The grumpy thread

[artdjones]

Those front brake adjusters are desperate for backing themselves off.It was down to wear in the friction washers between the adjuster and the backplate.A number of parts suppliers used to do sets of 4 adjusters with new washers.

[DodgeRover]

taxi paul, on 27 Apr 2018 - 8:46 PM, said:

It's a sausage barm. Everyone knows that. None of this cob or bap business.

 

 

It's a batch, where I'm from. Called a roll or cob where I live now. How can the name of things change in 9 miles???

You are all wrong it's obviously a breadcake with a sausage in it.

 

Or if you are some sort of Manchester/ Sheffield hybrid a barm cake...

[dozeydustman]

It's a sausage barm. Everyone knows that. None of this cob or bap business.

 

 

Where I grew up a barm is a mad man, a cob is a nut, and baps are boobies (or very large soft bread rolls about 6" in diameter).

 

I think the word you're looking for is petit-pain.

[purplebargeken]

It's a roll people, a roll. Bloody Northerners.

[myglaren]

It could be a mini-stottie though

[bub2006]

It's a roll people, a roll. Bloody Northerners.

Don't forget your roots Kenneth!!

[Timewaster]

It's a roll people, a roll. Bloody Northerners.

Yes. A round bread product cut and buttered with sausage in it is a sausage roll.

 

A sausage wrapped in pastry. That's a sausage roll.

 

Simple innit.

[Guest Hooli]

Are we on to baps being soft & cobs being crusty yet?

[Datsuncog]

Bollocks to all that mainland barm/cob nonsense, a sausage soda's really where it's at.

 

 

Serve with a good shake of sweet chiili sauce if you want to be fancy. We churned out about 200 of these bad boys a day when I worked in a Homebase cafe concession.

[Dirk Diggler]

It's a roll; or a bla if you're a Waterfordite.

[mercrocker]

All Fiesta brakes up to the Mk6 are fairly bad. In true Ford tradition, really wooden. Unless you are used to them its difficult to say whether they are fucked is not from a test drive.

 

Christ, everything else I drive must be fucked then.....I really like my Mk5 Fiesta brakes!

[twosmoke300]

Called a split in some parts of cornwall

[mercrocker]

Wouldn't confess to eating a split in Birmingham, though....

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Where I grew up a barm is a mad man, .....

Hence "barmpot"

[purplebargeken]

Noooo. A 'split' is a tray of chips and mushy peas in St. Helen's.

[MorrisItalSLX]

It is a sausage roll in Australia. No arguments.

[beko1987]

It is a sausage roll in Australia. No arguments.

You come over here and say that to our face! (give me a shout when you land at Heathrow and I'll come pick you up...)

[Parky]

Fucking aerial.

 

Had a bit of a move around in the lounge which involved moving the TV and extending the aerial. Found afterwards that three channels had piss poor reception and no amount of retuning or fiddling would resolve it.

 

Established my aerial was facing the wrong way so I got my compass out and aimed it perfectly at Crystal Palace. Went downstairs and.....most channels lost.

 

Went back up to the loft, put the aerial for Bluebell Hills co-ordinates instead. Back downstairs and have lost all the BBC channels, Yesterday, Drama, Blaze, Dave, and Quest. Bollocks.

 

Back upstairs and put the aerial back to exactly where it was in the first place. Have lost the same channels as mentioned before and half of the subscription ones.

 

I really really really hate BT TV. Hate to say it but I might have to go back to Sky.

[Guest Hooli]

Sounds more like a dodgy extension on the ariel to me.

[Parky]

It could be. It's a brand new cable which is a metre too short so I extended it for the final section.

 

I have had my doubts about the aerial socket on the wall so just cleaned up the coaxial and fitted the new socket, see if that makes any difference. The retuning seems to be taking longer.....

 

BUGGER ME - I had 76 channels before, the aerial adjustment slashed that to 31, but with the new aerial socket I have 95! Let's see if they work.

