The grumpy thread

[Markeh]

8 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Thank you for that!  I'm in the process of building a road trip there for May/June, to include a couple of days on the Parc because my granddaughters will be there.  My stepson can pay for them!  What bothers me more than anything, even the ridiculous cost, is navigating the park with MrsR.  Will we need her wheelchair?  Or is it worth hiring a couple of Madgewagons so we can keep up with the family?  Did you notice how "the disabled" were treated re access and facilities?

They're second to none with disabled guests from what I've seen previously - although I've not been to Paris for a good few years now. My cousins (one of whom has cerebral palsy and uses a chair) went to Florida a couple of years back and they bent over backwards to accommodate them.

[eddyramrod]

Thanks chaps!  That's mostly reassuring, except for the "lots of people" thing.  I'm hoping that going on weekdays outside the peak season should help there.  Crowds are my personal Hell.

[Markeh]

They really do try and go the extra mile. I was in Florida when I was about 14, and suddenly had a massive nose bleed in the queue for one of the rides. Got paramedics to us, got us to their medical facility to lie down for a bit afterwards, they even gave my mum a voucher to go and buy a t-shirt from the shop given I'd got a lot of blood down mine. I suppose from their perspective it meant we were able to stay on the park for the rest of the day rather than go home to recover/change - and they also probably don't want people roaming round the park covered in blood.

[Bren]

My e60 needs two boot struts - it opens on the remote with the power of a medievel catapult. One end is attached to the hinge bracket - the other to a flimsy piece of steel which I suspect, if left, would split.

Looking on internet most appear to be sellers on the continent - in the UK breakers are asking new money.

Not prepared to order from abroad.

 

 

[Rust Collector]

19 minutes ago, Bren said:

My e60 needs two boot struts - it opens on the remote with the power of a medievel catapult. One end is attached to the hinge bracket - the other to a flimsy piece of steel which I suspect, if left, would split.

Looking on internet most appear to be sellers on the continent - in the UK breakers are asking new money.

Not prepared to order from abroad.

What's wrong with ordering the bits from the continent? I've had a few parts from there recently when I haven't been able to source them in the UK, it wasn't really any bother. Up to £135 in value there's no faffing around with customs.

[Bren]

1 hour ago, Rust Collector said:

What's wrong with ordering the bits from the continent? I've had a few parts from there recently when I haven't been able to source them in the UK, it wasn't really any bother. Up to £135 in value there's no faffing around with customs.

Getting the wrong part can be a mare'.

I will see if my local factor can get them.

 

[Popsicle]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

My e60 needs two boot struts - it opens on the remote with the power of a medievel catapult. One end is attached to the hinge bracket - the other to a flimsy piece of steel which I suspect, if left, would split.

Looking on internet most appear to be sellers on the continent - in the UK breakers are asking new money.

Not prepared to order from abroad.

 

 

Have you tried https://www.lllparts.co.uk/

UK based and I've ordered a few things from them over the years, never had any problems with them, but the parts always take around 10 days to turn up.

[3VOM]

Try SGS for them

[vulgalour]

I am unhappy to report I have found a wood muncher in the Lanchester.

It seems localised to this plywood panel which is part of the intermediary boot floor.  Easy solution is to throw this away and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.  For now, it's isolated away from any other wood and especially the car.  Fortunately, the wooden frame in this area is on the other side of steel cladding so I'm hoping it's just this one panel that's been so badly affected.  The little bits of sawdust and haloes around some of the holes indicates activity, the darker cleaner holes are dormant (usually).

I could only find one other spot, also in plywood, which was a single hole that appears dormant on the plywood backing board for the rear seat that was next to the panel above that had been munched on.  Again, the easy solution there is to simply remove the panel (and the seat, and the trim, and whatever else might need it) and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.

Not what I wanted to find today when I was doing final tidying.  There's nothing I can do about it more than I have right now, this could be a job for the weekend weather permitting.  Funnily enough had the car been 'finished' I wouldn't have seen this at all because it would have been under trims so in a way I'm glad I found it now when it's easier to deal with.

[MiniMinorMk3]

On 2/14/2023 at 2:25 PM, grogee said:

@Cluffy has informed me that fish & chips from our local is now ten pounds.

Ten quid!

I know: inflation, cost of living, energy prices etc etc.

But also, fuck off Tories and Brexit. Without which it'd still be a fiver.

 

On 2/14/2023 at 4:21 PM, Cluffy said:

It was cash only too and only thought I had a £20 note. I was relieved to find a pound coin in my wallet so I could pay jeremy Hunt for some curry sauce as well...

 

On 2/14/2023 at 6:26 PM, High Jetter said:

It's been £10 around here for a while now. Interestingly, one pla(i)ce nearby had a newspaper cutting on the window about 12-18 months ago forecasting exactly that.

