The grumpy thread

[MikeR]

1 hour ago, somewhatfoolish said:

He'll be shitting like a sausage machine after that; even with VALU bread an entire loaf has a lot of fibre.

just found out it was not the  dog ,

rats ? have got in from a other back garden behind the greenhouse  , gone around our garden  , under the garage door and bingo .

the track has now been blocked off , now I just need a load of bait ..  and a few traps .....

a whole loaf in one night , and not one sign of droppings !!

had a basin full with  the mice over the spring chewing up the shed stuff , I suppose this is what a new build does to the wild life ..

moves it on !

[sierraman]

I know I’m a tightwad but isn’t £40 a bit expensive to reseal 2 tyres? The pressure is dropping a couple of Psi a week, literally wants the tyre taking off, rim cleaning up and refitting with plenty of paste. Can’t be more than half an hours work. This is at the local tyre under the arches type place so not one of these big outfits. 

[myglaren]

14 hours ago, MikeR said:

Doc Martins are nearly 200 notes !! , last time I bought a pair  they were 30 quid in the army store , and they wore out !

After two pair of standard school shoes only lasted weeks, I bought my daughter a pair of Doc Martins.

£80 - she knew the shop owners.  She was 13 then, is 37 now and still has them.

In the meantime she has bought many other pairs at stratospheric prices.  The first ones never seem to wear out.

[3VOM]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

After two pair of standard school shoes only lasted weeks, I bought my daughter a pair of Doc Martins.

£80 - she knew the shop owners.  She was 13 then, is 37 now and still has them.

In the meantime she has bought many other pairs at stratospheric prices.  The first ones never seem to wear out.

I may be talking crap here but I think Docs used to be made in the UK then production moved abroad, so her first pair could be made on a UK last by a UK craftsperson and be better quality as a result. Could be urban legend though.

[juular]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

I know I’m a tightwad but isn’t £40 a bit expensive to reseal 2 tyres? The pressure is dropping a couple of Psi a week, literally wants the tyre taking off, rim cleaning up and refitting with plenty of paste. Can’t be more than half an hours work. This is at the local tyre under the arches type place so not one of these big outfits. 

Typically I've paid £10 a wheel for that.

[sierraman]

4 minutes ago, juular said:

Typically I've paid £10 a wheel for that.

Found a local place for £15 a wheel which sounds a bit more like it. The tyres have 5mm of tread and only 2 years old still so no sense binning them off. Thinking maybe the first place basically would rather sell me some new tyres. 

[cort16]

[somewhatfoolish]

That's a ropey old bit of potatoshop; the front's all on the piss.

[anonymous user]

3 hours ago, MikeR said:

just found out it was not the  dog ,

rats ? have got in from a other back garden behind the greenhouse  , gone around our garden  , under the garage door and bingo .

the track has now been blocked off , now I just need a load of bait ..  and a few traps .....

a whole loaf in one night , and not one sign of droppings !!

had a basin full with  the mice over the spring chewing up the shed stuff , I suppose this is what a new build does to the wild life ..

moves it on !

You don't need traps or bait, you have a bloody terrier, just put him in there and let him get on with it.

[320touring]

20 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

That's a great old bit of potatoshop; the front's looks factory.

EFA

[richykitchy]

On 10/23/2021 at 5:46 PM, jamescarruthers said:

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I met @richykitchy from here once to swap some parts in a service station and we both got a Parking Eye ticket. He paid like a good boy, I ignored them. 
 

Parking Eye too me to court, I lost. The judge was very sympathetic but ultimately it stuck on my credit record for 6 years. 
 

I wish Parking Eye would just fuck off and die but ultimately the law is on their side, sadly. 
 

We both turned up in BXs… He owns an SM now, I don’t. Any more proof required of how my life declined since I ignored Parking Eye?

I didn't pay, I contested it the right way and had it overturned. 😜

[andy18s]

On 10/26/2021 at 11:11 AM, louiepj said:

I have sent three sellers on the bay messages about items I need to buy. Not a single reply yet.
My need for instant communication in this digital age is not being satisfied and I am throwing my electronic toys out of my pram in anger.

Not a satnav by any chance ?

[MikeR]

just travelled up north , as in near the lakes ,water everywhere , trees down , rivers across roads , fields flooded ...

was this a good idea ?

[eddyramrod]

Yes, because you could visit Huggy...

[Jazoli]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

just travelled up north , as in near the lakes ,water everywhere , trees down , rivers across roads , fields flooded ...

was this a good idea ?

Yeah it's normal, I've just driven home from work and several places are flooded but it's nothing new, it'll drain eventually, stick to the main roads and you'll be fine....probably.

[jamescarruthers]

5 hours ago, richykitchy said:

I didn't pay, I contested it the right way and had it overturned. 😜

Aah I feel even more incompetent now! Lesson well and truly learnt!

[MikeR]

Ping , my next CT scan date has popped into my inbox ....it's like a dreaded MOT .

Spin the wheel of life 

Pass  or scrap !!!!

FFS the brain is starting to spin.

[cobblers]

On 10/26/2021 at 8:42 PM, MikeR said:

Doc Martins are nearly 200 notes !! , last time I bought a pair  they were 30 quid in the army store , and they wore out !

And the new expensive ones now wear out 5 times quicker than the army store ones because now they're made by children in thailand out of recycled sex toys because they're "fashion" boots now, so they're made to be worn once every 6 weeks for a year and then forgotten about.

2 months light daily wear will 100% kill a pair. Get Solovairs instead. 

