The grumpy thread

[omegod]

8 minutes ago, Weird Car said:

I used to work with a guy who had mackerel on toast for lunch every day, he’d warm them up in the microwave so whenever anyone would open the microwave to use it they’d be hit with the stench of mackerel.

Yeah some fucker has just done this with Katsu Mackerel, looked like he'd eaten it once already then shat it onto toast 

[cobblers]

I asked for a multipack of seabrooks. 

Ended up with this rubbish

Since when are Seabrook turning garbage like this out? Oh how the mighty have fallen! Wouldn't even feed these to the bloody dog.

If someone tells me Longley farm have sold out too, I'm going to go mad

[fairkens]

On 8/7/2023 at 10:25 AM, Dick Longbridge said:

@fairkens - which part is funny?

Back on topic, apparently the access road was blocked for the fire service to access due to 'flytipping'. 

The whole thing smells fishier than Mel B's character on Bo Selecta - it'll be interesting to see what happens next. I was reading about The Claremont in Eastbourne burning down recently - will it be rebuilt in the style of the original? Place your bets.

Who remembers the fire at the Royal Clarence in Exeter seven years ago? Grade 2 listed and from what I remember,  the then owners took the hefty insurance payout, sold the ruined shell and ran. 

The system's broken, isn't it? 

Fat fingers, now corrected.

I really liked that pub

[Noel Tidybeard]

mayor of brum has said they ought to be made to rebuild the pub!

 

Mayor Andy Street said he had asked South Staffordshire Council to ensure the pub was rebuilt "and any attempt to change its use blocked".

"We will not let the Crooked House be consigned to history," he said.

"We believe that great pubs have immense cultural and historical value here in the West Midlands and we should be taking steps to protect and preserve their heritage."

[DavieW]

Wife has booked an eye test for me - 8.40 on Saturday morning 🤬 I didn't know 8.40 on a Saturday existed. 

[Datsuncog]

7 hours ago, cobblers said:

Since when are Seabrook turning garbage like this out?

Oh how the mighty have fallen! Wouldn't even feed these to the bloody dog.

They've had those out for a couple of years now. In the spirit of gastronomic curiosity, I picked up a pack a while back from Home Bargains.

Probably my second biggest regret of 2021, subordinate only to telling everyone just how sound and unrusty my Subaru was shortly before it literally collapsed due to rampant tinworm.

[somewhatfoolish]

14 hours ago, cobblers said:

I asked for a multipack of seabrooks. 

Ended up with this rubbish

Since when are Seabrook turning garbage like this out? Oh how the mighty have fallen! Wouldn't even feed these to the bloody dog.

If someone tells me Longley farm have sold out too, I'm going to go mad

They still make all the normal flavour crinkle cut crisps; I was binging on prawn cocktail and salt'n'vinegar the other week.

[MorrisItalSLX]

21 hours ago, omegod said:

Mackerel, Salmon or sardines in the workplace should be a sackable offence 

F*cking stinks 

Lady at work microwaves tinned salmon and tuna and puts it on toast.

The whinging from myself and my colleagues has been getting less and less subtle over the passing months.

Yesterday it reached the peak of “For fucks sake, Julie, people are trying to eat”.

[Tenmil Socket]

12 minutes ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

Lady at work microwaves tinned salmon and tuna and puts it on toast.

The whinging from myself and my colleagues has been getting less and less subtle over the passing months.

Yesterday it reached the peak of “For fucks sake, Julie, people are trying to eat”.

Also Fisherman’s/Mariners pie microwave meals. 
Where I work the air circulation is sort of connected with ceiling vents between rooms/offices so it fills the entire floor with tench stench from the kitchen!

[wuvvum]

It seems my domestic appliances are quitting en masse.  After the shenanigans with the lawn mower at the weekend, the hoover died last night and this morning the fridge freezer has packed up.  Fantastic.  

To be fair, I bought the fridge freezer secondhand about 8 years ago and the hoover is one I was given when I moved here back in 2008 so I've probably had my money's worth, but could have done without the expense at the moment.

[beko1987]

What hoover is it? (if you can be arsed to fix it, the world may be your lobster sub £30 on your local marketplace) 

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

Lady at work microwaves tinned salmon and tuna and puts it on toast.

