The grumpy thread

[GrumpiusMaximus]

It still makes a bloody almighty noise if thrown through the living room window, though.  With or without missing postage stamps.

[Guest Hooli]

It still makes a bloody almighty noise if thrown through the living room window, though.  With or without missing postage stamps opening the window first.

FTFY

[omegod]

Jesus wept I don't know what my dog has eaten, a dead rat or maybe it's just a late side effect of her chemo, I have no sense of smell normally but fuck me the wallpaper is going to peel off soon, it's that bad !

[AMC Rebel]

What is a fixie? #oldman

Proper old man here - like all hip stuff they were abandoned some time ago and have just been rediscovered and fashionable. The real old bone shakers had footpegs on the frame to rest your feet on as the pedals windmilled like fury downhill. <pedant> also a lot of people riding bikes they call fixies that aren’t because they don’t know it comes from fixed wheel - no freewheeling hub.

[captain_70s]

Fucking road closures.

 

Left work at 11:20pm, my usual road home is closed, the highway blokes are litterally putting up the cones as I come around the roundabout. Whatevs, I'll take the backup route. That is also closed, and backed up with traffic for miles. Added a fucking hour to my commute, at midnight!

 

Could be worse I suppose. Passed a Punto and a 500 freshly overheated from the waiting... 

 

#JustFiatThings

[Ghosty]

Insurance renewal is up on the 9th. Got a quote £100 cheaper than anywhere else from Hastings, but their website is so slow and broken on any device or network that I couldn't actually pay for it. Of course, now it's the next day, the quote is no longer competitive, but the website is suddenly working a whole lot better.

I called them, but I spent 15 minutes on hold and they wanted to charge an extra £12.50 to do a quote on the phone which is a fucking joke (and I bet it'd be a war to get them to waive the cost for sake of their duff website), so I gave up.

 

Get fucked.

I'll be belling Direct Line and LV tomorrow to see what they might be able to do - if not I suppose I'll have to shell out a bit more.

 

 

At least the quotes are in the ballpark I expected.

[Cavcraft]

Sort of hard to get what you're moaning about, really. Yesterday, my son fell asleep at a party, so I drew a willy on his forehead with a marker pen and shaved his eyebrows.


The missus went absolutely off her nut, put him back in the pram and stormed off home.

[LightBulbFun]

bloody chrome...

 

a while back they put out an update which meant when you had 101 tabs open instead of all the favicons vanishing they just shrunk in size this was great it meant I could have even more tabs open and still keep track of them all

 

until today when chrome 68 showed up and now the tabs are back to their old ways where if you have too many open all your favicons vanish so cue me having to cull about 120 tabs down to 77 tabs so i could get my favicons back... what a right PITA (also while trying to see if i could fix the issue I reset the everything, so i had to login to all my sites again)

 

I did submit a bug report lets see if anything happens...

[AMC Rebel]

Fucking road closures.

 

Left work at 11:20pm, my usual road home is closed, the highway blokes are litterally putting up the cones as I come around the roundabout. Whatevs, I'll take the backup route. That is also closed, and backed up with traffic for miles. Added a fucking hour to my commute, at midnight!

 

Could be worse I suppose. Passed a Punto and a 500 freshly overheated from the waiting...

 

#JustFiatThings

Don't mind short term closures for essential works. Around here there are loads of houses getting built and the County Highways just rubber stamps any requests - one of my most-used routes has been closed on and off for most of the year so far (including massively over running works). Now they have closed if for a further 22 weeks.

 

No thought or care ever seems to be given to minimising disruption for existing residents - just whatever suits the developers budget and timescales.

[Kiltox]

How on Earth can you manage 100+ tabs?

[loserone]

Chainsmoking

[Guest Hooli]

Very thirsty?

 

[beko1987]

Jesus if I have 4 tabs open I'm having a busy night!

 

/boring person

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

I have a minimum of 12-20 - but that's so most showing are work related! Bookmark em fella - manage the list...... 

You must have a seriously spec'd machine that the resources actually cope without running like an asthmatic triple amuptee...... 

 

On other note - I was right - ex just dropped into conversation, by way of my son, if it wouldn't be better for ALL of us to move back to Germany where she can have a free house from rich-parentos. No consideration for munchkins friends and life here, and get to Feck with my work, life, friends, hobbies etc..... Jesus........ it's going to be a long couple of weeks ahead. B*TCH

[Parky]

Heat, no not the magazine, the all pervading, cloying, irrepressible heat.

 

Today I had a meet in that there London. Was fine, but then had to get to another one with not much margin in hand. And thanks to some kids playing football in the sidings at Barking, the District ad Circle lines were screwed. Guess which lines I needed?

 

So big rush to a cab. Couldn’t find one (In London, ffs) but after ten minutes of skulking around Cannon Street I found one.

