The grumpy thread

27,973 · May 10, 2022

Lady, if you're considering "dispersible" to be too big a word for you to understand might I suggest that a pharmacy maybe isn't the best place for you to be working...

25,665 · May 10, 2022

Don't get me started on fucking pharmacies... 🤬

Annnnnd breathe.

9,736 · May 10, 2022

7 hours ago, JMotor said:

My Nexia has not only ABS, but AIR BAG on it's rear window!

With a TWIN CAM 16v!!!111!! badge in all.

The bastid is badged tae fuck eh! 😆

Posh, innit.

Does it hae air con, or wid that hae goat it's ain badge tae? 🤣

15,057 · May 10, 2022

3 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Don't get me started on fucking pharmacies... 🤬

Annnnnd breathe.

I initially read that as ...pharmacists...

25,665 · May 10, 2022

In this case, no. Just... NO.

3,646 · May 10, 2022

My wife's Rover Mini makes me grumpy just now. It randomly won't start or cuts out when driving. A local garage has had it 3 weeks and it's never displayed the symptoms with him.

2,155 · May 11, 2022

On 5/4/2022 at 7:09 PM, Zelandeth said:

I guess part of it is that I have an absolute seething hatred of "stuff" strewn about the interior of my car. Having cables running off from the 12V outlet is an absolute non starter.

Hence why basically half the interior would need to come apart for the install.

There are cables available to plug it into the OBD port. I have it plugged in then up the windscreen pillar and tucked in the front of the headlining.

2,155 · May 11, 2022

On 5/9/2022 at 12:01 AM, DavieW said:

Because it's the US.

The country where you can legally drink and drive as long as you have mastered a straight walk.

34,663 · May 11, 2022

On 5/9/2022 at 9:40 PM, RoverFolkUs said:

When ABS used to be such a selling point and something to brag about it got its own badge on the back 😂

I'm looking at you GM!! My Daewoo Tacuma was blessed with a sticker with ABS written on it on the rear window from factory.

I remember a 'birthday cake neck' dealer valuing it once (£50!?) and he said "Ooh its got ABS" as he waddled around the car puffing a cigar.

What went through my mind, but I sadly kept quiet - "Yes it does have ABS, and no I'm not accepting £50 for it, now get away from me with your mouth full of sausages you prick!" (thanks to Sierraman for that phrase )

💪

3,393 · May 11, 2022

16 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Posh, innit.

Does it hae air con, or wid that hae goat it's ain badge tae? 🤣

GLXI is all you needed to see to find out if it's got the ice cube maker 😆.

53,354 · May 11, 2022

Card fraud. My suspicion is the payment thingy in the multistorey, the device for paying seemed a bit off but since I was unfamiliar with it (I've used the multistorey twice in about three years) I just thought it was my unfamiliarity with it. Anyway, someone tried to spend a grand of my money as a result, first I knew about it was the bank stopping my card and sending a warning text. Happily, the bank stopped any money leaving my account that shouldn't, unhappily it's 3-8 days for a new card because reasons.

I hope whoever it was trying to spend my money had a really disappointing time.

20,037 · May 11, 2022

21 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Don't get me started on fucking pharmacies... 🤬

Annnnnd breathe.

Those in the community are often not the best.

20,930 · May 11, 2022

On 5/10/2022 at 10:08 AM, JMotor said:

My Nexia has not only ABS, but AIR BAG on it's rear window!

With a TWIN CAM 16v!!!111!! badge in all.

The bastid is badged tae fuck eh! 😆

As exciting as "injection" written under the bonnet 😅

3,646 · May 11, 2022

At a classic car show at the weekend I overheard a guy say to his pal " I like the rims on that car". I had a look to see what hideous 20" monstrosities he'd seen, but no, they were immaculate 14 or 15" chrome wire wheels on an MGB. Wire wheels are not "rims". 🤬

15,057 · May 11, 2022

6 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Card fraud. My suspicion is the payment thingy in the multistorey, the device for paying seemed a bit off but since I was unfamiliar with it (I've used the multistorey twice in about three years) I just thought it was my unfamiliarity with it. Anyway, someone tried to spend a grand of my money as a result, first I knew about it was the bank stopping my card and sending a warning text. Happily, the bank stopped any money leaving my account that shouldn't, unhappily it's 3-8 days for a new card because reasons.

