The grumpy thread

[EyesWeldedShut]

Just now, Metal Guru said:

Went to a wedding yesterday. At the sit down meal , the room got louder and louder. Just became white noise to me, unable to have a conversation even with people next to me. When did shouting everything become the norm?

Me & t'missus get the same problem - used to think it was just our hearing getting worn out. Started avoiding big functions like Xmas Parties (suits me I'm a miserable bastard)
Then I went to my Uncle's funeral last year. Nobody shouting and yelling there, I was fine at the wake.
 

[sheffcortinacentre]

Since people decided their the most important & everyone around them should know how successful/well off they are.

[Zelandeth]

7 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Went to a wedding yesterday. At the sit down meal , the room got louder and louder. Just became white noise to me, unable to have a conversation even with people next to me. When did shouting everything become the norm?

The ever increasing trend for furnishing restaurants in entirely hard surfaces really has done naught to help this.  Couple near us were absolutely fine until they were refitted, at which point if there were anything more than about 10 people in there it just turned into a giant echo chamber.

Edit: Pretty much just had that proven here.  Just had dinner in the restaurant of the hotel I'm staying in just now, and it was pretty much full.  However the noise levels were entirely comfortable, and I'd have been absolutely able to hold a conversation with someone else at the table at a perfectly normal volume comfortably.  Simply because they've used some common sense when choosing materials for the walls, seating and ceiling coverings.

[Back_For_More]

Plus you're all talking through your costumes - must have a muffling effect 😉

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

The ever increasing trend for furnishing restaurants in entirely hard surfaces really has done naught to help this.  Couple near us were absolutely fine until they were refitted, at which point if there were anything more than about 10 people in there it just turned into a giant echo chamber.

Edit: Pretty much just had that proven here.  Just had dinner in the restaurant of the hotel I'm staying in just now, and it was pretty much full.  However the noise levels were entirely comfortable, and I'd have been absolutely able to hold a conversation with someone else at the table at a perfectly normal volume comfortably.  Simply because they've used some common sense when choosing materials for the walls, seating and ceiling coverings.

Cushty 😀

[RoverFolkUs]

Piss poor car boot sale etiquette 

Not the first time I've moaned about people's behaviour at a car boot sale, but this one particularly annoyed me 

Arrived at a stall, someone has 2x small 32" TVs, nothing particularly special, i asked how much, he said £10 each. Great, I said I'll take them, do you have the remotes by any chance? I'm stood next to both of them, with my hand on one. 

He said he does, so off he goes to have a look in the back of the car. 

I'm getting the money ready, meanwhile a bloke in the distance calls out "how much are those tellys?" - he can see that I'm trying to buy them but he obviously wants to gazump me. 

I think the seller is also in the wrong here, because he said "£20 for the pair" instead of "sorry they're sold" 

I think not much more of it, but about 15 seconds later he comes back from the car with the remotes in hand and goes "sorry mate, that gentleman over there has just bought them" 

WTF? How does that work 🤣

I'm stood by them, I got there first, I said I'd buy them, I haven't haggled on the price, but some bloke arrives after me, asks for the price after I did, but manages to hand over the money before I do and they're his all of a sudden? 

It's no great loss, I can easily find the same deal on FB marketplace and then at least I'd have the opportunity to check they work before buying them, so I'm not worried about losing the items - I'm just really annoyed about the complete lack of etiquette from either side? In my opinion, who ever gets to the item first has first dibs, it's only available once they step away from it. If I see something that I want then I'll stand aside and wait if someone else is already looking at it. 

I hope karma does justice and he gets them home to find they don't work 🤣

[myglaren]

Laptop crashed, which is a first for me.  Killed the power, rebooted, ran BleachBit, restarted, ran the cleaner for each browser.

Th Brave cleaner seemed to just hang so rebooted it and it has lost all passwords.

Luckily I have them saved to a USB dongle and an external drive.  Annoying though as it isn't asking to save them now.

[Split_Pin]

Another day, another incorrectly- sized o-ring for the A8's top coolant hose.

If the next one isn't right I might as well go to Audi, but I'm loathe to travel all the way to Stirling for a tiny part.

Still, I've now got a lovely expanding collection of the things now 😂

Luckily the leak isn't bad so I can still drive it mean time .

[jakebullet]

Idiot sister rings up, and is yapping to Ma for longer than the usual "there was this horse and it had a really big shit" conversation. Ma then starts telling me IS is going playing donkeys next weekend, and moggy is going into moggy storage, and you can only retrive moggy between 10 - 4, and she won't be back by then on Sunday.

We can all see where this is going can't we?

So I cut it off in advance by saying "Unlucky. Guess she's paying for an extra day moggy storage then. Expensive game this animal lark".

[Joey spud]

In my workshop leaning against some racking is a stainless steel sink from a poxy caravan. In my mind it is unwanted scrap but to her indoors it might come in useful (it won't).

So earlier I am crouching down retreaving a pair of mole grips in the bottom tray of my welding cart and as I straighten up I head butt the corner of the sodding sink.

How about a nice inch long puncture wound to the front left of my head and worse still fuck me where's all my hair going.

To be fair it didn't bleed for all that long and I didn't think i needed stitches or anything but then again I'm no doctor so I took myself to the minor injuries unit at the hospital expecting to have to wait hours to be seen but no.

