The grumpy thread

[Matty]

When we do a job in our house we do it proper. Can't catch a bloody break this year

[Wilko220]

Just found out that my local Rover specialist has been forced to close due to redevelopment plans. Been taking my cars here for as long as I’ve been able to drive, and it’s the only place I’ve really felt able to trust for the more complex jobs and that in-depth MGR knowledge when you need it.
 

Particularly rubbish for the guys who were running the place, as it was basically an employee buy-out when the owner retired, and they only took over a couple of years ago. Hope they manage to land on their feet and find something else quickly.

 

 

[paulplom]

Been to the garage to see about my 300c. I was spoon fed shit again so I told him I'm taking it back Monday.
It runs and drives fine but the abs light is on.
Anyone want it for scrap money?

[w00dy]

It's bowls season and i live by the park so the road is littered with the inconsiderate parking attempts of people who really ought to have given up driving by now. 

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, paulplom said:

Been to the garage to see about my 300c. I was spoon fed shit again so I told him I'm taking it back Monday.
It runs and drives fine but the abs light is on.
Anyone want it for scrap money?

What's scrap value on these?  I've fancied one for a while

[paulplom]

Someone from here has just claimed it unfortunately.

[wuvvum]

Balls.

[sierraman]

6 hours ago, Wilko220 said:

Just found out that my local Rover specialist has been forced to close due to redevelopment plans. Been taking my cars here for as long as I’ve been able to drive, and it’s the only place I’ve really felt able to trust for the more complex jobs and that in-depth MGR knowledge when you need it.
 

Particularly rubbish for the guys who were running the place, as it was basically an employee buy-out when the owner retired, and they only took over a couple of years ago. Hope they manage to land on their feet and find something else quickly.

 

 

I mean a garage specialising in cars that ceased production 15 years ago and are probably worth sub £1,500 is never going to be a wise business proposal. That said it is a shame when the last places shut their door like this because it’s probably one of the few places to get some jobs done properly.

[High Jetter]

I was looking forward to the next 4 days, catching up on sleep after a busy two weeks and working on the ZTT. Mrs J, however, thinks it's the ideal time to pressure-wash the paths round the place and then clean the windows. Plus, have just learned of a problem at work that I've got to go and fix first thing in the morning

[Remspoor]

53 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Plus, have just learned of a problem at work that I've got to go and fix first thing in the morning

What? You have to go to and step in for some ginger nutter and stand on the balcony ?

[beko1987]

As long as your not the peado one you should be alright 🤔👍

[Wilko220]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

I mean a garage specialising in cars that ceased production 15 years ago and are probably worth sub £1,500 is never going to be a wise business proposal.

To be fair, they were keeping their MGR expertise fairly quiet in recent years. They changed the name of the place  and started promoting themselves as BINI specialists, which they seemed to do a good trade in. But the guys there still knew a Rover 75 like the back of their hand.

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

I was looking forward to the next 4 days, catching up on sleep after a busy two weeks and working on the ZTT. Mrs J, however, thinks it's the ideal time to pressure-wash the paths round the place and then clean the windows. Plus, have just learned of a problem at work that I've got to go and fix first thing in the morning

Get a professional window cleaner in. He'll do in an hour what will take you 4.

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

As long as your not the peado one you should be alright 🤔👍

Far be it from me to defend you know who but he was accused of being a ephebophile not a paedophile. An  ephebo?

[AnnoyingPentium]

26 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Get a professional window cleaner in. He'll do in an hour what will take you 4.

Agreed. Our local one can have our windows done in 20 minutes and there's a lot of windows on the house.

[artdjones]

2 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Agreed. Our local one can have our windows done in 20 minutes and there's a lot of windows on the house.

Maybe I should have disclosed that I am a professional window cleaner.

[AnnoyingPentium]

3 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Maybe I should have disclosed that I am a professional window cleaner.

I considered going into that but I could only specialise in bungalows since I have a fear of heights.

[artdjones]

Just now, AnnoyingPentium said:

I considered going into that but I could only specialise in bungalows since I have a fear of heights.

It's mostly done from the ground now using deionised water through brushes and poles 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

27 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I considered going into that but I could only specialise in bungalows since I have a fear of heights.

Amongst other things, I briefly considered doing the same myself a couple of years back. Thing is, I get the impression it's a young man's/person's game and there's no escaping the British climate when it's throwing its best at you for the majority of the year. 

I tagged along with my cousin for a day at the time. He's been doing it for around 15 years now and has it made. He specialises in properties in and around some of the affluent villages in the St Just in Roseland area. On the whole, they're large properties with many windows and wealthy owners. He's completely binned our part of Cornwall as he can work shorter days and make more money when working on the 'Cornish riviera'. He's a WFP guy and has a motorised reel and the rest of the kit including a water heater for the winter months. He's around 40 but ultra-fit; marathon runner and he likes to go for a run when he can during his working day where possible. He's making decent money and working the hours he wants. On paper, it sounds amazing. 

@artdjones What's your take on the job? 

