The grumpy thread

[artdjones]

Why are there so many morons on Facebook. I messaged someone at lunchtime about a generator for sale. He confirms it is. I asked him about starting and running. He says it's perfect. I ask him where he is and get 8 hours of radio silence. The other annoying interaction is with someone who wanted to buy some Punto discs from me. We confirmed arrangements,then nothing for 2 weeks, then he comes back and says a letter with the cash and a postage label are pinned to his noticeboard ready to go. That was on September 23rd and nothing since. 

[grogee]

58 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Fireworks.

It's been like an artillery barrage here since about half five.  Non stop.  Getting more frequent if anything.

Getting seriously sick of it now.

I remember this from living in Portsmouth.

Now I don't live in Portsmouth.

[mintwth]

Aren't modern's great*? Modern's boot latch that won't has made me proper grumpy. 

 

Go out to car, unlock, open boot to put stuff in it, go to shut boot and nope. It's not having any of it. 

Double check nothing is stopping the boot shutting. Nope, that's not it, must be the latch. Of course latch and latch bar bolts are hidden behind trim panels and almost totally inaccessible without dismantling the boot. 

Take the boot apart, check the latch and latch bar haven't worked loose and gone out of adjustment. Strange, everything is tight and turns out there is no adjustment. Check the rubber bump stops aren't stopping the boot closing because they're out of adjustment. Nope no adjustment there either and taking the bump stops off entirely makes no difference at all. 

Manually operate latch? Nope, everything that opens the boot is an electronic microswitch and there appears to be no manual override.

Realise I'm now running very late so tape and zip ties deployed to keep the boot from springing itself open on every bump. Of course, that is only after removing all the remaining boot trim to find something I can actually zip tie onto. 

 

Fixed* right?

Nope. Being a modern car, it's clever and knows the boot latch isn't latched. So it beeps all the time you're driving it to helpfully remind you the boot is open. Except I already know that I can't get the latch to latch as I've just spent ages trying to make the hateful thing behave. 

OK, let's lock it up and leave it in the naughty corner to think about why it should behave. 

Nope. Car detects the boot latch isn't latched so the car alarm starts going almost as soon as you lock it. Bugger. 

Leave it unlocked while we ponder next steps. 

Nope. It's a modern so it locks itself after a few minutes if left unattended with the key out of range. As soon as it locks itself it detects the boot's not latched shut & the car alarm goes off continuously. Poop sticks. 

Decide I've had enough, pop the bonnet and disconnect the battery. Problem solved?

Nope. Can now only lock the driver's door manually, the others have to be locked electronically. Carp. 

Reconnect battery, lock car, alarm goes off instantly because bonnet is open, disconnect battery, shut bonnet.

 

Success* at last, a locked and quiet car that may still have enough battery to start when I get back to it. 

[maxxo]

i am now banned from the local neighbourhood watch facebook group

apparently due to excessive moaning and making everything negative

oh let me tell you, i'm very upset about that

so much so, i'm going to move away to really show them who's boss

[Pieman]

Being constantly made to feel unwelcome in my own home since my sister moved back here several months ago due to selling her flat.  Tonight I got home and was basically told I couldn't even talk to my own parents because she was asleep and my voice is too loud.  She's thirty-fucking-one and yet it's like living with a new baby.

If I complain, the default answer is "well fuck off and live somewhere else then" which I would do if I had any life skills and was able to fend for myself, which I am not because outside of the specialist areas of my work I am borderline retarded.

Take the piss or slag me off if you wish to, I'm used to it.

[High Jetter]

Your home, your rules. She has funds to live elsewhere, surely?

[Dick Longbridge]

27 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Being constantly made to feel unwelcome in my own home since my sister moved back here several months ago due to selling her flat.  Tonight I got home and was basically told I couldn't even talk to my own parents because she was asleep and my voice is too loud.  She's thirty-fucking-one and yet it's like living with a new baby.

If I complain, the default answer is "well fuck off and live somewhere else then" which I would do if I had any life skills and was able to fend for myself, which I am not because outside of the specialist areas of my work I am borderline retarded.

Take the piss or slag me off if you wish to, I'm used to it.

