The grumpy thread

[danthecapriman]

I had to use a big mobile generator set today at work to keep peoples power on while I did some work.

It's parked on the road and you have to manhandle some big heavy cables out of it, run them into the substation and connect one end to the generator, other end to the substation. Hard work but not difficult.

 

Some dirty sod that used it last has only gone and dragged one of the cables through dog shit putting it away haven't they! It's a good job I had gloves on really but my mate ended up with a brownish stripe across his jumper!

They must have known they'd done it but just left it for the next poor sod. So I had to clean it all down after we were done. It's disgusting, and I also wish people would clean up after their dogs. I have to.

[Timewaster]

I am stunned that no one has requested photographic evidence of Louises version of what the builder saw.

 

Maybe we are all getting more respectful.

 

* [sid James] Phwoarr Gawd Blimey Yah Yah Yah [/sid James]

[anonymous user]

Louise's builder this morning

[Captain Furious]

Just on the evening news about shops closing down in town centres and how it's all doom and gloom, then the reporter pipes up "and no Christmas lights, which could be a sign of austere times"

 

Or it could be a sign that it's still October you fucking cretin.

[Sheefag]

It was the short bit of dual carriageway between the Shepherd & Flock,& the other roundabout going up towards Hale.

 

Just looked at it on Google maps, been up that road loads of times but never noticed that bloody drop before!!

[Sheefag]

Louise's builder this morning

 

[Lord Sterling]

What an absolute arse of a day. Firstly I get to the drop off today just on time (well, the time I wanted to get there) but this place was right out in the arse end of nowhere, Wass in North Yorkshire, fantastically beautiful and peaceful place as was Ampleforth where the chap took me to but by fuck the public transport system was something out of the 1930s, a couple of busses a day

 

Had to call a taxi to take me to Thirsk (or civilisation) but getting a signal (this is the 21st century) in Wass and Ampleforth were' right hit and miss. I managed to call up some taxi companies, first one was got through to a voicemail promising he'd call me back, couldn't be arsed with that, called up some next company which turned out to be one of those 'executive' style carriers so a brand new Range Rover Autobiography (, I've driven one, wasn't exactly impressed, though it nice and comfy as a passenger) turned up to pick my scruffy self and my scruffy bag with it. And by eck, it were right bloody expensive.

 

Anyway, back into civilasation and York itself, I turned up to the address given to me on my works pad only to find that the car was at another address. The twonk who owned the car didn't seem to know what garage it was at when I phoned him earlier to let him know I was on my way, his answer was when I spelled out the address ...er yeah, sounds like the place... GAH!

 

So yet another bloody taxi ride, another load of quid spilled from my barrasic pocket all get a bloody scruffy Mondeo that needed a jump start.

 

I seem to be havjng more and more days like these.

 

Also, fridge is clicking and switching itself off, anyone have a fridge for sale?

[Sheefag]

There's this for £25 in Wolverhampton - https://www.gumtree.com/p/fridges-freezers/fridge/1193921688

 

British Heart Foundation shops are a good call for stuff like this.

[AMC Rebel]

Just on the evening news about shops closing down in town centres and how it's all doom and gloom, then the reporter pipes up "and no Christmas lights, which could be a sign of austere times"

 

Or it could be a sign that it's still October you fucking cretin.

They have put up the lights in our one-horse town.  There were a few grumps about it on Facebastard, but they aren't being switched on until December.  I think the council put them up as they know they'll have had to fire everyone by December.

[AMC Rebel]

There's this for £25 in Wolverhampton - https://www.gumtree.com/p/fridges-freezers/fridge/1193921688

 

British Heart Foundation shops are a good call for stuff like this.

Quite a few of my electrical appliances came from the local BHF - I think it's cos other charidee shops refuse to deal with electrical stuff.

[jakebullet]

Anyone know some good swears in Italian?

 

Ebay twunt sends me a where is it? in Italian, cos that's where he's from. Asked him for his address, and big surprise it's totally different to the address given by ebay. Google maps says ebay address doesn't even exist.

 

It's somehow my fault, and I should send him another one ASAP to his real address. Why he can't accept it's his fault I'm not sure, but I know I'm not sending him anything else. No doubt he'll have a nice whinge to evilbay and they'll give him money back from my back pocket.

[LC Torana]

Update for the uninterested:

 

The builders were early. I was fresh out of the shower and I'm pretty sure at least one of them saw too much. I'm embarrassed and in hiding.

 

So, for anyone who may or may not be cross, for reasons I still don't understand, that I made a grumpy comment on the grumpy thread about the builders... Karma got me. I hope that goes some way towards making you feel better about my situation.

 

Ouch - that made me wince.  That's a total curl-up-in-the-foetal-position-and-cringe situation.

 

Wasted effort on day 1, ^that^ on day 2, hope the actual job goes OK.

[mat_the_cat]

I dug out an old Stellar a few weeks back,and have started collecting bits in prep for recommissioning

 

There's a seller on thiefbay selling front & light units, but when I enquirer about a bulk price - he raised the postage as " there have been a lot of enquiries". For Stellar light units? Right...

 

Usual response of shove it. Don't think I need them anyway - just useful insurance. Twat.

 

I was one of the other enquirers - he wanted £100 each to start with as they were "sought after for kit cars". Dream on! I waited till he'd listed them on eBay at £25 each, and was the only bidder...

 

Anyway, as a result - should you need a light then I have 2 spare used pairs, so I wouldn't worry!

