The grumpy thread

[Sunny Jim]

^forts n prares x

[Remspoor]

4 hours ago, Bren said:

My 30 year old selmar turbo 12 battery charger has finally died.

I do hope you give it a great send off. When and where is the funeral and the wake?

[comfortablynumb]

Range rover of too many wheels became historic tax class on 1st January, so I retaxed it at the post office and got them to send the logbook to DVLA for me.

Of course, this means I haven't got it back.

Meanwhile @MVX11V has changed the private plate on the Jag I'm having off him, and has the logbook back in a week.

Bets on them trying to fleece me for another £25? 🙄

[MrBiscuits]

5 hours ago, Bren said:

My 30 year old selmar turbo 12 battery charger has finally died.

That's a good innings. I've still got a 4 amp Bradex (made in Bradford!) charger that was my dads. Must be 40+ and I suspect it's older than me.

[myglaren]

Radio at the local medical centre.  In for diabetes review.

First gassed by perfume of the first person who was supposed to examine my eyes,  Had to move to another room with a different operator once I could stop coughing and explain the problem.

Then waiting for the eye drops to take effect, local shite radio with lots of shite adverts and even shiter music, some grotesque boyband, One Direction probably.

Glad that is over for another year.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

Range rover of too many wheels became historic tax class on 1st January, so I retaxed it at the post office and got them to send the logbook to DVLA for me.

Of course, this means I haven't got it back.

Meanwhile @MVX11V has changed the private plate on the Jag I'm having off him, and has the logbook back in a week.

Bets on them trying to fleece me for another £25? 🙄

Won’t it only be tax historic from April?

[High Jetter]

33 minutes ago, MrBiscuits said:

That's a good innings. I've still got a 4 amp Bradex (made in Bradford!) charger that was my dads. Must be 40+ and I suspect it's older than me.

I have one that's been used 24/7/362 for at least 34 years, powering a door latch 11 hours a day. Can't remember the make, but the case is metal.

[sheffcortinacentre]

1 hour ago, MrBiscuits said:

That's a good innings. I've still got a 4 amp Bradex (made in Bradford!) charger that was my dads. Must be 40+ and I suspect it's older than me.

Mines from the early 70s still working.

[MVX11V]

2 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

Range rover of too many wheels became historic tax class on 1st January, so I retaxed it at the post office and got them to send the logbook to DVLA for me.

Of course, this means I haven't got it back.

Meanwhile @MVX11V has changed the private plate on the Jag I'm having off him, and has the logbook back in a week.

Bets on them trying to fleece me for another £25? 🙄

Lolz. If it makes you feel any better, the Audi one arrived in 6 days from my new mate Abdul... Wait...

[somewhatfoolish]

10 hours ago, Bren said:

My 30 year old selmar turbo 12 battery charger has finally died.

First check it's not the fuse. Even then don't bin it, put it in the AS car boot sale; someone with too much spare time can mither about with a soldering iron and replace the dead bit. There's a lot to be said for a dumb battery charger when the smart one has decided your battery isn't a battery and it's going back to sleep.

[Spiny Norman]

Today was new glasses day.

Tonight is headache night. Therefore tonight was also co-codamol and spiced rum night.

Probably not that much of a grump in the grand scheme of things really.

[New POD]

10 hours ago, myglaren said:

Radio at the local medical centre.  In for diabetes review.

First gassed by perfume of the first person who was supposed to examine my eyes,  Had to move to another room with a different operator once I could stop coughing and explain the problem.

Then waiting for the eye drops to take effect, local shite radio with lots of shite adverts and even shiter music, some grotesque boyband, One Direction probably.

Glad that is over for another year.

The apprentice who is sitting near me at work had to be taken into a room.and asked if he could stop using aftershave. 3 people had complained to the boss. We thought it better not to tackle such a sensitive subject directly with him, and anyway wanted to watch the boss's eyes roll when we cornered him. 🤣 He's got to earn that fat salary. 

[comfortablynumb]

10 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Won’t it only be tax historic from April?

Bit of a changeover, it was disabled class, and that ran out 1st January.

Yeah, would usually have been Apr 24

[comfortablynumb]

10 hours ago, myglaren said:

Radio at the local medical centre.  In for diabetes review.

First gassed by perfume of the first person who was supposed to examine my eyes,  Had to move to another room with a different operator once I could stop coughing and explain the problem.

Then waiting for the eye drops to take effect, local shite radio with lots of shite adverts and even shiter music, some grotesque boyband, One Direction probably.

Glad that is over for another year.

Headphones and nose plugs?

Not sure about the nose, but with headphones you'd be down wiv Der kidz....🤣

I can ignore adverts usually, but understand completely about people bathed in perfume 🤢

[Bren]

Just what you need on the way home from a nightshift - the sound of your rear silencer being dragged over tarmac.

Completely gone around the weld. I had to wrestle it off the rubbers - fortunately I managed to get it off without lying down. It's a good job I stopped when I did - it had jammed against the road and rear bumper.

This mondeo is going out of it's way to make me dislike it intensely.

[MVX11V]

Lucky you got to remove it though as I recall the mondeo was a little famous for dropping it's backbox and then shoving it through the explosive back bumper plastic when it caught the next bit of raised tarmac. Good catch.

[Morris 63]

17 hours ago, Sunny Jim said:

^forts n prares x

Shorts n spares?

