The grumpy thread

[camryv6]

19 minutes ago, omegod said:

To expand slightly.... Ordered a driveshaft for my Focus on 25/01 and it was despatched same day with bloody Hermes and due to be delivered 30/01 no sign of it and tracking just says it's with the local courier.  I have a shaft off my spares car but doubt it's much better than the one that's on it. Shaft I'm supposed to be removing will not budge regardless of hammering so plan is to remove the hub and get it popped out by local friendly garage on their press, oh yeah...but the balljoint won't split so I have ordered a scissor type splitter 

Take the whole arm off ?

[Remspoor]

Having to deal with Spanish electrics. The house has three switch fuse boxes. All with differing amount of switches. This one is in the laundry room.

The issue for me is they have all got the wiring jammed into a small space. Cables are sold and not flexible. Most pairs are tied together making it more difficult to make repairs.

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, louiepj said:

Think everyone working from home has bought a printer and webcam in these lock downs as you cannot really get many printers for under £100 and webcams now seem to be £30.
I am also surprised that countries such as China haven't been making fake/copy printers before now bundled with ink, as once used or tried they would be unreturnable.

Try cartridgesave.co.uk 

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Having to deal with Spanish electrics. The house has three switch fuse boxes. All with differing amount of switches. This one is in the laundry room.

The issue for me is they have all got the wiring jammed into a small space. Cables are sold and not flexible. Most pairs are tied together making it more difficult to make repairs.

I've been in restaurants in Spain and Spanish islands, nervously looking at their fuseboxes that are proudly on display. Get a Spanish electrician, manyana, obs

[Jazoli]

I'm especially grumpy today and people using words such as Halfrauds, eGay, bookface, Aldi ,pickarse and the like are really getting on my tits, we are not at school any more (and I haven't been for 34 years) and it winds me up, bloody sheeple.

[Split_Pin]

My Accident, Sickness and Unemployment insurance renewal has landed in my inbox. 

Because of the Covid impact you can't get unemployment insurance easily just now and my monthly payment will increase from £15.90 to £36.50.

Unsure how to proceed as I've been no stranger to redundancy in the past 2 years although I didn't need to call on it.

Thinking I might just phone them to try and barter a bit and then just roll with it. Looks like it's that or nothing.

[Kiltox]

Cor, one make/model owners clubs are a bit tedious aren’t they?

Someone found my 3 month / 1500 mile ownership report of my ZS EV and now pensioners are beying for my blood because I didn’t say it was the best thing since sliced and it had a clickbait title  

[Split_Pin]

11 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

Cor, one make/model owners clubs are a bit tedious aren’t they?

Someone found my 3 month / 1500 mile ownership report of my ZS EV and now pensioners are beying for my blood because I didn’t say it was the best thing since sliced and it had a clickbait title  

I posted up what I thought was a helpful video on the 75 Facebook page that I had made about how to take off the doorcards, because the Haynes manual says you need to break the clips.

I've never seen such an ungrateful and pedantic response. "You've made a mistake", "They didn't do it like that on the production line". The smell of piss and steak pie was practically oozing from my phone over it. 

I'll never link to one of my videos or anything I think might be helpful again on any FB owners group. It's simply not worth the aggro. There are always one or two big cheeses on owners groups. I just let them get on with it.

[Kiltox]

 “piss and steak pie”

The vast majority of angry racists in my comments section are Rover Dereks banging on about the octagon, it’s hilarious. 

 

[Split_Pin]

On the subject of videos, the camera on my phone finally died mid-take yesterday. 

I had tried to go off-track with this choice of phone on the back of a recommendation from someone but it's a steaming pile of Labrador shit.

Redmi 8XT, lasted about 8 months. It has a lot of other bugs too, like freezing regularly and when I click a link I just get a plain white or black screen and no activity.

I pick up my Samsung A21 at lunchtime. Decent camera and 32gig for £150. My wife has the same one and likes it, that will do.

[Split_Pin]

1 minute ago, Kiltox said:

 “piss and steak pie”

The vast majority of angry racists in my comments section are Rover Dereks banging on about the octagon, it’s hilarious. 

 

Angry Rascists on Rover Pages, that's an idea for a Facebook page in itself!

[Kiltox]

I take these cunts head on, not going to be intimidated by a Poundland knock off of the Teslarati

[Kiltox]

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

On the subject of videos, the camera on my phone finally died mid-take yesterday. 

I had tried to go off-track with this choice of phone on the back of a recommendation from someone but it's a steaming pile of Labrador shit.

Redmi 8XT, lasted about 8 months. It has a lot of other bugs too, like freezing regularly and when I click a link I just get a plain white or black screen and no activity.

I pick up my Samsung A21 at lunchtime. Decent camera and 32gig for £150. My wife has the same one and likes it, that will do.

Not an Android fan at all, apple bell end through and through but I can’t imagine much worse than a knock off one 

[Split_Pin]

1 minute ago, Kiltox said:

I take these cunts head on, not going to be intimidated by a Poundland knock off of the Teslarati

*Takes notes* 😂

[adw1977]

4 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I pick up my Samsung A21 at lunchtime. Decent camera and 32gig for £150. My wife has the same one and likes it, that will do.

