The grumpy thread

[Captain Furious]

That was supposed to be a tribute to Ben Stillers character in Mystery Men, whose 'superpower' was getting really angry...but then I realised that's Mr Furious and I'd ballsed that up too..

 

I dunno what the major funk is all about currently, because other things in life actually aren't going too bad.  Soon as I walk into this place...rage level:10

 

Got Thursday and Friday off so maybe a 4 day weekend will help me get over it.

[Lacquer Peel]

People driving around with their passenger side wing mirror folded in. Why did you bother to fold it in when you parked for fear of it being knocked off, if you obviously don't use the fucking thing anyway?

I've seen people driving with both mirrors folded. It makes you wonder how much attention they're paying to their surroundings while driving. Not very much I assume.

[dave21478]

Waiting for edf to show up to my sisters place. They were doing repairs on the local grid last night and apparently the lights went really bright and started popping. A couple of other things have been damaged too. The counter is flashing 400v on the display.

 

Status update. Icecream was starting to melt in the freezer so the the farm genny was dusted off and fired up with several extension leads powering fridge, freezers and the lads xbox and telly  ...kids these days etc blah blah moan.....Anyway, apparently while "fixing" things last night at the next farm over they have somehow joined two phases together and wired that to the neutral.

Casualties seem to be several light bulbs, a couple of chargers for various electronica and.... err.....the charger for my impact driver which definitely hasnt been broken for ages and which I definitely didnt just take over there and plug in this morning.

[OwdChina]

they have somehow joined two phases together and wired that to the neutral.

 

Jeez........The French electricity board did that !!!  ..............That does not bode good at all.

 

Were they installing a 400V supply for farm equipment or something ?

[Supernaut]

It's not as if EDF are responsible for looking after several nuclear power stations or anything...

 

Oh shit.

 

Actually, I saw something on the BBC news website the other day about an explosion at a nuclear power station in northern France, as in really northern. On the coast of the English Channel.

[dave21478]

Both farms have three phase power anyway. They were working on the next farm last night after a line came down in high wind, cutting his power. It is this repair that seems to have been botched.

 

Its panic stations over there just now....loads of folk there and a couple of low loaders with various heavy equipment for some reason....maybe replacing the poles.

 

Still no power to my sisters farm though....Some guy came round a while back, took the covers off the meter and probed the wires. "Not good" was muttered, and he left again.

[OwdChina]

 "Not good" was muttered, and he left again.

LoL....................Merde.

[panhard65]

It isn't that uncommon to have these electrical cock ups. My dad worked for Eastern Electricity many years ago before it got privatised and some of the bodges they would do to get people back on supply would scare the shit out of the health and safety brigade. He did rather well after the big storm in '87 as there were so many people off supply they were working 18 hour days and a few bribes were had to get people back on faster. It does usually take out all the tv's as well when they bung the wrong voltage in so they will be expecting a big compo bill for this cock up. Just remember all that fillet steak that was in the freezer that is now no good etc.

[Lord Sterling]

Sitting here in Peterborough waiting for one of our dick head drivers to turn up. The unpopular grassing twat was supposed to have turned up hours ago but still no sign,I've got a headache and the other driver waiting with me is growing very impatient. It's at least an hour to our hotel from here as well.

[beko1987]

If your near alwalton I could see if my granny could make you a cup of tea?

[Noel Tidybeard]

I've seen people driving with both mirrors folded. It makes you wonder how much attention they're paying to their surroundings while driving. Not very much I assume.

 

that would sometimes be me when some TWAT in a sprinter/LT is burning my retinas- powafold mirrors FTW

[Lacquer Peel]

Maybe you shouldn't drive at night.

[loserone]

Or only drive LS400s with auto dipping mirrors.

[FakeConcern]

I've seen people driving with both mirrors folded. It makes you wonder how much attention they're paying to their surroundings while driving. Not very much I assume.

A friend of mine once bought a car (VW Scirrocco) that had no internal rear view mirror. Neither of us noticed on the test drive!

[dave21478]

Sisters farm EDF update.

 

"Its totaly fucking fucked mate, big style."

 

New meter, new fuseboard and new RCDs etc and supposedly the incoming voltage is normal now, but everything is gubbed. Some sockets in the kitchen work, and thats about it. Turning the oven on provokes a frighteningly angry buzzing noise and while the wee clock on the microwave works, trying to use it makes everything else flick on and off twice a second....All lights either just dont work or are too bright with smoke leaking from various low energy bulbs. Status of water heater, c/h boiler, washing machine and other big appliances is unknown, same for everything in the garage and outbuildings, including compressor, mill and other three-phase machines.

So its all switched off for the night with the freezers running off the genny and awaiting EDF to return tomorrow. They have admitted their cockup though and are bringing many paperwork for insurance claims.

 

 

Could be worse....it could be my house!

