The grumpy thread

[reb]

2 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

As Terry wogan used to say about the medical adverts, it’s not the trapped wind that’s the problem!

I think I'm too much of a foetus to get this.

[richardmorris]

2 minutes ago, reb said:

I think I'm too much of a foetus to get this.

I think it’s a farting in public joke.

[reb]

2 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I think it’s a farting in public joke.

I haven't been seen in public for about a week, too cold and wet.

[richardmorris]

Honestly I don’t think even the guardian have editors any more. I presume it’s a spell check correction, but surely someone should have read it? My guess would be emaciated rather than emancipated? I got £15 for the last thing I emailed private eye, so will try time this as well.

[jakebullet]

Car park baddie*

Yesterday afternoon spotted a man sat in a car in the car park at mrs's flats. Blocking 2 cars in. Thought nothing of it, waiting to pick people up maybe?

Car was empty this morning, blocking people in. Arsehole. He's there when we come back at 2 pm sat in car in same spot. He's still sat in the car at 5 pm when I go down to grab a better space. Just been down now to go home, and he's still in car. 

I think the technical term is "up to no good". Really poorly paid drug dealer? Spying for dhss? Stalker? Planning to run over rival dealer when he comes out of the flats? 

[Timewaster]

11 hours ago, Lankytim said:

Looks like one of the “feet” from a trailers landing legs. Bad luck! 

That's exactly what it was.

[BorniteIdentity]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Honestly I don’t think even the guardian have editors any more. I presume it’s a spell check correction, but surely someone should have read it? My guess would be emaciated rather than emancipated? I got £15 for the last thing I emailed private eye, so will try time this as well.

There’s a reason it’s still nicknamed The Grauniad among hacks. 

[richardmorris]

Just now, BorniteIdentity said:

There’s a reason it’s still nicknamed The Grauniad among hacks. 

I have emailed p-eye so we will see. I’m not a professional journalist and make mistakes all the time, but I hold professionals to a higher standard.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Car park baddie*

Yesterday afternoon spotted a man sat in a car in the car park at mrs's flats. Blocking 2 cars in. Thought nothing of it, waiting to pick people up maybe?

Car was empty this morning, blocking people in. Arsehole. He's there when we come back at 2 pm sat in car in same spot. He's still sat in the car at 5 pm when I go down to grab a better space. Just been down now to go home, and he's still in car. 

I think the technical term is "up to no good". Really poorly paid drug dealer? Spying for dhss? Stalker? Planning to run over rival dealer when he comes out of the flats? 

Is he still alive?

[jakebullet]

22 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Is he still alive?

I think he was. Has engine running when I went home, so maybe a smidge cold?

Made the mistake earlier today of walking home from town. There's a street full of crack heads, nutjobs etc. Bloke coming other way is complaining to his invisible friend, "Can you fucking believe it? Two fucking <nword> tooled up with fucking guns and they've got me out of bed to fucking deal with it."

Who "they" are, and why they think he's the man for the job is unknown.

[LightBulbFun]

On 03/12/2024 at 18:15, Yoss said:

On 03/12/2024 at 14:36, LightBulbFun said:

currently somewhat grumpy at Royal mail, I bought some lightbulbs off eBay, tracked, lovely, tracking shows on the 27th November, Accepted at post office, alright, then there is sweet fuck all, until the 2nd of December "Delivery attempted no one in" not even a prior "accepted at delivery sorting office" or anything of the sort

so excuse me, but I thought this was supposed to be a *tracked* parcel, maybe if the tracking was just a little bit more verbose i'd of stayed home to accept it (because of course they tried to deliver it in the 2 hours I was about in REV) 

I'm afraid even being a postman doesn't save you from random annoyances. I ordered some model railway scenery a couple of months ago, quite a big packet too. The tracking showed it arrive at Southampton Mail Centre and then allegedly it went no further. After a week of this Royal Mail admitted it was lost and the sender sent another packet out. That arrived the next day. I still try the original tracking number occasionally and it still claims it is at Southampton Mail Centre but somehow I doubt that. 

Also, they have changed the way we scan the Tracked packets in to our office (we are a delivery office, the next stage after Southampton Mail Centre and the place from which final delivery takes place). We used to have a few people in early who would scan all Tracked (with a capital T) packets as they arrive so that when you check the website it would show your item as having arrived at our delivery office. 

