The grumpy thread

[Talbot]

  On 14/12/2023 at 22:56, Remspoor said:

No sorry, you are being rude.  Thermal insulation is the reduction of heat transfer.   Maybe I was being over simplistic in my first post.  There is very little information about the issue(s) with this house.

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I wasn't talking about the specific issues with this house, I'm talking about what thermal insulation can and can't do.  My point is that it can do a lot more than just reduce heat transfer and to assume that is the only thing it does is wrong.

[hairnet]

fuck being up early on days off

need to go boots to buy some earplugs

tea now and repair shop

and resolve spark plug snafu

[chatsharris]

  On 15/12/2023 at 05:15, Talbot said:

I wasn't talking about the specific issues with this house, I'm talking about what thermal insulation can and can't do.  My point is that it can do a lot more than just reduce heat transfer and to assume that is the only thing it does is wrong.

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I think you are correct in this instance. I was overzealous in some insulation and it's definitely blocked off some ventilation.  I'm planning to return to the UK, rip out the old stuff and replace it with new stuff, although with it possibly needing to dry out in there first, I'm in a bit of a bind as I won't be able to go back again to sort it - the wife is due in a month and I can't be stuck!

[Bren]

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?

 

[sdkrc]

  On 14/12/2023 at 12:49, vulgalour said:

I'm aware this might be a very stupid question with a very normal answer and yet... why?

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I was going to post a video of it in action but we're only allowed MS paint and 4kb jpegs on this site. Instead, here's a promotional video of what it looks like. 

 

I have used the lights twice since we moved in 8 months ago. Both times were when I was showing them off to visitors. Beyond that I suspect it's for inspecting vegetables/plates etc or if you're trying to read in the sink. 

Unnecessarily complex taps and induction hobs are both a thumbs down in my book. 

[chadders]

That's useful to know if my missus' lunch mates tell her that she must get one.

Telling her it's £800 will soon kill that idea stone dead.

[Pieman]

BBC news has pissed me off today.

Missing woman's body found.
Woman killed in explosion on industrial estate.
Missing 17yo reappears after six years.
Hungary takes a massive metaphorical shit on Ukraine.

And what do the BBC put as headline news?  That fucking ginger cunt, as per fucking usual.  Y'know, the one who doesn't want publicity.

FUCK OFF.

[loserone]

  On 15/12/2023 at 16:20, sdkrc said:

Unnecessarily complex taps

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Until yesterday my understanding of this was ceramic taps rather than old fashioned rubber washers.  Absolutely fuck that.  Amazing that someone specced that, is it from the original kitchen when it was built?

[chaseracer]

  On 15/12/2023 at 16:20, sdkrc said:

Unnecessarily complex taps and induction hobs are both a thumbs down in my book. 

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When we had the kitchen redone last year, we didn't go for the Quooker tap (£1000? FRO...!) but I was persuaded that an induction hob would be an improvement over the gas equivalent.

Still not convinced.

[beko1987]

  On 15/12/2023 at 19:09, chaseracer said:

When we had the kitchen redone last year, we didn't go for the Quooker tap (£1000? FRO...!) but I was persuaded that an induction hob would be an improvement over the gas equivalent.

Still not convinced.

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We had zip branded fancy taps in my old office. Without fail every 4/5 months there'd be a zip branded van in the car park and one of the 3 taps would be getting essentially fully rebuilt after thousands of uses. 

Current office has different branded hot and cold water taps, and they've been heavily worked on for an entire business day 3 times in a year, and currently it's broken but in a way that makes it better to use but frantically unsafe, the hot tap side should spring back and was horrible to use before, now its loose and floppy but fa nicer to use! 

I expect next week it'll be out of action whilst they throw parts at it. 

Old_old office had a tank on the wall that did the boiling water and bar needing a de scale every year never went wrong! The cheapo kettles stay out on the side in the office, I then stay at home as it takes ages to get a brew when 30+ people are trying to do the same

[sdkrc]

There we go. Came with the original kitchen. I will say that the spray thing is handy as is the extension thing

[Rust Collector]

  On 15/12/2023 at 19:25, beko1987 said:

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

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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]

  On 15/12/2023 at 19:51, 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.

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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]

  On 15/12/2023 at 15:44, 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?

 

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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]

  On 15/12/2023 at 22:32, Matty said:

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

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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]

  On 15/12/2023 at 15:44, 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?

 

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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]

  On 15/12/2023 at 22:20, 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!

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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]

  On 15/12/2023 at 22:20, 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!

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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]

  On 15/12/2023 at 22:20, 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!

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

[Metal Guru]

  On 15/12/2023 at 15:44, 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?

 

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

[New POD]

  On 15/12/2023 at 22:32, Matty said:

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

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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]

  On 16/12/2023 at 01:43, Metal Guru said:

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

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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 😎

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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)