The grumpy thread

[fairkens]

9 hours ago, maxxo said:

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 

FWIW my mate bought a Toshiba recently and took it back complaining of v similar issues. 

Lovely of someone to buy you a new telly but as with so many things and expensive old thing is better than a cheap new thing

[DavieW]

The council were out giving the grass its first cut of the year to the communal area next the house. It looks like they've been rallying on it. Feel sorry for the kids who play there. 

Surely they would stop when they saw the mess they were making. 

[myglaren]

2 hours ago, fairkens said:

FWIW my mate bought a Toshiba recently and took it back complaining of v similar issues. 

Lovely of someone to buy you a new telly but as with so many things and expensive old thing is better than a cheap new thing

I have an old LG plasma TV.  Rarely watch it but it is excellent image quality.  Mostly used for music DVDs so the sound piped through a stereo that cost a lot more than the TV.

I didn't know what I was looking for, just a replacement TV and was shown the difference between LED and plasma TVs.  The choice was easy.

Keeps the room warm too  

[Rust Collector]

22 minutes ago, DavieW said:

The council were out giving the grass its first cut of the year to the communal area next the house. It looks like they've been rallying on it. Feel sorry for the kids who play there. 

Surely they would stop when they saw the mess they were making. 

I don't know how it works in your area, but in my area the council has outsourced that type of work to private companies. We had one based in a unit a few doors down from my work, the bloke who ran it was not pleasant and had a piss poor attitude to the folks he employed. Shite wages and high staff turnover, so no doubt the lads out doing the work probably gave no fucks about doing a good job. The only winner is the bloke running the company, everyone else (council, his employees, general public) gets the shit end of the deal.

[Metal Guru]

15 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

I don't know how it works in your area, but in my area the council has outsourced that type of work to private companies. We had one based in a unit a few doors down from my work, the bloke who ran it was not pleasant and had a piss poor attitude to the folks he employed. Shite wages and high staff turnover, so no doubt the lads out doing the work probably gave no fucks about doing a good job. The only winner is the bloke running the company, everyone else (council, his employees, general public) gets the shit end of the deal.

My neighbour uses a gardener. He turns up at the same time and day every week and proceeds to cut the grass regardless of the weather. I cut my own grass and wait until it’s dry  so I won’t  turn it into a mud bath. 
However, what’s he going to do? Have a day off ( without pay) if it’s raining? Not going to happen is it ?

Same with the council. While it’s not unusual for council workers to sit around (because they’re badly managed, don’t shoot me), if they don’t cut the grass today, it won’t get done until the next scheduled time , and will look even worse. 

[Rust Collector]

1 minute ago, Metal Guru said:

My neighbour uses a gardener. He turns up at the same time and day every week and proceeds to cut the grass regardless of the weather. I cut my own grass and wait until it’s dry  so I won’t  turn it into a mud bath. 
However, what’s he going to do? Have a day off ( without pay) if it’s raining? Not going to happen is it ?

Same with the council. While it’s not unusual for council workers to sit around (because they’re badly managed, don’t shoot me), if they don’t cut the grass today, it won’t get done until the next scheduled time , and will look even worse. 

I would hazard a guess that if you can't mow the lawn due to the ground being saturated then you probably find something else productive to do and resume mowing at the next opportunity. You'd hope that a well managed team responsible for maintaining all the public land in the county could do the same, there's plenty of places that could be worked on still whilst it's wet out with no detriment to their usage. A bloke who works for himself mowing private gardens isn't really comparable in my opinion, because as you rightly point out his livelihood is directly tied to doing the jobs exactly when they're scheduled in and there's no real flexibility in it.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

On 09/04/2024 at 09:23, loserone said:

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.

 

16 hours 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.

I’m now lost in an ironic vortex.

[loserone]

14 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

 

SO I’m now lost in an ironic vortex.

