The grumpy thread

[warch]

1 hour ago, jakebullet said:

I'm on a terrible caravan holiday. There's grade 1 scum next door.

No smoking sign? That only applies to tobacco not weed.

One is a shirtless moron wearing shorts n flip-flops cos the ladies* love a bit of gut hanging out. They've done preloading and just gone out. Mr gut has accessorised with a cagoule n his gut still hanging out. Be fighting them off with a shitty stick.

Can't wait till the 2am Jerry Springer fights.

Have they attached an air conditioning unit to the side of your caravan yet?

[Wibble]

7 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Yeah, it's a bit wet.

 

Good couple of inches in the garage.  

Have a pump in place to attempt to keep it under control when round 2 hits us later.

And me and my team won’t be around to help the poor flood victims in future, thanks to blind/short sighted insurers. Good luck everyone!

[108]

8 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

And what did George Orwell say in '1984?'

Young Mr. Orwell was years ahead of the game. 
 

See also: Ministry of Truth etc.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, jakebullet said:

I'm on a terrible caravan holiday. There's grade 1 scum next door.

No smoking sign? That only applies to tobacco not weed.

One is a shirtless moron wearing shorts n flip-flops cos the ladies* love a bit of gut hanging out. They've done preloading and just gone out. Mr gut has accessorised with a cagoule n his gut still hanging out. Be fighting them off with a shitty stick.

Can't wait till the 2am Jerry Springer fights.

Scale of 1 to 10, how does it compare to being at home?

[Split_Pin]

13 hours ago, warch said:

Stihl saws, tracked machinery, reversing beepers and concrete breaking right outside my bedroom window at three in the morning.  

Count yourself lucky*

My house backs onto one of the busiest railway junctions in Central Scotland and there has been an ongoing programme of approximately twice weekly works, entirely between the hours of midnight and 5am, for the entire 13 years I have lived here. In addition to the Stihl saws, hammering, throwing big metal things into a skip from far away, blaring radios, loud conversations, flicking torches, my absolute favourite is the big hissing machine that blasts stones out of it and peeps it's horn as it perpetually moves 3 feet at a time.

Thankfully I love railways and this is necessary noise, as opposed to some fanny blasting music at 3am so its never bothered me, but not everyone's the same like that.

[Split_Pin]

I've had a spectacularly shite day, everything has gone wrong but the centrepiece has to be my car insurance company.

I'm with 1st Central for all 4 cars and I've recently renewed my policy for the red A4. I've got my 20 years' no claims bonus on it and this year the price came down, very surprised. Shortly after renewal, I get a request from them to provide additional evidence. The tone of their correspondence suggested they didn't believe something I'd told them.

So I supplied my driving licence and a DVLA check code to authorise them to check my driving record. A day later I get an email telling me that my premium is going up by £132 because I got an SP30 in June. Now I know I have never had a speeding fine and I checked the DVLA myself and it confirmed that everything was clean and tip-top. I phoned them up and the woman insisted I had a speeding endorsement.  I got a bit ratty at this point and suggested they check their records again. I gave them a fresh check code and she put me on hold for half an hour. She eventually came back and confirmed it was an error and my licence is clean. After putting me on hold for another twenty minutes, she finally came back and said no change to my premium.

I thought that this was such a spectacularly shit customer experience that it must be a scam but I had already logged into my account which confirmed that documents were outstanding. 

They couldn't run a bath.

[reb]

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I've had a spectacularly shite day, everything has gone wrong but the centrepiece has to be my car insurance company.

I'm with 1st Central for all 4 cars and I've recently renewed my policy for the red A4. I've got my 20 years' no claims bonus on it and this year the price came down, very surprised. Shortly after renewal, I get a request from them to provide additional evidence. The tone of their correspondence suggested they didn't believe something I'd told them.

So I supplied my driving licence and a DVLA check code to authorise them to check my driving record. A day later I get an email telling me that my premium is going up by £132 because I got an SP30 in June. Now I know I have never had a speeding fine and I checked the DVLA myself and it confirmed that everything was clean and tip-top. I phoned them up and the woman insisted I had a speeding endorsement.  I got a bit ratty at this point and suggested they check their records again. I gave them a fresh check code and she put me on hold for half an hour. She eventually came back and confirmed it was an error and my licence is clean. After putting me on hold for another twenty minutes, she finally came back and said no change to my premium.

I thought that this was such a spectacularly shit customer experience that it must be a scam but I had already logged into my account which confirmed that documents were outstanding. 

They couldn't run a bath.

I was with 1st Central a few years ago and I got the impression that they barely actually exist.

[BorniteIdentity]

I am with 1st Central and - other than being cheap - I’m pretty confident they have nothing going for them. 

[Rustybullethole]

7 hours ago, lisbon_road said:

Years ago, I couldn't get the discs off a Sierra.  In the end, I tried cutting through the flat disc area with a hacksaw - which is easy as the cast iron is easy to saw though.  This stress relieved the discs and they fell straight off.  Honestly, a lot easier than it sounds and better than sledging them - which I had tried and didn't work.  

