The grumpy thread

[Pieman]

Maybe he's finally had enough of the place becoming a tourist attraction for attention-seeking wankers.

It's the North Midlands equivalent of the Abbey Road zebra crossing, except this place doesn't have any historical significance and is just "hurrr there's a camera there, let's act like a dick so we get on the internet".

[iainrcz]

On 11/14/2022 at 2:46 PM, iainrcz said:

No internet or phone all weekend, nearly an hour on hold to moan and still haven't spoken to a cunt about it.

Cable had failed outside house. New cable and router, now connection is slow as fuck. According to Shell my line supports 4mbps, even though before the problem I was getting from 11 - 14 🙄 

[Noel Tidybeard]

4 hours ago, myglaren said:

People like that have a tendency to have nasty accidents and no-one saw it.

"sarge he's fallen down the stairs again!"

[MikeR]

That M58 to M6 NB junction , played it safe today and stayed behind the artic on the inside lane , except the stupid bint in the SUV who came up the outside lane , got beside me , and proceeded to panic when she could not join the M6 , forcing me onto the remains of the hard shoulder and a rapidly approaching bridge of doom support , cue constant horns and high beam ,and looks of alarm that some one would do such a thing to a SUV driver , but some dabbing of the brakes and beating the 66 horses into action and we were able to lock eyes for a long dirty look ...

And my dash cam played up again , some how it corrupted the new SD card , looks like it runs out of battery when taking 2 minutes to shut down and crashes out . Now told to shut down in 10 secs and seems ok ..

For now ...

[Wack]

Thought I'd try royal mail drop and go save me going to the post office 

Your postman will pick the Parcel up for free as part of his round 

Like fuck they will so now I've got to go to the sorting office in town, cunts 

[Datsuncog]

10 minutes ago, Wack said:

Thought I'd try royal mail drop and go save me going to the post office 

Your postman will pick the Parcel up for free as part of his round 

Like fuck they will so now I've got to go to the sorting office in town, cunts 

I tried that on Wednesday for the first time.

Whenever I'm buying parcel postage on RM's website they seem to default to this automatically now, and you have to manually remove it at the payment stage.

The last few times I've just taken it off, then gone down to the sorting office as usual - but decided to give it a go this week.

The postie did indeed turn up at the door on time with the label and everything, but it was a bit of a fuckabout for him trying to juggle all his delivery mail and this parcel and the label and his handheld scanner thing. In the rain.

He was very nice about it, but I felt a bit grubby giving him extra hassle - I reckon this is some sort of RM management wheeze to avoid having to pay Post Offices for handling customer parcels.

Don't think I'll be doing it again - though would be interested to hear from RM employees about how they feel about it?

[Dan29]

2 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

I tried that on Wednesday for the first time.

Whenever I'm buying parcel postage on RM's website they seem to default to this automatically now, and you have to manually remove it at the payment stage.

The last few times I've just taken it off, then gone down to the sorting office as usual - but decided to give it a go this week.

The postie did indeed turn up at the door on time with the label and everything, but it was a bit of a fuckabout for him trying to juggle all his delivery mail and this parcel and the label and his handheld scanner thing. In the rain.

He was very nice about it, but I felt a bit grubby giving him extra hassle - I reckon this is some sort of RM management wheeze to avoid having to pay Post Offices for handling customer parcels.

Don't think I'll be doing it again - though would be interested to hear from RM employees about how they feel about it?

I tried it about a year ago and I don't think the postie had been briefed on it at all! He seemed completely surprised by the whole idea. It all worked fine but it seemed like extra hassle for him so I haven't done it again since. 

[Wack]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

I tried that on Wednesday for the first time.

Whenever I'm buying parcel postage on RM's website they seem to default to this automatically now, and you have to manually remove it at the payment stage.

The last few times I've just taken it off, then gone down to the sorting office as usual - but decided to give it a go this week.

The postie did indeed turn up at the door on time with the label and everything, but it was a bit of a fuckabout for him trying to juggle all his delivery mail and this parcel and the label and his handheld scanner thing. In the rain.

