The grumpy thread

[gordonbennet]

Feeling proper shit today, went to work but cam home at lunchtime. I think my heavy cold is turning into a full on lung infection/ pleuracy again, took two months to get over the last one so hope I am wrong.

 

I have every sympathy.

 

wifey contacted pleuracy a few years ago, since then every bloody cold goes straight to her lungs.

About three years ago we got the mother of all flu over one Christmas, though it lasted about 2 months, at night in bed we'd nearly drown on the fluid in our lungs, we were both surprised that we both survived it, seriously, she having weakened lungs due to the previous ended up sitting up in bed all bloody night for weeks on end, to this day i'm convinced it was swine flu cos i've never been as ill in all my life, coughing like a bastard and choking all at once with no lung volume worth mentioning,  don't want that bugger again.

 

Hope you shift it soon.

[mercrocker]

ASDA SUCKS

[chaseracer]

I having issues with my previous employer. Still no outstanding holiday pay. I was on zero hours but worked full time plus weekends and over my hours an through dinner breaks. Left nearly three weeks ago and still haven't seen my accrued holiday pay or p45

 

http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4125

 

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/Documents/Advice%20factsheets/Employment/e-employer-withholds-your-pay.pdf

[Tamworthbay]

I have every sympathy.

 

wifey contacted pleuracy a few years ago, since then every bloody cold goes straight to her lungs.

About three years ago we got the mother of all flu over one Christmas, though it lasted about 2 months, at night in bed we'd nearly drown on the fluid in our lungs, we were both surprised that we both survived it, seriously, she having weakened lungs due to the previous ended up sitting up in bed all bloody night for weeks on end, to this day i'm convinced it was swine flu cos i've never been as ill in all my life, coughing like a bastard and choking all at once with no lung volume worth mentioning,  don't want that bugger again.

 

Hope you shift it soon.

Cheers mate, it's a shit thing and impossible to rest. If you had a bad leg you just rest it up but you cant stop breathing. At least this time the doc may well get me sorted a bit quicker, last time they waited three weeks before doing anything despite me telling them it wasn't like anything I had ever had. One x ray/ blood test later and they said I had plueracy. I can't even lie down at the moment as I feel like I am drowning but spent a few minutes dangling off the sofa headfirst and that seems to have helped.

[FakeConcern]

I found a plastic bag containing dog shit in my front garden this morning. Someone must have picked itheir dog's shit up off the pavement outside then lobbed it over my hedge. Nice of them.

[timolloyd]

New-ish Audis in 'hire purchase' white, can do one.

[omegod]

I found a plastic bag containing dog shit in my front garden this morning. Someone must have picked itheir dog's shit up off the pavement outside then lobbed it over my hedge. Nice of them.

 

We sadly have a stack of them accumulating at the side of our house. I really don't fucking get it , the stinky horrible nasty bit has been done so why not just carry the package a bit further and put it in your own wheely bin?

[Pillock]

Lots of work related grumps on here recently.... I can echo chaseracers comments about joining a union, Mrs_Pillock is currently undergoing a monumental amount of fucktardery from her (very soon to be ex-) employer including bribing people to take voluntary redundancy, interviewing for jobs that don't exist in a restructure, and getting feedback that states she's both too qualified, and not qualified enough.

 

The union rep is being very patient, and providing the motivation to push for what's right rather than just rolling over. It's something that I don't think would be possible without the knowledge and reassurance. It's hardly 1970's British Leyland, but it is my wife vesus the big bad company right now which is pretty scary.

[M'coli]

Cheers mate, it's a shit thing and impossible to rest. If you had a bad leg you just rest it up but you cant stop breathing. At least this time the doc may well get me sorted a bit quicker, last time they waited three weeks before doing anything despite me telling them it wasn't like anything I had ever had. One x ray/ blood test later and they said I had plueracy. I can't even lie down at the moment as I feel like I am drowning but spent a few minutes dangling off the sofa headfirst and that seems to have helped.

