The grumpy thread

[gm]

I chopped a bit of heat shield off to see the damage - almost all the way through 

a bit of scrap aluminium bent round an axle stand 

fixed*
 

 

not quite, still sounds like shit - I’ll see if I can find a tame welder tomorrow  

[Tickman]

@gm worth cutting it off before someone else finishes what they started?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, gm said:

Scumbag pikey catalyst thieving cunts !

looks like they must have got disturbed half way through - fucking arseholes !

If only there was some way of making their jacks collapse whilst they're still underneath...

[junkyarddog]

To be fair,I wouldn't fancy trying to tackle those rusty fixings either😂

At least the cunts didn't get it.

[gm]

At least the centre section is cheaper to replace. 

Suprised they didn't spike the petrol tank while they were under there - twats 

[3VOM]

16 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

 Yesterday we got a letter telling us her ESA will stop because her state pension should begin.  Consequently I spent all afternoon on the phone and gov.uk trying to sort out the mess this is going to leave us in.

I hope there is a Pension Credit qualification that brings this back up for her, but I don't know. Try:

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/help-if-on-a-low-income/pension-credit/before-you-claim-pension-credit/check-if-you-can-get-pension-credit/

https://www.turn2us.org.uk/

https://www.entitledto.co.uk/

[eddyramrod]

Thank you for that!  It's not looking viable for Pension Credit, but once her pension actually starts coming in that might change.  Meanwhile I have applications in for both PIP and ESA, although it's been suggested to me this morning that I might have more chance of Universal Credit than ESA.  Again, I'll have to wait until my application has been processed to find out, and work out what to do next.  It's a jungle, and I'm ridiculously easy to confuse these days. 

Fortunately I'm now in touch with a locally-based Disability Association who seem very capable and helpful.

[Minimad5]

25 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Thank you for that!  It's not looking viable for Pension Credit, but once her pension actually starts coming in that might change.  Meanwhile I have applications in for both PIP and ESA, although it's been suggested to me this morning that I might have more chance of Universal Credit than ESA.  Again, I'll have to wait until my application has been processed to find out, and work out what to do next.  It's a jungle, and I'm ridiculously easy to confuse these days. 

Fortunately I'm now in touch with a locally-based Disability Association who seem very capable and helpful.

Always winds me up that you've got to do all the leg work.

If you or a loved one you care for are genuinely unable to work, you should be assisted in claiming the correct things.

My old man can't work due to various things (fucked back, pissing blood etc) - He's a bit of a fool and feels ashamed when claiming for anything (after working 20+ odd years beforehand) , and both him and mum have no idea what they can and can't claim. Yes even the local Citizens Advice ain't helped.

Yet the rather rotund woman down the road with about 12 kids, has a lovely new Zafira all paid for 🤷‍♂️.

Sorry to go off on one Eddy 🤣, but hope you get it sorted mate, as seems the genuine and nice ones get fobbed off.

[eddyramrod]

I understand your dad's position!  I don't like having to claim stuff, I was brought up to support myself if at all possible, and now that I can't, I feel a very intense sense of failure.  Which is something nobody wants to admit to, but there, it's out now.  I failed.

[3VOM]

3 minutes ago, Minimad5 said:

My old man can't work due to various things (fucked back, pissing blood etc) - He's a bit of a fool and feels ashamed when claiming for anything (after working 20+ odd years beforehand) , and both him and mum have no idea what they can and can't claim. Yes even the local Citizens Advice ain't helped.

Use the two links above to work out what you can get. My guess is Universal Credit plus some additional benefit based on medical issues.

I'm sorry to hear that CA weren't any help. I know about the stuff I've posted* because in non-Covid times I volunteer for CA and there is a feedback/complaint mechanism if you were not happy with the service.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/contact-us/contact-us/make-a-complaint-about-us/

(* I've also worked on IS, JSA and a local authority housing waiting list.)

[mitsisigma01]

Any ideas how to kick social services up the arse and get the process for getting a stairlift fitted. She has been stuck upstairs since January, he is half blind, deaf and gets upstairs on his hands and knees 😡😡

[Rab]

The whole of Ardnamurchan only has four Posties..they have to use the Community Centre in Acharacle as the sorting office...three are off work...we've had no post for days...and theres an Amazon warehouse backlog in Ft William apparently.

Non Grump. Petrol 'crisis'' has scared all the tourists away and its now all very quiet...how we like it...