 

On 2/14/2023 at 7:05 PM, Metal Guru said:

The chippy I use most ( in Cumbria),  has been£8.50 for two visits running, first time it’s not gone up in a year. I paid that in Brighton 10 years ago, so I’d guess £10 is considered pretty cheap there. Cheapest I’ve had this year was £7.50 but pretty small portions.

 

 

On 2/14/2023 at 8:28 PM, omegod said:

£7.50 round my way will get you a full size fish, chips peas and curry 

 

On 2/14/2023 at 10:32 PM, Popsicle said:

£6 for fish and chip meal in a box with either peas, beans, curry or gravy round our way. Alternatively if feeling flush £20 at the local posh place - expensive but it is really nice.

Its 1/9d here, 2 bob with delivery. With inflation, if your fiss supper costs £10 now, that's 10,000% since 1963. How will Millenials cope when their fish and chips cost £1,000 in 2083?

 

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Having  a wonderful*  change of circumstances with the opportunity to decrease fleet size by 1. 😒

[New POD]

On 14/02/2023 at 20:28, omegod said:

£7.50 round my way will get you a full size fish, chips peas and curry 

You need to not go to.the place next to Freshfield Station. Awards. And Given that it's on the same Road that Most of the Liverpool and Everton players live on, it's not like the locals can't afford it.  £15 I think. 

[Wibble]

5 hours ago, vulgalour said:

I am unhappy to report I have found a wood muncher in the Lanchester.

It seems localised to this plywood panel which is part of the intermediary boot floor.  Easy solution is to throw this away and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.  For now, it's isolated away from any other wood and especially the car.  Fortunately, the wooden frame in this area is on the other side of steel cladding so I'm hoping it's just this one panel that's been so badly affected.  The little bits of sawdust and haloes around some of the holes indicates activity, the darker cleaner holes are dormant (usually).

I could only find one other spot, also in plywood, which was a single hole that appears dormant on the plywood backing board for the rear seat that was next to the panel above that had been munched on.  Again, the easy solution there is to simply remove the panel (and the seat, and the trim, and whatever else might need it) and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.

Not what I wanted to find today when I was doing final tidying.  There's nothing I can do about it more than I have right now, this could be a job for the weekend weather permitting.  Funnily enough had the car been 'finished' I wouldn't have seen this at all because it would have been under trims so in a way I'm glad I found it now when it's easier to deal with.

We see a lot of this with furniture restoration, usually inject the holes with woodworm killer and then brush over the surface. 

As you say, dark holes usually indicate old activity but the “sawdust” is actually the faeces of the beetle and indicates recent action.

[omegod]

43 minutes ago, New POD said:

You need to not go to.the place next to Freshfield Station. Awards. And Given that it's on the same Road that Most of the Liverpool and Everton players live on, it's not like the locals can't afford it.  £15 I think. 

If you want top quality I'd suggest Byrnes on Stuart Road in Walton, never had better and cooked to order for about £10 for the full monty 

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, omegod said:

If you want top quality I'd suggest Byrnes on Stuart Road in Walton, never had better and cooked to order for about £10 for the full monty 

Cooked to order seems to becoming fairly standard these days, rather than cook 50 pcs of fish and leave it to dry out under the heat lamps for 2hrs. Guess they can’t afford to throw any away at the end of the night at today’s prices.

[artdjones]

7 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Cooked to order seems to becoming fairly standard these days, rather than cook 50 pcs of fish and leave it to dry out under the heat lamps for 2hrs. Guess they can’t afford to throw any away at the end of the night at today’s prices.

I can see why they're doing it, but the point of fish and chips is to be fast food. If you have to hang around for 20 minutes while they get your order ready you might as well go straight home and make something yourself.

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, artdjones said:

I can see why they're doing it, but the point of fish and chips is to be fast food. If you have to hang around for 20 minutes while they get your order ready you might as well go straight home and make something yourself.

I disagree. Nothing worse than the fish dried up and luke warm. 
Another trend is the price of a portion of chips alone seems to have gone up proportionally even more than a fish supper. Presumably , so they don’t just end up selling chips on their own.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Nothing worse than food dried up and luke warm.

EFA. Totally agree, and 10 minutes is what local shops take for fish n chips. I'd far rather wait that long than have food that's been hanging around.

[Spurious]

Fecks sake. I would have thought that Japanese cars used a DIN flare. But no they don't. 

Predictably I don't have the right tool. 

 

[Alan_Green]

On 17/02/2023 at 16:20, MiniMinorMk3 said:

 

 

Blimey.  Manse Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh.  My first love lived on Manse Road.  (Liz, if you see this, I'm sorry, I didn't mean what I said about your mother).

