The grumpy thread

[reb]

Currently on a very bouncy bus with a belly full of curry.

Bleurgh.

[junkyarddog]

9 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Aye, so I'm done with car shows.

Took the A8 and went to the trouble of typing up a bit of its history  to put in the windscreen. Kept it short and did it in something like 36 point to aid digestion. To be fair, a lot of people did read that, well some of it.

I spent a few weeks tidying it up as best I could, I thought it turned out well.

As soon as I got there 2 older chaps pointed to the out-of-adjustment front bumper and commented on it. Nothing positive to say at all. One other knobhead with those big disc things inserted into a stretched ear lobe looked inside and said 'It's got the cheaper seats' and went on to explain to his friend how his was better. Deliberately within earshot of me. A few other people just laughed at it.

I mean, it's an awesome car at the top of its game at the time and folk think it's funny? 🤷‍♂️

The previous week I went to a Rover 75 meet in Gretna. If people care so much about preserving these cars then they need to treat the younger owners with a bit of respect. I started chatting to one older guy and he literally walked away. Really rude. Keep going like that and the cars will all be long gone withing a decade or so.

Anyway, I'm never going back.

Meh,there's always those types,I wouldn't take much notice.

I witnessed  something similar today with my mates 123 coupe at a show,

One guy wandered up and questioned the 300D boot badge saying "That shouldn't be on there"

He got quite sniffy when told it was actually diesel powered "They never made these as a diesel,only the saloons were"

He the proceeded to point out the rust hole behind the rear screen "That will let the water in,you should fix it"(it is on the cards over the winter)

To which my mate replied "There is an even bigger hole underneath,so the water goes out as quick as it comes in"

Matey boy wandered off without a word😄

That's how you deal with those plonkers.

[Split_Pin]

Crikey, what a plank. I wish these people would just stay in bed.

[junkyarddog]

8 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Crikey, what a plank. I wish these people would just stay in bed.

Nah,we found it hilarious.

[barefoot]

48 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Nah,we found it hilarious.

Me too, I go to lots of car shows, but only to meet the really special arse holes.

[beko1987]

Stepdads hurnia op got cancelled at 5pm.

He's got the bus there to be there for 12pm, apparently got gowned up and booked in at 2.

I went to theirs at 1pm and worked from theirs for the afternoon ready to pick him up afterwards. 

I went and fetched him anyway, he sounded cross. The op before had taken longer than anticipated and they ran out of time for him. Back into a queue... 

Was a nice but pointless waft to Milton keynes hospital and back 😡 Back brakes are behaving at least and the screw in my back tyre is still happily sealing air

[iainrcz]

Having to moan at 3 again due to total bollocks signal and broadband speeds. Again.

I guess I'm not the only one given I'm in a queue.

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

On 25/07/2024 at 21:25, sheffcortinacentre said:

Found out a friend was killed in a motorbike crash last weekend was 57  rip George.

Thanks everyone funeral is in a fortnight, will be a sad day.

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, barefoot said:

Me too, I go to lots of car shows, but only to meet the really special arse holes.

Pervert 🤣

[Spiny Norman]

6 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Crikey, what a plank. I wish these people would just stay in bed.

Out of interest, did they walk along with their hands clasped behind their back? That's always a danger sign IMO...

[sheffcortinacentre]

Re the car show boars this is one of the reasons post COVID I'm doing only 3-4 a year & why as I've said elsewhere, I'm now taking the touring car just to wind this type up , their so clever they don't even realise their been made to look such a fool.

I build my cars for me,  for fun & not for their approval, they probably have some PCP blob or in the A8 owners case his is probably a clapped out chavtastic pos.

[cobblers]

I've owned my T25 pickup for about three years now. Don't really have a lot of use for a pickup truck, but it's fun to have. Been 100% reliable, never let me down. 

This week I'm moving house and I have to move a few tonnes of firewood and loads of bits of massive furniture etc. T25 pickup has chosen this opportunity to shit it's water pump. THANKS M8!!!!!!!!!!

[comfortablynumb]

On 06/08/2024 at 00:37, sheffcortinacentre said:

Re the car show boars this is one of the reasons post COVID I'm doing only 3-4 a year & why as I've said elsewhere, I'm now taking the touring car just to wind this type up , their so clever they don't even realise their been made to look such a fool.

I build my cars for me,  for fun & not for their approval, they probably have some PCP blob or in the A8 owners case his is probably a clapped out chavtastic pos.

Exactly this. A few years ago on the blue forum I started a thread called ' You've ruined that!' just because of these idiots.

I was at a local autojumble and show, Thurton for anyone who is in the Norwich area, and went to talk to a bloke about his MK1 cortina, 2 litre pinto, type 9 box etc etc.

