The grumpy thread

[omegod]

2 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

You can say that again.

Sorry, I had a bit of a stutter  

[Pieman]

Called at the local pharmacy earlier this evening to get some throat sweets and my neighbour's daughter was just finishing her shift in there, having recently started working there at weekends while doing her A-levels.  As I was leaving her dad arrived to pick her up, and apparently he takes her there and back for every shift...my grump is, the place is less than ten minutes' walk from our houses!  I thought getting part time work was meant to teach you a bit of independence.

[omegod]

57 minutes ago, omegod said:

I wish someone did home delivery breville sandwiches, no fucker eats them all the time but everyone gets a  craving sometime, yeah that's me tonight and we threw our breville out a year ago

Even grumpier now as there are at least 5 shiters not too far away from me and not one of the bastards has offered to bring me a breville toastie, this place has gone the dogs 😒😁

 

[New POD]

6 minutes ago, omegod said:

Even grumpier now as there are at least 5 shiters not too far away from me and not one of the bastards has offered to bring me a breville toastie, this place has gone the dogs 😒😁

 

Now that's an idea.  

If you'd asked sooner I would be under the drink drive limit. Sorry. 

[New POD]

Grump. My 34 year old flymo has erm failed to proceed. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 hour ago, omegod said:

I wish someone did home delivery breville sandwiches, no fucker eats them all the time but everyone gets a  craving sometime, yeah that's me tonight and we threw our breville out a year ago

I'd do it, but by the time I arrived you'd have been able to go to Argos and buy a machine and have made you and your extended family some toasties.

[New POD]

1 minute ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I'd do it, but by the time I arrived you'd have been able to go to Argos and buy a machine and have made you and your extended family some toasties.

I'm on my own in the house, if he drives up the M57 he can be here in 30 mins. 

I would make him two. 

[wuvvum]

6 minutes ago, New POD said:

Grump. My 34 year old flymo has erm failed to proceed. 

[omegod]

14 minutes ago, New POD said:

I'm on my own in the house, if he drives up the M57 he can be here in 30 mins. 

I would make him two. 

With the new bypass I could do it in 20 , the urge has passed now but I'm going to Argos tomorrow !!!!! 

[barefoot]

Can you not just butter a couple of slices, shove some cheese into an inside out sandwich and drop them into a hot dry pan? Far better than anything that ever came out of a Breville.

[twosmoke300]

3 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Can you not just butter a couple of slices, shove some cheese into an inside out sandwich and drop them into a hot dry pan? Far better than anything that ever came out of a Breville.

Wash your mouth out !

[EyesWeldedShut]

49 minutes ago, New POD said:

If you'd asked sooner I would be under the drink drive limit. Sorry. 

yes but then again, you are in Scotland? No?
Where an opened bottle of whisky in the room is enough to trip the limit (Never mind the inhaled fume from a Toastie)

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Grump. My 34 year old flymo has erm failed to proceed. 

Need some of this.

[RoverFolkUs]

3 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Double grump.  One is my fault, one isn't.  We've had a slow puncture on the BINI for a couple of weeks and the fronts were getting a bit low, so I took it to the local tyre place having ordered a pair of Falkens online.  Got there and had forgotten that it needs run-flat tyres (ideally) so it ended up costing me £25 more a corner than I originally thought it would.  Not their fault and they're really good - just annoying.

Against my better judgement I then took it to the hand car wash in Morrisons.  I usually avoid these places for a number of reasons but I didn't have the energy to give it a clean and my other half was paying as she's taking friends out in it in the week and our dog is a shedder.  When it came out, the airbag warning light was on.  Twats there fobbed me off (no point in arguing with them) and only wanted to be paid in cash (so are on the fiddle because they definitely have a card machine).  The best I got out of them is that the under-seat connector may have got wet when they steam cleaned the car.  Other than that they just shrugged and tried to claim that it could happen 'at any time'.  Yeah, fuck off pal.

Now, that can happen and they might be completely correct - but that doesn't help.  I wasn't in the mood to argue about a refund, etc. because I would have just got angry but from reading, it looks like the airbag warning can only be reset with a code reader.  So I've had to book it into a garage on Monday morning.  I'll get shafted for that too, probably.  Not a garage I'm familiar with but they're the only ones with availability (probably a bad sign).  So we'll see.

