The grumpy thread

[Alfamale]

On Sunday I got offered a T-reg Corsa B 1.6 sport. Not my usual fodder but it had 35k miles, full history, new cam belt and engine overhaul all for £400. I agreed to the sellers price without argument as it was a friend of the family. Admittedly my plan was for a quick profit. When I asked when I could go get it I was told Wednesday was earliest convenient.

 

Get a call today to say sorry but it’s sold today. Cheers, thanks for that.

[sierraman]

Easy double your money on that fucker. This is the problem when its a sale when someone has had it an age, sentiment creeps in.

[Pillock]

Got the strimmer out earlier, about once every four years I get the urge to do some gardening.

 

Won't prime, won't suck fuel through. Tried blowing through the fuel pipe and it's blocked. Fuel that was in it is cloudy.

 

Put it away again. We'll meet again in 2022.

[Alfamale]

Easy double your money on that fucker. This is the problem when its a sale when someone has had it an age, sentiment creeps in.

Yeah was hoping for a quick buck. Never mind I suppose.

[beko1987]

Bought some new shitty exhaust mounts, will be bracing these with cable ties this time, fucking things. The shitty repair I did at dad's has failed so I'll wrap something else around it for the short term to stop the backbox join totally destroying itself as that's all that's holding the backbox up at the moment

 

Eva got up earlier and drank fuck loads of water it seems, as she's just wet the bed so much I've just bought another one... (it was 3rd hand and a bit iffy but still, ffs)

[PhilA]

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Dear lightning,

 

GTFO.

 

Love,

 

The people who had to replace 1 ADSL line card, 8 phone line cards, 1 DS1 card, an OC48 ring card and swap out an air conditioner and the alarm panel, reporting panel and generator transfer panel today. All in one sub-exchange.

 

 

*One of many phone line cards that either caught fire and/or exploded.

[SiC]

I'm surprised at how little physical damage has been done to the board. Looks just like a bad day at the engineering office when you've connected the polarity/input voltage wrong!

 

Edit: Disappointing too that the tantalum cap on there didn't even give a fire show.

[PhilA]

Self extinguishing plastics, thankfully. If you look also two other chips blew their tops off.

 

That card was actually kinda working but was getting very hot. It did have a minor alarm on it though.

 

The gapcaps on the other side of the board mostly did their job. Mostly. Direct strike to the building, one problem that the positive side of the battery bank is connected to ground...

[Ghosty]

Showed up for my last train with my fixie and it's randomly a replacement bus. 
Double decker and the driver won't let me on because they don't usually in service and wasn't sure if it was okay. Despite supposedly being under instruction of Northerns transport coordinator, he phoned his boss and then refused to let me on (other drivers have in the past in identical circumstances).
Luckily Northern being the fuckwits they are had double booked and I got a Neoplan Skyliner to myself giving me a lift home. 
Wouldn't have been too impressed if there wasn't a backup through sheer happenstance - would have had to wait for a taxi or something also willing to carry me and my bike (which I don't imagine being too easy for a 9 mile journey at 11:30pm).

What a load of shite.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That is seriously shite

[dollywobbler]

What is a fixie? #oldman

[artdjones]

It's a bike with no freewheel.A lot don't have brakes either.Don't step in front of one.

[DodgeRover]

Showed up for my last train with my fixie and it's randomly a replacement bus.

Double decker and the driver won't let me on because they don't usually in service and wasn't sure if it was okay. Despite supposedly being under instruction of Northerns transport coordinator, he phoned his boss and then refused to let me on (other drivers have in the past in identical circumstances).

Luckily Northern being the fuckwits they are had double booked and I got a Neoplan Skyliner to myself giving me a lift home.

Wouldn't have been too impressed if there wasn't a backup through sheer happenstance - would have had to wait for a taxi or something also willing to carry me and my bike (which I don't imagine being too easy for a 9 mile journey at 11:30pm).

What a load of shite.

9 miles - why didn't you just ride?

[SiC]

9 miles - why didn't you just ride?

I think he delivers food all-day by bike. So at the end of the shift he's likely knackered! I don't envy the Just-Eat guys. I'm often cycling past them on the way back from work and they all look knackered. Those good carrying bags don't look very good for the back either.

[SiC]

It's a bike with no freewheel.A lot don't have brakes either.Don't step in front of one.

Yeah they do - but only one if no front brake (on a fixed geared bike). You stop cycling or resist the pedals which will slow or stop the bike. Bikes (legally) need two forms of braking though, so need to have a front brake too. The guy that hit that woman had no front brake. It was decided/found if he did have a front brake he most probably could have stopped before hitting the woman. Hence why he was convicted.

