The grumpy thread

[Zelandeth]

Dentist checkup.

Oh look, I need yet another three fillings, and one of them is bloody huge.  That will be two further visits and £400 please.

Oh joy.

[rattlecan]

Paint, it’s shite nowadays. Wtf is going on?

I’m decorating the hall & landing, used Dulux (so not cheap crap) it’s magnolia over what is already magnolia, so no massive colour changes & literally every surface needs 3 coats (some bits 4) & same with the woodwork. Tin says ‘one coat’ yeh right one coat my arse.

[myglaren]

5 minutes ago, rattlecan said:

Paint, it’s shite nowadays. Wtf is going on?

I’m decorating the hall & landing, used Dulux (so not cheap crap) it’s magnolia over what is already magnolia, so no massive colour changes & literally every surface needs 3 coats (some bits 4) & same with the woodwork. Tin says ‘one coat’ yeh right one coat my arse.

Agree.  I bought 'proper paint', undercoat and gloss, Alkyd, not 'water based' and I am familiar with it skinning over overnight, usually jut cut round the skin and lift it out, but this stuff (again Dulux*) was like porridge and trying to use it was hopeless.  I had to go and try and buy womens stockings to strain it through.  Good luck with that!  Had to get vegetable bags from Lidl to strain it through.

* not my first choice, far prefer Johnstones paints, even if it does come from the Leyland factory now.

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, myglaren said:

Agree.  I bought 'proper paint', undercoat and gloss, Alkyd, not 'water based' and I am familiar with it skinning over overnight, usually jut cut round the skin and lift it out, but this stuff (again Dulux*) was like porridge and trying to use it was hopeless.  I had to go and try and buy womens stockings to strain it through.  Good luck with that!  Had to get vegetable bags from Lidl to strain it through.

* not my first choice, far prefer Johnstones paints, even if it does come from the Leyland factory now.

Just done a room with Johnstones paint. Walls with emulsion , excellent. Wood work satin finish , peeling off already. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

17 hours ago, PicantoJon said:

These cheap shitty cables have given me nothing but trouble, and the site I'm working at is full of the fucking things.

The connectors are so shitty that it was causing my tester to fail them, cue:

Earth cont: Fail.

*jiggle connector*

Earth cont: Pass

Oh good, I'll just double check it...

Earth cont: Fail

Gets a bit boring after the fiftieth time! 

if those are finest chinesium the prolly aint copper

[sheffcortinacentre]

Because like most things nowadays nuns & kittens will die due to the stuff actually doing what it's supposed, therefore you have to buy several times as much which obviously doesn't ad to landfill.

[Minimad5]

Anyone else having issues with Autodoc ?

Twice now, they've emailed me to say my parts will be delayed, that's like 2 or so weeks delay 😅

[Datsuncog]

Astounded that we've had no grumps now for almost 48hrs.

Allow me to contribute that I ordered up a custom-fit blind, which arrived two weeks ago. On fitting it, the mechanism appeared to be jammed - and after much head-scratching, on closer inspection I appeared to have found the issue...

Uh-huh.

Uh-uh.

Company were very apologetic, agreed to put a replacement set of left-hand end caps in the post for me.

Nearly two weeks on, no end caps. But that's maybe not surprising, as we've had no Royal Mail deliveries for the past fortnight either...

Seems that management at our local sorting office has managed to alienate their posties to the extent that there aren't any left working there now.

[rattlecan]

People starting a sentence with the word so.

e.g. So today I went to wherever. 
So this just happened. Best of it is, in the same sentence they will probably shorten a word because they can’t be arsed to type it when they already added one that shouldn’t be there.

[loserone]

So my grump is people who post 80% of their posts having a dig at people in the grumpy old man thread without a hint of irony.

[barefoot]

So what?

[Supernaut]

Remember how I posted about a month ago about having a tooth extracted?

Guess what just happened today?

 

The first one was right at the back and mostly filling, so I don't really miss it.

The one today was in the middle, and was a several year old root canal that had run its course. It fucking hurt when it came out!

[Remspoor]

Oh  give up it is only an eclipse. People need stop screaming at a normal and natural event.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68727865

[w00dy]

need a new rear light for the van. Buy one on ebay, it's a Euro one without fog light provisions, bit of a waste of time, but I get a refund. Buy a pair once I'm sure they're right, ebay man spends forever messing with invoice to try and make it work since the postage was set to freight, I ended up Paypaling him the money and he promises to get them sent on friday. The seller has now cancelled the sale on ebay and gone quiet, so it's looking like he's decided to scam me despite being a well regarded business for old VWs. It's £40 you tragic wanker. 

I just want to MOT my van.

[scaryoldcortina]

Ffs I wonder about some people.

[Mally]

47 in a 40.  Long while since I had my last classroom stint.

Hope I get  chance of another.

