The grumpy thread

[loserone]

34 minutes ago, reb said:

vaguely far away

Man, every time I'm away I get a food delivery just because there is no takeaway in a ten mile radius and nowhere will deliver.  

[reb]

9 minutes ago, loserone said:

Man, every time I'm away I get a food delivery just because there is no takeaway in a ten mile radius and nowhere will deliver.  

Part of my problem is that I'm in a difficult to find place, there's no signage at the road end and Google maps has no idea.

Tonights driver seems to be having significant difficulties finding me.

I ordered over two hours ago, I'm starting to lose hope.

[myglaren]

Can you use 'what three words' for them to find you?

Or perhaps Waze, sometimes works where Google Maps gives up.

Or map co-ordinates?

[MikeR]

2 hours of driving today , just to do a return trip to the center of Liverpool some 13 miles away ...

stopped at every f in traffic light ,even my son commented we would have won traffic light bingo ,  no parking in 3 places I tried , got in a multi story at the end ..

then checked the trains I would/could of used and they went off at 2pm because of a breakdown ...  just like last week ..

tell me again why city center shops are dying ...

 

[reb]

38 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Can you use 'what three words' for them to find you?

Or perhaps Waze, sometimes works where Google Maps gives up.

Or map co-ordinates?

All of these would require the driver to have enough comprehension of english to understand what I'm saying.

 

Also Just Eat already gets you to drop a pin on the map, something which delivery drivers seem to not know for whatever reason

[myglaren]

A bit like my son's place in Buckhurst Hill.   Right on the main drag but Google and my satnav are oblivious to it and take me into a housing estate dead end.  I can see his house but can't get to it from there.

[IronStar]

7 hours ago, IronStar said:

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. 

Fog light replaced, rear plate light holder burned out. 🤦‍♂️

I’m tired like I’ve ran a marathon, can’t wait* for tomorrow’s extra faff and driving across town. It’s booked for the noon. 

[maxxo]

i have just managed to fall through the ceiling

i've been in this house for nearly 2 weeks

gives me something to fix i suppose

i had been worried about the valve on the tank dripping, so i went up to go and waggle it around and have a look

i put my foot in the wrong place and it went right through

in doing so i managed to smack my head off the side of the tank and pull the overflow pipe out of it

i see why people call me Frank Spencer

managed to sort the overflow but going to have to spend money i don't have tomorrow to fix the ceiling

i'm impressed with myself

[IronStar]

5 minutes ago, maxxo said:

i have just managed to fall through the ceiling

i've been in this house for nearly 2 weeks

gives me something to fix i suppose

i had been worried about the valve on the tank dripping, so i went up to go and waggle it around and have a look

i put my foot in the wrong place and it went right through

in doing so i managed to smack my head off the side of the tank and pull the overflow pipe out of it

i see why people call me Frank Spencer

managed to sort the overflow but going to have to spend money i don't have tomorrow to fix the ceiling

i'm impressed with myself

Call your landlord. Not your property, not your problem, plus if you fell through the bloody ceiling it’s absolutely not you. Oh, and it’s rented in unsafe condition. 
I’d be shocked if he doesn’t come running and knock at least some of the rent off.

[maxxo]

Just now, IronStar said:

Call your landlord. Not your property, not your problem, plus if you fell through the bloody ceiling it’s absolutely not you. Oh, and it’s rented in unsafe condition. 
I’d be shocked if he doesn’t come running and knock at least some of the rent off.

i feel somewhat embarrased about it, i didn't want to have an overflow so i want to see if it needed adjustment, it has been adjusted

yes i agree about that, it's a part of the loft which isn't floored but not hidden away so i may well alert him

[Mr Pastry]

@maxxoThe landlord will probably be able to claim for the repair on his insurance. It's just accidental damage. 

[sheffcortinacentre]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

2 hours of driving today , just to do a return trip to the center of Liverpool some 13 miles away ...

stopped at every f in traffic light ,even my son commented we would have won traffic light bingo ,  no parking in 3 places I tried , got in a multi story at the end ..

then checked the trains I would/could of used and they went off at 2pm because of a breakdown ...  just like last week ..

tell me again why city center shops are dying ...

 

Welcome to Sheffield.

[captain_70s]

36 minutes ago, IronStar said:

Call your landlord. Not your property, not your problem, plus if you fell through the bloody ceiling it’s absolutely not you. Oh, and it’s rented in unsafe condition. 
I’d be shocked if he doesn’t come running and knock at least some of the rent off.

Worth checking the wording of the tenancy as access to and use of the attic space is often explicitly forbidden.

[High Jetter]

7 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

Worth checking the wording of the tenancy as access to and use of the attic space is often explicitly forbidden.

 

53 minutes ago, maxxo said:

i have just managed to fall through the ceiling

i've been in this house for nearly 2 weeks

gives me something to fix i suppose

i had been worried about the valve on the tank dripping, so i went up to go and waggle it around and have a look

i put my foot in the wrong place and it went right through

in doing so i managed to smack my head off the side of the tank and pull the overflow pipe out of it

i see why people call me Frank Spencer

managed to sort the overflow but going to have to spend money i don't have tomorrow to fix the ceiling

i'm impressed with myself

How is you relationship with the LL?

