The grumpy thread

[myglaren]

59 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Why care enough to get it changed?

Often wondered why whateverthehellitwas was renamed Snickers.

[New POD]

1 hour ago, Lacquer Peel said:

 You are the one offended by the name change of consumer product. Who cares?

Who cares? Possibly both Mary Quant and BMW will be getting their Trademark lawyers involved to ensure that their own Brand image is protected.  

See also

Craft (mini cheddars)

Cadbury (mini eggs) 

Maglite (mini maglite) 

Disney (mini mouse) 

Donars R Us (mini Kebab) 

And the St Vincent de Paul society ( Mini Vinnies...helping children engage with charity work) 

Oh and JCB (mini digger) 

 

[reb]

2 minutes ago, New POD said:

Who cares? Possibly both Mary Quant and BMW will be getting their Trademark lawyers involved to ensure that their own Brand image is protected.  

See also

Craft (mini cheddars)

Cadbury (mini eggs) 

Maglite (mini maglite) 

Disney (mini mouse) 

Donars R Us (mini Kebab) 

And the St Vincent de Paul society ( Mini Vinnies...helping children engage with charity work) 

Oh and JCB (mini digger) 

 

I bet you're fun at parties. You'd probably report the host for not having a PRS licence.

[New POD]

Just now, reb said:

I bet you're fun at parties. You'd probably report the host for not having a PRS licence.

Fuck Off. Live music or no music. The string quartet i booked last time can do an excellent version of Kraftwerk's Model. 

Anyway I don't think PRS is valid if the artists are dead ?

[reb]

1 minute ago, New POD said:

Fuck Off. Live music or no music. The string quartet i booked last time can do an excellent version of Kraftwerk's Model. 

Anyway I don't think PRS is valid if the artists are dead ?

I think you still need a PRS for live music if it's covers!

[New POD]

Just now, reb said:

I think you still need a PRS for live music if it's covers!

I don't charge for entry so possibly not. Although I do require a dish of something for the buffet (pheasant would do) and a contribution towards the cost of the vintage Champagne. 

[reb]

1 minute ago, New POD said:

I don't charge for entry so possibly not. Although I do require a dish of something for the buffet (pheasant would do) and a contribution towards the cost of the vintage Champagne. 

I see. Usually the kind of parties I go (went) to involve a guy on something powdery with an aux cord, and whatever was cheap at the offie. Food? We'll order £200 worth of pizza from dominos round the corner.

[artdjones]

38 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Often wondered why whateverthehellitwas was renamed Snickers.

It was because certain US firms are obsessed with making sure they use the same brands in every country, in this case the Mars company.

It reached maximum stupidity when Jif, a great name for a cleaning product, was renamed Cif, a syllable that immediately makes one think of Syphilis.

[High Jetter]

47 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Often wondered why whateverthehellitwas was renamed Snickers.

Marathon, IIRC

[Metal Guru]

Just now, High Jetter said:

Marathon, IIRC

Aldi were probably gutted when Marathon changed its name, as they’d called their copy Runner or something associated with running. Knowing their copycat ways, I’m surprised they didn’t called it the 26mile and 385 yards bar.

[reb]

2 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Aldi were probably gutted when Marathon changed its name, as they’d called their copy Runner or something associated with running. Knowing their copycat ways, I’m surprised they didn’t called it the 26mile and 385 yards bar.

Close, they call them "Racer" https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-dairyfine-racer-6-pack/4088600265421

[dave j]

15 minutes ago, reb said:

Food? We'll order £200 worth of pizza from dominos round the corner.

That's about 4 pizzas going by Dominos prices!

[reb]

1 minute ago, dave j said:

That's about 4 pizzas going by Dominos prices!

Coupon codes, that's where it's at. The deals aren't as good as they used to be, but I remember one party where we got about 10 large pizzas plus sides for about £120

[GrumpiusMaximus]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Fuck Off. Live music or no music. The string quartet i booked last time can do an excellent version of Kraftwerk's Model. 

Anyway I don't think PRS is valid if the artists are dead ?

"When a PRS writer member dies, their membership of PRS automatically terminates. However, PRS will continue to license and collect their Royalties until 31 December of the seventh year following their death, or until the admission of a successor member to PRS, whichever is earlier."

https://help.prsformusic.com/s/article/what-happens-to-royalties-when-you-die

[bunglebus]

On 08/11/2024 at 07:07, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Using that logic*, Midget Gems need to get in the sea, too. The world's truly gone bonkers. 

It seems Co-Op, as well as Poundland, have changed the name of the sweets...

But not what the till says!

[Dan29]

5 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

The old line from Scarborough to Whitby is a cracking bike ride. ( probably best with a mountain bike , it’s gravel mainly , not much tarmac).

As seen in this series https://www.channel4.com/programmes/abandoned-railways-from-above/on-demand/76430-003

[Heidel_Kakao]

4 hours ago, reb said:

Close, they call them "Racer" https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-dairyfine-racer-6-pack/4088600265421

And they call the Mars bar knock offs Titan which annoys me because that's a moon of Saturn. Phobos or Deimos would have been better.

[artdjones]

5 hours ago, bunglebus said:

But not what the till says!

I hope you're not a diabetes risk.