I said 'nice car,' he looked at me glumly and said 'they don't think so ' indicating a couple of blokes walking away.

Turns out they'd been berating him for modifying it!

I got pretty annoyed, and said ' well who did you build it for,?!'

When he said himself, I said so screw anyone else, it's your car to do what you like with.

I hope I left him a bit happier.

I'm not a concourse restoration bloke, that's not my bag, but I'm glad there are people out there who are rivet counters.

Alternatively there are a few cars out there that I don't like, but I can still appreciate the work that's gone into them, and I wouldn't dream of telling the owner/builder that they'd ruined it

TL:DR it's your car to do what you want with

[vulgalour]

My ancient PC finally shat the bed today.  Housemate helped me set up the laptop I bought off them recently and that's got me back online and able to do some damage control.  Trouble is, some items that were due to be backed up are currently locked away in the hard drive on the PC and I can't access them until the external hard drive adaptor thing arrives so I can transfer everything on to the laptop.  Bad timing really.  No warning with the failure either, looks like the graphics card has probably failed since the computer seems to boot up okay but it won't put anything out to monitors.  The monitors test fine hooked up to the laptop so at least it's not those.

This PC has been waiting for replacement for about four years, things just kept getting in the way, and then when I finally had the money I had to move house and the money went on that instead.  Was hoping to squeeze just one more year out of it but no, it's dead, Jim.

[somewhatfoolish]

On 05/08/2024 at 16:00, MikeR said:

A heart felt blessing to those that fix push bike pedals with a blue locking agent ...

It just put the "fun"  into changing the pedals .

Heat helps, if not a blow torch then a hot air gun will make life a bit easier.

[IronStar]

10 hours ago, vulgalour said:

My ancient PC finally shat the bed today.  Housemate helped me set up the laptop I bought off them recently and that's got me back online and able to do some damage control.  Trouble is, some items that were due to be backed up are currently locked away in the hard drive on the PC and I can't access them until the external hard drive adaptor thing arrives so I can transfer everything on to the laptop.  Bad timing really.  No warning with the failure either, looks like the graphics card has probably failed since the computer seems to boot up okay but it won't put anything out to monitors.  The monitors test fine hooked up to the laptop so at least it's not those.

This PC has been waiting for replacement for about four years, things just kept getting in the way, and then when I finally had the money I had to move house and the money went on that instead.  Was hoping to squeeze just one more year out of it but no, it's dead, Jim.

Get a second hand gfx card for pennies and swap it over? Takes 3-5 screws, 0-1 cables, 1 press on a tab, and 5 minutes of your time?  It’s literally plug and play, you can’t get it wrong.

Something like RX550 or such shouldn’t be more than 20£.

[MikeR]

8 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Heat helps, if not a blow torch then a hot air gun will make life a bit easier.

yep , but I was at the caravan with the contents of my cars tool sack , ended up tying two spanners together with a exhaust clamp !!!!

[captain_70s]

11 hours ago, vulgalour said:

My ancient PC finally shat the bed today.  Housemate helped me set up the laptop I bought off them recently and that's got me back online and able to do some damage control.  Trouble is, some items that were due to be backed up are currently locked away in the hard drive on the PC and I can't access them until the external hard drive adaptor thing arrives so I can transfer everything on to the laptop.  Bad timing really.  No warning with the failure either, looks like the graphics card has probably failed since the computer seems to boot up okay but it won't put anything out to monitors.  The monitors test fine hooked up to the laptop so at least it's not those.

This PC has been waiting for replacement for about four years, things just kept getting in the way, and then when I finally had the money I had to move house and the money went on that instead.  Was hoping to squeeze just one more year out of it but no, it's dead, Jim.

Does the motherboard not have a monitor output for basic VGA display type stuff? 

They might not these days. I've not been up to date on PCs for sometime...

[sierraman]

Why are DHL such a PITA to deal with. Waiting on a parcel from them, tried to deliver on Tuesday, if they knocked they obviously didn’t do it very loudly. Asked them upon redelivery today to leave with a neighbour, according to my neighbour they didn’t even attempt this. So they’re going to try again tomorrow, why are they so painfully thick? I’ve no doubt tomorrow despite my strict instructions to leave it by the gate they’ll not do that either. 
 

Everyone else knocks Evri etc but at least you actually receive the parcel. I’d love to see what the aptitude test for a DHL driver is… 

[sierraman]

On 05/08/2024 at 08:20, Split_Pin said:

Aye, so I'm done with car shows.

