The grumpy thread

[fordperv]

Same thing happened to me, bloody horrible.

 

I had to walk home from the hospital, stopping off at an off licence for a load of beer to numb the pain.

 

Only when I got home did I look in the mirror and see my eyes were full of green/yellow dye, no wonder the cashier looked at me funny!

I've been there too many times in the past, they laughed when the junior couldn't find the chloramphemicol ointment and I told them where it was kept

[Inspector Morose]

"We'll just have to scrape the eyeball to get rid of the rust staining"

 

Oh, such jollity* and fun*. 

 

I'm sure I had a loyalty card, the number of times I had to go to mine. And yes, eye protection (of differing sorts to try and combat the problem) was worn at all times. Mostly.  

[SiC]

At least that's almost a worthy reason to go to the eye hospital. I went just after new years day last year after I bent down to move a house plant and the corner of the leaf hit my eye. A week later our cat was refusing to open her eye (cleared up a day later) after she must have caught hers on it too. Plant is now gone.

[angle]

The snowflake comment are really annoying. It's used by someone who can't debate properly so thinks that will shut down the argument. It's lazy and equivalent to a 21st - yeah your mum comment.

 

Grump time

 

Booked and paid the deposit for a diving holiday in the summer to Borneo. Check today and the Foreign Office advice is essential travel only. Fuckstick. Means won't be able to get travel insurance for the trip - which when diving 5 times a day is probably needed.

Give True Traveller a call - they're not particularly cheap, but they've covered me in orange bits of Ethiopia and Mexico before.

 

https://www.truetraveller.com

[Slartibartfast]

Lost my fucking car keys this morning.  Have since been located.  Never lost keys before.

 

Can't get to work without the car so I had to spend an hour and a half looking around the house for them, including emptying the bins and going to the outside recycling bin in a (literal) gale so I could check.  To make everything even better* my other half and I spent yesterday packing boxes (in all honesty, she spent most of yesterday packing, and I spent most of yesterday making it look like I was packing).  So there's shit everywhere.

 

Found them in a bedroom drawer.  Had fallen off bedside table into draw underneath.  Buried in there - but in there nevertheless.  An hour and a half of my life I'll never get back. 

 

Arsebiscuits.

My wife and I keep the spare key to each of our cars on the other's ring, if that makes sense. I have a spare to hers on my keyring and vice versa. I have visions of being out somewhere and losing my key down a drain or something and being stranded.

[mercrocker]

sometimes, though you want the spare key on your own keyring - speaking as one who has managed to snap a key off in the (locked) driver's door in the middle of the New Forest.   Raining, too....

[John F]

Booked and paid the deposit for a diving holiday in the summer to Borneo. Check today and the Foreign Office advice is essential travel only. Fuckstick. Means won't be able to get travel insurance for the trip - which when diving 5 times a day is probably needed.

 

Diving FIVE TIMES a day???? I thought they were pushing it with 3 dives a day last time I went to the Red Sea, BSAC certainly used to recommend just 2 and none at all the day before flying.

[The Moog]

Will have a look at true traveller.

Diving FIVE TIMES a day???? I thought they were pushing it with 3 dives a day last time I went to the Red Sea, BSAC certainly used to recommend just 2 and none at all the day before flying.

5 times isn't too bad as long as spread out and watch depth accordingly. No fly time still applies.

 

In water for 5 am then 8, 12, 3 and then night dive at 7pm. Obviously not 40m dives each time - in fact 12 & 3 tend to be reef dives so <10m

 

BSAC tends to be very conservative overall.

 

When in Indonesia doing the marine research we averaged 3 a day over a month including having restdays.

 

With decent dive watches it is all personalised now so easier to do - as long as not an idiot.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

My wife and I keep the spare key to each of our cars on the other's ring, if that makes sense. I have a spare to hers on my keyring and vice versa. I have visions of being out somewhere and losing my key down a drain or something and being stranded.

 

This would be ideal but for two things.

 

i)  Lady Grumpius likes to keep her car keys separate from everything else for some reason.  Doesn't make sense to me but it's her life!

