The grumpy thread

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, DavieW said:

Booked a blood test last week specifically to check my cholesterol level. Nurse took 2 phials of blood

Phoned the doctor to get the result this afternoon to be told they don't test for cholesterol level if the patient is on statins. So how am I meant to know if I need to increase my dosage? At least my fasting glucose level is OK although I didn't ask for it to be checked.

Strange, I get a suite of blood tests done every year including cholesterol, and it gets done even though I'm on statins. How else can you prove they're working?

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, DavieW said:

Nurse took 2 phials of blood

That's very nearly an armful!

[Matty]

Someone's run in the back corner of my car whilst parked. Bumper and back panel out of alignment and a small ripple in the panel. So not like the sort of impact you wouldn't notice. 

Whoever it was I hope your genitals turn black and fall off. And your partner runs off with the milk man.

[95 quid Peugeot]

Whilst not owning an electronic automobile,  I'd be well pissed off and needed to charge whilst this fuckwit parks in a slot, every day !!!!!! Never a lead seen

[Floatylight]

Been and had two new tyres fitted this morning, noticed the inside edge of the nearside rear on the Merc was down to the cords, rest of the tyre fine and front offside worn quite low on the inner edge.

Ordered two new Falkens from Protyre (part of Micheldever) and went down this morning.

Asked them to replace both and have a look at suspension tracking as something is clearly way off.

They've put two new all seasons on, one on the front right, one on the rear left and not looked at the tracking saying i never asked for it.

Would of expected them to ask if i wanted new ones on front or rear and swap them round.l, especially as new are all seasons and old are summer tyres.

Been using them for years but wont be going back!

Am i being overly picky?

[Tickman]

27 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Am i being overly picky?

Nope

 

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, Floatylight said:

Would of expected them to ask if i wanted new ones on front or rear and swap them round.l, especially as new are all seasons and old are summer tyres.

To be fair, "all seasons" does include summer.

[crad]

would love to meet the genius who decided to put the r53 (or r50 whatever teh fuck theyre called) mini's starter down below the fuckign exhaust manifold in the most inaccessible place possible where it has its own gash little heatshield that you cant fucking move and then the battery negative terminal nut decides to just spin and spin and then you give up bc even if you went through the pullaver of taking the fucking exhaust manifold off you can't jack the think up because the missus' driveway is so steep it might as well be a welsh mountain.

 

off to the garage you fuck. still, i got some shiny new tools so, woo?

 

i also have mega lack of skillz, which doesn't help but, rome wasn't built in a day and all that.

[Zelandeth]

Could insomnia please fsck off and get in the sea.  Got a load of things I need to do tomorrow and I am WIDE awake now.  Like more than I have been in probably a week.  No chance in hell I'm getting to sleep any time soon.  

I don't think I accidentally drank half a gallon of coffee with dinner...

[bunglebus]

Fucking Tuesdays. Some wanker has been at the wiring in the Lupo and buggered up the ISO connector, I can't get the individual connector out so now I've got to order a new one and chop it off then solder the wires. Why can't people leave shit alone if they don't know what they're doing?

Just to add insult to injury, I've just had a £90 fine land on the mat as I've inadvertently strayed into bastard Khan's ULEZ bullshit somehow.

To top it off I've just had to put about a litre of coolant in my Passat, and I've got the horrible feeling it's the heater matrix leaking. The new glovebox for it just turned up so when I fit that I'll pull the fan out and have a look, but I'm not in the mood now today, I just know I'll fuck something else up. Grrr

[BorniteIdentity]

6 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Just to add insult to injury, I've just had a £90 fine land on the mat as I've inadvertently strayed into bastard Khan's ULEZ bullshit somehow.

That is rotten luck.  I guess £90 is if you pay it now, rather than the full £180?

I do say to folks who live near London that it's worth setting up autopay for your car, even if you don't intend to go in the zone.  That way, if you do stray past a camera, it's £12.50 not £180.  

It's worth challenging it.  Certainly with DART they will always wave the first fine if you contest it.  Perhaps ULEZ will be the same.  

Good luck man.

[Popsicle]

10 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

That is rotten luck.  I guess £90 is if you pay it now, rather than the full £180?

I do say to folks who live near London that it's worth setting up autopay for your car, even if you don't intend to go in the zone.  That way, if you do stray past a camera, it's £12.50 not £180.  

It's worth challenging it.  Certainly with DART they will always wave the first fine if you contest it.  Perhaps ULEZ will be the same.  

Good luck man.

Totally agree with setting up an autopay account, you also get the added 'bonus' of getting the odd freebie when the systems not picked you up.

[DavieW]

Got 4 new tyres fitted to the company car yesterday Kwik Fit (lease company says we have to use them).  I was going go to remove the valve caps in case they forgot to replace them, but decided not to. 