[artdjones]

I'm 62 and while in reasonable health, I do tire more easily than I used to. I've been doing it since January 1989 and have never found it necessary to be very fit. I did mix it with motor trade work for many years, and I have to say that getting money out of people for window cleaning is much easier than getting it for fixing cars. I've known window cleaners who kept going part time well into their 70s. So unless you are obese or in bad health you could do it.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Remspoor said:

What? You have to go to and step in for some ginger nutter and stand on the balcony ?

Huh? No, boiler failure, not a Constitutional problem!

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

Get a professional window cleaner in. He'll do in an hour what will take you 4.

 

1 hour ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Agreed. Our local one can have our windows done in 20 minutes and there's a lot of windows on the house.

 

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

Maybe I should have disclosed that I am a professional window cleaner.

We (My Wife) have tried many. I use pro guys at my work sites, no problem. Domestic standards are higher, hence DIY. Karcher window vac is really helpful.

[w00dy]

Just had a bloke try to aggressively buy the Probe whilst not even knowing what it is (It's a Taurus innit mate). And then tell me he also wants to buy my neighbours Jeeps (Freelanders). fuck off.

[paulplom]

The garage that tried to blow my van up on Monday fitted an exhaust to my 107 a few weeks back. I found today with the four of us in it scrapes off the bottom over speed bumps.

[myglaren]

Had a walk round to my son's to retrieve my car, on the way, through a patk, I spotted a phone in the grass.

Picked it up with the intention of returning it to the owner but of course it is locked and needs face recognition.

There was a list of recent calls and was trying to find the most recent caller when the phone rang, a 'Dylan', who sounded completely out of it, just a grunt when I asked who he was calling when a female voice in the background shouted "Have you found my phone".

Spoke to her and she said she would come for it.

Tried to give her my address and hadn't a clue what it was   Had to go out and read the plate at the end of the street.

She came for it and was overjoyed to get it back.  I remembered seeing her in the park and wishing her a 'good morning'

She lives in the next street to my son

All in all a grin, except for me not knowing where I live,  only lived here since 1987.

[Split_Pin]

Lo! I hath trowelest a fair furrow in financial services for 23 years and by my hilt I stand square footed and sayeth my minde has grown wise during that time.

Yet here I stand, with knitted brow 'gainst inferences of being just a lackey.

But hark! Those bugle-heads just let me progress blindly, 'sif I were midst a Gulag,  on doing what my conscience doth counsel me on being the right course whist they trip-trapped roughshod across my boots, ahead on their own metalled road of action. Pray, they know best.

I am fuckethed if I lift mine finger onest more on this day, nay I shall lift a quart of first-wash to Grey Lizzie the Hande-bagger. Pray she gets fuken madde wi' it on Anne the Reliant's TayBerry wine, lest Phil the Greek is no longer there to subdue her partaking of this nippe.

I bid you gude day.

 

[MikeR]

14 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Had a walk round to my son's to retrieve my car, on the way, through a patk, I spotted a phone in the grass.

Picked it up with the intention of returning it to the owner but of course it is locked and needs face recognition.

There was a list of recent calls and was trying to find the most recent caller when the phone rang, a 'Dylan', who sounded completely out of it, just a grunt when I asked who he was calling when a female voice in the background shouted "Have you found my phone".

Spoke to her and she said she would come for it.

Tried to give her my address and hadn't a clue what it was   Had to go out and read the plate at the end of the street.

She came for it and was overjoyed to get it back.  I remembered seeing her in the park and wishing her a 'good morning'

She lives in the next street to my son

All in all a grin, except for me not knowing where I live,  only lived here since 1987.

the joys of finding a phone , I found one years ago in the gutter , charged it , phoned home , and the owner agreed to pick it up .

that she did , swiped it out of my hand , got in her car and drove off ......

I seen a few lost phones since then , I wonder if they are still lost ..

[AnnoyingPentium]

8 minutes ago, MikeR said:

phoned home

*ET voice*: MikeR phone home...

[wuvvum]

27 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Lo! I hath trowelest a fair furrow in financial services for 23 years and by my hilt I stand square footed and sayeth my minde has grown wise during that time.

Yet here I stand, with knitted brow 'gainst inferences of being just a lackey.

But hark! Those bugle-heads just let me progress blindly, 'sif I were midst a Gulag,  on doing what my conscience doth counsel me on being the right course whist they trip-trapped roughshod across my boots, ahead on their own metalled road of action. Pray, they know best.

I am fuckethed if I lift mine finger onest more on this day, nay I shall lift a quart of first-wash to Grey Lizzie the Hande-bagger. Pray she gets fuken madde wi' it on Anne the Reliant's TayBerry wine, lest Phil the Greek is no longer there to subdue her partaking of this nippe.

I bid you gude day.

 

MODS!  @Samuel_Pepys_Esq has hacked into Split_Pin's account again!

[Split_Pin]

MODS, SEND GUARD IMMEDIATELY TO THIS IMPOSTOR.!!11!!1

HE HATH TAKEN THE NAME 'CALUM THE SQUINT' AND CAN BE FOUND IN THE ALE-DIGS 'KIA SHUMA 1.6 LX FULL MOT NO NOCKS OR BANGS'.

Eehh, I mean, yes how embarrasing, Sammy needs to be banned.

Split_Pin