The grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

Multigrade scum

[Parky]

Right....

 

Can’t see the cables under the car so that was a waste. No obvious flaws with anything under the gaiter but the stick definitely isn’t moving as far to the left as it used to. Unless you push it down to engage reverse when it goes all the way over fine.

 

I have found if I push the stick down and aim it roughly between reverse and third, first gear appears! Considerable risk of engaging reverse but luckily the parking sensors sound a beep if reverse is engaged so at least I have an audio warning that my jack rabbit start is about to become expensive. So I can drive the thing although it will feel a little like nursing a wounded Lancaster home. Ok, slight exaggeration.

 

Actually reminded me of a 1997 Polo I test drove in 2009. I couldn’t get first or second in that either, no matter how I tried. The owner managed it no problem but I couldn’t do it. Basically exactly the same problem as I am having now.

 

Some handy youtube vids cover similar issues, am pretty confident it’s a bush or clip causing this issue rather than anything cog based. May investigate further tomorrow

[richardmorris]

  On 09/07/2018 at 18:42, Hooli said:

Multigrade scum

Ok, you know I meant viscious.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 09/07/2018 at 08:52, Tayne said:

Domestic violence goes up 38% when England lose, that tiny minority’s is a lot bigger than you think.

Modern civilisation is but a veneer to cover the savagery that always lurks.

[richardmorris]

  On 09/07/2018 at 19:17, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Modern civilisation is but a veneer to cover the savagery that always lurks.

Modern civilisation is two pay cheques away from anarchy,

[Guest Hooli]

Two pay cheques? You rich sod!

[dave21478]

Computers, man. I swear to fucking Christ......

 

I will post up in the techy thread next door in a minute if anyone takes pity on me and wants to help.

[cobblers]

  On 09/07/2018 at 20:06, dave21478 said:

Computers, man. I swear to fucking Christ......

 

I will post up in the techy thread next door in a minute if anyone takes pity on me and wants to help.

There's absolutely no better feeling than frisbeeing a laptop into the side of a house and watching all the bits of plastic pop off and scatter all over the place.

[dave21478]

Agreed. 

If you search through my previous postings in the tech thread there are a few photos of me using an axe to solve* problems with previous laptops.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 09/07/2018 at 19:45, Hooli said:

Two pay cheques? You rich sod!

Well, he does inhabit Windsor Great Park...

[DodgeRover]

  On 09/07/2018 at 19:42, richardmorris said:

Modern civilisation is two pay cheques away from anarchy,

Two ready meals from anarchy may be more appropriate depending on where you live...

[Guest Hooli]

One waddle to the takeaway....

[Pillock]

  On 09/07/2018 at 20:25, cobblers said:

There's absolutely no better feeling than frisbeeing a laptop into the side of a house and watching all the bits of plastic pop off and scatter all over the place.

Part of my job used to involve destroying laptops that the customer didn't want repairing or returning.

 

I did this with a sledgehammer, by throwing them up into the air as high as I could out the back of the loading bay, and in one occasion parking my Scirocco on top of one and trying to do a burnout.

 

In fact I also had to drive over a few laptops for "research". That was in my Audi 90. I did it at 10, 20, 30mph and then for a laugh I managed to get it to about 45mph and obliterated the fucker as the front wheel kicked it up and the back wheel slammed it right back down again.

[cobblers]

when I worked at Halfords we were told to destroy old bike frames, so one of the nobhead managers decided to drive over them.

We lined them all up, and he drove over the headset end of the frames, no bother.

Then he decided to have another go at them, higher speed. They all tangled up and ended up coving the door of his focus in.

good times.

[brownnova]

Had my renewal through for the Mazda...

 

£170 last year

 

£1176 for this year....

 

I think not Adrian Flux you charlatan robbing bastards! That's a 591% increase in premium. I look forward to hearing their excuses for this ridiculous rise!

[DodgeRover]

  On 09/07/2018 at 21:52, brownnova said:

Had my renewal through for the Mazda...

 

£170 last year

 

£1176 for this year....

 

I think not Adrian Flux you charlatan robbing bastards! That's a 591% increase in premium. I look forward to hearing their excuses for this ridiculous rise!

They made a mistake last year so are now offering you this super bargain to keep your loyalty...

[PhilA]

Viscous bites look much like the way I react to wasps.

 

Differentiated from ants (white bump in center full of yuk, red surround), spiders (red surround, veiny looking, yellow in the middle, painful), bees (large red pimple hardly any surround).

 

Go to the doctor and complain of hæmmorhoids, get the prescription cream for it. 5% hydrocortisone much better than the pansy stuff sold as "strongest stuff you can get ever to stop bites being itchy" in Boots.

 

Phil

[vulgalour]

Huh, that bit of metal that fell on the side earlier seemingly from nowhere was actually one of my fillings.  Super.  Smashing.  GREAT.

[andy18s]

  On 09/07/2018 at 23:42, PhilA said:

Viscous bites look much like the way I react to wasps.

 

Differentiated from ants (white bump in center full of yuk, red surround), spiders (red surround, veiny looking, yellow in the middle, painful), bees (large red pimple hardly any surround).

 

Go to the doctor and complain of hæmmorhoids, get the prescription cream for it. 5% hydrocortisone much better than the pansy stuff sold as "strongest stuff you can get ever to stop bites being itchy" in Boots.

 

Phil

You can buy stuff over the counter in BG that would be classed as a chemical weapon in the UK.....