Stating the obvious, you want to make sure you don't saw through something else at the same time.  

Like that. Wish i'd thought of it when I chose to turn the stuck fuckers on my transit into very sharp high velocity shrapnel with a club hammer. 

[jakebullet]

11 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Scale of 1 to 10, how does it compare to being at home?

A Len Goodman SEVEN!

It's a blend of CND but with the other sides weed smoking (though they're not cutting a tiny lawn for 3 hours while monged out).

There's also a hint of new students, wow we can get pissed at any time of the day.

They're also doing the mindless chav things. Shirtless shouts he's not eating fucking wholemeal followed by the thud of a sliced loaf landing on a random caravan roof. Fortunately not mine.

[Bfg]

On 23/02/2015 at 13:18, Jazoli said:

Yes this, I was amazed the other day to be pointed to my Google location history, because I have been using an android phone for the last couple of years there is a track of every single movement I have made going back 2 years, frightening.

I received the following email just today, saying they can find (ie., track) your phone from other devices, even if it is offline . . .

Although intended to be helpful, I feel this is invasive.  They did this without my knowledge or consent. I have opted out, but really I do not trust that it'll make any difference.  If I now only have the option to turn it off, that says they had turned it on !  ..perhaps in a software update.   And could, and probably will, by default do so again.

As I'm not a criminal, nor a terrorist this ought not concern me, but... because my phone number is in the public domain, ie., I give it out to friends who save it in their contacts, and I give it to businesses who then give it to couriers.. what scammer, id thief, or other criminal element doesn't have access to it ? 

Within a day or two anyone, whoever doesn't already have it will know my home address. Within a week they'll know where I shop, and where I am during most of each day. And the next time I go to an event, or some distance away, or am away overnight or for a weekend - they'll know my home is empty. That doesn't sound like a service I'd want to subscribe to.

 

 

Even if you turn off offline finding - the risk is gone ?  nope. . .

 

[Pieman]

24 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

(though they're not cutting a tiny lawn for 3 hours while monged out).

Thank you, you just reminded me of this.
 

 

[maxxo]

Had a doctors appointment yesterday to get a new fit note

have a guess what I did

bear in mind since the breakup I’ve been having an hour or so’s sleep per night

i slept in, woke up hours later realising I missed it and I’m really really annoyed at myself for it

[maxxo]

Also evri

dropped off a fair few parcels last week, happened to go in today and noticed them all still sat there and not been collected

fuck sake

apparently getting collected today so if you’ve bought anything from me I promise it’s on its way

[IronStar]

3 hours ago, Bfg said:

I received the following email just today, saying they can find (ie., track) your phone from other devices, even if it is offline . . .

Although intended to be helpful, I feel this is invasive.  They did this without my knowledge or consent. I have opted out, but really I do not trust that it'll make any difference.  If I now only have the option to turn it off, that says they had turned it on !  ..perhaps in a software update.   And could, and probably will, by default do so again.

As I'm not a criminal, nor a terrorist this ought not concern me, but... because my phone number is in the public domain, ie., I give it out to friends who save it in their contacts, and I give it to businesses who then give it to couriers.. what scammer, id thief, or other criminal element doesn't have access to it ? 

Within a day or two anyone, whoever doesn't already have it will know my home address. Within a week they'll know where I shop, and where I am during most of each day. And the next time I go to an event, or some distance away, or am away overnight or for a weekend - they'll know my home is empty. That doesn't sound like a service I'd want to subscribe to.

 

 

Even if you turn off offline finding - the risk is gone ?  nope. . .

 

You need access to person’s email and 2FA method to use this. It’s same as Apple FindMy, and is a very very very strong theft deterrent, especially if they manage to finally squash all the reset security bypasses. It’s also very handy in case you misplace your device. It’s been around since very first releases of Android, and I’ve used it to find where the hell did I put my phone dozens if not hundreds of times in conjunction with asking Google Home “where’s my phone?” while I was still using Android. It’s just being rolled out to devices that are offline, via BLE, in the same way FindMy works, which is a great thing if you forget or drop your phone and battery is flat. About time too, as there was no proper Android equivalent to air tags or locating small devices such as headphones. 
Oh and you get notification on your device it’s being located via find my device, so it’s not invisible. 

Overall a very very very useful thing, and no reason to worry about it. 

[Remspoor]

8 hours ago, Bfg said:

I received the following email just today, saying they can find (ie., track) your phone from other devices, even if it is offline . . .

Although intended to be helpful, I feel this is invasive.  They did this without my knowledge or consent. I have opted out, but really I do not trust that it'll make any difference.  If I now only have the option to turn it off, that says they had turned it on !  ..perhaps in a software update.   And could, and probably will, by default do so again.

As I'm not a criminal, nor a terrorist this ought not concern me, but... because my phone number is in the public domain, ie., I give it out to friends who save it in their contacts, and I give it to businesses who then give it to couriers.. what scammer, id thief, or other criminal element doesn't have access to it ? 

