The grumpy thread

[Remspoor]

Several things have had to be repaired in the house recently. The biggest challenge was the dishwasher. The timer button did not want to set a delayed start. It is a simple button. Push and hold. Set for 3, 6 or 9 hour delay. A light indicates the setting. Wife thought it was sticking in the press position. There are no instructions on maintenance on line.

The dishwasher was purchased in 2008. Managed to remove the door cover. Found the way to remove the control cover. Managed to find away to remove the inner control panel. The grump is just how does all the dirt and fat find it's way behind the plastic control panel. The edges of the switches the top of the cover,everywhere. It was disgusting.

Still managed to mend the timer switch. The plastic fork was not hitting the micro switch on the circuit broad. Glued a small bit of plastic to the fork head.

[Remspoor]

Just now, artdjones said:

I've sometimes wondered whether the maritime authorities in the UK have any powers to prevent unsafe boats going to sea, for example if 20 people were seen trying to set sail for Calais in a worn out rubber dinghy? 

You should ask the Daily Mail

[motorpunk]

More fucking cameras. I hate this, I really, really hate this. Yeah, don't phone and drive, don't break the law, blah blah, fuck off. Let's have coppers on the beat, not cameras everywhere watching me fart, please. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-66508840

[Zelandeth]

Currently entering week three of having what I think is a pinched nerve somewhere in my right shoulder.

I am really fucking fed up of continually being in pain.

It's only about a 4/10 on the scale, but when it's utterly inescapable that really gets old after a while.

[Sunny Jim]

@ZelandethI might quite literally feel your pain. Is yours at the end of your collar bone? After 2 years of constant pain and being passed from physio to specialist I finally had a cortisone injection under ultrasound last week. They reckon it might be tendonitis in my case. Still in pain but hoping the injection might be beneficial after a while. Hope yours clears up soon.

[richardmorris]

Just had to evict a pigeon from my kitchen. Left the door open as griddling dinner. Came downstairs and there’s a pigeon in the middle of the floor. Shoed it back out and it flies up to the closed window, ignoring the wide open door. Eventually got it in a shoe box and chucked back outside. It’s been sitting grumpily out there on the ground for the last hour.

[Metal Guru]

Watching the Chase the other day ( not my reason to be grumpy, though).

A contestant is a wild life ranger or some such. Described his job , looking after the environment blah blah! No doubt lectures visitors all the time about climate change . Probably tells them how bad they are for getting there by car.

Asked what he’d do with winning some money. Oh, I like  to travel so I’d fuck off to South America with the whole family because I’ve been everywhere else. 

 

[Remspoor]

12 hours ago, motorpunk said:

More fucking cameras. I hate this, I really, really hate this. Yeah, don't phone and drive, don't break the law, blah blah, fuck off. Let's have coppers on the beat, not cameras everywhere watching me fart, please. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-66508840

Invented in Australia, been used here in Spain for a while.  The daily blub (cant remember which one) are outraged too.

[andy18s]

Things have taken a turn for the worse here in Bg as the police have been given a small payrise,but they get bonuses for each ticket issued.

So they are literally working on commission now so anyone who looks like they can afford it are getting pulled for the most ridiculous of things.

Myself in the Scoob and a newish Audi got pulled for not stopping at an invisible stop line.The other 3-4 cars on the same line of traffic didn't get a look as they were the Bg standard crap..

A friend of ours got stopped twice in his works Transit,rhd but all legal. 1st patrol gave his van and documentation the once over,seemed happy enough and sent him on his way.

The 2nd stop was 5km down the road.Given the same inspection but the copper was determined to find something. 

Gave my friend the full drink/drugs tests which he passed. Copper then decided a back light was broken,van was siezed and held until a new light was fitted.

Then it had to go through a new Pregled ( mot) before it would be released. 

All in all cost him around 1k Lev £450ish in lost time and expenses,with the actual fine for the light about 50 lev £24....

[New POD]

17 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Currently entering week three of having what I think is a pinched nerve somewhere in my right shoulder.

I am really fucking fed up of continually being in pain.

It's only about a 4/10 on the scale, but when it's utterly inescapable that really gets old after a while.

Could be calcific growth. Wife had this on her shoulder, which is basically calcium growing off the edge of the shoulder. It then inflames the nerves, and results in pains up the back, across the shoulder and down the arm. Undiagnosed for over a year.  Our doctor nearly got her hooked on pain medication.  Yes she had other problems they found in her back, but nothing that a chiropractor couldn't solve. Unlike the shoulder. 

In the end a physio said. Let's take an x-ray of your shoulder....oh that's interesting. 

2 solutions

steroid injection cured hers on a week. 

Or keyhole surgery.  To physically remove it. 

[Wack]

Is it national twat day 

On a single track road leading to fidlers ferry yacht haven there's only one bend 

Going in , some twat in a motorhome comes round it doing 20mph to be faced with me entering the bend  in the range rover, luckily at 5mph , i'd think his cupboards are pretty jumbled 

Coming out, same corner some dick in a corsa doing 30mph , we stopped about 5ft apart,  because I was doing 5mph

Why do twats drive round blind bends at speed 

Then I got onto the dual carriageway going through penketh and there's a fucking audi TT coming straight at me driving the wrong way 

FFS 

[fairkens]

10 minutes ago, Wack said:

Is it national twat day 

 

Every day is national twat day

[eddyramrod]

Lovely day out today in the Jag to meet my sister at Ellesmere Port Boat Museum, and possibly also meet WTC because it's his neck of the woods.  About to head home and the Jag shows me a message on the dashboard, suspension fault, too low.  So I called the RAC and they sent a van within the hour.  I had got as far as Chester Services on the M56.  And that's where I am now, with the excellent @warren t claim.  We've just had a McDonald's and I've got a good four hours to wait for the recovery truck.