 

Have lost London Live but that was mostly crap anyway....

 

EDIT - none of the channels work. What's going on here? Zero signal strength on everything

[Parky]

Moved the aerial again to exactly where it was before (jammed against a joist) and now trying another retune. Moving the aerial brought back most channels except BBC1 and 2, lets see what the retune does....

 

Appear to now have 52 channels. WTF? All the "weaker" ones are clear as a bell but BBC completely lost. Am getting REALLY fucked off with this!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

..... BBC completely lost.....!

The irony.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Moved the aerial again to exactly where it was before (jammed against a joist) and now trying another retune. Moving the aerial brought back most channels except BBC1 and 2, lets see what the retune does....

 

Appear to now have 52 channels. WTF? All the "weaker" ones are clear as a bell but BBC completely lost. Am getting REALLY fucked off with this!

Parky, right now.

[Mally]

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C2TEUA_enGB518GB519&ei=KazkWujNF4XegAaOmJnYBw&q=springsteen+57+channels&oq=springsteen+57&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0l4j0i22i10i30k1j0i22i30k1l5.2239.11378.0.13683.23.15.0.3.3.0.225.1075.11j0j1.13.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..7.16.1201.6..35i39k1j0i131k1j0i131i46k1j46i131k1.92.QHE8JnNKyZg

[AlabamaShrimp]

Fucking aerial.

 

Had a bit of a move around in the lounge which involved moving the TV and extending the aerial. Found afterwards that three channels had piss poor reception and no amount of retuning or fiddling would resolve it.

 

Established my aerial was facing the wrong way so I got my compass out and aimed it perfectly at Crystal Palace. Went downstairs and.....most channels lost.

 

Went back up to the loft, put the aerial for Bluebell Hills co-ordinates instead. Back downstairs and have lost all the BBC channels, Yesterday, Drama, Blaze, Dave, and Quest. Bollocks.

 

Back upstairs and put the aerial back to exactly where it was in the first place. Have lost the same channels as mentioned before and half of the subscription ones.

 

I really really really hate BT TV. Hate to say it but I might have to go back to Sky.

Have you tried using Daz?

[madrat]

Get rid of the socket and join the cable with F plugs and a joiner. Also what cable are you using? You need a good quality WF100 not a pre-made bit of tin. Loft aerials are not recommended for freeview, if the roof gets wet it will attenuate the signal, anything up-to 50%

[cobblers]

A fairly innocent conversation at work last week about one of the girls in the office having problems with Child Tax Credits quickly degenerated into the majority of staff going off on a massive racist rant

"Well if you were a bloody p**i and walked into the job center they'll just throw money at you" etc etc.

 

Of the 10-15 people present, Only me and one of the apprentices was really opposed to this garbage, with the flipping workshop supervisor calling him a "bloody snowflake" for piping up. I'm quite a senior member of staff so I do my best to keep people in line, like a lot of places, there's a couple of casual "Daily Mail" quoting racists there who I've often got to have a dig at, but I didn't realise how many people were on board with the same rubbish, it runs right to the flipping top.

 

Two days later and I'm still left with a bad taste in my mouth over it all. I really enjoy the job, but I don't want to be surrounded by people like that.

[dave21478]

Its always the small jobs isnt it? 

The left rear door of the pickup wasnt great working from the central locking. It would unlock fine but only lock 1 in three times. The motor was trying though as the lock button would drop down a bit when it tried. 

"eh, probably just needs a bit of wd40 on the linkage" I thought so took off the door card, only to find WD didnt change anything. The motor is bolted to the bottom of the main latch unit and you have to take the lot out. there is an access hole on the inside skin but its lower than the latch so to unclip the linkage rods you have to mess about with a torch and mirror, shove your hands up and feel around and wrestle it out. Sharp edges everywhere of course and since I just slathered it in WD40 its all greasy as hell too. The job was like trying to perform some kind of gynecological procedure on an angry crocodile.

