The grumpy thread

[EyesWeldedShut]

2 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Good luck. I forgot to plug the throttle body back in when I did my first belt on my xantia 🤣 Fired up fine then died. Repeat about 3 times getting more panicked by the second. 

Throttle body contained the anti stall valve... Fired up and idled fine after plugging it in! 

Hope it's something simple for you

This was 100% the battery - trickle charged overnight and it started first turn of the key this morning. Not sure if its the battery or a current drain so I'll just get the test leads out over the next week before we drop it down to him. At his place he has to park out in resident's parking so it's not ideal if the electrics play up - methinks he'll invest in one of those little power pack things

[mercedade]

3 hours ago, myglaren said:

There was one in eldest daughter's shed.  Youngest daughter went in, grabbed the nest and ran outside with it, chucked it over the fence into the bushes of the park.

She came out unscathed but I wouldn't recommend it.

These are the actions of an actual lunatic. Bravo!

[MikeR]

Everything happens at once , fixed a bath tap and on my back I get the Mrs saying the hot water is off ...

Pilot light is out and not reaching the thermocouple , which ment heat exchanger , burners etc had to come out , to get the pilot light tube out , it was gummed up . .. anyway the heat exchanger is looking a bit minty so may be time for a replacement , my matey plumber will look into pricing and a convenient swap over can take place ... Goods for dosh ..

[andyberg]

I have had to put the liner back in my motorcycle jacket😡 Yes I do go to work at 3.30am but even so ITS JULY FFS. It was a bit chilly this morning. 

[Cavcraft]

Painful operation on my big toe a few weeks ago. Managed to be careful for two days, got bored, went to the garage and dropped a ratchet on it. Being careful again a week later, I ran it over pushing a moped. Being careful again today, I ran it over with a trails type motorbike.

[MikeR]

Fancy that 

Seagulls shitting in the sea ! 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1793396/seagulls-water-quality-sea-utility-company

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Cavcraft said:

Painful operation on my big toe a few weeks ago. Managed to be careful for two days, got bored, went to the garage and dropped a ratchet on it. Being careful again a week later, I ran it over pushing a moped. Being careful again today, I ran it over with a trails type motorbike.

Please, whatever you do, don't be careless - it could be fatal at this rate

[goosey]

your not allowed to park here (even though you’re a visitor in a visitor space), so il block you in so you can’t leave s

the self appointed Parking Police 

[Bren]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

Fancy that 

Seagulls shitting in the sea ! 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1793396/seagulls-water-quality-sea-utility-company

It will only make it taste of chips and ice cream.

[horriblemercedes]

I've had a couple of nice pictures of my car taken by Warwickshire police. 58 in a 50 on the M42. First time I've ever been caught

 

Hoping for speed awareness course! 

[High Jetter]

41 minutes ago, Bren said:

It will only make it taste of chips and ice cream.

It's a bit rich for Southern Water after their recent crap dumps. Just giving their critics the bird?

[mercedade]

1 hour ago, goosey said:

your not allowed to park here (even though you’re a visitor in a visitor space), so il block you in so you can’t leave s

the self appointed Parking Police 

How did it resolve? Mindless, bloody violence?

[Noel Tidybeard]

36 minutes ago, mercedade said:

How did it resolve? Mindless, bloody violence?

"hello police, i've come to take a friend to an important appointment and someone has deliberately blocked my car in"

[goosey]

11 minutes ago, mercedade said:

How did it resolve? Mindless, bloody violence?

She moved her car and let me go after 30 mins, I kept calm and tried to be as polite as possible but after going round in circles and getting no where ended up having to swear at her which got her to move ( I regret having to do this ) 

 

[RoverFolkUs]

2 hours ago, goosey said:

your not allowed to park here (even though you’re a visitor in a visitor space), so il block you in so you can’t leave s

the self appointed Parking Police 

Causing an obstruction to the public highway? Criminal offence.

[goosey]

17 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

"hello police, i've come to take a friend to an important appointment and someone has deliberately blocked my car in"

It’s a tricky one, at the time I didn’t really want to get the Police involved as I didn’t want to create issues/worries for the family member I was visiting. 

[High Jetter]

1 minute ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Causing an obstruction to the public highway? Criminal offence.

Yes, but can you please inform DPD et al who have no concept of the rulez

[RoverFolkUs]

2 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Yes, but can you please inform DPD et al who have no concept of the rulez

Ha, too true!

[cobblers]

1 hour ago, horriblemercedes said:

I've had a couple of nice pictures of my car taken by Warwickshire police. 58 in a 50 on the M42. First time I've ever been caught

 

Hoping for speed awareness course! 

I listened in on my wifes course. I wanted to jump through the internet and strangle most of the other participants. Tutor wasn't much better. Stuck in a virtual room full of dull but angry people with an axe to grind.

Just take the points, it's cheaper. Save the course for later.

[jakebullet]

The Mrs. has decided she has dementia, and she's not going in no home! Engage big list of ways she's going to top herself.

Er, how have you come to this expert* diagnosis?

