The grumpy thread

[reb]

15 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Can you pretend to be a hipster wanker temporarily and find a coffee shop with WiFi? Make a cheap coffee last an hour and work from there? 

If you can park close enough (and your laptop has the battery to cope) you might not even have to go inside

"Cheap coffee" and "somewhere to sit" don't go together around here alas.

If it's still off after lunch I'll probably go round to my brother's to do the accounting. Bollocks to working there though, he keeps his flat about the temperature of the sun!

[reb]

28 minutes ago, reb said:

"Cheap coffee" and "somewhere to sit" don't go together around here alas.

If it's still off after lunch I'll probably go round to my brother's to do the accounting. Bollocks to working there though, he keeps his flat about the temperature of the sun!

Update: I was able to hotspot off of my neighbours phone to get the accounting stuff done, so I do not in fact need to go anywhere!

[Remspoor]

23 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Starting with a clean, fresh, debloated windows install is one of my favourite things about new pc/new hard drive time 😂

Chris Titus Tech has a nice powershell script that runs a de bloat tool, works well! There's a program to nuke all the random shitty apps Windows comes with too somewhere. 

I tried to use that but I get a The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel message. tried to look for a solution. However, understanding how to solve the issue is beyond my brain cell.

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

I tried to use that but I get a The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel message. tried to look for a solution. However, understanding how to solve the issue is beyond my brain cell.

Mmm. I've never had it not work, but then it's always step 2 after I install a fresh windows 11.

Did you right click powers hell and run as admin? Can't remember if I did that or not, otherwise my network is whatever it was out the box mostly and I've done it at my dad's and granny's before (she shit herself when the script came up in ascii on her new* £35 dell aio I got her last year😂) 

[IronStar]

2 hours ago, Remspoor said:

I tried to use that but I get a The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel message. tried to look for a solution. However, understanding how to solve the issue is beyond my brain cell.

Is time/date set properly?

[hairnet]

warwickshire

what the fuck

morning went ok

had to get from cov to measham - and google said into brum then back out - its only 20 miles to road it - hour and half on public transport ffs

fuck that on the friday afternoon

the other option was rugby to atherstone then bus to measham which was feet from it

looking at the map while moving and wondered why the option has changed from keep going to tamworth and bus from there

got off and got to bus stop and unlike everywhere ive got a bus - theres no numbers so no idea if it stops but maps says yes

another bus turned up and i ask can i get to meash from here

she said no - the bus stops at 1400

actual the fuck?!!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

on a weekend or out in the sticks but here?????

went back to the station rang and asked what time place closed - 4.30 - by this time its 1525 the train to tam is 1603 and bus to meash is 1622 and gets there at 1710

so thats that fucked

work said how much uber - i said 8 quid they said ok

hope i dont do that again - bonus was back here from there 2.5 hours not using m6 and a50 ftw - 2 hours if had allegedly (on a friday yeah right )

cov buses have the oblong tin on the drivers door ftw good job i had change do they do contactless? - just like west lothian buses lmao

[maxxo]

First slight grump of the new house 

the thermocouple had failed on the boiler and caused the pilot light to keep going out

replaced it myself with a cheap part from toolstation and normal service is resumed

didnt see the point of hassling landlords etc, piece of piss to change

[Remspoor]

12 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Mmm. I've never had it not work, but then it's always step 2 after I install a fresh windows 11.

Did you right click powers hell and run as admin? Can't remember if I did that or not, otherwise my network is whatever it was out the box mostly and I've done it at my dad's and granny's before (she shit herself when the script came up in ascii on her new* £35 dell aio I got her last year😂) 

Yes run as instructed.

12 hours ago, IronStar said:

Is time/date set properly?

Yes

[Westbay]

14 hours ago, Remspoor said:

I tried to use that but I get a The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel message. tried to look for a solution. However, understanding how to solve the issue is beyond my brain cell.

 

Have a read , might help  🤞

https://kodekloud.com/blog/how-to-fix-could-not-create-ssl-tls-secure-channel/

[maxxo]

Massive grump incoming

i hired a man with a van to help me move a three piece suite 

I told him multiple times it was in a top floor flat of a 3 storey building but I will help him bring it down

he arrived, late of course

said no way is he carrying that down, I said I’d told him about the stairs etc and he just said “oh well”

he then said if I gave him £200 he’ll do it, like fuck am I doing that, I don’t even have £200 to my name at the minute

i might have told him to piss off in the end

no idea what to do now, other than maybe just leave it and get another

[IronStar]

1 minute ago, maxxo said:

Massive grump incoming

i hired a man with a van to help me move a three piece suite 

I told him multiple times it was in a top floor flat of a 3 storey building but I will help him bring it down

he arrived, late of course

said no way is he carrying that down, I said I’d told him about the stairs etc and he just said “oh well”

he then said if I gave him £200 he’ll do it, like fuck am I doing that, I don’t even have £200 to my name at the minute

i might have told him to piss off in the end

no idea what to do now, other than maybe just leave it and get another

Find another man in a van who’s not a cunt?

[Remspoor]

4 hours ago, Westbay said:

 

Have a read , might help  🤞

https://kodekloud.com/blog/how-to-fix-could-not-create-ssl-tls-secure-channel/

Thanks. It is almost the same at every bit of information i have previously found. I am still lost.

