The grumpy thread

[High Jetter]

8 hours ago, JakeT said:

A day late admittedly, but yesterday seemed to be ‘treat me like a tosser day’.

It was drive like a tosser round here. Dawdlers, the 30 in a 40 then 40 in a 30 brigade, those signalling right approaching a mini-roundabout then going straight ahead, cyclists taking the piss with the HC changes. Oh, and fucking potholes.

[hairnet]

It's early m9

[Back_For_More]

WOW - All hell broke loose at stupid o'clock this morning. A neighbour is having major works done on their property (one of many actually as this place is rebuild central as they're all loaded) we're the 'normal' kids on the block in amongst diplomats and old money...... they don't like us unless they need technical help!

I digress - the workers needed power off apparently - but didn't tell anyone, no note dropped in or anything. Just kill it............ which almost became literal.

The old dear 2doors up has a live in nurse and so does the lady opposite... Their assistance machines all lost power and backups kicked in. I noticed all power gone and went to investigate - to be met by frantic live in nurses calling ambulances because if the batteries karked it - they were in deep shit. Massive argument with several neighbours all descending on the guys working. Power restored silently with no-one admitting who killed it.

Watching a load of retirees threatening the power, telecoms and supply guys was entertaining at least.

Now awaiting the aftermath - they won't be letting this go - it was bloody idiotic to just kill power to half the street without any notice or checking.

[cobblers]

Business centre still getting arsey about me having my vans parked here. They're all used regularly, all commercial vehicles and 2 of the 3 are owned by my company. I'm always at work well before anyone and leave after everyone else so to the part timers from the council it looks like my stuff never leaves. I rent two units and have a max of 2 vehicles parked outside overnight, with 5 in total in the day including my staff

There's a delivery company with one unit who have 30+ vans parked overnight and 30+ staff cars here all day and somehow I'm the problem? 

The next time they give me grief I think I'll struggle to be as polite as I usually am

[omegod]

Bloody sickened, my desk faces out to Newsham Park and it's nice lake, I saw a bit of activity earlier and turns out it was the RSPB trying to rescue a Coot that had a small crossbow bolt through it's neck, Fire Brigade also attended but couldn't catch the little bugger. RSPB are coming back with reinforcements to get it. It seemed active enough so I assume the bolt has missed any vital bits but Jesus wept what cunt would do something like that   

[New POD]

2 hours ago, cobblers said:

Business centre still getting arsey about me having my vans parked here. They're all used regularly, all commercial vehicles and 2 of the 3 are owned by my company. I'm always at work well before anyone and leave after everyone else so to the part timers from the council it looks like my stuff never leaves. I rent two units and have a max of 2 vehicles parked outside overnight, with 5 in total in the day including my staff

There's a delivery company with one unit who have 30+ vans parked overnight and 30+ staff cars here all day and somehow I'm the problem? 

The next time they give me grief I think I'll struggle to be as polite as I usually am

How does it break your lease agreement ? 

[cobblers]

10 minutes ago, New POD said:

How does it break your lease agreement ? 

Not a word in it about parking or storing vehicles, but they have sent me an email saying "any vehicles not related to business purposes will be presumed abandoned and will be towed away 😅". Other tenants have a "no motorhome" clause but mine is missing that too.  My big camper van is my personal vehicle, the other 2 vans are loosely for business purposes (one a VW T25 pickup and one a T6 transporter, both commercial vehicles) so my argument is that I have driven to work in my personal vehicle. Everything gets used once or twice a week, but since I'm always here at 6:30 and leave at 7pm, it looks like they all never leave.

There's a new manager on the business centre and they've got a bee in their bonnet about trivial shit like this while the rest of the place falls apart and is overrun with waste and the internet/phones don't work.

[New POD]

3 hours ago, cobblers said:

Not a word in it about parking or storing vehicles, but they have sent me an email saying "any vehicles not related to business purposes will be presumed abandoned and will be towed away 😅". Other tenants have a "no motorhome" clause but mine is missing that too.  My big camper van is my personal vehicle, the other 2 vans are loosely for business purposes (one a VW T25 pickup and one a T6 transporter, both commercial vehicles) so my argument is that I have driven to work in my personal vehicle. Everything gets used once or twice a week, but since I'm always here at 6:30 and leave at 7pm, it looks like they all never leave.

There's a new manager on the business centre and they've got a bee in their bonnet about trivial shit like this while the rest of the place falls apart and is overrun with waste and the internet/phones don't work.

So what can they do about it? 

An email  response with a list of vehicles and reg numbers that are connected with your business, and a reminder of their own obligations, woukd be my retaliation. 

 

[Rust Collector]

Bollocks. I reckon I'm going to be sent a souvenir photo for my trip to the shops earlier - 45-46mph on a section of 40mph dual carriageway in Eastbourne. Didn't spot the camera van until last minute as the car I was passing obscured it along the straight. Why is it always the bloody Insight that I manage to go through speed traps in!! Should be slow enough to keep me out of trouble 😅

 

 

[gm]

now remember, kids, always wear the PPE

running shorts are not PPE !

fuck - that was close !

 

[MikeR]

that could of been a DIY vasectomy !!

3 minutes ago, gm said:

now remember, kids, always wear the PPE

running shorts are not PPE !

fuck - that was close !

 

 

[Dan29]

18 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

45-46mph on a section of 40mph dual carriageway in Eastbourne

Fingers crossed you won't hear anything at that speed.

OT but I was in Eastbourne at the weekend, and very nice it was too.

[purplebargeken]

Done that with a knotted wheel a good few times. Ouch.

