The grumpy thread

[myglaren]

 

 

Yorkshire Tea, grown on the sunny slopes of Ilkley Moor.

In inclement weather it comes from the Barnsley tea mine.

 

On that note I saw on QI something called Duck Shit Tea, which only grows in cold, damp places so Yorkshire could be ideal.

Yorkshire Tea is the only tea that I partake of.

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, artdjones said:

The Irish might have something to say about that.

Good stuff, that. We always go for Barry's when over there.

[MiniMinorMk3]

19 hours ago, Remspoor said:

A women passes by our house everyday to walk her dog. The wife and I have made friends with the woman and pet.

She was going to London on vacation for a few days vacation .Asked what would I like to be brought back. I said tea is always a good choice.I  suggested PGTips. Today she brought me the present. Tea bags. Not PG Tips but Twinings. Great even better. The gripe is.....they are now making the tea bags in Poland. The Brits don't even make the best* tea in the world  now

 

19 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Twinings are bagging their bloody tea in Poland? Is nothing sacred?

 

15 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

The tea comes from India anyway. Hardly made in Britain .

 

10 hours ago, artdjones said:

True, but Britain has a long history of tea processing and blending. Poland , I'm not sure. 

 

6 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Well sort of true. Yes tea plants are not grown in the UK and they are not just grown in India. However, tea has been processed, made into drinkable tea, for a long, long time in the country. Look at the history of Twinings for instance.

There is nothing like British tea, IMHO.

Her indoors used to work at Twinings, She left before production moved to Poland in 2012.

However, the plant was taken over by Spicers, who blend speciality teas in the old Twinigs factory to this day.

Keith Spicer (keith-spicer.co.uk)

They make the biggest rival to Yorkshire tea

and for softy southerners there's

and for traditionalists there's

 

[Matty]

Shower of bastards. Have to come here once a week for kids swimming. Bought a ticket as always for longer than I was staying. They've recently changed the machine from printing sticky tickets for the screen to plain pieces of paper. Laid it on the dash and checked after shutting the door that it hadn't blown over. Then our Eve went to the car for something. Preditcable end result. I hope the cunts tea is burnt when he gets in!

[Remspoor]

 

4 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Her indoors used to work at Twinings, She left before production moved to Poland in 2012.

In the 1950s the main factory in southeast London was struggling to cope with demand. Production was relocated to a new plant in Andover, Hampshire  1966. At the time this cost £3 million. Andover was chosen as it was halfway between London and Avonmouth, where the tea docked, and close to Southampton, from where it was exported. Eighty families were relocated to the new factory. The seven acre site contained one of the most modern automated factories in the world, and employed 700 workers. The present day work force is vastly reduced from that number.

https://goo.gl/maps/xYFRpkFd7AMQUjhT7

The factory in North Shields was opened in 1970. So that did not last so long, unfortunately.

The Chinese side of the company.

https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0173412D:CH

 

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

2 hours ago, Matty said:

Shower of bastards. Have to come here once a week for kids swimming. Bought a ticket as always for longer than I was staying. They've recently changed the machine from printing sticky tickets for the screen to plain pieces of paper. Laid it on the dash and checked after shutting the door that it hadn't blown over. Then our Eve went to the car for something. Preditcable end result. I hope the cunts tea is burnt when he gets in!

Had this happen to me a few years ago.  It's worth contesting, you have clear evidence of payment.

[Matty]

23 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Had this happen to me a few years ago.  It's worth contesting, you have clear evidence of payment.

I'll have a do. Had the presence of mind to take photos straight off. Not hopeful mind, and at the end of the day I have broke the rules. Not displaying a ticket.

[RoverFolkUs]

29 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Had this happen to me a few years ago.  It's worth contesting, you have clear evidence of payment.

 

5 minutes ago, Matty said:

I'll have a do. Had the presence of mind to take photos straight off. Not hopeful mind, and at the end of the day I have broke the rules. Not displaying a ticket.

Sadly the criteria is usually for failure to correctly display a ticket as you say, rather than failing to pay for the fecking thing

Which proves they are fishing for revenue, because a ticket with your reg on and time of purchase/expiry would prove you paid the appropriate fee and it was still valid at time of "penalty" 

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, Matty said:

I'll have a do. Had the presence of mind to take photos straight off. Not hopeful mind, and at the end of the day I have broke the rules. Not displaying a ticket.