He was very nice about it, but I felt a bit grubby giving him extra hassle - I reckon this is some sort of RM management wheeze to avoid having to pay Post Offices for handling customer parcels.

Don't think I'll be doing it again - though would be interested to hear from RM employees about how they feel about it?

I was a bit pissed off about having to drive into town at 5pm on a Friday , I don't really think posties are cunts, it's a tough job being out in all weathers 

I assumed they'd be coming in a van so I wouldn't have been happy if he'd been carrying it round in a downpour. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Any thoughts on this at all @Yoss?  Seems like yet another burden you don't need.

[richardmorris]

13 hours ago, richardmorris said:

No.

Just delivered, their third attempt was 6 to 8 tonight.  Not sure the doormat is my safe place though.

[Yoss]

21 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Any thoughts on this at all @Yoss?  Seems like yet another burden you don't need.

I think it's been going a year or so now but they are currently offering it for free until the end of the year. I think it normally costs 60p (I say I think because they really don't tell us any more than we need to know). We can have a maximum of five a day per delivery. I guess if you try booking one after the five slots are taken computer would just say no, again I don't actually know. 

Luckily it's not that popular and I've never had more than two in one day. I guess I usually get three or four a week. But now I'm on a trolley walk it can get interesting. Especially as in some places I lock the trolley up and walk off with a bag so I'll knock on the door and see how big it is and a few times and I've just said no, there's obviously no way I can carry that, all I can do is offer to come back on the way back to the office when the trolley is empty. Everyone so far has been fine with that. Once it wouldn't even fit in the trolley, I just plonked it on top and wheeled it back. Luckily my delivery is near the office. Apparently if we are on foot and it's too big we are supposed to ring the office and they'll send a driver a out. Can't see who that would be though as we haven't got enough staff to even cover the deliveries we are supposed to be doing. 

And then last year when I was still on a shared van duty I logged on (they come up on your PDA as soon as you log on) to find I had one pick up. But it consisted of 23 items! And they lived in a second floor flat. So again I left it til the end and the guy helped me get them all down to the van (their was a lift at least). 

But also you quite often get there and find nobody is in. Or somebody is in but they know nothing about it. Like the wife has ordered it but not told her husband who just shrugs. I'm actually quite pleased when this happens because then I don't have to carry it. There is an option on the PDA to say you were unable to collect. 

But as rightly guessed it is something you could do without. There is always a sense of relief when you log on and find you don't have any pick ups. They introduced it because other couriers do it and so we have to be seen to be doing it, though it is a bit of a token effort if you can only do five pick ups per delivery. 

The next thing they are threatening is to redeliver stuff you can't get rid of the next day. I mean you can already ring up (or email) and ask to have a packet redelivered but now they are suggesting we have green cards as well as the red ones you're all familiar with. The green ones will say we'll try again tomorrow, wether you've asked for it or not! Which seems daft as usually if you're not in it's because you're at work, so you're not going to be in the next day either. Then on the second day you leave a red card as normal. This just seems to be adding needless dead weight but what do we know. These green cards already exist apparently though we've yet to see them. I'll also need an extra pocket to put the green cards in! 

[High Jetter]

I guess pickups are fine if you have a trolley, or van, nearby but otherwise? Posties usually have plenty to carry without adding more en route.

[Wack]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Just delivered, their third attempt was 6 to 8 tonight.  Not sure the doormat is my safe place though.

It's not a doormat, it's an above ground damp proof storage facility 

[iainrcz]

10 hours ago, iainrcz said:

Cable had failed outside house. New cable and router, now connection is slow as fuck. According to Shell my line supports 4mbps, even though before the problem I was getting from 11 - 14 🙄 

They're adamant I've been getting 4 and should only have 4. So fuck em. I'm not on a contract so I'm leaving. I'm not paying £25 a month for 4mbps and a landline I don't use.

I'm going to try an unlimited data phone contract at £16 a month and ditch phone and broadband all together.

[High Jetter]

New connection tho?

[myglaren]

Discovered yesterday that our local shop is now a post office and has been for eight months.

Don't go there often.  Only when I can't be arsed to go for my car, that lives 500 yards further up the road.

