The grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

Directly for using a disabled space? or just happened?

 

 

I've now got an image of a wheelchair with Boadicea style blades on the wheels in my head.

[andy18s]

Seems we had a visit from the thieving community last night

Came over a 6ft wall,through a locked steel gate and into my welding worshop where they helped themselves to my chainsaw and plasma cutter

Not the brightest of people as they left all the cables needed to use it,so hopefully they'll come back for them tonight

[Bren]

^^ pound shop wheel trims?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

  On 21/06/2018 at 11:18, andy18s said:

Seems we had a visit from the thieving community last night

Came over a 6ft wall,through a locked steel gate and into my welding worshop where they helped themselves to my chainsaw and plasma cutter

Not the brightest of people as they left all the cables needed to use it,so hopefully they'll come back for them tonight

 

 

Oh the fun you could have with that.

 

I'm now imagining your workshop defended in the style of 'Home Alone'.  Complete with a sink connected to a generator.

[Guest Hooli]

  On 21/06/2018 at 11:18, andy18s said:

Seems we had a visit from the thieving community last night

Came over a 6ft wall,through a locked steel gate and into my welding worshop where they helped themselves to my chainsaw and plasma cutter

Not the brightest of people as they left all the cables needed to use it,so hopefully they'll come back for them tonight

 

I hope you get the satisfaction of giving your visitors a proper welcome* later.

[Aston Martin]

  On 21/06/2018 at 06:48, Sloth in a bowl said:

Needs new battery

Fitted this morning.

[Captain Furious]

My new brake calliper is out for delivery with FedEx, it was supposed to be delivered yesterday, I had it sent it to my mums house because she was going to be in, nothing.  An update on their tracking website at 19:47 saying something to the effect of "Customer not available \ Business Closed" (she\it wasn't, I was there too) no card or 'attempted delivery' or anything. 

 

No worries, rescheduled for delivery today - same story on their tracking website - out for delivery - scheduled for 21/06/2018 before 18:00.  I have a nagging feeling its not going to turn up again though, because we are fairly close to the distribution point and tend to get deliveries first thing - because presumably its first on their round.

 

So I am getting grumpy in advance of it not turning up, then having to chase it with the seller, collect it from a depot etc etc

[barefoot]

Meant to post this on Tuesday when I bought my tv guide.

There's only a fucking xmas tree advert on the back cover.

It's June, it's midsummers day.

[Captain Furious]

And Lo, 6pm came and went...

[Richard]

  On 21/06/2018 at 15:33, Captain Furious said:

My new brake calliper is out for delivery with FedEx, it was supposed to be delivered yesterday, I had it sent it to my mums house because she was going to be in, nothing.  An update on their tracking website at 19:47 saying something to the effect of "Customer not available \ Business Closed" (she\it wasn't, I was there too) no card or 'attempted delivery' or anything. 

 

No worries, rescheduled for delivery today - same story on their tracking website - out for delivery - scheduled for 21/06/2018 before 18:00.  I have a nagging feeling its not going to turn up again though, because we are fairly close to the distribution point and tend to get deliveries first thing - because presumably its first on their round.

 

So I am getting grumpy in advance of it not turning up, then having to chase it with the seller, collect it from a depot etc etc

 

 

I had that happen a few months ago. I can't remember who the carrier was but apparently it had never left the depot and and all the tracking was fictitious. 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Proper boring bay at work* driving the same road for ages at the speed limit checking traffic flow. It was made all the more exciting but an hour and half be for the end the engine management light came on.

 

Mrs Shrimp was supposed to be taking it (the ST) to Scarborough. Nope...

[sierraman]

If it drives alright its probably something minor. Wouldn't worry unduly. Read the code on it that will tell you roughly where the problem might be.

[iainrcz]

Turns out arse face is on holiday for a whole fucking week starting on Saturday.

So that's my usual routine of tinkering and world of Warcraft out the window.

 

Sent from my VFD 710 using Tapatalk

[dozeydustman]

Dear hotmail,

 

communications from websites such as eBay, Autoshite, Facebook and the gardening catalogue I use belong in my inbox. E-mails with the subject lines Adult Dating, cheap blue pill, and male enhance 50% bigger cock belong in my spam folder.

 

Not vice-versa.

[Tamworthbay]

Morons who walk through our work site as a short cut. There is a perfectly good footpath but no, three abreast on the single width road is better. Some have the brains to move as you drive two tons of old Teutonic crap at them but I get abuse now and again when the wing mirror breezes past their arse. So am I supposed to stop dead and wait for them to walk past at their leisure or drive up on the path! Fook that. This mentality of god given right to be a cunt really irritates at times, especially as I know If I ever hit them I would be the one who got the hassle.

[Cavcraft]

Don’t know what you’re moaning about, TBH. After a full hour of waiting in his surgery, I’ve just found out my doctor is called Phil Collins.

 

Anyway, he said he’ll take a look at me now.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Mrs Shrimp just sent me this

 

 

Total twats. As this is really close to me I'm going to have to start doing more than just the big steering lock thing.

[Captain Furious]

  On 21/06/2018 at 15:33, Captain Furious said:

So I am getting grumpy in advance of it not turning up, then having to chase it with the seller, collect it from a depot etc etc

 

Not entirely without reason, as it has turned out.  So it was apparently out for delivery again yesterday, same story, didn't turn up then at 19:30 the tracking updated saying customer not home - BULLSHIT! 

 

So I referred it back to the ebay seller - really helpful guy to be fair, took it up with FedEx and its 'out for delivery' again today, but I am holding out zero hope of it actually turning up.