[Tickman]

17 minutes ago, gm said:

now remember, kids, always wear the PPE

running shorts are not PPE !

fuck - that was close !

 

That was very close!

[motorpunk]

I was reading about the end of the governments EV subsidy. They said half a million cars had been bought with the subsidy which was typically £2500.  Why am I grumpy? Because that’s £1.25 billion of U.K. taxpayers money mostly gone to support overseas car production with very little economic value to the U.K. and when the environmental issues are global.  U.K. car stink is something like (IIRC) 0.05% of global emissions. Waste of money on a colossal scale for naff-all environmental benefit. 

[loserone]

Buy more leaves.

 

Maybe.

[gm]

25 minutes ago, Tickman said:

That was very close!

knot wheels are indeed utter bastards - i had eye protection and ear defenders on but forgot me spud guard  

[Pieman]

Driving home this evening, going across the top of M42 junction 9 - nobody ever gets the lanes right on this roundabout, and sure enough, up ahead of me a Golf decides to turn right and carry on round the roundabout without noticing the Merc in the lane next to it about to take the exit, and twats into the Merc's rear door.

I pull in behind them as they stop and put my hazards on, deciding to be a good Samaritan and leave my details as a witness.  Golf driving bloke and a younger lad get out of said VAGmobile and the driver proceeds to kick off at the Merc driver and start threatening him.  From in my car I shout something like "Pull the cars out of the way onto the roundabout up there and we can talk there without blocking the road" and the Golf occupants get back on board, pull up alongside the Merc while still giving it a load of verbal, a lorry pulls up behind them and hoots at them to move - at which point the Golf fucks off without leaving any details. 😠

I calmed the rather panicky guy in the Merc down a bit and he called the police, and I have left my name and number with them as a witness.  It's times like that I wish I had a dashcam.

[Richard_FM]

I read knot wheels as knot weed, which can also be a pain to deal with.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Rust Collector said:

Bollocks. I reckon I'm going to be sent a souvenir photo for my trip to the shops earlier - 45-46mph on a section of 40mph dual carriageway in Eastbourne. Didn't spot the camera van until last minute as the car I was passing obscured it along the straight. Why is it always the bloody Insight that I manage to go through speed traps in!! Should be slow enough to keep me out of trouble 😅

 

 

Haha! Lottbridge Drove? 42 is my limit, but you were unlucky to get snapped, many assume it's a 50. 

[High Jetter]

52 minutes ago, Dan29 said:

OT but I was in Eastbourne at the weekend, and very nice it was too.

You should have said hello

[Rust Collector]

2 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Haha! Lottbridge Drove? 42 is my limit, but you were unlucky to get snapped, many assume it's a 50. 

Yeah Lottbridge Drove, my mrs orders click and collect from Tesco and my end of the deal is to pick it up each week and pay the speeding fines...

That long straight past the golf course is tedious at 40 and I normally creep up to 45-50 along there and then slow down as I get to the junctions. I guess your luck always runs out eventually. If I was going fast enough for a ticket then hopefully I should be able to do the speed awareness course at least.

[Dan29]

4 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

You should have said hello

I should have! It was only a brief visit this time - one night in the Grand, and then an afternoon in Bexhill the next day. All most agreeable! 

[GMcD]

1 hour ago, gm said:

now remember, kids, always wear the PPE

running shorts are not PPE !

fuck - that was close !

 

I hate knot wheels. They give me the absolute fear.  Second only to spring compressors on my list of tools I hate using. I've been considering adding a grinder with a paddle switch to my toolkit...think you've convinced me!🤣

[High Jetter]

20 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

. I guess your luck always runs out eventually. 

Nope. Your luck 

[High Jetter]

21 minutes ago, Dan29 said:

one night in the Grand

My sympathies. Did they serve you the blue potatoes?

[Zelandeth]

Just about back up to a usable amount of energy.  Figure I might get a little catching up done later in the week.

Nope... I'll be hiding in one of the rooms with air conditioning then.  Blarg.

[Dan29]

56 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

My sympathies. Did they serve you the blue potatoes?

Not that I noticed..! Luckily I was not paying, and am unlikely to return when I am paying! 

[RoverFolkUs]

2 hours ago, gm said:

now remember, kids, always wear the PPE

running shorts are not PPE !

fuck - that was close !

 

Very lucky indeed, femoral artery etc

I remember one of the first things I was taught about using abrasive wheels was the importance of keeping it away from below the waist in particular due to that artery! Among others, of course 

[LightBulbFun]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Just about back up to a usable amount of energy.  Figure I might get a little catching up done later in the week.

Nope... I'll be hiding in one of the rooms with air conditioning then.  Blarg.

the hot weather has clearly been too much for the 20W Philips SL-E in my room pendant which has just shat its filter cap

flickered a few times then went to half brightness, upon  spotting the liquid gunk on the bottom of the glass I thought ah ha and pointed a Camera at it, which confirmed my suspensions, its a HF lamp those 50Hz scan-lines should not be there! so Im pretty positive the main DC smoothing electrolytic capacitor has just blown its load all over the insides of the lamp LOL

its been installed since the 17th of the 1st 2021, and run 24/7, it managed 13140 hours, which to be fair its only rated for 10K hours, but I still expected better from a quality Polish made philips lamp

I mean, well the tube its self is still perfectly good, and shows minimal electrode wear, its just let down by the electronic ballast which goes to show is why I dont like electronic ballasts

its been replaced with another pinched from another location in the house hold, lets see how it holds up!

 

honestly give me a proper magnetically ballast Philips SL lamp from the 80's or 90's any day of the week! very temped to nab some off ebay, but id feel bad about using up a vintage lamp LOL