Got car back but didn't check till I got home, guess what - no caps. Managed to blag 4 from the Mercedes garage I was in this morning though. 

[bunglebus]

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

Fucksakes

Remember this leaky twat printer from the other week? It had one more trick up its sleeve. I bagged it up at the time and put in the outhouse while I decided whether to have a moan at Tesco about the cartridge. It was in the way so I put it in the recycling bin outside. Today I thought I'd do a nice simple job of picking up all the leaves Bert had deposited everywhere. Moved the bins to get the leaves out and thought WTF is all this black everywhere? Yep, ink, diluted just enough by the rain to fill the bin and leak out all over the path. 

The fucker's in the main bin now, and the neighbours are twitching the curtains while I wash the tin cans on the lawn

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, BorniteIdentity said:

I do say to folks who live near London that it's worth setting up autopay for your car, even if you don't intend to go in the zone.  That way, if you do stray past a camera, it's £12.50 not £180

Done, thanks

[Metal Guru]

40 minutes ago, DavieW said:

Got 4 new tyres fitted to the company car yesterday Kwik Fit (lease company says we have to use them).  I was going go to remove the valve caps in case they forgot to replace them, but decided not to. 

Got car back but didn't check till I got home, guess what - no caps. Managed to blag 4 from the Mercedes garage I was in this morning though. 

You can a pack of 20 for 99p on eBay.

 

[Floatylight]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Remember this leaky twat printer from the other week? It had one more trick up its sleeve. I bagged it up at the time and put in the outhouse while I decided whether to have a moan at Tesco about the cartridge. It was in the way so I put it in the recycling bin outside. Today I thought I'd do a nice simple job of picking up all the leaves Bert had deposited everywhere. Moved the bins to get the leaves out and thought WTF is all this black everywhere? Yep, ink, diluted just enough by the rain to fill the bin and leak out all over the path. 

The fucker's in the main bin now, and the neighbours are twitching the curtains while I wash the tin cans on the lawn

Reminds me of the day many years ago when i was an IT hardware engineer and first call of the day was to a HP Deskjet, something like a 690 with registration issues, i took it off the desk in the middle of someones office and tipped it backwards resting it between the front lip of the desk and my knees whilst i was sat on the office chair, i'd been working on it for about 10 mins when i put it back on the desk and noticed a huge puddle of ink on the light coloured carpet, i then noticed my black trousers were wet.

Had to get bin bags on the car seat and go home for a bath, was scrubbing ink off my legs for weeks!

[chaseracer]

2 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Reminds me of the day many years ago when i was an IT hardware engineer and first call of the day was to a HP Deskjet, something like a 690 with registration issues, i took it off the desk in the middle of someones office and tipped it backwards resting it between the front lip of the desk and my knees whilst i was sat on the office chair, i'd been working on it for about 10 mins when i put it back on the desk and noticed a huge puddle of ink on the light coloured carpet, i then noticed my black trousers were wet.

Had to get bin bags on the car seat and go home for a bath, was scrubbing ink off my legs for weeks!

O HAPPY* DAYS!

I recall Mr Sims collecting a big HP printer from a school near Rugeley in one of the pool Scudos, then failing to strap it down hard enough to deal with the emergency stop he had to do on the A51...

[Floatylight]

10 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

O HAPPY* DAYS!

I recall Mr Sims collecting a big HP printer from a school near Rugeley in one of the pool Scudos, then failing to strap it down hard enough to deal with the emergency stop he had to do on the A51...

I remember that..

Do you remember one of our team reversing the Bedford Midi down a flights of steps (by mistake) it was only a few days later it became evident he'd crushed the fuel tank.

[vulgalour]

Job Centre.

Suffice to say they cannot grasp the concept of a person who lives in a house share and pays for rent and bills inclusive and therefore has no utility bills in their name.  All this because my rent went up £25.  I should be able to use my driving license to prove ID but there's no way of uploading that properly (you need a check code too from a government site, for some reason) on the online system, so you have to do it a janky way where you upload the image file and then make a note separately in your Journal because apparently they can't read the check note you wrote down in the same image as the driving license.

It's just stressing me the fuck out.  I reported this change in October and all that keeps happening is they keep declining the documents I provide and then asking for the exact same documents, which they then decline.

 

[artdjones]

21 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Reminds me of the day many years ago when i was an IT hardware engineer and first call of the day was to a HP Deskjet, something like a 690 with registration issues, i took it off the desk in the middle of someones office and tipped it backwards resting it between the front lip of the desk and my knees whilst i was sat on the office chair, i'd been working on it for about 10 mins when i put it back on the desk and noticed a huge puddle of ink on the light coloured carpet, i then noticed my black trousers were wet.

Had to get bin bags on the car seat and go home for a bath, was scrubbing ink off my legs for weeks!