Used to use a post office two miles away to send a letter to Sweden, once a year, around Christmas.  Not anymore, just upload it to their website.

[Lankytim]

We recently had a new bathroom installed at home which pretty much ate all our savings. The original bathroom was knackered and leaking, causing some damage to the ceiling below so we'd budgeted for a new one when we bought the house. 

Anyway, as everyone knows finding tradespeople is super hard nowadays but we eventually found someone to do it. Checked their previous work and everything was great- told us it was going to be a week to do the job tops. Fast forward 3 weeks and they had to rush to finish the job as they were often only on site a few hours a day or never showed up at all. The rush resulted in the bathroom door architrave being left in a nail and gap ridden mess (refitted by me) and a replacement outside soil pipe incorrectly installed (will be remedied by me at some point) and a few mother annoyances where finishing touches were not completed correctly.

The big issue though was the oblong shaped shower tray. There was far too much flex towards the centre and you could feel it "dip" between the supports they'd fitted. We got on to them but they said that as it had been fitted as per manufacturers instructions  it was fine and any additional supporting legs would be £125 to fit. We kidded ourselves that it must be fine and that a pool of undrained water must be a standard feature but inevitably a crack appeared. We've fired off a message to them to advise us what the next move is but I'm not holding out much hope that they'll come and fix it without an argument, the whole tray needs to be ripped out and replaced. The bathroom was paid for via a bank transfer so a charge back isn't possible. I'm fully expecting them to just ignore the whole situation and not do anything. 

So, after burning through our life savings we're back in the same situation as we were before, i.e. an unusable bathroom. I should've just saved the money and bought a couple of Austin Maxis or something.

[vulgalour]

Over 50s walking in the road instead of on the pavement. What's that about?  Quite regularly I'll go around a blind bend to find a pedestrian walking down the road with a completely unobstructed pavement beside them, sometimes with dogs or shopping.  Baffling because they're not crossing, they're walking as though the road is their own personal pavement.

Maybe put your seatbelt on before you set off too, I know it's only been a legal requirement for almost forty years and these new rules can be difficult to remember, it would just be nice if you could make the effort now and then.  A bit of forward planning would save all that futzing about while you're trying to turn on your lights, balance the clutch, and pull out into traffic without indication a whole lot easier.

While we're at it, if folks could also remember that the road has two sides that'd be super, especially since you keep ending up on my side and giving me the evils when I'm in the way.

It always gets worse as you get nearer the festive period too.  It's like people just lose their minds down here.  Driving is going to be absolute hell until February because you have no idea what new surprises are in store, or from whom.  Is that mummy bus going to randomly throw a door open as I drive past?  Is that supermini going to suddenly stop or change lanes with no warning?  Does that executive class hatchloon understand what merge-in-turn is?  Can that moped with L plates tell the difference between red and green lights?  Fucking crapshoot.

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

21 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

Over 50s walking in the road instead of on the pavement. What's that about? 

 

Most oldies think that by the time November comes round all pavements are covered in black ice. As the roads are salted, they use that so they don't slip over and bust their ankles, knees, legs. Also it is far easier and more lucrative to claim of your insurance than claim off the council if you run them over.

Don't forget the new highway code rules that have been put in place to make drivers 100% responsible for the actions of all others.

 

PS I'm over 50 and still use the pavement, especially when parking or coming up to a busy junction.

[808 Estate]

Went to split some more firewood and noticed some of the recent rain got under the garage door. Luckily it was abosorbed by a strategically dumped pack of heat logs. Unfortunately my 10Kg of heatlogs has reverted back to 10Kg of sawdust. Arse. 😡

[sheffcortinacentre]

The door mirror on falcon Ute has been twatted so hard this morning that it's dented trim on door & marked glass , caused by a Suzuki alto being chased through estate by an unmarked traffic BMW .

Contacted 101 told go to local copshop & report  turn up there to be greeted by a sign saying the station is closed (sept 22 to jan23) for refurbishment.

Place is full to bursting with police vehicles.

Go to next nearest  locked up no one answering intercom rest of  Sheffield police vehicles here.

