The grumpy thread

[MikeR]

8 hours ago, MikeR said:

Our wonderful Liverpool council is thinking of extending it parking charges period from 6pm to 11pm ... Whoopie 

6pm onwards is the only time I go in unless my son is with me and has his blue badge . Otherwise its the bus or train which sort of seriously curtails my shopping carrying capacity thanks to my op scars.

Not only that the traffic system is a absolute shambles , every junction has a traffic light system that is always on red .the lime Street chaos that has cut the town in half ,the strand "improvements".

Which again my op scars kick off with all the clutch work ...

No wonder the shops are dying ..and Amazon etc  is popular ...

 

And for today's trip , got caught up in the aftermath of yet another accident at Switch island !!!

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

Vesta chow mein.

I fancied a time warp 1970's experience to go with rampant inflation and strikes.

Imagine my disgust when I discovered the crispy noodles have been replaced with lentil curls that look like ingrown toe nails.

Stop the world. I want to get off.

I got one a couple of years ago, out of curiosity. Crispy noodles were just as I remembered, yummy. The rest was pretty shite tho

[sheffcortinacentre]

11 hours ago, MikeR said:

Our wonderful Liverpool council is thinking of extending it parking charges period from 6pm to 11pm ... Whoopie 

6pm onwards is the only time I go in unless my son is with me and has his blue badge . Otherwise its the bus or train which sort of seriously curtails my shopping carrying capacity thanks to my op scars.

Not only that the traffic system is a absolute shambles , every junction has a traffic light system that is always on red .the lime Street chaos that has cut the town in half ,the strand "improvements".

Which again my op scars kick off with all the clutch work ...

No wonder the shops are dying ..and Amazon etc  is popular ...

 

Yep all at it ,few years time it will be why is the centre centre a ghost town?

[hairnet]

 Medical bastard 

[richardmorris]

A very minor grump, but still waiting….

[JMotor]

Holy crap @hairnet.

You OK dude? 

[hairnet]

7 hours ago, hairnet said:

 Medical bastard 

 

 

yeah so i wont bore you with the pictures (need to vent) - bear with me

went in for routine blood test and chat with head honcho for medical - and the blood test fine didnt take long had to wait almost an hour for head honcho (dont know why there was hour between the appts as the blood test took 30 secs lol)

they checked the test while i was there as its very quick

oh yer calcium is low again - not as low as last time (hospital visit) but low enuff you need to stay in so we can bag you again (steady)

as soon as this happened everyone got told - including work - tried to find out how big the bag was gonna be (100ml an hour - will take 10 hours)

if it was smol 3 hours med bag 6 - full litre 10 (omg im gonna be sooo bored lol)

ive been talking the tablets they gave me since the last time but its still not right

originally it shoulda been calc tabs and vit d cos it went up but not enuff hence tabs - but they didnt give me the vit d - the calc tabs has this in (it says on the packet) so i didnt take much notice

the hospital gave the calc tabs and said pick up the vit d via script from your gp

ok - went in coupla days later and no

had blood test after that and they said did you get the d tabs - no asked and they said no

more emails to gp from hosp

thats happened twice more -  i keep asking - the hosp speak to the gp and still nothing (they also rang them on one occasion)

so today finally the hosp said fuckit we'll give you the d tabs - they have and omg its one a week  how strong must they be

gp will be visited tomorrow - to quote snap - i will attack and you dont want that

(hey fire me im annoyed and tired)

and asked wheres all me scripts and why havent you called me in to monitor me as the hospital asked

hosp have told me to get gp to book me in for a blood test  (sneaky)

so its been a long day (there at 8 got released at 8

but hopefully level will go back to normal (they tested me 4 times today for blood pressure and despite whats been going on its 125/80 3 times

ecg was fine too

all other levels are fine - which is odd - think now its the treatment thats sent it funny

fuck medical - but its getting there - slowly

cant fault the hospital - they WILL be getting a pressie

 

[hairnet]

37 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

A very minor grump, but still waiting….

id have gone and fetched it

[Wack]

Just watching a cop programme, drug dealer tried to drive off while a copper has his hand in the window dragging him up the road, cop manages to get the keys out 

Matey boy legs it, copper gets him trapped in an alleyway and the cunt lunges at him with a broken bottle 

16 month suspended sentence, 250 hours of unpaid work he'll probably never turn up for and a tag 

It's no wonder they try and escape, what's to lose, fucks sake 

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

A very minor grump, but still waiting….

Have you got it yet?

[richardmorris]

5 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Have you got it yet?