About 20 years ago I bought one of those cartridge refill kits that used a syringe. It went very, very wrong. So I had to go to a wedding two days later with indelibly black fingers. I wasn't popular with my wife.

[bunglebus]

4 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

Job Centre

It's pretty clear their job is to find ways not to pay you if at all possible

[comfortablynumb]

Yeah, just had to get a letter for swombo for UC, £56 from the doctor, and now they tell me that they can't look at it on the system because they're not medically trained.....🤦

[Remspoor]

7 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Remember this leaky twat printer from the other week? It had one more trick up its sleeve. I bagged it up at the time and put in the outhouse while I decided whether to have a moan at Tesco about the cartridge. It was in the way so I put it in the recycling bin outside. Today I thought I'd do a nice simple job of picking up all the leaves Bert had deposited everywhere. Moved the bins to get the leaves out and thought WTF is all this black everywhere? Yep, ink, diluted just enough by the rain to fill the bin and leak out all over the path. 

The fucker's in the main bin now, and the neighbours are twitching the curtains while I wash the tin cans on the lawn

[jakebullet]

Mad Jean tiem:

I get so down and depressed because., i am so lonely and a lot of people are so unfriendly towards me. I have not been out of my home for months anf i sit and cry because, i love people and i love been with them,my own family even never even ring me up, i and my husband are just sat in our small living room. The sad thing is i was in a church chorus were i live and some members were very unfriendly towards me and i felt unwanted and rejected. I HAD BEEN IN THIS CHORUS FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS. AND BECAUSE I FELT MADE UPSET AND UNWELCOMED FEELING I FELT THAT I BETTER GET OUT AND IT HAS BROKEN ME BECAUSE, I LOVE TO SING VERY MUCH SO, I CAME OUT NOW ABOUT 3 OR 4 MONTHS AGO AND NOT ONE SINGLE MEMBER HAS NOT EVEN CONTACTED ME AND IT,S EVEN PUT ME OFF BOTHERING TO ANY OF THE CHURCHES WHERE I LIVE, I WOULD AT LEAST THOUGHT ONE MEMBER WOULD HAVE RANG ME UP TO ASK HOW I WAS FEELING SO THAT HAS MADE ME FEEL EVEN MORE DEPRESSED. LUCKLY I AM A CHRISTIAN AND I HAVE JESUS HAS  MY BEST FRIEND SO IHAVE HIM TO TALK TO IN PRAYER. SINGIG HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE THING THAT I HAVE ALWAYS LOVE AND TO BE INVOLVED IN AD STILL WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO GO AND SING. THE TROUBLE IS THIS CHORUS IS RUN BY NONE TRAINED CONDUCTOR AND THE OTHER THING IS HE HAS CLIQUES AND OFCOURSE I A NOT ONE OF THEM. ANYWAY I AM RICHER THAN THEM WITH HAVING JESUS AS MY BEST,FATHFUL FRIEND AND SAVIOUR AND JESUS WILL NEVER TURN ME AWAY OR REJECT ME ,HE UNDERSTANDS BECAUSE,HE HIMSELF WAS DISPISED AND REJECTED AND WAS CRUCIFIED AND DIED HUNG , NAILED TO A CROSS AND JUST BEFORE HE DIED HE SAID IT IS FINISHED AND FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO , THESE WORDS KEEP GOING ROUND INSIDE MY HEAD. I PRAISE AND THANK HIM FOR DOINGTHIS FOR ME   ,FOR GIVING HIS OWN LIFE THAT I MIGHT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE, I CAN,T PRAISE AND THANK JESUS ENOUGH FOR SUFFERING SO MUCH AND DYING AND GIVING HIS OWN LIFE FOR ME THAT I MIGHT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. I PRAISE HIM AND LOVE HIM AND THANK EHIM EVERYDAY AND I INTEND TO DO THIS UNTIL HE TAKES ME BY HIS HANDS AND THROUGH HIS GOLDEN GATEES TO THE PLACE HE HAS PREPARED FOR ME, A PLACE OF MANY MANSIONS. IT WILL BE A GLORIOUS DAY WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN, JESUS WILL BE THERE READY AND WAITING TO WELCOME ME, I WILL NOT BE TURNED OUT, I WILL BE ACCEPTED WITH OPENED ARMS, THE LOVING ARMS OF  JESUS. THANK YOU JESUS.

Poor Jean. Perhaps if you stopped attacking everyone they would interact with you?

Also, the internet says 170K die each day, and 31.2% of the world are Christians. So if Jesus never sleeps and stands on the gate constantly, that's 1.63 seconds each. Perhaps he's like santa, and has a large team of stand in Jesus lookalikes to handle the day to day work stuff. I guess if you want an afternoon with Jesus you have to book and wait a few thousand years?