 

Dear customer, your crime is important to you , our opening hours are 9.00 - 9.05  every 32 Nd of the month .

If you have  a crime outside these hours please contact us on social media where you'll find  all our fantastic clear up statistics &  crime prevention apps.

Remember your council tax is our priority.

[hairnet]

left hand is bruised and battered from the nurse at the hospital failing to be able to put the canula in from thursday

clench fist it hurts the roundy bit next to thumb in palm feels like the muscles been pulled

3 different times she tried even tho the veins are strong and theyve been in that side lots of times

another nurse put it in the opposite side in me arm

was at gig last night couldnt hold tea or clap

 

[fairkens]

4 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Over 50s walking in the road instead of on the pavement. What's that about?  Quite regularly I'll go around a blind bend to find a pedestrian walking down the road with a completely unobstructed pavement beside them, sometimes with dogs or shopping.  Baffling because they're not crossing, they're walking as though the road is their own personal pavement.

 

 

We have this all the time and it is always old 'uns. We're on a steep hill. There is a verge on our side but no pavement. The other side of the road (where there are no houses) has a lovely wide smooth pavement. Never any obstructions. Where do the gals and geezers walk? Either in the road on our side or on the verge, truly baffling.

[High Jetter]

9 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Over 50s walking in the road instead of on the pavement. What's that about?  Quite regularly I'll go around a blind bend to find a pedestrian walking down the road with a completely unobstructed pavement beside them, sometimes with dogs or shopping.  Baffling because they're not crossing, they're walking as though the road is their own personal pavement.

Maybe put your seatbelt on before you set off too, I know it's only been a legal requirement for almost forty years and these new rules can be difficult to remember, it would just be nice if you could make the effort now and then.  A bit of forward planning would save all that futzing about while you're trying to turn on your lights, balance the clutch, and pull out into traffic without indication a whole lot easier.

While we're at it, if folks could also remember that the road has two sides that'd be super, especially since you keep ending up on my side and giving me the evils when I'm in the way.

It always gets worse as you get nearer the festive period too.  It's like people just lose their minds down here.  Driving is going to be absolute hell until February because you have no idea what new surprises are in store, or from whom.  Is that mummy bus going to randomly throw a door open as I drive past?  Is that supermini going to suddenly stop or change lanes with no warning?  Does that executive class hatchloon understand what merge-in-turn is?  Can that moped with L plates tell the difference between red and green lights?  Fucking crapshoot.

 

Also, if you pull up to let passengers out/check your phone/scratch your itch please turn your headlights off. Especially if on a hill, and/or on the offside.

[maxxo]

This annoyed me a lot more than it should have done

i dread to think what it’s doing to the glass

i couldn’t bear that, I’d have to buy a new blade instantly 

[chodweaver]

This annoyed me a lot more than it should have done
i dread to think what it’s doing to the glass
i couldn’t bear that, I’d have to buy a new blade instantly 

Take pride in the fact that you would never exhibit such moronic behaviour, and that theirs is ultimately going to cost them dear.

And possibly buy some shares in Autoglass.

[Bren]

My peak flow is 265. 

My GP has stopped my repeat prescription of steroids.

I have a card which says "steroid dependent."

[jakebullet]

Sister has just turned up in the pouring rain with a juke covered in horse shit and the wheel arch liner smashed to shit. I loved melting holes in it with a hot screwdriver to tie wrap it vaguely back together.

Yes assholes, I should have built a relationship with nissan 8 years ago and had them make the arch liner out of thicker plastic. I realise it's all my fault.... 

[Wack]

Some cunt in a Skyline has left 2 dead and 2 fighting for their lives in Birmingham at a car  meet , one a 16 year old girl 

I hope he gets 10 years but I doubt he will 

[High Jetter]

4 minutes ago, Wack said:

Some cunt in a Skyline has left 2 dead and 2 fighting for their lives in Birmingham at a car  meet , one a 16 year old girl 

I hope he gets 10 years but I doubt he will 

Jeez - the driver was 54! Certainly old enough to know better, should get the book thrown at him.