The grumpy thread

[brandersnatch]

You will never be able to travel in time, or someone would have come back and told us about it.

[Parky]

Yeah but if you could travel back in time, who’d want to come back to now?

 

I would think most people would go for the following sort of thing:

 

The birth of Christ (I would take a nice wee teddy thus altering the bible forever)

The birth of Hitler (I would take him a Little Book of Calm thus altering history forever)

I would take a picture of the Alfa Romeo Guilia, write Austin Montego on it and slip it in Roy Axes briefcase (thus altering history forever)

In return I would get a picture of a Montego, write “der neue drei series” on it and slip it in Michelottis satchel (you get the idea now)

And maybe put several pairs of binoculars on the observation deck of the Titanic and tell the captain to knock the pace back a tad

 

Coming back to England 2018? Suppose there is the chance to see the Semi final.....

[Tadhg Tiogar]

You will never be able to travel in time, or someone would have come back and told us about it.

If you cross the International Date Line eastwards, are you not travelling back in time?

[sierraman]

No I'd go back to 1973, you'd have twenty or so good years before the Blair era rot set in. If time travel were possible I'd give every penny I had to go back to the seventies.

[Inspector Morose]

Fuck fuck fuck. P1109 fault code and limp home mode engaged.

What is it with my cars and Aberdeen?

[beko1987]

I'm sure there's space to park it next to the other one. Should Bucketeer leave now or in the morning?

[Inspector Morose]

10000 miles. No great issues but when Mrs FPB7 is in the car and it goes and does that on me. Bastard thing. Luckily I carry my code reader so I can clear it to carry on. That was until the car decided to throw a hissy fit about cheap Chinese electronicals probing it's circuits and threw up a vast array of random failures all at once. After cooling down a little over a haddock supper from mikes famous chip shop, I remembered to unplug it and normal(ish) service is resumed.

 

P1109 is the fault code for the dreaded swirl flaps. Balls.

 

(Yeah, still haven't got round to t lolling her about the green machine still).

[beko1987]

Possibly best not to do that tonight...

[drum]

What's the latest with the green machine? I might be available to help if you're having a day of fixage at some point.

[captain_70s]

Fuck fuck fuck. P1109 fault code and limp home mode engaged.

What is it with my cars and Aberdeen?

Aberdeen's natural misery seeps into it's surroundings and leads to misfortune...

 

I am grumpy as my mobile phone died to death today.

 

 

RIP Samsung Galaxy S4, you had a rough 5 years...

 

Of course the actual phone giving up the ghost isn't really the problem, it's the issues resulting from it's FTP.

 

At the same time the phone died I received a thing through the letterbox telling me I need to accept another fucking court citation to be a witness at the case involving the burglary of my flat (ironically the court stuff is turning out to be far more of a hassle/expense than the actual crime was). Naturally I need to phone them to do this, new phone won't be here until the 13th.

 

I've purchased a new phone which is comparable to the old one but it requires a nano sim rather than the micro sim my old phone has, so I'll have to go to Vodafone to get one. I'll also have to transfer my number over and re-add all my contacts.

 

I had to buy a watch (Tesco's finest, cheapest) as I need a time keeping device for work.

 

I can't listen to podcasts to fall asleep to.

 

My only alarm clock is now a 1979 Waltham clock radio featuring questionable reliability.

 

Due to impromptu phone shopping before work this morning I had to postpone the Acclaim's oil change yet again.

 

Not having a functioning phone on me while I'm out of the flat gives me a creeping feeling of wrongness. It's part of the 3-pat check (keys, wallet, phone) and to have it missing is very discomforting.

[Cavcraft]

Don't really know what you're moaning about, tbh. I just got ripped off by a ticket tout, wanted to see The Cure but he's sold me Placebo tickets.

[purplebargeken]

^^ OFFS lol

[Vantman]

Good mate of mine had a stroke last week.  Seems he's recovering very well but that was a bit of a surprise...

 

Best wishes to your mate,tell him to stay positive. I am a stroke survivor,seven years now.

[Inspector Morose]

What's the latest with the green machine? I might be available to help if you're having a day of fixage at some point.

I think the plan is Saabnuts mate is going to have a go at it at some point. Replacement gearboxes and shafts are out there but expensive and, basically, a really crap design. TBH the car isn't ever going to be worth spending huge sums on, being it's an ex Hungary car that's been run into the ground before coming over here so the lookout for a suitable VAG engine/box combo is the likely option. This'll give me the benefit of 5 gears too to make it a more useful toy in the future. To compensate for all of these shenanigans, I'm giving them my P4 to play with, to pick up from me when he's got an empty trailer heading north. I'm in no rush as its my busy season at the moment (I'm just on a quick break with the wife before starting the next tour) and Nick's down at his other place for a while.

