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Roofer failed to turn up about a week and a half back to do a survey and quote.  Phoned me up yesterday when I was in the middle of something and apologised profusely and promised they would be here today.

Guess what?  They never showed up again.  Am I surprised?  Not in the slightest.  Am I pissed of?  Yes, absolutely.  I've a thousand things to do this afternoon and really could have done without needlessly twiddling my thumbs for two hours for someone to not appear. Again.

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Seriously, just do what @puddlethumper has done and move into a motorhome, your house sounds like it's falling down.

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Does seem to be astoundingly difficult to get tradies to show up at the date and time they've suggested.

Currently being ghosted by our joiner, who showed up, measured everything, agreed a rate and a date - then cancelled, and now won't answer the phone to me.

I wouldn't mind so much, but Howden's is holding £800 worth of (paid for) doors and fixings under his trade account. And the garage is filled front to back with the lengths of timber I bought in for him to build the new doorframes.

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  On 31/08/2022 at 14:09, Pieman said:

Seriously, just do what @puddlethumper has done and move into a motorhome, your house sounds like it's falling down.

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If it did that would greatly simplify things as the insurers could just bloody deal with it then!

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  On 31/08/2022 at 14:05, Zelandeth said:

Roofer failed to turn up about a week and a half back to do a survey and quote.  Phoned me up yesterday when I was in the middle of something and apologised profusely and promised they would be here today.

Guess what?  They never showed up again.  Am I surprised?  Not in the slightest.  Am I pissed of?  Yes, absolutely.  I've a thousand things to do this afternoon and really could have done without needlessly twiddling my thumbs for two hours for someone to not appear. Again.

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I'm afraid once they'd stood me up the 1st time I'd tell them to show up at my convenience - fucked around once is enough.

They can lose their lunch or evening time or fucking do one..... 

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  On 31/08/2022 at 13:45, Metal Guru said:

Without boasting too much but I took my A levels 40 years ago. I was in the top 6 in my year at one of the best academic state schools in the county. I got AAB. Nowadays half are getting 5 A* at crappy comps. 

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Without boasting, 37 years ago I got D, E and an O level pass in subjects I'd got As in at O level, so god knows what I did for 2 years. (Drinking and Fixing motorbikes mainly)

Didn't stop me getting into Polytechnic, or becoming a Chartered Engineer. 

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  On 30/08/2022 at 23:11, DavieW said:

And here's me thinking LED bulbs were energy efficient 😮

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I noticed that the other day. 

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  On 31/08/2022 at 19:05, New POD said:

Without boasting, 37 years ago I got D, E and an O level pass in subjects I'd got As in at O level, so god knows what I did for 2 years. (Drinking and Fixing motorbikes mainly)

Didn't stop me getting into Polytechnic, or becoming a Chartered Engineer. 

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Life has been easy for you eh. 

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  On 31/08/2022 at 19:10, Lacquer Peel said:

Life has been easy for you eh. 

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Kind of easy.  In that I just had to turn up. 

Kind of not. In that I had to actually do some work, once I turned up. 

Doing shit in my A levels, kick started my paranoia about failing, so I've tried to do the best job in most things, and make sure I'm open to potential opportunities. 

I am.intrinsically lazy, so everyday, I have to have words with myself. 

 

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  On 31/08/2022 at 19:15, New POD said:

so everyday, I have to have words with myself. 

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I tried doing this, but apparently it can make the other shoppers in Tesco quite concerned.

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  On 31/08/2022 at 20:00, AnnoyingPentium said:

I tried doing this, but apparently it can make the other shoppers in Tesco quite concerned.

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Are you me? 

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  On 31/08/2022 at 19:05, New POD said:

Without boasting, 37 years ago I got D, E and an O level pass in subjects I'd got As in at O level, so god knows what I did for 2 years. (Drinking and Fixing motorbikes mainly)

Didn't stop me getting into Polytechnic, or becoming a Chartered Engineer. 

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D,E and O at A level would be worth at least A,B and a C today. Would get you into Oxbridge with a suitable sob story.

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  On 01/09/2022 at 01:04, Metal Guru said:

D,E and O at A level would be worth at least A,B and a C today. Would get you into Oxbridge with a suitable sob story.

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😂

Given the amount of work my kids did to get As and A*s  I'd suggest more like C, D and E. 

