The grumpy thread

[Tickman]

11 minutes ago, cobblers said:

SEVENTEEN FUCKING MILES PER HOUR IN A NATIONAL SPEED LIMIT!

I thought it was bad enough having to follow at 27 mph in the terrible* weather we had recently.

When I managed to get past I was back to 60 with no issue.

[goosey]

My repeat prescription has been cancelled by the pharmacy even though I had a telephone consultation with the GP a week ago and they renewed my prescription. The GP can now only be contacted through filling in details online and waiting for a call back which can be up to 5 days. I have enough beta blockers to last me till Monday so hopefully they sort something before.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

1 hour ago, barefoot said:

My internet has gone to shit. Well it hasn't, but every time I fire up the old Mac it connects to 'eufy RoboVac 301' - next door's fucking hoover!

I was very tempted to start playing Slayer through an unsecured Bluetooth device the other day.  I thought better of it but it was difficult to resist.

Remember kids, the 'S' in 'IoT' stands for 'Security'...

[sierraman]

52 minutes ago, cobblers said:

SEVENTEEN FUCKING MILES PER HOUR IN A NATIONAL SPEED LIMIT!

The humane thing to do for all of us would have been a pit manouver

17 mph on the straight then 40mph through Baslow 🤣

[barefoot]

1 hour ago, goosey said:

My repeat prescription has been cancelled by the pharmacy even though I had a telephone consultation with the GP a week ago and they renewed my prescription. The GP can now only be contacted through filling in details online and waiting for a call back which can be up to 5 days. I have enough beta blockers to last me till Monday so hopefully they sort something before.

https://www.pharmacy2u.co.uk

After your current debacle is resolved, I can't recommend P2U highly enough.

[Talbot]

2 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I was very tempted to start playing Slayer through an unsecured Bluetooth device the other day.  I thought better of it but it was difficult to resist.

Sending ominous stuff to unsecured printers is fricking hillarious.  I've heard of people throwing them out before now due to them believing the printer is posessed.

Don't do this, kids.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

16 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Sending ominous stuff to unsecured printers is fricking hillarious.  I've heard of people throwing them out before now due to them believing the printer is posessed.

Don't do this, kids.

Printers are possessed.  Every time a printer is set up, an angel loses its wings.

[sporty-shite]

On 1/3/2023 at 8:54 AM, outlaw118 said:

I'm tired and hungry all the time ATM (more than usual....)

Decided nearly 3 weeks ago to get my shit together re: my Type 2 diabetes. I know, GR7 timing right? Threatened with insulin, which I've tried before and found it to be too much pain for too little gain.

So, I've cut out bread, spuds (pretty much), rice, pasta, and cut down dramatically on pastry...NO PIES??.... (I have had a couple of sausage rolls from the Wild Bean concession in the garage opposite work....)

As a consequence my blood sugars have fallen to "normal" levels - ranging from 5ish to 8ish on average.

So why do I feel worse than before, and making myself miserable by denying myself stuff? yesterday night, I would have gladly stabbed someone for a BK Whopper (XL with bacon OBVS), or that tube of cheese and onion Pringles that are in the cupboard... but what did I have instead? Chicken, and a couple of pickled onions.

I haven't lost much weight either - 3 whole pounds in 3 weeks is less than expected, and as those shiters who have met me will testify, that won't have made much difference. 

At a bit of a crossroads I reckon; do I just think Fuck It, and do the insulin thing, and eat whatever I want, or persevere with the no carbs thing, and be miserable, or the third most extreme option is to give up all my meds, do what I want and hope the imminent heart attack kills me quickly.

Bob, get into your GP and ask them to do a full set of bloods. I've been feeling like shit, had a phone consultation and he asked for bloods for all manner of stuff.

The result:low folate, low iron, and particularly low vitamin D. These all contribute to the shitty feeling. 

Also, DON'T FUCK WITH YOUR MEDS.

[HarmonicCheeseburger]

8 hours ago, cobblers said:

SEVENTEEN FUCKING MILES PER HOUR IN A NATIONAL SPEED LIMIT!

The humane thing to do for all of us would have been a pit manouver

And when you go for the overtake they floor it. 

