The grumpy thread

[Wack]

8 hours ago, Yoss said:

We've all done things like that. I remember once refilling a car with oil before putting the sump plug back in. This was back in the days when I did all my maintenance* in a council estate car park. I didn't notice at all as it was on a slight slope and it ran towards the back of the car. I only twigged after I'd put about four litres in and checked the dipstick to find it still empty. That stain was there until they resurfaced the car park. 

A friend of a friend did that with £70 worth of racing oil in a motorbike,  poured the whole can in without *ding* why have I put all this in and it's still not on the stick.

It's was a nice looking stream of glistening oil running down the drive though.

 

[Yoss]

39 minutes ago, Wack said:

A friend of a friend did that with £70 worth of racing oil in a motorbike,  poured the whole can in without *ding* why have I put all this in and it's still not on the stick.

It's was a nice looking stream of glistening oil running down the drive though.

 

At least mine was nice cheap 20/50, for a Wolseley 18/85, but I still had to go out and buy some more before I could use it again. 

[junkyarddog]

18 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Yeah, wouldn't recommend that at the minute.

Irish Ferries and Stena sail from Holyhead, but crossings are being cancelled and shifted around as boats are reallocated to other routes - my folks spent many unhappy hours stuck dockside in their car last week when their Stena sailing was suddenly cancelled. Ended up not boarding until 4.30am the next morning. No on-board amenities, no apology, and then dumped into rush-hour Dublin traffic with no sleep and a further 150 mile drive.

It's not a great time to be travelling right now.

Oh dear,

I use Stena from Dublin to holyhead on occasion,will have to go soon,I don't like sailing at the best of times.☹️

[Wack]

6 hours ago, reb said:

Most Asda drivers seem to have never driven anything larger than a Golf, so I suppose a midsized van seems quite big to them.

I once pointed out to an Asda driver who looked about 20 he’d caught a car as he turned a lh corner in a tight side street , he’d dragged it 2ft up the street , I could tell by his face he had no idea he’d hit it 

[myglaren]

6 hours ago, reb said:

Most Asda drivers seem to have never driven anything larger than a Golf, so I suppose a midsized van seems quite big to them.

My former next door neighbour used to work on the shop floor at ASDA.  When they started deliveries moved to that.

Private car was a Beetle - old one.

Has now graduated to artics and can thread them through a needle.

Not bad for a girl!

[MikeR]

5 hours ago, Wack said:

A friend of a friend did that with £70 worth of racing oil in a motorbike,  poured the whole can in without *ding* why have I put all this in and it's still not on the stick.

It's was a nice looking stream of glistening oil running down the drive though.

 

I once drained a 5 litre sump into my 4 litre collection tray ... After dropping the sump plug into the tray ....... Used s lot of rags to clear up that day ...

[richardmorris]

Is evri supposed to be an improvement on Hermes or just rebranding?

[artdjones]

24 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Is evri supposed to be an improvement on Hermes or just rebranding?

It's an improvement in that it's a name that's not easily modified into an STD.

[chodweaver]

I once pointed out to an Asda driver who looked about 20 he’d caught a car as he turned a lh corner in a tight side street , he’d dragged it 2ft up the street , I could tell by his face he had no idea he’d hit it 

Walking past a Tesco van, i mentioned to the (20 something) driver that his third brake light was permanently on.
"Ah, no. I've got my foot on the pedal."
"In that case, i think you've got two brake lights out"
(Shrugs) "Fuck knows"

Not encouraging.

[Mally]

Spain opens up to unvax tourists.

I book £780.

Spain change their mind. https://socialnewsroom.spain.info/the-spanish-tourist-office-issues-apology-for-incorrect-information-issued-earlier-today/

[Ghosty]

Mate of mine has a Civic sedan like mine.

He's lost the tail and binned it, entire rear end stoved in. 

:(

[beko1987]

Woke up this morning to no power, the main breaker in the house had tripped... 

