The grumpy thread

[sheffcortinacentre]

Eh!?

[Bren]

  On 25/01/2022 at 17:34, paulplom said:

Faulty battery or do you reckon you have a drain?

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Battery is bad - the lower the temp the more it struggles.

[Mally]

  On 25/01/2022 at 19:26, mintwth said:

 

Be careful of using anything hydroxide/peroxide based long term, it can dry out the skin in your ear to the extent it can damage it and also the eardrum. For long term maintenance you're best off using the few drops of olive oil (the worst it'll do is give you really well moisturised ears). 

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Olive oil is not recommended if you wear an hearing aid, can gum it up or something.

I use Sodium  bicarbonate. You have to use the drops for several days before they work, so I never*  press it down a bit with my ear lobe.

I too can get syringed on the NHS at times, but depends who you see. 

[Agila]

  On 25/01/2022 at 21:38, sheffcortinacentre said:

Eh!?

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"THEY ARE SAYING USE OLIVE OIL"

[Quintus]

I've had issues with wax buildup on one occasion before and and ended up using a company called Interhearing.  Reasonable value as they charged £65 for both ears. Only drawback is they don't have the national coverage that other companies have.

https://interhearing.com/quick-earwax-removal-2/

[Metal Guru]

Got stuck in a long line of traffic on a fast A road with good straights and no cameras . Traffic bunched up as no one would overtake and refused to leave spaces for others to do so. 10th in the queue was too much for one pass even for a Subaru.

What really annoyed me was cars further up the queue included an RS4 and a 350Z, trundling behind a bus at 40mph.

[Lankytim]

I once had bad ear ache so i asked the wife to heat some olive oil up a little on a teaspoon and pour it into my lughole, Without thinking she warmed it up briefly on the hob and poured it in. I think they heard the screams 20 miles away.

[Dyslexic Viking]

I have eye problems with screen use now this came pretty quickly. This is annoying and especially when it is winter. This also happened 4 years ago where I needed new glasses something I do not want now as I am tight, and do not want Covid.

[cobblers]

  On 26/01/2022 at 17:30, Lankytim said:

I once had bad ear ache so i asked the wife to heat some olive oil up a little on a teaspoon and pour it into my lughole, Without thinking she warmed it up briefly on the hob and poured it in. I think they heard the screams 20 miles away.

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After having a welding spark land in my ear when I was wedged under an MX5 in the rain at the side of a busy road, you have all my sympathy

[grogee]

Arrrgghh both the ear stories made me wince!

Had a welding spark go in my shoe, that was bad enough. Was dancing like ol' Jacko

[chodweaver]

  On 26/01/2022 at 17:30, Lankytim said:

I once had bad ear ache so i asked the wife to heat some olive oil up a little on a teaspoon and pour it into my lughole, Without thinking she warmed it up briefly on the hob and poured it in. I think they heard the screams 20 miles away.

That was you?!?

[mitsisigma01]

  On 25/01/2022 at 19:26, mintwth said:

For long term maintenance you're best off using the few drops of olive oil (the worst it'll do is give you really well moisturised ears

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And it will make your earwax nuggets taste more Mediterranean , maybe add to a salad instead of croutons 😬😀

[mintwth]

  On 27/01/2022 at 13:59, mitsisigma01 said:

And it will make your earwax nuggets taste more Mediterranean , maybe add to a salad instead of croutons 😬😀

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Add some vinegar for an earily good salad dressing 😉

[mitsisigma01]

Not forgetting to replace the tagliatelle with some tapeworms , visually similar , different texture 🤢

[AnnoyingPentium]

I was in a fair stinker of a mood until (see the bottom of this)

Was meant to be going out for a coffee with a lassie I haven't seen in ages but she's had to cancel due to being not well. I was a wee bit sad about that like.

Oh plus the small Mercedes van in front of me that floored it on the only good straight bit of road, you can ram it.

Oh and that Golf up my backside, didn't like it when I tapped the brake, did you?

Edit - I didn't slow the car down when tapping the brakes. I know how to press it to bring on the lights and no more. I ensured there was nothing behind the Golf too.

Good news - off uni tomorrow!!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Annnnd just tested positive for 19covids. 

It's absolutely everywhere in the primary where I teach so it was inevitable eventually. Symptoms so far include mild aches and pains, nose like a tap, headache and just generally feeling rough. I'm surprised it's taken this long really. Damn frustrating though. 

Edit: Feeling rougher than a badger's arse right now.

[Crackers]

I'm a bit worried that the MX-5 is going to turn into one of "those" cars. Just after christmas it was treated to various brake components. Last week, 4 new Rainsports to the tune of £360 as the rears were illegal and the fronts were legal but lethal. The same day the tyres went on, the electric aerial broke. Today I replaced it with a fixed stubby aerial, then drove to the shops. When I got home and swung into my parking space, there was a new, pronounced creak from something up front. 

I'll be gutted if it decides to fight me every step of the way. I've been trying to save up some coin to sort the P6 out this spring  

[mitsisigma01]

I'll take it away for £50 for you 😬

[Wack]

DPD fucking arseholes have broken an amplifier I sent with them 

It was packed using high density foam on all sides , weighed 11kg , they've smashed the plug into the cooling fins bending them and dislodged the transformer inside 

Some cunt must've dropped it , only the guy I sold it to has disposed of the packaging so they won't even entertain a claim for damage even though it's fucking obvious they broke it 

Fucking cuntbag arseholes , do they only employ twats who break stuff because they can , in 45 years at work in some really shit jobs I've always done my best 

 

[Spiny Norman]

I won't buy from someone who's going to use DPD, Hermes or Yodel as 'logistic solutions providers'. I'll take my chances with RM any day over these chimps.