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

22 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Printers are possessed.  Every time a printer is set up, an angel loses its wings.

Just another of Satan's spawn. I've been rather tempted to launch a mallet through the one upstairs.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

7 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Just another of Satan's spawn. I've been rather tempted to launch a mallet through the one upstairs.

You need to watch Office Space.

[New POD]

2 hours ago, goosey said:

My repeat prescription has been cancelled by the pharmacy even though I had a telephone consultation with the GP a week ago and they renewed my prescription. The GP can now only be contacted through filling in details online and waiting for a call back which can be up to 5 days. I have enough beta blockers to last me till Monday so hopefully they sort something before.

My wife forgot her medication, on a trip to our midweek home, so I managed to get an emergency supply to the nearest pharmacy.  3 months later, the GP is still sending the repeat prescription to this place, despite putting the request to revert to her normal place, on the top of each email request. In bold. 

I have my GP send mine to a place in Nechells, Brum, as it's the closest to my work, and they are open late. 

.

[cobblers]

1 hour ago, Talbot said:

Sending ominous stuff to unsecured printers is fricking hillarious.  I've heard of people throwing them out before now due to them believing the printer is posessed.

Don't do this, kids.

At our comprehensive school in 1996/7, I worked out which printer on the network was the one in the headmasters office and would print this picture out on it once a day, every day.

 

[RoverFolkUs]

5 hours ago, barefoot said:

My internet has gone to shit. Well it hasn't, but every time I fire up the old Mac it connects to 'eufy RoboVac 301' - next door's fucking hoover!

Well that sure sucks ... 

 

[Gets coat]

[Mally]

Just been told my best man died 2 days ago. Went to school with him, rode motorbikes together, watched stock cars, fixed cars together.

His first wife and my late wife were best mates.

Not seen him for a couple of years, but sent and received an Xmas card every year including this one.

Seems his second wife and stepdaughter both died on the 27th December. '22.   Strep A I think.

[AnnoyingPentium]

Bastard car sat for three days. Won't start. Couldn't move it to get my Granda's car close enough to jump start it as the rear brakes were jammed on. Freed them off, added jump leads, connected between Sandero and Fabia, no dice.

Battery has been on its way out for a wee while. New one is on order. Bah!

[puddlethumper]

I'm not just grumpy, I'm fuckin fuming. Gearbox on van, fukd. @Ged,top bloke, of this parish arranged one for free, no less and it was nicely boxed up and given to UPS. This was the point where it plummeted down hill. Sent 18th Dec got to Telford damaged. No idea how much damage. Seems, on enquiry, they have now 'lost' it. Ffs. It's about a half a cube and weighs 38 kilos. How the fuck do you 'lose' it ? Now I have to try and find another one. It seems they are unicorn poop. Grrrrrrrrrr.

[Dave_Q]

4 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Bastard car sat for three days. Won't start. Couldn't move it to get my Granda's car close enough to jump start it as the rear brakes were jammed on. Freed them off, added jump leads, connected between Sandero and Fabia, no dice.

Battery has been on its way out for a wee while. New one is on order. Bah!

It's battery season innit, I finally decided to order a new one for my van on xmas eve, after the traditional few weeks of faffing about charging it when it had been sat for a few days.

Went to drive down to parents on 27th and hilariously* the thing started fine but then FTP when we stopped at the Tesco down the road. 

Ended up going and buying another battery from a local factors so we could get to where we were going. 

Not the end of the world as was able to use the 2nd battery on the Audi which was also getting a bit sad so they now both have brand spankers ready for the cold times. 

Was definitely cursing myself for hanging on rather than just ordering a battery in autumn when it was clearly already on the way out.

[AnnoyingPentium]

Just now, Dave_Q said:

It's battery season innit, I finally decided to order a new one for my van on xmas eve, after the traditional few weeks of faffing about charging it when it had been sat for a few days.

Went to drive down to parents on 27th and hilariously* the thing started fine but then FTP when we stopped at the Tesco down the road. 

Ended up going and buying another battery from a local factors so we could get to where we were going. 

Not the end of the world as was able to use the 2nd battery on the Audi which was also getting a bit sad so they now both have brand spankers ready for the cold times. 