[MikeR]

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Dear lightning,

 

GTFO.

 

Love,

 

The people who had to replace 1 ADSL line card, 8 phone line cards, 1 DS1 card, an OC48 ring card and swap out an air conditioner and the alarm panel, reporting panel and generator transfer panel today. All in one sub-exchange.

 

 

*One of many phone line cards that either caught fire and/or exploded.

I have seen line cards in the past were all the tracking , components ..... was gone !!   ... just a blackened pcb

 

and the self extinguishing plastic contains little balls of somat that puts the fire out , one manufacturer made these balls too big in the past and they could  short the pins out 

[PhilA]

We've had that also, but usually that's when one card or group take the hit directly; this was spread out evenly across the whole office.

 

Phil

[greengartside]

No news from Mazda 929 dude today. I will probably call him tomorrow and if I can't get any closer to a deal, attempt to block the whole thing out of my memory

Sad face he does need reminding from time to time so ring him again and see what he says. The offer of popping along Saturday still stands BTW. Hopefully we can all get this sorted.

 

Have some more pics while I’m ‘ere.

 

 

 

 

 

[Zelandeth]

Well done whichever idiot just set a fair sized chunk of our neighbourhood on fire by dropping a cigarette butt.

 

It's as dry as the bloody Sahara out there, USE YOUR BLOODY HEAD...Three quarters of the vegetation is pretty much looking for an excuse to catch fire, don't give it one!

 

...Especially when said park that has now been turned to charcoal is a couple of trees and a wall away from a petrol station.

[BorniteIdentity]

Sad face he does need reminding from time to time so ring him again and see what he says. The offer of popping along Saturday still stands BTW. Hopefully we can all get this sorted.

 

Have some more pics while I’m ‘ere.

 

 

 

 

 

Even if it can never return to the Queen’s highway - that’d make an incredible home office.

 

God alive. What a beaut.

[xtriple]

Here we are again, another 'quality' rant brought to you by 'grumpy old twat of Torquay'.

 

Number one: I have just paid £15 for two sodding lightbulbs! £15!!!! Then, after faffing around for ages at various shops (and arguing with Chester about front seats for passengers and back seats for fat dogs) I paid £17 for some stainless steel cable ties! Fuck me, when did everything become so expensive? So having been mugged in the shop, I go out to the car to find some utter throbber has parked right behind my car and the two adjacent and blocked us all in. Oh yes, there were dozens of spaces empty but that would have meant walking fifteen feet to the door. I start the car and sit there patiently... as does the bloke beside me, finally, the woman who has been sat in the passenger seat gets out and goes to the other side to move it.

 

It took her forever and a day to go round the back of the car and get in the drivers seat, not because she was ill or disabled in any way, just fucking grotesquely fat 30 stone if a pound and looked like a bulldog licking piss off a thistle! Not a word or gesture of apology, nothing.

 

Then to the park. It's summer in Torquay, the kids are now on holiday and the utter little cunts are all screaming at the tops of their lungs all in a slightly different pitch while 'Mummy' totally ignores the little fuckers and talks to her mates on the phone and the kids run fucking riot. And football, loads of older kids playing football with NO FUCKING REGARD AT ALL  for all the other people who want to enjoy the peace and serenity we all get the rest of the year - a football ended up inside my car! The fucking cunt went to get it back without a word, he got told to 'fuck off sharpish' and so now I have a lovely new football for the dogs to play with... not that they will, but... Of course, the lad (about 16 -18 ) and his mates kicked off a bit, but Chester soon set them right as he gets quite 'shouty' when he feels threatened.

 

Cunts everywhere.

[mrbenn]

^^^ Free football! Like your work.

 

Minor grump: got some cycling glasses this morning as I'm sick of every fly in a 100 mile radius trying to get inside my eyes when I'm out on the bike, despite wearing "normal" glasses.

 

This afternoon proved that the new glasses work well at protecting my eyes, but didn't stop what must have been a hornet stinging me on one of my fingers. Swelled up like a goodun' and my whole arm hurts now. Bastard. At least it didn't get me on the face, I'm ugly enough as it is.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Mrs Shrimp just coming home on the M62 said she heard a clicking then hissing. Is it the air con as it's just been filled up.

 

Nope it's the inner side wall of the front drivers side split apart.

 

 

Not a great pic but you can just about see two nice big splits. Changed it for the space saver. It was going to the garage for its oil leak anyway shame we have to add a tyre to that too.

