The grumpy thread

[Spiny Norman]

Better yet, hopefully when they try playing with it at least one of them will get electrocuted and possibly suffer a heart attack.

[somewhatfoolish]

Can't happen; the things are very safe and won't shock anyone with a normal-ish heartbeat.

[fairkens]

Happened near me. Turns out it had been used and ended up joining the fella in the ambulance. Was eventually found and returned

[andy18s]

  On 23/10/2024 at 08:39, EyesWeldedShut said:

The old fashioned pink Windowlene is good for this too but can be very messy to use. 
Sprog's car here suffers from this problem - vape juice is the problem there. Coats the inside of the screen - what does it to to their lungs then?

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Get him to clean it and then ask him the same....

[myglaren]

  On 23/10/2024 at 08:39, EyesWeldedShut said:

The old fashioned pink Windowlene is good for this too but can be very messy to use. 
Sprog's car here suffers from this problem - vape juice is the problem there. Coats the inside of the screen - what does it to to their lungs then?

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That may be it, his girlfriend vapes.

[Metal Guru]

  On 23/10/2024 at 08:39, EyesWeldedShut said:

The old fashioned pink Windowlene is good for this too but can be very messy to use. 
Sprog's car here suffers from this problem - vape juice is the problem there. Coats the inside of the screen - what does it to to their lungs then?

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Passed a vape store yesterday. Their window ads almost implied if it was actually a healthy thing to do.

[reb]

  On 24/10/2024 at 09:58, Metal Guru said:

Passed a vape store yesterday. Their window ads almost implied if it was actually a healthy thing to do.

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I've been vaping on and off since it first became a relatively common thing a decade ago. I can tell that it's not a healthy thing to do, the marketing is bordering on evil I think.

It's handy for keeping you off the fags, but it's actually harder to give up than smoking. If you look at the nicotine content of a disposable vape, it at a glance seems like it's about 40 fags worth of nicotine, but the form they use has been engineered to be more addictive, along with the flavours that prod the fun bits of your brain.

I predict within a decade it'll be much more heavily regulated and all of the vape shops will be replaced with dispensaries selling another wonder drug which will likely be legalised at some point, which I'm not sure is any better.

[IronStar]

A trick few people around me used is to switch to vapes, then gradually switch to nicotine-free ones and they usually ditched them by the time they finished off 5th or so.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

One of my mates was a heavy smoker (of weed and cigarettes) and vapes.  One of his lungs completely collapsed a couple of months ago and the specialist advised that he needed to quit all three or he would die.  He's 35.

We'll see where the research takes us but the fact a consultant is citing vapes as part of the issue suggests to me where the research is going...

[loserone]

  On 24/10/2024 at 10:08, reb said:

actually harder to give up than smoking.

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@maxxo

[reb]

  On 24/10/2024 at 11:08, GrumpiusMaximus said:

One of my mates was a heavy smoker (of weed and cigarettes) and vaper.  One of his lungs completely collapsed a couple of months ago and the specialist advised that he needed to quit all three or he would die.  He's 35.

We'll see where the research takes us but the fact a consultant is citing vapes as part of the issue suggests to me where the research is going...

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Christ, that's grim, and puts the horrible cough I've been having on and off recently into perspective.

[maxxo]

I don’t doubt at all vapes are bad for your health

i filled up the one I got a few days ago and it’s still not empty yet

i have a few puffs early in the morning, few at mid day and then a few before bed

i must admit I am already feeling tons better

mind you I did used to smoke 40-50 cigs a day 

had zero desire for a cigarette since

[barefoot]

I've just had a scam phone call, the one about my credit card's just been used...

A flight from East Midlands Airport to St Pancreas!

[Pieman]

  On 24/10/2024 at 11:52, barefoot said:

I've just had a scam phone call, the one about my credit card's just been used...

A flight from East Midlands Airport to St Pancreas!

