The grumpy thread

[barefoot]

Multi Grump - What the fuck was this thread doing on page two? Are we not collectively as grumpy as we should be?

A couple of weeks ago, my garage door handle snapped off. It's made from what used to be called monkey metal, something that I understand now has to be referred to as spelter. A few days passed by before I thought to order a replacement, beginning at £31 I soon found one for a tenner inc postage on ebay. Much to my amazement it turned up promptly and was the correct part. My mechanical skills are utter shite & it took another couple of days before I ventured out for a look at the garage, but by simply unbolting an 8mm bolt & pulling a split pin, I successfully removed the old unit. Would the new fucker go through the slot that the old one had come out of? Would it fuck as like. More grumbling ensued, a cup of tea later and in temper I phoned the first apparently* local garage door repairer that the internet offered. https://gdfcastledonington.co.uk/garage-door-automatic-opener-repair.php Cheery woman answered, 'Yes, we'll have a chap out this very afternoon, he'll give you a quote & can do the work there & then'. Alarm bells began to ring. Phone rang at 15:00 & a bloke announced that my fitter would be there within the hour & he was, a nice bloke who had a look and told me he'd phone the office who would call straight back with a price... Ring ring, "Well sir, with the VAT it comes to one oh eight'. 'ONE HUNDRED & EIGHT POUNDS', I ejaculated! "I'd have given you forty or even fifty at a push but you are taking the piss" I hung up & went back out to speak to the lad in the van, I apologised for wasting his time & thanked him for coming so promptly. The fair wife then emerged from the house with the phone, she told me there was a bloke on the phone wanting to do a deal. "I was going to offer you a special deal, but you hung up on me". "Yes, and I'm going to hang up on you again".

About five minutes later, the lad in the van knocked at my door and said, "Although I can't re-connect the cable, I could refit the handle for you & you might like to give me a tip, but technically I won't have completed the job so it won't go against the terms of my contract'. I gave him a couple of tenners & he connected the cable as well.

Apparently you simply have to bend a bit of the original garage door bracings.

Chancing bastards - and their Trustpilot page appears to have gone AWOL.

[barefoot]

And my fucking cat has punctured the paddling pool & pissed in it.

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, barefoot said:

Multi Grump - What the fuck was this thread doing on page two? Are we not collectively as grumpy as we should be?

First time that's ever happened! 😁

[wuvvum]

Well that's less than ideal.

Went out in the Mondeo earlier and when I got back I noticed a substantial carbuncle in the nearside front sidewall.  So it's booked into the local tyre place on Friday to have a shiny new ditchfinder fitted, and I am once again astounded by my ability to lose money even on cars that are apparently ridiculously cheap to buy.

[richardmorris]

16 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Well that's less than ideal.

Went out in the Mondeo earlier and when I got back I noticed a substantial carbuncle in the nearside front sidewall.  So it's booked into the local tyre place on Friday to have a shiny new ditchfinder fitted, and I am once again astounded by my ability to lose money even on cars that are apparently ridiculously cheap to buy.

Some impressive kerbing and a split in the wall too.

[Dyslexic Viking]

I've had one of those days. Struggled with an injector on a tractor and got a lot of new problems that I didn't think were possible so thats not fixed.

But the big problem is a terrible toothache. I have to find a dentist as soon as I can afford it as this is no longer bearable and I am not looking forward to it as several teeth need to be pulled.  So right now I feel like I've been hit hard in the head as everything hurts.

[Popsicle]

1 hour ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I've had one of those days. Struggled with an injector on a tractor and got a lot of new problems that I didn't think were possible so thats not fixed.

But the big problem is a terrible toothache. I have to find a dentist as soon as I can afford it as this is no longer bearable and I am not looking forward to it as several teeth need to be pulled.  So right now I feel like I've been hit hard in the head as everything hurts.

Orajel is very good for masking toothache https://www.orajel.co.uk/orajel-extra-strength/

Might make it more bearable till you can get to a dentist.

[sierraman]

12 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Well that's less than ideal.

Went out in the Mondeo earlier and when I got back I noticed a substantial carbuncle in the nearside front sidewall.  So it's booked into the local tyre place on Friday to have a shiny new ditchfinder fitted, and I am once again astounded by my ability to lose money even on cars that are apparently ridiculously cheap to buy.

A budget tyre!!!!!! Are you mad! 😂

[Bren]

20 hours ago, barefoot said:

And my fucking cat has punctured the paddling pool & pissed in it.

I can top this.

My eldest had a baby tooth come out. It fell on the carpet.

We didn't get chance to recover it for the tooth fairy because our king charles ate it.

[NorthernMonkey]

9 minutes ago, Bren said:

I can top this.

My eldest had a baby tooth come out. It fell on the carpet.

We didn't get chance to recover it for the tooth fairy because our king charles ate it.

A sad sign of the austerity we are living under.

 

Our last Monarch could afford her own swans.

[Pieman]

Does everyone get a BMW Mini/Fiat 500/Ford Fiesta with a personalised number plate for their 17th birthday these days?

My first car was my mum's old Metro, and I had to pay her for it and help her find a replacement.  If I'd asked for a car or anything to do with one for my 17th I'd have been told to fuck off and stop acting spoilt.

[High Jetter]

My sister offered her 17yo daughter her 58 plate Note for nothing, but daughter turned her nose up at it. Sisters's reaction? She can buy her own car, then.

[Pieman]

That reminded me - when my dad's boss's son turned 17, he thought he was going to be given his mum's car for nothing, but because he hadn't gone out and got a job, his dad decided it wasn't happening.  So I bought the car!

[Remspoor]

16 hours ago, Popsicle said:

Orajel is very good for masking toothache https://www.orajel.co.uk/orajel-extra-strength/

Might make it more bearable till you can get to a dentist.

Mr Viking is not in the UK. Personally I use  clove oil. it looks like in Norwegian it is called Nellikolje.

[barefoot]

On 6/27/2023 at 2:02 PM, barefoot said:

And my fucking cat has punctured the paddling pool & pissed in it.

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

[myglaren]

1 hour ago, barefoot said:

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

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.

[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... 😅