[artdjones]

35 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

Mad Jean tiem:

I get so down and depressed because., i am so lonely and a lot of people are so unfriendly towards me. I have not been out of my home for months anf i sit and cry because, i love people and i love been with them,my own family even never even ring me up, i and my husband are just sat in our small living room. The sad thing is i was in a church chorus were i live and some members were very unfriendly towards me and i felt unwanted and rejected. I HAD BEEN IN THIS CHORUS FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS. AND BECAUSE I FELT MADE UPSET AND UNWELCOMED FEELING I FELT THAT I BETTER GET OUT AND IT HAS BROKEN ME BECAUSE, I LOVE TO SING VERY MUCH SO, I CAME OUT NOW ABOUT 3 OR 4 MONTHS AGO AND NOT ONE SINGLE MEMBER HAS NOT EVEN CONTACTED ME AND IT,S EVEN PUT ME OFF BOTHERING TO ANY OF THE CHURCHES WHERE I LIVE, I WOULD AT LEAST THOUGHT ONE MEMBER WOULD HAVE RANG ME UP TO ASK HOW I WAS FEELING SO THAT HAS MADE ME FEEL EVEN MORE DEPRESSED. LUCKLY I AM A CHRISTIAN AND I HAVE JESUS HAS  MY BEST FRIEND SO IHAVE HIM TO TALK TO IN PRAYER. SINGIG HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE THING THAT I HAVE ALWAYS LOVE AND TO BE INVOLVED IN AD STILL WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO GO AND SING. THE TROUBLE IS THIS CHORUS IS RUN BY NONE TRAINED CONDUCTOR AND THE OTHER THING IS HE HAS CLIQUES AND OFCOURSE I A NOT ONE OF THEM. ANYWAY I AM RICHER THAN THEM WITH HAVING JESUS AS MY BEST,FATHFUL FRIEND AND SAVIOUR AND JESUS WILL NEVER TURN ME AWAY OR REJECT ME ,HE UNDERSTANDS BECAUSE,HE HIMSELF WAS DISPISED AND REJECTED AND WAS CRUCIFIED AND DIED HUNG , NAILED TO A CROSS AND JUST BEFORE HE DIED HE SAID IT IS FINISHED AND FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO , THESE WORDS KEEP GOING ROUND INSIDE MY HEAD. I PRAISE AND THANK HIM FOR DOINGTHIS FOR ME   ,FOR GIVING HIS OWN LIFE THAT I MIGHT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE, I CAN,T PRAISE AND THANK JESUS ENOUGH FOR SUFFERING SO MUCH AND DYING AND GIVING HIS OWN LIFE FOR ME THAT I MIGHT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. I PRAISE HIM AND LOVE HIM AND THANK EHIM EVERYDAY AND I INTEND TO DO THIS UNTIL HE TAKES ME BY HIS HANDS AND THROUGH HIS GOLDEN GATEES TO THE PLACE HE HAS PREPARED FOR ME, A PLACE OF MANY MANSIONS. IT WILL BE A GLORIOUS DAY WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN, JESUS WILL BE THERE READY AND WAITING TO WELCOME ME, I WILL NOT BE TURNED OUT, I WILL BE ACCEPTED WITH OPENED ARMS, THE LOVING ARMS OF  JESUS. THANK YOU JESUS.

Poor Jean. Perhaps if you stopped attacking everyone they would interact with you?

Also, the internet says 170K die each day, and 31.2% of the world are Christians. So if Jesus never sleeps and stands on the gate constantly, that's 1.63 seconds each. Perhaps he's like santa, and has a large team of stand in Jesus lookalikes to handle the day to day work stuff. I guess if you want an afternoon with Jesus you have to book and wait a few thousand years?

Shouldn't we have a dedicated thread for slagging off people with mental health problems?

Just a modest proposal.

[alcyonecorporation]

VAG cooling systems: absolute cunts. 

[Lord Sterling]

4 minutes ago, alcyonecorporation said:

VAG: absolute cunts. 

EFA.

[New POD]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

Shouldn't we have a dedicated thread for slagging off people with mental health problems?

Just a modest proposal.

I'm to be trained by work (via MIND) to become one of 40 mental health first aiders on site.  I guess i was an ironic selection by the managers. Most of whom think Mental Health and stress is just a sign of weakness and people should pull themselves together and get on with it. 

[alcyonecorporation]

36 minutes ago, New POD said:

I'm to be trained by work (via MIND) to become one of 40 mental health first aiders on site.  I guess i was an ironic selection by the managers. Most of whom think Mental Health and stress is just a sign of weakness and people should pull themselves together and get on with it. 

The best/worst thing that ever happened to me at my last FT job was getting a bollocking from HR for not filling out an anonymous survey on mental health. 

I declined as I felt that they had no understanding of the subject.