The grumpy thread

[Spurious]

2 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Oh FFS...

No explanation or anything...just after waiting patiently in the queue for bloody ever that randomly drops into the inbox.  Will see when I can get it rescheduled for later on today.

Have you no loacl drop in centres? 

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, Spurious said:

Have you no loacl drop in centres? 

If I'd had the AZ or Pfizer one for my first dose, yes.  However none of the local ones seem to offer the Moderna one which is what I was given for dose 1.

[Fumbler]

3 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Oh FFS...

No explanation or anything...just after waiting patiently in the queue for bloody ever that randomly drops into the inbox.  Will see when I can get it rescheduled for later on today.

 

1 hour ago, Nyphur said:

Is that email definitely genuine? I only ask due to the spelling mistake and poor grammar

This^

I looked at the cancellation E-mail I received when I rescheduled my appointment. My message contains the details of the cancelled appointment as well as the detailed address of the vaccination centre.

The rebooking sentence, link and the bullet points match up with mine, but the bad grammar and spelling put me on edge. I know I can change a hyperlink's website it forwards me to on MS Word, but I've no clue if it can be done when composing an E-mail.

This is the message address I got:

Is yours the same?

[Zelandeth]

4 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

 

This^

I looked at the cancellation E-mail I received when I rescheduled my appointment. My message contains the details of the cancelled appointment as well as the detailed address of the vaccination centre.

The rebooking sentence, link and the bullet points match up with mine, but the bad grammar and spelling put me on edge. I know I can change a hyperlink's website it forwards me to on MS Word, but I've no clue if it can be done when composing an E-mail.

This is the message address I got:

Is yours the same?

Yep, same sender address, and the link in the email body directs you to the genuine NHS Vaccination service page. 

[Fumbler]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Yep, same sender address, and the link in the email body directs you to the genuine NHS Vaccination service page. 

I suppose it's a really shit bespoke E-mail then. Annoying.

[timolloyd]

So are you telling me I didn’t need to transfer £650 to a Nigerian bank account in order to get my second vaccination?

[Saabnut]

Went past my local* breakers yesterday. I have not used them for about 20 years since the owner tried to rip me off despite me being his biggest (non commercial) customer at the time but they struggled on without me

Until now. The yard is empty apart from the company transporter and van. New house built opposite where the owners grandparents house was, empty and derelict for about 25 years.

Farewell Mossbank Breakers of Fettercairn. I will not miss them but always sad to see a long established scrapyard disappear.

[Wack]

On 8/15/2021 at 8:19 AM, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Although petty revenge is the best kind of revenge.

I've posted this before

Some years ago I got the train home after not buying a car , got to Crewe and rail replacement home , there was a guy with a clipboard directing passengers to various buses when this woman in front of me laid into him , she looked about 60, solicitor maybe.

I've paid for a first class ticket , I shouldn't have to get on a bus, you've broken the contract , you should provide taxi's for first class passengers

He was nothing but professional, explained it would've been on the website when she booked, they have to do track maintenance etc but she was having none of it

Then very rudely she said ,which bus do I want for Runcorn

He directed her, this bus goes to Runcorn madam, she stomped off and got on

As it pulled off I noticed the illuminated board had about 6 towns on it with the last stop being Runcorn

Next bus pulled in and he starts calling for passengers

Any passengers for Runcorn, Runcorn only on this bus please

I looked at him and started laughing and he gave me a wry smile, she'll never know  but it probably made his day

 

 

[Wack]

Supermarkets

In tesco , the kenco coffee refill bag £3.45, the jar £4

I go to pick the bag up then I notice the bag is 150g but the jar is 200g so it looks like you're saving money but you're not, it's actually more expensive

I think they all do this one

A fridge with an offer in it , loads of different products £4 each , 3 for £10 , only one of the products isn't in the offer so when it gets to the till they scan at £4 each

It won't be illegal but they do it knowingly

 

[New POD]

I have 2 Windows. 

120 cm wide. Standard size. 

I go to b and q and buy two blinds.

One for the landing one for the hall. 

Check my gap.

Measure 

And the blind

The window is 120. The blind is 120.5 plus there's 2 brackets about 3 mm thick.

Ballocks. 

[Mally]

Engineers have tolerances.  Blinds too. Around  5mm iirc. So the blind is allowed to be wider than stated.

