The grumpy thread

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13 minutes ago, Garythesnail said:

Odd comment.

In @MikeR's  post above - who was behaving like a twat?

I tend to try to 'do the right thing' - uttering the words 'thank you' doesn't take much effort, does it?

Both correct - but Ticks' meaning (I read it) as the subsequent people may indeed have been thankful and most forthcoming with  their gratitude but OP will never know. What did those people do to OP (no offence fella) to mean their gear is just left?

Because one seller of old shit is a wanker - we give up on old shit? This site wouldn't last too long! 😀

Hope springs eternal n all that.............

[PhilA]

Reset the tappets on the car a week ago.

Got what I hope it's just one come loose. 

If not, it might be a fractured ring. Also the weather wasn't particularly damp yesterday and starting the car up left moisture on the ground. I think it's time to pull the head off again and inspect.

Ugh.

[Tickman]

3 hours ago, Garythesnail said:

Odd comment.

In @MikeR's  post above - who was behaving like a twat?

I tend to try to 'do the right thing' - uttering the words 'thank you' doesn't take much effort, does it?

His post said he had found a lost phone, did a tiny bit of effort and the ignorant woman snatched it out of his hand.

He has since seen some lost phones and wonders if they are still lost. He didn't pick them up and try and reunite them with their owners.

Hope that clears that up for you

[Garythesnail]

11 minutes ago, Tickman said:

Hope that clears that up for you

It was already clear - just thought your comment was a bit cuntish, but chose to describe it as 'odd' instead.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

5 hours ago, MikeR said:

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 ..

On that note, found this at Medway Services the other day.  Didn't pick it up.  It was right next to the Lorry parking and still switched on:

[Split_Pin]

32 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

On that note, found this at Medway Services the other day.  Didn't pick it up.  It was right next to the Lorry parking and still switched on:

Nokia 3310. It probably fell 22 years ago from a passing car, since run over by 84 lorries and still remained switched on for all that time. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

54 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

On that note, found this at Medway Services the other day.  Didn't pick it up.  It was right next to the Lorry parking and still switched on:

Fuck so that's where it went! 😂

[GrumpiusMaximus]

1 minute ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Fuck so that's where it went! 😂

Not sure your Fabia would get as far as Medway at the moment...!

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 minute ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Not sure your Fabia would get as far as Medway at the moment...!

Not sure I would either! 🤣

[RoverFolkUs]

1 hour ago, Tickman said:

He didn't pick them up and try and reunite them with their owners.

Is he obliged to? 

What if he can't find the owner? the police won't take lost property these days? 

Then someone finds out he's got it he gets accused of stealing it by not giving it back 

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14 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Is he obliged to? - 1

What if he can't find the owner?- 2  the police won't take lost property these days? - 3

Then someone finds out he's got it he gets accused of stealing it by not giving it back  - 4

1 - Why not at least try - we can't expect everyone else to pick up the slack - hence the downward spiral of ignorant selfish cunts we are often complaining about.

2 - Fair point - but could possibly keep it powered up so owner can find it perhaps? Worth a shot for a day or two

3 - Really? They won't? I had no clue on that one tbh - not very community/public spirited of them! Is that true across the UK? I've been away too long.........

4 - Has it gotten that bad? True that no good deed goes unpunished I suppose.

I'm more hopeful that just being a decent person and trying to do the right thing should prevail........ or as a species we're fucked - down that path lies eternal depression

[New POD]

22 hours ago, Tickman said:

Glad everyone in the world doesn't have the same attitude as you and only does the decent thing to get thanks and praise.

What a world we live in!

I must defend my brother in law.  All he needed was "thank you for being kind enough to go out of your way to reunite me with my property, which I lost"  

[vulgalour]

Well, the seat diaphragm replacement is going well.  Hadn't even got the new one fully fitted and the glued seams are failing already.  Followed the instructions on the bottle and bought a glue that should be suitable for rubber and fabric.  Test samples were okay too.  But apparently the tension it's under when fitted overcomes the bond of the glue and it lets go.

