The grumpy thread

[carburettor]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

You really can't believe people can be so stupid 

Rings 999 , asks for Snowdon mountain rescue  then asks them what the weather will be like up there tomorrow 

 

That is *amazing* he should get a £250 fine, fucking spastic!

[Bren]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

You really can't believe people can be so stupid 

Rings 999 , asks for Snowdon mountain rescue  then asks them what the weather will be like up there tomorrow 

 

I can. While there is little punishment expect things to get worse.

Why are so many of the population utter crap?

[grogee]

1 hour ago, Bren said:

I have the full set of symptoms - even my teeth feel like they will fall out. I shouldn't moan really - dodged something for two years that has killed thousands. And a lack of eating means that my spare tyre is becoming a spacesaver.

Sorry to hear that you've got the Rona. If it's any consolation, being jabbed turns this from being life-threatening to "just" severely uncomfortable. 

All the usual NHS throwaway lines apply: fluids, rest, paracetamol etc. Seem to remember having some bloody weird dreams when I had it. 

Get well soon

[Stanky]

My 2 penneth. The caller is clearly a cretin, but is probably  safe and dry at home making the call.

This gives the mountain rescue people the opportunity to tell him that the weather will be 500mph winds, horizontal snow drifting to 40 feet and temperature with wind-chill of minus 70c.

This will keep the cretin at home, because he is clearly the type who will go and climb mountains in shorts and t-shirt with no compass, map, flask, food or fucking clue, then get stuck, necessitating a rescue.

At least this way, everyone stays at home where it's relatively safe.

Also, tiktok is 100% cunts. I have never seen or heard anything of merit on there. @Wack, seriously, for the sake of your sanity just fuck it off. It's just full of the sort of people who, 20 years ago, would be shouting at pigeons in the town centre. Just don't give them the oxygen of publicity.

[Agila]

"Wow, I can't believe we've just landed a plane".

You haven't muppet, that was the pilots.

EE advert. It's crap and annoys me every time it comes on.

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

The figures for the number of new cars sold in Norway last year have now been published. And last year there was a record sale of new cars and almost all are electric, so with the average age of cars being about 11 years in Norway, most if not all petrol stations are probably gone within 10-15 years if this continues.

 

Was in Bergen 2 years ago, never saw so many Teslas around. Most of the rest seemed to be Nissan Leafs (Leaves?)

Ironic that oil money will pay for them to go totally EV.

[Dyslexic Viking]

5 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Was in Bergen 2 years ago, never saw so many Teslas around. Most of the rest seemed to be Nissan Leafs (Leaves?)

Ironic that oil money will pay for them to go totally EV.

There are all kinds of electric cars here now, many from China as well. And it's ironic is typical of us selling oil while pretending to save the world.

This is one of the latest electric cars from China Hongqi e-hs9 for what is better for the environment than a 2.7 tonne SUV that is probably built with coal power and is dead after 10 years.

[155V6]

3 hours ago, Bren said:

I have the full set of symptoms - even my teeth feel like they will fall out. I shouldn't moan really - dodged something for two years that has killed thousands. And a lack of eating means that my spare tyre is becoming a spacesaver.

Sorry you're suffering so much.I tested positive last Thursday,but apart from a sore throat & occasional headache,I haven't felt too bad.

[Wack]

1 hour ago, Stanky said:

 

Also, tiktok is 100% cunts. I have never seen or heard anything of merit on there. @Wack, seriously, for the sake of your sanity just fuck it off. It's just full of the sort of people who, 20 years ago, would be shouting at pigeons in the town centre. Just don't give them the oxygen of publicity.

I agree there are many attention seekers on there , I do like the easy dismissal aspect of it,if it's shite it's 2 seconds and gone,  though I preferred it when it was one minute videos 

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Desperately want to get my Golf cleaned as the lack of a working rear wiper and current weather conditions mean it's absolutely filthy.  Can't get enough of a break between rain to do it so went looking for a car wash yesterday.  The only local one that doesn't involve driving through central Canterbury is currently being overhauled (to accept card payments at the wash rather than in the shop - long overdue) and I don't want to encourage people trafficking, so refuse to use any of the hand car washes around.

It's a minor grump I grant you but it's fucking annoying.  Is it me or have most automatic car washes just disappeared?

[High Jetter]

I could lend you a sponge.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

53 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

I could lend you a sponge.

I hate washing cars.  Absolutely detest it.  And we haven't had a day without rain for what feels like six weeks now...

[High Jetter]

2 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

 And we haven't had a day without rain for what feels like six weeks now...

Isn't it clean yet? 

[twosmoke300]

Best  time to wash a car is in the rain 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

2 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

Best  time to wash a car is in the rain 

I don't like going outside at the best of times.  As evident by my posting history.

[Remspoor]

15 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

The figures for the number of new cars sold in Norway last year have now been published. And last year there was a record sale of new cars and almost all are electric, so with the average age of cars being about 11 years in Norway, most if not all petrol stations are probably gone within 10-15 years if this continues.