 

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  On 01/09/2022 at 06:22, artdjones said:

Just out of interest, here's the O level paper 2, set by the University of London in 1976. I took the Welsh equivalent the year before with grade B. No calculators or tables were allowed, and you were explicitly told that anything below a C was a fail.

fdocuments.in_o-level-mathematics-paper-2-june-76.pdf 2.68 MB · 3 downloads

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I took the same exam in 1977. I think calculators were allowed the year after. I got a fancy scientific one for passing my O levels. A couple of years before that , a basic 4 function calculator cost about £30, equivalent to about £230 today taking inflation although it would also have bought 100 pints of beer or 200 litres of petrol, 

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  On 01/09/2022 at 01:04, Metal Guru said:

D,E and O at A level would be worth at least A,B and a C today. Would get you into Oxbridge with a suitable sob story.

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Do you have kids?

I have a pretty good idea how bright mine are and can therefore compare their results to my own A level results some 40+ years ago and totally disagree with your theory.

 

 

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Clusters of blisters on my feet despite wearing same shoes. Also a couple on my head. The ones on my head disappeared after some steroids. Prior to this my skin had been itchy.

I let my consultant know. I have a feeling that my high eosiniphils are now on the move.

I think vasculitis is on the horizon.

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  On 01/09/2022 at 08:20, chadders said:

Do you have kids?

I have a pretty good idea how bright mine are and can therefore compare their results to my own A level results some 40+ years ago and totally disagree with your theory.

 

 

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OK , I exaggerated a bit , but how  do you equate that from 1993 to 2021 nearly all subjects had nearly double the number of A grades awarded.? Kids didn’t get twice as clever in 20 years , teaching certainly hasn’t improved, ( yes I know work load , extra curricula blah blah). A* didn’t even exist, they had to add it because A was no longer anything special. 

I see on the news kids getting 15A* GCSEs from a not very highly rated school in Carlisle. How do you even properly study 15 subjects ?  With other time table constraints, that’s less than an hour a week.

My son took his school exams 10 years ago but in Scotland so I can’t compare his results directly. Scottish results have been steadily rising year on year but not to the same extent as the English.

Im sure you’re kids are very bright. Many who get A and A* would have got them back then, but at least half wouldn’t have.

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  On 31/08/2022 at 13:45, Metal Guru said:

Without boasting too much but I took my A levels 40 years ago. I was in the top 6 in my year at one of the best academic state schools in the county. I got AAB. Nowadays half are getting 5 A* at crappy comps. 

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But you've still ended up here with us.

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  On 01/09/2022 at 11:27, inconsistant said:

But you've still ended up here with us.

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Haven’t I joined an elite group of highly intelligent car enthusiasts?  ( well compared to Pistonheads anyway).

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  On 01/09/2022 at 06:22, artdjones said:

Just out of interest, here's the O level paper 2, set by the University of London in 1976. I took the Welsh equivalent the year before with grade B. No calculators or tables were allowed, and you were explicitly told that anything below a C was a fail.

fdocuments.in_o-level-mathematics-paper-2-june-76.pdf 2.68 MB · 13 downloads

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You know I'm going to have to waste spend time attempting that? Do you know how long was allowed in that exam?

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At A level I got 2 D's, 2 E's & a U and I am a fucking world class genious, particularly at spelling. Ask anyone.

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  On 01/09/2022 at 13:03, High Jetter said:

You know I'm going to have to waste spend time attempting that? Do you know how long was allowed in that exam?

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I think 2 hours. It's the middle paper of three. I hadn't realised, but before 1975 there was no grading other than pass or fail. And that year the WJEC started looking at the feasibility of combining O level and CSE in a combined exam. So I have a top grade CSE as well as a grade B O Level. We also took the exam after only one years study instead of two. So we were guinea pigs all round.

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The current craze for new cars to be specced in Primer Grey. Why do it? They are so ugly it's distracting. I'm not kidding those block colour battleship grey cars being genuinely look like they have been left in primer to my eye!

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I've just received the new PAS pump for the Volvo... Well, what I ordered was a NOS pump. What I received was a different pump from a different listing. It's still for an 850, luckily, and it certainly looks new, but it's covered in fluid and comes with an additional reservoir which I didn't ask for either.

I've waited so long for it that I might as well fit it. It's preventing me from using the car otherwise.

 

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