My other half won't drive it with the airbag light on (they'll be switched off) so I had to fix the driver seat in my Golf and then clean the inside and out.  I wouldn't have usually bothered but she's been invited to go and meet with a potential new employer on Monday after applying for a job with them and arriving in my filthy Golf will set a terrible first impression. I'm now absolutely fucking knackered now, probably dehydrated and I wasn't exactly feeling a spring in my step when I woke up this morning to begin with.

Fucking cars.  At least it got me out of mowing an overgrown and damp 1/3rd of an acre.

That doesn't make total sense because SRS is a self test system. So the light should go off and the system re-enable although the code may still stay. 

May sound silly, are the interior lights working? 

Disconnect the battery, wait however long you deem for nuns and kittens to be safe (🙂) disconnect the under seat connectors and spray some electrical cleaner in there, and reconnect. Then reconnect the battery. 

That should clear the light. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

4 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

That doesn't make total sense because SRS is a self test system. So the light should go off and the system re-enable although the code may still stay. 

May sound silly, are the interior lights working? 

Disconnect the battery, wait however long you deem for nuns and kittens to be safe (🙂) disconnect the under seat connectors and spray some electrical cleaner in there, and reconnect. Then reconnect the battery. 

That should clear the light. 

That's incredibly helpful, I'll take a look tomorrow.  Thank you.  I have already tried disconnecting the airbag connectors and re-connecting but I'll give it another go (and disconnect the battery this time...).

[RoverFolkUs]

2 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

That's incredibly helpful, I'll take a look tomorrow.  Thank you.

Basically what I'm saying is, as soon as the fault is rectified (if it is just a dodgy connection under the seat) - the system should detect it during its self test and switch the light off the next time you cycle the ignition. And with the battery being disconnected it will only help. 

And the interior light question is in reference to the habit that BMWs have of blowing the interior light fuse and triggering an airbag light because the switch tell tale lamp is on the same circuit (!!) I don't know if minis are the same because I haven't come across it on a mini, but it wouldn't at all surprise me. 

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, omegod said:

Even grumpier now as there are at least 5 shiters not too far away from me and not one of the bastards has offered to bring me a breville toastie, this place has gone the dogs 😒😁

 

Take it round your neighbours, shirley one would squash and scorch it for you?

[New POD]

8 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

That doesn't make total sense because SRS is a self test system. So the light should go off and the system re-enable although the code may still stay. 

May sound silly, are the interior lights working? 

Disconnect the battery, wait however long you deem for nuns and kittens to be safe (🙂) disconnect the under seat connectors and spray some electrical cleaner in there, and reconnect. Then reconnect the battery. 

That should clear the light. 

On our R50,  once the airbag warning light was on, the only way of getting it off was with a code reader.  (never tried disconnecting the battery) 

If the passenger seat was as far back as it goes and someone got into the rear seat, and kicked the cable, whilst the ignition was on, that was the cue for the light to go on. 

 

[New POD]

10 hours ago, barefoot said:

Can you not just butter a couple of slices, shove some cheese into an inside out sandwich and drop them into a hot dry pan? Far better than anything that ever came out of a Breville.

I am sending a hitman to put you right. Permanently. 

[New POD]

10 hours ago, omegod said:

With the new bypass I could do it in 20 , the urge has passed now but I'm going to Argos tomorrow !!!!! 

I went to argos yesterday. For this 

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/6144472

[omegod]

12 hours ago, barefoot said:

Can you not just butter a couple of slices, shove some cheese into an inside out sandwich and drop them into a hot dry pan? Far better than anything that ever came out of a Breville.

[Bren]

M56. Junctions 11 and 12. Avoid. Motorway is closed.

The area around Warrington looks like the end of the film deep impact.

A bridge on the A533 is being demolished this weekend. Given the length of time it has taken I assumed the bastard had been demolished last year. I have no idea why civil engineering projects can take so long in this country.

Anybody who lives or works in St Helens will know that the bull and dog roundabout looks like a branch of Huws Gray with little or nothing getting done on it.