Flicked back on fine but now I'm bloody un nerved by it... Never done that before and it was at night so alot of things go off at the wall... Hopefully it was so windy last night it did something and caused a surge but there's been no other posts on facey about it 🤔

[goosey]

When workshop engineers strip down 6 month old Material Flow meters because they were “curious” what was inside them,  then blast the gears with compressed air so they spin at 10,000rpm because they make a weeeeeeee noise inevitably fucking them up, in normal use the gears spin at just 10rpm 

 

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

Woke up this morning to no power, the main breaker in the house had tripped... 

Flicked back on fine but now I'm bloody un nerved by it... Never done that before and it was at night so alot of things go off at the wall... Hopefully it was so windy last night it did something and caused a surge but there's been no other posts on facey about it 🤔

I got in from work one day to find the main breaker tripped.  Turned out it was a capacitor in the transformer for my cordless phone which had blown.

[beko1987]

31 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I got in from work one day to find the main breaker tripped.  Turned out it was a capacitor in the transformer for my cordless phone which had blown.

That's what I've been quietly wondering. Checked the main plug points in the house which have those sorts of things in them and all is OK. 

Chalking it down to one of those things but like the wrong sort of noise on a car, it's there in your head 😂

[reb]

After a few days of niceish weather, it's now absolutely freezing in my house again. My usual approach to this is to go back to bed, but I'm working so can't do that. I've got a wee oil filled radiator next to me but that seems to be doing the square root of fuck all except making the leccy meter (metaphorically) spin like a top.

I'm getting central heating and double glazing apparently, but I'll believe that when it happens.

[PhilA]

Just found the very large, solid metal bar left by the fencing crew in the long grass beside the house.

With the lawnmower.

Which now has a brand new blade bent and the hub carrier shattered.

 

Contract manager coming by in the morning.

[New POD]

18 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I got in from work one day to find the main breaker tripped.  Turned out it was a capacitor in the transformer for my cordless phone which had blown.

I had this. It turned out to be a plug in timer. That was attached to a dehumidifier in the basement.  Sometimes, as it turned on, it flicked the main breaker.  Not every time though. 

I found it by a process of elimination.  Whilst trying to find it, I also found the dish washer was connected via an extension lead which was sitting in 1/2 cm if water, which was coming from a leak on the washing machine. 

[LightBulbFun]

always a good sign when you receive a box with a hole in the side, lets open it shall we

thats an interestingly bad way to package a laptop

of course its now doing an impression of a sleek metallic banana... 

(amazingly it does still power up alright but it certainly was not described this way in the listing!)

[horriblemercedes]

I seem to remember my PowerBook G4 doing something like that on its own. I still have it somewhere

[PhilA]

6 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

I seem to remember my PowerBook G4 doing something like that on its own. I still have it somewhere

The batteries would swell as they failed and would bend the body of the machine.

[horriblemercedes]

1 minute ago, PhilA said:

The batteries would swell as they failed and would bend the body of the machine.

Yes, I believe that was exactly what it did. That was the computer that moved me permanently to Windows (among other reasons like getting company laptops etc since then and to me a free computer is the best computer)

[LightBulbFun]

9 minutes ago, PhilA said:

The batteries would swell as they failed and would bend the body of the machine.

you mean Like this? 

this was a couple months ago on a MacBookPro4,1, I got the machine bellow, Another MBP4,1 cheap  with no battery and thought "not a problem I have another MBP4,1 with a dead GPU I can pinch the battery from!" yeah so much for that...

[beko1987]

21 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Yes, I believe that was exactly what it did. That was the computer that moved me permanently to Windows (among other reasons like getting company laptops etc since then and to me a free computer is the best computer)

My experience is almost the same but with the white first gen core duo macbooks. Casing just fell apart within 18 months of not extreme use, then the battery just died. Put me off them forever 😂

And I'm glad for it... 