Why allow her to live in your home? Sod that. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

10 hours ago, maxxo said:

i am now banned from the local neighbourhood watch facebook group

apparently due to excessive moaning and making everything negative

oh let me tell you, i'm very upset about that

so much so, i'm going to move away to really show them who's boss

I'm now getting flashbacks to Hot Fuzz

[beko1987]

On 30/10/2021 at 17:28, puddlethumper said:

A couple of weeks ago the centre section of the exhaust, 305 van, decided to part company at the middle box. Cue loud noise and scraping sound. Managed to bodge it together with a sleeve and ordered a middle section. Just spent the best part of four hours sorting it out. I hate doing exhausts and why have two boxes ? About six or seven years ago the back box dis-intergrated and there was no noise difference.

I had the back box rot the join off on my 1.9td zx and like you, only noticed when I pulled away (from home luckily 😂) and heard it laying on the floor. 

Tied the centre pipe to the axle with spare Dyson flex and metal garden twine and it was fine for the month until payday, little noise difference and the rubber coating on the flex didn't melt. 

Was much different to when the exhaust fell off at the front on my first 1.4 zx on the way home from work. That was a noisy drive with the entire exhaust on the back seat! Could hear the ignition cycle at 55 (couldn't go much faster, the noise hurt) 

[Talbot]

On 10/30/2021 at 4:27 PM, grogee said:

So now I'm in that miserable limbo where you think you might have a ticket coming but it's not certain and how long do I wait until I can stop thinking about it...?

14 days from the date of the alledged offence.  And that's for the NIP to *arrive* with the registered keeper.  (not posted.. actually be delivered).
Once you're on day 15, it matters not what turns up, as it's now time expired.  You would have to write back to them, state the day of arrival and cite case law for them to back off though.  Once it gets to about day 17, you've nothing to worry about.
Also, quite often when a speed limit changes, there will be a short period where speed enforcement isn't carried out (or at least, not above the previous speed limit anyway) to allow people to be aware the limit has changed.  Not always though.

If you were at 40 according to your speedo, that will be 37-38 in reality, which is very much speed awareness course territory.  Courses are available up to 41mph (real speed... so probably about 43 on your speedo)

[Mally]

13 hours ago, loserone said:

Folk who set off fireworks round here get shot at for disturbing the farm animals

I'm not sure of the logic there.

[louiepj]

Vauxhall will relieve you of £466.33 for everything in the square box as a kit but cannot sell the coolant housing no.37 separately. Oh and the gasket no. 48. Is no longer available so you cannot fit it to the car unless unless you reuse the old gasket or buy aftermarket. Only stopped selling the Zafira Bs in 2011 so ten years and parts NLA.

[dozeydustman]

Sis-in-law’s partner lasted until the small hours today after consent was given Friday to switch off life support. If he had pulled through he’d have been in a permanent vegetative state as there was no brain activity save cardio and pulmonary systems slowly winding down. 51 is no age.

I also feel like utter shit this morning with a high temperature and a bit of a cough. LF test is negative thankfully. If it persists I’ll get a PCR.

[New POD]

30 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Sis-in-law’s partner lasted until the small hours today after consent was given Friday to switch off life support. If he had pulled through he’d have been in a permanent vegetative state as there was no brain activity save cardio and pulmonary systems slowly winding down. 51 is no age.

I also feel like utter shit this morning with a high temperature and a bit of a cough. LF test is negative thankfully. If it persists I’ll get a PCR.

I think you win on most reason to be grumpy today.  It's very shit what you describe. 

[grogee]

3 hours ago, Talbot said:

14 days from the date of the alledged offence.  And that's for the NIP to *arrive* with the registered keeper.  (not posted.. actually be delivered).
Once you're on day 15, it matters not what turns up, as it's now time expired.  You would have to write back to them, state the day of arrival and cite case law for them to back off though.  Once it gets to about day 17, you've nothing to worry about.
Also, quite often when a speed limit changes, there will be a short period where speed enforcement isn't carried out (or at least, not above the previous speed limit anyway) to allow people to be aware the limit has changed.  Not always though.

If you were at 40 according to your speedo, that will be 37-38 in reality, which is very much speed awareness course territory.  Courses are available up to 41mph (real speed... so probably about 43 on your speedo)

Thanks for this, great info. I make it 12th Nov before I can breathe again. 

I agree about the 'short period' while people adjust to new limit but I haven't been up there for ages so it might have been there 18 months and I wouldn't know. 

