The grumpy thread

[iainrcz]

For some reason I've started watching Warhammer 40k videos on YouTube.

I'd assumed my spotty nerd years were 25 years in the past..

[hairnet]

ich hasse mein Leben

[BorniteIdentity]

  On 23/01/2024 at 21:18, BorniteIdentity said:

Inevitable is unfolding on Twitter/X

Chris Pollitt has another episode of depression. Crowdfunder tries to raise a few bob for him. Accidentally raises nearly £20,000. Car is quickly restored and immediately on the market at a chunky price. Folk feel a bit aggrieved. 

Anyone who raises an eyebrow will be quickly shut down.

I try to see everything positively, but it all feels a bit charlatan. 

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Is he ok? Obviously he blocked me on X but it looks like he had a full blown episode last night and disappeared. Everyone frantically panicking. 

Weirdly, it looks like all that free money hasn’t helped with the root cause. 

If anyone here knows him, I hope he’s ok and is now getting proper help. Proper help, not cash. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

The fella's had a heart attack. 

[maxxo]

  On 03/04/2024 at 04:10, Boycie said:

Did you get the tin tack ?

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Surprisingly not as always I’m one of the few who actually turn up and do the job

[Metal Guru]

Bird shit on my car today.” Big deal “ I hear you say “what’s unusual about that?”

Well I was parked for about 10 minutes and it looked like it had been through a car wash run by sea gulls. There would have been less if I’d parked at Whitby and spread my fish and chips out on the roof.

[Kiltox]

Indespension hitch locks are actually quite secure if you don’t have the keys

No prizes for guessing how I know this. 

[High Jetter]

Sorry, made me chuckle

[PicantoJon]

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! 

[Wibble]

  On 05/04/2024 at 20:09, 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! 

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Yep, PAT testing is such fun*

[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]

  On 06/04/2024 at 11:21, 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.

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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]

  On 06/04/2024 at 11:31, 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.

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

[Noel Tidybeard]

  On 05/04/2024 at 20:09, 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! 

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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]

  On 10/04/2024 at 17:45, maxxo said:

plasma

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Glugity.

[maxxo]

  On 10/04/2024 at 17:53, loserone said:

Glugity.

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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.