Recommendations for a very strong glue or some way of bonding the fabric and rubber together (because you can't sew it as then it'll just tear) welcome.  The originals are done in a way that the fabric looks embedded in the rubber through either heat or an extra layer of rubber to bond everything together, but I've no idea how you'd do that at home.

[RoverFolkUs]

Wasn't even a services... Forecourt empty, surprisingly*

[mitsisigma01]

Whereabouts?

[cort1977]

2 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Well, the seat diaphragm replacement is going well.  Hadn't even got the new one fully fitted and the glued seams are failing already.  Followed the instructions on the bottle and bought a glue that should be suitable for rubber and fabric.  Test samples were okay too.  But apparently the tension it's under when fitted overcomes the bond of the glue and it lets go.

Recommendations for a very strong glue or some way of bonding the fabric and rubber together (because you can't sew it as then it'll just tear) welcome.  The originals are done in a way that the fabric looks embedded in the rubber through either heat or an extra layer of rubber to bond everything together, but I've no idea how you'd do that at home.

Bit rough maybe but I have used paracord strung between the hooks to fix this on my cortina. It still has a bit of give in it, feels fine and can't be seen. Been like it for years and no issues.

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2 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Well, the seat diaphragm replacement is going well.  Hadn't even got the new one fully fitted and the glued seams are failing already.  Followed the instructions on the bottle and bought a glue that should be suitable for rubber and fabric.  Test samples were okay too.  But apparently the tension it's under when fitted overcomes the bond of the glue and it lets go.

Recommendations for a very strong glue or some way of bonding the fabric and rubber together (because you can't sew it as then it'll just tear) welcome.  The originals are done in a way that the fabric looks embedded in the rubber through either heat or an extra layer of rubber to bond everything together, but I've no idea how you'd do that at home.

Would small eyelets through all the joining layers not do the trick? Popping them through both and then having a strong cord type rigging to back it up too?

[RoverFolkUs]

35 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Whereabouts?

Brighton.

Texaco Woodingdean to be precise

[mitsisigma01]

My local Tesco has just levelled the unleaded to the same as diesel, 183.9 , just to make the diesel drivers feel better 😕

[vulgalour]

2 hours ago, Back_For_More said:

Would small eyelets through all the joining layers not do the trick? Popping them through both and then having a strong cord type rigging to back it up too?

It might, but I'm concerned that if I perforate the rubber I'll introduce a weak point and it may tear.

[Zelandeth]

It's a few minutes short of half one in the morning.

Enough with the fscking fireworks already.  The loud drunken revelry and dubstep can get in the sea too.

[Out Run]

11 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

It's a few minutes short of half one in the morning.

Enough with the fscking fireworks already.  The loud drunken revelry and dubstep can get in the sea too.

You're a DnB man, then?

[grogee]

Feckin village fete organised by my stepmum. Bunting and hay bales. I'm hiding in the living room. Genuinely thinking I may pull a sickie because I can't bear all the 'busy work' they've got planned. 

They're all pretending the weather isn't arctic. This feckin country!!!

[grogee]

18 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

My local Tesco has just levelled the unleaded to the same as diesel, 183.9 , just to make the diesel drivers feel better 😕

Levelling up 

[andy18s]

56 minutes ago, grogee said:

 

They're all pretending the weather isn't arctic. This feckin country!!!

 

[Remspoor]

You Tubers:  Stop the "will it start?" videos.😠

[andy18s]

12 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

You Tubers:  Stop the "will it start?" videos.😠

There's no escape,the algorithm has you now

[J W Pepper]

On 6/3/2022 at 2:39 PM, RoverFolkUs said:

Wasn't even a services... Forecourt empty, surprisingly*

Yesterday I saw diesel at 199.9 on the M6 services near Carnforth

[Zelandeth]

Not unexpected given that two other folks in the house have gone down with it, but still.  Arse.

Line is actually far less faint than the camera makes it look.  Definitely positive.

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2 hours ago, J W Pepper said:

Yesterday I saw diesel at 199.9 on the M6 services near Carnforth

Yesterday I paid £1.63.7 At cost co for E10