 

ii)  A couple of years ago, my Dad's car was broken into and her bag was nicked - which had the spare of my car in it.  I haven't replaced it.  I think today might be the day I think about changing that.

 

Great idea though.

[Bren]

 

I ordered a rattle can for the audi - oyster grey.

 

It's more like purple velvet metallic.

 

Can anybody actually complete a task without utterly ballsing it up?

[AMC Rebel]

Will have a look at true traveller. 5 times isn't too bad as long as spread out and watch depth accordingly. No fly time still applies.

 

In water for 5 am then 8, 12, 3 and then night dive at 7pm. Obviously not 40m dives each time - in fact 12 & 3 tend to be reef dives so <10m

 

BSAC tends to be very conservative overall.

 

When in Indonesia doing the marine research we averaged 3 a day over a month including having restdays.

 

With decent dive watches it is all personalised now so easier to do - as long as not an idiot.

 

Not as hardcore as you guys but I got the basic PADI qualification ages ago and have done the occasional recreational dive since- it was early days for dive computers and the instructor was grudging about them (not an age thing he was younger than me) - he pointed out to my brother in law and I that according to the tables we were in fact dead. 

[AMC Rebel]

Can anybody actually complete a task without utterly ballsing it up?

I can't

[cort1977]

Lost my fucking car keys this morning.  Have since been located.  Never lost keys before.

 

 

I sympathise.  Having had this so many times (even just a minute of looking drives me insane) we now have a set of hooks in the kitchen, car keys go back on the hook every time.  Not perfect but an improvement.

 

A true autoshiter would have one of these things, ideally from the 1986 innovations catalogue.

 

[davehedgehog31]

Some shiters must have keys like this.

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Dishwasher making some noise today. Dint notice it till I got back but 4 hours later it's still making noises.

 

Bugger its not washed anything. Won't reset either. Can't remember how old it it but I'm sure it's on one of those fix anything warranties, will get Mrs Shrimp to ring them.

[Supernaut]

Some shiters must have keys like this.

 

 

Not quite, but...

 

[omegod]

"We'll just have to scrape the eyeball to get rid of the rust staining"

 

Oh, such jollity* and fun*. 

 

I'm sure I had a loyalty card, the number of times I had to go to mine. And yes, eye protection (of differing sorts to try and combat the problem) was worn at all times. Mostly.  

 

And how massive does the needle look when they go scraping the eyeball ! 

[xtriple]

Fuck off big stone has jumped up and bitten the wheelarch on the dollop, I am sad   It now has a proper 'giffer' repair/touch up on the wheelarch (Perfect colour match from Chipex though) and I could do a really good job... if I could be arsed, but I can't. It's really low on the arch and no one will see it apart from me when/if I ever clean and polish it again, but it's still annoyed me. I hate entropy....

 

[madrat]

I sympathise.  Having had this so many times (even just a minute of looking drives me insane) we now have a set of hooks in the kitchen, car keys go back on the hook every time.  Not perfect but an improvement.

 

A true autoshiter would have one of these things, ideally from the 1986 innovations catalogue.

 

Had them in 80s and 90s, everything set the bloody thing off, TV, Radio, Dad farting.

[twosmoke300]

Some shiters must have keys like this.

 

 

Any ford owner anyway

[somewhatfoolish]

Diving FIVE TIMES a day???? I thought they were pushing it with 3 dives a day last time I went to the Red Sea, BSAC certainly used to recommend just 2 and none at all the day before flying.

 

When it comes to not inflating like Yaphet Kotto at the end of Live And Let Die I'll stick with the conservatives although the per day limit is rule of thumb territory, dependent upon maximum depth reached and numerous other factors. Dive computers eliminate some of these but is your health really worth buggering up for a day's diving?

 

 

Not as hardcore as you guys but I got the basic PADI qualification ages ago and have done the occasional recreational dive since- it was early days for dive computers and the instructor was grudging about them (not an age thing he was younger than me) - he pointed out to my brother in law and I that according to the tables we were in fact dead. 

 

Put another dollar in(said the BSAC stick-in-the-mud).

[Tamworthbay]

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I ordered a rattle can for the audi - oyster grey.