[jakebullet]

Oh no it's Mad Jean poetry* time. Anyone want to guess wtf it's supposed to mean?

Poetry...... Snow is a strange white word, no frost frost Has asked of bud or bird for winter,s  cost. Yet ice and frost and snow from earth to sky This summer land doth know, no man knows why. In all men,s hearts it is, some spirit old hath turned with malign kiss our lives to mould. Red fangs have torn his face, God,s blood is shed, he mourns from His lone place His chidren dead. O ancient crimson curse! Corrode, consume, give back this universe it,s pristine bloom.

But wait there's moar!

Poetry........ soldier,s Dream...... i dreamed kind Jesus fouleded the big gun gears, And caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts, and buckled with a smile Mausers and colts. And rusted  every beyonet with His tears. AND THERE WERE NO MORE BOMBS, OF OURS OR THEIRS, NOT EVEN AN OLD FLINT LOCK, NOR EVEN A PIKEL. BUT GOD WAS VEXED, AND GAVE POWER TO MICHAEL, AND WHEN I WOKE HE,D SEEN TO OUR REPAIRS.

[cobblers]

You should have to get a licence before you're allowed to do a poetry

[Bren]

Started the rear caliper flexi replacement on the mondeo. Rigid pipe snapped by the union. Arses.

Waiting now to try and get a flaring kit that does steel pipes....

[goosey]

Really don’t understand why customers want to stand around watching you and question your every action when I’m trying to fault find on their bag of shit machine 

it slows me down, as in takes me more time witch costs them more money 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

7 minutes ago, goosey said:

Really don’t understand why customers want to stand around watching you and question your every action when I’m trying to fault find on their bag of shit machine 

it slows me down, as in takes me more time witch costs them more money 

100 Quid standing twat tax plus 20 per additional question.

[Stanky]

2 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Snow is a strange white word, no frost frost Has asked of bud or bird for winter,s  cost. Yet ice and frost and snow from earth to sky This summer land doth know, no man knows why. In all men,s hearts it is, some spirit old hath turned with malign kiss our lives to mould. Red fangs have torn his face, God,s blood is shed, he mourns from His lone place His chidren dead. O ancient crimson curse! Corrode, consume, give back this universe it,s pristine bloom.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that this might be a very heartfelt description of the ownership experience of an elderly white Mazda which is getting increasingly rusty until it finally fails an MOT catastrophically and gets recycled into a washing machine.

Is there a prize for the right answer?

[jakebullet]

39 minutes ago, Stanky said:

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that this might be a very heartfelt description of the ownership experience of an elderly white Mazda which is getting increasingly rusty until it finally fails an MOT catastrophically and gets recycled into a washing machine.

Is there a prize for the right answer?

Afternoon tea with Mad Jean. If you're really lucky she won't sing.

[ruffgeezer]

OK, but if Mad Jean is the name of your drag act, we're all going to be really disappointed. 

[IronStar]

I caught a cold, and I’m feeling utterly miserable. I have a ton of work to get done today workwise, and the daily 159 is booked for reg tomorrow. Oh, it needs two bulbs changed beforehand, and I’m really not in the state to fuck with it, especially not on 5 degree cold. 
Aresbisquits. 

[myglaren]

Daughter ordered oil for her car from Amazon.  They sent a printer cartridge.

She doesn't have a printer.

Why she didn't go to the car parts shop a mile from where she works I have no idea.  They are good and sensibly priced.

[Zelandeth]

Fecking BT making something that should be relatively simple be needlessly complicated.

Had a call from my grandfather today, he's trying to track down a couple of relations who haven't been in contact for a good long while.  He's in his late 80s and while sharp as a tack and in full possession of his marbles, isn't in any way IT literate, so so was perfectly happy to try to do some of the legwork while he was on the phone.

I had some names and such to work from, but we were pretty sure that people had moved - but not where to.  These are all likely to be folks of the sort of age that Facebook etc isn't going to turn up much useful (not that I ever seem to be able to find *anything* useful via the search function on there anyway), so time to go a bit more old school.

Now my first port of call was going to be to just search for the relevant name in the phone book.  However there isn't any way to just search the whole UK... it's broken up into a separate PDF for each region (which thankfully are searchable), there's no map showing where they have deemed the boundaries to be, and they seem largely made up in a lot of cases.  In this case it's a pretty uncommon name, so I wasn't expecting a huge number of matches - and after going through something like 40 PDFs searching for the name, I found two matches.  

Seriously, you obviously have all the data there...why not offer "all" as one of the bloody area options to download the list from?  Even if you aren't going to offer a tool to search the listing on the website, at least allow us to grab the data in one place to make a nationwide search less of a tedious pain to conduct...

I've actually downloaded all of them and will be joining them together into one big file when I get five minutes, as I'm pretty sure this isn't going to be the last time I get a question like this.

It's very much a first world problem, but it's one of those "there's no good reason for this to be this difficult" sort of things that really irks me when I run into them.

[reb]

One of the downsides of living vaguely far away from town is that it takes fucking ages for food deliveries. It's not that far of a drive, maybe 10 minutes, but it always takes far longer for deliveries to my house than it does to my brother's or mum's houses in town.

I cannot wait to have my licence back so I can just drive into town and pick food up.