The grumpy thread

[Barry Cade]

I'm sick of the word " unprecedented "

Stop it, please.

[wuvvum]

It's the old Chinese curse - "May you live in unprecedented times".

[anonymous user]

1 hour ago, Barry Cade said:

I'm sick of the word " unprecedented "

Stop it, please.

But there is a precedent for using it in times like these.

[mintwth]

If there wasn't, its use would be unprecedented. 

[somewhatfoolish]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

It's the old Chinese curse - "May you live in unprecedented times".

I thought it was 'interesting times'?

[High Jetter]

I'm not entirely sure that @wuvvum was being serious there. That's never happened before, shirley?

[somewhatfoolish]

Mange tout, rodders.

[Soundwave]

My dog, who passed away in April, would have been 11 today. I have the sads.

[Popsicle]

2 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

I thought it was 'interesting times'?

I think that was a Terry Pratchett saying.

[3VOM]

Carparts4less (aka ECP) just tried adding a 1.99 collection charge on my order. When did that start?

[chaseracer]

They want you to pay them NOT to deliver it...? 🤔

[beko1987]

Flipping car! Was out the door before 7am this morning, cleared the morning most off the windows and set off, everything clearing nicely. 

6 miles up the road, with the fans still in the entire car suddenly fogged right up instantly. Windows down, air con on full tilt and it eventually cleared, I've not had that happen before! 

Was watching the temp needle like a hawk, I even felt around the carpets incase the matrix had gone pop. Popped the bonnet when I got to work and all was fine. 

Was very strange, I guess leaving it parked for 5 days in cooling weather than driving it made the air inside flip out 

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

Flipping car! Was out the door before 7am this morning, cleared the morning most off the windows and set off, everything clearing nicely. 

6 miles up the road, with the fans still in the entire car suddenly fogged right up instantly. Windows down, air con on full tilt and it eventually cleared, I've not had that happen before! 

Was watching the temp needle like a hawk, I even felt around the carpets incase the matrix had gone pop. Popped the bonnet when I got to work and all was fine. 

Was very strange, I guess leaving it parked for 5 days in cooling weather than driving it made the air inside flip out 

Look under the scuttle grille and make sure there's not a few pints of water sloshing about.

[PhilA]

That'll happen here, usually right before you drive into the rain that the cold air is carrying.

Sharp edge weather fronts are rare in the UK but not impossible; a much more common occurrence here, I find, where the air temperature will drop suddenly maybe ten degrees or so.

Phil

[mintwth]

2 hours ago, beko1987 said:

with the fans still in the entire car suddenly fogged right up instantly.

Sure it was on the inside? I had the same happen to me last night but it was water condensing on the outside of the glass.

Giveaways being the wing mirrors fogged at the same instant and I could clear the 'fogging' with wipers and washers. 

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, mintwth said:

Sure it was on the inside? I had the same happen to me last night but it was water condensing on the outside of the glass.

Giveaways being the wing mirrors fogged at the same instant and I could clear the 'fogging' with wipers and washers. 

Was both tbh, now you mention that yes the wing mirrors both went foggy in an instant! 

Screenwash and keeping the wipers on low helped on the outside, aircon on full whack on the windscreen did the inside

[Fumbler]

Specialist who was going to look at the BX is off ill. Damnit. Luckily, I'm home next weekend as well and the car should be seen to by then at least.

[Crackers]

Back to uni (2nd year) tomorrow.

Balls.  

[Crackers]

On the flipside I guess I'll get to sit down for a day.... my phone reckons I've walked over 30km so far this week at work. Christ!

[High Jetter]

Uni student. Not wanting to get away from home. Again. Does not compute.

[Pieman]

2 hours ago, Crackers said:

Back to uni (2nd year) tomorrow.

Balls.  

Are you alright?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

11 hours ago, Crackers said:

Back to uni (2nd year) tomorrow.

Balls.  

Not freshers' balls, then.

[iainrcz]

Why do our local bin men empty our bins and then shove the cunts in to another postcode, so you've got to launch an appeal on TV asking for help finding it? 

It was sat neatly on my driveway waiting to be emptied.

Can't it go back there? Or is it a council ruse to get us out for some exercise?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

51 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

Why do our local bin men empty our bins and then shove the cunts in to another postcode, so you've got to launch an appeal on TV asking for help finding it? 

It was sat neatly on my driveway waiting to be emptied.

Can't it go back there? Or is it a council ruse to get us out for some exercise?

Maybe @dozeydustman has a theory that explains this 🤔

[dozeydustman]

59 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

Why do our local bin men empty our bins and then shove the cunts in to another postcode, so you've got to launch an appeal on TV asking for help finding it? 

It was sat neatly on my driveway waiting to be emptied.

Can't it go back there? Or is it a council ruse to get us out for some exercise?

 

7 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Maybe @dozeydustman has a theory that explains this 🤔

Because some dustmen don’t want their xmas tips or don’t take pride in their work

[w00dy]

Stuck on a train that's very late and not moving. It's packed with idiots who are loudly talking over any announcement, since they are happy drinking and aren't trying to make connections. I hate them all and I hate British trains.

[reb]

I had the opposite when they emptied the bins yesterday, they actually put them back where they were! They never do that, usually leaving them sat in the middle of the yard.

[Zelandeth]

Note to whoever designed the timing chain tensioner used on the Mercedes M.102 engine:

I hate you.

What a bloody stupidly overcomplicated faff of a setup.  Yes, it means there's double redundancy, but jeeez...if you've made it that complicated anyway would it have been too much to ask for some means to reset the damned thing without having to completely dismantle it?

 

[Bren]

The news. All of them. "News" should be substiuted with " Shitstirring".

SKY shitstirring. BBC shitstirring.

[Low Horatio gearbox]

A V5 arriving with the wrong tax braket  🎻🎻🎻🤦‍♂️