[vulgalour]

On 2/17/2023 at 1:46 PM, vulgalour said:

I am unhappy to report I have found a wood muncher in the Lanchester.

It seems localised to this plywood panel which is part of the intermediary boot floor.  Easy solution is to throw this away and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.  For now, it's isolated away from any other wood and especially the car.  Fortunately, the wooden frame in this area is on the other side of steel cladding so I'm hoping it's just this one panel that's been so badly affected.  The little bits of sawdust and haloes around some of the holes indicates activity, the darker cleaner holes are dormant (usually).

I could only find one other spot, also in plywood, which was a single hole that appears dormant on the plywood backing board for the rear seat that was next to the panel above that had been munched on.  Again, the easy solution there is to simply remove the panel (and the seat, and the trim, and whatever else might need it) and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.

Not what I wanted to find today when I was doing final tidying.  There's nothing I can do about it more than I have right now, this could be a job for the weekend weather permitting.  Funnily enough had the car been 'finished' I wouldn't have seen this at all because it would have been under trims so in a way I'm glad I found it now when it's easier to deal with.

Further to this, I have spent the entire day removing plywood and painting on several coats of 'woodworm' killer.  It very much ended up Project Creep.

On the plus side, anywhere that there's the black stain finish (which I could only sand off so far, it being a stain) on the plywood the beetles haven't munched, it's only the bare unfinished ply that they'd gone for.  Not sure what the black finish is but it has soaked down into the ply and does seem to have resistant properties.  The frame I can see is similarly black finished and appears free of any holes so I think we're good, I think they'd only gone for the bare ply.  When the treatment has cured we'll be painting everything before it goes back in the car.  10am to 5pm on this job and even had to get the angle grinder out at one point to defeat some fixings.  It's content, I suppose there's that, just not what I wanted to be doing with my Saturday.

 

[omegod]

I'm being subjected to the masked singer final, never seen it before , utter shit,  but I'm calling it as Phoenix David Seaman and Rhino James Blunt 

[cobblers]

People who give children surnames as first names. 

"RILEY! JACKSON! BAILEY! DAWSON! GET BACK OVER HERE!!!!" 

On the radio this morning I heard about someone mentioning they had a child called "Corbyn" 

FFS.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

41 minutes ago, cobblers said:

People who give children surnames as first names. 

"RILEY! JACKSON! BAILEY! DAWSON! GET BACK OVER HERE!!!!" 

On the radio this morning I heard about someone mentioning they had a child called "Corbyn" 

FFS.

Poor sod. That's almost as horrific as 'Jayden'. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

2 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Poor sod. That's almost as horrific as 'Jayden'. 

'Alfie' is shorthand for 'my kid is a little shit'.

[Pieman]

2 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

'Alfie' is shorthand for 'my kid is a little shit'.

See also Archie and Tyler.

Anyway, today's grump is some blind bat smashing my driver's side mirror while my Focus was parked outside my gf's place - I found the plastic mirror cover from another car next to it and it appears to be from a Honda Jizz from the part number.  No note or anything left of course, probably the bozo didn't even notice they'd done it.

[hairnet]

On 2/18/2023 at 12:37 AM, Metal Guru said:

Cooked to order seems to becoming fairly standard these days, rather than cook 50 pcs of fish and leave it to dry out under the heat lamps for 2hrs. Guess they can’t afford to throw any away at the end of the night at today’s prices.

this seems to be a thing in scottish and irish chippys

my fish and chip story is we were in esher for the vw show 15 years ago and went for chips (cos northern) and while it wasnt cheap - they seemed not to know what basic items were when asked

'chips and gravy' no what is that

'chips and curry' no the indian in up the road (!)

then had to explain what it was  - was ok tho - also poshest counter staff ever

if id asked for pies or fishcakes they might have exploded  (see scottish chippys about meat and potato pies )

 

 

[chaseracer]

44 minutes ago, hairnet said:

my fish and chip story is we were in esher for the vw show 15 years ago and went for chips (cos northern) and while it wasnt cheap - they seemed not to know what basic items were when asked

Did you have your Hairnet-English dictionary/phrase book with you? 😁

[myglaren]

2 hours ago, Pieman said:

See also Archie and Tyler.

Grandson has two friends named Tyler, one a girl and the other a boy.

It can get confusing.

[cobblers]

4 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Grandson has two friends named Tyler, one a girl and the other a boy.

It can get confusing.

A lad I used to work with once went out with a girl called Tyler Turner, I found this absolutely hilarious for some reason.

Then he said they split up because she cheated on him with a lad called Tyler Tailor.

Tyler Tailor's best mate was a lad called Tyler Turner. 

even now, nearly ten years later it confuses me