The grumpy thread

[sheffcortinacentre]

2 hours ago, jakebullet said:

BOGOF today.

#1 Some git in Mrs's flats has decided it's a great idea 2 nights running to start drilling at 9pm. Or more like SDS chisel. For once it's not Phil upstairs, but can't work out who the twat is.

#2 After CND hit my disco with his pikey truck and gave me the smirk treatment of "not me m11 ha ha ha" I've been reviewing the camera covering disco footage every day. (I'd not been going down there frequently and footage of him hitting disco was overwritten).

Footage today shows 4 cunts and 2 pikey trucks. They come back for a lunch break and have a few cans each before driving off for round 2. This is not unusual cos drink drive laws don't apply to them. Dead hard you see so alcohol doesn't have any effect. 

Couple of weeks ago tried a crimestoppers report. Times / plates etc which should be enough to stop them but no action taken. Guess they just carry on until they kill someone.

 

Don't worry the Christmas campaign on drink driving will be broadcast soon. You also have to remember in this day & age your the nuisance neighbour  ( you expect laws/rules to be enforced/adhered to).

[Metal Guru]

On 29/11/2024 at 20:05, Floatylight said:

I used to work with a bloke who spent most of each working day making a paper back up of the internet...

People who reply “thanks for you email” with no further message, probably don’t actually realise they are doubling the amount of emails people have to deal with everyday.

[chaseracer]

18 hours ago, IronStar said:

It’s raining outside. Therefore, in some people’s heads, that means road is now ice, and you’re going to die a slippery death by sliding off a mountain on a straight road or something. Fine, whatever.
But what gives some of these cretins the idea that it’s suddenly acceptable to drive 80 in the overtaking lane of 130 speed limit motorway (overtaking thin air or driving in parallel with others of the 80-driving kind), and why are they acting confused and offended when someone doing the speed limit is flashing them to get the fuck out of the way? If you think you will be consumed by a black watery death if you drive over 80 because it’s raining, get out of the way and let others do their thing, you mouthbreathing fuckwits. 

Sounds like the M40 northbound, yesterday...  <screams silently inside>

[DSdriver]

Under car  pressure washer kit. Someone on here said what a good idea they are so I went on Ebay and bought one for twenty quid.

It arrived promptly and looked well made - stainless steel and brass fittings, only problem is it doesn't fit my Karcher pressure washer so is being sent back with a message saying they ought to mention it won't fit the most popular pressure washers in the UK.

Went back to ebay and did a search starting with "Karcher" to find that those are over double the price. Needless to say I am not in favour of being ripped off and won't be buying one.

[beko1987]

3 minutes ago, DSdriver said:

Under car  pressure washer kit. Someone on here said what a good idea they are so I went on Ebay and bought one for twenty quid.

It arrived promptly and looked well made - stainless steel and brass fittings, only problem is it doesn't fit my Karcher pressure washer so is being sent back with a message saying they ought to mention it won't fit the most popular pressure washers in the UK.

Went back to ebay and did a search starting with "Karcher" to find that those are over double the price. Needless to say I am not in favour of being ripped off and won't be buying one.

Can you adapt the fitting? I took my nilfisk to a standard sized quick release  connector the Chinese things seem to use and it's great. I have a short stubby lance and next year might buy a new foam cannon that uses the same connector

Or it's the same crap but with an adapter that makes it twice the price, another tenner for the adapter! 

[DSdriver]

16 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Can you adapt the fitting? I took my nilfisk to a standard sized quick release  connector the Chinese things seem to use and it's great. I have a short stubby lance and next year might buy a new foam cannon that uses the same connector

Or it's the same crap but with an adapter that makes it twice the price, another tenner for the adapter! 

Its the same crap with another thirty quid for the adapter!

[richardmorris]

3 hours ago, DSdriver said:

Under car  pressure washer kit. Someone on here said what a good idea they are so I went on Ebay and bought one for twenty quid.

It arrived promptly and looked well made - stainless steel and brass fittings, only problem is it doesn't fit my Karcher pressure washer so is being sent back with a message saying they ought to mention it won't fit the most popular pressure washers in the UK.

Went back to ebay and did a search starting with "Karcher" to find that those are over double the price. Needless to say I am not in favour of being ripped off and won't be buying one.

Karcher have an offer code this weekend if it helps?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

4 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

People who reply “thanks for you email” with no further message, probably don’t actually realise they are doubling the amount of emails people have to deal with everyday.

Good Lord, this.  When I was mainly doing direct IT support, users emailing back with ‘Thanks!’ was utterly infuriating.  You’d sometimes miss it, it would re-open a closed ticket and then the SLA would go over, ruining your stats.

Our current system has an automated feature that detects these emails and doesn’t re-open the ticket. You’ve reminded me to test it again and put in an RFC…

[GrumpiusMaximus]

4 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I have a short stubby lance…

Congratulations on producing offspring are in order then!

