The grumpy thread

[mitsisigma01]

My new neighbours had a fill error code when they finally got their kitchen appliances out of storage ...the inlet pipe had been left attached to the machine when stored in the garage .... Inlet pipe and filter was blocked ..... with slugs !!! 

Used Fridge freezer was stored with doors closed ...fridge stinking and mouldy , freezer when opened dumped a soup of defrosted water and mushy mixed vegetables 😖

[Supernaut]

1 hour ago, jakebullet said:

Idiot sister came back from holiday with covid Thursday night. We have idiot's dog. I tell Ma take it back, open door, put dog in, close door, come back. Instead she hangs around for a chat for half an hour.

So I've got Ma being moody 'cos I told her it's a stupid thing to do, as we have these things called phones that you can chat on for hours safely.

The Mrs. then engages her OCD brain, and Ma has been exposed, so I've been exposed so plz stay the fuck away from me this weekend. Ok, can do. Only snag is she's decided she must have a new ebac washing machine, as she's heard on their radio advert they're dead good and quiet and current one is too loud for her hamster. (No I'm not making this up). Said machine is scheduled for delivery today.

Last night I've got her being angry down the phone 'cos her n Nigel are completely useless when it comes to tools and have fucked up the waste pipe connection at the sink and are awaiting a plumber.

Then I've got her angry this morning that one of the machines has arrived damaged. (She convinced Nigel he needs* one too).

Just had another angry phone call that it's showing error E02 and won't release the door or indeed work. I may have made things worse by saying well they are made in Britain, what do you expect?

TLDR: Too many angry people.

You have the patience of a saint.

How in the hell have you not told every single one of all of them to fuck the fuck off then gone to live in a shack in the Highlands?

 

Fuck all of that noise.

[Zelandeth]

Fun fact. 

A mixture of ancient underseal, plaster adhesive, congealed EP90 and general under car gunk that was dissolved in the half gallon or so of petrol that you ended up wearing when trying to stuff that fuel line back into place is really hard to get off your hands...

[High Jetter]

...plaster adhesive? That's a new one on me.

[New POD]

8 hours ago, Supernaut said:

You have the patience of a saint.

How in the hell have you not told every single one of all of them to fuck the fuck off then gone to live in a shack in the Highlands?

 

Fuck all of that noise.

Indeed. @Jamieplease see my suggestion above to @Pieman

Get out. Both of you. Maybe you could be housemates ? 

[Jazoli]

I don't know why people put up family shit, move out, rent a room, share a house, fuck all that, @jakebulletyou have moaned about them for years, just tell them to fuck the fuck off and live your own life, don't engage, move away, improve your own life.

[omegod]

I hereby declare that Fords go through fucking  brake light bulbs more than any other brand 

[Jamie]

9 hours ago, New POD said:

Indeed. @Jamieplease see my suggestion above to @Pieman

Get out. Both of you. Maybe you could be housemates ? 

? 

[New POD]

2 minutes ago, Jamie said:

? 

Apologies I meant @jakebullet

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, omegod said:

I hereby declare that Fords go through fucking  brake light bulbs more than any other brand 

I never replaced a brake light bulb on any vehicle I’ve owned including many Fords although the last was a 1990 Sierra. My Subaru seems to need a new number plate bulb every MOT though, and I had a Daihatsu that ate interior light bulbs.

[New POD]

1 hour ago, omegod said:

I hereby declare that Fords go through fucking  brake light bulbs more than any other brand 

Honda accord used to destroy dipped Beam bulbs with great regularity.  And it was a pain to replace them. 

[motorpunk]

Kids on eBikes and scooters delivering junk food, wobbling about all over the shop, paid peanuts, serving shit to the lazy. This makes me grumpy...

