The grumpy thread

[doobietoo]

2 mins after cleaning this morning:

 

 

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

 

It is to stop you licking it !!!

[Cavcraft]

That's very nice of you Tamworh Bay, I'll pass the message on.

[omegod]

That's below human Cav, poor fuckers probably didn't have much in the first place, might be an idea to contact a homeless service in Chester as they should have outreach workers who could come and speak to them and offer some help.

 

Liverpool council fitted an anti homeless slope to a doorway some guys had been sleeping in over the weekend, it's been rightfully smashed up 

[gm]

I don't think it's all B&Q's, my local one still has a couple of human till operators.

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The lass on the till at my local b&q is bloody lovely, shame I am twice her age and usually dressed like a tramp in my diy clothes

[Timewaster]

I think there is a no-help desk but no actual tills at the local B&Q

 

Since a screwfix opened in our town I haven't been near the place.

[gm]

to be fair to b&q, the 'mix your own paint' guys couldn't have been more helpful last time I used them, nice to deal with folk who do a decent job and care about the customer

[omegod]

I think there is a no-help desk but no actual tills at the local B&Q

 

Since a screwfix opened in our town I haven't been near the place.

 

I'd heartily recommend Screwfix near me for eye candy alone, I would happily shake the hand of the branch manager and congratulate him on his recruitment strategy. 

[twosmoke300]

The lass on the till at my local b&q is bloody lovely, shame I am twice her age and usually dressed like a tramp in my diy clothes

Ffs don't comment on her attractiveness on here !

[Louise2cv]

Oi!

 

I apologised about that.

 

 

 

No hard feelings I hope?

[dollywobbler]

Nope, nor is it dry on my lovely boots 

 

Can you get a stick and write Autoshite in it?

[cobblers]

My house was wired by complete nobheads over the last 60 years, there's fuckin wires going all over the place, diagonally across walls then back up from long since plastered over sockets etc etc. I've mostly rewired it apart from three lights and two sockets now.

Anyway I've just been sorting the living room - Every room need gutting so I'm doing one at a time and running new electrics as I go. I ran new wiring for the lights and sockets up to the consumer unit, and got rid of the old stuff.

The room had two sockets, One ran in 2.5mm ish aluminium wire diagonally down the wall to the skirting to an old bakelite chocblock, then back up under the plaster in rubber flex to a surface mount socket. This lot was on a 30A fuse on the wylex wooden fuse board.

Other socket was run off the upstairs lights. I can't work out how tho because the wire drops down under the floorboards.

Talking of the upstairs lights  - the landing lights don't work anymore because they used the neutral off the old downstairs feed (which I've just got rid of) and the live off the upstairs.

[DodgeRover]

Common practise in years gone by to pinch the neutral on the stairs lights when using a 2 way switch. It's fine until you fit an RCD

[twosmoke300]

Oi!

 

I apologised about that.

 

 

 

No hard feelings I hope?

 

Ha ! None at all but I knew you would be circling !

[taxi paul]

Seen a cheapish x reg honda civic. I rather like them and thought it would do for general running round. It's a 1.4. So put it through go compare and it's £700 fully comp. Feck me all the 2.0 cars I have had arrived cheaper. Is the 1.4 some sort of sports thing I don't know about.

[twosmoke300]

I take it this is old x reg(82) cos they didn't make a uk accord in a 1.4 in 2001

[twosmoke300]

Did you just edit that ?

[strangeangel]

My house was wired by complete nobheads over the last 60 years, there's fuckin wires going all over the place,

 

I can only sympathise... this place is just about 50 years old, yet it seems that every incompetent spunk trumpet in the northern hemisphere has taken their place in line to have a crack at our wiring.

 

It's OK to fuck about with things you don't understand, just not stuff that can kill you (and any subsequent owners) dead

[taxi paul]

Sorry I changed it . It's a civic . Sort of rover 45 shape. Just seemed an honest advert with good mot history. An 2.0 accord is cheaper to insure.

[stephen01]

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

 

really? they make me sad..

[cobblers]

Common practise in years gone by to pinch the neutral on the stairs lights when using a 2 way switch. It's fine until you fit an RCD

Aye, I'd read about that being done a couple of decades ago do I checked against the light circuit neutral.  but this was using the neutral off the downstairs sockets!

Luckily we've got an RCD but it's a whole house one and it's wired before the consumer unit, so it doesn't discriminate on neutral returns.

As soon as the living room is good enough to put the furniture back in I'm gonna replace the fuse board with a consumer unit and put the remaining two original circuits on 3A MCBs til I get chance to redo them.

[Tamworthbay]

Something costs ££430 new, I offer it a bargain £250 oVno, so when the fuck did £100 become very near to £250? Then some other twat asks if I have something similar to another item, which I do, so I take pics and the time to list it and guess what? Yup, nothing. Every way of selling things (except here) is populated with fucktards.

[Kiltox]

Seen a cheapish x reg honda civic. I rather like them and thought it would do for general running round. It's a 1.4. So put it through go compare and it's £700 fully comp. Feck me all the 2.0 cars I have had arrived cheaper. Is the 1.4 some sort of sports thing I don't know about.

Young lads who wanted a type R bought them, barried them and crashed them I assume

[gordonbennet]

You'll probably find the 2.0S type cheaper to insure than the 1.4, my daughter just over 30 paid just over 700 that to insure a 53 plate 2.0s type and a brand new type R turbo.

[Lacquer Peel]

So I got a speeding ticket the other night, well deserved, 84 in a 60. Bailed out of buying Brammy's ZX because I didn't think I'd have enough money to cover the transport, before that I'd put the Caddy on gumtree in anticipation of the ZX, accepted a deposit for it and now I've 'won' a spears or repears Berlingo in bloody Manchester. What is wrong with me??!!

[M'coli]

Your right foot's too heavy.

[Bren]

Ebay sellers.

 

Emailed a couple selling HID kits only to be told "we think it will fit but can't be sure."

 

Not good enough- especially when an auto electrician is doing the job.

 

Not as if I can send it back if it is no use.

[xtriple]

Trying to cheer the fuck up/sort myself out/get on with it so doing the hovering/dusting and shit like that. Done the washing and put it on the wrong setting so about three fucking hours so far!

[Lacquer Peel]

DW8 best for speed avoidance.

[fordperv]

Seemingly a homeless couple settled round here somewhere in a tent, minding their own business and just trying to get by.

They went out for a while, came back and some shitbags destroyed the tent and all the contents and kicked it round the place.

I'm not entirely sure karma actually exists, but if it does the twats who did this will get a fucking good shoeing one night and end up on the streets themselves.

my like is for the idea of karma and the thought that some deserving bastards will get their just deserts, what has happened is just sad

[jakebullet]

Idiot sister continues to claim her ditchfinders are 'perfectly safe' as the village idiot has told her there's loads of life left in them.

 

Place bets now on how long before this one lets go:

 

 

On the bright side Ma (registered blind) has decided it looks a bit dodgy and is not going to get in car any more.