[Rust Collector]

4 hours ago, DSdriver said:

Under car  pressure washer kit. Someone on here said what a good idea they are so I went on Ebay and bought one for twenty quid.

It arrived promptly and looked well made - stainless steel and brass fittings, only problem is it doesn't fit my Karcher pressure washer so is being sent back with a message saying they ought to mention it won't fit the most popular pressure washers in the UK.

Went back to ebay and did a search starting with "Karcher" to find that those are over double the price. Needless to say I am not in favour of being ripped off and won't be buying one.

One of these is what I use on my karcher:

https://amzn.eu/d/cyA0atY

Its handy not being restricted to just ‘karcher’ type tools, which as you say are bloody expensive for what they are.

[Bren]

Norovirus. Youngest started throwing up at a cubs meeting - I cleaned the mess up knowing I was likely to cop for it as well.

And I have. I had the sense to eat very little and not drink alcohol- my stomach feels bad and I am shivering but I haven't been sick - not eaten for nearly 24 hours.

My youngest is getting better which is the main thing.

[chaseracer]

GWS 🙂

[Bren]

Ebay. Utter shite.

Listed the insignia- did not tick the make offer box. Listing shows " make offer". Hence shite offers despite me typing in the text no offers or what will you end the auction for type questions.

People obviously cannot read.

[maxxo]

fuck amazon

i was a prime member, i cancelled around 2 months ago, rang up n everything

mobile has just buzzed, that's £95 taken from my bank account

i had £120 in there anyway, car tax is due tomorrow which is £30 ish a month

so that's a late payment then

going to ring amazon and give them hell tomorrow

fuck sake

[Pieman]

11 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Sounds like the M40 northbound, yesterday...  <screams silently inside>

Sounds like the M40 northbound two hours ago.  I just undertook 'em, I'm past caring.

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, maxxo said:

fuck amazon

i was a prime member, i cancelled around 2 months ago, rang up n everything

mobile has just buzzed, that's £95 taken from my bank account

i had £120 in there anyway, car tax is due tomorrow which is £30 ish a month

so that's a late payment then

going to ring amazon and give them hell tomorrow

fuck sake

Too late for you now, but it's always worth cancelling the DD in your online banking in such situations. Ring them, they should refund.

[eddyramrod]

13 hours ago, Bren said:

Ebay. Utter shite.

I so agree!  I mean, your entire rant is valid enough, but on top of that I've been looking at old cars and vans, window-shopping against the remote possibility of the Jag selling for cash; or looking for something the seller might swop.

There's nothing.  Yes there are cars at roughly-similar price points, but not one of them is anything I would want to touch, never mind own.  Everything that might even slightly interest me is suddenly priced at three times my Jag, minimum.  And most of those are rotten "projects" that often don't run.  All of them are a minimum of 250 miles away.

FFS.

If I can ever get rid of the ungrateful fecker I probably won't replace it.

[maxxo]

7 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Too late for you now, but it's always worth cancelling the DD in your online banking in such situations. Ring them, they should refund.

In a weird turn of events

ive had to use it today to order a pipe to fix the XM 

I need the car Wednesday so don’t have much choice 

[gm]

oops ! wonder how that happened ? 

i gave it a quick wipe down with soapy water and it’s much better

matches the scuff on the other side that i didn’t do 

[MikeR]

just got my divi cheque for my shares , and a letter to say the divi will now be paid by DD into my bank ...

it was nice getting a pre xmas wedge in the post , suppose I better sell them now the fun has gone ....

[angle]

On 30/11/2024 at 21:42, richardmorris said:

What scum steals a hospice charity van?

 

The same ones that stole a blood transport motorbike to razz around the local park then dump?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0j07m7l72o

Anyway, the thing I came here to post was that I was out in the car this morning with the kids and parked a few cars up from a lovely 240Z. My four year old went 'Daddy, can I borrow your phone to take a photo of the cool red car?' Yeah, of course, here you go. 

At which point he walks off in the opposite direction and takes a photo of a Vauxhall Mokka. 

[richardmorris]

On 30/11/2024 at 21:42, richardmorris said:

What scum steals a hospice charity van?

 

It's been found.

[EyesWeldedShut]

9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Too late for you now, but it's always worth cancelling the DD in your online banking in such situations. Ring them, they should refund.

Use the customer chat thing (it's a bastard to find but it does exist) - they did this to me and I got a refund almost instantly (managed to live without Prime now for a year but they will give you the hard sell for at least six months)

[edit} try this link https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/contact-us/foresight/hubgateway-csp @maxxo

[High Jetter]

I suspect though that once you buy something with Prime they won't let you cancel it.

[Zelandeth]

Where the hell do the extra 70% of the people who are just... everywhere...at this time of year come from?!?  The sheer additional amount of traffic both foot and vehicular the moment you get about halfway through November just seems utterly impossible.  There just can't be THAT many people who otherwise never leave the house - especially not when they can't ALL be out EVERY day between then and the end of December doing the Christmas shopping...