The wife suffers with Fibromyalgia and some of her UK prescription only drugs are freely available,and she always gets offered a " better and stronger" for not many Leva...

[sierraman]

  On 09/07/2018 at 21:46, cobblers said:

when I worked at Halfords we were told to destroy old bike frames, so one of the nobhead managers decided to drive over them.

We lined them all up, and he drove over the headset end of the frames, no bother.

Then he decided to have another go at them, higher speed. They all tangled up and ended up coving the door of his focus in.

good times.

Wouldn't cutting them in half with the grinder be easier??

[gm]

  On 09/07/2018 at 21:52, brownnova said:

Had my renewal through for the Mazda...

 

£170 last year

 

£1176 for this year....

 

I think not Adrian Flux you charlatan robbing bastards! That's a 591% increase in premium. I look forward to hearing their excuses for this ridiculous rise!

give Lancaster a call, my mx5 renewal was £190 which they dropped to £170 when I called to 'discuss'

[OwdChina]

Well I'm in Germany at the moment, a place called Herzogenaurach to be exact untill Friday and after a week in England I decided not to bother bringing a hat or coat or even a jacket.....................and guess what..............it's fucking pissing it down

[Pillock]

  On 10/07/2018 at 08:53, sierraman said:

Wouldn't cutting them in half with the grinder be easier??

Easier isn't always more fun.

[John F]

  On 10/07/2018 at 09:29, meowdchina said:

Well I'm in Germany at the moment, a place called Herzogenaurach to be exact untill Friday and after a week in England I decided not to bother bringing a hat or coat or even a jacket.....................and guess what..............it's fucking pissing it down

 

Are you at Adidas?

 

I used to live up the road in Erlangen.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

  alcyonecorporation said:

Various life sucking etc...... stuff.

Feeling your pain bud..... just tied to take some cash out. Not a hope in hell.......

 

I've blocked a pension payment temporarily - last 3mths plus no longer use a certain 'provider' here for the last 7+ mths......

I budgeted for 6mths as my knee was toast - so ligaments etc.... all working their way back to OK.

 

Fuggera at the bank have paid all the blocked amounts.... so I'm almost 1K down, I then find (my fault I didn't think of it) that the annual water is sodding huge too......

 

Bike and Lada now up for instant folding. Job hunt stepped into overdrive.........

 

Best of luck with it dude.......

[OwdChina]

  On 10/07/2018 at 12:02, John F said:

Are you at Adidas?

 

I used to live up the road in Erlangen.

Yup, my wife is, I'm here for a change of scenery and gutmann beer.

 

Edit: and here for the match........England tee shirt on........didn't think we'd get this far.

[Supernaut]

Fucking work can fuck off, and so can cunting service desk.

 

I need suggestions for new jobs that aren't IT support. It's the same thankless shit day-in, day-out. It feels like everything is on repeat.

 

Service Desk here aren't helping either. A few weeks ago they got 'service desk accreditation' whatever the fuck that is. From everybody else's perspective it just seemed like they stopped doing their jobs for a fortnight in favour of attending some stupid seminars from a snake-oil salesman. Now they're back at their jobs they seem to have forgotten how to do it. They have calls sitting and sitting for days on end until the user is suitably pissed off, before they drop it like a hot potato in 2nd line's (i.e. my) lap like "ooh, not our problem!"

Now their latest trick is to add condescending comments into support calls when escalating them up the chain. Example; a call comes in about patchy wifi signal (a-fucking-gain, refer to the same shit day-in day-out comment above). The most idiotic, slowest, most pathetic waste of skin on service desk goes and adds a snarky comment to the call before passing it through "Can Network Team investigate the wifi signal in the area please."

OH THAT'S A BRILLIANT IDEA. I WOULD HAVE NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT, HAVING BEEN A NETWORK TECHNICIAN FOR FOUR FUCKING YEARS. I was planning on going over there with a stick coated in goat entrails and waving it around while chanting. Glad you saved my arse there. Thanks for that, cunt-face!

 

 

 

*smashes stuff*

[Kiltox]

Liked your post because I feel your pain not because I like it

 

Imagine the same but with some man-child developers telling you they absolutely must have access to their personal email whilst connected to a bank’s network

[Parky]

Had to do a task. A tedious task which took weeks. Lots of data crunching and list building prior to running a campaign. Pointed out it was tedious and would take weeks and was told that nobody else was available to do it and it was important. So I did the decent thing, rolled up my sleeves, got stuck in and got it done.

 

Just been bollocked for doing the thing that nobody else was available to do but was important to get done.

 

And that ladies and gentlemen is how to get your staff to respond positively to approaches from headhunters...

[Supernaut]

  On 10/07/2018 at 15:12, Parky said:

Had to do a task. A tedious task which took weeks. Lots of data crunching and list building prior to running a campaign. Pointed out it was tedious and would take weeks and was told that nobody else was available to do it and it was important. So I did the decent thing, rolled up my sleeves, got stuck in and got it done.

 

Just been bollocked for doing the thing that nobody else was available to do but was important to get done.

 

And that ladies and gentlemen is how to get your staff to respond positively to approaches from headhunters...

I worked as a forklift driver at a steel merchants for a summer a few years back. I once got bollocked for doing a thing that needed done.

 

I then walked that afternoon leaving them sans forklift driver, the dicks. Walked into an agency the next day waving my forklift licences in their faces and got more work within the week.