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Probably won't be that bad as once the water is hot it should stay that way with only a bit of maintenance wattage.

Presume the tank has a jacket and is in a cupboard to keep the heat in.

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struck out today, went to fit a new set of mud  guards to the trailer, all hardware siezed up solid bots snapping or rounding off so threw the old guard back on with new hardware 🙄

it’s just not fair!!!

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  On 04/11/2024 at 11:02, Pieman said:

Over the last three days I have driven on the M42, M6, M1, M25, M20, M26 and M2.

ALL of them, for most of their length, were covered with 50mph average speed cameras. It actually felt unfamiliar when I went onto A-road dual carriageways and was able to do 70.

Shall we just give up and make the nationwide speed limit 50? Or is that the eventual plan?

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Average speed on the M1 is the lowest ever at 60.7mph for 2023.

The Times had an article about it Saturday - the DVLA stats for the other ones mentioned both in your post and the article are M6 - 58mph, M25 - 53.6mph, M20 - 59.3mph, and the overall national average is 60.2mph. 

Fastest is the M40 at 65.6mph. No prizes for guessing, of course the M25 is the slowest! 

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  On 06/11/2024 at 16:27, cobblers said:

A couple of years ago I accidentally popped one of the rear driveshafts out of my T6 while doing some suspension work, and I lost a bit of diff oil.

I was having it serviced by a mate a few days later, so I just asked him to top it up. I've got a feeling he didn't, because my 60,000 mile rear diff is whining it's head off all of a sudden.

£5k for a new one. £650 for a mystery ebay one. ffs

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It's also possible it's been topped up, but with the wrong (incompatible) oil.  Had this once on a D2 gearbox.  Wrong oil used for top-up and it started whining like a bastard and jamming in gears after long motorway stints.

Drained, flushed and the correct oil installed... the whine went away (over a month or so) and it performed a lot better.  5k miles later you would never have known it sounded like it was about to explode.

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Fucksakes. I'm having a disaster.

This morning my ancient, but usually reliable printer just wouldn't turn on when I needed to print some eBay postage labels. Seemed like it was the transformer dead, but there are various broken bits like the scanner cover etc, and I've been pondering an upgrade anyway, this has just forced my arm. Managed to work out how to do a QR code and get labels printed at the Post Office as it's only two parcels.

Then a guy messaged me about something he's bought, seems I didn't put everything in his parcel so I apologise and try and get a new postage label through eBay, but of course I can't print the damn thing and there's no option of QR code for some reason.

Then a couple of people buy multiple items, and when I go to pack them, I can't find everything - I quite often sell items that are identical to ones I've previously listed, there's an option to list an identical item, looks like I've used that but forgotten to change the amount I actually had, so I've sold things I don't possess! More apology messages to buyers.

Thinking I've managed to sort everything, just about to sit down and watch a bit of TV and notice a small black dot on the (almost brand new)  carpet, probably a bit of fluff off a sock? Except when I go to pick it up, my fingers turn black. WTF? It's where I had the printer earlier, and it dawns on me that it's ink, and it's somehow now on my fingers, my best hoodie, in the bottom of the wardrobe where I store the printer, everywhere. The mrs is trying to use wet wipes on the carpet while I'm trying to get some washing up liquid on my hoodie, but it's just going everywhere as it gets on my fingers then transfers to everything I touch. Chucked the hoodie in the washing machine on "do or die" mode and grabbed the wet vac. An hour later I'm going cross-eyed trying to see if there's still ink on the carpet or if it's the pattern. I think I've got the majority of it out but I've got a horrible feeling it's deep in the pile and will be like one of those ink stamp pads and get drawn out when I stand on it. I've very carefully transported the printer to the outhouse, there's ink dribbling out in several places, never seen this happen before. It's using a Tesco remanufactured cartridge, most of the time they're good but this one has played silly buggers since day one, I've had to remove and refit the thing numerous times as the printer kept getting upset with it. 

Just to add insult to injury, I tried to switch my lamp on so I could read my debit card details while ordering a new printer, and the bulb went ping. Of course it's some obscure thing I'll struggle to replace now. Argh...

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I've said it for years that printers are inherently evil.  I didn't need any more proof but there it is.  They don't need technicians, they need priests.

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  On 07/11/2024 at 00:07, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I've said it for years that printers are inherently evil.  I didn't need any more proof but there it is.  They don't need technicians, they need priests.

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My Brother just works, has done for 15+ years

Posted
  On 06/11/2024 at 23:56, High Jetter said:

Ctrl, Alt, Del - wake up refreshed tomorrow.

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Well my hoodie appears to be OK at least, I don't know what sorcery is built into "Stain Expert" mode on the washing machine, but that and a load of Fairy seems to have done the trick

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  On 06/11/2024 at 22:20, bunglebus said:

Just to add insult to injury, I tried to switch my lamp on so I could read my debit card details while ordering a new printer, and the bulb went ping. Of course it's some obscure thing I'll struggle to replace now. Argh...