[vulgalour]

Rebuilding the Princess head is reminding me why I hate working on engines.  It's all just such a tedious chore.  I've got the carbon wire wheeled off the valves and am trying to work up the motivation to lap the valves in.  I'll do it, I have to, I just don't want to.  If engine work brings you joy, more power to you, I much prefer doing the bodywork and upholstery stuff.

[myglaren]

5 hours ago, New POD said:

The apprentice who is sitting near me at work had to be taken into a room.and asked if he could stop using aftershave. 3 people had complained to the boss. We thought it better not to tackle such a sensitive subject directly with him, and anyway wanted to watch the boss's eyes roll when we cornered him. 🤣 He's got to earn that fat salary. 

In this case her perfume was barely discernible but enough to cause problems.

Womens fragrances are not much of a problem unless overdone, it is male pongy stuff that is the killer, especially Lynx.

Apparently it is aldehydes that I am allergic to.

There were a couple of times it started at work and there was no smell at all.  It was a secretary had come into the factory to speak to someone, the entrance was out of sight, as was the person she was speaking to and they were fifty yards from me in a very large building.  No idea what she was wearing but it was silent and deadly.

[myglaren]

5 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

Headphones and nose plugs?

Not sure about the nose, but with headphones you'd be down wiv Der kidz....🤣

I can ignore adverts usually, but understand completely about people bathed in perfume 🤢

Not the adverts per se but the way they are announced, excited silly voices as though it was the most important issue in the world.  No idea what they were promoting.  Likewise with the dreadful music.

Not going around wearing headphones and looking like a dick.

Covid masks with charcoal filters help but it was too late, already gassed.

[MikeR]

17 minutes ago, myglaren said:

In this case her perfume was barely discernible but enough to cause problems.

Womens fragrances are not much of a problem unless overdone, it is male pongy stuff that is the killer, especially Lynx.

Apparently it is aldehydes that I am allergic to.

There were a couple of times it started at work and there was no smell at all.  It was a secretary had come into the factory to speak to someone, the entrance was out of sight, as was the person she was speaking to and they were fifty yards from me in a very large building.  No idea what she was wearing but it was silent and deadly.

we had a chap at work with the worst BO ever , he would wear a jumper in the summer in a hot office , we dropped lots of hints like air fresheners all over the office but being a thick skinned northerner he never took the hint .....  he never got a window seat so he could fester in his own odour rather than share it around .

[Metal Guru]

17 minutes ago, MikeR said:

we had a chap at work with the worst BO ever , he would wear a jumper in the summer in a hot office , we dropped lots of hints like air fresheners all over the office but being a thick skinned northerner he never took the hint .....  he never got a window seat so he could fester in his own odour rather than share it around .

I had a colleague who filled our office with the smell of garlic. Turned out his wife was following a recipe and thought a clove was the whole thing. Used 4 apparently . Thankfully temporary.

Try addressing any Mail etc to smelly  colleague as Mr B.O  Smith ( he might have a different surname).

[comfortablynumb]

There's (was?) a shop in Norwich centre called Lush, all those bath bombs and soaps etc.

I couldn't even stand outside it, it gave me a headache, god knows how anyone worked there 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

There's (was?) a shop in Norwich centre called Lush, all those bath bombs and soaps etc.

I couldn't even stand outside it, it gave me a headache, god knows how anyone worked there 

I used to be the same with Bodyshop.

[comfortablynumb]

Not content with working out how to open the back door and let his entire family into the house with Muddy feet, one of my GSD's has now decided that jumping a 6foot gate is far too much work, and so has now taught himself how to take the bolt off, and open it to save himself the trouble!

GSD? I think he's bloody Einstein reincarnated 🤦

[MikeR]

If the internet went off tonight , millions of people would not find there way home .....   Just sat behind one person navigating by phone ... On the train !!! 

[maxxo]

So you remember last weekend I replaced the intruder alarm panel at my parents house and got the system working properly again?

got a text today to say the alarm went off….

zone 1014, which is the 30 odd year old shock sensor on one of the bedroom windows

rang my dad and asked out of curiosity had he checked it? No

anyway lo and behold it wasn’t a false alarm

turns out their next door neighbour was getting scaffolding put up and they’ve smashed a pole through the window somehow

so that’s me down their house next week waiting for a glazier to come and sort it

 

[Metal Guru]

Clicked on an internet “news” item, “Exercises to reduce your blood pressure”.

Of course it directs you to a pay wall.

That’s done wonders for my blood pressure. Thanks Daily Torygraph.

[beko1987]

8 hours ago, maxxo said:

So you remember last weekend I replaced the intruder alarm panel at my parents house and got the system working properly again?

got a text today to say the alarm went off….

zone 1014, which is the 30 odd year old shock sensor on one of the bedroom windows

rang my dad and asked out of curiosity had he checked it? No

anyway lo and behold it wasn’t a false alarm

turns out their next door neighbour was getting scaffolding put up and they’ve smashed a pole through the window somehow

so that’s me down their house next week waiting for a glazier to come and sort it

 

Congratulations, your wiring worked 👌😂

If you were pumping it all through home assistant you'd have got that entity named nicely with a friendly name... 

[sdkrc]

I'd like to use this post to warn others about Chargeplace Scotland. 

10mins to login to their app, £160 in pre authorised charges and 0% of my battery charged because 2 separate charge points in different locations didn't work. Left me up shit creek twice in 24hrs and I only used them because there were no other options. 

What an embarrassing scam of a company.