The grumpy thread

[Back_For_More]

2 minutes ago, bramz7 said:

..... it looks like I now have to panic buy something in my 5 days off. Exactly what I didn't want to do! 

What are you needing? I've got the 320CLK sitting around a fair bit doing not much..... You could borrow that for a while and save me the hassle of remembering it's there! 

Not sure if it's suitable for your wants - but can drop it down to you this weekend if needed. I'm Biggin Hill way, so not far..... 

[Floatylight]

15 hours ago, maxxo said:

Also bloody Citroen Xsara Picassos

i can go years without really giving them a second thought

then for example I watch Gavin and Stacey and then I hanker for another one

i don’t know why, I’ve just always thought they’re fantastic 

Checked the reg of Bryn's only done 35k but looks like its been regularly in use over the years.

[bramz7]

27 minutes ago, Back_For_More said:

What are you needing? I've got the 320CLK sitting around a fair bit doing not much..... You could borrow that for a while and save me the hassle of remembering it's there! 

Not sure if it's suitable for your wants - but can drop it down to you this weekend if needed. I'm Biggin Hill way, so not far..... 

Very kind offer of you but that car is a bit zesty for me to commute in! And I'd be fearful someone else would damage it. 

But I appreciate the offer all the same, thanks. 

[chaseracer]

This is me right now, after three consecutive days of Christmas events with family & friends.  Imagine the carnage if I didn't love them all dearly!  Early to bed tonight... 🙂

[beko1987]

3 hours ago, Floatylight said:

Checked the reg of Bryn's only done 35k but looks like its been regularly in use over the years.

I wondered if they were the same vehicles as the original, or just fake plates on 'replica' s. That volvo must be hanging if its in storage bar the filming! Or the current owners got paid a ton of money (same with the houses they used) 

[maxxo]

3 hours ago, Floatylight said:

Checked the reg of Bryn's only done 35k but looks like its been regularly in use over the years.

i was astounded by the condition of it!

i must admit if one that tidy with mileage like that came along i could be extremely tempted

they're annoying cars the Xsara Picasso

they're too good at what they do

[GeorgeB]

4 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

To echo what's been said already, if there isn't a will now, get them to make one. If they don't want to go to an office most solicitors will send round a minion to do it at their home for a modest fee.
What won't be a modest fee is what you'll get if they do die intestate and a solicitor has to get involved in all the legal shizz that follows. If the final bill for sorting it all out isn't into five figures you're doing well.

Also the 'We'll just skip all the stuff in the house when you've gone' people are usually the first to start bickering when someone starts actually going through the deceased's belongings, especially if there's a sniff of profit in it.

It's not a pleasant thing to think about or discuss with anyone, the usual answer of 'It'll not happen for ages, plenty of time yet' only runs for so long.

I hope they still have a long and happy life ahead of them but it never hurts to get these things put in place while they still can.

You can do it all on line for nothing: https://www.freewills.co.uk/

You can give a contribution if you like but it not compulsory.

 

[hairnet]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy89lzv12z6o

hope it dont go east from texas @PhilA

[EspenO]

On 25/12/2024 at 19:43, BorniteIdentity said:

Whenever everyone’s singing the same song, it’s amazingly efficient. Sadly, it only takes one old giffer who wants to talk about the weather and pay with two deep pockets full of change to fuck the whole thing. 

So much like communism, a theoretically deeply wonderful system that will never, ever work anywhere. 

[IronStar]

Walked into a garage today, 156 is sitting a bit funny. It’s probably nothing, and I just parked it at an angle where it looks like it’s lower on one si…oh, front right is flat. Checked pressures last week, so must be punctured since.  Bollocks. 
I’ll pump it back up tomorrow and deal with it on Monday. No great harm even if it can’t be patched as it needs fronts anyway, I’d just rather not deal with this now. 

[reb]

9 minutes ago, EspenO said:

So much like communism, a theoretically deeply wonderful system that will never, ever work anywhere. 

Real Lidl has never been tried?

[EspenO]

5 minutes ago, reb said:

Real Lidl has never been tried?

Nowhere with customers accustomed to not lobbing your shite in the cart twice unneccesarily, for theorethical common good. 

All those tills do, is shifting the inconvenience on to the customers. 

[reb]

4 minutes ago, EspenO said:

Nowhere with customers accustomed to not lobbing your shite in the cart twice unneccesarily, for theorethical common good. 

All those tills do, is shifting the inconvenience on to the customers. 

I'm taking the piss out of the fact that you think "not getting in the way of the people behind you" is in anything like the same ballpark as communism.

Are you the giffer holding up the queue by any chance?

[EspenO]

Oh, I get it now. You think comparisons must be literal in every aspect. They don’t.

Cute little attempt at trolling, though. *pinches cheek*

[reb]

No. I just think it's a really fucking weird thing to say out of nowhere.

Politics section is over there.