Was definitely cursing myself for hanging on rather than just ordering a battery in autumn when it was clearly already on the way out.

This is the predicament I'm in now, completely my own fault too. Managed to drive to my Granny's last night as I'm staying there, but the car wouldn't start this morning.

Just received a message from my Mum to say the battery has arrived at her work (ordered through AC Autoparts) so I'm going with my Granda to collect it. This has quickly turned out better.

[angle]

I think the Picasso wants to die. It has a fortnight's MOT left, the clutch release bearing started making noises at me last week (and it looks like book time for a clutch change is ten(!) hours) and now the bastard thing has just died in Sainsburys car park. And my garage is booked solid until the end of the month and have asked me not to recover it there. Hooray.

[Zelandeth]

On 1/3/2023 at 3:06 PM, EyesWeldedShut said:

Start thinking more like us Welsh Hillbillies - it's two hours round trip to town, the factors have to order in everything so, unless you're planning on going in anyway,  it's pretty much online for anything non-generic. Just don't mention the postal strikes - I'm still waiting for a few bits from just before Xmas that were not sent tracked 24/48  
(Mind you, ordered some stuff this time yesterday and Mr Yodel dropped it off at 10 am - that's almost too happy for the grumpy thread)

Thing is, if I still lived out in the sticks in Aberdeenshire I'd really not begrudge it.  However when you live in the middle of what would like to bill itself as a city less than 50 miles from sodding London it grates.

I've been here eight and a half years now - and I STILL keep forgetting to multiply how long I expect it to take me to get anywhere by at least 1.5 in my head and winding up running late.

[AnnoyingPentium]

2 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Bastard car sat for three days. Won't start. Couldn't move it to get my Granda's car close enough to jump start it as the rear brakes were jammed on. Freed them off, added jump leads, connected between Sandero and Fabia, no dice.

Battery has been on its way out for a wee while. New one is on order. Bah!

New battery fitted, starts better than it ever has. Earth terminal clamp is a bit loose, so might seek out another before the electric gremlins come back again.

It also appears my dash cam was the final nail for the original battery, as it's running all the time it would appear.

[Zelandeth]

Was just parked behind someone at the traffic lights - two phones right in front of them on the windscreen - dashcam at eye level and rear facing camera below it right in the centre of the screen.

They were actually having to duck to look under the phones when they pulled away.  They might as well be wearing a set of glasses painted black and be looking around the edges for all they could see.

How the heck are people actually that utterly stupid?

[MikeR]

just come to do my end of year backups of all the photos , needed to take the last month piccys off the phones and Motorola in some wisdom has locked out the usb port some how ???  , on both phones !!  , it wont change mode to file transfer or let the other device take control FFS ...  even pisssing around with Dev mode did not help ..

back up plan is to just offload using wifi onto the server which will take F in ages

[Spiny Norman]

I can't remember what exactly you have to do now but recent versions of Android can't just be plugged into a USB and copy onto a PC. Google it, there's something you have to do deep in the settings menu.

[RoverFolkUs]

4 minutes ago, MikeR said:

just come to do my end of year backups of all the photos , needed to take the last month piccys off the phones and Motorola in some wisdom has locked out the usb port some how ???  , on both phones !!  , it wont change mode to file transfer or let the other device take control FFS ...  even pisssing around with Dev mode did not help ..

back up plan is to just offload using wifi onto the server which will take F in ages

Try a different USB cable. Some are charging only

[MikeR]

8 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Try a different USB cable. Some are charging only

just done that .....

 

and it worked !!  

[RoverFolkUs]

34 minutes ago, MikeR said:

just done that .....

 

and it worked !!  

Glad to help 👍

[loserone]

New madness thread in 3...  

[Ghosty]

10 hours ago, Talbot said:

Sending ominous stuff to unsecured printers is fricking hillarious.  I've heard of people throwing them out before now due to them believing the printer is posessed.

Don't do this, kids.

About ten years ago my mate had a WiFi printer that you could connect to Facebook for some reason. 

The thing is, they hadn't realised but it worked like flippin' telex. If you messaged the connected FB account, it printed the message. 
We set the printer up with a FB account of its own and started sending it absurd messages at random times of day.