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hmmm? :) 

 

let me know what bulb it is/take a picture of it/any writing on it and I can probably point you in the right direction to get a suitable replacement :) 

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  On 06/11/2024 at 22:20, bunglebus said:

Fucksakes. I'm having a disaster.

This morning my ancient, but usually reliable printer just wouldn't turn on when I needed to print some eBay postage labels. Seemed like it was the transformer dead, but there are various broken bits like the scanner cover etc, and I've been pondering an upgrade anyway, this has just forced my arm. Managed to work out how to do a QR code and get labels printed at the Post Office as it's only two parcels.

Then a guy messaged me about something he's bought, seems I didn't put everything in his parcel so I apologise and try and get a new postage label through eBay, but of course I can't print the damn thing and there's no option of QR code for some reason.

Then a couple of people buy multiple items, and when I go to pack them, I can't find everything - I quite often sell items that are identical to ones I've previously listed, there's an option to list an identical item, looks like I've used that but forgotten to change the amount I actually had, so I've sold things I don't possess! More apology messages to buyers.

Thinking I've managed to sort everything, just about to sit down and watch a bit of TV and notice a small black dot on the (almost brand new)  carpet, probably a bit of fluff off a sock? Except when I go to pick it up, my fingers turn black. WTF? It's where I had the printer earlier, and it dawns on me that it's ink, and it's somehow now on my fingers, my best hoodie, in the bottom of the wardrobe where I store the printer, everywhere. The mrs is trying to use wet wipes on the carpet while I'm trying to get some washing up liquid on my hoodie, but it's just going everywhere as it gets on my fingers then transfers to everything I touch. Chucked the hoodie in the washing machine on "do or die" mode and grabbed the wet vac. An hour later I'm going cross-eyed trying to see if there's still ink on the carpet or if it's the pattern. I think I've got the majority of it out but I've got a horrible feeling it's deep in the pile and will be like one of those ink stamp pads and get drawn out when I stand on it. I've very carefully transported the printer to the outhouse, there's ink dribbling out in several places, never seen this happen before. It's using a Tesco remanufactured cartridge, most of the time they're good but this one has played silly buggers since day one, I've had to remove and refit the thing numerous times as the printer kept getting upset with it. 

Just to add insult to injury, I tried to switch my lamp on so I could read my debit card details while ordering a new printer, and the bulb went ping. Of course it's some obscure thing I'll struggle to replace now. Argh...

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If you print so often then why are you using an ink jet?

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  On 07/11/2024 at 07:00, Remspoor said:

If you print so often then why are you using an ink jet?

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I don't print that often but as what I would need is just black and white I bought an old (2006-ish) HP laser printer on eBay a few months back.  It needed a new tray roller (5 Quid) to feed properly but came with a toner cartridge.  Old laser printers are basically the only thing that is worth recommending as they come pre-exorcised from the factory.

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  On 07/11/2024 at 07:00, Remspoor said:

If you print so often then why are you using an ink jet?

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It's what I had, like I said it's pretty old. Just suited me as it has a pretty decent scanner which I'd used to digitise a load of old prints etc. Typical I bought a load of the cartridges when Tesco put them on clearance, so they're no use to me now.

I only really print eBay labels these days but I want to start making decals for my custom toy cars, so it's upgrade time. 

My nightmare wasn't actually over when I posted last night, I store all my pictures on Flickr and have multiple albums for all my different makes of toy car, shows I've been to etc. The app, and to a certain extent the website, have been messing about lately and not displaying all my images. I was trying to sort some pictures out and couldn't find several of the albums, if I look at the info for a picture I know was in one of the missing albums, it doesn't show it as being in there, just in my photo stream. I've spent a lot of time organising those albums, I'll be livid if Flickr have fucked this up permanently 

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  On 06/11/2024 at 17:18, myglaren said:

Probably won't be that bad as once the water is hot it should stay that way with only a bit of maintenance wattage.

Presume the tank has a jacket and is in a cupboard to keep the heat in.

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Yes it has a red jacket on it and in the bedroom cupboard

its still hot this morning so hasn’t worked out too bad really 

just annoying that it was left on

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  On 07/11/2024 at 03:07, LightBulbFun said:

hmmm? :) 

 

let me know what bulb it is/take a picture of it/any writing on it and I can probably point you in the right direction to get a suitable replacement :) 

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I was being a bit overdramatic but it's not one I had in stock anyway. I'm sure I'll find a replacement E14

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  On 07/11/2024 at 07:18, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I don't print that often but as what I would need is just black and white I bought an old (2006-ish) HP laser printer on eBay a few months back.  It needed a new tray roller (5 Quid) to feed properly but came with a toner cartridge.  Old laser printers are basically the only thing that is worth recommending as they come pre-exorcised from the factory.

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This. So much this. 
Get HP 1010/1012 @bunglebus. Laser, reman cartridges everywhere for pennies, just keeps going. The one we had kicking around and is still with my parents did over half a million pages, and is working just fine. 
No wireless connectivity if that’s your thing though. 

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My HP laserjet was superb - until it wasn't anymore, lots of grinding and growling and messages to update the firmware.

