The grumpy thread

[captain_70s]

My bathroom smells of weed.

 

I'm not sure why that room in particular does, but most nights I'll get a waft of the smell and open the bathroom door to be hit by a wall of the distinct smell of grass (and not the freshly cut variety). If it's not weed it just occasionally smells of regular fags, I've not a clue as to why. My best guess is it's something to do with the fact it's the only room featuring an extraction fan leading outside, but I have all my windows open all the time and none of the rest of the flat has that aroma...

[eddyramrod]

I've just spent eight solid hours in the hospital while they investigated my headaches (and came to no conclusion).  Not one but two CT scans and they still cant work it out.  Less than happy....

[STUNO]

Bloody modern appliances. The washing machine stopped mid cycle and started bleeping for attention. ERROR 4E. I pressed pause-- nothing, pressed power off-- nothing, Switched off at the wall and tried again--nothing. so I calmed down as the warranty is still in force. Then I looked up the error in the manual. After I turned the water back on it was quite happy to continue because ERROR 4E is Samsung for "you need water to run a washer" DOOOOH.

[mrbenn]

I've just spent eight solid hours in the hospital while they investigated my headaches (and came to no conclusion).  Not one but two CT scans and they still cant work it out.  Less than happy....

 

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[Timewaster]

My bathroom smells of weed.

 

I'm not sure why that room in particular does, but most nights I'll get a waft of the smell and open the bathroom door to be hit by a wall of the distinct smell of grass (and not the freshly cut variety). If it's not weed it just occasionally smells of regular fags, I've not a clue as to why. My best guess is it's something to do with the fact it's the only room featuring an extraction fan leading outside, but I have all my windows open all the time and none of the rest of the flat has that aroma...

I'm guessing it's not a ground floor flat?

Downstairs neighbors maybe?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I want to go to Ace cafe with my Fiesta tomorrow night, ....

Just along the way from me. What's on?

[catsinthewelder]

This. So much this.

 

After my own personal little roadside nightmare that involved a three hour wait for the man in the orange van with the flashing lights I make sure my wheel nuts are correctly torqued and that I have a decent wheel brace in the boot

 

My parents were round the other week on the way home (Durham) from holiday in Somerset.  The car had been serviced just before they set off and had been making a funny noise so they stopped at an ATS on the way down.  Up on the ramp, checked over, don't worry about it, its just the brakes bedding in.  They got to Somerset and it was still making a funny noise so they called into a Kwikfit for a repeat performance.  I met them in Worcester and it was making a right funny noise on the way up the multistory so my dad took me for a drive.  There was a noise,  CV joints?  While checking them as best as I could with no tools and being berated for getting myself dirty I found one missing wheelnut and the rest fingertight on the O/S/F wheel.  FFS,  at least it had a decent wheelbrace so they left with them all tighter than they should be and picked up a spare nut at the Ford dealers the next morning.

 

They got home with all nuns and kittens intact and dark mutters of having a word with their usual garage.  Yes Tom I did admit to PN63

[captain_70s]

I'm guessing it's not a ground floor flat?

Downstairs neighbors maybe?

While that'd make sense I don't understand why it's only my bathroom, and especially my bathroom, that picks up the smell. No trace of it elsewhere at all!

[BavarianRetro]

All the drugs have made you forget you always go into the bathroom for a quick spliff?

[Timewaster]

I wonder if the soil pipes pass through the building and the weed smell is finding its way around the pipe work?

[New POD]

I want to go to Ace cafe with my Fiesta tomorrow night, but driving London scares the shite out of me ! Actually , anywhere beyond Sevenoaks scares the shite out of me !

Me and son went to the ace cafe for tea once when he lived in Mill Hill.

 

The food is shit. Not as shit as Mcds but as shit as it gets in the 1960s.

 

On that basis not ACE and Not a Cafe so id advise going to Asda and buying a pork pie and staying home.

[New POD]

My bathroom smells of weed.

 

I'm not sure why that room in particular does, but most nights I'll get a waft of the smell and open the bathroom door to be hit by a wall of the distinct smell of grass (and not the freshly cut variety). If it's not weed it just occasionally smells of regular fags, I've not a clue as to why. My best guess is it's something to do with the fact it's the only room featuring an extraction fan leading outside, but I have all my windows open all the time and none of the rest of the flat has that aroma...