[jakebullet]

Ma says washing machine has died, let's go to currys. Er, no. I'll look at it when I'm not welding my disco back together. Hmmm, it makes beep noises but doesn't start. Bet the bloody door lock switch has gone. Dragged it out & unplugged, then couldn't suss how to get to the switch so put it back again. Sodding thing only works perfectly, just wanted a reboot. Sure it says hoover not microsoft on the front.

It really is a hateful POS though, rusting pretty much from day we got it, and now has a dent from me pushing it back in as it's made of super micro thin tin.

[Richard_FM]

25 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

Ma says washing machine has died, let's go to currys. Er, no. I'll look at it when I'm not welding my disco back together. Hmmm, it makes beep noises but doesn't start. Bet the bloody door lock switch has gone. Dragged it out & unplugged, then couldn't suss how to get to the switch so put it back again. Sodding thing only works perfectly, just wanted a reboot. Sure it says hoover not microsoft on the front.

It really is a hateful POS though, rusting pretty much from day we got it, and now has a dent from me pushing it back in as it's made of super micro thin tin.

I had something similar with my washing machine, but it turned out to be an impeller clogged up by undissolved powder.  Luckily I had looked online for reasons for it's non-working & array of flashing lights.  Five minutes with an old toothbrush & an recommended empty run & it's been fine ever since.  Also I switched to using liquid which doesn't cause any clogging problems.

[Fumbler]

44 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

I had something similar with my washing machine, but it turned out to be an impeller clogged up by undissolved powder.  Luckily I had looked online for reasons for it's non-working & array of flashing lights.  Five minutes with an old toothbrush & an recommended empty run & it's been fine ever since.  Also I switched to using liquid which doesn't cause any clogging problems.

Alternating between powder and liquid is also good, as liquid causes scum to build on the drum and outer drum which can also cause clogging issues. Soda crystals do well shifting that stuff at high temperature, though.

[myglaren]

23 hours ago, 3VOM said:

I may be talking crap here but I think Docs used to be made in the UK then production moved abroad, so her first pair could be made on a UK last by a UK craftsperson and be better quality as a result. Could be urban legend though.

I agree, the genuine ones are sold under a different name now I believe.

I have a pair, had them probably twenty years, good as new.

Only because I hardly ever wear them, they are a bit small so walking more than a couple of miles gets painful, also they have laces.  I hate lace-up shoes, it takes me ten minutes to get them on and laced up.

[goosey]

Thanks Clarke for supplying just enough bolt…..

[Zelandeth]

Dammit.

That is supposed to be attached to the pump of my pressure washer...It just launched itself across the driveway and thoroughly soaked both me and an innocent passer by as the hose then took on a life of its own and took a good 30 seconds for me to capture.

I don't think I have ever been quite so embarrassed.

Edit:

Additional grump.  One of the relatively few major events I had been tentatively looking forward to next year have in the last couple of hours announced their 2022 event is cancelled.

Pretty much expecting the other two related events to do the same in short order now.

[DavieW]

Three words - Edinburgh City Bypass 🤬🤬

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, goosey said:

Thanks Clarke for supplying just enough bolt…..

Looks perfick, just flush. As long as the nut fully grips, why need more?

[Wack]

Christmas 1995 , then girlfriend , now wife and I went to Egypt , it's was utterly fascinating ,breathtakingly beautiful and felt like going back in time 

Fucking Americans

 I'm surprised there's not a big  M on top of the Sphynx 

 

[goosey]

2 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Looks perfick, just flush. As long as the nut fully grips, why need more?

Would have been nice to have got a split washer on there, maybe even a load spreading washer also

[Zelandeth]

Why do all current mobile browsers suck?

I have desperately trying to move on beyond the Aug 2020 Firefox update... however have been utterly unable to find anything which doesn't have at least one huge deal breaker.  Whether it be text handling (Kiwi Browser, Chrome), lack of plugin compatibility or file handling (Updated Firefox) or simple things like a vaguely competent UI and functional ad-blocker (Chrome, updated Firefox)...and keep going back for general purpose browsing a now very outdated browser.

The potential for disaster is minimal for me given that I don't use web based email or banking and every website has a unique password, so if anything were compromised it would be limited to a single site.  I'd really like to not be using outdated software...however the current stuff just... doesn't...work. 

I really have bloody tried.

Desktop is fine, this is all mobile platform problems...which accounts for about 90% of my usage these days...if I stopped using a mobile browser I may as well delete my account as you'd never see anything.

I'm not after perfection...the "old version" of Firefox had some annoyances, but they were that.  Moderately annoying traits or occasional glitches...but they caused the occasional burst of swearing and arm flailing and that was it.  I've just spent an two hours trying to put together a post in Chrome which would have taken me 40 minutes in Firefox and gave up because trying to copy and paste blocks of text is so clunky. 

This automotive "blog" thing is my main hobby, and as such a lot of content is placed across several platforms - AS being an annoying one as since it's big upgrade a while ago it doesn't support old BB Code tags for image embedding so I HAVE to do things differently for either this site or all the others. 

This adds a few minutes of extra work but I've a pretty efficient workflow for it...using a now out of date browser.  All of the current ones I've tried though break that in some way and it's really pissing me off. 

Think I'm just going to stick with out of date for now...at least it sodding works.

[MikeR]

I find that as well , using opera at the moment , most I have tried are a pita..

DNS66 proved useful for blocking ads which took over at times .

But opera has data saving and and blocking , as well as a home button. !