[beko1987]

Partly my fault for being tired in the rain and mostly the twats fault zooming across a roundabout in Milton keynes with just sidelights on at 9pm in the rain I found  my brakes still work OK with a good shove, we slid a tiny bit though (no abs) 🤣

Hoping that's enough for an mot pass in a week or 2 as their desperate to be changed, first job after payday for sure 

[iainrcz]

Millions of pounds worth of equipment, and this is the sort of thing my workplace does.

 

That is a sealed, water cooled electrical cabinet.

[Spiny Norman]

2 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

Lovely day out today in the Jag to meet my sister at Ellesmere Port Boat Museum, and possibly also meet WTC because it's his neck of the woods.  About to head home and the Jag shows me a message on the dashboard, suspension fault, too low.  So I called the RAC and they sent a van within the hour.  I had got as far as Chester Services on the M56.  And that's where I am now, with the excellent @warren t claim.  We've just had a McDonald's and I've got a good four hours to wait for the recovery truck.

So just to clarify, the grump is the Jag being a Jaaag and not having to spend time with WTC? 😛

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, iainrcz said:

Millions of pounds worth of equipment, and this is the sort of thing my workplace does.

 

That is a sealed, water cooled electrical cabinet.

I hope you gave a corporate wedgie to whichever live organ donor that did that.

[iainrcz]

21 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

I hope you gave a corporate wedgie to whichever live organ donor that did that.

I usually kick off about stuff like this, but I just can't be arsed with the place anymore.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Let them fuck it up & start winging how crap it is for the money it cost.

[Noel Tidybeard]

3 hours ago, iainrcz said:

Millions of pounds worth of equipment, and this is the sort of thing my workplace does.

 

That is a sealed, water cooled electrical cabinet.

oh no it isn't🤣

[iainrcz]

37 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

oh no it isn't🤣

It was 😂

[eddyramrod]

Well the recovery truck turned up at 9 and I was home by midnight.

[Bren]

21 hours ago, Wack said:

Is it national twat day 

On a single track road leading to fidlers ferry yacht haven there's only one bend 

Going in , some twat in a motorhome comes round it doing 20mph to be faced with me entering the bend  in the range rover, luckily at 5mph , i'd think his cupboards are pretty jumbled 

Coming out, same corner some dick in a corsa doing 30mph , we stopped about 5ft apart,  because I was doing 5mph

Why do twats drive round blind bends at speed 

Then I got onto the dual carriageway going through penketh and there's a fucking audi TT coming straight at me driving the wrong way 

FFS 

You should try living around here. No fucker can walk - cars everywhere and full of old giffers circling the plughole - every trip out is a game of chicken with somebody driving a honda jazz.

It's like god's waiting room.

[Bren]

Selling your car? Taking pictures?

Then get rid of the costa cups out of the cup holders. A hoover and clean also helps raise interest in your overpriced shit box.

[Sunny Jim]

I dunno, it's a useful cue to scroll on by - if they can't be arsed to remove their used cups what's the chance of them doing much in the way of servicing or maintenance?

[artdjones]

4 hours ago, Bren said:

Selling your car? Taking pictures?

Then get rid of the costa cups out of the cup holders. A hoover and clean also helps raise interest in your overpriced shit box.

Just look for Polish names.

[Wack]

4 hours ago, Bren said:

You should try living around here. No fucker can walk - cars everywhere and full of old giffers circling the plughole - every trip out is a game of chicken with somebody driving a honda jazz.

It's like god's waiting room.

Considering every electric MG I see is driven by somebody over 75 and electric cars accelerate like scalextrix cars when your sister has a go i'm amazed we're not seeing more giffer videos from supermarket car parks where they've done a burnout and taken 4 cars out 

[nomiST]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

Just look for Polish names.

Mr Sheen?

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

Considering every electric MG I see is driven by somebody over 75 and electric cars accelerate like scalextrix cars when your sister has a go i'm amazed we're not seeing more giffer videos from supermarket car parks where they've done a burnout and taken 4 cars out 

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/retired-priest-whose-car-struck-mourners-outside-church-leaving-one-dead-avoids-jail-1463947.html

A very old priest already did something similar in a Prius at a funeral.

[eddyramrod]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

Considering every electric MG I see is driven by somebody over 75 and electric cars accelerate like scalextrix cars when your sister has a go i'm amazed we're not seeing more giffer videos from supermarket car parks where they've done a burnout and taken 4 cars out 

At Ellesmere Port yesterday a giffer in a diesel VW people carrier backed out of a Disabled space... straight across the aisle to where I was parked in another D space.  Because I'd parked correctly, his back bumper met my front bumper, an event I not only saw but also heard and felt.  As I stepped out of my car, he found a forward gear and scarpered.  Fortunately for him, Handsome wasn't damaged.