[grogee]

On 4/6/2022 at 7:49 AM, Yoss said:

We've all done things like that. I remember once refilling a car with oil before putting the sump plug back in. This was back in the days when I did all my maintenance* in a council estate car park. I didn't notice at all as it was on a slight slope and it ran towards the back of the car. I only twigged after I'd put about four litres in and checked the dipstick to find it still empty. That stain was there until they resurfaced the car park. 

+1, refilled gearbox oil with driveshafts removed. 

Fortunately not the first spill on our five-year-old brick paved drive, which now looks like it's had the Exxon Valdez in for repairs. 

[grogee]

51 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

you mean Like this? 

this was a couple months ago on a MacBookPro4,1, I got the machine bellow, Another MBP4,1 cheap  with no battery and thought "not a problem I have another MBP4,1 with a dead GPU I can pinch the battery from!" yeah so much for that...

Hmm while on the subject of rotten Apples, we bought Master Grogee a reconditioned iPad Air MK1. On paper it seemed like a good deal (£100ish) but in practice I don't think Apple supports it any more. 

Consequently the apps are asking for version xx.20 IoS or whatever, and the iPad is stuck on xx.12 or something with no further updates available. 

We're sending it back. 

[Wack]

I've had dashcams in my cars for years , never felt the need to send any footage to the police until today, I'm in a queue at some lights with 10-12 cars behind me, porsche 911 in the right turn lane cuts me up as the lights go green, next junction the road splits into 2 lanes at the lights for a right turn only lane, the porsche is behind a learner , overtakes the learner just as she's about to enter the right lane to turn right, next there's a queue at roadworks, porsche is eyeing up whether they can overtake but thinks better of it, next roundabout porsche overtakes 3 cars on the roundabout from the right turn lane but goes straight on

bizarrely all this mad driving and i'm 2 cars behind it ,then some more roadworks but no lights, there's a truck parked on the road , it's not her right of way but she goes anyway forcing a van coming the other way to stop, then this 999 emergency comes to an end as her and her 10 year old daughter remove 2 tennis racquets from the boot and walk into the sports centre

what a cunt

[LightBulbFun]

31 minutes ago, grogee said:

Hmm while on the subject of rotten Apples, we bought Master Grogee a reconditioned iPad Air MK1. On paper it seemed like a good deal (£100ish) but in practice I don't think Apple supports it any more. 

Consequently the apps are asking for version xx.20 IoS or whatever, and the iPad is stuck on xx.12 or something with no further updates available. 

We're sending it back. 

indeed the iPad Air first generation is a fair bit out of support now

the iPad Air 2nd Gen although getting quite long in the tooth is still supported for now and the iPad mini 4 as well

 

any iOS device with 2GB of RAM or more is currently still supported which is why the iPad Mini 4 with its A8 CPU can still run the latest iOS but the iPhone 6 with its A8 CPU is stuck on iOS 12

because the iPad mini 4 has 2GB of RAM and the iPhone 6 has 1GB,

often you can predict what will cause apple to drop support for a device in the future like this, and is how I base my main device purchases  

[cobblers]

Sick to fucking death of phones.

I'm trying to run a business here and the phone system provided at the business centre doesn't work properly. The people who run the place, while well intentioned are absolutely useless.

So I'd divert calls to my mobile, but while we're in a well populated busy industrial area, I have very spotty/no mobile phone signal here on any network.

"Use WIFI calling" they say. So I do, and on every call, every 15 seconds the call goes garbled for a while. If I turn wifi calling off, it's 50/50 as to whether I'll even be able to make/receive a call at all.

I don't care about 4g, 5g etc. I hate talking to people on the phone as it is, without having to constantly ask them to repeat themselves or get the call dropped every few minutes.

 

 

[adw1977]

Well I guess this is why my tyre deflated overnight. 

At least I was able to get it to hold enough air to get to the local tyre fitter, now waiting to see how much it's going to cost me.