Yesterday the council sent 2 men to commission the heating system, and she had Nigel supervise them. When everyone had gone post was on the radiator, and OCD means she would never do that. Nigel has been interrogated at length, and will not admit to having moved the post from the floor, and he has provided a statement that he didn't see council men move it. 

QED: She must have moved it, doesn't remember, and so has dementia.

Or Nigel done it, but wants quiet life without days of screeching "contaminated!!!!!"
Or Man #1 done it, while Nigel watched man #2.
Or you got mega panic about men coming to OCD up your flat and forgot you moved post so they don't contaminate!!!! by standing on it.

Dementia then. She's vaguely willing to accept ghost as an answer.

[Datsuncog]

+1 for Post Ghost.

Until the point you're then tasked with exorcising it, and providing proof of same.

😕

[High Jetter]

Just logged on to Natwest online banking and they've messed with the fucking design, again! It was virtually untouched for at least 15 years, then had one revision (which I hated) and now them seem to be fiddling with it every 5 minutes! Grrrrr

[Mr Pastry]

23 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Just logged on to Natwest online banking and they've messed with the fucking design, again! It was virtually untouched for at least 15 years, then had one revision (which I hated) and now them seem to be fiddling with it every 5 minutes! Grrrrr

You and me both!  It was absolutely fine as it was originally, and now it isn't as easy to use.  Latest change seems pointless. 

Rightmove and On the Market are also doing this.  It used to be quite easy and quick to make a list of houses you liked which is the object, surely.  Now you have to go through a load of pointless options, and end up losing interest in the whole business.    Some of these web site designers need to wake up.

[High Jetter]

Glad it's not just me then. Also, why does it take so long to log off now? With the older style, it was pretty instant.

[sdkrc]

12 hours ago, goosey said:

the self appointed Parking Police 

If you see her again can you tell her I was asking how she got such strong creases in her slacks? Looks marvelous 

[juular]

Website design in recent years has become tremendously shit.

Let's make the fonts bigger, remove all the useful options so that it's "easy to use" and absolutely trash any workflow people had.

Seems to especially affect mobile versions of sites, so that if you need to use that one vital menu option or a very useful search filter, you have to use the desktop version.

Not sure what's fuelling this change but it seems like a lot of the golden rules of good UI design are being scrapped in favour of.. fuck knows what.

[horriblemercedes]

10 hours ago, cobblers said:

I listened in on my wifes course. I wanted to jump through the internet and strangle most of the other participants. Tutor wasn't much better. Stuck in a virtual room full of dull but angry people with an axe to grind.

Just take the points, it's cheaper. Save the course for later.

I think if it's offered, I'll take the course. I'm quite good at sitting quietly with a smile hiding contempt

 

Plus, after three years, I'd be eligible for another course while the points stay for four

 

On the one hand, might as well start the clock ticking on the points but on the other hand, I might not get more points

 

Or I might (unlikely but possible) take the points and then in six months do something stupid that gets me six more points without the offer of a course and find myself with nine points

 

 

On balance, I think the course is the safest option. Either way I've marked the date of the offence on my phone calendar and the date by which they have to send me their next correspondence. From reading around I might never hear again or I might receive my next letter after this date. So I'm hoping for that! Fully prepared to take points or course depending on what's offered, however

 

As an aside, I drove the same route this morning and had to really look to see the two average speed cameras there. I had no idea they were there. They're both those tall yellow poles you normally see on average speed sections, but they're against the sky and the sun is shining right behind them at the time I pass in the morning. So that's my fault for not noticing them. I knew that bit had signs saying it's an average speed check, but I thought there were no cameras by that point. So yeah, my fault!

[Parky]

Just been to see a client.  He's 90 and owns a tricked up MX5.  And an XJ6 Coupe.  And a Mini Cooper S.

His wife said no to him buying all of them and he did it anyway.  Maybe I should take a leaf out of his book!

Anyway the grump is a guy at work left and I had to pick up all his work with zero notice. Tripled my workload.  Two weeks after he went I had a trip to the UK and spent most of it working trying to keep up with all his shit he hadnt done.   Zoom meetings with clients at 3am, bending over backwards accomodating odd requests with good humour and a can do attitude and really felt I'd done a lot to keep them onside.  Had lots of good feedback from them too and some excellent google reviews for the website. All good.  Got it all under control, everyone happy.

This week I have had three emails from clients with the "its not you, its me" line saying they are transferring their accounts to the old adviser at his new firm.  I am pissed off I really compromised my holiday (basically didnt have one) and they were going to fuck off anyway.  And who gets a bollocking Monday morning?  Yup, that'd be me.  

[Parky]

And I missed out on a bargain Alfa 166 as I was seeing one of his old clients tonight and it overran so I got home too late to put my bid in

[Talbot]

1 hour ago, horriblemercedes said:

I think if it's offered, I'll take the course.

58/50 it should be offered.  You are right on the threshold for action in the first place (+10%+2mph) and absolutly nowhere near the point where it needs to be points and no offer of a course (+10%+9mph)

Just to make you feel better, if you'd been clocked at 57mph, you would probably have been ignored.