But they've got rid of those now and each postie has to scan them on to their individual deliveries as they sort them. But occasionally* deliveries don't go out due to staff shortages in which case the website will still say it is at the Mail Centre when it is in fact at our Delivery Office but nobody has scanned it in. 

Also we now have to try to deliver all packets twice if people aren't in the first time which is a pain in the arse for us and can confuse customers because they come in with their card and someone in the callers office has to point out the small tick on the card that says we will try again tomorrow. So while they are stood in the callers office their postie has taken it for another walk. 

Also at the moment we are in to Christmas pressure so we have lots of staff who don't know what they are doing or do know what they are doing but don't have the equipment to do it. 

There is a block of flats near the end of my delivery where I usually have a bit of a sit down. I was sat there today when another of our posties turned up doing big packets so I let her in. She was doing big packets with a trolley because they had run out of vans. You can't get that many big packets in a trolley, certainly not enough to fill her duty time, so she had to keep going back for more. 

Even better than that, they had run out of PDAs (the little scanner things)! So she couldn't scan anything and was writing all the numbers out on a piece of paper. Apparently someone was going to manually log them all in to a PDA later, assuming they don't lose the bits of paper in the meantime. So whilst the people who received the packets might know they have received them the sender won't because the website will say it is still at the Mail Centre. 

 

further grump regarding this, they never re-delivered on the next working day, ok fair enough, you know Christmas period so after waiting a few more days I eventually go to manually reschedule  the delivery, for the 9th which was the earliest date they had, alright no problem, lets do that

aaaand nothing has shown up today, again ok fair enough again its Christmas period, but what gets on my goat is the tracking has not budged one bit, it still just says "accepted at post office 27th November, attempted delivery 2nd of December" no other details, so I have no clue whats actually happening with the parcel, did they properly receive the request to redeliver or did that also go into a black hole?

at this point I am wondering if I can just go and pick it up from the distribution office I am *assuming* its currently stuck at, in REV, but I am bit worried now since that I did ask for a re-delivery if its stuck in Limbo or such (and knowing sods law, the day I set out to go pick em up manually, is the day they will actually try and re-deliver em and miss me again LOL)

[New POD]

Apparently we at work have a big order for Royal Mail, but they are too busy to take delivery.  

[GeordieInExile]

Loaded the Panda up for an overnight trip to the Lakes for my missus' birthday. 

Had to come back because the exhaust is once again boomingly, deafeningly loud. Like, over 100dB on the dual carriageway loud. Booked into a garage again for Tuesday - annoying given I just got the flexi sorted, but what can you do. 

It's a shame, really, as I had loaded the Panda up splendidly. Boot, footwells and passenger seat all occupied.

[adw1977]

So where was your missus, on the roof?

[maxxo]

Just had a chat with my next door neighbour

she kept apologising about her son being noisy

apparently whoever lived here previously used to complain all the time about him

in all honesty I barely hear anything

anyway even if I did does it matter?

hes an autistic seven year old, it doesn’t matter if he’s noisy or anything

i told her to not worry about it and let him do whatever makes him happy I don’t mind normal family noises

im grumpy that someone would complain about that

[cpjitservices]

14 minutes ago, maxxo said:

Just had a chat with my next door neighbour

she kept apologising about her son being noisy

apparently whoever lived here previously used to complain all the time about him

in all honesty I barely hear anything

anyway even if I did does it matter?

hes an autistic seven year old, it doesn’t matter if he’s noisy or anything

i told her to not worry about it and let him do whatever makes him happy I don’t mind normal family noises

im grumpy that someone would complain about that

Weve got the local fuckin drug dealers next door arguing and shouting quite often.,. sometimes in the middle of night... so much so when the argument start outdoors the young lassie (also a smack head) ends up spewing her guts up on the pavement... vile.

It's usually the lassie arguing with other family members, usually about the location of her weed or lack of. (What a life)

 

Plus my loft absolutely stinks of weed..... so guess they are growing it then.

[GeordieInExile]

2 hours ago, adw1977 said:

So where was your missus, on the roof?

In the back, next to the baby!

[Zelandeth]

Having spent literally years getting an landscaper in to sort out back garden (it having been turned into basically a brownfield site when we had to eradicate the bamboo the previous owner had let grow wild), work is finally meant to be starting the end of this week.  Went to put through the invoice for the materials - immediately our bank's anti-fraud lockdown slams down like a goddamned hammer.

