The grumpy thread

[Rust Collector]

24 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

it takes ages to get a brew when 30+ people are trying to do the same

Get a tea round going on - 29 times out of 30 your hot drink will just turn up on your desk and the one time you’ll get to stare at your phone for ages whilst making 30 cups of tea.

If you want to waste time more efficiently* you can offer to do the tea round more frequently.

[beko1987]

6 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

Get a tea round going on - 29 times out of 30 your hot drink will just turn up on your desk and the one time you’ll get to stare at your phone for ages whilst making 30 cups of tea.

If you want to waste time more efficiently* you can offer to do the tea round more frequently.

We haven't done drink rounds for years! Mainly because back in the day the same 2 or 3 people would vanish for an hour doing a round. 

I remember carrying 9 pint glasses of water and a few teas on the tray many many years ago and tipped the tray and it all slid off over 4 desks. How we laughed*. Got told to make our own not long after, oops

[richardmorris]

5 hours ago, Bren said:

One of my back teeth is giving me gyp.

Went to dentist to hopefully make appointment - closed. Sign says closing at 1730 yet it was shut at 1400.

Maybe it's the xmas doo?

 

Well, do you want drunken dentists playing with a drill in your mouth?

 

[Wibble]

Can folks please stop flashing headlights as a thank you when driving at night. You’re burning my eyeballs with your brighter than the sun LEDs. You have right of way, I don’t know you, just stop it!

[Matty]

Why the fuck am I up here mending a fucked skylight? I'm a bloody mechanic, not a roofer. Bloody employers

[JMotor]

Just now, Matty said:

Why the fuck am I up here mending a fucked skylight? I'm a bloody mechanic, not a roofer. Bloody employers

In today's episode of "Not my fucking job".

Just about standard in most workplaces. 

I had to unload a (new) slurry tanker off a lorry this week. I'm a storeman/parts dept bitch FFS 😆.

[myglaren]

6 hours ago, Bren said:

One of my back teeth is giving me gyp.

Went to dentist to hopefully make appointment - closed. Sign says closing at 1730 yet it was shut at 1400.

Maybe it's the xmas doo?

 

I used to get  toothache at Christmas, happened several years in a row.

Not for years now, haven't seen a dentist in over a decade.

[myglaren]

Re:  taps with lights in.  Sounds like another completely unnecessary thing.

I have considered on with the spray/flexible extension but have been too miserly to actually buy one.  Daughter in law bought one a few months back, I'll wait until she has had it a year and see how it lasts them perhaps buy one.  £50 though, not hundreds and no light to fail.

[RoverFolkUs]

54 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Can folks please stop flashing headlights as a thank you when driving at night. You’re burning my eyeballs with your brighter than the sun LEDs. You have right of way, I don’t know you, just stop it!

I guess it's a habit from halogen bulbs, where it's possible to gently flick the main beam switch for a short, non dazzling flash. However with LEDs they're immediately ON at max power and stay illuminated for a split second longer. 

TLDR: Agree

[RoverFolkUs]

Remember my previous rant about domestic printers? 

Well, I now have five.... 🤣

And as of an hour ago, not one of them worked at all. 

Went to Currys today looking for a new one, the general consensus is that you spend £30-40 on a printer, and at least the same again every time the cartridge(s) need replacing. 

There are aftermarket/refill options for some. However HP will now disable your printer if you use non genuine cartridges. Cunts. 

The old, now defunct printers were fairly cheap at the time but aftermarket cartridges can be bought from eBay, working out at roughly £1-2 a piece.. much more reasonable. 

One of them is totally fucked, it was playing up, then started working pretty well, now it's in a permanent error state of "print head not intended for this printer" or something along those lines.. what really annoys me is that it's inhibited even the scan function which renders it landfill. 

Second one I bought from the car boot last year. It started printing out funny and then started printing magenta only... Tried to clean it out, half an hour of dismantling and cleaning everything in sight it's now printing cyan only, even with a brand new set of cartridges which are now wasted. I'd be lying if I said I haven't just *literally* thrown it out the room. 

Third and fourth one I bought today, second hand from marketplace.. I thought I'd give them a go. Only intended to buy one, but he said "I've got another, do you want that as well" so for the sake of an extra fiver I thought I might as well. 

Obviously it's fucked, it just spits out blank pages. So that's a third one to take to the tip 🤣

The fourth one would just spit out blank paper until it ran out, and then throw an error message for "paper empty" whenever you try to print something. I don't know what settings I played with but I've got it working. 

The fifth one is a grin, it was printing a black line down every sheet fed through it. This made it useless for delivery labels for example, as it disfigured barcodes. I thought I'd try to have a look at that one and found some ink had managed to smear over a section of the paper roller, which made sense. Cleaned it up and it's fixed*

TLDR; PRINTERS ARE FUCKING SHIT!! I've got 5, none of them worked properly to start with, I've got two working for now but three destined for the skip 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, Wibble said:

Can folks please stop flashing headlights as a thank you when driving at night. You’re burning my eyeballs with your brighter than the sun LEDs. You have right of way, I don’t know you, just stop it!

