The grumpy thread

[goosey]

My new company car was supposed to be delivered next week, now it’s been put back to the 1st week of September.

The lease has expired on the car I have now so that’s being collected end of this week, not sure if the lease can be extended, probably can’t as collection has  now been arranged.

so it looks like I’m in hire cars for the next few months 😳

 

 

[brownnova]

7 hours ago, goosey said:

My new company car was supposed to be delivered next week, now it’s been put back to the 1st week of September.

The lease has expired on the car I have now so that’s being collected end of this week, not sure if the lease can be extended, probably can’t as collection has  now been arranged.

so it looks like I’m in hire cars for the next few months 😳

 

 

Or buy a cheap beater to last you a few months off here and save the hire car cost? 

[Jamie]

1 minute ago, brownnova said:

Or buy a cheap beater to last you a few months off here and save the hire car cost? 

If it's a company car I imagine they'll be paying the hire fees 😊

[brownnova]

Still... a true shiter would take any excuse to buy some old chod over brand new hire cars surely?  

[eddyramrod]

Buy Huggy and charge it to the company?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

Buy Huggy and charge it to the company?

....and Huggy's fuel bills.

[Zelandeth]

16 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Oh FFS.  Temperamental appliances which you dismantle to investigate the cause of the issue, run perfectly all day with covers etc off...then the minute you get the last screw back in the case the original fault reappears...

Also, why do companies insist on using bloody computers to control things which have precisely zero requirement for it...a couple of switches and a handful of relays would do exactly the same job just as well.

Which is exactly what will be replacing this nonsense if it keeps this up.

Something funky going on with the scanning of the soft touch control panel I reckon which is resulting in it being partly unresponsive.  Annoying!

Those two electrolytic caps are getting changed next in the off chance they're playing a part.  Voltages are all a little low...which if there's some resistive divider involved in ascertaining which button is doing what may be an issue.

Thought I'd sorted it by changing the smoothing caps as it behaved perfectly for about six hours afterwards before the same fault condition reappeared.

Okay...time for a bit of hacking.  Thing has a mechanical thermostat...so we're just going to unhook a few things and run the 24V feed from there directly to the compressor relay coil so it'll be controlled directly rather than via the processor. 

Think I've got an industrial temperature control floating around in a box somewhere which could deal with both the heating and cooling sides.  If I can find it I'll install that as it would be a nice neat solution.

Still don't get why there's so much circuitry in this thing...the only thing it does is mean you control it via a membrane keypad type panel rather than with actual switches/buttons!

It's like the 1991 version of today's touch screen obsession.

[Crackers]

With a week off work coming up and hopefully some good weather, it's probably about time I started ordering parts for the P6.

[Zelandeth]

Fscking places that take contactless payment - but not via Google Pay.

Today's example: Parking machine in Buckingham.  Despite having a picture of a bloody phone on the contactless payment label.  Nowhere does it say they don't take it, but the transaction fails.

Or use the RinGo app.  Which "is currently unavailable due to a technical issue".

Fine.  I've spent the last fifteen minutes trying to pay the £0.50 for parking, I have now run out of patience.  I don't have any cash on me (don't think I've actually touched any since before the pandemic...) and my card is still sitting on my desk because I took it out of my wallet yesterday to buy something online.  Which also means I can't phone up to pay by card because I don't happen to remember the card number!

[wuvvum]

First thing I do when I get a new bank / credit card is to memorise the number.  It's got me out of the shit many times when I've forgotten my wallet.

[loserone]

3 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

First thing I do when I get a new bank / credit card is to memorise the number.  It's got me out of the shit many times when I've forgotten my wallet.

I wish more places would accept me reciting 23 digits from memory.  Would make payments loads easier 😉

[Jamie]

9 hours ago, brownnova said:

Still... a true shiter would take any excuse to buy some old chod over brand new hire cars surely?  

Oh but of course! 

[EightMegs]

I accidentally pulled the flare off of my new brake pipe by overtightening it. Then my cat decided to disappear with my dinner.

[richardmorris]

I’m considering going to the dark side and buying a new car. I’m going to lie down until the urge goes away.

[Fumbler]

Not really a grump, more of a sad.

Friday marks the end of Year 13 at my old school. If my apprenticeship application was unsuccessul, I'd still be there. So I've a little pang of sadness that I wasn't there to make it to the end with my friends, teachers and classmates.