[3VOM]

59 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Any ideas how to kick social services up the arse and get the process for getting a stairlift fitted. She has been stuck upstairs since January, he is half blind, deaf and gets upstairs on his hands and knees 😡😡

Bend ear of councillor?

[reb]

Fucks sake.

[juular]

7 minutes ago, reb said:

Fucks sake.

Every time.

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Tbh BBC are filming in my street with Tom Hardy (he is famous or something), they needed a really old bathroom.. which is some backhanded compliment t and a half. Alas.. many cars a lighting van blocking the back acces road and one parked perpendicular to the pavement in front of my gaff. Disruption much.

[reb]

14 minutes ago, juular said:

Every time.

They've been fine the last two bottles, which lulled me into a false sense of security.

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

  I failed.

No you haven't. 

[Bren]

22 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

Wife's birthday today.  She's 66.  Yesterday we got a letter telling us her ESA will stop because her state pension should begin.  Consequently I spent all afternoon on the phone and gov.uk trying to sort out the mess this is going to leave us in.

She's spent most of today in bed, ignoring drinks I've taken up for her, and her cards and prezzies, to punish me for not having a new and better line of income ready to step in.  Like I'm some kind of financial expert all of a sudden!  So today I've been doing the same again, with what seems very little effect.

Why the fuck is the benefit system specifically designed to exclude anyone and everyone who might actually need it?

To put off anyone and everyone who might need it. I always think of my late father in law who had no use of his legs and ended his years in a wheel chair. The first time he applied for a disabled badge he was turned down.

[jakebullet]

Smoking wankers.

I'm at Jimmy's hospital waiting to collect. There's huge signs everywhere saying no smoking. There's also a group of staff stood next to the sign gasping away.

So I've kept moving locations to get away from smokers. Sat out In  the sun and a woman wheels an elderly patient to the next bench. Aw that's nice. He then pulls out a Jimmy Saville style fuck off cigar and sparks up while she pours him a can of beer. Never see  anything like it.

[mintwth]

4 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

ideas how to kick social services up the arse

Unfortunately, @3VOM is right. To get things moving you often have to escalate issues.

A well worded letter/email to your/their councillor, council leader or MP asking if they would be so kind as to investigate why 2 people in a household who are both in need of a stair lift have had to suffer such indignities for 9 months with no sign of any progress can have surprising effects on a constipated process

[Dyslexic Viking]

Since one of you picked up a GR Yaris today, I checked the price for fun in Norway on this one. 562,000 kroner or 47,710 pounds that is almost what the house I live in did cost. Then checked the price of a regular Yaris (it is only possible to buy a hybrid here now) and it starts at NOK 257,400 or 21,851 pounds. New car prices here are absolutely insane.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

33 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

..... New car prices here are absolutely insane.

Yes, just like alcohol prices....

[Dyslexic Viking]

3 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Yes, just like alcohol prices....

And almost everything else really.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, Dyslexic Viking said:

 

And everything else really.

I remember stopping in at Stavanger during a seafood festival, and spending FIVE POUNDS on a 330ml bottle of not particularly exciting Carlsberg. FIVE POUNDS!!!

[mintwth]

Probably the best waste of five pounds ever

[Dyslexic Viking]

26 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I remember stopping in at Stavanger during a seafood festival, and spending FIVE POUNDS on a 330ml bottle of not particularly exciting Carlsberg. FIVE POUNDS!!!

When I thought about it, it's not so bad, a frozen pizza that is dinner for one costs about the same.

[Wack]

36 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

And almost everything else really.

In 1985 my wife's boss flew the whole company to Sweden for a very long day trip , I took about £100 worth of krona , I think I bought a coffee and came back with most of it  , it was the same stuff as here ( except for little wooden horses,) at 3x the price 

[Dyslexic Viking]

6 minutes ago, Wack said:

In 1985 my wife's boss flew the whole company to Sweden for a very long day trip , I took about £100 worth of krona , I think I bought a coffee and came back with most of it  , it was the same stuff as here ( except for little wooden horses,) at 3x the price 

Sweden is cheaper than Norway many in Norway and especially those who live near the border shop in Sweden as it is much cheaper.

[captain_70s]

17 hours ago, jakebullet said:

There's huge signs everywhere saying no smoking.

It's just poor planning.

Making the whole area a no smoking zone is never going to work because people aren't going to walk half a mile for a smoke. It can't be enforced because what are you going to do? Throw patients off the property? So the rules get ignored because there is no functional alternative.