No.

[myglaren]

10 hours ago, Wack said:

Just watching a cop programme, drug dealer tried to drive off while a copper has his hand in the window dragging him up the road, cop manages to get the keys out 

Matey boy legs it, copper gets him trapped in an alleyway and the cunt lunges at him with a broken bottle 

16 month suspended sentence, 250 hours of unpaid work he'll probably never turn up for and a tag 

It's no wonder they try and escape, what's to lose, fucks sake 

People like that have a tendency to have nasty accidents and no-one saw it.

[Wack]

29 minutes ago, myglaren said:

People like that have a tendency to have nasty accidents and no-one saw it.

Hopefully 

[barefoot]

Anyone any idea what the crack is with the 'angry farmer' at Rufford Ford?

 

 

[Pieman]

Maybe he's finally had enough of the place becoming a tourist attraction for attention-seeking wankers.

It's the North Midlands equivalent of the Abbey Road zebra crossing, except this place doesn't have any historical significance and is just "hurrr there's a camera there, let's act like a dick so we get on the internet".

[iainrcz]

On 11/14/2022 at 2:46 PM, iainrcz said:

No internet or phone all weekend, nearly an hour on hold to moan and still haven't spoken to a cunt about it.

Cable had failed outside house. New cable and router, now connection is slow as fuck. According to Shell my line supports 4mbps, even though before the problem I was getting from 11 - 14 🙄 

[Noel Tidybeard]

4 hours ago, myglaren said:

People like that have a tendency to have nasty accidents and no-one saw it.

"sarge he's fallen down the stairs again!"

[MikeR]

That M58 to M6 NB junction , played it safe today and stayed behind the artic on the inside lane , except the stupid bint in the SUV who came up the outside lane , got beside me , and proceeded to panic when she could not join the M6 , forcing me onto the remains of the hard shoulder and a rapidly approaching bridge of doom support , cue constant horns and high beam ,and looks of alarm that some one would do such a thing to a SUV driver , but some dabbing of the brakes and beating the 66 horses into action and we were able to lock eyes for a long dirty look ...

And my dash cam played up again , some how it corrupted the new SD card , looks like it runs out of battery when taking 2 minutes to shut down and crashes out . Now told to shut down in 10 secs and seems ok ..

For now ...

[Wack]

Thought I'd try royal mail drop and go save me going to the post office 

Your postman will pick the Parcel up for free as part of his round 

Like fuck they will so now I've got to go to the sorting office in town, cunts 

[Datsuncog]

10 minutes ago, Wack said:

Thought I'd try royal mail drop and go save me going to the post office 

Your postman will pick the Parcel up for free as part of his round 

Like fuck they will so now I've got to go to the sorting office in town, cunts 

I tried that on Wednesday for the first time.

Whenever I'm buying parcel postage on RM's website they seem to default to this automatically now, and you have to manually remove it at the payment stage.

The last few times I've just taken it off, then gone down to the sorting office as usual - but decided to give it a go this week.

The postie did indeed turn up at the door on time with the label and everything, but it was a bit of a fuckabout for him trying to juggle all his delivery mail and this parcel and the label and his handheld scanner thing. In the rain.

He was very nice about it, but I felt a bit grubby giving him extra hassle - I reckon this is some sort of RM management wheeze to avoid having to pay Post Offices for handling customer parcels.

Don't think I'll be doing it again - though would be interested to hear from RM employees about how they feel about it?

[Dan29]

2 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

I tried that on Wednesday for the first time.

Whenever I'm buying parcel postage on RM's website they seem to default to this automatically now, and you have to manually remove it at the payment stage.

The last few times I've just taken it off, then gone down to the sorting office as usual - but decided to give it a go this week.

The postie did indeed turn up at the door on time with the label and everything, but it was a bit of a fuckabout for him trying to juggle all his delivery mail and this parcel and the label and his handheld scanner thing. In the rain.

He was very nice about it, but I felt a bit grubby giving him extra hassle - I reckon this is some sort of RM management wheeze to avoid having to pay Post Offices for handling customer parcels.

Don't think I'll be doing it again - though would be interested to hear from RM employees about how they feel about it?

I tried it about a year ago and I don't think the postie had been briefed on it at all! He seemed completely surprised by the whole idea. It all worked fine but it seemed like extra hassle for him so I haven't done it again since. 

[Wack]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

I tried that on Wednesday for the first time.

Whenever I'm buying parcel postage on RM's website they seem to default to this automatically now, and you have to manually remove it at the payment stage.