This a thousand times over.  Lights on so many modern cars are absolutely insanely bright even on dip beam it's bad enough.  Then someone taps the mains and you wind up feeling like you've just taken a supernova to the face.

During the hours of darkness if I want to say thanks to someone who's gone out of their way to be helpful I have always just knocked the lights OFF for a fraction of a second.  Conveys that I've acknowledged them just fine and nobody's retinas are on fire.

Was particularly relevant when I had the Niva as flashing main beam at someone also flashed ~300W or thereabouts of spot lights.  Was mighty effective at getting lazy sods to dip their headlights when they couldn't otherwise be bothered though.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Wibble said:

Can folks please stop flashing headlights as a thank you when driving at night. You’re burning my eyeballs with your brighter than the sun LEDs. You have right of way, I don’t know you, just stop it!

Yup, suffered this for ages. Thank someone by dazzling them?  I'll give thanks, by briefly turning headlamps off. 

[Metal Guru]

9 hours ago, Bren said:

One of my back teeth is giving me gyp.

Went to dentist to hopefully make appointment - closed. Sign says closing at 1730 yet it was shut at 1400.

Maybe it's the xmas doo?

 

I thought by law dentists had to be open at 1430.

[New POD]

5 hours ago, Matty said:

Why the fuck am I up here mending a fucked skylight? I'm a bloody mechanic, not a roofer. Bloody employers

I'd love to see the working at height risk assessment. 

Fall arrestors ?  Coned off area around the lift ? 

Just tell them, no. I am scared of heights and might have a panic attack. 

[Christine]

5 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I thought by law dentists had to be open at 1430.

Christmas cracker joke  time 

[reb]

Some cunt moved my wheelie bin.

How do I know?

I walked confidently out my front door in the pitch dark and walked into it bollocks first.

[dozeydustman]

4 weeks ago we dug out the front lawn to have a front drive put in. Gas main is installed not as per the plans of the house and runs through the garden front to rear. Due to the slope it's less than 6" below the surface nearer the house. Contractor won't put the drive in until the gas board either drop the depth to 375mm.

Contacted gas board once we discovered it. Engineer came out and declared it safe as we hit it several times with a spade before we unearthed it. They said someone would contact me about moving to the correct depth. Have heard nothing and contractor is getting twitchy.

[Saabnut]

On 06/12/2023 at 08:24, Saabnut said:

Monday I was looking forward to going home after 15 days away on a 10 day job. 
Yesterday I booked a flight, taxi and arranged to drink coffee with my mate when picking up my car around 2100

So why is this a grump? I am writing this in Bergen airport on my way to Stavanger and joining another boat tomorrow. All my weekend plans have been scuppered and it will be another “7 to 10 days” before I get to see my home again. Perfect run up to Christmas 😀

And people wonder why I want to give it up 😎

Still here! Day 26 of the original 7-10 day job, day 9 of the second. Looks like we might be finished on Wednesday which will leave lots of time to get ready for Christmas  

[hairnet]

Buckingham parade

Bastard

Tour of the less.nice.parts of the town

(Joke @Six-cylinder)

[EyesWeldedShut]

18 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

This a thousand times over.  Lights on so many modern cars are absolutely insanely bright even on dip beam it's bad enough.  Then someone taps the mains and you wind up feeling like you've just taken a supernova to the face.

Came out of town amidst the rush hour people in the wife's Bini. I have a guy all over my arse in a big SUV who is, plainly, of the opinion that my 50 mph is insufficient. Totally blinding - even with the interior mirror on 'anti cnut mode'.
He ends up hanging out over the white lines such that he's blinding me in the door mirror with his vertical LED marker lights - this rural  road is not really any good for overtaking as it's rather twisty and unlit - so he's just Mr Dick.
After 2 -3 miles I wondered if I turned off my headlights could I still see where we were going - oh yes, look, a Bini shadow on all the hedgerows.
A mile later he (finally) puts in the expected bollocks out mode overtake, car coming the other way is mildly* disconcerted.
He's now tailgating another car about 400 yards in front of me - this goes on for another couple of miles until that guy pulls into a lay-by , lets Mr Fuckwit past and then resumes his journey (we're still pretty much at 50 mph).
22  reg'd Audi - I think Wembley Stadium is missing a few floodlights someplace?

 

[chaseracer]

9 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

22  reg'd Audi - I think Wembley Stadium is missing a few floodlights someplace?

A 'gated development' in an 'upscale village community' somewhere is certainly missing its feckin eejit...

[richardmorris]

7 hours ago, hairnet said:

Buckingham parade

Bastard

Tour of the less.nice.parts of the town

(Joke @Six-cylinder)

He is in the nicer parts, he’s just lowering the tone with broken down range rovers.

