They're in Exmouth and I'm in Kent, for context.  One time I went, the bloke checking the car registrations started telling me how he'd had a car like mine and liked it until he wrote it off, merrily holding up the queue.  Made me laugh.  Nice chap.

I try and get there at the beginning of my time slot, park near the bin where I am likely to shove the most crap and walk the rest around.  It's not too bad as the tip is a 'U' shape anyway.  Don't even bother trying to get near the cardboard section most of the time as someone always gets there first...

[New POD]

I went non Sunday morning at 8.30 as my allotted slot was 8.30 to 9.00 

Drove to the mixed recycling threw my dodgy chemicals in there first. Reversed to the metal, threw on the old exhaust and brake discs, and then reversed to the wood, where I deposited bits of old wood. I could have put them.on the chiminea, but some of it was old fence coated with engine oil and it fucking stinks when it burns. 

Strangely I have was the only customer they had at that time in the morning. 

[R1152]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Why does it annoy you so much?  Asking for a friend.

It's things like this make me wish I had the brains to invent FoIP - Fist Over IP. You click on a poster's name and they get a smack in the gob from their screen/monitor.

[R1152]

Renting a car to replace the E60 for a couple of days. I had to reject the Vauxhall Crossland as it was pre-broken (a rhythmic rattle coming from under the bonnet/OSF wheel) so I was given a black Merc A Class.

With a black interior.

And gangsta glass.

It's like driving around inside a pillar box and makes a Bini seem light and airy. It has an excessive amount of tech, and the last time I drove a car with steering that over-assisted it was my godfather's 1982 Datsun Laurel.

I should be grateful it's going to allow me to earn some coin that, hopefully, will pay to get the E60 back on the road again.

But that A-Class is a cancerous dog's cock of a car.

[Bren]

I am a severe asthmatic. I need specialist treatment  - every two months I need an injection of an antibody. Last year I was put on new meds which were nothing short of a miracle - sadly over the last few weeks they have wore off - I have rescue steroids as a back up. As these were running out I put in a repeat prescription last week. In reply I got a text message saying a telephone consultation would be needed first and to ring at 830 am today.

Finished night shift ( late) - rang thirty five times but could not get through. Gave up and went to bed. Rang up at 1330 when I got up - I was told to ring back at 830 in the morning or complete an e consultation!

By now my roids had ran out and my peak flow was 370. I rang the walk in centre in Widnes - got an appointment within an hour and a rescue pack of steroids.

The NHS  has kept me going - without them I would more than likely be in the  ground. My youngest has down syndrome - Whiston hospital were brilliant when he was born.

Unfortunately I cannot offer the same praise for my GP  - hospitals and walk in centres still offer a service - unlike many doctors it would appear.

I am very fucking angry.

[Wack]

7 hours ago, Talbot said:

I'd report it and submit the video you have.  I'd also report that he hurled abuse at you as that changes the nature of the incident from a slip up or mistake to agressive/dangerous driving.  Some police forces are beginning to make good use of dashcam footage for prosecutions as it's easy work for them.  If nothing else, it will be additional evidence for the next person who submits dashcam footage of the same bellend wiping someone off the face of the planet.

It's incidents like that that make me want my old RR classic with a fecking great nudge bar on the front again.  You don't bother swerving for tossers like that, you just punt them off the road.

That's exactly what happened to me about 10 years ago on the winwick link road where it crosses the M6; only I took his back door off 

Didn't even see him until he hit me , I was going straight on so in the left lane , knobhead was in the right lane but turned left for M6 north but fast 

He got out of the car , his first words were , not again 

Well if you keep driving like a cunt you're going to hit people 

Then he said , "but there's two lanes" like it wasn't his fault so I had to point out left lane is left and straight on , right lane isn't 

Insurance said it was 100% his fault 

 

[Wack]

How much would you expect to pay for a replacement valve from a tyre place on a tyre they fitted 4 months ago 

In 40 years of driving I've never had a failed valve but yesterday I came out to a flat tyre 

Took it down to them where they replaced the leaking valve and charged me £25 for the 15 minutes it took them 

Is that the going rate to change a valve at a backstreet tyre place 

[Agila]

6 minutes ago, Wack said:

How much would you expect to pay for a replacement valve from a tyre place on a tyre they fitted 4 months ago 

In 40 years of driving I've never had a failed valve but yesterday I came out to a flat tyre 

Took it down to them where they replaced the leaking valve and charged me £25 for the 15 minutes it took them 

Is that the going rate to change a valve at a backstreet tyre place 

On a side note for future, it might of been worth removing the core and replacing which could of been done diy. I've had to do this with bicycles that I has slime sealant in the inner tubes.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VALVE-KEY-WHEEL-TYRE-INNER-TUBE-VALVE-REMOVER-REMOVAL-TOOL-TWO-FREE-CORES-/124476965212?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286

[beko1987]

Only had duff valves once, less than 24h after new tyres. The valve covers held the air until SWMBO went back the following Monday and they were all changed with apologies. 