It is 101 years since White Castle invented the first fast food, burger chain. Too lazy to cook at home? We'll feed you. It's quick, convenient and cheap. Come and eat fast food. And then the rash of clones - Burger King, McDonalds, KFC and a million others, all shovelling shite down the bloated throats of the fat and lazy - they can't get enough. Bigger portions! Faster serving! More addictive ingredients! Fatter addicts happier customers! And now, because the fat fuckers can't drive (walking now a long-forgotten sport solely for keep fit maniacs) 10 minutes and fetch it themselves, there's the invention of delivery. Faster! Easier! Shovel it down quick! Deliveroo! Just East! Obesity Direct.com! From click to indigestion in a matter of minutes! All factory made, minimum-waged, a process designed to take your money to the toilet pan as fast as possible and leave you wanting MORE. A chain of parasitic companies sucking the nutrients from your (paper) plate and the money from people's livelihoods. Where does this industry go next? It needs to be bigger, faster! A generation of Americans who can't use cutlery. Us next. Finger food. Disposable packaging. How about pre-chewed food? How about the delivery driver (plastic) spoon-feeds you through your letterbox, straight down your cakehole? Faster! FASTER! How about they cut out the middle-man, the flavour, the taste, the sensation of different ingredients combining, the texture, the smell.... why not just recycle shit straight from the sewer, serve it in a box, throw it at your front door? Saves on digestion! Faster, faster! Why box it? Why not just get them a fucking app that repays users with a drive-by pelting of their house with human dung? DeliverPoo! JustCark! Let's put the muck into McDonalds (that worldplay works best with a midlands accent, admittedly). The whole industry and the shitty 'jobs' it created can wobble into a ditch on it's polluting Wong-Minge Lucky motorcycle factory number 6 machine, with the litter and despair it created, garnished with a high-viz vest and a side potion of clogged artery. 

[artdjones]

6 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Kids on eBikes and scooters delivering junk food, wobbling about all over the shop, paid peanuts, serving shit to the lazy. This makes me grumpy...

It is 101 years since White Castle invented the first fast food, burger chain. Too lazy to cook at home? We'll feed you. It's quick, convenient and cheap. Come and eat fast food. And then the rash of clones - Burger King, McDonalds, KFC and a million others, all shovelling shite down the bloated throats of the fat and lazy - they can't get enough. Bigger portions! Faster serving! More addictive ingredients! Fatter addicts happier customers! And now, because the fat fuckers can't drive 10 minutes and fetch it themselves, there's the invention of delivery. Faster! Easier! Shovel it down quick! Deliveroo! Just East! Obesity Direct.com! From click to indigestion in a matter of minutes! All factory made, minimum-waged, a process designed to take your money to the toilet pan as fast as possible and leave you wanting MORE. Where does this industry go next? It needs to be bigger, faster! A generation of Americans who can't use cutlery. Us next. Finger food. Disposable packaging. How about pre-chewed food? How about the delivery driver (plastic) spoon-feeds you through your letterbox, straight down your cakehole? Faster! FASTER! How about they cut out the middle-man, the flavour, the taste, the sensation of different ingredients combining, the texture, the smell.... why not just recycle shit straight from the sewer, serve it in a box, throw it at your front door? Saves on digestion! Faster, faster! Why box it? Why not just get them a fucking app that repays users with a drive-by pelting of their house with human dung? DeliverPoo! JustCark! Let's put the muck into McDonalds (that worldplay works best with a midlands accent, admittedly). The whole industry and the shitty 'jobs' it created can wobble into a ditch on it's polluting Wong-Minge Lucky motorcycle factory number 6 machine, with the litter and despair it created, garnished with a high-viz vest and a side potion of clogged artery. 

Let me get this straight - you don't like fast food?

[motorpunk]

4 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Let me get this straight - you don't like fast food?

Not much. 

[Sham]

6 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Not much. 

Wanna know what I had for tea?

[3VOM]

So just changed the oil and filter on the E39. Simple job, eh? Well no. Needed a 1/2" impact driver to remove the sump plug and stilsons to remove the filter housing top. And I can't reset the dash reminder for the service interval.

[Agila]

@motorpunkstarted off a strong rant then slightly* tailed off into a surreal utopia for the great unwashed.

Excellent 9/10, would read again.

[motorpunk]

3 hours ago, Sham said:

Wanna know what I had for tea?

Tea is too gentile a word to describe such shite food 😄

[Quintus]

9 hours ago, omegod said:

I hereby declare that Fords go through fucking  brake light bulbs more than any other brand 

Given the experience I had with my old 52 reg Focus, it's headlamp bulbs too.

[Crackers]

3 minutes ago, Quintus said:

Given the experience I had with my old 52 reg Focus, it's headlamp bulbs too.

Always the passenger side too, which needs a 2-foot pygmy with 10-foot arms to reach because the battery goes right where you want your hand to fanny about with the bulb holder spring clip. 

Not that I'm bitter about it or anything.