In any event, you cannot fit a 120 blind into a 120 gap. For comparison,  imagine it's a piston!

It's often possible to trim the ends of a blind to suit.

[High Jetter]

57 minutes ago, Mally said:

It's often possible to trim the ends of a roller blind to suit.

EFA - it would be a pain with those slatted ones

[3VOM]

17 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

EFA - it would be a pain with those slatted ones

If you mean thin metal Ventian blinds you can get a tool to trim them.

[anonymous user]

I trimmed plastic venetian blinds using a jig-saw. I held the slats tightly together using tape. It wasn't too bad, the worst bit being having to pick up all the bits after they had fired themselves everywhere. Tip for next time, do the tape to the ends as well and cut through it.

[Wack]

Take it back

 

use these for one that fits

https://www.web-blinds.com/venetian-blinds/31066/Warm-Grey.htm

 

I just put 120x120 in for a quote

 

[maxxo]

i am grumpy

cos i drove a vauxhall and couldn't fault it

it was actually......nice

i don't like vauxhalls much

brand new crossland with 14 miles on it

ughhhhhhhhh

it was perfectly fine and i was expecting it to be awful

so yes, i'm grumpy

[loserone]

1 minute ago, maxxo said:

crossland

There is something wrong with you, they ARE awful.

[New POD]

10 hours ago, Wack said:

Take it back

 

use these for one that fits

https://www.web-blinds.com/venetian-blinds/31066/Warm-Grey.htm

 

I just put 120x120 in for a quote

 

So. I took then back tomb and q. Got money back. 

Went to The range, ( same problem) Dunelm( ditto)  2 different blind places (130 quid each fitted, 3 weeks) . And then went home and 

Ordered similar on Blinds Direct. Little bit more expensive than your company. Especially after I Paid for next day despatch. Which means i shoukd ne able to do the job on Saturday. 

 

[jon928se]

TEKLA Structure.
what a pile of shit.
3 days in editing GA drawings.
its goiung my head in
and i'm getting all nostalgic for StruCAD.......

I vaguely remember Strucad. But it's been a long time since I was hands on in design. I suspect that we may as well be talking in Swahili for most forum users

Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

[Sham]

Sadly, I know what StruCAD and Tekla are. I'm in IT support and look after both, along with StruMIS.

I don't know how to use them to produce *things* but they have taught me several very inventive swear words.

[goosey]

I woke up to what sounded like the downstairs bathroom being pressure washed 

this was the cause 

[motorpunk]

*bong*
 

DPF fault, drive to your nearest BMW dealer

Bollocks. It was DPF cleaned about 20k ago, and lives on the motorway. I’m hoping it’s a dicky sensor. I love this car but with 186k on the clock I suppose some bills are to be expected.

[sierraman]

7 hours ago, loserone said:

There is something wrong with you, they ARE awful.

It’s one of those cars you see outside the post office driven by someone collecting a pension of some sort or by an extremely rough looking woman and some feral kids in outside Asda. 

I can picture one outside a 1960’s 1 bed old codgers bungalow, loads of those naff Asda giant gnomes and those really shit pansies you get in Poundland spaced 2 foot apart. 

[sierraman]

Just now, motorpunk said:

*bong*
 

DPF fault, drive to your nearest BMW dealer

Bollocks. It was DPF cleaned about 20k ago, and lives on the motorway. I’m hoping it’s a dicky sensor. I love this car but with 186k on the clock I suppose some bills are to be expected.

Just run in for a German car that is. Run forever those BMWs 🤣

[goosey]

Picked my car up yesterday after having a new windshield fitted and now I have a random  white line that doesn’t seem to come off on the inside of the screen as well as a bunch of sticky tape marks and smears 

yeah I know it’s a company car, stop crying  about it etc but they could’ve at least cleaned the effing thing after they finished 

[motorpunk]

Just now, sierraman said:

Just run in for a German car that is. Run forever those BMWs 🤣

😁

[adw1977]

8 hours ago, loserone said:

There is something wrong with you, they ARE awful.

I drove a friend's Crossland recently and it was awful.  So little power, screaming its tits off in 4th to get up a hill on a dual carriageway (5 speed box).

Handbrake that was a right battle to release, not helped by the button being on top instead of on the end.

I also had the pleasure of being a rear seat passenger and the rear seat is just a flat bench with a backrest that's too upright.  Still more relaxing than having to drive the wretched thing.