Guess each wheel and tyre has to come off and on, that's the cost

[chadders]

I pay about 10 to 12 at our local garage if I take it to them and that's not on a tyre that they supplied.

[Jerzy Woking]

25 minutes ago, Wack said:

How much would you expect to pay for a replacement valve from a tyre place on a tyre they fitted 4 months ago 

In 40 years of driving I've never had a failed valve but yesterday I came out to a flat tyre 

Took it down to them where they replaced the leaking valve and charged me £25 for the 15 minutes it took them 

Is that the going rate to change a valve at a backstreet tyre place 

Its €15 here as i found out when I had a slow puncture. First thing the fitter did was look at the valve. He told me that the rubber used now seems to be destroyed quicker by the sun than they used to. Yep, it was cracked to buggery, and no foreign object stuck in the tyre.

[Wack]

The valve was faulty , the dust cap was pressurised but when he moved the valve side to side it leaked, it wasn't even the right type of valve as it was far too short, no point in arguing with them because if I get up tomorrow and it's flat again it's just more aggro if I have to go back

 

Anyway,their loss,I've got 6 vehicles,  the smart needs 2 tyres which I was going to ask for a price on but I just handed the £25 over, got my receipt and left never to return

[Mally]

7 hours ago, mercedade said:

I had United Utilities out because the sewer shared by our 4 flats (building looks like semi-detached houses, but is actually 4 flats) was blocking up and coming up through the rainwater drains. The access point is in my back garden and it was my drains that stank like shite for a few days.

Free free free to resolve, and they said if it ever happens again they'll be back out quicker this time. BIG approve.

Water board just turned up, Landlady must have rung them.

"Have you rodded the drains , Done a good job it's all clear now".

Our responsibility from that manhole.  Fiirst one outside my fence, which is one down, but not far.  Responsibility changed in 2011.

They took the bucket full of smelly rags as well.

So no more grumps from me.

[R1152]

5 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Yeah...this is going to be one of *those* days isn't it...

If it's any consolation Zel, mine went little better.

Here's a song to cover it all.

 

[anonymous user]

5 hours ago, Pieman said:

People who put "asking for a friend" on the end of every question they post online.  It's not fucking funny any more.

What about asking for a fiend?

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

How much would you expect to pay for a replacement valve from a tyre place on a tyre they fitted 4 months ago

I'd presume that they fitted a new valve at the same time as the tyre (my local tyre specialist Estd 1925 and still run by the same family always does), so £0.00

[R1152]

1 minute ago, High Jetter said:

I'd presume that they fitted a new valve at the same time as the tyre (my local tyre specialist Estd 1925 and still run by the same family always does), so £0.00

It's what my local tyre fitters do?

[MarvinsMom]

i have been in an almighty funk of late with shit cars.

today the other half has replaced the condenser and points in the black mini, while i went though some of the crap in the shed that is to go with it, cos i have been in a mood with it, and i have put it up for sale.

and behold the car now runs, and runs nice. hell i've even had a little run about town in it, and well, i do love it.

so, now i have gotta decide, do i keep it, cos lets be honest here, i will never, ever be able to have another proper Mini 1000.

and also, at £5500 have i gone and listed it too cheap, cos the friggin' phone has done now't else but ring all day with folks asking about it.

what a fuckin' stupid, idiotic, indecisive, sentimental cunt i am......

[High Jetter]

Maybe take it off sale and think about it a bit longer? There's obviously a market for it, but you know and love it and it's yours.

[Remspoor]

6 hours ago, Pieman said:

People who put "asking for a friend" on the end of every question they post online.  It's not fucking funny any more.

Only the other day my friend asked me do you still post on Autoshite?

What do I tell them now?

[MarvinsMom]

14 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Maybe take it off sale and think about it a bit longer? There's obviously a market for it, but you know and love it and it's yours.

thats what i have done. really we have too many heaps needing our attention, but sleeping on selling the car won't hurt.

[Stanky]

13 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Only the other day my friend asked me do you still post on Autoshite?

What do I tell them now?

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=remspoor+autoshite

[Wack]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

I'd presume that they fitted a new valve at the same time as the tyre (my local tyre specialist Estd 1925 and still run by the same family always does), so £0.00

I assumed they did but he started pulling a face when I showed him the receipt showing when they were fitted 

The English/polish language barrier didn't help , I should've asked if they were going to charge me before I let them start.

Customer service is a thing of the past but they don't get it , fit the valve for free and I'll be back , now they'll never see me again 

If I'd known I'd have taken it to Costco , £9.99 for a puncture repair 

[puddlethumper]

3 hours ago, Wack said:

How much would you expect to pay for a replacement valve from a tyre place on a tyre they fitted 4 months ago 

In 40 years of driving I've never had a failed valve but yesterday I came out to a flat tyre 

Took it down to them where they replaced the leaking valve and charged me £25 for the 15 minutes it took them 

Is that the going rate to change a valve at a backstreet tyre place 

Sounds a bit steep. I can get a good tyre as well for that.