[Dobloseven]

Seen people driving some quite smart motors delivering Mcdonalds. Must say I had Mcdonalds for "tea" twice last week. Did go and fetch them myself though. 

[RoverFolkUs]

20 minutes ago, Quintus said:

Given the experience I had with my old 52 reg Focus, it's headlamp bulbs too.

Mine eat tail/brake light and front sidelight & dipped beam bulbs. Never main beam, side repeaters, reverse lamp (see the pattern here I guess - less used or not in a housing with other hot bulbs)

15 minutes ago, Crackers said:

Always the passenger side too, which needs a 2-foot pygmy with 10-foot arms to reach because the battery goes right where you want your hand to fanny about with the bulb holder spring clip. 

Not that I'm bitter about it or anything.

Laughs in MK2 Focus whereby each headlight can be removed in about 10 seconds to get all the access you could possibly need! Probably the best design feature of them, wish all cars were the same

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, motorpunk said:

Kids on eBikes and scooters delivering junk food, wobbling about all over the shop, paid peanuts, serving shit to the lazy. This makes me grumpy...

It is 101 years since White Castle invented the first fast food, burger chain. Too lazy to cook at home? We'll feed you. It's quick, convenient and cheap. Come and eat fast food. And then the rash of clones - Burger King, McDonalds, KFC and a million others, all shovelling shite down the bloated throats of the fat and lazy - they can't get enough. Bigger portions! Faster serving! More addictive ingredients! Fatter addicts happier customers! And now, because the fat fuckers can't drive (walking now a long-forgotten sport solely for keep fit maniacs) 10 minutes and fetch it themselves, there's the invention of delivery. Faster! Easier! Shovel it down quick! Deliveroo! Just East! Obesity Direct.com! From click to indigestion in a matter of minutes! All factory made, minimum-waged, a process designed to take your money to the toilet pan as fast as possible and leave you wanting MORE. A chain of parasitic companies sucking the nutrients from your (paper) plate and the money from people's livelihoods. Where does this industry go next? It needs to be bigger, faster! A generation of Americans who can't use cutlery. Us next. Finger food. Disposable packaging. How about pre-chewed food? How about the delivery driver (plastic) spoon-feeds you through your letterbox, straight down your cakehole? Faster! FASTER! How about they cut out the middle-man, the flavour, the taste, the sensation of different ingredients combining, the texture, the smell.... why not just recycle shit straight from the sewer, serve it in a box, throw it at your front door? Saves on digestion! Faster, faster! Why box it? Why not just get them a fucking app that repays users with a drive-by pelting of their house with human dung? DeliverPoo! JustCark! Let's put the muck into McDonalds (that worldplay works best with a midlands accent, admittedly). The whole industry and the shitty 'jobs' it created can wobble into a ditch on it's polluting Wong-Minge Lucky motorcycle factory number 6 machine, with the litter and despair it created, garnished with a high-viz vest and a side potion of clogged artery. 

Hungry now? ( Our dinner came from local butcher with supermarket pots n veg)

[iainrcz]

I've eaten all my packup apart from  soup and sandwich.

Still 6 hours to go, I've a feeling I won't make it.

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, motorpunk said:

Tea is too gentile a word to describe such shite food 😄

Would תה be better?

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Would תה be better?

!בטח

[somewhatfoolish]

Oy vey.

[sierraman]

11 hours ago, Dobloseven said:

Seen people driving some quite smart motors delivering Mcdonalds. Must say I had Mcdonalds for "tea" twice last week. Did go and fetch them myself though. 

Some might say they’re chasing about delivering takeaways at night to keep up with the repayments...

[goosey]

11 hours ago, Dobloseven said:

Seen people driving some quite smart motors delivering Mcdonalds. Must say I had Mcdonalds for "tea" twice last week. Did go and fetch them myself though. 

A work colleague uses his company C class to deliver takeaways for an Indian restaurant, he gets paid cash in hand and doesn’t pay for fuel or running costs so I suppose it’s all profit for him 

[HillmanImp]

I was hungover and ordered a McDonalds a while back. Its less than a mile and a half away as the crow flies but I can't be arsed being sat in traffic in Shipley so Deliveroo seems like a good option. 

I got a notification that it was on its way. 

Ordinarily, thats not unusual but there is a bit of an elevation gain between there and my house. 

You go girl. 

It ended up being delivered by a bloke in a car though.