I understand - I'm asthmatic and just about every cold I get these days ends up going to my chest, it never used to be like this.  At my previous job with Royal Mail, I had to make an appointment with my doctor to find out if there was something I could do to prevent this occuring...

 

I was off 2 weeks ago with one - the peak-flow-meter showed I had between 70-75% of my normal breathing flow despite doubling my inhaler drugs.  I'm still only on about 91%, so cycling to and from work is still a bit of a bugger...

[taxi paul]

My brothers astra finally gave up the ghost so he is having my crv on easy payment terms , ie non. If you can't help your little brother etc. So I am using the Japanese mega bus. It's basically a land cruiser with headroom and curtains. It's lovely but the fuel gauge goes down like the countdown clock.

[beko1987]

I know of a blue crv pez in high wycombe for about £150, no mot though. It's someone at works brothers and their trying half arsedly to flog it. Got pics somewhere

[Tamworthbay]

I understand - I'm asthmatic and just about every cold I get these days ends up going to my chest, it never used to be like this.  At my previous job with Royal Mail, I had to make an appointment with my doctor to find out if there was something I could do to prevent this occuring...

I was off 2 weeks ago with one - the peak-flow-meter showed I had between 70-75% of my normal breathing flow despite doubling my inhaler drugs.  I'm still only on about 91%, so cycling to and from work is still a bit of a bugger...

That's not good mate, talking of doctors, my problem is partly due to a drug I am on for my arthritis so I left a message on the consultants answer phone yesterday afternoon but didn't expect to hear anything until Monday. Got a call at 7.50 this morning to say he was dropping off a prescription for me at the local hospital and it will be waiting for me when it opens at 9 this morning. That's a 40 mile round trip on his day off. He's a Sri Lankan gentleman and a perfect example of why our NHS is still the envy of many many nations.

[castros_bro]

End of an era, Fidel dies so I may have to change my AS handle.

 

Raul

xx

[mercrocker]

Leave the avatar though - not enough hairy fannies left in the world.

[Tayne]

On 26/11/2016 at 07:36, beko1987 said:

I know of a blue crv pez in high wycombe for about £150, no mot though. It's someone at works brothers and their trying half arsedly to flog it. Got pics somewhere

 

[gm]

The "rrrrr rrrrr rrrr" noise that the audi steering rack has recently been making when parking etc has now been joined by a "fluh-beng" sort of noise. I'll need to take the mazda to work tomorrow instead and I hate taking it out on the salty roads

 

I can see this poxy audi going through the auctions before long.

[Cavcraft]

Sounds like next week's "Manager's Special" at Cavcraft.

 

I'm working on that right now and trust me if it comes off it'll make an MOT-less CRV sound like a Bentley.

[Des]

I'm back home after rebuilding works following the truck impact earlier in the year, actually back a few weeks now but everything's still a mess following having to pack up and move out and back in from a couple of storage units, one of them is still full while I'm struggling to get everything back into order. The builders have done a good enough job, just one little detail that could be a little better.

 

 

Can we see the repair? This is the second attempt after I kicked off, It's since had another coat of paint last Wednesday so is slightly improved and then yesterday the builders phoned asking if I'll sign the work off, NO! says I so the director shoots straight round to see me. He's saying it can't be matched any better because it's an old obsolete Texcote finish, that 'the man in the street' wouldn't be able to tell where the repair is, I'm arguing that the attempt to match it falls short, we're getting nowhere so I try to get it across that when I hopefully put the house up for sale soonish, while I'm happy with the work overall this shortcoming in the cosmetic finish could well put the quality of work behind it into question with a buyer, so he claims offence and it dawns on me that I'm just an obstacle blocking the insurance paying him, end of Month and all that. Fuck it I think I'm going to have to get onto the assessors and loss adjusters and try to argue the toss, if the finish really can't be matched then what? Strip the whole lot off and start again? I really don't think I can take any more upheaval.