Took the A8 and went to the trouble of typing up a bit of its history  to put in the windscreen. Kept it short and did it in something like 36 point to aid digestion. To be fair, a lot of people did read that, well some of it.

I spent a few weeks tidying it up as best I could, I thought it turned out well.

As soon as I got there 2 older chaps pointed to the out-of-adjustment front bumper and commented on it. Nothing positive to say at all. One other knobhead with those big disc things inserted into a stretched ear lobe looked inside and said 'It's got the cheaper seats' and went on to explain to his friend how his was better. Deliberately within earshot of me. A few other people just laughed at it.

I mean, it's an awesome car at the top of its game at the time and folk think it's funny? 🤷‍♂️

The previous week I went to a Rover 75 meet in Gretna. If people care so much about preserving these cars then they need to treat the younger owners with a bit of respect. I started chatting to one older guy and he literally walked away. Really rude. Keep going like that and the cars will all be long gone withing a decade or so.

Anyway, I'm never going back.

Apart from on here, I don’t get into discussing cars with people. They wouldn’t get what I was on about, they’d mistakenly assume I was interested in Teslas it’s just best talking about something else. 
 

Completely understand you with car shows, full of people who don’t have any social skills or self awareness. 

[vulgalour]

@IronStar @captain_70s None of the video outputs on the graphics or motherboard are putting anything out at all.  I did consider the second-hand parts route but since I don't know exactly what's failed or how to find out, it might not solve the problem and I could end up spending as much trying to fix the problem cheaply with temporary solutions as I could getting a brand new more capable machine.  I need to replace the PC with a more powerful unit anyway, my current rig can't do 3D rendering, for example (or really anything else right now) and that's something that I've been having requests for and would like to get into, there might be money to be earned there.  I'll have to see if there's a pre-built machine that has the right specs I can get on finance or something, I couldn't do it when I looked last time, nobody was offering finance on the sort of set up I was looking at then but the market has likely shifted again now the cryptocurrency thing has died down a bit and the demand (and hopefully price) on certain components has dropped.

In better news, the connectors needed arrived today and that means the machine can be busy transferring stuff off my hard drives into storage so we can get them on to the temporary work set up and that will help a lot.  I've re-downloaded some of the software I use too and have been able to remember most things I need for work.  I'm glad the main hard drive doesn't appear to have any issues, that's where all the active work is and the most important thing to resolve.  I was planning to get a few more large external hard drives for back up purposes, things like video and raw scans of artwork do take up a lot of space and I have to archive a fair bit of work.  It's only money, it's there to be spent I guess.

At least I don't have to replace my monitors and whatnot, the drawing tablet especially is an expensive bit of kit (that has paid for itself, happily) that I know I'll have to replace in a few years just due to wear and tear so hopefully that'll hang in there a bit longer and continue being trouble-free.

[IronStar]

1 minute ago, vulgalour said:

@IronStar @captain_70s None of the video outputs on the graphics or motherboard are putting anything out at all.  I did consider the second-hand parts route but since I don't know exactly what's failed or how to find out, it might not solve the problem and I could end up spending as much trying to fix the problem cheaply with temporary solutions as I could getting a brand new more capable machine.  I need to replace the PC with a more powerful unit anyway, my current rig can't do 3D rendering, for example (or really anything else right now) and that's something that I've been having requests for and would like to get into, there might be money to be earned there.  I'll have to see if there's a pre-built machine that has the right specs I can get on finance or something, I couldn't do it when I looked last time, nobody was offering finance on the sort of set up I was looking at then but the market has likely shifted again now the cryptocurrency thing has died down a bit and the demand (and hopefully price) on certain components has dropped.

In better news, the connectors needed arrived today and that means the machine can be busy transferring stuff off my hard drives into storage so we can get them on to the temporary work set up and that will help a lot.  I've re-downloaded some of the software I use too and have been able to remember most things I need for work.  I'm glad the main hard drive doesn't appear to have any issues, that's where all the active work is and the most important thing to resolve.  I was planning to get a few more large external hard drives for back up purposes, things like video and raw scans of artwork do take up a lot of space and I have to archive a fair bit of work.  It's only money, it's there to be spent I guess.

At least I don't have to replace my monitors and whatnot, the drawing tablet especially is an expensive bit of kit (that has paid for itself, happily) that I know I'll have to replace in a few years just due to wear and tear so hopefully that'll hang in there a bit longer and continue being trouble-free.

You probably need to disconnect the gfx card to get the on-board video to work. As for why it failed, it’s either gfx card itself that failed, which is not unusual, or if it’s some more power hungry model PSU might be on the way out. Try the gfx card removed method first. Testing it is easy as well if you have access to another working PC - just chuck it in. If it works it’s PSU, if not it’s the GFX card.

