The grumpy thread

[Aston Martin]

Do the post want people to use them? Up to 2kg is £2.80, of course my parcel was 2.1kg. The cost? £13.90!!! Bloody stupid, it's gone Hermes

 

Fuck me, guy on the blue bought two radios.

Normally £2.80 to send one with post orifice.

 

"Thall be £12.50, its gone over 2kg."

 

So I could have gone home, separated them and went back to pay £5.60.

 

Myherpes was £5.28 and has tracking.

 

 

Had this nonsense with them yesterday.

[Tamworthbay]

Had this nonsense with them yesterday.

its just stupid, a fiver I could understand but over four times as much? Of course privatisation ALWAYS makes things better, oh wait...........

[nacho man]

 

All week I have been lazy and not using ppe as I am only cutting a tiny little bit of a cap to cover a hole.

 

First day I think stop fucking about Dan and get some gloves on and some glasses, I cut my finger.

 

Luckily it's only tiny. But it bloody stings.

 

 

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[Aston Martin]

its just stupid, a fiver I could understand but over four times as much? Of course privatisation ALWAYS makes things better, oh wait...........

"What's inside?"

 

"Erm, fluffy balls of wool" (not Japanese 1980's radios which probably contain some kind of uranium)

 

"Ok"

 

Pretty sure these guys are working at the border at Dover...

[Lacquer Peel]

Fucking van's headlight switch has shat itself, at night. Cheers VAG!

[jakebullet]

"What's inside?"

 

"Erm, fluffy balls of wool" (not Japanese 1980's radios which probably contain some kind of uranium)

 

"Ok"

 

Pretty sure these guys are working at the border at Dover...

 

I get this a lot.

 

What is it?

Dice.

Dice?

The six sided cube things.

Really? That's unusual.

You should see my spare room. Thousands of the bloody things.

[michael1703]

Volvo v50

 

Serviced one this morning, drained the fuel filter bowl right down to fish out all the detritus and thought to myself

 

"I bet this will be a pain to bleed"

 

It must have took nearly an hour, flattened the battery,jumped it off a slave battery,flattened that, tipped diesel into filter bowl,syringed it into supply pipe, tried sucking through fuel on the return, got a facet pump rigged up and that would only get the fuel and bubbles so far, pushed it outside and jumped it off the jag and brum brum

 

Was getting desperate by then!

[twosmoke300]

Yup they are a right pain in the ass . Air just seems to shuttle back and fore in the clear pump feed pipe .

[doobietoo]

I had to send a car radio to someone the other day one of the bits I didn't need from the other pt. they are bloody heavy about 2.4 kg so post office was a no go sent it by inpost I think ...put in car radio and computer said no insurance as car parts.... changed it to radio and yes sir that's fine..... bloody stupid things computers...all worked out in the end though...

[Ghosty]

I've had jobsworth Post Office workers charge me £5.90 to send a single 12" vinyl album as I'd bothered to pack it properly and it was about 1mm too thick to fit in the measuring thing.

Now everything goes Hermes as the size restrictions on RM are fucking ridiculous. On Hermes it's just something like 'total diameter does not exceed 2 metres, and a height of 1.2 metres'.

Which covers pretty much everything...

 

Also, the ParcelShop is half as far away as the PO, and there's never, ever a queue.

[warren t claim]

Today is my birthday and shortly after midnight I get the expected call off my mum's nursing home. I was expecting her to nag them to call me but actually it was a phone call off the manager to inform me that the's not in a good way and they've had to call an ambulance out for her. Sadly I've been drinking so I'm going to leave it until 4am and get a mate to run me up there to see how bad she is.

[purplebargeken]

Happy birthday mate and fuck, I hope it goes well as can be with Mum

[D Spares & Tyres]

Volvo v50

Serviced one this morning, drained the fuel filter bowl right down to fish out all the detritus and thought to myself

"I bet this will be a pain to bleed"

It must have took nearly an hour, flattened the battery,jumped it off a slave battery,flattened that, tipped diesel into filter bowl,syringed it into supply pipe, tried sucking through fuel on the return, got a facet pump rigged up and that would only get the fuel and bubbles so far, pushed it outside and jumped it off the jag and brum brum

Was getting desperate by then!

Spray easy start or an aerosol of deoderant into the air intake, that always kicks them into life

[fordperv]

Happy birthday fella, hope everything is OK with your mum.

[xtriple]

Congrats and commiserations

 

Hope it all goes well.