The last few times I've just taken it off, then gone down to the sorting office as usual - but decided to give it a go this week.

The postie did indeed turn up at the door on time with the label and everything, but it was a bit of a fuckabout for him trying to juggle all his delivery mail and this parcel and the label and his handheld scanner thing. In the rain.

He was very nice about it, but I felt a bit grubby giving him extra hassle - I reckon this is some sort of RM management wheeze to avoid having to pay Post Offices for handling customer parcels.

Don't think I'll be doing it again - though would be interested to hear from RM employees about how they feel about it?

I was a bit pissed off about having to drive into town at 5pm on a Friday , I don't really think posties are cunts, it's a tough job being out in all weathers 

I assumed they'd be coming in a van so I wouldn't have been happy if he'd been carrying it round in a downpour. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Any thoughts on this at all @Yoss?  Seems like yet another burden you don't need.

[richardmorris]

13 hours ago, richardmorris said:

No.

Just delivered, their third attempt was 6 to 8 tonight.  Not sure the doormat is my safe place though.

[Yoss]

21 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Any thoughts on this at all @Yoss?  Seems like yet another burden you don't need.

I think it's been going a year or so now but they are currently offering it for free until the end of the year. I think it normally costs 60p (I say I think because they really don't tell us any more than we need to know). We can have a maximum of five a day per delivery. I guess if you try booking one after the five slots are taken computer would just say no, again I don't actually know. 

Luckily it's not that popular and I've never had more than two in one day. I guess I usually get three or four a week. But now I'm on a trolley walk it can get interesting. Especially as in some places I lock the trolley up and walk off with a bag so I'll knock on the door and see how big it is and a few times and I've just said no, there's obviously no way I can carry that, all I can do is offer to come back on the way back to the office when the trolley is empty. Everyone so far has been fine with that. Once it wouldn't even fit in the trolley, I just plonked it on top and wheeled it back. Luckily my delivery is near the office. Apparently if we are on foot and it's too big we are supposed to ring the office and they'll send a driver a out. Can't see who that would be though as we haven't got enough staff to even cover the deliveries we are supposed to be doing. 

And then last year when I was still on a shared van duty I logged on (they come up on your PDA as soon as you log on) to find I had one pick up. But it consisted of 23 items! And they lived in a second floor flat. So again I left it til the end and the guy helped me get them all down to the van (their was a lift at least). 

But also you quite often get there and find nobody is in. Or somebody is in but they know nothing about it. Like the wife has ordered it but not told her husband who just shrugs. I'm actually quite pleased when this happens because then I don't have to carry it. There is an option on the PDA to say you were unable to collect. 

But as rightly guessed it is something you could do without. There is always a sense of relief when you log on and find you don't have any pick ups. They introduced it because other couriers do it and so we have to be seen to be doing it, though it is a bit of a token effort if you can only do five pick ups per delivery. 

The next thing they are threatening is to redeliver stuff you can't get rid of the next day. I mean you can already ring up (or email) and ask to have a packet redelivered but now they are suggesting we have green cards as well as the red ones you're all familiar with. The green ones will say we'll try again tomorrow, wether you've asked for it or not! Which seems daft as usually if you're not in it's because you're at work, so you're not going to be in the next day either. Then on the second day you leave a red card as normal. This just seems to be adding needless dead weight but what do we know. These green cards already exist apparently though we've yet to see them. I'll also need an extra pocket to put the green cards in! 

[High Jetter]

I guess pickups are fine if you have a trolley, or van, nearby but otherwise? Posties usually have plenty to carry without adding more en route.

[Wack]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Just delivered, their third attempt was 6 to 8 tonight.  Not sure the doormat is my safe place though.

It's not a doormat, it's an above ground damp proof storage facility 

[iainrcz]

10 hours ago, iainrcz said:

Cable had failed outside house. New cable and router, now connection is slow as fuck. According to Shell my line supports 4mbps, even though before the problem I was getting from 11 - 14 🙄 

They're adamant I've been getting 4 and should only have 4. So fuck em. I'm not on a contract so I'm leaving. I'm not paying £25 a month for 4mbps and a landline I don't use.

I'm going to try an unlimited data phone contract at £16 a month and ditch phone and broadband all together.

[High Jetter]

New connection tho?

[myglaren]

Discovered yesterday that our local shop is now a post office and has been for eight months.

Don't go there often.  Only when I can't be arsed to go for my car, that lives 500 yards further up the road.

Used to use a post office two miles away to send a letter to Sweden, once a year, around Christmas.  Not anymore, just upload it to their website.