[cobblers]

*sympathy like

[Lord Sterling]

If your near alwalton I could see if my granny could make you a cup of tea?

Thanks man! We did eventually get picked up, just after 7pm. The lad who was with me had been in Peebo since 1pm, I arrived at 2pm. The arse who was picking us up had picked up his hire car in Norwich at 3:30pm and took nigh on 4 hours to reach us.

 

Now at a hotel just chilling out. Work tomorrow and then hopefully home for the night.

[castros_bro]

God's own twats at ***insert employers name*** have solar panels on a roof which have had a problem for over 2 years so buggering up their " we are environmentally green and  aware" stance , I have just offered to repair them at no cost to them but their reply has the 4 issues of H+S, risk assessment, insurance and mission statement will need to be addressed  and I am not agreeing to pay for their time/costs in addressing these issues whilst  doing the work for nothing. 

[richardmorris]

LoL....................Merde.

BOFF! Shrug.

 

Sounds awful. And very expensive for edf to replace everything electrical.

[DodgeRover]

What plugs do you use Dave numbers have we got time to pop over with a load of dead electrical gear for replacement?

[alcyonecorporation]

Oh yay*, a parking whinge, just when I'm in the fucking mood..

 

"That's Volvo's too long for the bay, you need to move it as two normal cars could have got in there."

I parked the 960 up at lunch when there was one space. The bay since emptied and refilled with the fuckwitted idiots I share the road with - who generally ignore bay designations and /or park with gaps big enough to dance/walk/fall/cycle into (see also: snapped door mirrors) but not large enough to house another vehicle.

 

This is somehow my fault.

 

Gonna have a go at the massive bloke down the road who parks his LWB Sprinter wherever the fuck he likes on those grounds, o parking arbiter?

 

Thought not.

 

Walked away from you mid rant because I couldn't be arsed with you or your specious reasoning.

We are but days away from the 'you've parked in MY space (on a public road with permit controlled bay areas)' argument, I can tell.

 

I do so hope I won't have done another 12 hour day when that happens, because if he thinks I'm 'exceptionally rude' (his words) now, fuck me, he's going to be able to surf the Channel on the torrent of abuse I'll dish out.

[155V6]

The flats where I live have a communal car park.For years,there were no markings,everyone just parked reasonably sensibly.A couple of years ago,they decided to mark the spaces,told everyone when it would happen,& asked everyone to move their cars for the day.Everyone did,except for the dozy blonde downstairs who managed to leave her nearly-new Golf in the middle of where 2 spaces turned out to be.The whole car park got marked,except for where her car was.Now she has her own double-sized space,which she insists on parking her new Mercedes right in the middle of 

[Cavcraft]

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You could soon sort that at 2.00am one morning when she wasn't in by marking it in half with a spray can it and putting 'silly bint from  No. 15' on one of them.

[Tamworthbay]

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You could soon sort that at 2.00am one morning when she wasn't in by marking it in half with a spray can it and putting 'silly bint from  No. 15' on one of them.

Why wait until she isn't there?

[stephen01]

Got such a monumental piss on with work at the minute that if I make it through today without kneeling on someones windpipe it will be surprising.

 

I can't even put my finger on the exact reason I'm so angry, or what started it off about two weeks ago, it just seems like everything is being made deliberately as difficult as possible by inflexible jobsworth pricks and I just want to shout FUCK OFF right up in their faces and leave the car park in a cloud of HG failure smoke.

 

FTFY

[Cavcraft]

Why wait until she isn't there?

Because you're waiting in her knicker drawer?

[Supernaut]

I have an absolute bastard of a cold / flu / whatever at the moment.

 

I woke up at about 2:30am completely unable to breathe through my nose. It's a somewhat unpleasant experience, waking up gasping for air like that. Couldn't get back to sleep for at least an hour too. Now sitting at work drinking a lemsip wondering why the fuck I even bothered coming in today.

[Captain Furious]

Funny you should say that, because someone next to me at work has a cold and I'm wondering why he bothered coming in today too....

 

hang on..

[Supernaut]

Funny you should say that, because someone next to me at work has a cold and I'm wondering why he bothered coming in today too....

 

hang on..

 

Unless you're an insane Frenchman in his 30s, or a grumpy Scotsman in his 50s, I'm not sitting next to you.

[5speedracer]

The flats where I live have a communal car park.For years,there were no markings,everyone just parked reasonably sensibly.A couple of years ago,they decided to mark the spaces,told everyone when it would happen,& asked everyone to move their cars for the day.Everyone did,except for the dozy blonde downstairs who managed to leave her nearly-new Golf in the middle of where 2 spaces turned out to be.The whole car park got marked,except for where her car was.Now she has her own double-sized space,which she insists on parking her new Mercedes right in the middle of

Not so dozy then !!!

 

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