What really is sad, is that this year marks the end of the school being fully independant. Not long after I left in 2020, the place was sold to a management agency after they ran out of money, once and for all. They had been fighting the battle ever since I joined Year 7 in 2014. Selling off was holding the white flag up and the feeling of defeat was felt by many from management down to the students. The agency wants to turn the place upside-down and inside-out, getting rid of what made it stand apart from all the other schools in the area. It's not really an independant school anymore, it's more of an independant academy. We tried doing this before, in 2014, and that's when all the trouble began. Now an external company (which is reportedly making losses) wants to dance the same dance again. For the 100th anniversary of being a school in 2015, a time capsule was buried to be opened in 2065. I very much doubt it'll be around in 2030; it's just too small to compete anymore.

So, on Friday, I'll pay one last visit before it breaches into the brave new world of big ideas and excitement. The place managed to last 106 years, and I'm very glad I was there for 11 of them. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures of the place (with permission, of course) because it's all going to change. It's an end of an era, for me at least. I just have this fear history is just about to repeat itself.

[eddyramrod]

23 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I’m considering going to the dark side and buying a new car. I’m going to lie down until the urge goes away.

I've had the same urge!  Thankfully, there's nothing available new that entices me, except maybe a Transit.  Maybe.

Oh and extreme poverty!

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, EightMegs said:

I accidentally pulled the flare off of my new brake pipe by overtightening it. Then my cat decided to disappear with my dinner.

Be thankful it's disappeared. Dinner all yours now

[EightMegs]

31 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Be thankful it's disappeared. Dinner all yours now

I think you misunderstood, he opened the microwave and carried off my roast chicken!

[Jerzy Woking]

On 5/25/2021 at 8:59 PM, Remspoor said:

Here in Spain air internet is via 4G. or Wifi rural.

I have WiMax, for which a small satellite dish was installed on my roof. Took ages for the fitter to get it pointed at the mast. Whenever it rains heavily, or there ard high winds , I lose my internet and satellite TV, and the 4G signal on my phones fades in and out. 

Luckily its only effected me a few times since I got here.

[Remspoor]

8 hours ago, Jerzy Woking said:

I have WiMax, for which a small satellite dish was installed on my roof. Took ages for the fitter to get it pointed at the mast. Whenever it rains heavily, or there ard high winds , I lose my internet and satellite TV, and the 4G signal on my phones fades in and out. 

Luckily its only effected me a few times since I got here.

WiMax is also called Wifi rural. We use to have similar system here. However The comapny formed to provide the system (which took a lot of EU money) was purchased by Movistar. They, in turn ran the service down. It is slower than 4G and it does have limitations in poor weather.

[warch]

I have to say that internet in the UK is really pretty good compared to elsewhere. I live approximately 5 miles from the middle of nowhere and mine is superb, even when everyone's online like on a wet day in the middle of lockdown.

I don't know if this is still the case but my father in law in Queensland was still paying for usage (rather than the unlimited deals we take for granted) last time I mentioned it to him. The internetz are nowhere near as fast in Australia either, even in suburbia.

[Jerzy Woking]

2 hours ago, Remspoor said:

WiMax is also called Wifi rural. We use to have similar system here. However The comapny formed to provide the system (which took a lot of EU money) was purchased by Movistar. They, in turn ran the service down. It is slower than 4G and it does have limitations in poor weather.

Our family house is in an urbanisation, and so has fibre optic broadband, which is both very fast and also unlimited.

When I go there to check its all okay, I also download all the things I want to see from Netflix, BBC, ITV and C4. Very very fast in comparison to my over the air wifi.

[jakebullet]

I really don't get personalised* plates. Bob the builder's screecher has "N11K   FT", which you can sort of work out if you know her name is Nikki, and she's very fat.

He's just put one on the new pikey truck "Y   B11G   VZ". Struggling to connect the dots on this one. So his m8s can say "why big viz? your name's Carl you dozy cunt".

[Pieman]

Moving the garden waste bin from its position against the fence for the first time in a while, to discover that my chav neighbours have been pushing their cigarette ends through a hole in the fence behind it where they thought I couldn't see!

Do I sweep them up and stick them back through their letterbox in return?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, Pieman said:

Moving the garden waste bin from its position against the fence for the first time in a while, to discover that my chav neighbours have been pushing their cigarette ends through a hole in the fence behind it where they thought I couldn't see!

Do I sweep them up and stick them back through their letterbox in return?

Yes. Absolutely yes!

[bobdisk]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Yes. Absolutely yes!

Defo yes, give them back their poisonous rubbish ! 🤬 !

[chaseracer]

And block up the hole in the fence!

[timolloyd]

I did the same when I discovered where my neighbour had been hiding his dog’s shit.

[High Jetter]

Fag ends can burn fences, though. Ask me how I know.

[Crackers]

Happy fucking weekend!

My parking permit had slipped down the bottom edge of the windscreen and disappeared behind the dashboard. 

£60 please. 🤬

This being the private cowboys UKPC, can I just ignore the bastard?