[Negative Creep]

Getting properly hacked off with work. Still no word on when we're being made redundant, but the boss has become even more of a cow, today giving me "feedback" (a euphemism for an error log that will be used to decide who is first out the door) for not stamping something as a copy. Even though I have a house to pay for I'm so sick of the place I will be the first to volunteer for a P45. I could make a real case for getting signed off with stress, but don't want to lose those 3 days unpaid

[michael1703]

Spray easy start or an aerosol of deoderant into the air intake, that always kicks them into life

Did that too, it would fire and die

[MarvinsMom]

been to see the local specialist who sorts out the jaguar, and booked it in for a full service (its been laid up for 5 months) to replace the front springs to get its nose off of the bump stops and sort the a/c out (kippered condenser) but the grump isnt about that, i will be grumpy enough next week when i get the bill for said work done....

 

no, the grump is this, while there, a chap infront of me got told the bad new that his 58 plate XF has failed its MOT as the drivers seat doesn't move. the module thing that controls it is NLA and jaguar don't have any spare stock!!!! 

 

its a 58 plate car, like, WT actual F!!!!! 

 

simon reccons that unless the car is 3-4 years old, or bloody 50 years old then jaguar just don't want to know!!

 

he has has a ring around his contacts both in new and second hand spares and, guess what, cannot get this seat module for love nor money. the best he can suggest to the owner of this xf is a cloth manual seat for the test, and then put the leather one back in the car afterwards, and this was after talking the guy around from sending the xf to the breakers...... 

 

so thanks for putting more shit into the MOT, Mr friggin E bloody U.

 

and yes, i am aware that this has been the case now, for a couple of years.

 

its still un-bloody believable!!!!

[Pillock]

Seems more that it's Jag's fault for not giving a stuff about out of warranty cars.

It's surely sensible that people aren't driving around with a load of cushions on the seat, or blocks of wood on the pedals, since the seat is in the wrong place and won't move. It does however show what a joke the MOT is when the person enforcing the rules is suggesting a workaround that makes the car roadworthy for one day, and then change it back.

[Lacquer Peel]

How is that the EU's fault??

[Tamworthbay]

How is that the EU's fault??

BECAUSE THE DAILY MAIL SAYS EVERYTHING BAD IN THE WORLD IS THE EU'S FAULT! AND THEY NEEEVVVVVVEEERRRR LIE!

 

I do find it scary how a lot of,people seem to have got into a mindset of blaming anything vaguely bad on the EU. I wonder if they also comment on how's it's the EUs fault when one of the numerous good things they do happens? Thought not..........

[skattrd]

Is having a movable seat actually on the MOT?

I can understand why it would be, but I was thinking about rally cars with bolted in seats.

[dave21478]

I am seeing a lot of anti EU stuff (OMG they want to ban curved bananas etc) being stirred up all over the place. Coincidentally just before the EU referendum.

 

My grump is that the far reaching effects of staying or leaving the EU is going to be decided by whatever tabloid or tv show can scare up the best excuses the public will blindly believe.

[Pillock]

My grump is it's going to be harder and harder to not give a stuff, given that even AS is awash with EU crap.

I trust the rest of the population will make the right choice. I'm a trusting person.

[MarvinsMom]

How is that the EU's fault??

because each time that there is a change in the MOT it is due to some new dictate from Berlin i mean Brussels, hence it been the fault of the EU.

 

and as the XF's owner pointed out, it is his car, the seat is adjusted to suit him and only he drives it.

[chaseracer]

so thanks for putting more shit into the MOT, Mr friggin E bloody U.

 

 

Is there anything you don't blame on membership of the European Union?

 

 

 

 

[Pillock]

If it was truly dictated from the EU, surely we'd all have the same test. But we don't. 

Maybe XF driver should have bought a nice reliable BMW or something.

[chaseracer]

Or not paid good money for something based distantly on an obsolete Lincoln, nailed together in a Spitfire factory on the outskirts of Brum.

[scaryoldcortina]

Not EU, VOSA. Driver's seat adjustment has been on the test since 2012, reasoning is that if the driver can't adjust the seat so they are in full control it isn't safe. Seats that don't move by design or modification do not have to comply, so if jag owner removes the seat controls entirely it should* pass.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'm sure the EU mandate that car manufacturers support their products with spare parts for a minimum of 10 yrs. So blame the brummie bastards instead for disregarding useful EU consumer protection regulations!!!!