It's more like purple velvet metallic.

Can anybody actually complete a task without utterly ballsing it up?

My wife did her PhD on visual pigments. Light purple and light grey are apparently the two hardest to determine between for most people. Something to do with purple being like grey in a shadow but I can’t remember the details.

[Captain Furious]

Following on from the grin in the grin thread about the amazing delivery service and bargainous price on my wiper blades, I have now been in the queue for customer services for nearly 2 hours (longer than it took to fucking well deliver them) I was due to go home 3 minutes ago but i'm queue position 1 and have been for about 35 fucking minutes

 

So this is now a massive grump, ECP can fuck off and die.

[anonymous user]

Some shiters must have keys like this.

 

I don't have a bunch of keys like that, but I do have a lucky dip bowl (sadly not for a Pampas Grass, swingers party) it's a brass dish from a weighing scales containing keys for everything including houses and cars that I no longer own, along with random sharp things that I cut myself on whenever I'm hunting through it

[doubleyeller]

Me: "Hello!"

 

Mother: "There's this dreadful echo on the line / it's a bad line / you're breaking up etc"

 

Me "This is like groundhog day, we have had this discussion every week for the last 10 years. Your phone is faulty, get another, I will even pay for it!"

 

Mother (talking over me incessantly because of course she can't hear me) "It's not my phone that's faulty, it's yours. I'm not getting a new phone, nothing wrong with this one. Hello???"

 

Me: "But I've had four mobiles and 3 different landlines in the last four years, and you had this problem with all of them. It's clearly your phone that's faulty."

 

Mother: "No, you're breaking up."

 

Me: " I can hear you fine, so it's definitely not...."

 

Mother: "Hello?"

 

Me: "Did you hear anything I sai-?"

 

Mother: "No, there's a terrible echo on the line. WHAT?"

 

 

And so on, every week. I'm going to have to go round there and burn her phone and bury the ashes in concrete to make sure it doesn't come back!

[John F]

Will have a look at true traveller. 5 times isn't too bad as long as spread out and watch depth accordingly. No fly time still applies.

 

In water for 5 am then 8, 12, 3 and then night dive at 7pm. Obviously not 40m dives each time - in fact 12 & 3 tend to be reef dives so <10m

 

BSAC tends to be very conservative overall.

 

When in Indonesia doing the marine research we averaged 3 a day over a month including having restdays.

 

With decent dive watches it is all personalised now so easier to do - as long as not an idiot.

 

 

 

When it comes to not inflating like Yaphet Kotto at the end of Live And Let Die I'll stick with the conservatives although the per day limit is rule of thumb territory, dependent upon maximum depth reached and numerous other factors. Dive computers eliminate some of these but is your health really worth buggering up for a day's diving?

 

 

 

Put another dollar in(said the BSAC stick-in-the-mud).

 

 

Yep, I'd err on the side of caution. Our group had one very mild case of decompression sickness (skin-itching on a lass called Julia's boobies, iirc) on a live-aboard off Normandy back in 2001, doing 3-dive days at 30-40 metres and using computers.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Following on from the grin in the grin thread about the amazing delivery service and bargainous price on my wiper blades, I have now been in the queue for customer services for nearly 2 hours (longer than it took to fucking well deliver them) I was due to go home 3 minutes ago but i'm queue position 1 and have been for about 35 fucking minutes

 

So this is now a massive grump, ECP can fuck off and die.

 

...and they say 24 hours is a long time in politics.

[sierraman]

Useless fucking DVLA. No answer again. Lazy Cunts!!!!

[chatsharris]

Yep, I'd err on the side of caution. Our group had one very mild case of decompression sickness(skin-itching; on a lass called Julia's boobies, iirc) on a live-aboard off Normandy back in 2001, doing 3-dive days at 30-40 metres and using computers.

Bet she had no end of volunteers to help her scratch them.

[Cavcraft]

Sky Insurance 'oh yes, we specialise in young and newly qualified drivers'. Ten odd minutes later of questions/being put on hold/questions/being put on hold and 'We can't quote you for that, sorry'.