[EspenO]

4019 pages of raving at the world in general, and THAT’S  where you needed a trigger warning? 😅

[Morris 63]

21 hours ago, maxxo said:

I guess i'm just more pissed off no one bothers with them

Mate, that line alone marks you out as a thoroughly decent bloke. 

[Rustybullethole]

Post. Rarely good news. NIP. 81 in a 70.

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

10 hours ago, EspenO said:

Nowhere with customers accustomed to not lobbing your shite in the cart twice unneccesarily, for theorethical common good. 

All those tills do, is shifting the inconvenience on to the customers. 

I disagree.  If we can get through the checkouts quicker to pack subsequently with more space, it means the queue moves faster and the customers with fewer items are less inconvenienced.

There are very few things more frustrating than somebody taking an inordinate amount of time at a checkout when there are a queue of people waiting.

Your individual inconvenience is smaller than the collective inconvenience of everybody else having to wait for you.

Or, you just learn to pack the bag really quickly.  Which has been mastered in our household by my partner.

[reb]

1 minute ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

you just learn to pack the bag really quickly

They even have wee hooks to hang your bag on if you're only doing a small shop.

[myglaren]

The customers in the local Lidl's and Aldis that I use all seem to realise how it works and will usually wave anyone with only a few items in front of them, the queues move quite quickly.

I realise that they are not all like that.  Had some of the family here yesterday and SIL was complaining about them, serves him right for loving in Thornaby and shopping in Middlesbrough and Stockton.

Asda is just a scrum though, not fun at all.

[Rustybullethole]

8 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I disagree.  If we can get through the checkouts quicker to pack subsequently with more space, it means the queue moves faster and the customers with fewer items are less inconvenienced.

There are very few things more frustrating than somebody taking an inordinate amount of time at a checkout when there are a queue of people waiting.

Your individual inconvenience is smaller than the collective inconvenience of everybody else having to wait for you.

Or, you just learn to pack the bag really quickly.  Which has been mastered in our household by my partner.

It's like blood tests. Big take a ticket system at my local hospital. As my number nears i've sleeves rolled up and been pumping my fists. The nurses are pros and mega efficient. The amount of pricks who shuffle in for a chat with their coats on. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Or people complaining that other people have been served before them when said other people have ordered a milkshake and they’ve ordered a three-course meal for them and their six crotch fruit.

[artdjones]

32 minutes ago, myglaren said:

The customers in the local Lidl's and Aldis that I use all seem to realise how it works and will usually wave anyone with only a few items in front of them, the queues move quite quickly.

I realise that they are not all like that.  Had some of the family here yesterday and SIL was complaining about them, serves him right for loving in Thornaby and shopping in Middlesbrough and Stockton.

Asda is just a scrum though, not fun at all.

It's usually the same around here in Aldi or Lidl. Maybe Asda attracts the wrong kind of shopper. 

[PhilA]

12 hours ago, hairnet said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy89lzv12z6o

hope it dont go east from texas @PhilA

Yeah, there is a big weather system of the coast right now. 

Here is warm and calm

[EspenO]

1 hour ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Your individual inconvenience is smaller than the collective inconvenience of everybody else having to wait for you.

1) You still get inconvenienced when there’s no-one behind you. 
 

2) it’s a false dichotomy. Lidl style tills aren’t using any less space than normal tills, there’s no reason they can’t simply provide enough space for bagging stuff after the cashier. While still keeping the flow going. 
 

[reb]

Who would win in a checkout process design fight? Two incredibly successful supermarket chains with more and more locations around the world and incredible customer satisfaction, or one grumpy boi on the internet.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

2 minutes ago, EspenO said:

1) You still get inconvenienced when there’s no-one behind you. 
 

2) it’s a false dichotomy. Lidl style tills aren’t using any less space than normal tills, there’s no reason they can’t simply provide enough space for bagging stuff after the cashier. While still keeping the flow going. 
 

In some countries, the tills have a metal bar that can be moved across to divide the end into two, with the bar directing the shopping to one side or the other.

These shops tend not to have large trollies but it works for hand shopping.  You can’t get two trollies behind a Lidl till without WW3 breaking out.

If you feel inconvenienced by not being encouraged to pack your shopping at the checkout, you can always opt for the self service and shorten the queue for everybody else…

[reb]

2 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

In some countries, the tills have a metal bar that can be moved across to divide the end into two, with the bar directing the shopping to one side or the other.

These shops tend not to have large trollies but it works for hand shopping.  You can’t get two trollies behind a Lidl till without WW3 breaking out.

If you feel inconvenienced by not being encouraged to pack your shopping at the checkout, you can always opt for the self service and shorten the queue for everybody else…

I wonder what the Big O of a lidl checkout vs a "standard"* one is...

[GrumpiusMaximus]

1 minute ago, reb said:

I wonder what the Big O of a lidl checkout vs a "standard"* one is...

Tolerance of attempted conversations from people wearing flat caps.