Within a day or two anyone, whoever doesn't already have it will know my home address. Within a week they'll know where I shop, and where I am during most of each day. And the next time I go to an event, or some distance away, or am away overnight or for a weekend - they'll know my home is empty. That doesn't sound like a service I'd want to subscribe to.

 

 

Even if you turn off offline finding - the risk is gone ?  nope. . .

 

I rejected it . Mainly because of privacy.  They know too much about us already.

It seems to also require Bluetooth. Well here in the middle of nowhere, in España vaciada (Empty Spain) it will not be of great help.. Not even the wife uses Bluetooth. There are no neighbours only the occasional tourist.

[sheffcortinacentre]

10 hours ago, Bfg said:

I received the following email just today, saying they can find (ie., track) your phone from other devices, even if it is offline . . .

Although intended to be helpful, I feel this is invasive.  They did this without my knowledge or consent. I have opted out, but really I do not trust that it'll make any difference.  If I now only have the option to turn it off, that says they had turned it on !  ..perhaps in a software update.   And could, and probably will, by default do so again.

As I'm not a criminal, nor a terrorist this ought not concern me, but... because my phone number is in the public domain, ie., I give it out to friends who save it in their contacts, and I give it to businesses who then give it to couriers.. what scammer, id thief, or other criminal element doesn't have access to it ? 

Within a day or two anyone, whoever doesn't already have it will know my home address. Within a week they'll know where I shop, and where I am during most of each day. And the next time I go to an event, or some distance away, or am away overnight or for a weekend - they'll know my home is empty. That doesn't sound like a service I'd want to subscribe to.

 

 

Even if you turn off offline finding - the risk is gone ?  nope. . .

 

Don't be so paranoid it's all perfectly secure.

[jakebullet]

More caravan holiday madness. If you open a window or door you can hear bingo at all times of the day.

For a laugh I went to check out the entertainment* and the bingo noise is coming from a speaker outside the complex. There is no actual bingo happening, they're just playing a tape of bingo.

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Remspoor said:

. Not even the wife uses Bluetooth. There are no neighbours only the occasional tourist.

Have you checked their teeth?

[Remspoor]

9 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Don't be so paranoid it's all perfectly secure.

You do you and leave me to do me.

[barefoot]

9 hours ago, jakebullet said:

... the bingo noise is coming from a speaker outside the complex. There is no actual bingo happening, they're just playing a tape of bingo.

Where is this site? I have to go.

[comfortablynumb]

10 hours ago, jakebullet said:

they're just playing a tape of bingo.

Bingo's greatest hits? 🤣

[Metal Guru]

Stayed at a Travelodge in North London over the weekend. On the ground floor was a Dominoes, so obviously some people took pizza to their rooms.

Next room to ours , just chucked their empty boxes into the corridor. Some people are just complete pigs who shouldn’t be allowed out in society.

Dread to think what their house is like.

[fairkens]

Just seen they're going stop making Old Jamaica ginger beer. Maybe if they hadn't ruined it with sweeteners people wouldn't have stopped buying it. Surely they must know that?

[comfortablynumb]

1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

Dread to think what their house is like.

Probably the tidiest house on the street.

All the rubbish is outside.....

Used to have scum like that when I lived in WGC, kids were chucked out into the street at about 18 months( yeah seriously) and their houses were spotless, latest flat screen TV, every sky channel etc.

Nothing in the fridge or cupboards tho.

[cobblers]

1 hour ago, fairkens said:

Just seen they're going stop making Old Jamaica ginger beer. Maybe if they hadn't ruined it with sweeteners people wouldn't have stopped buying it. Surely they must know that?

It's such a shame that so many tasty drinks have been ruined with the sugar tax. They could either put up the price by 50% or make the drink taste fucking awful, and almost everyone decided too make their drink taste awful.

And it's not the sweeteners themselves that ruin it - Pepsi Max is my favourite drink and I go through gallons of the stuff

[MorrisItalSLX]

4 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

Bingo's greatest hits? 🤣

“There was a farmer had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.”

[fairkens]

50 minutes ago, cobblers said:

It's such a shame that so many tasty drinks have been ruined with the sugar tax. They could either put up the price by 50% or make the drink taste fucking awful, and almost everyone decided too make their drink taste awful.

And it's not the sweeteners themselves that ruin it - Pepsi Max is my favourite drink and I go through gallons of the stuff

Agreed. Think irn bru took the right approach. All I can taste is bitter sweeteners.

Ironically it's the posh soft drinks that are full sugar now

[andy18s]

2 hours ago, cobblers said:

 

And it's not the sweeteners themselves that ruin it - Pepsi Max is my favourite drink and I go through gallons of the stuff

Used to work with a guy who would go through 2 5litre bottles of Tizer in a 12 hrs shift. 

Tizer Ted as he got known as would always have a bright red face and neck,but claimed it was a coincidence..

[andy18s]

Just had a reminder that my passport runs out end of the year,so gone online to see what needs doing.

Forms all filled in,photo taken and accepted so just need to send a copy of my Bg residency card.

And pay £120 plus another £40 to have DHL send it over..

No more diecasts for me for a while then I guess.