[Pillock]

Quite a few of my electrical appliances came from the local BHF - I think it's cos other charidee shops refuse to deal with electrical stuff.

I used to work for Curry's, and they started testing appliances they picked up for recycling.

 

Working and safe fridges, TVs and cookers went to BHF, the rest got fragged.

[Sheefag]

That's a nice win-win.

[Bren]

Wife has been renting out her late mothers house since end of August. We are using a property management company - actually our neighbour.

 

Tenant asked if they could get rid of one of the beds and replace it with one of theirs - no problem we said.

 

Property management company has billed us £50 to dispose of the bed - to say I am absolutely fucking livid is an understatement - they asked if they could, so it's not for me to pay - I could have tipped it myself.

 

We have seen less than £400 since house was rented out - we would probably have been better off selling it.

[Barry Cade]

Never in my life have I had so much grief from 2 bolts. Rear wishbone bush on a 75...many swear words were uttered, most at raised volume.

[twosmoke300]

You have never tried to remove a) mk1 focus rear arms or Honda xr400 swing arm bolt .

 

I'm sure welding couldn't produce something as strong as the corrosion on those

[andy18s]

You have never tried to remove a) mk1 focus rear arms or Honda xr400 swing arm bolt .

 

I'm sure welding couldn't produce something as strong as the corrosion on those

I see your Focus bolt,and raise you a pair of Disco 3 lower wishbone mounting bolts.....they only came off with a 9"disc cutter....

[bub2006]

Audi needs to go off the drive asap but logbook fecking awol

[DodgeRover]

You have never tried to remove a) mk1 focus rear arms or Honda xr400 swing arm bolt .

 

I'm sure welding couldn't produce something as strong as the corrosion on those

Possibly almost as strong as the corrosion on a CR480 rear wheel spindle and swing arm bolt, as a bonus the bits you damage cutting through them are made of unobtainium and fetch a fortune on ebay as every bugger needs them....

[twosmoke300]

Yup . Honda are a real pain for seized sa bolts . Hence my crf250x has been pulled apart at less than six months old and all linkages / bearings and bolts all greased up

[DeeJay]

Lordy, try Freecycle. Working fridges and freezers are often posted on there. 

[RoadworkUK]

It seems that The Mirror has won the rush to publish this years first loony OMG SNO KAOS story, beating even The Express.

 

This surprised me, until I noted that it was written by the inimitable Mr Nathan Rao.... who's responsible for every one of the Express loony stories.

 

Why oh why must we be treated like cretins?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

It seems that The Mirror has won the rush to publish this years first loony OMG SNO KAOS story, beating even The Express.

 

This surprised me, until I noted that it was written by the inimitable Mr Nathan Rao.... who's responsible for every one of the Express loony stories.

 

Why oh why must we be treated like cretins?

Thank god for that, I didn't think there were going to be any Arctic Hell stories and I need to advertise Mrs N's Gaylander soon.

[Barry Cade]

You have never tried to remove a) mk1 focus rear arms or Honda xr400 swing arm bolt .

 

I'm sure welding couldn't produce something as strong as the corrosion on those

They came out easy,it was putting them back in that was the problem! Car on axle stands,working with a mirror, on my back trying to lever polybushes into place, between having to tidy everything away to go and rescue other people.3 times...

 

Once spent 3 weeks trying to extract a moto guzzi lower engine mount bolt, which is about 12" long and goes through 10" of Italian alloy, which happens to be the engine casing, so no thumping.

[vulgalour]

We are using a property management company 

 

As a renter of many, many years, I'm baffled at how useless property management companies are!  They seem to take an awful lot of money to show people a house and do nothing else.  What are landlords paying them for?  It's certainly not the convenience of not having to deal with tenants because whenever there's a serious problem in any property I people I've known have been in, the management company will always defer (ignore) to the landlord.

 

If you're going to go to the trouble of becoming a landlord, DIY it, you'll have less grief and happier tenants.  I wonder just how much management companies contribute to the price of rent too.  Why is it that private rent is always 2-4 times that of social housing rent?  Is there another reason than private not being held to the 'fair rent' legislation that social housing is?

 

I don't actually mind renting, I just hate how much it costs.

[garbaldy]

If you're going to go to the trouble of becoming a landlord, DIY it, you'll have less grief and happier tenants. I wonder just how much management companies contribute to the price of rent too. Why is it that private rent is always 2-4 times that of social housing rent? Is there another reason than private not being held to the 'fair rent' legislation that social housing is?

 

I don't actually mind renting, I just hate how much it costs.

 

I bet letting agents do add considerably to extautionate rents.

I was forced to go diy as the letting agents didn't want to take my house on as the rent was under value,

They came valued the house and said that it would fetch £550 pcm, I said that's bloody ridiculous anyway I have Tennant's already Willing at an agreed £320 pcm he just said do it yourself then, so I did and still have the same young couple 8 years later,

it's not always been easy though as the couple where both living with parents before hand and I lost count of the number of calls about the smallest of things.

[Cavcraft]

'No, a non-fault accident won't increase your premium'

 

Except the 15% they have charged me.

[Tamworthbay]

'No, a non-fault accident won't increase your premium'

Except the 15% they have charged me.

You can claim it back off the at fault drivers insurance it's counted as a 'reasonable cost'. You just need a letter from your insurers stating costs with and without. I had to do it after a bike accident a few years ago and expected a lot of hassle but they sent a cheque pretty much by return.