The roads are becoming so bad I avoid driving if possible - even the thought of a blast on the bike does nothing for me any more.

[Amelia]

On 5/13/2023 at 7:05 PM, omegod said:

I wish someone did home delivery breville sandwiches, no fucker eats them all the time but everyone gets a  craving sometime, yeah that's me tonight and we threw our breville out a year ago

I do toasties in the George Foreman grill, not as good as a proper toastie maker, but means I don't have to keep a separate device. 😊

[Richard_FM]

1 hour ago, Fennec said:

I do toasties in the George Foreman grill, not as good as a proper toastie maker, but means I don't have to keep a separate device. 😊

Same here when I used to be able to go home for lunch from my old job.  It was a model with removable plates, so I could easily get all the melted cheese off!

[myglaren]

21 hours ago, Fennec said:

I do toasties in the George Foreman grill, not as good as a proper toastie maker, but means I don't have to keep a separate device. 😊

Same here but I recently discovered a long forgotten ÅVIKEN Waffle iron, bought around 1972/3 and has been in the attic for ages, discovered when looking for something else.  It would probably do too and make nice waffly patterns in the bread too.

Tried to upload a photo but couldn't.  No idea why.  Still not

Although I can now.  Only with Firefox, Brave is denied.

 

Edited May 15, 2023 by myglaren
Photo's added.

[Alan_Green]

On 13/05/2023 at 19:05, omegod said:

I wish someone did home delivery breville sandwiches, no fucker eats them all the time but everyone gets a  craving sometime, yeah that's me tonight and we threw our breville out a year ago

When my wife was preggers she visited me at my office and spotted a Breville in the corner of the communal kitchen while making coffee.  Later that day she called and begged me to bring the Breville home as she'd been dreaming of cheese toasties all day!  Fine, I thought, I'll just sneak it back into the kitchen the next morning before anyone notices.  Inevitably I forgot of course, but I seemed to get away with it.  However on the 2nd morning I walked straight in to a full scale theft inquiry that'd rival the great train robbery investigation!  I broke under questioning and sobbed as I confessed.

[High Jetter]

You could have pleaded 'borrowed'.  A better craving than coal, maybe.

[MikeR]

uPVC twats , just looking at the 3 doors on the static , all the hinges were corroded under the covers ,white alloy dust everywhere , not only that the reason for the bottom kitchen door hinge being wound right out , is because the door frame is 5mm wider at the bottom , which means the 3 hinges are not in line ..meanwhile a friend next door her door frame has bowed outwards in the lock area making the latch useless ! 

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[GrumpiusMaximus]

On 5/13/2023 at 10:25 PM, RoverFolkUs said:

Basically what I'm saying is, as soon as the fault is rectified (if it is just a dodgy connection under the seat) - the system should detect it during its self test and switch the light off the next time you cycle the ignition. And with the battery being disconnected it will only help. 

And the interior light question is in reference to the habit that BMWs have of blowing the interior light fuse and triggering an airbag light because the switch tell tale lamp is on the same circuit (!!) I don't know if minis are the same because I haven't come across it on a mini, but it wouldn't at all surprise me. 

@RoverFolkUs@New POD Thanks for your help.  I booked it into a garage to take a quick look and the system was fine.  They reset the code and it didn't re-appear.

The fault had evidently cleared because originally the 'Passenger Airbag Off' information light (by the rear view mirror) was on at first but had cleared by this morning, so it was just the dash warning that was persisting.  They said that it was showing that the switch there was faulty - so presumably it had got wet when they were washing the interior.

Annoyingly it does appear that BINIs need a code reader to clear that particular warning when it appears and it doesn't just turn off when the fault is no longer present.  If I get anything like it again I'll just buy a generic code reader and hope that can clear it...

[Rust Collector]

5 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

If I get anything like it again I'll just buy a generic code reader and hope that can clear it...

You'll need something that is able to communicate with SRS systems, I know iCarsoft do one for BMW and Mini that's under £100 - I've had their basic Merc one and it was good enough for the money in terms of reading and clearing SRS, ABS, gearbox faults etc.