Although they were really busy I was seen to and glued back together within the hour, everyone who dealt with me was super friendly and efficient so well done to the NHS and Medway hospital.

I think her indoors is feeling guilty as she has now removed the sink from my workshop.

[chaseracer]

OUCH 🫣🤕 

Hope you mend soon.

[camryv6]

Yes, but where has she booby trapped the sink now ?

[jakebullet]

Bugger. Took Ma & Mrs out. Came back and hmm, something smells hot. Let's touch all the wheels until I find the scorchio one. NSR which has been freed* off before, so think that wants a new caliper pronto. So that's me out of working cars.

Going to be a fun convo tomorrow, are you ever going to sort my C1 clutch, and would you like a disco too?

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, jakebullet said:

 ISis

Bad news

[Pieman]

Driving to Birmingham last night, young bloke in a Fiesta next to me slings a banana skin out of the window as we're about to pull onto a roundabout.

1) we're not playing Mario Kart and 2) although it's not McDonald's detritus, you're still a litter-lout prick.

[vulgalour]

Another rejection letter.  I'm getting good at getting these now.  I'm waiting to hear on three applications but since one was for an agency I shan't hold my breath on that.  I did experience the joy that is a fully automated application process with Whitbread (Beefeater front of house vacancy) where you submit your CV, they confirm they've got it, and then they tell you they don't want you pretty much straight away.  At least I didn't end up waiting very long for the disappointment, so that's nice.

Just going to keep trying as and when I find stuff.  I'm not in a mega rush and the artwork is still ticking along okay.  Just a bit frustrating really.

[Kringle]

Ordered oil, air freshener automatically added to basket. Removed because I prefer the smell of my own farts in the car. Order arrives, contains "freshener" anyway.

Fuck me.

 

[artdjones]

On 27/05/2024 at 14:43, Split_Pin said:

Another day, another incorrectly- sized o-ring for the A8's top coolant hose.

If the next one isn't right I might as well go to Audi, but I'm loathe to travel all the way to Stirling for a tiny part.

Still, I've now got a lovely expanding collection of the things now 😂

Luckily the leak isn't bad so I can still drive it mean time .

If you go on Catcar.info they have the genuine Audi parts diagrams that give the actual sizes of o rings.

[Split_Pin]

10 minutes ago, artdjones said:

If you go on Catcar.info they have the genuine Audi parts diagrams that give the actual sizes of o rings.

Thank you, very useful, I'll have a look now 😃

[EyesWeldedShut]

3 hours ago, Pieman said:

Driving to Birmingham last night, young bloke in a Fiesta next to me slings a banana skin out of the window as we're about to pull onto a roundabout.

Makes a change from the road cyclists doing just that around here. Mountain bikers are much better - they just drop chocolate wrappers up on the mountain
I'd have thought both lots would have been more in touch with nature than a Fiesta driver.

[brownnova]

I was really enjoying owning this again… 

Smooth, lovely to drive, comfy and the kids (even the teenager) loved it.

Sadly it’s off back to its previous owner as the C4 we helped her buy to replace it has shat its gearbox in less than two weeks… 

No Merc, and a C4 with a borked gearbox to deal with.

Fucking great. 

[chaseracer]

Not your problem, shirley...? 🤔

[sheffcortinacentre]

2 hours ago, Kringle said:

Ordered oil, air freshener automatically added to basket. Removed because I prefer the smell of my own farts in the car. Order arrives, contains "freshener" anyway.

Fuck me.

 

I'd send the lot back saying won't be doing business with you again.

Saying I can see a big prick when I go for a piss.

[Pieman]

Where was that from?  I could use a new voodoo doll.

[Bren]

Other people's parental skills.

Visited Caernarfon Castle. Took my youngest, Charlie who is eight.

I held his hand tightly as some of the ramparts are pretty high and an unremarkable metal handrail is all that stops you falling.

Imagine my horror when a toddler comes walking towards us - no more than three years old with a fifty foot drop on one side. I hearded him back to his mother who let him walk ahead again.

Some really are as thick as pigshit.

[brownnova]

1 hour ago, Bren said:

Other people's parental skills.

Visited Caernarfon Castle. Took my youngest, Charlie who is eight.

I held his hand tightly as some of the ramparts are pretty high and an unremarkable metal handrail is all that stops you falling.

Imagine my horror when a toddler comes walking towards us - no more than three years old with a fifty foot drop on one side. I hearded him back to his mother who let him walk ahead again.

Some really are as thick as pigshit.

The tightness with which we held our little one’s hands at Caernarfon!! It’s very high! 

[sheffcortinacentre]

They don't need any as it's other people's responsibility.

[Rocket88]

14 hours ago, Kringle said:

Ordered oil, air freshener automatically added to basket. Removed because I prefer the smell of my own farts in the car. Order arrives, contains "freshener" anyway.

Fuck me.

 

I presume it smells of bullshit?

[iainrcz]

Trying to get a shower under a Mira shower. This is the third one I've had the joy of using.

I'd get wetter asking the Mrs to spit at me.

[cobblers]

41 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

I'd get wetter asking the Mrs to spit at me.

There's no shame in it