[Agila]

Confession time.

When I was one of those twats, I tripped and fell in the back of a 7.5t truck and stuck a size 10 through this geezer's box. 

The look on the guy's face when he answered the door and looked at the package, he kept looking at me, looking at the box, back at me, back at the box etc.

I panicked and lied "it was like that when I got it mate, sorry".

I feel better for sharing 16 years later. I might* have even laughed when I got back in the van.

#sorry,not really.

Shit story from your end though. Crap if you miss out on dosh caused by muppets.

[Bren]

Since covid my breathing has been bad - I feel like collapsing climbing the stairs. Went to the walk in centre - diagnosed with sinusitis and a chest infection. Given antibiotics and steroids.

Feeling very low.

[sierraman]

  On 27/01/2022 at 21:39, Bren said:

Since covid my breathing has been bad - I feel like collapsing climbing the stairs. Went to the walk in centre - diagnosed with sinusitis and a chest infection. Given antibiotics and steroids.

Feeling very low.

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It’s a miserable time of the year which doesn’t help. 

Keep going, it’ll get better.

[myglaren]

  On 26/01/2022 at 20:35, cobblers said:

After having a welding spark land in my ear when I was wedged under an MX5 in the rain at the side of a busy road, you have all my sympathy

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Years ago - 1969 probably, I had a terrible earache not long after I went to Sweden.

Girlfriend's mother took me to their doctor, a Dr Thobjär, who poke something like a very aggressive crochet needle in my lug and withdrew a massive wax plug.  Never had any noticeable earwax prior to that.

A few years later I read in a Leonard Cohen novel, "The Favorite Game" how his mother used to pour hydrogen peroxide in his and his sisters lugs.  I liked the idea following his description of the fizzing in their ears.

Bought a litre of it last year and use it perhaps once a month as my ears have recently been a bit itchy and feel a bit sort of 'oily' sometimes.

Blast them out with water while in the shower then dry with lugholepokers.  Nor recommended.

Re: deliveries.  I have DPD, Hermes and some anonymous cars and vans that deliver here.  Never a problem, all very pleasant people, both men and women.

 

[chaseracer]

  On 27/01/2022 at 21:39, Bren said:

Since covid my breathing has been bad - I feel like collapsing climbing the stairs. Went to the walk in centre - diagnosed with sinusitis and a chest infection. Given antibiotics and steroids.

Feeling very low.

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Hope you feel better soon, @Bren

[Wack]

  On 27/01/2022 at 20:42, Spiny Norman said:

I won't buy from someone who's going to use DPD, Hermes or Yodel as 'logistic solutions providers'. I'll take my chances with RM any day over these chimps.

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RM is only any good up to 2kg , then it goes to about £9 which is the we don't want it price , I'll go back to UPS but they're all shit.

 

[carburettor]

I have had parcels delivered by DPd, herpes and dhl.

Dpd always arrive when I’m out and say they will deliver the following day. Then at times arrive at about 7 or 8 pm. Hermes don’t leave a card at all. I can’t remember what Drop it Hide it and Lose it do, but fuck them. I worked for them ages ago, they are cunts to work for.

I’ll always use the Royal Mail if I can, to stop some government wankers trying to privatise it

[chaseracer]

  On 27/01/2022 at 22:37, carburettor said:

I’ll always use the Royal Mail if I can, to stop some government wankers trying to privatise it

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Bit late for that... https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-3270365/Royal-Mail-fully-privatised-time-500-year-history-Government-divests-final-14-cent-stake.html

[AnnoyingPentium]

I've never had a problem with Hermes, but I went to school with the young lad of the local courier and his wife.

  On 27/01/2022 at 22:37, carburettor said:

I’ll always use the Royal Mail if I can, to stop some government wankers trying to privatise it.

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+1 on this. Only ever had one issue with RM - speaking of, my BASF cassettes I ordered (part of two separate batches from a mate) should have arrived approximately... checks watch... five years ago. Other than that, I canny complain. Most stuff can be replaced.

[Wack]

  On 27/01/2022 at 21:26, Agila said:

Confession time.

When I was one of those twats, I tripped and fell in the back of a 7.5t truck and stuck a size 10 through this geezer's box. 

The look on the guy's face when he answered the door and looked at the package, he kept looking at me, looking at the box, back at me, back at the box etc.

I panicked and lied "it was like that when I got it mate, sorry".

I feel better for sharing 16 years later. I might* have even laughed when I got back in the van.

#sorry,not really.

Shit story from your end though. Crap if you miss out on dosh caused by muppets.

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I worked for ANC in 1990 , I think they got absorbed into geopost which then became DHL I think 

Not once did I knowingly break something , I was horrified when I saw them unloading CRT computer monitors sliding them along the floor  , they'd hit the join in the floor then roll the rest of the way 

I did nearly lose a pallet once , flt driver loaded it and pulled the roller shutter down while I was getting the paperwork , I looked at it and thought happy days 

Trundling along the dual carriageway and this bloke starts waving at me so I pull over , numbnuts had pulled the shutter down but not closed the handle which hooks into the body 

The pallet was hanging off the back , it was a fuuuccckkkk moment so I just shoved it back on and kept my mouth shut , after that I always checked the door was shut , usually twice