The grumpy thread

[cobblers]

On 20/01/2024 at 14:54, richardmorris said:

Just popped up on suggested you tube. 
what is wrong with some people? Were they trying to get a free tyre?

 

I watched this, and it seems he was basically an arrogant prick who doesn't understand that someone rushing a tyre 90 minutes out to fit it to your car on a fucking hard shoulder will cost a LOT more than getting the same tyre fitted at "Rubberz N Rimz" on a Thursday afternoon. I'd also guess there's a lot of projection going on - EG he would deffo have someones pants down of the roles were reversed, so he's expecting someone to do that to him.

When people are quick to accuse you of something, it says more about them than it does you. 

 

I would also be willing to bet that the price quoted was actually a quite a bit less than if he got a taxi from the hard shoulder with his wheel and took it a similar distance to get a tyre fitted himself somewhere!

 

 

[cobblers]

Also, a grump from me.

I ended up with the police waking me up the other night because of the breathtakingly idiotic actions of one of my employees. They've made it look like we're doing something dodgy in the eyes of our neighbours and the landlord too. 

A shitload of paperwork, drama and apologising profusely awaits me this coming week.  FFS

[Remspoor]

Driving up from Spain to the Netherlands. Got into Basque country after half a days drive and the engine coolant light came on.  Found a garage and topped up with plain water. The light comes on quite often through France so purchased some orange coolant to keep it topped up.

Searching found several suggestions. doggie cap, doggie sensor, bad ERG valve or head gasket.

There is no sign of leakage or mayonnaise. No bubbles in the water either. The other day purchased a new cap as this was the easiest and cheapest repair. That did not work. Tomorrow we will be looking for a garage.

Fluck, fluck, fluck

[Pieman]

On 20/01/2024 at 20:24, richardmorris said:

Following on the same channel, another audi driver who can’t follow instructions…

 

That looks like a decent channel, but...is he filming on a hand-held phone while driving at times?  If so, he's a dick.

 

[twosmoke300]

17 hours ago, cobblers said:

Also, a grump from me.

I ended up with the police waking me up the other night because of the breathtakingly idiotic actions of one of my employees. They've made it look like we're doing something dodgy in the eyes of our neighbours and the landlord too. 

A shitload of paperwork, drama and apologising profusely awaits me this coming week.  FFS

You cant leave us hanging like that!!!

[cobblers]

1 minute ago, twosmoke300 said:

You cant leave us hanging like that!!!

I don't really want to say much more on a public forum, there's an ongoing police investigation and the staff member is suspended while we investigate gross misconduct.

However their phone was confiscated by the police so they didn't get the message about being suspended, and they turned up to work this morning and I had to tell them to sling their hook! 🙄

Running a business is a ballache at the best of times - I could really do without copping for the fallout of someone else's incredibly ill conceived get rich quick schemes!

[mercedade]

12 hours ago, Pieman said:

That looks like a decent channel, but...is he filming on a hand-held phone while driving at times?  If so, he's a dick.

 

Chest cam - check out 8 mins in for confirmation

[Talbot]

6 minutes ago, mercedade said:

Chest cam

That sounds every kind of dodgy.

[danthecapriman]

Ordered some stuff from France earlier this month, it came over fine but got to customs here and they decided they wanted to inspect it. Which is fine and all. 

Quite why that took near two weeks I don’t know, but the really irritating thing is that they had sliced the box open across one side, done whatever they need to do, then simply squashed the top of the box down again and thrown it into the post for delivery. With the side of the box still sliced open! Are they really so lazy and couldn’t give a shit that they couldn’t even stick a short length of tape over the cut!? Unprofessional lazy twats!

This is how I just got it. Luckily everything was still in there but it could very easily have fallen out.

[artdjones]

14 hours ago, Pieman said:

That looks like a decent channel, but...is he filming on a hand-held phone while driving at times?  If so, he's a dick.

 

I think he's got his lady friend with him.