[New POD]

I have seen line cards in the past were all the tracking , components ..... was gone !! ... just a blackened pcb

 

and the self extinguishing plastic contains little balls of somat that puts the fire out , one manufacturer made these balls too big in the past and they could short the pins out

Someone offer MikeR a job which requires him to actually use the amazing stuff he knows from 30 years as a senior test engineer at Plessey/GPT/Marconi coms instead of wasting it looking after blind kids and getting the whole summer off. Paid.

Not jealous after 3/5 of another mediocre week pretending i know stuff about stuff i know nothing about. Not at all.

[chodweaver]

'Ad closed by Google'

 

 

Er, no, it was me that closed the ad. Google only asked me WHY I closed the ad, and the options it gave for my response did NOT include 'because I'm fed up with your shitty platform bombarding me with lurid, pushy, tasteless marketing from just the sort of shallow, clickbait enterprises that are dumbing down the modern world'

 

Sorry, I forgot for a moment there, I'M the product...

[Wack]

Miserable cunt living behind me, he had some leylandi trees that were about 30ft tall, huge branches hanging over my side, about 10 years ago I cut them off level with the fence

 

He then gets some twat with a chain saw to top them but instead of coming round he just leans over and hacks away so this side is now just dead wood , this guy tries to blame me for killing his trees until I point out I didn't do it because they've been cut the same in the garden next door so he retreats,that was 2 years ago

 

2 weeks ago when we get back from a week away they've gone completely, yesterday I went behind the shed and there's a big branch in my way so I just lift it on top of the fence so I can get round the back and I hear

 

don't you throw that over here, it's nothing to do with me

 

I wasn't throwing it over there (even though it's obviously a bit of your fucking tree)

 

then he says,It's your fault we've lost these trees ,at this point I kept my mouth shut before it escalated into something worse, thankfully he didn't say another world, miserable cunt

 

My plot shares a border with 7 other houses , every one paid 1/2 towards the replacement border fence apart from this twat, it was rotten because his trees had rotted it but apparently we did unnecessary work so he wasn't paying

 

I feel a trip to argos is coming up

[dozeydustman]

Crappy day at work because of this heat. They're supplying us with a two litre bottle of water per day for each employee and allowing us to start at half 5. Still hasn't stopped 8 blokes over the last 3 days collapsing with heatstroke.

 

Wayne & Waynetta appear to have put their differences aside and she's moved back in permanently. And the Waynelets have been kicking their football at the rest of the cul-de-sac's cars. Worse still, my local Argos stores are now click & collects in branches of Sainsbury's with a self-service order tablet, so I can't even pick up half a dozen catalogues to put through their letterbox at 4:30 in the morning over the next couple of weeks.

[wuvvum]

Yeah they do - but only one if no front brake (on a fixed geared bike). You stop cycling or resist the pedals which will slow or stop the bike. Bikes (legally) need two forms of braking though, so need to have a front brake too. The guy that hit that woman had no front brake. It was decided/found if he did have a front brake he most probably could have stopped before hitting the woman. Hence why he was convicted.

He was also an arrogant little cunt, which didn't help his cause.

[Kiltox]

Miserable cunt living behind me, he had some leylandi trees that were about 30ft tall, huge branches hanging over my side, about 10 years ago I cut them off level with the fence

 

He then gets some twat with a chain saw to top them but instead of coming round he just leans over and hacks away so this side is now just dead wood , this guy tries to blame me for killing his trees until I point out I didn't do it because they've been cut the same in the garden next door so he retreats,that was 2 years ago

 

2 weeks ago when we get back from a week away they've gone completely, yesterday I went behind the shed and there's a big branch in my way so I just lift it on top of the fence so I can get round the back and I hear

 

don't you throw that over here, it's nothing to do with me

 

I wasn't throwing it over there (even though it's obviously a bit of your fucking tree)

 

then he says,It's your fault we've lost these trees ,at this point I kept my mouth shut before it escalated into something worse, thankfully he didn't say another world, miserable cunt

 

My plot shares a border with 7 other houses , every one paid 1/2 towards the replacement border fence apart from this twat, it was rotten because his trees had rotted it but apparently we did unnecessary work so he wasn't paying

 

I feel some 5am full bore starts coming up

FTFY

[neil1971]

I'm sure there's others on here with more knowledge on this subject but I think the idea is that you post them the Argos catalogue, without any postage on it, result being that they pay excess postage when it's delivered (even better if they have to trek to the sorting office for the privilege) only to find a worthless catalogue as their reward. I'm lucky enough to have decent neighbours at the moment but hasn't always been the case so you have my sympathy.

 

 

, so I can't even pick up half a dozen catalogues to put through their letterbox at 4:30 in the morning over the next couple of weeks.