The grumpy thread

[DodgeRover]

Yet to see anyone train a cat to not do things.

Super soaker full of stale piss puts them off coming near you as long as your aim is good and has better range than a bucket. It's also kinder than the dilute emulsion paint that has been suggested to me at other times.

[robinmasters]

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Great.

 

Anyone got one spare?

Me too. Cracked the housing too. No note presumably?

[AMC Rebel]

Super soaker full of stale piss puts them off coming near you as long as your aim is good and has better range than a bucket. It's also kinder than the dilute emulsion paint that has been suggested to me at other times.

 

Sounds fine, but would need development for the automated version to stop the wee feckers killing themselves under my car. 

[bramz7]

Me too. Cracked the housing too. No note presumably?

 

Nope nothing at all. I have a feeling it was the bin lorry as the mental driver nearly hit a kerb taking a corner earlier this morning.

 

Bah, its parked on the grass verge now. 

 

 

 

As an aside I have managed to sell my daily and I don't at present have a replacement. Anyone got anything old, reliable and cheap for sale?!!?

[AlabamaShrimp]

I know I can be a miserable cunt but it's the wife's birthday so we've come out to a chain pub for tea.

 

Yeah I know it's a mistake but sometimes needs must. It's rammed with gobby twats. The worst being some stupid women who just won't shut the fuck up.

 

But looking around, even though it's loud, there's still loads of people on their phones, including me doing this!

 

Its weird. How did these people cope before they had the sentence "look at this one" or ' blah blah said on Facebook'?

 

For me I just used to be bored shit less

[iainrcz]

The one week our bin is rammed solid the council have decided not to collect them. Normal day is Thursday, then meant to be today now we're told it'll be in two weeks.

They will accept 3 black bags as well next time.

Thanks.

 

Will they accept my council tax two weeks late?

I'll just blame the snow.

 

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[The Moog]

WTF has happened to radios in cars these days ??

 

 My replacement 2005 Berlingo has a Sony mex-n6001bd DAB / FM / cd / phone book / handsfree / connection device thing, can I find how to turn it on ??? The buttons are so small and complicated that only the fingers of ET could push one at a time, the symbols are illegible and the instruction book to fly the Space shuttle is thinner and less complicated !! Howdeefork are you supposed to drive and use the forkin ting !!

 All I wanted to do was get in, turn on the radio and drive.. 5mins later, still no wheels moving so I gave up and just left it alone. The bloody thing made music noise as I was driving but could I turn it off when I got to the other end ?? Why make a radio so damn complicated ? It looks the camels danglies, design of the facia, colours all flashing and fading up and down on their own, looks like a 70s Family Slone disco party deck.. the difference is that the Modern car 8 track is all glow, where's the noise for the boys.. ??

 Either the modern generation are scientifically smart or the Kaleidoscope is keeping them in a Zombie state..

 

"you will borrow more money, debt is good, you need a newer car, debt is good, you are great and everyone else is bad, debt is good" etc..

 

Another thing.. Why do people rip out standard radios and replace them with this type of distracting shite ?? This must be the reason why the industry is going to driverless cars, so the driver can spend more time learning how to use the fkin radio !!

 

Now I just need to get a standard Sitroon CD radio that works.. Programming the buggers is a PITA as I don't have the tech for that either... Modern is DEFFO NOT better...

 

 

 

  

So I can plug in my USB stick and listen to Podcasts without faffing with my phone.

[Supernaut]

Sitting in Portland airport, waiting to get onto the slightly delayed flight to Amsterdam.

 

However the bit after that will be fun*, Amsterdam to Aberdeen! Erk.

[Kiltox]

I would stop over in Amsterdam for the weekend if I were you!

[Mally]

Good enough excuse.

[omegod]

Daughters school will closed it gets to minus 3 inside, I asked how bad must the heating system be...there isn't one she says ! new build smart arse super insulated crap that doesn't work ! 

[Talbot]

Daughters school will closed it gets to minus 3 inside, I asked how bad must the heating system be...there isn't one she says ! new build smart arse super insulated crap that doesn't work !

Ooh! I'd heard of that thermodynamic fuckup a while back but didn't know what the building application was.

 

Theory is that the population of the building gives off a certain amount of heat (usually estimated at 150-200w per person) and if you super-insulate, then that heat-source is sufficient to keep the building at a comfortable temperature.

 

The error made is that if the building is not manned 24/7, you have to have a heat source available to turn on before the people turn up, otherwise they are walking in to a cold building, which will then slowly warm up over the period of several hours. Bloody useless.

 

Super-insulation works, but you still need a heat-source.

[HH-R]

I worked in a school that was built in 2002 and the heating wouldn't come on unless it was +5 degrees C outside to protect itself... powered by a lovely obsolete (even at the time) building management system running on Win98.

 

The boilers were bought on the cheap because they were end of line too. The caretaker asked me to try and light one one day because he'd tried for ages and was at the end of his tether. Did get it going, after about 20 minutes but it really needed some part replacing apparently that was long NLA.

[Stanky]

Winter can fuck off now - the condensate pipe from the boiler has frozen solid at some point along its 30' length so the boiler won't fire up. The pipe is plastic but the plumbers have joined the sections with some kind of glue so i can't even pull 2 sections apart to drain it out into a bucket.