 

I think that's the plan, anyway but thanks for the offer of help!

[SierraMikeHotel]

While we're moaning about work...

 

My department is at the end of an eighteen-month long change programme, intended to save money, modernise and make us more efficient for the future as demand is certain to rise (this will be the case for literally everyone in the public sector, I realise).

 

Eighteen months of worry (I didn't really think I'd be made redundant but you can't help thinking about it), meetings, workshops, time-and-motion studies, not to mention huge amounts of tax money wasted on fucking "management consultants" and all for what? Basically the same plan that my colleagues and I came up with in a couple of hours at the very beginning of the process.

 

They're not even doing some of the things that we came up with. What a total waste of time and money.

[bramz7]

I smashed my phone a few months back but it kept working.

However something has presumably got in the crack as the screen is self interacting, made even worse in the heat. Annoyingly I got it on a two year finance (0%) with Samsung and screen repair is £300 or so.

 

Looks like I'm going to have to upgrade my sim only to a handset as this is driving me nuts.

Tempted to go to iPhone to be honest, just out of boredom.

 

And the battery on this thing is now awful. 8 hours of use maybe?

[Lacquer Peel]

8 hours is quite good especially if you're using the screen and mobile data through the day.

[bramz7]

It used 7% typing that comment so I should have put 8 hours total.

[dean36014]

Not sure which samsung you have, but a new screen in my A6 was only 80 fitted at local phone shop.

[New POD]

While we're moaning about work...

 

My department is at the end of an eighteen-month long change programme, intended to save money, modernise and make us more efficient for the future as demand is certain to rise (this will be the case for literally everyone in the public sector, I realise).

 

Eighteen months of worry (I didn't really think I'd be made redundant but you can't help thinking about it), meetings, workshops, time-and-motion studies, not to mention huge amounts of tax money wasted on fucking "management consultants" and all for what? Basically the same plan that my colleagues and I came up with in a couple of hours at the very beginning of the process.

 

They're not even doing some of the things that we came up with. What a total waste of time and money.

Having worked in an consultant role more than once, I feel your pain.

 

The best Lean manufacturing implementation I've seen was done by 2 manufacturing engineers who had previous experience of being subject to major change but no influence over it. And they just decided one day to apply what they knew whilst the boss was on looking term sick leave.

[bramz7]

Sadly I'm a phone snob so have a Note 8. With no insurance.

[chodweaver]

With Mrs CW being a driving instructor, I'm always noticing other driving school cars - what models are used and how they're signwritten.

 

The grump? That another local driving instructor thought it wise to use a Golf R as a car for driving instruction. Unless these have a 'learner' mode (like the opposite to 'Sport' mode) that dumbs the 300bhp lump down to something that won't bite when the novice driver stomps on the throttle by accident, I think putting people with no driving skills in control of one is just irresponsible.

[Supernaut]

I bet it's not actually a Golf R.

 

They do R-line models. They have all the trim of the R, including the badge on the grille and everything, but they're a 1.2 turbo or something silly like that.

[sierraman]

Ive often wondered how many people pay £15 a month to insure a phone for 2-3 years on a phone worth a couple of hundred quid.

[chaseracer]

Possibly best not to do that EVER...

 

FTFY...

[Parky]

Ive often wondered how many people pay £15 a month to insure a phone for 2-3 years on a phone worth a couple of hundred quid.

True. Although some “premium” bank accounts have all manner of add ins such as gadget insurance, car breakdown, etc and we forget that we have these benefits. Might be worth double checking what sort of bank account you have, you never know.

 

That said there is always an excess. I got a replacement iPhone though mine but the excess was £75. Sure it’s a fully refurbed one, as good as new but I probably could have just bought a second hand one from eBay for less.

[Kiltox]

Ive often wondered how many people pay £15 a month to insure a phone for 2-3 years on a phone worth a couple of hundred quid.

You don’t get much for a couple of hundred quid these days

[sierraman]

You can insure against anything these days, dental insurance, drains cover, tyre insurance, spectacle cover. You could easily spent 15-20% of your income on insuring everything. Car insurance that's obviously a necessity but a lot of the other stuff is a waste of money.

[Kiltox]

I know two people who wish they’d insured their £700 mobile phone - one was mugged and the other lost their phone on a night out

[dome]

You don’t get much for a couple of hundred quid these days

 

My Moto G5+ cost not a lot more than that and is still going strong 2 years later