Always bought HP as they always* work with Linux.  Except this one didn't.  I had to email every print job to HP in America, who emailed it back to the printer.  It worked but was a complete pain.

Have an HP Envy 120 that is very sleek and pretty but only the scanner works on it.

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Bastard scrotes. Dropped my wallet yesterday when cycling in Cheltenham (en route to collect the van) - some cunt not content with the £100 in cash that was in there immediately proceeded to using my cards everywhere they could. Within about 10 mins of me dropping it  

Cunts even stupid enough to take it home with them (there’s an AirTag in my wallet, I can see it) and tried to order food online using one of the now cancelled cards.  

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  On 07/11/2024 at 10:29, IronStar said:

No wireless connectivity if that’s your thing though. 

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That's why I'm setting up a print server using an old Raspberry Pi.  For the one time I print every month.  So worth it...

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Ffs it’s early November. Bah humbug to you Heathrow 

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  On 07/11/2024 at 15:11, andyberg said:

Ffs it’s early November. Bah humbug to you Heathrow 

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Neighbour at the end of our road already has lights out.  Worst of all, they have a fucking door bow.

Posted
  On 07/11/2024 at 00:10, High Jetter said:

My Brother just works, has done for 15+ years

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Fair play to him. Nice to see family members in gainful employment

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Just got the old HP laserjet set up on the network with an old Raspberry Pi set as the print server.  Once I'd got the image running on the Raspberry Pi (incredibly easy) it took about 5 minutes.

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  On 07/11/2024 at 11:11, myglaren said:

My HP laserjet was superb - until it wasn't anymore, lots of grinding and growling and messages to update the firmware.

Always bought HP as they always* work with Linux.  Except this one didn't.  I had to email every print job to HP in America, who emailed it back to the printer.  It worked but was a complete pain.

Have an HP Envy 120 that is very sleek and pretty but only the scanner works on it.

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HP always seems to have connection problems in my experience. I had a Dell B+W laser for 10 years with very little trouble. Now have an Epson with ink tanks. Which needs deleting from the laptop and reinstalling once a year to work, for some reason.

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Just got back from a run up to Daventry to drop a couple of things off.

Motorway grumps.  No roadworks issues or anything during this one - but almost the entire sodding way back was three lanes of bloody lorries crawling past each other, with one lane of cars overtaking then about 1mph faster.

The tiny disparity between speed limiters on wagons must be absolutely maddening if you're trying to drive them.

After finding my way round the third or fourth cluster I just said sod it, slotted myself in behind them in lane 1 and just bumbled along at 50-55.  It's just not worth the hassle to do otherwise for the sake of 20 miles taking maybe a minute or two less if I try and bully my way through.

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  On 07/11/2024 at 16:04, Zelandeth said:

maybe a minute or two less if I try and bully my way through.

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the thought of you flashing people out of the way in TPA or the Trabant is quite amusing I will say :) 

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Looks like there's a war brewing with CND and his pikey trucks. To recap he has 2 x transit tipper + chavved up disco 4, and zero off road parking. There is previous history of mrs. CND attempting to bully Hazel (little old lady) into keeping space outside Hazel's house "reserved" for disco as a) Very valuable car b) Large car c) CND needs the space more* This shit got stopped after police involvement.

But now he has the extra pikey truck, and nowhere to put it. Last night Hazel's daughter was parked outside Hazel's house, and pikey had to be dumped on grassed area, or (horror) walk 100 yards. Daughter went home and he moved pikey in front of Hazel's house. Big surprise, when he moved it this morning Hazel put her car back in front of her own house.

CND has come home, and is parked behind Hazel. Delightful shouting coming thru wall, 50% fucks & cunts, rest CND told Mrs CND to park disco in Hazel's space to reserve it for pikey truck. So parking war time. Slight snag being junior cunts have to be driven to / from school, so there's no way she can long term hold the space, assuming she can snatch it when Hazel goes shopping.

 

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  On 07/11/2024 at 11:20, Kiltox said:

Bastard scrotes. Dropped my wallet yesterday when cycling in Cheltenham (en route to collect the van) - some cunt not content with the £100 in cash that was in there immediately proceeded to using my cards everywhere they could. Within about 10 mins of me dropping it  

Cunts even stupid enough to take it home with them (there’s an AirTag in my wallet, I can see it) and tried to order food online using one of the now cancelled cards.  

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That’s properly scrotey of them.

I bet they’d take in someone else’s takeaway order and eat it if it was delivered by mistake, rather than point out the error.

With that in mind, and considering you now know where they live, I propose the following method of remediation:

  1. Go and buy a takeaway local to them
  2. Rub your cock and balls on every inch of the food
  3. Pose as a ‘confused’ delivery driver and deliver it in to them.
  4. Don’t forget to photograph your knob on all the food, so that you can post the photos through their letterbox a few days later.

Other more sensible methods of resolving this situation may be available.

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If I knew with 100% certainty which shithole it was in, it’d probably have a Nissan E-NV200 in its front room by now. 

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