I just give the fuck up.  I need to stop kidding myself that we're ever going to actually get anything sorted here.  I was really looking forward to getting ONE problem we inherited properly ticked off after nearly eleven fucking years.

Also, our online banking portal is now locked.  Joy!

I generally try to avoid actually swearing on here, but sod that on this occasion... hopefully that helps convey just how far beyond pissed off/despairing/depressed I am with the whole situation.

Fuck it, I was clinically depressed before this mess even fucking started...

[jakebullet]

Just heard terrible music* and lots of "fuck yeahs" drifting up from the bottom of the garden. CND with some other matey cunt. Cans in hands, CND driving a van, MC disco 4.

Why are these bastards immune from drink drive enforcement?

[maxxo]

30 minutes ago, cpjitservices said:

Weve got the local fuckin drug dealers next door arguing and shouting quite often.,. sometimes in the middle of night... so much so when the argument start outdoors the young lassie (also a smack head) ends up spewing her guts up on the pavement... vile.

It's usually the lassie arguing with other family members, usually about the location of her weed or lack of. (What a life)

 

Plus my loft absolutely stinks of weed..... so guess they are growing it then.

Yes nothing like that here just a mother an her autistic son who’s a bit noisy next door and an older couple the other side who sometimes come home at 11ish a bit tipsy

but that’s it

i really sympathise with you though I had all that shite at the flat

[cpjitservices]

1 minute ago, jakebullet said:

Just heard terrible music* and lots of "fuck yeahs" drifting up from the bottom of the garden. CND with some other matey cunt. Cans in hands, CND driving a van, MC disco 4.

Why are these bastards immune from drink drive enforcement?

CND?

[adw1977]

2 minutes ago, cpjitservices said:

CND?

Cunt Next Door 

[cpjitservices]

Just now, maxxo said:

Yes nothing like that here just a mother an her autistic son who’s a bit noisy next door and an older couple the other side who sometimes come home at 11ish a bit tipsy

but that’s it

i really sympathise with you though I had all that shite at the flat

It’s council housing so one day they will move on hopefully!!! whereas even though we are council we’re going to be buying ours. 
 

We’ve had a council inspection where I mentioned what might be going on next door, to which the lovely council lass said they may arrange a surprise inspection next door - so we will see!! 
Thing is I need to get a sparky in for some work, they will need to be in the loft. If they smell what I smell, they may report it anyway. 

[cpjitservices]

Just now, adw1977 said:

Cunt Next Door 

Ahhhhh I see!

[sheffcortinacentre]

2 hours ago, cpjitservices said:

It’s council housing so one day they will move on hopefully!!! whereas even though we are council we’re going to be buying ours. 
 

We’ve had a council inspection where I mentioned what might be going on next door, to which the lovely council lass said they may arrange a surprise inspection next door - so we will see!! 
Thing is I need to get a sparky in for some work, they will need to be in the loft. If they smell what I smell, they may report it anyway. 

That's council speak for we don't give a shit as long as they pay the rent.

[cpjitservices]

5 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

That's council speak for we don't give a shit as long as they pay the rent.

Quite possibly!

[New POD]

5 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

That's council speak for we don't give a shit as long as they pay the rent.

The "problem" is that if there's drugs and kids, the council will also need to involve social workers, emergency Foster carers, as well as the police. 

Make a family homeless and you still have to help them. 

Or they could just turn a blind eye. 

[cpjitservices]

17 minutes ago, New POD said:

The "problem" is that if there's drugs and kids, the council will also need to involve social workers, emergency Foster carers, as well as the police. 

Make a family homeless and you still have to help them. 

Or they could just turn a blind eye. 

I said young up there, she's probs about 16/17... younger than me lol Theres her sister as well she's a little bit older I think. Theres an older chap who lives there with a woman as well, must be in their 60s... It's the old feller who's the dealer. Possibly grandparents of the younger ones.

[sierraman]

12 hours ago, cpjitservices said:

CND?

The nuclear disarmament guys next door. Noisy bastards clinging to his fence. 

[sierraman]

9 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

That's council speak for we don't give a shit as long as they pay the rent.

Assuming they are paying the rent… if it was you or I they’d be down on us like a ton of bricks if you were even slightly late paying.