The grumpy thread

[Datsuncog]

FFS, schools haven't even broken up yet, and already Lidl's got all their BACK TO SCHOOL!! advertising out.

I haven't been near Tesco or any other big-box retailer for a while, but I bet they're all the same. It's not new though, I know that.

Not much annoyed me more as a kid than having this guff shouted at me by every retailer all summer long.

I often wondered how much adults would fancy it if airport departure lounges and hotels kept playing BACK TO WORK!! announcements every three minutes over the summer, and trying to flog them ties and wrist supports and paperclips at every turn.

My guess was: not much.

I did not particularly enjoy school, and the summer break was one of the few times when I had the space to do the things I wanted to do for an extended period. Read, draw, watch films, listen to records in depth, go out on my bike all day and take photographs. Develop myself in the ways the narrowness of the school curriculum didn't.

All the big signs and TV ads shouting 'BACK TO SCHOOL!!' at seemingly every turn made it seem like there was no point doing anything as soon I'd be BACK TO SCHOOL!! It was like a cloud hanging over me the whole time, reminding me that bullying and homework and trying to keep up with the nonsensical demands of my peers over carrying my schoolbag 'the wrong way' and wearing my blazer 'the wrong way' were about to start up again all too soon.

Depressing as fuck. 

It still brings me down, clearly.

Meh.

[barefoot]

10 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

It still brings me down, clearly.

Meh.

Get a cat.

[Datsuncog]

I've got a cat!

But apparently she's melted in the heat.

[PicantoJon]

Mum: 'it just needs a new belt' 

Erm yea, nah its toast.. 

[hairnet]

michael vaughan can fuck off and take that maxwell cunt with him too

 

[camryv6]

11 hours ago, barefoot said:

Now the little fucker has popped my luxury expanding & ultra convenient hose pipe.

Does your neighbour want a cat ? 😉

[MikeR]

I hate thinking about things ...

   in case I forget  what I am thinking about ..

[GMcD]

Minor moan. Took the Navara to a main dealer for a brake squeal issue for the second time. 

I'm 90% confident it's the back brakes (stops when you pull up the handbrake slightly), and told them as such, but they diagnosed it needed new front disks and pads as they were "faulty" (they looked brand new as it's only 18 months old and done 7k) and that they did me a "favour" getting them replaced under goodwill (again....it has only done 7k) 🤣

It's still squealing like fuck (it would do when it's the back brakes!) and they managed to get copper grease on my seat/arm rest and mat. They also washed it...it's got copper grease finger prints on the bonnet and front wing. 

Don't know why I fucking bothered. I would have been quicker stripping the rear brakes myself to clean them up (but I didn't want to as it's still under warranty) rather than walking the hour back from and to the dealer in the pissing rain.  Meh. It's a lease anyway so sod it, they can squeal till I hand it back. 

[Bren]

TCM ends on July 6th.

One of the few channels I watch.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

I hate thinking about things ...

   in case I forget  what I am thinking about ..

Sorry, what were you on about?

[somewhatfoolish]

10 hours ago, PicantoJon said:

Mum: 'it just needs a new belt' 

Erm yea, nah its toast.. 

The bit that's got toasty is just a quarter inch male crimp connector; easy and cheap to replace, the round thing it attaches to is a high temperature cut-off sensor. Any other bits that have obviously had smoke trying to escape?

[New POD]

12 hours ago, myglaren said:

Daughter's cat bit through the flexi hose for the outside tap.  It was fitted before the kitchen units and only a cat or rat can get in there.  An absolute bugger to turn it off, flooded the kitchen.

Impossible to get a new flexi fitted without tearing the sink unit to bits.

Insurance job ? 

[Wibble]

1 minute ago, New POD said:

Insurance job ? 

Definitely but don’t say the cat caused it! Just claim for an escape of water.

[PicantoJon]

6 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

The bit that's got toasty is just a quarter inch male crimp connector; easy and cheap to replace, the round thing it attaches to is a high temperature cut-off sensor. Any other bits that have obviously had smoke trying to escape?

Not that I could see, shall take another look. I just saw that and thought it didn't look good, or at least above my limited skill level... 😅

[somewhatfoolish]

15 minutes ago, PicantoJon said:

Not that I could see, shall take another look. I just saw that and thought it didn't look good, or at least above my limited skill level... 😅

🙂 I'm all for people staying in their comfort zone when dealing with mains voltage, only have a go if you feel safe doing so.

[Talbot]

11 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

🙂 I'm all for people staying in their comfort zone when dealing with mains voltage, only have a go if you feel safe doing so.

Wise words. 

[myglaren]

On 29/06/2023 at 22:30, New POD said:

Insurance job ? 

Nope.  I may get around to butchering the sink unit and repairing it, one day.

Did have to put a new floorcovering in for her, pulled the ruined 'hardwood' floor up and replaced with vinyl.

[myglaren]

This lot need an adult to watch over them.

[Metal Guru]

Curry’s latest ad on TV.

New Dyson from  £849! £849 for a vacuum cleaner!? FFS! 
Can’t be long before there’s a £1000 one.

[Tickman]

44 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Curry’s latest ad on TV.

New Dyson from  £849! £849 for a vacuum cleaner!? FFS! 
Can’t be long before there’s a £1000 one.

There has been a vacuum cleaner over £1000 for at least 20 years.

[sheffcortinacentre]

2 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Curry’s latest ad on TV.

New Dyson from  £849! £849 for a vacuum cleaner!? FFS! 
Can’t be long before there’s a £1000 one.

Not just me then, should come with Philippa Forrester in a maids outfit too at that price.

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Not just me then, should come with Philippa Forrester in a maids outfit too at that price.

Sold!

[captain_70s]

One less Fulvia Zagato...

[Rocket88]

On 6/29/2023 at 7:06 PM, hairnet said:

michael vaughan can fuck off and take that maxwell cunt with him too

 

So can the entire Australian team after the Bairstow incident 

[jakebullet]

Clamped the tailstock on my lathe, except it didn't lever has no resistance. Took it apart and the weld holding the cam bit on the shaft had failed. Which arse welded that? Oh, me, 15 years ago.

Snotted it again and back clamping.

[sheffcortinacentre]

On 7/2/2023 at 10:43 PM, Metal Guru said:

Sold!

Get your own fantasy.

[horriblemercedes]

At work we have a Volkswagen van that needs some warranty work. I drive past the dealership so I've dropped it in. They said it'd be 30 minutes so I agreed to wait for it, now they're saying it'll be a couple of days. I don't really want to sit in the dealership that long. 

 

There's some cunt here whose purpose isn't obvious to me. He is a customer but doesn't seem to be buying anything. Instead he's telling everyone in earshot how much his daughter's school costs, how much his company turns over (and that he owns it) and how many staff it employs. 64, although I didn't want to know that. 

 

He's also British and describes himself as a CEO, which I always thought was American for MD

[Rust Collector]

11 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

how much his company turns over (and that he owns it) and how many staff it employs.

I know an MD who always says 'turnover is vanity, profit is sanity' when the subject comes up, but in day to day business fixates on turnover anyway 🤣

[New POD]

28 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

I know an MD who always says 'turnover is vanity, profit is sanity' when the subject comes up, but in day to day business fixates on turnover anyway 🤣

Profit as a % of investment is where it's at.

Not as a % of turnover. 

[Rust Collector]

1 minute ago, New POD said:

Profit as a % of investment is where it's at.

Given the last few years and that it's a small manufacturing business, I'm not sure that they would like to look under that particular stone 😅