Good luck, as the old VED contravention went though, the failure is not displaying, rather than not paying like you say.

as an aside my c5 and family xantia had a nice clip on the a panel to slip a parking ticket behind. Very useful really.

 

[Matty]

3 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Good luck, as the old VED contravention went though, the failure is not displaying, rather than not paying like you say.

as an aside my c5 and family xantia had a nice clip on the a panel to slip a parking ticket behind. Very useful really.

 

You're right. Briefly had a c3 with the same thing. Sight more useful than a cup holder 😄

[GrumpiusMaximus]

12 minutes ago, Matty said:

You're right. Briefly had a c3 with the same thing. Sight more useful than a cup holder 😄

When I contested the charge a few years ago, they sent me a stick-on windscreen pocket for parking tickets.  This was a local council though, so not a complete shower of privately-owned bastards.

[Matty]

Tbh I'm waiting for the punchline. Whilst jumping from one foot to the other using language that'd make a sailor blush, I screwed up the yellow sticky sleeve they put on your screen and threw it on the ground. Even id laugh if I get a fine for littering 🤣

[sheffcortinacentre]

Like I keep saying short of cash the cashcow motorist is your friend!

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 hour ago, Matty said:

You're right. Briefly had a c3 with the same thing. Sight more useful than a cup holder 😄

Less use now to you, but for the future... you get wee sticky-back ticket holders for about £1.20 a pop on eBay. I bought a handful of them and we've all got one in our cars now.

Really useful as the bits where I park are mostly ticket based etc.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Matty said:

I'll have a do. Had the presence of mind to take photos straight off. Not hopeful mind, and at the end of the day I have broke the rules. Not displaying a ticket.

It's worth a try, as you'd paid to park.

[Metal Guru]

6 hours ago, High Jetter said:

It's worth a try, as you'd paid to park.

Relying on goodwill from a parking enforcement company. Good luck with that!

[chaseracer]

Glass half-full, eh?  If you don't have a go, you'll never know...

GLWTA, @Matty

[Matty]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

Glass half-full, eh?  If you don't have a go, you'll never know...

GLWTA, @Matty

Just put appeal in now. I wouldn't mind but when I have to go in the truck instead of the car it has a 14ft bed on it. So I park across 2 spaces and buy 2 fucking tickets! 

[horriblemercedes]

On 2/25/2023 at 8:56 AM, artdjones said:

The Irish might have something to say about that.

Would the Irish say it's just like British tea?

[artdjones]

11 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Would the Irish say it's just like British tea?

They'd say it's far better.

[horriblemercedes]

On 2/25/2023 at 8:40 AM, Remspoor said:

Well sort of true. Yes tea plants are not grown in the UK and they are not just grown in India. However, tea has been processed, made into drinkable tea, for a long, long time in the country. Look at the history of Twinings for instance.

There is nothing like British tea, IMHO.

On 2/25/2023 at 8:56 AM, artdjones said:

The Irish might have something to say about that.

 

 

[Rust Collector]

For fuck sake, this is like the 4th car I’ve got stuck on the front lawn this year

One of these days I’ll learn my bloody lesson.

[louiepj]

As I sat in the other half's Renault Grand Scenic to move it earlier it went donk/boing from the rear.
Guess I'm replacing a rear spring tomorrow .

[MikeR]

just went away for a boys weekend at the static , my son packed all the vids he wanted to watch , laptop and his external dvd drive .....

all went well untill he used the dvd drive , which despite being bought a year back has seen very little use , well it worked for half an episode of South Park and went tits up !!...

he was gutted , so tried the drive on my old Linux lappy and still the same tits up mode , even with other DVDs ..

same DVDs worked in the laptop drive ...

so he pinched my laptop to watch South Park !!

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, louiepj said:

As I sat in the other half's Renault Grand Scenic to move it earlier it went donk/boing from the rear.
Guess I'm replacing a rear spring tomorrow .

Piece of piss on those though to be fair.  Unlike, say, the front spring on a Rover 75.

[MikeR]

Can't help some people ?, request on FB for some hard to get  roof tiles , I have a pile of them identifying as a bug house in my garden ..so I posted back a picture , but as they are not a certain brand ... It went quiet ! , I can wait another 20 years for them to shift .