With the mechanism out it seemed to be the motor itself that was weak in one direction so I carefully dismantled it, expecting to clean it up and regrease it for success. But as usual, despite being careful it went SPROING and wee plastic worm drive and spring clips and stuff rocketed out, some of which ricocheted off the far wall of the garage, never to be seen again.

Well, thats it properly fucked now. 

 

Repeat the above on the spares truck, with the added benefit of having to do it lying across the back seat and only being able to open the door by a few inches as its parked tight against a holly hedge and with half its engine in the other truck its not moving any time soon. Of course its a holly hedge isnt it? even more spiky things to jab my hands.

Got it out to find its identical in every way except it has two wires from the motor where the original has four. FUCK SAKES. So having learned the lessons from the first one I took the second motor apart without blinding myself via a spring to the eye or losing any of the cogs, and swapped over the innards. Turns out the other two wires are for a limit switch....fuck knows why they have different systems, but whatever.

 

Its back in the truck and working now, thank the Gods, and I just wedged the door shut on the spares car as I couldnt be assed putting it back together too.

 

so much for the quick fix.

[Parky]

I am slightly stymied by having a proper digital aerial but fitted inside the loft. Reception is perfect when trying the kitchen or bedroom sockets, just the lounge one. I am wondering if a previous piece of diy has seen me drive an anchor plug slap bang through the cable. I also find if the weather turns rubbish, some channels pixelate and become unwatchable.

 

The BT box is an incredibly unreliable piece of crap. Some channels will automatically default to "zoom" and it can't be unzoomed so it kind of ruins the experience. Channels appear and disappear at random it seems but the main ones are generally stable.

 

Just reset the box and retuned it. Got 77 channels this time including the BBC ones, but some of the subscription channels have gone walkabout now. Just no logic to it. Taking the risk and trying it again to see if any more channels magically reappear. I suspect I will probably lose some during this process.

 

Really the answer is a proper external aerial, correctly aimed at the right transmitter by a pro. That way I might be able to drop BT and Sky as 90% of my viewing is Freeview channels anyway. Provided 4od can be picked up on my TV I will probably manage fine without BT

[Parky]

A fairly innocent conversation at work last week about one of the girls in the office having problems with Child Tax Credits quickly degenerated into the majority of staff going off on a massive racist rant"Well if you were a bloody p**i and walked into the job center they'll just throw money at you" etc etc.Of the 10-15 people present, Only me and one of the apprentices was really opposed to this garbage, with the flipping workshop supervisor calling him a "bloody snowflake" for piping up. I'm quite a senior member of staff so I do my best to keep people in line, like a lot of places, there's a couple of casual "Daily Mail" quoting racists there who I've often got to have a dig at, but I didn't realise how many people were on board with the same rubbish, it runs right to the flipping top.Two days later and I'm still left with a bad taste in my mouth over it all. I really enjoy the job, but I don't want to be surrounded by people like that.

Simple answer is to ask when this has happened, what their sources of information are, and can they be verified.

 

Most people fall back on the whole "my mate Sandra said" or "I read on Facebook that this definitely happened". I get it all the time with my racist Dad. I have fun with it nowadays by asking for actual proper bona fide evidence that they would be happy to read out in court without risk of perjuring themselves or having their case rejected as their evidence is merely circumstantial.

 

It usually ends up with me saying something like "so your mate heard from someone he knows that a foreign born person walked into a DWP office and literally had money thrown at them. Having provided no forms or identification, or reasons for claiming any benefits, they wandered in and had shedloads of benefits thrust at them on account of their nationality. Now employing logic, how likely do you think it is that DWP staff are encouraged to give more money to foreigners than UK Citizens? If that was the case, do,you not think someone would spill the beans and have that on the front page of the papers?"

 

This is the point where they go off on one about how the stories are suppressed by the Government on the orders of the Rothschilds who in conjunction with the Illuminati are trying to destroy Britain because the Rothschilds are German blah blah blah.

 

It's great fun!