[silvercar]

When I was a kid my parents decided to take me, my brother and them across the border from Saudi Arabia to Kuwait by car for a bit of a holiday. On the way back we were stopped by Saudi Customs, the car completely emptied and all objects including christmas presents opened and the contents scattered over the road. When they had finished gutting everything the customs guys looked at my father, shrugged and told him to be on his way. What fun me and my brother had repacking our own presents.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, silvercar said:

When I was a kid my parents decided to take me, my brother and them across the border from Saudi Arabia to Kuwait by car for a bit of a holiday. On the way back we were stopped by Saudi Customs, the car completely emptied and all objects including christmas presents opened and the contents scattered over the road. When they had finished gutting everything the customs guys looked at my father, shrugged and told him to be on his way. What fun me and my brother had repacking our own presents.

One year we were in holiday in France on14th July. Fireworks all around and much cheaper than at home, so we decided we’d buy some for New Year before we left.

For some reason we forgot, but when we got to the tunnel there had been a bomb threat and they were checking every car for explosives. I’m sure our fireworks would have set of their detectors and we would have had our car taken apart and probably spent to night in their cells.

[GingerNuttz]

Baby needs surgery, absolutely gutted 😑

Spent the last week in and out of hospitals meeting different pediatricians/specialists just to be told the same thing we already knew.

 Poor kid has had more pills than a junkie over the last 5 months and nout has worked so surgery looks like the only option.

Mentally exhausted with this shit.

 

[andyberg]

13 minutes ago, GingerNuttz said:

Baby needs surgery, absolutely gutted 😑

Spent the last week in and out of hospitals meeting different pediatricians/specialists just to be told the same thing we already knew.

 Poor kid has had more pills than a junkie over the last 5 months and nout has worked so surgery looks like the only option.

Mentally exhausted with this shit.

 

I hope things can get better for you, I can't imagine what it must be like. You will find the strength.

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, GingerNuttz said:

Baby needs surgery, absolutely gutted 😑

Spent the last week in and out of hospitals meeting different pediatricians/specialists just to be told the same thing we already knew.

 Poor kid has had more pills than a junkie over the last 5 months and nout has worked so surgery looks like the only option.

Mentally exhausted with this shit.

 

It will get better you will come thru it and ginger boss

[Saabnut]

1 hour ago, GingerNuttz said:

Baby needs surgery, absolutely gutted 😑

Spent the last week in and out of hospitals meeting different pediatricians/specialists just to be told the same thing we already knew.

 Poor kid has had more pills than a junkie over the last 5 months and nout has worked so surgery looks like the only option.

Mentally exhausted with this shit.

 

Sending you a pm

[chaseracer]

3 hours ago, GingerNuttz said:

Baby needs surgery, absolutely gutted 😑

Spent the last week in and out of hospitals meeting different pediatricians/specialists just to be told the same thing we already knew.

 Poor kid has had more pills than a junkie over the last 5 months and nout has worked so surgery looks like the only option.

Mentally exhausted with this shit.

I have been here.  It is indeed shit, but sprog in question is 28 in April.

Hang in there, we've got you.

[nev_jr]

Theres a very mouldy smell when I get in the car and I cannot for the life of me find it to sort it

[Stanky]

3 minutes ago, nev_jr said:

Theres a very mouldy smell when I get in the car and I cannot for the life of me find it to sort it

Might be worth setting off one of those 'Air Con Bombs' (less exciting than they sound) in the car potentially? It might have had a previous owner who vaped with the recirculated air turned on, and the insides of the dashboard pipework is covered in a thin film of condensed vegetable glycerin vapour, which is going mouldy?

This happened to a colleague who vapes, and his car ended up smelling fully rank, a couple of AC Bombs sorted though.

[New POD]

Can someone explain why Donald Trump is so popular? How the fuck is it that he's going to be allowed to run for office 

Does nobody look at his moral compass and think, "No. We should not vote for a misogynistic criminally intent narcissistic crazy cunt" 

And Biden? Look, I think the other side could have picked a better person to lead the USA. Not someone who clearly is tired out by it all.  He will loose against trump, because the USA is mad. 

