The grumpy thread

[Parky]

Jeez Fred, that's bad! I had that 15 years ago but only need antibiotics and a week off (but I was 27 so much stronger, etc)

 

It must have been an epic strain. Thank god your doc didn't say you had a cold and sent you home with a box of Lemsip!

 

Other grump - Tube Strike. I respect the reasons but fucking up an entire city and costing millions? some folk think "yay, day off!" But I have shit to do and can't get in to do it.

[fred]

Cheers Chaps, probably would have been just a few pills, but me being a arse biscuit held back seeing the doc till the foo was in full pelt!

[michael1703]

The phrase

 

"To Be Honest"

 

Sick to death of this football manager speak idiocy that people use to start or end a sentence.

 

These annoying phrases come and go as fashions, I remember in the mid 90's, people used to start sentences with the word "basically"

 

GRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

[skattrd]

Glad you're ok Fred.

Which reminds me, I wonder how Volksy is doing, and has Hillman_Imp been around recently?

[trigger]

Glad to hear your getting better Fred.

[cort16]

Fuuuck that sounds brutal I'm glad you pulled it back .

[Volksy]

Glad you're ok Fred.

Which reminds me, I wonder how Volksy is doing, and has Hillman_Imp been around recently?

 

I'm on the mend, Still screwed together and lost a fair bit of weight since my jaw was wired together (it's released now, but still can't really eat anything solid or chew), but back at work and bimbling along. BIggest issue has been the depression that comes with times like this, but colleagues and friends have been pretty supportive. 

 

Fred, that sounds horrific, glad you're recovering. And welcome back. 

[Inspector Morose]

Just heard that another coach driver friend of mine has died from a heart attack at an early age. He wasn't unfit or even overweight.

Spent a great two weeks with him a few years back on a double man job to Sweden with the six wheel EOS including a tight moment when the fan bearings collapsed in the middle of nowhere . Best laugh had for a long time.

Not so long back he was second man on the ski coach that tragically overturned, killing a teacher. It changed him, not for the better.

Alan, sad you've gone mate, well before time.

[jakebullet]

Regular readers will know I'm mental and hate interacting with people. I'm also one of the organisers for a mentals group. When I agreed to do it it was on the understanding that I'd be the backroom boffin type, and the other organisers would do the talking.

 

Said group are having a day out tomorrow. It's one of the other organisers plans, and I'm going as a punter. Ha ha, wrong! She sends me a message, oh, BTW I'm going directly there by car, so you'll have to collect the rest of them and get the bus there.

 

Slight problem of a) I haven't a clue who the rest of them are, so stand there like a chump with a meetup sign and hope people approach me. I haven't a clue where there is. Going to be entertaining guessing when to stop the bus.

 

So I'm basically being the organiser that I hate doing without any of the information to er organise with. Plus there's 7 signed up to go, so on past performance maybe 1 or 2 will turn up. Or I can say chuff it and not go, then 15 will turn up and I'll be the bastard for ruining the day.

[cms206]

SWMBO and I have a new tumble dryer. Whilst we're waiting for her electrician cousin to rewire the sockets to a single feed for it I've been running it off a socket on the other side of our back door, via a metre long extension across the back door.

 

Just been to check the back door was locked and smelled electrical death. Tumble dryer has been on since about 8pm but seems fine. Look down and my 1-metre cable has been replaced by my 30-metre cable reel extension which is quite literally red hot and starting to melt 'cos she hadn't unfurled it at all because "it was in the way and I wanted the back door open for a breeze. :@

[vulgalour]

Close call there Fred.  What happened to Volksy's face?  I feel very out of the loop, so I'm hoping nobod else is seriously ill or dead without me noticing.

[Station]

Glad you're better Fred!!

How do they put you in an induced coma?

[skattrd]

Ebay grump, I ordered a load of bits to fit the replacement turbo to the boring and it's all here (most of it arrived on Tuesday) except 2 small silicone hoses and without them I can't finish the damn job ...  Reputable ebay seller I've used before etc. but this time they're being slow, arses. I wanted to finish the job today as I've got other shit to do tomorrow/Saturday.