[beko1987]

20 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

I drove a friend's Crossland recently and it was awful.  So little power, screaming its tits off in 4th to get up a hill on a dual carriageway (5 speed box).

Handbrake that was a right battle to release, not helped by the button being on top instead of on the end.

I also had the pleasure of being a rear seat passenger and the rear seat is just a flat bench with a backrest that's too upright.  Still more relaxing than having to drive the wretched thing.

Sounds like the Meriva it replaced, but worse! 

[St.Jude]

Insurance companies. Specifically, Adrian Flux.

Like every other idiot in the country, I stand by anyone who does me a good turn. When I got the RAV4, and it came out with daft money to insure, I managed to get it on a cheaper policy. From the RAV4, and the Corolla before it, I never ever ever had a problem.

Until today when it came time to take the RAV4 off the insurance (should've done it earlier, but y'know - optimism) and put the new whip on there (Land Cruiser for those playing at home). They took great offence at this having 8 seats, and wanted to know why I got a car with 8 seats. "I wanted a Land Cruiser and they don't come with less" was the only polite answer I could think of, instead of the default "Because I want it". Anyway, current insurer won't touch it because it has too many seats so I'd have to cancel it. The new policy was with Aviva want £630. Which is high, as I was getting quotes of £370. 

It's at this point, the sheer bullshit blinded my eyes and I was left with bewilderment. I have to pay about £140 to cancel the policy as I pay monthly, irregardless of the fact this month's instalment left my account today. Asking the same "why should I pay to cancel when the insurer doesn't want it?" got me nowhere. Although, the kicker with it all is that if I go to Aviva through Adrian Flux - because they keep their commission and get £30 for the privilege of all of this - I would only have to pay £80 to cancel. 

Where's the kicker? Oh - if I add the Land Cruiser to the multicar policy we have with the Peugeot and the Merc through Aviva, it's £380. So even if I pay the £380, and the £140, it's still £110 cheaper than paying the £80 to Adrian Flux to get the £630 rate from Aviva.

So now I've gone from years of having no problem with Adrian Flux, to screaming at idriveaclassic every time the advert for it comes up. The moral of the story is that you really don't know how good someone or something is until you need to do something with them. That's when the rubber hits the shit from the fan. 

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, St.Jude said:

Insurance companies. Specifically, Adrian Flux.

Like every other idiot in the country, I stand by anyone who does me a good turn. When I got the RAV4, and it came out with daft money to insure, I managed to get it on a cheaper policy. From the RAV4, and the Corolla before it, I never ever ever had a problem.

Until today when it came time to take the RAV4 off the insurance (should've done it earlier, but y'know - optimism) and put the new whip on there (Land Cruiser for those playing at home). They took great offence at this having 8 seats, and wanted to know why I got a car with 8 seats. "I wanted a Land Cruiser and they don't come with less" was the only polite answer I could think of, instead of the default "Because I want it". Anyway, current insurer won't touch it because it has too many seats so I'd have to cancel it. The new policy was with Aviva want £630. Which is high, as I was getting quotes of £370. 

It's at this point, the sheer bullshit blinded my eyes and I was left with bewilderment. I have to pay about £140 to cancel the policy as I pay monthly, irregardless of the fact this month's instalment left my account today. Asking the same "why should I pay to cancel when the insurer doesn't want it?" got me nowhere. Although, the kicker with it all is that if I go to Aviva through Adrian Flux - because they keep their commission and get £30 for thek privilege of all of this - I would only have to pay £80 to cancel. 

Where's the kicker? Oh - if I add the Land Cruiser to the multicar policy we have with the Peugeot and the Merc through Aviva, it's £380. So even if I pay the £380, and the £140, it's still £110 cheaper than paying the £80 to Adrian Flux to get the £630 rate from Aviva.

So now I've gone from years of having no problem with Adrian Flux, to screaming at idriveaclassic every time the advert for it comes up. The moral of the story is that you really don't know how good someone or something is until you need to do something with them. That's when the rubber hits the shit from the fan. 

The only country worse than the UK for this type of thing is Ireland. I've recently been trying to get classic insurance on a 1.1 Peugeot 205. Most companies won't cover 205s for some reason, and one company will cover it, but only for shows and runs, you're not covered for driving to the local shop, or any normal use. At the moment I'm waiting for a club membership to come back, so I can check out their scheme.