 

Will they? What about fuel for lorries and buses, agricultural vehicles and even things like chainsaws? Noth forgetting the equipment for building sites. All of these need liquid fuel.

[artdjones]

12 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

There are all kinds of electric cars here now, many from China as well. And it's ironic is typical of us selling oil while pretending to save the world.

This is one of the latest electric cars from China Hongqi e-hs9 for what is better for the environment than a 2.7 tonne SUV that is probably built with coal power and is dead after 10 years.

Looks like a good car for a US rap artist. Unfortunately, the name would put them off.

[Remspoor]

15 hours ago, kirton said:

It must be me getting old and a semi techno cripple but doing Mrs K's tax self assessment (SA) has driven me towards gnashing teeth and tearing hair out this afternoon.  (domestic abuse by both of us on the other was avoided by a hair's breadth)

I spent a long time trying to verify her identity;  2 required;

Northern Ireland driving licence  -that's a NO , what's so special about NI?

Phone contract - hers renewed this July -

When did you get a credit card -over 6 years ago

Current passport - hooray - YES

What was last years tax due?  found the SA return but no trace of what was due.  Searched high and low for HMRC hard copy, searched bank statements;  domestic tension brewing up

looks like we scored only one out of 5

Look at contact HMRC online- can do but contact  contains warning  - don't ask us to help verify your identity, not much* help there

Then found you can get identity GOV accepted verification by the Post Office or a firm, I chose the PO, went  round in circles entering  full name and dob at least three times on different pages, but got there, with a direct link to Self Assessment - a WINNER!  Grumpyness much reduced.  Also got to copy of last year's tax statement - they owed Mrs K £25, so no wonder we went around the circle of what did they dun her for.

SA form is pretty straightforward (I think they shouldn't quibble too much) nice to skip past the optional declarations that would provide details

Then I get to the SUBMIT; sign off in blood that it's all true, press submit  - system now says you've changed it so Fuck OFF;  time for hair tearing;  I give up after some go back, repeat, fail again ,again ; exit and get taken straight to the PO site (WTF!).  Oh well, sign in so I can log out I thinks;  straight back to SA SUBMIT, press SUBMIT - only bloody works

Having got that off my chest I feel a lot better; Mrs K hates me a bit less for putting her through the annual trauma again, time for beer.

and a belated  Happy New Year to shiters

 

 

This is one reason why I feel personal IDs are a good thing.  I even have a digital one on my PC like everyone else has here in Spain. That allows us access to certain government portals without this fuss.

[Dyslexic Viking]

12 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Will they? What about fuel for lorries and buses, agricultural vehicles and even things like chainsaws? Noth forgetting the equipment for building sites. All of these need liquid fuel.

Work is being done to make everything electric, but it is not known if it is possible. And everything you mention here except the chainsaw runs on diesel and it will probably be available for a while but with petrol the future looks bad. California has decided that all garden machines, small machines, etc. on petrol / diesel will be banned this year. This can probably happen here as well, as some of the greens have also proposed closing down agriculture and food production in Norway to save the environment. So anything is possible.

[reb]

6 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

proposed closing down agriculture and food production in Norway to save the environment.

I've never heard anything so fucking stupid in my life.

[Remspoor]

5 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Work is being done to make everything electric, but it is not known if it is possible. And everything you mention here except the chainsaw runs on diesel and it will probably be available for a while but with petrol the future looks bad. California has decided that all garden machines, small machines, etc. on petrol / diesel will be banned this year. This can probably happen here as well, as some of the greens have also proposed closing down agriculture and food production in Norway to save the environment. So anything is possible.

And now France is pushing to make Nuclear power green. Because there is not enough power being generated by solar or turbines. I get a feeling being green is not going to work out well.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-nuclear-energy-gas-green-climate-technology/

The Dutch are also "shutting down" agriculture too. Especially meat production.

 

[Metal Guru]

32 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Will they? What about fuel for lorries and buses, agricultural vehicles and even things like chainsaws? Noth forgetting the equipment for building sites. All of these need liquid fuel.

Lorries are the biggest problem probably as although they could carry a lot of batteries, it obviously detracts from the payload. Buses  often are fairly near to base and can carry more batteries easier.

Ditto tractors , close to base , already heavy. , more batteries relatively  easily to design in without loss of performance.

Chainsaws etc? Have you seen what you can get in power tools these days? I recently did a job with a friend cutting a hedge. I had a petrol power trimmer , he had a 56V battery powered one. It was like a Ford Fiesta v a Tesla.

[myglaren]

13 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

There are all kinds of electric cars here now, many from China as well. And it's ironic is typical of us selling oil while pretending to save the world.

This is one of the latest electric cars from China Hongqi e-hs9 for what is better for the environment than a 2.7 tonne SUV that is probably built with coal power and is dead after 10 years.

Lovely!

A spectacularly hideous beast.  BMW, Audi, Nissan, Landrangerover, Cadillac  et al will now have to up there game to out-ugly that heap.

