The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

Anyhow. Yeah, they're encouraging colder washes. Looks after your clothes better, much cheaper to run (like 20p a wash cheaper) and "bugs" generally need biological material to survive so unless you've crapped your pants you're fine. Mites etc will be killed with a soak.

 

You can even get liquids for cold wash (where cold is defined as 20°). Don't use powder though, it won't dissolve properly and will clog.

 

Thanks Mum! 

[strangeangel]

Anyhow. Yeah, they're encouraging colder washes. Looks after your clothes better, much cheaper to run (like 20p a wash cheaper) and "bugs" generally need biological material to survive so unless you've crapped your pants you're fine. Mites etc will be killed with a soak.

 

 

This, except for my garage clothes which get the 60 degree wash!

[fordperv]

Same here.

I usually hang my spanners up this time of year as I'm not a fan of getting cold and wet laying outside under cars.

I've now got a garage but that's full of Capri parts at the moment so totally unusable.

Once the weather warms up and drys up in about April I start doing stuff again.

I will do essential work and smaller jobs or if it's a dryish day do some welding as that warms me up

[captain_70s]

I have a cold, couldn't sleep last night, got two hours kip. Now at work and feel like death, utterly knackered and everything aches...

[danthecapriman]

I have a cold, couldn't sleep last night, got two hours kip. Now at work and feel like death, utterly knackered and everything aches...

I've had one recently too. If it's the same as mine the good news is it only seems to last a couple of days! I felt ok Thursday, got up Friday and felt awful, sore throat, lost my voice, headache...

by Sunday I felt pretty good again!

 

Get well soon!

[beko1987]

The problem I find with cold washes is it clags the machine up after a while, like driving a modern diesel at under 2k revs for a year...

 

We wash mainly on a fast 40, as we can do a few loads a day at peak, and because our washing machine is modern toss it can't take big loads, so small and often seems to be what it likes. Every month or so, on a Saturday (we get free electricity on saturdays), if Amy goes out I'll put some dyson filter and hoses, bath towels, my car clothes, whatever can be done at the time really through on a 2 and a half hour 90 degree wash. The smell that comes out of the sink plughole can be something to behold, and it always smells fresher inside afterwards!

[5speedracer]

I have a cold, couldn't sleep last night, got two hours kip. Now at work and feel like death, utterly knackered and everything aches...

Stay at home then, don't take it to work and smit everyone. Do they give out medals at your place 'cos they don't at ours?

 

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[dollywobbler]

Stay at home then, don't take it to work and smit everyone. Do they give out medals at your place 'cos they don't at ours?

 

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I agree with your sentiment, but sadly managers have little sympathy when it comes to simple colds, and expect you to come in and make everyone else ill too. Air con really helps with this. It's great for spreading germs.

[Pillock]

Thanks Mum!

Four years of training washing machine salespeople does that to you!

 

[BorniteIdentity]

I agree with your sentiment, but sadly managers have little sympathy when it comes to simple colds, and expect you to come in and make everyone else ill too. Air con really helps with this. It's great for spreading germs.

Concur with all of the above; adding in self employment to the mix.

 

A day’s money is very hard to turn down.

[Eddie Honda]

but sadly managers have little sympathy when it comes to simple colds

Or any other illness... including abnormal pooing.

 

 

"This is bollocks, Mark! You know the credo: illness equals weakness. You're off the team!"

[5speedracer]

I agree with your sentiment, but sadly managers have little sympathy when it comes to simple colds, and expect you to come in and make everyone else ill too. Air con really helps with this. It's great for spreading germs.

Unless it's the manager who has the cold!

Maybe I sounded harsh but it's true that a day or two off is probably more productive for a company than cold ridden employees potentially making mistakes and having a lower productivity anyway.

 

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[danthecapriman]

Last Friday when I felt grim I didn't go to work, just rang in sick and it was no bother. No point going in, spreading the evil to others and they wouldn't get a good job out of me feeling like that anyway.

They just said to stay indoors, keep warm and get better!

[Louise2cv]

"bugs" generally need biological material to survive so unless you've crapped your pants you're fine.

 

Which lets face it is one of the top 3 activities for babies.

 

...and with the price of car seats, I can't risk shrinking the covers so daren't wash hotter. It just seems like a bad design brief for baby items if washing isn't one of the top considerations.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Sodding heating pump......... I'm not a feel the cold person so the heating is rarely if ever required chez moi......... until GF shows up and it's like I'm living in an ice-road episode and she's dying! So of course she turns everything on......

I found a huge lake of water in the basement washroom about 5weeks back - could not for the life of me work out what was the source - so everything got opened up, cleaned out, reseated and sealed etc.... with washers/seals/rubber bits replaced - just to be sure. All OK and no more lakes..... job jobbed - or was it?

