The grumpy thread

[New POD]

9 hours ago, Popsicle said:

Saw a Mk2 Cavalier estate earlier, pretty rare car to see on the roads these days, followed it for a bit and we came to a stop at some traffic lights, oh time to grab a quick pic for the folk on AS - bloody camera focused on the bug splatters and reflection from my windscreen - FML.

With an LET would make the perfect Sleeper. 

[MikeR]

14 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Normally when I am offshore, I am God (I actually allow God to sit at my right hand) but this job because there is so much riding on it, the office decided to send a staff engineer out. He has made it very clear that he is in charge as I am a dayrate scumbag, and he has 3 or 4 trips as a rep, none of which rockdumping, so clearly outweighs my 35 years experience. So far he has cost two and a half days of vessel time. It has no affect on me, but I still feel I am not doing my job.

If I kill him and throw the body over the side weighted down so it is never found, if there is no body there cannot be a crime, no?

we always had an "expert" hanging around in the care system , in one place the "expert" cost a chap his house and wife ,

in the next place the expert had been there years and was as thick as shit , but the sun shined out of his arse , we eventually just left him to it , if he was in the room , we were not , if it got bad we all went off sick and left him to it .

lots of them "experts" around !!

[myglaren]

One of my Google accounts won't let me in.  Given the option of sending a code to my phone, it won't and says that that is not the number on record, then ten minutes later sends a message to that phone to say I have been locked out.

The other two accounts, that use the same phone, have no problems and do send alerts and codes.

 

[Pieman]

17 hours ago, DavieW said:

All this hoo haa about the football kiss can FRO.

Wonder what would happen if a woman kissed a male player against his will?

Oh yeah, absolutely fuck all, that's what.

[calebaaront]

Uh oh... Cut out at some lights and wouldn't start again. Managed to push it into a car park. I'm suspecting fuel starvation.

[calebaaront]

3 hours ago, calebaaront said:

Uh oh... Cut out at some lights and wouldn't start again. Managed to push it into a car park. I'm suspecting fuel starvation.

 

Now all sorted, the cable that ran to the coils from the electronic ignition kit was rubbing on the fan and broke the cable. The lovely man at the RAC managed to use a some spare bullet connectors from when I wired in my radio the other day and fixed it (for now) He also tightened the belt up for me. I will resolder and fix it properly when I get a chance. 

[DavieW]

All this "swap out", "parting out" nonsense annoys the F out of me.

[andyberg]

16 minutes ago, DavieW said:

All this "swap out", "parting out" nonsense annoys the F out of me.

'merican innit. Pees me off too. Just like 'mom' it's MUM.

[MikeR]

Just seen this on FB , Bloody scammers up to a parking rip , watch the QR code is genuine..

[Bren]

I have found another automotive ninth circle of hell to go with KV6 timing belts and volvo V70 handbrake cables.

The offside rear spark plug on the BMW N62 engine.

[horriblemercedes]

1 hour ago, andyberg said:

'merican innit. Pees me off too. Just like 'mom' it's MUM.

Mom is also a regional variant in the UK 

[chaseracer]

5 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Mom is also a regional variant in the UK 

Certainly the case here in the West Mids/Black Country.

[High Jetter]

He said the UK tho 

Seriously though, is that a more recent thing? Mrs J hails from that region, and thinks Mom is forren. 

[DavieW]

Move the hifi cabinet back after a party and it decides to tip over. Que lots of crashing inside. That'll be a game of CD pelmonism coming up then. 

[scorchio69]

On 8/28/2023 at 6:10 PM, Saabnut said:

Normally when I am offshore, I am God (I actually allow God to sit at my right hand) but this job because there is so much riding on it, the office decided to send a staff engineer out. He has made it very clear that he is in charge as I am a dayrate scumbag, and he has 3 or 4 trips as a rep, none of which rockdumping, so clearly outweighs my 35 years experience. So far he has cost two and a half days of vessel time. It has no affect on me, but I still feel I am not doing my job.

If I kill him and throw the body over the side weighted down so it is never found, if there is no body there cannot be a crime, no?

Ah good old offshore life where a onshore desk monkey “thinks” they know best and everything, for me I just sight and revel in the moment when the f**k up massively but sadly usually have to fix said f**k up .

[fairkens]

6 hours ago, High Jetter said:

He said the UK tho 

Seriously though, is that a more recent thing? Mrs J hails from that region, and thinks Mom is forren. 

Which bit? 

It's standard in Brum and Black Country but not when you drift out of that area

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, fairkens said:

Which bit? 

It's standard in Brum and Black Country but not when you drift out of that area

Wolverhampton, Portobello

[chaseracer]

As with so many things round here - for the past two millennia or so - the boundary seems to be Watling Street.

[EyesWeldedShut]

8 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

As with so many things round here - for the past two millennia or so - the boundary seems to be Watling Street.

Bloody Romans - all their fault.

[horriblemercedes]

10 hours ago, High Jetter said:

He said the UK tho 

Seriously though, is that a more recent thing? Mrs J hails from that region, and thinks Mom is forren. 