I'm actually grumpy because I have convinced myself that the UK is as Bad and the idiots will vote the Tories in for another 5 years of shit. 

(Not that it won't be shit under labour, but at least the ones I've actually met, seem to have a social consciousness) 

I know it not the politics thread, but it's making me grumpy. 

[andy18s]

 

 

 

 

[High Jetter]

32 minutes ago, New POD said:

Can someone explain why Donald Trump is so popular?

You've answered your own question, I think:

33 minutes ago, New POD said:

because the USA is mad.

 

[grogee]

15 hours ago, nev_jr said:

Theres a very mouldy smell when I get in the car and I cannot for the life of me find it to sort it

I've had this and can't get rid of it. The air con bombs cover it for a couple of weeks but I feel like I need to get inside the dash and scrub the condenser and heater matrix with bleach. I've tried most of the potions you squirt in from every angle eg behind cabin filter and through a/c drain hole. The latest one being a foamy thing that sits on the aforementioned HVAC parts and is supposed to decontaminate it... 

[hairnet]

does @PhilA hide when its november

 

[hairnet]

so hospital in dec for ongoing

urgent care last week for what might have been serious

what shoulda been just a normal levels check and a hello

Costochondritis

apparently it just happens but may happen via strained muscles or coughing

which i havent had happen

ffs - off food also but when they weighed me - put on kilo and half from 2 weeks ago

 

[High Jetter]

Every year at Christmas, we buy a box of Ritz crackers. Like this year, these are often ignored and usually binned months later - but wife had 'the munchies' last night so we opened them. WTF have they done to them? Tasted nothing like we remember, that lovely salty tang has completely gone.

[High Jetter]

2 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Costochondritis

That sounds horrible. Hope you can get some relief from it.

[hairnet]

didnt know it was inflamed

doesnt hurt untill you press it (under breastbone)

the first time on thursday he pressed it and i jumped off the table

the haemo lot prodded me today and its more sore now than i was this morning

work got swerved cos mind is all over the place

 

[outlaw118]

Bit of a series....

Yesterday I left home at 6am for a journey to Peterborough, which would normally take 2.5 hours, possibly 2.75 including a stop either at Cambridge services for a wee and a McD's or Brampton for a wee and a Wendys.

M25 had other ideas, gantry signs say J29-28 30minute delay.....

I pulled into the pez station at Stanstead at 8.15, which is normally no more than 50 minutes away, even in the van. No sign of any crashes, road works or other fuckery. Why can't the gantry signs tell the truth - I'd have found an alternative route, rather than sit there like a dick.

Anyway, left meeting at 2.15pm, as I was going to the O2 last night to see Depeche Mode. More gantry signs warning of impending delays, so I diverted - trouble is so did everyone else. I reckon I was still ahead of the game, but not by much. Collected Moose, then chum, drove to Forest Gate to collect other chum, and get on the tube. Yeah, in the ULEZ, but whatever. 

Fancy a beer" said Chum One. Two pints of Budweiser and a large Pepsi Max.... nigh on £23. FFS.

(DM were GR9 btw).

Massive queue to get into Tube Station, got back to Chum 2's house 00:20. Which, as I found out about an hour ago, means I've got to pay ULEZ for yesterday and today, despite it being one trip. FFS.

Lastly, just been out to get some bread and fizzy pop, and encountered an absolute throbber verbally abusing a female member of staff, who was clearly getting distressed. I asked him to calm down, to which I got the standard "Fuck off you fat cunt" response.

Well mate, you need to google "Fuck around and Find Out" to explain what just happened. I'm tired, you're an arsehole. With a fat lip and a fucking headache.

Why are people such twats?

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, andy18s said:

 

 

 

 

At lower levels politics is so mind numbingly dull that most people just can’t be arsed. 
Corruption and money can go a long way to bypassing that , either way you get people running your country that you wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire but they have a major say in how you life goes.