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

he’s just lowering the tone with broken down range rovers.

meeow

i wanted to dis him not cut him off at the knees

 

[Pieman]

5 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Came out of town amidst the rush hour people in the wife's Bini. I have a guy all over my arse in a big SUV who is, plainly, of the opinion that my 50 mph is insufficient. Totally blinding - even with the interior mirror on 'anti cnut mode'.
He ends up hanging out over the white lines such that he's blinding me in the door mirror with his vertical LED marker lights - this rural  road is not really any good for overtaking as it's rather twisty and unlit - so he's just Mr Dick.
After 2 -3 miles I wondered if I turned off my headlights could I still see where we were going - oh yes, look, a Bini shadow on all the hedgerows.
A mile later he (finally) puts in the expected bollocks out mode overtake, car coming the other way is mildly* disconcerted.
He's now tailgating another car about 400 yards in front of me - this goes on for another couple of miles until that guy pulls into a lay-by , lets Mr Fuckwit past and then resumes his journey (we're still pretty much at 50 mph).
22  reg'd Audi - I think Wembley Stadium is missing a few floodlights someplace?

 

Audis of all types from A3 upwards CANNOT sit behind any other vehicle EVER no matter what.  I think the owners are told that when they buy them.

I had some kind of big blue Audi SUV literally try and ram me out of the way on the A446 a few months ago simply because I happened to be driving in front of him, I genuinely thought it was going to hit me so I slowed and pulled in to let it through.  About one minute later I caught up with it at a red light, after which it turned off into a car park.

I wonder what would have happened if I'd just let the thing hit me?

[balford]

My wife had to let go of an immaculate '99 Polo because she kept being bullied off the road by pricks in larger cars. I'd attract the same fuckers I'd never get bothered by in the 406 I had at the time, whenever I drove it. That was going on for 15 years ago, so plus ca change I guess.

[Pieman]

As well as my Focus I quite often drive my parents' Honda Jazz, and when I am in the latter I have noticed that the number of people who pull out on me, act like I'm not there, tailgate me and try to bully me pretty much triples compared to when I am in the Focus - simply because people see a Jazz and assume it will be being driven by an elderly person doing 15mph.

Recently I was being constantly tailgated in the Jazz by a bloke in (inevitably) an Audi, so when we came up to a junction and it was clear ahead I got fed up, booted it and left him quite a way behind.  I think he was very surprised at how quickly the Jazz took off!

[sheffcortinacentre]

Few years ago was in my MK3 GT on a dual carriageway passing a convoy when a navy blue 5 series shot up behind me  thought he was plod at first on a shout but obviously no blues & twos so as we got to front  by which time I'd twigged it was just Mr self important  dropped from 5 to 3 & floored it  we may have been well into 3 figures when i finally moved back into the nearside lane & for some reason he seemed to no longer need to over take me & for the next couple of miles sat circa 50ish yards behind me untill he turned off.

There must've been one ear bashed BMW dealer that week trying to convince him that no way could a MK3 cortina  pull away from his Bavarian piece of engineering esp at that speed, 

But then he'd probably never come up against  a 5.0V8 cortina before. Strike one for the good guys.

This story may have taken place on a private track made to look like the south bond A1 for training purposes & should never be attempted on a public highway by unqualified nutcases ( qualified ones are a different matter).

[EyesWeldedShut]

7 hours ago, Pieman said:

As well as my Focus I quite often drive my parents' Honda Jazz, and when I am in the latter I have noticed that the number of people who pull out on me, act like I'm not there, tailgate me and try to bully me pretty much triples compared to when I am in the Focus - simply because people see a Jazz and assume it will be being driven by an elderly person doing 15mph.

#1 reason that my wife gave up on a Morris Minor as her daily driver many moons ago. (So many moons ago that the 'upgrade' was a 1300 Capri  ). Even back then, when we were allegedly* more polite, she'd get verbally abused for being female, blonde and in the way) [story below]
Bully is the correct word - on the M6 on Thursday we noted that, whilst everything was doing 70 mph, the arseholes doing the tailgating were all blokes in the big, German SUVs - absolutely pointless as all 3 - 4 lanes were packed, but moving along nicely. One or two were really appalling.

[story] - 2005 (ish) wife is in a 1983 Porsche 924. Multi storey car park and she's opened the bonnet to double check stuff cos she's does not (rightfully) trust the mechanic (me). Bloke walks past "It's an engine, luv"
5'2" and 7 stones of incandescent female then descends upon Mr Gammon and he backs off in a hurry. 
I only know this because the two sprogs were sat in the car and told me  

[sheffcortinacentre]

Good for her,

[maxxo]

Regarding treatment from other drivers

ive noticed a significantly less amount of tailgating, bullying and being pulled out on with the XM compared to the green C5

literally an every day occurrence with the C5 and yet absolutely nothing with the XM 

maybe it has more presence?

never really got anything with the red C5 estate either

just the green hatch was a target and ruined driving for me