[maxxo]

We’ve been purchased a new television by my partners parents 

this thing

now I brought my lovely old Panasonic plasma with us, absolutely cracking bit of kit

i wish they’d not bothered, apparently it’s great but I can’t watch the new tv it’s absolutely horrendous 

seriously the worst television I’ve watched in a good while 

I tend to sit in the bedroom now and watch my vastly superior Panasonic set

toshiba fire tv, don’t bother, it’s a pile of crap

thankfully I’ve said I’ll never watch it

[loserone]

7 minutes ago, maxxo said:

plasma

Glugity.

[maxxo]

1 minute ago, loserone said:

Glugity.

It is fantastic, really really like it so was quite offended with the whole scenario 

doesn’t even have a scart connector so can’t watch my videos 

[loserone]

I get that it's your choice but that sounds like a generous well intentioned gift and a stroppy ungrateful response to be fair.

[maxxo]

37 minutes ago, loserone said:

I get that it's your choice but that sounds like a generous well intentioned gift and a stroppy ungrateful response to be fair.

Why yes I completely agree, which is why I’ve hidden my true feelings somewhat, I’d rather not feel this way just got quite annoyed when my television set was called old crap

[richardmorris]

23 minutes ago, maxxo said:

Why yes I completely agree, which is why I’ve hidden my true feelings somewhat, I’d rather not feel this way just got quite annoyed when my television set was called old crap

I know what you mean. The only downside with plasma is that they can be expensive to run. We used to do analysis for the company that was developing OLED technology. A spin off from UCL I think. Sold out to merck or someone and left us with three months of bills unpaid. Nearly put us under twenty years ago.

[maxxo]

13 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I know what you mean. The only downside with plasma is that they can be expensive to run. We used to do analysis for the company that was developing OLED technology. A spin off from UCL I think. Sold out to merck or someone and left us with three months of bills unpaid. Nearly put us under twenty years ago.

I realise how ungrateful I do sound, I really don’t intend to and I realise that’s a me problem

im just set in my ways really, but I can’t lie that television isn’t all that good

[loserone]

Just now, maxxo said:

television isn’t all that good

Absolutely true.  

[Spiny Norman]

2 hours ago, maxxo said:

toshiba fire tv, don’t bother, it’s a pile of crap

thankfully I’ve said I’ll never watch it

What exactly is wrong with it? New monitors can take a day or two to bed in, and often need a bit of tweaking in the settings for colour, contrast etc.
The sound will likely be shite but that's the case on most new flat panel TVs now, you're expected to use a soundbar or hifi with them.

[maxxo]

1 hour ago, Spiny Norman said:

What exactly is wrong with it? New monitors can take a day or two to bed in, and often need a bit of tweaking in the settings for colour, contrast etc.
The sound will likely be shite but that's the case on most new flat panel TVs now, you're expected to use a soundbar or hifi with them.

Extremely washed out colours, manages to be both dull and extremely bright at the same time

does this weird frame smoothing thing where everything looks unnatural 

HDMI inputs look horrendous, very grainy 

settings make very little difference 

sound is surprisingly good actually!

keeps turning itself on through the night 

[Kiltox]

On 06/04/2024 at 12:21, rattlecan said:

Paint, it’s shite nowadays. Wtf is going on?

I’m decorating the hall & landing, used Dulux (so not cheap crap) it’s magnolia over what is already magnolia, so no massive colour changes & literally every surface needs 3 coats (some bits 4) & same with the woodwork. Tin says ‘one coat’ yeh right one coat my arse.

This stuff is expensive as all fuck however I’ve never known paint to cover like it. It’s extraordinary. 
 

https://coatpaints.com/

[RoverFolkUs]

1 hour ago, Spiny Norman said:

What exactly is wrong with it? New monitors can take a day or two to bed in, and often need a bit of tweaking in the settings for colour, contrast etc.
The sound will likely be shite but that's the case on most new flat panel TVs now, you're expected to use a soundbar or hifi with them.

Cheap modern LCD TVs (they're all LCD regardless of whether they're branded as LED or QLED or ULED) are all shite. Toshiba is made by a company called Vestel who manufacture Bush, Hitachi, JVC, even entry level sets from Panasonic which should be a good name! Among many others. It's all bottom of the barrel shite using poor quality screens and components that might last a year or two

Going from an old Plasma TV to a modern entry level set is roughly equivalent to transitioning between a proper W123 Mercedes to a modern A-Class with the 1.5 Renault engine... I'm being deadly serious 

I agree it was a kind gesture from Maxxo's in laws (?) , most ordinary folk who treat a television as an appliance would struggle to see what's wrong, but anyone who could tell a quality TV apart from a bad one in a batch of 100 would be miffed if they thought they'd be upgrading from their 15 year old telly when they would realistically be worse off

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, Mally said:

47 in a 40.  Long while since I had my last classroom stint.

Hope I get  chance of another.

First one didn't work, then?🤣

[Mally]

15 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

First one didn't work, then?🤣

Returning home from Kings Lynn Stock cars and must have got carried away. 

Know the route very well but I'm not normally driving.