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[barefoot]

Incidentally, when it's apparent that it's a scam call. ie. It's not from my mother, or my mother in law's number, I've taken to lifting up the receiver and replying with the words, "Hello, Saint Mary Mead Two Three Six". It doesn't seem to fit the script and 90% of the fuckers hang up.

[Pieman]

  On 24/10/2024 at 14:00, barefoot said:

Incidentally, when it's apparent that it's a scam call. ie. It's not from my mother, or my mother in law's number, I've taken to lifting up the receiver and replying with the words, "Hello, Saint Mary Mead Two Three Six". It doesn't seem to fit the script and 90% of the fuckers hang up.

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4291!

[somewhatfoolish]

Allo, Bureau des Etrangers? Bonus if you can impersonate a young John Nettles.

[Metal Guru]

  On 24/10/2024 at 14:18, somewhatfoolish said:

Allo, Bureau des Etrangers? Bonus if you can impersonate a young John Nettles.

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Given up the landline.( to go full fibre). We just used mobiles anyway, and it was just scammers and sales using it.

[maxxo]

Just down at my parents today 

i realised the bi annual oiling of the doors was overdue by 2 weeks so decided to do it

of course I dropped the bloody thing on the carpet didn’t i

the lid fell off but I put it back on for the photo

can I hell get the oil slick off the carpet

[reb]

Thought I'd chuck this weeks invoice in a day early so I could have a bottle of wine or something tonight.

Paypal says HAHA FUCK YOU and is having international problems, so the payment has come through but my balance is showing as zero.

Great.

[chadders]

I don't know about PayPal but AMEX seems to have some sort of time delay at times, the balance o/s and the account can differ. This seems to be time zone related. I guess what I'm trying to say, badly, is that it may come through later when the two parts get 'in synch'.

[reb]

  On 24/10/2024 at 15:56, chadders said:

I don't know about PayPal but AMEX seems to have some sort of time delay at times, the balance o/s and the account can differ. This seems to be time zone related. I guess what I'm trying to say, badly, is that it may come through later when the two parts get 'in synch'.

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It normally goes through instantaneously!

It was to do with this:

All sorted now though!

Just another example of my generation's obsession with instant gratification!

[chadders]

  On 24/10/2024 at 16:02, reb said:

It normally goes through instantaneously!

It was to do with this:

All sorted now though!

Just another example of my generation's obsession with instant gratification!

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Enjoy your wine!

[Metal Guru]

Aircon f@cked again. Only got it fixed on 10/10/23. I bet they say it’s a different part failed.

[ruffgeezer]

  On 24/10/2024 at 15:06, maxxo said:

Just down at my parents today 

i realised the bi annual oiling of the doors was overdue by 2 weeks so decided to do it

of course I dropped the bloody thing on the carpet didn’t i

the lid fell off but I put it back on for the photo

can I hell get the oil slick off the carpet

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[High Jetter]

  On 24/10/2024 at 14:00, barefoot said:

Incidentally, when it's apparent that it's a scam call. ie. It's not from my mother, or my mother in law's number, I've taken to lifting up the receiver and replying with the words, "Hello, Saint Mary Mead Two Three Six". It doesn't seem to fit the script and 90% of the fuckers hang up.

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Battersea dog's home works well too.

[somewhatfoolish]

Home for the perpetually bewildered, Shoeburyness

Society for people of reduced seriousness, Giggleswick, North Yorks.

 

[High Jetter]

  On 24/10/2024 at 21:58, somewhatfoolish said:

Home for the perpetually bewildered, Shoeburyness

Society for people of reduced seriousness, Giggleswick, North Yorks.

 

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Yes but not real, obs!

[sheffcortinacentre]

Best I've heard was a guy in America who convinced them they'd phoned an ongoing crime scene.

It was available online.

[goosey]

So it turns out the house over the road from us is a cannabis grow the couple left in a rush early hours of this morning, it’s a shame as they both seemed so nice