 

Last night - GF pumps up required heatage........ nothing doing. I noticed nothing from the radiators - eventually clicked after she confessed she'd turned it on back then (lake day) noticed a 'problem and noise' and shut it off....... without a bloody word to me. Now I know* the lake was the pump shitting its load and the water cascaded from the 1st floor all the way down, behind the false wall covering all piping, to the basemement where it pooled.

 

This evening will be begging a teeth sucking plombiere - not to butt rape me for winter emergency rates I reckon.......... fuck it!

[Des]

we get free electricity on saturdays

 

Where do I sign up for that?

And if you don't already have a forklift charger the size of a washing machine hooked up to a garage full of lead acid then kindly explain yourself.

[Supernaut]

Where do I sign up for that?

And if you don't already have a forklift charger the size of a washing machine hooked up to a garage full of lead acid then kindly explain yourself.

 

Electric goona!

 

WCPGW?!

[Pillock]

Which lets face it is one of the top 3 activities for babies.

 

...and with the price of car seats, I can't risk shrinking the covers so daren't wash hotter. It just seems like a bad design brief for baby items if washing isn't one of the top considerations.

Yeah, fair point. Kiddie stuff absolutely should be able to survive a boil wash, I'd gone off on a tangent. Sorry!

[Guest Hooli]

Where do I sign up for that?

And if you don't already have a forklift charger the size of a washing machine hooked up to a garage full of lead acid then kindly explain yourself.

 

British Gas I think.

 

Homemade UPS sounds a great plan to pair with it.

[Guest Hooli]

Which lets face it is one of the top 3 activities for babies.

 

...and with the price of car seats, I can't risk shrinking the covers so daren't wash hotter. It just seems like a bad design brief for baby items if washing isn't one of the top considerations.

 

Poor design of babies I'd say, it's about time they upgraded them.

[captain_70s]

Stay at home then, don't take it to work and smit everyone. Do they give out medals at your place 'cos they don't at ours?

0-hour contract, have a sick day too many and your shifts start mysteriously vanishing. Also got a right grilling the last time I phoned in as apparently you have to give at least two hours notice.

 

Unless I literally can't come in physically I've not much choice... Not to mention I didn't get a shift on Monday so I'm 8 hours pay behind on this month's finances.

[barefoot]

I didn't know this;

 

Aviva is the second largest shareholder in MoneySuperMarket, while Confused.com is owned by Admiral.

[eddyramrod]

MrsR has banned me from winning any more Roffles.

[scaryoldcortina]

So not banned from entering, just winning then?

[The Moog]

MrsR has banned me from winning any more Roffles.

Not buying cars then? 

 

Or lending me £3 which I return as a couple of tickets? 

[5speedracer]

0-hour contract, have a sick day too many and your shifts start mysteriously vanishing. Also got a right grilling the last time I phoned in as apparently you have to give at least two hours notice.

 

Unless I literally can't come in physically I've not much choice... Not to mention I didn't get a shift on Monday so I'm 8 hours pay behind on this month's finances.

IMO zero hrs contracts are really no fucking contract at all and should be outlawed. Legitimised version of waiting on the corner for a gangmaster to arrive and choose you or not.

Of course you already know this! Spread that cold around then so you're not suffering alone, he said hypocritically.

 

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[eddyramrod]

So not banned from entering, just winning then?

 

 

When you win, claim it was not a roffle dearest, it was a raffle.

 

note: It would probably be best if you are in your best running gear or a suit of armor at this point. 

 

 

Not buying cars then? 

 

Or lending me £3 which I return as a couple of tickets? 

 

Sadly, I suspect it also means buying the tickets, just in case I should win!  I've booked tickets for the Nightfire Rover and the 106 (not paid for either yet) but if anybody wants to take them over, please feel free.  Otherwise I'll just have to hope I don't actually win one.

[AMC Rebel]

IMO zero hrs contracts are really no fucking contract at all and should be outlawed. Legitimised version of waiting on the corner for a gangmaster to arrive and choose you or not.

Of course you already know this! Spread that cold around then so you're not suffering alone, he said hypocritically.

 

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I agree about zero hours - except where it genuinely suits both parties.  I could now go on to offer an opinion in relation to "EU Worker's rights" - but I probably better not.

[HH-R]

Being off with a cold is a funny one, when I worked in a school I literally seemed to have one every six weeks. You're told in one breath not to come in because you're just perpetuating the problem, but if you were off three times in a year it was a disciplinary.

[ruffgeezer]

I hit and killed a dog on my way home tonight. I feel terrible for the owner who had been looking for her from the roadside, and left my details with his mother and the police.

 

This has also caused significant damage to the Volvo, ergo I am now without any working cars.