I would happily attend speed awareness course but only if there's tea and biscuits.

[MikeR]

FFs

 

[eddyramrod]

I used to deliver to that Spar, and I dated a girl who lived down the side road!

[richardmorris]

Who decided bungle was needed in dr who?

[richardmorris]

11 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I'm now getting flashbacks to Hot Fuzz

It’s for the greater good.

[dozeydustman]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Who decided bungle was needed in dr who?

Not seen it yet, no spoilers please!

[Spiny Norman]

My phone just upgraded* to Android 12. ☹️
Holy shit, why does everything to do with technology these days have to look like it was designed by/for children?

 

[goosey]

Need to replace the front wheel bearings and CVs on my sons Suzuki Jimny, unfortunately to get to the bearings the free wheel hubs have to come off and the small outer bolts are seized solid.

ive had a look online and it’s a common thing and most people just cut the hubs off and replace the complete free wheel hub 🙄hopefully it doesn’t come to this.

going to try heat and an impact driver

 

it’s the 6 small outer bolts 

I hate Suzuki Jimnys 😡

[High Jetter]

7 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

My phone just upgraded* to Android 12. ☹️
Holy shit, why does everything to do with technology these days have to look like it was designed by/for children?

 

Who else do you think has time to waste on stuff like that? FFS, if it works, leave it alone!

[Fumbler]

9 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

My phone just upgraded* to Android 12. ☹️
Holy shit, why does everything to do with technology these days have to look like it was designed by/for children?

 

Oh, you've noticed it too. Conveniently, they've made it non-customisable "for the moment". I wonder if Google will actually follow through with that.

[Spurious]

6 hours ago, goosey said:

Need to replace the front wheel bearings and CVs on my sons Suzuki Jimny, unfortunately to get to the bearings the free wheel hubs have to come off and the small outer bolts are seized solid.

ive had a look online and it’s a common thing and most people just cut the hubs off and replace the complete free wheel hub 🙄hopefully it doesn’t come to this.

going to try heat and an impact driver

 

it’s the 6 small outer bolts 

I hate Suzuki Jimnys 😡

These the splined bolts. I got them off with an impact driver, the manual type you give a belt of a hammer with. I suspect a powered impact driver would get them off. I think I did have to replace several as I chewed the heads off. 

The manual hubs are a better long term solution instead of dealing with the vacuum hubs leaking (when they eventually start leaking)

 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

9 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

My phone just upgraded* to Android 12. ☹️
 

*checks Settings*

Still goes up to 11 here. Which is better* than 10....

[goosey]

47 minutes ago, Spurious said:

These the splined bolts. I got them off with an impact driver, the manual type you give a belt of a hammer with. I suspect a powered impact driver would get them off. I think I did have to replace several as I chewed the heads off. 

The manual hubs are a better long term solution instead of dealing with the vacuum hubs leaking (when they eventually start leaking)

 

 

Cheers @Spurious

my son is attacking them this morning, hopefully be done this afternoon 

[iainrcz]

We've just had a letter from our home insurance company saying they're withdrawing the current flood cover and re adding another one, and have taken an extra £200 off us. 

Apparently we live in a flood risk area, but don't live near any fucking water!?

I feel a phone call coming on.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

21 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

.... Apparently we live in a flood risk area, but don't live near any fucking water!?....

That must be because of Thames Water's famous leaks; all the water has drained away. 

[lesapandre]

34 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

We've just had a letter from our home insurance company saying they're withdrawing the current flood cover and re adding another one, and have taken an extra £200 off us. 

Apparently we live in a flood risk area, but don't live near any fucking water!?

I feel a phone call coming on.

Your local authority will have or publish a local flood risk map/plan. Try them first and see what the situation is.

You'd be surprised at how extensive these are - and given recent adverse weather how vulnerable.

They are little publicised really... so not spark alarm but for example the whole of central London is on the flood risk plans and seeing the Thames lap right at the top of the current river wall is quite scary sometimes.

Anybody moving house needs to look at flood risk very carefully from now on. Looking at the flood risk plans independently is a good first step.

IMHO as somebody  who was involved  with development not enough  is being done on flood risk to new builds and mitigation/ amelioration  - why? Because it eats into 📈  profits.

And hey woopsey - like the cladding scandal  buyers are being hoodwinked.