I hope whoever it was trying to spend my money had a really disappointing time.

That bank should be named and praised.

53,354 · May 11, 2022

Cooperative. I've been with them for years, never had a problem with them.

14,383 · May 12, 2022

5 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Cooperative. I've been with them for years, never had a problem with them.

Except they take an hour to answer the phone, although they are not alone in that.

17,069 · May 12, 2022

They were really good. I remember getting a call to ask if I was in Lagos because it appeared a clone of my card was doing the rounds.

53,354 · May 12, 2022

20 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Except they take an hour to answer the phone, although they are not alone in that.

When I called the estimate was 10 minutes, they answered in about 7.

23,339 · May 13, 2022

20 hours ago, Parky said:

They were really good. I remember getting a call to ask if I was in Lagos because it appeared a clone of my card was doing the rounds.

Yeah, I once got a phone call from my credit card company asking if I was in Israel trying to book tennis lessons. I said no, that couldn't be further from the truth, I'm on a train in Leeds heading to Bradford, not Israel.

27,973 · May 13, 2022

Well that's Google Maps three for three today providing me with directions to businesses which either no longer or have never existed.

One just dumped me in the middle of a ~1 year old posh housing estate, latter two were both addresses in industrial parks with vastly different business in the units.

Cheers for that, I really wanted to go waste the best part of two hours driving round in circles.

7,729 · May 13, 2022

9 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

Yeah, I once got a phone call from my credit card company asking if I was in Israel trying to book tennis lessons. I said no, that couldn't be further from the truth, I'm on a train in Leeds heading to Bradford, not Israel.

"No, I'm in Palestine, trying to book squash lessons, duh!"

4,501 · May 13, 2022

Decided that I could lift the big logs in my garden by myself and now I've hurt my back.

22,342 · May 13, 2022

3 hours ago, iainrcz said:

Decided that I could lift the big logs in my garden by myself and now I've hurt my back.

When you say big logs, is the pup's poo getting that large?

2,490 · May 13, 2022

I am now on a weird shift pattern, running 5 days on a 12 hr shift, then 5 days off. Planning on a big push welding up the Rover on my time off I decided that after running out of welding gas again..... I would ditch disposable bottles and go big. Over the last few days, a welding cart, an adapter hose thing, a bottle of Argon mix gas (with funky built in regulator)and an optimizer have arrived. I spent a good few hours setting everything up only to discover the optimiser wont hold pressure, it pings off the connection every time you open the tap.... Obviously the welding company aren't open again until Monday and then they will have to post the new part out...

I might have to do DIY instead....

4,501 · May 13, 2022

20 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

When you say big logs, is the pup's poo getting that large?

Some of them yes, though those are yet to tax me.

The Mrs on the other hand is only 4' tall, so it's probably akin to cleaning up after a woolly mammoth.

11,439 · May 13, 2022

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Well that's Google Maps three for three today providing me with directions to businesses which either no longer or have never existed.

One just dumped me in the middle of a ~1 year old posh housing estate, latter two were both addresses in industrial parks with vastly different business in the units.

Cheers for that, I really wanted to go waste the best part of two hours driving round in circles.

Give Waze a go.

22,886 · May 13, 2022

5 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Well that's Google Maps three for three today providing me with directions to businesses which either no longer or have never existed.

One just dumped me in the middle of a ~1 year old posh housing estate, latter two were both addresses in industrial parks with vastly different business in the units.

Cheers for that, I really wanted to go waste the best part of two hours driving round in circles.

GM is a pile of poo. Never rely on it. I have modified some locations locally to me only to find a short while later that there was some issue with that location Something which I never changed, had changed . Use the businesses website for directions.

22,886 · May 13, 2022

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

Give Waze a go.

Waze is Google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze

7,584 · May 13, 2022

I can confirm that google maps does not work properly in New York, been sent on several wild goose chases this week, bit shit as I like it normally

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