 

[maxxo]

30 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

 

How is you relationship with the LL?

 

no idea it's owned by a company down in Birkenhead

attic use is permitted as it's half converted

 

[High Jetter]

Accidental damage, shirley?

[sierraman]

8 hours ago, IronStar said:

Call your landlord. Not your property, not your problem, plus if you fell through the bloody ceiling it’s absolutely not you. Oh, and it’s rented in unsafe condition. 
I’d be shocked if he doesn’t come running and knock at least some of the rent off.

Not sure it works like that… I’d expect a right battle getting the deposit back now damage has been done to the property. The whole ‘not your property - not your problem’ would apply to poking about in the loft ‘fixing’ things. 

[chaseracer]

AS hive mind: who do we know in the TS postcode area might be able to help Max fix this without involving the landlord?

[beko1987]

I've always treated the loft as a grey area, I've not been told off yet for using mine. (luckily the current landlord bought it with me as a sitting tenant many years ago so it was there when we moved in, honest. 

I'm no plasterer, but can you cut a nice square out of it? Back to a joist on at least one side. Then an square of new plaster board should be easy to cut and fit. Not artexed is it? 

[Mally]

As above, its quite easy if just a painted ceiling,  and not papered.  Patch it, fill it, paint it.

Dunno, never noticed it before you mentioned it guv.

[barefoot]

Scirocco broke down this morning, cut out and wouldn't restart at a junction. Nice bloke in van helped me to push it to one side. Walked home and phoned my favourite vw specialist to collect it. Then a very nice woman rozzer knocked at my door to ask if I was OK and whether things were in hand to have it moved. Sadly forgot to take photographs and it's gone now...

[Pieman]

2 minutes ago, barefoot said:

 Then a very nice woman rozzer knocked at my door to ask if I was OK and whether things were in hand to have it moved. 

No doubt if someone had tried to nick it while it was sat there they wouldn't have cared...

[Popsicle]

@maxxo I put my foot through a ceiling many years ago, as mentioned by @Mally some Polyfilla and white emulsion had it looking as new. I even managed to put the artex swirl back in with a bog brush!

[Mally]

19 minutes ago, Popsicle said:

@maxxo I put my foot through a ceiling many years ago, as mentioned by @Mally some Polyfilla and white emulsion had it looking as new. I even managed to put the artex swirl back in with a bog brush!

When my son did it age 16 I made him 'repair' it.  Its been like that for 25 years and he can plaster now!

 

[ruffgeezer]

40 minutes ago, Popsicle said:

@maxxo I put my foot through a ceiling many years ago, as mentioned by @Mally some Polyfilla and white emulsion had it looking as new. I even managed to put the artex swirl back in with a bog brush!

Ironic as usually the bog brush is used to remove pebble dash!

[barefoot]

3 hours ago, barefoot said:

Scirocco broke down this morning, cut out and wouldn't restart at a junction. Nice bloke in van helped me to push it to one side. Walked home and phoned my favourite vw specialist to collect it. Then a very nice woman rozzer knocked at my door to ask if I was OK and whether things were in hand to have it moved. Sadly forgot to take photographs and it's gone now...

And it's back...

My fave VW blokes just dropped it off. A failed ignition module was the reason for all the fun.

[chadders]

19 minutes ago, barefoot said:

And it's back...

My fave VW blokes just dropped it off. A failed ignition module was the reason for all the fun.

If you insist on driving old VWs you deserve all that you get.

You wouldn't have that problem with an ID3 would you?

[jakebullet]

Mad Jean's got her knife out again:

No wonder people go and commit suicide, it the people in this world who have no thought for others even our own families are bad anf nasty towards us, they could not care wether we are alive or dead, yhey are so wrapped up into themselves and are very selfish. They don,t bother to even visit us, their parents, we have hardly ever seen our daughter for 30 years and now at the end of our lives they want to see us but, our will is not going to eithier our daughter or our son, that is for sure.

Well, fuck you mad Jean. She posts shit like this about everyone on the planet who isn't Jesus. Casually missing out you arrange to go there, and she doesn't answer the door or phone 'cos it's a laugh that you've just driven 70 miles for nothing.

I'm sure she's expecting to sit on a golden throne, and all the people who've wronged* her will queue up for 20 miles to beg her forgiveness. She'll turn to Jesus stood behind her, and ask has this one shown true repentance, Jesus will sadly shake his head and they will be smote for being nasty to poor Mad Jean.

[barefoot]

The plan was to take a grand tour up the west coast in the 944 stopping a couple of nights in posh hotels, until we got to the isle of skye where we'd rent a cottage for 2/3 days and come back home.

Have you seen how much s/c cottages are up there? £1,200 for 4 days! Fuck that...

Plan B...

[sierraman]

On 13/11/2024 at 09:33, chaseracer said:

AS hive mind: who do we know in the TS postcode area might be able to help Max fix this without involving the landlord?

A man of his skills I’m sure he’d be able to fix that himself 🙄