The whinging from myself and my colleagues has been getting less and less subtle over the passing months.

Yesterday it reached the peak of “For fucks sake, Julie, people are trying to eat”.

I used to have to sit beside a woman called Morna  who had terrible BO and she made sandwiches for lunch every day that were filled with 'just a mixture' according to her. Whatever it was, it also smelled of human BO and intensified the dreadful cheg. 

Flanked on the other side was Frances, a human dustbin who dipped quavers in her cup of tea. She also necked cans of fizzy juice like they were just thimblefuls while also proclaiming "Ah shouldnae huv this", due to being diabetic. 

[stephen01]

It wasnt pulled down it was demolished, without consent, theres videos on facebollox and thousands of pictures. 

I visited yesterday with my family, heartbreaking. 

[High Jetter]

There is a dedicated thread on this debacle, here:

 

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I used to have to sit beside a woman called Morna  who had terrible BO and she made sandwiches for lunch every day that were filled with 'just a mixture' according to her. Whatever it was, it also smelled of human BO and intensified the dreadful cheg. 

Flanked on the other side was Frances, a human dustbin who dipped quavers in her cup of tea. She also necked cans of fizzy juice like they were just thimblefuls while also proclaiming "Ah shouldnae huv this", due to being diabetic. 

See, it's exactly this kind of thing which makes (mostly) working from home the one good thing left about my job...

Even if my current desk neighbour does give off a slight whiff of fish every now and again.

[Zelandeth]

Well that's an hour of my life I won't get back.

Fun fact: Things held in place by snap rings come apart a hell of a lot more easily after you've discovered the existence of said snap ring.

Other fun fact: If you can't see any way for the thing you're trying to get apart to be held together, look closer.  You're obviously missing something, it's not been held together by willpower for the last 30 years.  Idiot.

Also, don't punch anti-roll bars.  They're harder than your knuckles and it hurts.

Edit: Okay, I'm done for the day.  Just knocked a can of WD40 off the shelf in the garage and the millisecond it hit the floor it bloody exploded.  I kid you not, it is now dripping off the ceiling and running down the walls.  That's a problem for tomorrow me to deal with.

[sierraman]

4 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Also Fisherman’s/Mariners pie microwave meals. 
Where I work the air circulation is sort of connected with ceiling vents between rooms/offices so it fills the entire floor with tench stench from the kitchen!

I worked with this guy that used to warm up this sort of tinned chilli and cheese mix that used to make the joint smell like actual sick. Then he’d eat it making this noise like a farmyard animal. 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Just knocked a can of WD40 off the shelf in the garage and the millisecond it hit the floor it bloody exploded.  I kid you not, it is now dripping off the ceiling and running down the walls.  That's a problem for tomorrow me to deal with.

That will be a nice* aroma in the morning!

[barefoot]

Taps. When I was a lad,  these were repaired using a rubber washer and a modicum of skill. Now my plumber asks if I want him to replace the fucker that he installed 2 years ago. 

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Edit: Okay, I'm done for the day.  Just knocked a can of WD40 off the shelf in the garage and the millisecond it hit the floor it bloody exploded.  I kid you not, it is now dripping off the ceiling and running down the walls.  That's a problem for tomorrow me to deal with.

well I am sure Dave of many numbers would have gotten a good laugh out of it  

On 27/02/2018 at 13:12, dave21478 said:

Brilliant... late in for lunch I fired up an off-brand pot noodle and while carrying it to the lounge successfully spilled it all over myself, burned the piss out of my hand, soaked my phone with the juice, soaked a load of expense receipts I was also carrying and it hit the hall floor and just fucking exploded....it was literally dripping from the ceiling in my newly decorated hallway. The obvious and considered reaction was to throw an immediate, massive paddy and boot the fucker down the hall while screaming, which has made the whole scenario about 18 times worse.

 

[wuvvum]

5 hours ago, beko1987 said:

What hoover is it?

It's a TurboPower 2 (model # U2090).

I think I might go (more) retro and buy a Hoover Junior for the house and a Constellation for the stairs and the car.

[hairnet]

On 8/8/2023 at 3:54 PM, cobblers said:

I asked for a multipack of seabrooks. 

