The grumpy thread

[Kiltox]

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

Yes I know smartphones for less than the £550-£1000 of a flagship Apple/Samsung phone do exist - most people who would bother with insuring a phone probably don’t have one though

[captain_70s]

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

Excellent. I've bought a G5 to replace my S4!

[Guest Hooli]

Yeah but you can make a civic break....

[Guest Hooli]

Oh & grump. I popped out at lunch to speak to a local bike shop so I was in the car with the wheel in the boot. I get stuck behind dittering doris the dementia display driver, at no point did she get past 25mph in a 40 zone on free flowing roads & there appeared to be three invisible cars in front of her when she got near a queue.

 

FFS when ya that bad you must know, GIVE UP!

[SiC]

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.

I pay £13 per month to cover both my wife and my phone, breakdown cover and holiday insurance. Nationwide Plus account but other banks offer similar for similar money.

 

I dropped my phone and smashed the screen. Was too lazy to get it fixed as it worked enough (only the corner of the screen). Then managed to smash it again and completely bugger it up. So decided to actually claim on the insurance. £25 excess + cost of special delivery to the repair centre. They repaired and delivered it back in a couple of days. Being a Samsung S8+, the screens are really susceptible to damage - even with a bumper case on. First time I actually claimed on that insurance (well I have used the breakdown part) but I'm very glad I paid it. I can't imagine that big screen is that cheap to replace.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Harsh. Hope he makes a full recovery.

 

How old was he, out of interest?

 

 

Late 50s...

[Sloth in a bowl]

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

What is it with my cars and Aberdeen?

Lorn sausage blocking the fuel pump?

[fordperv]

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.

Don't forget spare parts insurance, I decided to add this to my car insurance apparently covers malicious and accidental damage or theft

[sierraman]

Christ. Hubcap cover, cassette tape cover, numberplate cover...

[iainrcz]

This screwdriver keeps jumping out the screw heads.

 

Is it the right bit?

 

Yes.

 

Turn the torque down.

 

I did but it just kept clicking.

 

That means it tight you knob. FFS.

 

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[Snipes]

I pay £13 per month to cover both my wife and my phone, breakdown cover and holiday insurance. Nationwide Plus account but other banks offer similar for similar money.

 

I dropped my phone and smashed the screen. Was too lazy to get it fixed as it worked enough (only the corner of the screen). Then managed to smash it again and completely bugger it up. So decided to actually claim on the insurance. £25 excess + cost of special delivery to the repair centre. They repaired and delivered it back in a couple of days. Being a Samsung S8+, the screens are really susceptible to damage - even with a bumper case on. First time I actually claimed on that insurance (well I have used the breakdown part) but I'm very glad I paid it. I can't imagine that big screen is that cheap to replace.

My g/f and I have a very similar deal with TSB and the breakdown service (via The AA) has been excellent.

[Aston Martin]

OK.......

[Kiltox]

They should’ve stopped at stolen

[Guest Hooli]

Exactly, nothing to stop a recovered bike going back on the road.

[Wack]

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

 

 

what about if you can only go forward

[Wack]

 My Grandma passed as I was on the motorway to go see her. She wasn't alone, but still wished I could have seen her one more time.

 

 

It's a funny thing that last visit , my dad was 82 , he had an operation, he was in northampton hospital , I drive nationwide for a job so whenever i'm in the area I go and see him, the last time I saw him alive I spent an hour with him then as I left I got to the end of the corridor and felt the urge to go back so I just stood outside the door where he couldn't see me and watched him for a couple of minutes , don't know what made me do it but that was the last time I saw him alive, another thing that was odd was a week later after they'd discharged him I rang to wish him happy birthday but i'd had a brain fade and rang 2 days too early, we had a laugh about it and I finished the call with OK i'll ring on the 15th then

 

 

On the morning of his birthday my sister rang to say he'd died, born and died on the same date

[Des]

what about if you can only go forward

Then someone would have come from the past and told us about it.

[Supernaut]

I'm travelling forward in time right now, at 1.0x speed.

[chaseracer]

"Is that the time?"

 

"No, that is a clock.  Time is an abstract concept, developed as a tool of oppression across the human experience."

 

[iainrcz]

Time stops me from floating away in to the clouds with my head up my arse.

 

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[Sloth in a bowl]

"Is that the time?"

 

"No, that is a clock. Time is an abstract concept, developed as a tool of oppression across the human experience."

 

Dave

 

Time to start an existential angst thread?

[Parky]

Or is it? Would such a thread really exist anywhere other than your own imagination?

[Inspector Morose]

Or is it? Would such a thread really exist anywhere other than your own imagination?

It already exists but the universe around it has yet to be constructed so it remains invisible from our own perspective.

[drum]

Then someone would have come from the past and told us about it.

Not if it hasn't been invented yet.

[Lord Sterling]

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.

Wgats actually wrong with your S4? I have an S4 that has it's 2nd screen smashed. I need a replacement screen if yours is good or I have a goos motherboard if yours is no good?

[MarvinsMom]

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

 

my phone is, apparently a samsung galaxy s2, it was a hand-me-down from me father after he retired 2-3 years ago, and before that it had been his last work phone for 5 or 6 years. 

 

i think. in all honesty i've no idea how old it REALLY  is. apparently its one of them wot does interweb (so i'm told)

 

it has done well, though it has been looked after all its life. 

 

but it works and it was free (my favourite word)

 

i could never, ever contemplate spending many pounds on a phone, but i am old, and a cheap skate, and i don't need to keep up with the kalrissians either

[dozeydustman]

Both cars have conked out today. No idea why on either. Both have fuel, charged batteries and plenty of oil, coolant and other things. Corolla is misfiring so thinking HT or plug breakdown as it is due a service. Saab is completely dead - nothing with ignition switched on at all.

[richardmorris]

Dave

Time to start an existential angst thread?

 

 

 

 

Time is imaginary, lunchtime doubly so!

 

 

 

Sorry that’s a misquote. Time is an illusion wrote Douglas Adams. Lunchtime bit is right though.

[Guest Hooli]

 

 

i could never, ever contemplate spending many pounds on a phone

 

Nor me. The only reason I replace phones is the utter impossibility of buying a working replacement battery for them. Doesn't matter where you buy it from they are always crap.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

^^^^^ that is absolutely true. I thought it was just me! How come they're all so completely shit?!