 

“Sorry mate, not going West”

 

Next one

 

“Sorry mate, not had me breakfast”

 

And again

 

“Sorry mate, just had something through on the computer”

 

Eventually found a guy prepared to take me. Arrived at interview 15minutes late and have seriously never been so dishevelled in my life. Older black cabs are a shit place to be in the heat. Opening the windows merely allows hot air from trucks to blow in, it would probably have been more comfortable being a fry cook in a foundry.

 

Met chum for lunch. Air conditioned restaurant and the twat insisted on sitting outside. My head is red raw and heatstroke wasn’t far off.

 

And now at 4.45 I now have to generate enough work to make my employer think I have been working and not attending two interviews.

 

And my fan isn’t working. Gaaaahhhhh!!!!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Fucking heat.

 

I've been trying to fix (bodge) my old load cover and treat some rust on the Golf.  I can only manage about a minute's work at a time.  Kneeling on my drive (tarmac) physically hurt because of the heat and now I'm light-headed.  Fuck this.

[LightBulbFun]

I pretty much live on the internet hence why I have a shit load of tabs open (chronic and crippling back issues plus a lack of any sort of transport means I cant leave the house easily sadly so I spend my days browsing the internet and messing with computers in my room with occasional lightbulb fiddling)

 

as to those who say book mark em... well if you think I have too many tabs open you probably dont want to see my Bookmarks folder 

 

(its also why unsurprisingly im looking at a RAM upgrade... 32GB of RAM cant handle 124 Tabs in chrome plus what ever Virtual machines I have on the go, its a good thing I guess that I dont actually know what the RAM upgrade limit is on my computer, anyone got 8 64GB DDR3 LRDIMMs kicking around?  )

[vulgalour]

Do you remember that feeling as a very small child when you were so frustrated about something that all you could do was have a tantrum?  That's how the heat is making me feel.  I can feel that rage, that unquenchable desire to just flail and scream and make a spectacle of myself rising up.  Only, it's too hot for all that activity.  Perhaps I'll just die instead, I imagine even if I'm cremated it'd be a break from the oppressive heat, at least it would be a dry heat and not this clammy, sticky, humidity.

 

Please, let the summer end soon.  I'm British.  I'm not DESIGNED for this sort of weather.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I'm English and a fat bastard.  I'm really, really not designed for this.

[vulgalour]

You poor, poor, man.

[bramz7]

Someone on this train keeps letting out some serious farts.

I think they'd better cut the dairy out. Worked for me.

[dozeydustman]

Heat, no not the magazine, the all pervading, cloying, irrepressible heat.

 

 

Fucking heat.

 

Do you remember that feeling as a very small child when you were so frustrated about something that all you could do was have a tantrum?  That's how the heat is making me feel.  

 

Thunderstorms forecast for tonight, tomorrow and Saturday in the East, SE & South according to BBC & Apple weather apps. If they don't happen, I will be very annoyed

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Thunderstorms forecast for tonight, tomorrow and Saturday in the East, SE & South according to BBC & Apple weather apps. If they don't happen, I will be very annoyed

 

 

I'm not a religious man but severe thunder might push me that way...

[dozeydustman]

I'm not a religious man but severe thunder might push me that way...

 

 

I shall ask the mighty Þorun (Thor, Norse god of thunder) on your behalf

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Nice use of thorn there.

[dozeydustman]

FFS. Mrs D has just come running and screaming away from the dining table.

 

Cooked a chilli, it's been on the stove since 3 with the lid on. Just dished it up, taken it to the table.

 

There's a fucking cooked wasp in her dinner.

 

How the hell did that get in there with the lid on?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

FFS. Mrs D has just come running and screaming away from the dining table.

 

Cooked a chilli, it's been on the stove since 3 with the lid on. Just dished it up, taken it to the table.

 

There's a fucking cooked wasp in her dinner.

 

How the hell did that get in there with the lid on?

 

 

That's a spicy meatball!

[yellowperil]

At least it wasn't half a wasp...

I know someone who had a not very nice mushroom in their dinner, but ate it anyway, because the children were at the table and he wanted to set a good example.

His wife informed him later that it was a actually a slug.

[dozeydustman]

Nice use of thorn there.

 

A much underused letter in the (Saxon) English alphabet. Mainly replaced with Y in words such as Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe because it was easier to write the even older letter Wynn (Ƿ), which then developed into the blackletter Y () in the medæval period. Both Thorn and Eth (Ð, ð) are still used in Icelandic, a very difficult language to get to grips with (I can't think of any other language where they call an Orange an Apple....)

 

Let's bring back the long S while we're at it 

[dozeydustman]

At least it wasn't half a wasp...

I know someone who had a not very nice mushroom in their dinner, but ate it anyway, because the children were at the table and he wanted to set a good example.

His wife informed him later that it was a actually a slug.

 

Mmm. Slug.