You can also try a last-ditch resort if it’s dead GFX card - remove the fans and throw gfx card in the oven. Plenty of howtos availible on that. Got last huzzah out of many cards over the years, including 4650HD that’s miraculously working in an office PC couple for a few years.

[MikeR]

2 minutes ago, IronStar said:

You probably need to disconnect the gfx card to get the on-board video to work. As for why it failed, it’s either gfx card itself that failed, which is not unusual, or if it’s some more power hungry model PSU might be on the way out. Try the gfx card removed method first. Testing it is easy as well if you have access to another working PC - just chuck it in. If it works it’s PSU, if not it’s the GFX card.

You can also try a last-ditch resort if it’s dead GFX card - remove the fans and throw gfx card in the oven. Plenty of howtos availible on that. Got last huzzah out of many cards over the years, including 4650HD that’s miraculously working in an office PC couple for a few years.

if the on board video is not working , is it worth swapping the ram around to see if that is the problem , sometimes the vid shares the ram ???

[vulgalour]

For now I'm just concentrating on saving important data and getting a functional work station, that's more important than figuring out what's gone wrong with the pc.  I still absolutely need a brand new PC and have for about four years, so it's going to happen regardless.

[artdjones]

22 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

Exactly this. A few years ago on the blue forum I started a thread called ' You've ruined that!' just because of these idiots.

I was at a local autojumble and show, Thurton for anyone who is in the Norwich area, and went to talk to a bloke about his MK1 cortina, 2 litre pinto, type 9 box etc etc.

I said 'nice car,' he looked at me glumly and said 'they don't think so ' indicating a couple of blokes walking away.

Turns out they'd been berating him for modifying it!

I got pretty annoyed, and said ' well who did you build it for,?!'

When he said himself, I said so screw anyone else, it's your car to do what you like with.

I hope I left him a bit happier.

I'm not a concourse restoration bloke, that's not my bag, but I'm glad there are people out there who are rivet counters.

Alternatively there are a few cars out there that I don't like, but I can still appreciate the work that's gone into them, and I wouldn't dream of telling the owner/builder that they'd ruined it

TL:DR it's your car to do what you want with

If the owner of AX201 decided to spray it metalflake purple I might get annoyed. But not about a Cortina, especially as it's  made it a better car to put in a 2.0 + 5speed.

[beko1987]

6 hours ago, vulgalour said:

For now I'm just concentrating on saving important data and getting a functional work station, that's more important than figuring out what's gone wrong with the pc.  I still absolutely need a brand new PC and have for about four years, so it's going to happen regardless.

Assuming it's a mechanical hard drive it should pop up fine in windows via a caddy. 

But copy files off, don't drag and drop or cut and paste. If something glitches halfway through a file transfer you can start that file again rather than it corrupting the only copy

[MikeR]

14 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Assuming it's a mechanical hard drive it should pop up fine in windows via a caddy. 

But copy files off, don't drag and drop or cut and paste. If something glitches halfway through a file transfer you can start that file again rather than it corrupting the only copy

It should do , but I have had windows block a windows drive .. security reasons , plugging the drive into a Linux machine got around the issue .

[vulgalour]

It is a mechanical hard drive.  Begun the task of transferring files to the laptop today, then I've got to filter out what actually needs to be archived to free up space on the laptop, might as well do that now while I have the opportunity.  There's a couple of work things I can at least do again now, so that's good, hopefully I won't lose more than a fortnight of work time to this and thankfully I have that new job at the NHS to tide me over financially.

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, vulgalour said:

It is a mechanical hard drive.  Begun the task of transferring files to the laptop today, then I've got to filter out what actually needs to be archived to free up space on the laptop, might as well do that now while I have the opportunity.  There's a couple of work things I can at least do again now, so that's good, hopefully I won't lose more than a fortnight of work time to this and thankfully I have that new job at the NHS to tide me over financially.

Assuming your not needing the drive your copying all the files off from afterwards, once your triple super safety sure you've got everything off it format the entire drive and use it as a cold, long term backup drive? It's not the ideal way but better than nothing. 

I've got an old 4tb drive I retired a few years ago that once a year I plug it into my pc, copy my entire photos folder and copy it over, wait an hour for it to work out what's new and what's not then hit copy! Keeps all my really important things with another backup bar my unraid server (which I use more as a yt file dump than anything else) 

[reb]

I'm very hungover and haven't had anything to eat because apparently I ate all of my sandwich ingredients in a drunken haze last night. So of course I am doing the sensible thing and venturing into town. I might have enough money to acquire a Greggs baguette but I'm not sure.