Old tiles match in as well and don't stick out like a sore thumb .

[Zelandeth]

Chronic fatigue can get in the sea.  

Laundry list of things I'd wanted to get done over the weekend.  Body and brain had other ideas, ended up spending a significant portion of it sitting like a vegetable staring into the middle distance.

Did manage to get some stuff done at least, but I'm seriously hacked off by the amount of time that was wasted.  

Of course I have to contend with the cheerful thought each time I have a flare up that this is something which is only going to get progressively worse as I get older.

[Rust Collector]

21 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

For fuck sake, this is like the 4th car I’ve got stuck on the front lawn this year

One of these days I’ll learn my bloody lesson.

Problem resolved. I waited until all the neighbours closed their curtains and then dragged it out with a tow rope and my 4x4 😅

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Its definitly Monday.

(TL/DR: its Monday automated phone and foreign  call centres are shit)

The oldest is Ill and at home  so I need to cancel an appt at the bank. I mean I could drag him with me or t leave him behind but I try and be a half decent parent most of the time.  So I will phone them.... no branch no just a generic 0333 number .  I  call  and it's an automated service so after 5 minutes I get nowhere.. great.

Take 2 and i use my patented mash the keypad which usually results in getting a human. Which I do..  and get an human! Alas he need sacct  Nos,  sort codes detail and such OFC they are a non UK call centre so after the 3rd attempt   of  phonetically  giving  out the branch name (its wels sho let's add another layer if complexity) ... I give up.

 Sorry not sorry if the branch had a humber I could have done this in 2 minutes not 20 - and actually succeeded. Instead I just gave up and became the cunt  customer who didnt arrive or call to say sorry. I tried... really..

 

11 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Chronic fatigue can get in the sea.  

Laundry list of things I'd wanted to get done over the weekend.  Body and brain had other ideas, ended up spending a significant portion of it sitting like a vegetable staring into the middle distance.

Did manage to get some stuff done at least, but I'm seriously hacked off by the amount of time that was wasted.  

Of course I have to contend with the cheerful thought each time I have a flare up that this is something which is only going to get progressively worse as I get older.

I hear you, it can get in the sea. I did a small crazy golf thing last Friday with the family and Sat and Sunday were write offs for me for doing pretty much anything.   CFS and chronic pain can do one, raises metaphorically dosette box to you.

[Zelandeth]

56 minutes ago, Low Horatio gearbox said:

Its definitly Monday.

(TL/DR: its Monday automated phone and foreign  call centres are shit)

The oldest is Ill and at home  so I need to cancel an appt at the bank. I mean I could drag him with it leave him behind but I try and be a half decent parent most of the time.  So I will phone them.... no branch no just a generic 0333 number .  I  call  and it's an automated service so after 5 minutes I get nowhere.. great.

Take 2 and infuse my patented mash the keypad which usually results in gettig a human. Which I do..  and get an human! Alas he ned scout  NOS sort codes detail and such OFC they are n a non UK call centre so after the 3rd attempt   of  phonetically  giving  out the branch name...... I give up.

 Sorry not sorry if the branch had a humber I could have done this I  2 minutes not 20 - and actually jot succeeded. Instead I just gave up and became the county  customer who didnt arrive or call to say sorry. I tried... really..

 

I hear you, it can get in the sea. I did a small crazy golf thing last Friday with the family and Sat and Sunday were write offs for me for doing pretty much anything.   CFS and chronic pain can do one, raises metaphorically dosette box to you.

It's the fact that it's so bloody erratic that grinds my gears the most.  I know that if I over push myself I'll pay for it afterwards, that to some extent I can just live with as you can to some extent at least plan for it.

It's the times when your body just decides for no particular reason to wake up feeling like you'd just sat down from running the London Marathon three times over for apparently no good reason that are really annoying.  Sometimes it will clear up after a few hours, other times it's days.  There's no rhyme nor reason to it.

Coupled with chronic sleep problems it's a fun combo.

It wasn't something I suffered really too much from until last May when I caught COVID, ever since then it's ramped up by several orders of magnitude though.  Likewise the migraines I used to get once every three or four months have now increased to every week or two.

Why it really irks me when I hear people shrugging off COVID as nothing more than a bad cold.  Yeah, great for you if that was your experience.  However plenty of the rest of us weren't so lucky, how about you have a care for us...