 

Oh, and a slightly related grump,  Hermes, thanks for dumping the parcel in the middle of my garden, they didn't even make it the extra 20 feet to the door as I was in, I just noticed the parcel as I went out to the car

[Tetleysmooth]

Ebay grump, I ordered a load of bits to fit the replacement turbo to the boring and it's all here (most of it arrived on Tuesday) except 2 small silicone hoses and without them I can't finish the damn job ...  Reputable ebay seller I've used before etc. but this time they're being slow, arses. I wanted to finish the job today as I've got other shit to do tomorrow/Saturday.

 

Oh, and a slightly related grump,  Hermes, thanks for dumping the parcel in the middle of my garden, they didn't even make it the extra 20 feet to the door as I was in, I just noticed the parcel as I went out to the car

 

Oh blimey.

I've just bought a pair of Stone Creek workboots, and they are being delivered by Hermes.

Hope they don't turn out to be Shit Creek.

[Tetleysmooth]

Glad you're better Fred!!

How do they put you in an induced coma?

 

They bought him a Rover 75.

Only joking, don't wanna get flamed again!!

Seriously though, keep your pecker up Fred.

Back just in time for the Rova Raffle.

Get the ticket(s) bought lad.

[gm]

I spent yesterday installing reverse sensors on the honda (bit of a grump as every time I picked up so much as a screwdriver, it started pissing it down - the job was finished courtesy of sainsburys underground car park)

 

 

the £8.99 ebay kit is pretty good, and does a fantastic job of warning me when I am about to reverse into MY SPARE FECKING WHEEL

 

 

I did all of the measuring with the boot open so didn't notice until it was too late. I've since solved the problem by disconnecting the offending sensor, the other three give a pretty good coverage anyway

[Skizzer]

^ Ah, but do they allow for the fact that you've got a hoofing great spare wheel sticking out?

 

I'm not sure £8.99 parking radar doesn't belong in the snake oil thread, but I wish you luck with it nevertheless.

[panhard65]

^ Ah, but do they allow for the fact that you've got a hoofing great spare wheel sticking out?

 

I'm not sure £8.99 parking radar doesn't belong in the snake oil thread, but I wish you luck with it nevertheless.

I fitted one of those cheap kits to a customers Kangoo. The bleeper packed up after a couple of days but they sent a replacement straight away and it has been fine since (about 3 months)

[RayMK]

Fixed my Pug 205's coolant leak.  Slight grump because the garage that did the cambelt change and also replaced the metal coolant pipe did not finish tightening the jubilee clip at the awkward end. Had to take the front offside wheel off and remove an access panel to get at it.  Filled the fuel tank and investigated the fuel leak (smell of petrol after filling the tank. Goes after 50 miles or so).  Could not find any damaged pipes anywhere or signs of leakage on or above the tank despite first putting the car on ramps, then removing the rear offside wheel to get a better view of the filler and return pipework.  Replaced a jubilee clip on the filler pipe because it had seized and could not be tightened.  Replaced the seal on the filler cap.  The old one allowed the cap to be loose.  Smell of petrol not as strong as after last tank fill, but still present and stronger than my vanilla car scent.  Baffled and grumpy. 

[vulgalour]

Both rear arches on the Xantia have started to do that annoying rust thing.  If it wasn't a white car chances are you wouldn't even see the rust that's there, it's so minor and inconsequential.  I know what's causing it, the structure behind the outer skin isn't painted and eventually rusts through the tiniest pinholes in the metal which then lifts the paint and allows the tiny little rust dribbles to appear.

 

Solution is to cut the outer skin off, clean everything up behind, coat it all in weld-through paint or something and after cleaning up the stuff that was removed, refit it all again and hope it doesn't come back through.  It's a tedious and fiddly repair and not one I'm looking forward to doing but one that has to be done.  No idea when I'll have the spare time to get it sorted.

[fred]

 

Glad you're better Fred!!

How do they put you in an induced coma?

 

 

No Idea - they had me on a trolley, and just told me to be calm, and put a mask over my mouth and breath slowly as I could, next thing I know I'd missed a week

[The Moog]

As predicted eBay buyer being wanker. Said I would refund the money if he sent me the watch.

 

Turned up today looking like this

 

 

 

He said he got it like this, well actually he said it was a bit slow to change modes . no pictures to support it or proof of it.

 

Are eBay reasonable or do they still support buyer?