It really just feels like the nation's population suddenly multiplies by about five times at this time of year, then suddenly drops back to normal almost overnight around the second week in January.

Yes I'm a grumpy old man.

[Metal Guru]

12 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Where the hell do the extra 70% of the people who are just... everywhere...at this time of year come from?!?  The sheer additional amount of traffic both foot and vehicular the moment you get about halfway through November just seems utterly impossible.  There just can't be THAT many people who otherwise never leave the house - especially not when they can't ALL be out EVERY day between then and the end of December doing the Christmas shopping...

It really just feels like the nation's population suddenly multiplies by about five times at this time of year, then suddenly drops back to normal almost overnight around the second week in January.

Yes I'm a grumpy old man.

Well you have to cram in 3 weeks of grocery shopping into one week to make sure you don’t starve to death on the one day the shops are shut.

[andyberg]

Just tried to book a routine gp appointment, to be told they have nothing bookable!!!! 
Apparently I must phone at 9.30am every morning when the new routine appointments are released!!! Oh yeah along with all the other patients registered to the surgery. It’s ok I have plenty of time to waste sat in a queue on the off chance I may* be lucky enough to get an appointment in # (insert number over 3) weeks time, or more likely after new year. 
This country is rapidly going down the plug hole 😡😡😡

[Zelandeth]

16 minutes ago, andyberg said:

Just tried to book a routine gp appointment, to be told they have nothing bookable!!!! 
Apparently I must phone at 9.30am every morning when the new routine appointments are released!!! Oh yeah along with all the other patients registered to the surgery. It’s ok I have plenty of time to waste sat in a queue on the off chance I may* be lucky enough to get an appointment in # (insert number over 3) weeks time, or more likely after new year. 
This country is rapidly going down the plug hole 😡😡😡

At least you can phone!

The setup here is that you HAVE to do it through their website, there is no alternative.  They open for appointments at 0800 - and by 0801 they're gone.  No way to do it by phone or in person, you have to use their (terrible) web system.

As they're also chronically short staffed, there's an 85% chance that your appointment that you've waited 8-12 weeks for will be cancelled a day or two before and you have to go back to the end of the queue and try again.  Or equally likely they just won't call you when there's a phone appointment booked and then send you the angry "you missed your appointment, you're costing us £££££ per year!" letter.  Have been trying to get a referral letter so I can just get things handled through the private medical cover I have through my other half's work since well before COVID arrived.  I've just given up trying now until we move now.  It's not as though I'm trying to get the bottom of something which has a non-zero chance of being honestly sinister or anything important like that...Oh, wait...

I do wonder exactly how anyone who isn't IT literate enough to use the web portal (which really isn't clearly designed at all) who does actually need to regularly see their doctor is meant to manage - though I'm guessing the answer far too often simply that "they don't."

[comfortablynumb]

eBay again!

Bought 20l of 10/40, forgot to use the offer code to save a few quid

Maybe I can cancel this order and reorder it?

Nope. Despite saying 'payment pending ', ' you are too early to cancel this order'.

Ok. Nip Outside to cut a bit of firewood for an hour .

Return to order, still showing as payment pending.

' you are too late to cancel this order '

I know it was only about £3, but really?

 

[Yoss]

1 hour ago, andyberg said:

Just tried to book a routine gp appointment, to be told they have nothing bookable!!!! 
Apparently I must phone at 9.30am every morning when the new routine appointments are released!!! Oh yeah along with all the other patients registered to the surgery. It’s ok I have plenty of time to waste sat in a queue on the off chance I may* be lucky enough to get an appointment in # (insert number over 3) weeks time, or more likely after new year. 
This country is rapidly going down the plug hole 😡😡😡

 

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

At least you can phone!

The setup here is that you HAVE to do it through their website, there is no alternative.  They open for appointments at 0800 - and by 0801 they're gone.  No way to do it by phone or in person, you have to use their (terrible) web system.

As they're also chronically short staffed, there's an 85% chance that your appointment that you've waited 8-12 weeks for will be cancelled a day or two before and you have to go back to the end of the queue and try again.  Or equally likely they just won't call you when there's a phone appointment booked and then send you the angry "you missed your appointment, you're costing us £££££ per year!" letter.  Have been trying to get a referral letter so I can just get things handled through the private medical cover I have through my other half's work since well before COVID arrived.  I've just given up trying now until we move now.  It's not as though I'm trying to get the bottom of something which has a non-zero chance of being honestly sinister or anything important like that...Oh, wait...

I do wonder exactly how anyone who isn't IT literate enough to use the web portal (which really isn't clearly designed at all) who does actually need to regularly see their doctor is meant to manage - though I'm guessing the answer far too often simply that "they don't."

This is how they keep the waiting lists down. It's a great system for that. Nobody can get to see a doctor but they can say they've met their targets.