 

This means I am not going to have one for the weekend.  The MOT is booked for Tuesday so I need one by then really, if I send it in knowing it is going to fail on the handbrake - and believe me it definitely will, then its a ball ache because it means it has to go on the rollers again to be retested, which means booking an appointment, more time off work and the MOT expires on the 30th.

 

I know I have had about 3 months to fix this and haven't due to my own laziness but i'm still laying the blame on FedEx, bunch of useless cunts.

[Captain Furious]

Oh yeah, the most annoying thing, this ebay seller is based about 10 miles from me, I'd have picked up in person had I realised.  But he doesn't have another one in stock and this one is now stuck in FedEx suspended animation so that's not an option.

 

ECP seem to have jacked their prices through the roof recently in order that they can hold permanent DFS-style Sales, plus they have a £36 surcharge to return the old unit which I can't be fucked with.  Meh

[cpjitservices]

  On 20/06/2018 at 21:45, Aston Martin said:

My buddy rang, her buddies 2006 Big Cunto was dead outside her house.

 

Everything lights up, but it wouldnt turn over. I couldn't hear a fuel pump kick in, there was nothing.

 

We give it one final bump and it starts, however the brake pedal is rock hard, it doesn't steer properly. The brake light effects the nearside rear indicator, but not when the sidelights are on... Then all the rear lights die completely, the dashboard is lit like a Christmas tree. A quick run around the block and all is well, kind of...

 

To top it off, it's having an MOT at 9am.

 

Update: it's dead again.

Battery fucked?

 

Whoops... missed you've fitted one!

 

Any dodgy earths anywhere?  

[Aston Martin]

  On 22/06/2018 at 10:56, cpjitservices said:

Battery fucked?

 

Whoops... missed you've fitted one!

 

Any dodgy earths anywhere?

 

12 year old original battery and just about 100k. The battery is about as big as a 9v battery.

 

I did offer her £50 for the car, which she declined...

 

 

....

 

Also I did my bicentennial "Is my Parade still in my lockup? Check" He was, with no air in any tyres and the oil pool under the sump has gotten smaller. Either I'm past the oil porousy bit of the engine, or its all escaped.

[cpjitservices]

  On 22/06/2018 at 11:35, Aston Martin said:

12 year old original battery and just about 100k. The battery is about as big as a 9v battery.

 

I did offer her £50 for the car, which she declined...

 

 

....

 

Also I did my bicentennial "Is my Parade still in my lockup? Check" He was, with no air in any tyres and the oil pool under the sump has gotten smaller. Either I'm past the oil porousy bit of the engine, or its all escaped.

Youll have to show me sometime!

[Angrydicky]

We use FedEx all the time at work and to be honest 99% of parcels arrive ok. On Monday though, a customer called to ask where his parcel was that should have been delivered the Thursday before. No card left, nothing. The tracking information said 'Signed for by *unintelligable name* so I called the customer back and asked if he knew who it was. No, nothing. So then called the local delivery depot. They spoke to the driver who said he'd left it at "number 6 or number 8, can't remember which but I know which house, it's the one directly opposite") and we went back to the customer who confirmed there was no number 8 but there was a number 6 which was sort of opposite so he'd ask if they had it. Which they didn't.

After chasing FedEx a couple more times they said they'd send the driver to pick it up and try to deliver it again.

Shortly afterwards I had a call from a nice young lady to say she had our customer's parcel at her place of work, and had got our phone number from the invoice. Looking at google maps this business was a good 300 yards away from our customer on a main road (in a built up area) and our customer was in a news property behind the road.

I called our customer and gave him the details of the company where the parcel was, then called FedEx and asked them to tell their driver not to bother.

The customer later called and confirmed he'd collected his (large and heavy) parcel from where it had been left. Total time to get to him? A week for a next day service, all because the driver couldn't find the address and left it in an odd place.

Bloody hopeless.

[Lord Sterling]

  On 22/06/2018 at 11:35, Aston Martin said:

....Also I did my bicentennial "Is my Parade still in my lockup? Check" He was, with no air in any tyres and the oil pool under the sump has gotten smaller. Either I'm past the oil porousy bit of the engine, or its all escaped.

Lol, reminds me of my 820E. I rarely ever bother to go to the garage. Usually if I'm up that way, I've always forgotten the keys. Last time I looked, sometime last year the air in the front tyres had disappeared. Since then I've bagged myself an air compressor I keep in my car so can pump it up again if I pass by in the future.

[Guest Hooli]

  On 22/06/2018 at 12:41, Nyphur said:

On a train to collect my acquisition. Air con is banjaxed, windows not giving much of a breeze.

 

Slowly but surely melting into my seat. Still, only another hour to go....

 

Hope you're wearing your leathers for maximum discomfort.

[Guest Hooli]

Are you there yet?

[Pieman]

  On 22/06/2018 at 12:41, Nyphur said:

banjaxed

 

This word needs to be used more often, I like it.

[Stanky]

Ride home in just your pants to even it out?

[Aston Martin]

  On 22/06/2018 at 12:30, Lord Sterling said:

Lol, reminds me of my 820E. I rarely ever bother to go to the garage. Usually if I'm up that way, I've always forgotten the keys. Last time I looked, sometime last year the air in the front tyres had disappeared. Since then I've bagged myself an air compressor I keep in my car so can pump it up again if I pass by in the future.

It's at the other end of town, normally I don't open the garage. I just check that the enormous nettle hasn't moved from the middle of the door. But I had to store a bike in there, I once went and there were Vectra Recaro seats just dumped in the rain. Today there's was a burnt out motorbike.

[dollywobbler]

I have a new desktop. It has an old-style keyboard that I apparently can't type on. It makes lots of noise. It runs Linux Ubuntu, which is like Windows, but many things don't work. This is going to take some getting used to, but should speed up video production. In theory...