Ended up with this rubbish

 

Since when are Seabrook turning garbage like this out? Oh how the mighty have fallen! Wouldn't even feed these to the bloody dog.

 

something is only loaded if its got real cheese and whatever on it ffs 

like that doritos that taste like BK wtf is that about

[beko1987]

53 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

It's a TurboPower 2 (model # U2090).

I think I might go (more) retro and buy a Hoover Junior for the house and a Constellation for the stairs and the car.

Aaah, motors aren't too easy to come by for those, their known for doing it! 

A junior is a dirty fan cleaner, so mind stones and bolts and stuff. Connie's are nice, numatic hepaflo bags can be easily fitted which improve the fuck out of them! As well as removing the rf surpressor, as it will go bang one day and fire sparks at your carpet 🤣 Their great fun with a Numatic or miele motor fitted too, run very warm though

[Metal Guru]

Tremendous piece of lazy ill informed journalism in the Telegragh.

It was an anti SUV rant using a Range Rover Evoque as the example, saying they are too big and dirty and dangerous. Obviously too busy to check the  facts, suggested alternatives for our crowded streets were Skoda Octavia Estate , about a foot longer, Volvo V90 Estate , nearly two feet longer, and the Hyundai Ioniq 5 which is longer and heavier than the Evoque.

Now I’m not a Range Rover fan boy, and not keen on manufacturers heading towards SUV only ranges,  but if they’d shown a “full fat” Range Rover or something like a Q7 or X7 , I could understand it , but of course for the anti brigade all SUVs are evil.

They’re also of course dangerous illustrated by that tragedy in Wimbledon, although I’m pretty sure a Nissan Micra would kill someone capable if driven across a crowded playground at speed. 

[Yoss]

I've not had the best day. Fell flat on my face right at the start of my delivery. Literally between the first and second of my 705 drops. I managed to trip over a complety flat and smooth piece of pavement and being right at the start was carrying a heavy bag which only helped me on my way. I mean I've fallen over before, when you're walking four to five hours a day the law of averages says you will fall over more often than somebody who works in an office. Usually your automatic reaction is to stick your hands out but today for some inexplicable reason I decided to use my face to break my fall.

The bit over the bridge of my nose was caused by my glasses, which also broke, and kept bleeding all day. But my nose took the brunt. This was taken six hours later having cleaned it up as best I could. The only very, very thin silver lining was that it happened right by our office so I was able to go back and get cleaned up as much as possible. I guess I should count myself lucky it's not broken.

[High Jetter]

At least you were able to pick yourself up, could have been far worse.

[goosey]

Getting fed up now, struggling to get to sleep in my Hotel room and some dickhead just thumped their way down the corridor and sounds like their standing outside my room door like their shifting their weight from each foot so now I’m spark awake….great 

[eddyramrod]

I don't understand how this has happened... I've just spent several minutes on the Politics section of the Open Forum.  I mean, that never happens!  I've even "liked" some postings!  This is conclusive proof that something is wrong between my ears, or more wrong than usual.

I went to an out-of-town meeting of one of my support groups yesterday, where we had a couple of "speakers" from the local health authorities, and because of that, I finally realised that I am having difficulty absorbing information.  I haven't always had this; quite the reverse!  It's come as a shock.

[iainrcz]

Back to work tonight.

Urgh.

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

I went to an out-of-town meeting of one of my support groups yesterday, where we had a couple of "speakers" from the local health authorities, and because of that, I finally realised that I am having difficulty absorbing information.  I haven't always had this; quite the reverse!  It's come as a shock.

It is a horrible feeling isn't it?  Something I've very much become aware of as a side effect of my own health issues which have been far worse since contracting COVID back in May 22.  I very much have a finite ration of cognitive energy available per day, and once that's exhausted unless it's something already in my brain that can be done more or less on autopilot, forget it.

Spent a good few days a month or two ago trying to learn how to use some new IT tools, and eventually just had to give up as it was plain that the information just wasn't going to stick.  Which given this is a field I've had an interest in since I was old enough to use a keyboard and have considered myself pretty competent in until very recently really doesn't feel good at all.  It made me feel very, very old.  Which at 38 doesn't exactly bode well for my future!