[andyberg]

This is probably an old picture but it just popped up on my faceache feed. I never considered a Capri to be a smoll car but I am just flabbergasted at this….

[alcyonecorporation]

A similar sort of thing. 

I get the difference in height but in breadth and length an SVX was a still is a large 2+2. 

[Boycie]

1 hour ago, andyberg said:

This is probably an old picture but it just popped up on my faceache feed. I never considered a Capri to be a smoll car but I am just flabbergasted at this….

Bonkers , I reckon by 2060 the economical roundabout will be akin in size to Thunderbird 2 ...

[comfortablynumb]

No pics, but I parked my MK3 escort cabrio next to its focus equivalent a while ago, and got absolutely dwarfed.

Stupid how big cars are these days. No wonder people don't use their garages for cars anymore, they don't fit.

[myglaren]

I don't consider my Mazda 6 as particularly large, it is usually dwarfed by the other cars in car parks, but although it would in theory fit in my son's garage, there would be no way to exit it.

[New POD]

21 hours ago, maxxo said:

First slight grump of the new house 

the thermocouple had failed on the boiler and caused the pilot light to keep going out

replaced it myself with a cheap part from toolstation and normal service is resumed

didnt see the point of hassling landlords etc, piece of piss to change

If the heating failed on the first day of a tenancy, I as a landlord would be mortified and return the first weeks rent without being asked.  

[barefoot]

I'd give him double

And a crate of ale

[maxxo]

16 minutes ago, New POD said:

If the heating failed on the first day of a tenancy, I as a landlord would be mortified and return the first weeks rent without being asked.  

I’m just not the sort to hassle

i have been asking for a new back gate however as it’s non existent or I’ll sort it if they give me the money for it

[New POD]

32 minutes ago, maxxo said:

I’m just not the sort to hassle

i have been asking for a new back gate however as it’s non existent or I’ll sort it if they give me the money for it

I mightalso be pissed off that you were trying to fix the heating when I am paying for 24 hour call out, and you don't appear to have any gas safe qualifications. 

[Remspoor]

After those devastating floods in Spain. The political games going on between the Valencian region (run by the right wing PP) and the national government (left wing coalition) FFS get a grip. Families have lost a lot the area needs cleaning power and water needs to be restored. 

Thankfully I do not living in this area.

[Spiny Norman]

Had a hilarious discussion* with a manager at work today who told us in no uncertain terms that we were not allowed to drink water in the shop. It bothers me that so many people's work lives are governed by such fucking idiots who think because they've achieved the spectacular success of  being promoted to management that they can make up rules as they go along.
I pointed out the relevant bit of government legislation and suggested they fuck off and read it.

Why do so many people become such cunts when they get a little bit of authority?

[maxxo]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

I mightalso be pissed off that you were trying to fix the heating when I am paying for 24 hour call out, and you don't appear to have any gas safe qualifications. 

In hindsight yes I completely agree with that

[New POD]

1 hour ago, Spiny Norman said:

Had a hilarious discussion* with a manager at work today who told us in no uncertain terms that we were not allowed to drink water in the shop. It bothers me that so many people's work lives are governed by such fucking idiots who think because they've achieved the spectacular success of  being promoted to management that they can make up rules as they go along.
I pointed out the relevant bit of government legislation and suggested they fuck off and read it.

Why do so many people become such cunts when they get a little bit of authority?

Most factories I've worked in had a "only covered water" policy for health and safety reasons.  You need water to stay hydrated especially in summer as there's never air conditioning in any factory, but they don't want hot drinks or in fact any drink getting spilled into complex assemblies. 

 

[barefoot]

Youth of today...

Lad in the corner shop selling fireworks had no idea what 'little demons' were and looked at me aghast when I told of having a bollocking from my mother for coming home with my fingernails blown off - again!

[Spiny Norman]

Aye fair enough but we're talking about the normal wee 500ml bottles of water and the like which the staff bring in themselves, and no equipment beyond PC/mobile phone grade electrics you get in shops.

According to the H&S website an employer must provide clean drinking water which must be 'freely accessible' to all staff at all times.
I suppose they'll argue that the one filtered water dispenser in the canteen  fulfils that role, but how accessible it is depends on your interpretation of the word when it's a good 250m round trip from your workspace.
 

[myglaren]

Never worked anywhere where there was any limitation whatsoever on drinks of any kind anywhere and the firms involved often supplied them free, or at least had them easily available.

I almost always worked with a cup of coffee at hand.

[Metal Guru]

9 hours ago, myglaren said:

Never worked anywhere where there was any limitation whatsoever on drinks of any kind anywhere and the firms involved often supplied them free, or at least had them easily available.

I almost always worked with a cup of coffee at hand.

This is going back to the 90s so might have changed now, but I regularly visited a company in Germany. They had vending machines with bottles of beer in them around the factory and crates dotted around for the empties. They’d just go and get a beer as we’d go for a coffee even mid morning. ( I was tempted to enquire about vacancies).

[New POD]

1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

This is going back to the 90s so might have changed now, but I regularly visited a company in Germany. They had vending machines with bottles of beer in them around the factory and crates dotted around for the empties. They’d just go and get a beer as we’d go for a coffee even mid morning. ( I was tempted to enquire about vacancies).

Used to visit sister plants in Italy, Germany and France.  The canteens sold wine and beer.  Very relaxed.