 

The pipe exits the loft under the soffit/fascia and has a 90 degree elbow so I can;t poke the bit of wire up it more than about 4" - it won't go around the bend.

 

I can't think of how i can fix this and both heating and hot water are off. Not too bad right now but will be a bit chilly tomorrow I suspect.

 

anyone got any ideas? I have no joiners so can't even cut the pipe with a saw, drain it and re-join it. fuck being outside at half ten at night in the snow sorting this shit out.

[cobblers]

Winter can fuck off now - the condensate pipe from the boiler has frozen solid at some point along its 30' length so the boiler won't fire up. The pipe is plastic but the plumbers have joined the sections with some kind of glue so i can't even pull 2 sections apart to drain it out into a bucket.

 

The pipe exits the loft under the soffit/fascia and has a 90 degree elbow so I can;t poke the bit of wire up it more than about 4" - it won't go around the bend.

 

I can't think of how i can fix this and both heating and hot water are off. Not too bad right now but will be a bit chilly tomorrow I suspect.

 

anyone got any ideas? I have no joiners so can't even cut the pipe with a saw, drain it and re-join it. fuck being outside at half ten at night in the snow sorting this shit out.

Hairdryer taped on the end of a very long stick worked at my mums.

When we fitted our boiler, I drilled a 25 mm hole in top of the elbow where it comes out of the wall, if the 40mm waste pipe freezes it just pisses out of there and down the wall of the house (which it has)

[Stanky]

How long did it take to thaw out with the hairdryer?

 

The drop along the pipe is very little - maybe 2cm? I suspect once it starts freezing up its too late. Never mind, I'm sure it'll thaw out eventually. Like August eventually...

[cobblers]

It took ages, a good couple of hours.

If you're really cold just cut the pipe where it comes out of the bottom of the boiler and route it into a bucket for now, it'll take days to fill it.

[Stanky]

Calling the estate agents tomorrow and will ask them - they will be given an ultimatum of fix it today or I'll saw it off and fix it myself.

[tooSavvy]

Fuck plastic pipe 'ends'.... Jezze

 

.... Cut to source = CH 'on'

 

.... Hose / bucket WTF? Heating is WIN !!

 

Don't freeze for a frigginn plummer, ha!

 

 

TS

[AMC Rebel]

Aye - arrange so the pipe's inside and drain into a bucket.

 

You seem to one of several million folks who have "advanced" and "efficient" condensing boilers that don't work when you most need them.

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/31110-boilershite/?p=1439941

[flat4alfa]

Just been to the Co-op (because I NEEDED to) and the bloody place is full of people all buying madly.

 

Because lifestyle living through Facebook

[clayts450]

Advice we give residents is to pour warm (not boiling hot) water over the condenser pipe outside, but I guess the blockage in your case is somewhere between the outside and inside, which is a royal pain.

[captain_70s]

Because lifestyle living through Facebook

Went to Morrisons for milk today, all gone. No pre-work porridge for me tomorrow.

[RayMK]

My heating is still broken (2 years!!).  Have been recommended another heating fixer/boiler replacer to try.  All of the local ones are busy with nice, straightforward new builds - huge estates going up round here.  In the meantime this was no big deal. Electric heaters, electric blanket and an open fire kept the house tolerably warm - until yesterday.  Bloody wind kept blowing the smoke from smokeless fuel down the chimney and filled the house with smoke.  Have had to let the fire go out until the wind subdues. Can't go sledging 'cos now old and crippled. I hate winter.

[Timewaster]

It took ages, a good couple of hours.

If you're really cold just cut the pipe where it comes out of the bottom of the boiler and route it into a bucket for now, it'll take days to fill it.

I'm currently running this set up as my outlet pipe is 12ft up the wall above a car port so totally inaccessible.

 

*BEWARE* The bucket fills up much quicker than you expect. I just emptied 2 litres out and that is since 10pm last night.

[cobblers]

Blimey, we ran my mum's boiler into a bucket and it took ages, it must depend on combustion temps and humidity etc etc

[BorniteIdentity]

We've had no heating since November - and are unlikely to until this November.  A new boiler can't go where the old one is (regulations innit guv) and we're having building work done anyway later in the year.

 

It's been surprisingly ok.  Until this week.  

 

Sympathies with those of y'all who are cold atm.  Should be better by next week!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

We live in a (rented) converted farm building and have underfloor heating.  We haven't used it since the first billshock last winter and our hot water is on an electric boiler too.  90% of the time, this is not an issue and we just have to shower in the times I've set the timer (early morning, evening).  However this last week has been a bugger and my partner has been holed up in the bedroom with an electric oil heater (from Lidl - it's really excellent!).  Given that I'm, erm, well-insulated I can wander about with impunity.

 

We've bought a house with more conventional fittings but we're waiting for it to be built... I will never complain about heating bills again.  Underfloor is brilliant but only if you can afford to keep it running all the time...

[Parky]

I had underfloor when I lived in NZ. It's great until the first bill arrives. After which an extra jumper seemed to be the answer

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I had underfloor when I lived in NZ. It's great until the first bill arrives. After which an extra jumper seemed to be the answer

Half our place has 15 foot vaulted ceilings.  Looks lovely.  Costs a lot to heat...