Fixed that for you

[NorfolkNWeigh]

1 hour ago, Rust Collector said:

I don't know how it works in your area, but in my area the council has outsourced that type of work to private companies. We had one based in a unit a few doors down from my work, the bloke who ran it was not pleasant and had a piss poor attitude to the folks he employed. Shite wages and high staff turnover, so no doubt the lads out doing the work probably gave no fucks about doing a good job. The only winner is the bloke running the company, everyone else (council, his employees, general public) gets the shit end of the deal.

You forgot his mate at the Council that he takes on golf and whoring weekends in Marbella( probably).

[maxxo]

4 hours ago, fairkens said:

FWIW my mate bought a Toshiba recently and took it back complaining of v similar issues. 

Lovely of someone to buy you a new telly but as with so many things and expensive old thing is better than a cheap new thing

I know it was absolutely lovely and I do appreciate it but it just really annoys me watching it, I’m really surprised at how bad the picture actually looks on it

 

[mercedade]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

I have an old LG plasma TV.  Rarely watch it but it is excellent image quality.  Mostly used for music DVDs so the sound piped through a stereo that cost a lot more than the TV.

I didn't know what I was looking for, just a replacement TV and was shown the difference between LED and plasma TVs.  The choice was easy.

Keeps the room warm too  

I used to have a fabulous Panasonic plasma - weighed 3 metric fucktonnes and heated the living room.

I managed to get a good deal on a Samsung QLED (their 'better than LED but not quite OLED' offering) last year after working out that once I'd taken up their £150 cashback for my old TV, 12 months 0% finance, and a banging offer through my Perks at Work, the TV would pay for itself in under three years of energy bill savings.

[mercedade]

EDIT: will freely admit the picture wasn't as smooth or rich as the plasma, but it did only take me a week or so to get used to it.

[Markeh]

Got rid of my LG plasma (freebie in 2016, needed a new power board, only had one working HDMI port but was still a cracking picture - I think the local air cadets are still using it for a flight sim!) almost 3 years ago to the day for an LG OLED (55CX, just over £1k thanks to newer models on the horizon and an ambitious pricematch attempt that Richer Sounds honoured - this was my 'I've saved x amount due to not commuting thanks to lockdown, I'm treating myself' present) and it hasn't disappointed. I'll absolutely be running it until it dies. Can't see anything on the horizon that would ever make me think about upgrading. My only minor gripe is that I need to get a new TV cabinet in order to accommodate my centre speaker as you can't get anything low enough to sit under the screen without obscuring the picture.

[jakebullet]

Ma keeps complaining the milk is going off cos shit milk from that shop. Hmm. One quick measure of the fridge temperature suggests it may* be related to fridge being set at 12 degrees.

So I turned it up a bit. Next day she's chuntering about the carrots being cold so I may have gone a smidge too far. Bit hard to tell cos she's turned it back down.

Now on day 3 of "this has been ruined because you've frozen it". Oh do fuck off mother dear. Put it all in the fucking bin, I'll take you to monkey spunks and you can restock the bastard with stuff thats guaranteed not to go off at 12 degrees. 

Bonus grump of idiot sister texts Ma, am I putting any bets on the grand national? Maybe I am, but not for her. Get her own account and place her own bets.

Why am I being like that???? Well, could be something to do with if she wins she wants paying out and if she loses she accidentally forgets to pay for the stake.

[Supernaut]

No.

 

I'm calling it.

Jake is actually a joke account trying to wind us up.

[jakebullet]

Ha ha, I left out the other sister thing today as being too fantastical. She's started another miracle diet, I think it's one of those where you have like 800 calories a day in packet soup etc, and starve yourself thin. While giving them £70 a week for food* supplies.

So it's day 3, are we by any chance going near Staniforths? Well no, wasn't planning on it. Why?

Surprise, we are going there, her diet needs a fuck off cream cake. But it's ok, the diet is based on ketones as well as 800 calories, so cakes are in.

[Supernaut]

Nah.

You're just going over to mumsnet and making stuff up based on a cocktail of their latest topics.

There's no way one person's life is so full of drama and sheer fucking stupidity.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

1 hour ago, Supernaut said:

Nah.

You're just going over to mumsnet and making stuff up based on a cocktail of their latest topics.

There's no way one person's life is so full of drama and sheer fucking stupidity.