[Dyslexic Viking]

24 minutes ago, reb said:

I've never heard anything so fucking stupid in my life.

 

19 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

And now France is pushing to make Nuclear power green. Because there is not enough power being generated by solar or turbines. I get a feeling being green is not going to work out well.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-nuclear-energy-gas-green-climate-technology/

The Dutch are also "shutting down" agriculture too. Especially meat production.

 

And I'm not making this up. I have an interest in agriculture and would probably have become a farmer if I had the health to do so I follow a lot of what is happening now and is scary. And meat production has also gained an undeserved bad reputation now and they are using the numbers and emissions from feedlots. Meat production and dairy allow us to use areas that can not be used for other food production so without this there will be food shortages are things I have heard a lot.

So a good example in Norway we have a good deal of mountain plateaus that can not be grown food on and we can not eat what grows there but this can Reindeer so by eating Reindeer we get food from a place that otherwise would not have given us food this is pure logic. The youtube channel Harry's farm covers a bit of what's going on, talk about how the UK seems to be paying areble farmers to stop grain production etc.

[artdjones]

46 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Work is being done to make everything electric, but it is not known if it is possible. And everything you mention here except the chainsaw runs on diesel and it will probably be available for a while but with petrol the future looks bad. California has decided that all garden machines, small machines, etc. on petrol / diesel will be banned this year. This can probably happen here as well, as some of the greens have also proposed closing down agriculture and food production in Norway to save the environment. So anything is possible.

It's an extreme form of outsourcing. Large areas of China are as polluted and ravaged as anything from the 19th century, but Westerners need it to be so. After all , they have to have their clean, green battery devices. Whether the same would work for food is another matter. Norwegians may want to outsource food production, but it has to be produced somewhere. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

20 minutes ago, artdjones said:

It's an extreme form of outsourcing. Large areas of China are as polluted and ravaged as anything from the 19th century, but Westerners need it to be so. After all , they have to have their clean, green battery devices. Whether the same would work for food is another matter. Norwegians may want to outsource food production, but it has to be produced somewhere. 

Yes the food must be produced one place so is the same really where it is. and is an important thing that is little mentioned in this and that is the most important thing that exists and that is food safety. And being dependent on food imports from abroad is dangerous. So all countries should produce as much food themselves as possible.

The UK was in such a situation at the start of WW2 when they were very dependent on imports and had to quickly and sharply increase food production, something they were able to achieve. But could just as well have gone wrong and the UK had suffered a famine as a result.

[Metal Guru]

43 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

 

And I'm not making this up. I have an interest in agriculture and would probably have become a farmer if I had the health to do so I follow a lot of what is happening now and is scary. And meat production has also gained an undeserved bad reputation now and they are using the numbers and emissions from feedlots. Meat production and dairy allow us to use areas that can not be used for other food production so without this there will be food shortages are things I have heard a lot.

So a good example in Norway we have a good deal of mountain plateaus that can not be grown food on and we can not eat what grows there but this can Reindeer so by eating Reindeer we get food from a place that otherwise would not have given us food this is pure logic. The youtube channel Harry's farm covers a bit of what's going on, talk about how the UK seems to be paying areble farmers to stop grain production etc.

The same applies to most upland areas of the U.K, where grass ( not that sort)  is the only viable “crop”. Humans can’t eat grass, sheep and cows turn it into food.

I imagine the same applies on a much larger scale to large areas of USA, Russia and Australia amongst others.

Its cutting down the rainforests for ranches or Soya growing etc which is more about profits than feeding people.

[ProgRocker]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

Lovely!

A spectacularly hideous beast.  BMW, Audi, Nissan, Landrangerover, Cadillac  et al will now have to up there game to out-ugly that heap.

A six foot tall front grille might be the way to go!

[Dyslexic Viking]

27 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

The same applies to most upland areas of the U.K, where grass ( not that sort)  is the only viable “crop”. Humans can’t eat grass, sheep and cows turn it into food.

I imagine the same applies on a much larger scale to large areas of USA, Russia and Australia amongst others.

Its cutting down the rainforests for ranches or Soya growing etc which is more about profits than feeding people.

I agree. And much of Norway is like the UK you describe here only suitable for grass. We have some areas that are well suited for food production but they are also the most populated areas of the country so we are building over it and losing a lot of valuable farmland which is extremely frustrating.

[Dick Longbridge]

38 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I agree. And much of Norway is like the UK you describe here only suitable for grass. We have some areas that are well suited for food production but they are also the most populated areas of the country so we are building over it and losing a lot of valuable farmland which is extremely frustrating.

We're extremely good at building over decent quality farmland here in the UK. It's all ok* though as we're addressing our housing shortage.  No-one seems to have noticed that our population continues to rise year on year and this trend will likely continue until we have no green spaces left. 

I found an interesting stat on our population density too:

Population density in Europe is just 34 people/sq km. At 426 people/sq km, England is the most overcrowded large nation in Europe.