Certainly was normal to my great grandparents who were from Birmingham/Wolverhampton/Black Country variously 

[wuvvum]

So this happened. 

Must have been last night, but I didn't hear anything despite the car being parked right outside my window.  Obviously someone's passed too close and clipped it.

Fortunately minimal panel damage.

Fixed* it.

 

[sierraman]

15 hours ago, DavieW said:

All this "swap out", "parting out" nonsense annoys the F out of me.

I don’t understand what peoples fascination is with swapping things these days, I thought we’d left the feudal system behind. 

[Metal Guru]

6 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I don’t understand what peoples fascination is with swapping things these days, I thought we’d left the feudal system behind. 

Swapping is bartering. The feudal system was a sort of semi slavery where you effectively belonged to the Lord of the Manor in exchange for a small piece of land to attempt to grow enough food to feed your family .

[sierraman]

Just now, Metal Guru said:

Swapping is bartering. The feudal system was a sort of semi slavery where you effectively belonged to the Lord of the Manor in exchange for a small piece of land to attempt to grow enough food to feed your family .

Either way it’s invariably ‘let me swap my fucked car for your good one’ 😂

[outlaw118]

Fucking Gatwick Airport, specifically their website.

Had agreed* to play taxi service for Outlaw_Junior and Micro_Outlaw for their holiday in Tenerife.

Drop-off last Tuesday, no problem, aside from the Tigerbumming of £5 for 5 minutes "drop off"......

Collection 1.55 am this morning. Cheers Junior.....

Except when I checked the Arrivals on the website, it seemed there was something amiss.....a big red exclamation mark piqued my interest, but no mention of what the problem was. Still nothing around boarding time, Junior messaged to say they'd checked in, all OK, waiting for further instructions, but his phone was dying, and he'd let me know once he'd got some charge.

Kept checking, no update on web, so left home at 1am, arrived Gatwick 1.55. Checked website, still showing as 1.55 arrival. Then I had the brainwave of checking TUI website....."Expected departure 2.25am" FFS.

Turns out Moose's back seat is very comfortable, and I managed a couple of hours kip until my bladder woke me up. Still arriving at 1.55 according to gatwick's website...

they landed 6.25am, baggage collected and out by 7.25am, dropped them off home, back to Outlaw_Towers 8.50.

Had supper/breakfast, paid ULEZ (GRRRRRR) and drop off fee again, shower, took a couple of phone calls, now back out.

Going to be difficult to not slap someone today.

[chaseracer]

2 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Bloody Romans - all their fault.

What did they ever do for us, eh? 😉

[New POD]

On 29/08/2023 at 12:21, Pieman said:

Wonder what would happen if a woman kissed a male player against his will?

Oh yeah, absolutely fuck all, that's what.

Emotion is a weird thing. 

I've just spent ages on a little excel problem. I've got a look up table. 

4 columns, 1 to 10 in 3 columns, with a row for each combination, from 10-10-10 down to 1-1-1 so 1000 rows. 

The forth column is either L, M or H as per AIAG/VDA Fmea guide.

On another sheet, the user, has 3 cells, and he can specify a score of 1 to 10 for each.  And a 4th Cell where I wanted the correct L,M, or H to be displayed. 

Spent ages trying to automate this simple task. Using Xlookup or an If(and formula.

Mentioned it to another engineer, and within 3 minutes I had a solution.  I had to have words with myself to stop myself from giving him a hug, as my frustration subsided. 

[Zelandeth]

18 hours ago, MikeR said:

Just seen this on FB , Bloody scammers up to a parking rip , watch the QR code is genuine..

Somebody did something similar here a couple of years ago, put stickers over the pay by phone number with a premium rate number on.  Took the council well over a month to do anything about it...

Swapping a QR code though, that's nasty.  Especially as it's not difficult to put together a website that looks legit, could see that catching a lot of people.

Heck, probably including me to be honest.

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, New POD said:

Emotion is a weird thing. 

I've just spent ages on a little excel problem. I've got a look up table. 

4 columns, 1 to 10 in 3 columns, with a row for each combination, from 10-10-10 down to 1-1-1 so 1000 rows. 

The forth column is either L, M or H as per AIAG/VDA Fmea guide.

On another sheet, the user, has 3 cells, and he can specify a score of 1 to 10 for each.  And a 4th Cell where I wanted the correct L,M, or H to be displayed. 

Spent ages trying to automate this simple task. Using Xlookup or an If(and formula.

Mentioned it to another engineer, and within 3 minutes I had a solution.  I had to have words with myself to stop myself from giving him a hug, as my frustration subsided. 

When I initially saw this post I thought you were going to say you'd put all your emotions into a spreadsheet.  The worrying thing is that I wasn't surprised.

[Jerzy Woking]

6 hours ago, wuvvum said:

So this happened. 

Must have been last night, but I didn't hear anything despite the car being parked right outside my window.  Obviously someone's passed too close and clipped it.

Fortunately minimal panel damage.

Fixed* it.

 

Hopefully the car that hit it was torn open like a sardine tin.