And if it was, there's no way that said person wouldn't be a serial killer by now.

[Supernaut]

We need to start compiling all these jakebullet tales into a book.

It would make any reasonable person's toes curl.

[Metal Guru]

5 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Nah.

You're just going over to mumsnet and making stuff up based on a cocktail of their latest topics.

There's no way one person's life is so full of drama and sheer fucking stupidity.

They just the scripts from Sorry!

[jakebullet]

Mrs's block of flats is turning into a crime zone. Attempted robbery today of the sainsburys van. Bit* extreme fighting with the driver for random bags of shopping.

[rattlecan]

23 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

Mrs's block of flats is turning into a crime zone. Attempted robbery today of the sainsburys van. Bit* extreme fighting with the driver for random bags of shopping.

Whereabouts is that?

[Pieman]

WOMAN = singular.
WOMEN = plural.

Even BBC news reporters cannot get this right in written content any more.  How hard can it be?

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Pieman said:

WOMAN = singular.
WOMEN = plural.

Even BBC news reporters cannot get this right in written content any more.  How hard can it be?

That depends on the women!

Totally agree though, standards have dropped.

[rattlecan]

10 hours ago, Pieman said:

WOMAN = singular.
WOMEN = plural.

Even BBC news reporters cannot get this right in written content any more.  How hard can it be?

The BBC are probably slowly diluting gender specific words & hoping we don’t notice, so it fits in with their totally ridiculous attitude to woke. Because as you no doubt know, it will be illegal to assume or suggest any such thing by 2026

[jakebullet]

I've seen the ugly side of gambling today. It's mecca fucking bingo.

Take this email for free bingo, drink, and burger for you and a friend worth £50. It could be good for a giggle on a boring Sunday afternoon?

WRONG. It's just depressing. The grannies desperately donking their pension away. The queue for the bar where everyone asks for a 4 pint jug of carling and 1 glass, n they look at you like you have done a shit on the carpet when you ask for a cappuccino. Terrible songs* that have the music from popular songs but words extolling the virtues of bingo.

Plus Mrs has broken a tooth n won nowt to pay for it.

[rattlecan]

26 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

I've seen the ugly side of gambling today. It's mecca fucking bingo.

Take this email for free bingo, drink, and burger for you and a friend worth £50. It could be good for a giggle on a boring Sunday afternoon?

WRONG. It's just depressing. The grannies desperately donking their pension away. The queue for the bar where everyone asks for a 4 pint jug of carling and 1 glass, n they look at you like you have done a shit on the carpet when you ask for a cappuccino. Terrible songs* that have the music from popular songs but words extolling the virtues of bingo.

Plus Mrs has broken a tooth n won nowt to pay for it.

It’s a fuckin joke, virtually EVERY kind of sport is sponsored by gambling companies. They banned tobacco companies, coz it’s bad for health, yeh I get it, but do you know anyone who lost their house, business & maybe everything they own, coz they smoked a few fags? 
 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, rattlecan said:

It’s a fuckin joke, virtually EVERY kind of sport is sponsored by gambling companies. They banned tobacco companies, coz it’s bad for health, yeh I get it, but do you know anyone who lost their house, business & maybe everything they own, coz they smoked a few fags? 
 

20 fags a day is at least £5k a year. Goes a long way to keeping a roof over your head.

[rattlecan]

7 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

20 fags a day is at least £5k a year. Goes a long way to keeping a roof over your head.

Not really the point I was making. Gambling costs literally mortgage’s. You can gamble 100’s,  1000’s or millions in the blink of an eye. Don’t recall anyone smoking a grands worth of fags in a week let alone a few seconds 

[Bazfr69]

6 minutes ago, rattlecan said:

Not really the point I was making. Gambling costs literally mortgage’s. You can gamble 100’s,  1000’s or millions in the blink of an eye. Don’t recall anyone smoking a grands worth of fags in a week let alone a few seconds 

This. 
 

Some of the guys at work have binned a couple of grand over a weekend and then spent several years suffering for it. 
 

I’d ban all advertising for online gambling tbh.