[Inspector Morose]

Weston SUPER mare with a load of kids and,even worse, several other coach drivers. I just know the day will be filled with "the boss is a tosser and can't do his job", "sent all immigrants back home", "paki bastards", "wogs", and other epithets that make me think that there is no chance for the human race.

 

I can stand the, say, first five seconds of it all but...... Well you can guess the rest. Oh the joys of saying to them " well by wife who is second generation black Caribbean thinks that what you say it a total bag of shit beacause x, y and z oh and did I tell you she has a degree in this very subject" then watching they're faces drop for a bit then try, very unsuccessfully to tiptoe around their inherent racism And failing to do so, I find this tedious and boring.

 

Oh and I've got to be up a stupid o clock the next day as I've to be in Cambridge at half nine. Talk about Sqeueaky drivers hours when the company wants something doing.Coach will be dumped with no fuel and as the kiddly winkles left it.

[Aston Martin]

New build homes, not only are they hideous, tiny, cold, expensive, full of scummy people (Usually) they build these fucking places in the most inappropriate places. Theres two sites I can think of, where traffic is now even worse than it was before. It's always caused by people trying to turn into the 'street'. 

[purplebargeken]

No Idea - they had me on a trolley, and just told me to be calm, and put a mask over my mouth and breath slowly as I could, next thing I know I'd missed a week 

 

Crikey, glad you is on the mend.

 

It was a boring week anyway, you missed nothing.

[UmBongo]

Piers Morgan on that lottery advert.

 

What a horrible, dead-eyed, dough-faced piece of spunkshite he is.

[Cavcraft]

New build homes, not only are they hideous, tiny, cold, expensive, full of scummy people (Usually) they build these fucking places in the most inappropriate places. Theres two sites I can think of, where traffic is now even worse than it was before. It's always caused by people trying to turn into the 'street'. 

 

 

While we're on it, how about 'low cost home ownership'? You buy a percentage and pay rent on the rest (and maintenance charges) so you don't actually fucking own it and it's not especially low cost.

 

REAL 'low cost home ownership' would surely be houses that cost £130,000 to build being sold for one hundred and thirty thousand fucking quid.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Well that went well!

 

In the grin thread yesterday I wrote that I'd be going to a scrappers today for a trial. Was a shot phone call asking did I ha e to and turn up for 9.

 

Got there place closed. Security* guard outside was a nice bloke said they are a bunch of wankers that mess you about over money and what work you do and that most of the staff have left.

 

Few minutes later an oldish bloke turns up, says hello and asks do I have any tools. No I've only got crap, then spends the next 10 minutes discouraging me from working.

 

Sod it then I came home. Left my last you due to hassle but at most I was always paid on time

[Taff]

   

 

No Idea - they had me on a trolley, and just told me to be calm, and put a mask over my mouth and breath slowly as I could, next thing I know I'd missed a week

 

did they use Dry Blackthorn? It has that effect on me sometime. Glad your ok, fella

 

Piers Morgan on that lottery advert.

 

What a horrible, dead-eyed, dough-faced piece of spunkshite he is.

 

Piers Morgan is a bare-faced liar. How on earth he maintains a living, never mind such a high public profile, baffles me.

[cms206]

 

 

Weston SUPER mare with a load of kids and,even worse, several other coach drivers. I just know the day will be filled with "the boss is a tosser and can't do his job", "sent all immigrants back home", "paki bastards", "wogs", and other epithets that make me think that there is no chance for the human race.

 

I can stand the, say, first five seconds of it all but...... Well you can guess the rest. Oh the joys of saying to them " well by wife who is second generation black Caribbean thinks that what you say it a total bag of shit beacause x, y and z oh and did I tell you she has a degree in this very subject" then watching they're faces drop for a bit then try, very unsuccessfully to tiptoe around their inherent racism And failing to do so, I find this tedious and boring.

 

Oh and I've got to be up a stupid o clock the next day as I've to be in Cambridge at half nine. Talk about Sqeueaky drivers hours when the company wants something doing.Coach will be dumped with no fuel and as the kiddly winkles left it.

I'm going to be having both my nine hour allowable minimum rests for this week in the next two days, Newcastle today and Sunderland tomorrow. Joys.