I've had a Samsung A40 for the last 18 months and it's pretty good.  The Axx phones are way cheaper than the S series and I can't see much difference for real world use.

[Split_Pin]

1 minute ago, Kiltox said:

Not an Android fan at all, apple bell end through and through but I can’t imagine much worse than a knock off one 

I loved my old iphone5. Splice was great for videos and you could insert music from iTunes.

I had to get my son an iPad for school as they insist on using Teams which doesn't seem to work on anything else. It is so much more intuitive to use than an Android but I'm too skint to buy a decent iPhone for myself now!

[Jazoli]

2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

My Accident, Sickness and Unemployment insurance renewal has landed in my inbox. 

Because of the Covid impact you can't get unemployment insurance easily just now and my monthly payment will increase from £15.90 to £36.50.

Unsure how to proceed as I've been no stranger to redundancy in the past 2 years although I didn't need to call on it.

Thinking I might just phone them to try and barter a bit and then just roll with it. Looks like it's that or nothing.

Mine was the same, they decided not to auto-renew like they had done for the previous years and I have to take the new terms and conditions at £37 a month instead of £18, its mildly annoying.

[wuvvum]

58 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

I've had a Samsung A40 for the last 18 months and it's pretty good.  The Axx phones are way cheaper than the S series and I can't see much difference for real world use.

Yep, I recently "upgraded" (it's technically a downgrade really) to an A42 and so far I've been pretty impressed - the camera in particular is far better than the one on my old phone.

[cort1977]

I also have an a40 and it has survived being dunked in the river and being buried in snow for a few hours. Wife has a fancier Samsung but this one seems about as good really.

11/10 wud recomend 4 shiters.

[omegod]

22 hours ago, omegod said:

To expand slightly.... Ordered a driveshaft for my Focus on 25/01 and it was despatched same day with bloody Hermes and due to be delivered 30/01 no sign of it and tracking just says it's with the local courier.  I have a shaft off my spares car but doubt it's much better than the one that's on it. Shaft I'm supposed to be removing will not budge regardless of hammering so plan is to remove the hub and get it popped out by local friendly garage on their press, oh yeah...but the balljoint won't split so I have ordered a scissor type splitter 

I accosted the local Hermes guy in the street earlier who denied ever having handled my shaft  but said he would investigate it thoroughly, he knocked at my house 10 minutes later sheepishly holding my shaft with both hands ( I'm loving the euphemisms   )  Turns out an old lady down the road was mystified and possibly even slightly shocked at receiving a shaft she hadn't asked for several days ago.  I said I'd had no notification of anything being delivered and tracking said it was still with the courier, he advised me to claim it as lost and get refunded  ..... hmm not sure about that ! 

[somewhatfoolish]

Shafting old ladies; isn't that normally the job of pneumonia and rogue builders?

[iainrcz]

My submersible pump has shit itself.

[omegod]

1 hour ago, iainrcz said:

My submersible pump has shit itself.

Stuff like that used to suck, not anymore though !

[Remspoor]

2 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Shafting old ladies; isn't that normally the job of pneumonia and rogue builders?

Just a suggestion.

[omegod]

52 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Just a suggestion.

I follow him on twitter, he's had quite the life 

[somewhatfoolish]

He'll need a digger and not a big ladder to get at Lynda Bellingham's windows these days.

[yohan]

Not been on here for a while but I thought I would share the annoying new scottish low emissions zone scheme.

So next year, 4 of the scottish cities will have a low emissions zone. This includes Aberdeen which I visit at least once a week which often feels like once a week too many but anyway...

There is a grant available from the government for those within a certain radius of the zone, which gives you £2000 to scrap your non compliant car and buy one thats compliant.

So since the deadline for applying for the grant is the end of next month... I made an enquiry.

To be eligible, Are you within 20 kilometres of the city centre? yes but only just. Are you on benefits? yes since I have children and a low income. Does your car fail to meet the minimum euro emissions rating? Yes its only euro 3. Have you owned the vehicle for more then 12 months? Oh for goodness sake!

They then offered an alternative option which is an interest free loan for buying a new or used electric car... but it has to be from a dealer...

OK fair enough all this stops potential fraud abuse, but I cant afford a car that will let me into Aberdeen (what a terrible shame...) and I cant make  my partner go instead because her 6 year old Dacia wont be allowed in either.

 

 

[Mr Laurence]

1 hour ago, yohan said:

There is a grant available from the government for those within a certain radius of the zone, which gives you £2000 to scrap your non compliant car and buy one thats compliant.

Is it just me that finds schemes like this really wasteful?

[somewhatfoolish]

13 hours ago, Mr Laurence said:

Is it just me that finds schemes like this really wasteful?

Yes, scrappage schemes are a bag of wank; the only people they 'help' are wealthy enough to not need help and in any case dealers and manufacturers absorb most of the money by removing discounts elsewhere. It's a car equivalent of mortgage tax relief and regressive as fuck.

[loserone]

Interest free loan on a nearly new electric car might work, financially.

 

Our leaf was the cheapest car per mile we've ever had including depreciation and fuel costs.