On the up side, I had to stick up a kitchen door sharpish before the builders started, in order to keep all the dust and crap out, I'd picked up a bi-folding glazed number from a Homebase closing sale for a tenner but as it needed to go in a deep opening, conventional hinges wouldn't work, needed something more pivot-ish, no problem using a pin at one end but couldn't find anything suitable for a pivoting hinge at the other, Landrover to the rescue.

This old window winder had recently given up a section of unstripped teeth to save another, but there's still a nice pivoty bit there.

 

 

I love recycling crap.

 

[Des]

The "rrrrr rrrrr rrrr" noise that the audi steering rack has recently been making when parking etc has now been joined by a "fluh-beng" sort of noise. I'll need to take the mazda to work tomorrow instead and I hate taking it out on the salty roads

 

I can see this poxy audi going through the auctions before long.

 

The rrrr rrrrr might have been a strut top bearing juddering as it starts to seize, and the fluh beng could be the coil spring getting wound up and letting go as the strut top bearing seizes a bit more.

[DodgeRover]

I'm back home after rebuilding works following the truck impact earlier in the year, actually back a few weeks now but everything's still a mess following having to pack up and move out and back in from a couple of storage units, one of them is still full while I'm struggling to get everything back into order. The builders have done a good enough job, just one little detail that could be a little better.

 

 

Can we see the repair? This is the second attempt after I kicked off, It's since had another coat of paint last Wednesday so is slightly improved and then yesterday the builders phoned asking if I'll sign the work off, NO! says I so the director shoots straight round to see me. He's saying it can't be matched any better because it's an old obsolete Texcote finish, that 'the man in the street' wouldn't be able to tell where the repair is, I'm arguing that the attempt to match it falls short, we're getting nowhere so I try to get it across that when I hopefully put the house up for sale soonish, while I'm happy with the work overall this shortcoming in the cosmetic finish could well put the quality of work behind it into question with a buyer, so he claims offence and it dawns on me that I'm just an obstacle blocking the insurance paying him, end of Month and all that. Fuck it I think I'm going to have to get onto the assessors and loss adjusters and try to argue the toss, if the finish really can't be matched then what? Strip the whole lot off and start again? I really don't think I can take any more upheaval.

 

It doesn't look an especially difficult finish to match, I would argue if they can't match it to a standard of not being obviously patched up then they can do the whole wall to make it match.

[Timewaster]

Leave the avatar though - not enough hairy fannies left in the world.

The current trend for Hipster beards would suggest otherwise.

[Louise2cv]

Computers.

 

 

[M'coli]

I'm back home after rebuilding works following the truck impact earlier in the year, actually back a few weeks now but everything's still a mess following having to pack up and move out and back in from a couple of storage units, one of them is still full while I'm struggling to get everything back into order. The builders have done a good enough job, just one little detail that could be a little better.

 

 

Can we see the repair? This is the second attempt after I kicked off, It's since had another coat of paint last Wednesday so is slightly improved and then yesterday the builders phoned asking if I'll sign the work off, NO! says I so the director shoots straight round to see me. He's saying it can't be matched any better because it's an old obsolete Texcote finish, that 'the man in the street' wouldn't be able to tell where the repair is, I'm arguing that the attempt to match it falls short, we're getting nowhere so I try to get it across that when I hopefully put the house up for sale soonish, while I'm happy with the work overall this shortcoming in the cosmetic finish could well put the quality of work behind it into question with a buyer, so he claims offence and it dawns on me that I'm just an obstacle blocking the insurance paying him, end of Month and all that. Fuck it I think I'm going to have to get onto the assessors and loss adjusters and try to argue the toss, if the finish really can't be matched then what? Strip the whole lot off and start again? I really don't think I can take any more upheaval.

On the up side, I had to stick up a kitchen door sharpish before the builders started, in order to keep all the dust and crap out, I'd picked up a bi-folding glazed number from a Homebase closing sale for a tenner but as it needed to go in a deep opening, conventional hinges wouldn't work, needed something more pivot-ish, no problem using a pin at one end but couldn't find anything suitable for a pivoting hinge at the other, Landrover to the rescue.

This old window winder had recently given up a section of unstripped teeth to save another, but there's still a nice pivoty bit there.

 

 

I love recycling crap.

 

They have to leave it looking as if it's never been hit by a lorry - otherwise your property has had a good deal of value literally knocked off it: if it's happened once and it still shows, how does any prospective buyer be assured that it won't be hit again?

 

Scratch and dent the side of a car with metallic paint, a decent professional repair doesn't show where the filler is nor where the paint blends in, does it?

[lexi]

I'm back home after rebuilding works following the truck impact earlier in the year, actually back a few weeks now but everything's still a mess following having to pack up and move out and back in from a couple of storage units, one of them is still full while I'm struggling to get everything back into order. The builders have done a good enough job, just one little detail that could be a little better.

 

 

Can we see the repair? This is the second attempt after I kicked off, It's since had another coat of paint last Wednesday so is slightly improved and then yesterday the builders phoned asking if I'll sign the work off, NO! says I so the director shoots straight round to see me. He's saying it can't be matched any better because it's an old obsolete Texcote finish, that 'the man in the street' wouldn't be able to tell where the repair is, I'm arguing that the attempt to match it falls short, we're getting nowhere so I try to get it across that when I hopefully put the house up for sale soonish, while I'm happy with the work overall this shortcoming in the cosmetic finish could well put the quality of work behind it into question with a buyer, so he claims offence and it dawns on me that I'm just an obstacle blocking the insurance paying him, end of Month and all that. Fuck it I think I'm going to have to get onto the assessors and loss adjusters and try to argue the toss, if the finish really can't be matched then what? Strip the whole lot off and start again? I really don't think I can take any more upheaval.

On the up side, I had to stick up a kitchen door sharpish before the builders started, in order to keep all the dust and crap out, I'd picked up a bi-folding glazed number from a Homebase closing sale for a tenner but as it needed to go in a deep opening, conventional hinges wouldn't work, needed something more pivot-ish, no problem using a pin at one end but couldn't find anything suitable for a pivoting hinge at the other, Landrover to the rescue.

This old window winder had recently given up a section of unstripped teeth to save another, but there's still a nice pivoty bit there.

 

 

I love recycling crap.

 

Get them to cut out that patch and re-do it. Tell them you want a proper old school plasterer/roughcaster doing it...ie someone with experience, not their slab layer handy man driver or chippie. It is easy to do test samples boards and adjust mixes to get the result and texture needed........then do the application.  

[Tayne]

On 26/11/2016 at 23:04, M'coli said:

They have to leave it looking as if it's never been hit by a lorry - otherwise your property has had a good deal of value literally knocked off it: if it's happened once and it still shows, how does any prospective buyer be assured that it won't be hit again?

Scratch and dent the side of a car with metallic paint, a decent professional repair doesn't show where the filler is nor where the paint blends in, does it?

 

[gm]

The rrrr rrrrr might have been a strut top bearing juddering as it starts to seize, and the fluh beng could be the coil spring getting wound up and letting go as the strut top bearing seizes a bit more.

that makes sense, it certainly has that sound / feel of a coil spring being twisted on the top mount, I shall investigate when I get in from work. hopefully a nice easy fix, cheers, gm

[nebuchenezer]

2 mins after cleaning this morning:

 

 

Sigh......Why do I bother....................

[Wilko220]

It's a conspiracy by Rover-enthusiast pigeons...

[Pillock]

Before I have a moan, are there any ways of viewing Autoshite that don't let you edit a quote?

 

I know Tapatalk does, mobile browsers do, PCs do....

[xtriple]

I think I have become the 'grown up' version of the kid in that film, where he see's dead people.... only I see utter fucking cunts everywhere! I seem to have got an utter stranglehold on being a 'grumpy old man' and hate everyone and everything.

 

I seem to be unable to utter a single pleasantry to anyone and just want to wander the streets with an Uzi and see how many I get before they get me.