Ours too. Next door looks like the sort but says it might be his Yankee candle obsession.

 

I did not know they did one in Burning Hemp

 

My guess is that it comes via the cavity walls because the bathroom is the only place we get it.

[New POD]

Just along the way from me. What's on?

When we went it was Jap night. I spoke to the 2 mx5 owners who made me worry about the future of society itself.

 

But that's .........*

 

add one of the following

 

milenials

southerners

dickheads

cockneys

youth of today

Nutz

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Urgh.  Heavy rains in our area.  New build house.  Roof leak.  Developers not wanting to send anyone until Monday.  Militant phone calls back and forth and now waiting for some kind of reasonable resolution.  Reasonable being they come here right fucking now and fucking sort it.  I've worked out the problem and it is a small one that can be fixed easily but they need to fix it...

[Parky]

Just watched footage of an aircraft mechanic in Seattle who stole a Q400 aircraft, did some stunts in it, and crashed.

 

Guy had a complete mental breakdown by the sounds of it. Listening to the cockpit dialogue he seemed pretty lucid, just someone who had been taken to the edge of endurance and then pushed over.

 

Seeing a complete amateur steal a plane and barrel roll the damn thing on his first flight....pretty unbelievable.

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/komonews/status/1028173602816909314?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

 

Not sure how I feel watching this. I suppose I am mightily impressed in one way - this takes cojones the size of Gibraltar. I am very grumpy that this guy felt he had no other option but to do this though.

[mercrocker]

I want to go to Ace cafe with my Fiesta tomorrow night, but driving London scares the shite out of me ! Actually , anywhere beyond Sevenoaks scares the shite out of me ! 

 

Ace not too bad - not quite Full Fat London.   Might be an idea, if you haven't been before, to rehearse the final approach on google earth - its easy to miss the turn off Hanger Lane and subject yourself to further North Circular misery.

[MikeR]

just wondering when the new builds in the middle of farmers fields will realise this has been going on for yonks .....

 

 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140623092930.htm

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Me and son went to the ace cafe for tea once when he lived in Mill Hill.

The food is shit. Not as shit as Mcds but as shit as it gets in the 1960s.

On that basis not ACE and Not a Cafe so id advise going to Asda and buying a pork pie and staying home.

I took the CX to a French Performance Day at the Ace. I turned up to find....ONE Peugeot had bothered to turn up.

 

That went well.

[Christine]

I did go some years ago..

 

 

 

Well supported..

 

[mrbenn]

My bathroom smells of weed.

Neighbours flushing something away?!

[Simonsays]

Whilst feeling slightly nauseated by the smell of my complimentary air freshener

 

'smells like apples guv'

 

Smells like a cider drinkers puke more like

 

My thoughts turned to the Feu Orange air fresheners that my dad always had in his cars. The ones supplied with a pin to pierce the back and let the liquid soak into the sponge layer.

 

I realised that I hadn't seen one in an age and came over all whistful and nostalgic.

 

So I had a look on ebay.

 

Jebus.

 

Fifteen quid!

 

They're 'retro' and seem to have attracted a scene tax all of their very own.

 

 

 

 

 

I bought one. That goes without saying.

[somewhatfoolish]

But does it smell the same?

[chodweaver]

For months after moving into my current house, I was convinced my neighbours were always outside their back door, just the other side of the fence, hidden from view, smoking weed.

 

Then I found out it was my own loft, which two owners previous had fitted out as a grow room, that still stank of weed and the stink wafted out from under the eaves every time I opened an outside door.

 

 

 

 

AND my neighbours regularly smoked weed in their garden.

 

AND my neighbours two doors up on the other side were* weed dealers.

 

*Allegedly.**

 

 

 

**Not allegedly. I know they are.

[pandamonium]

 

 

 

 

Just trying to sell a scrap car ... The last person kept trying to offer £100 even though I told him the scrap man had offered £160.

[Simonsays]

But does it smell the same?

I'll update you when it arrives.

 

Hope I don't suffer from buyers remorse!

[sierraman]

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Just trying to sell a scrap car ... The last person kept trying to offer £100 even though I told him the scrap man had offered £160.

[PhilA]

Stopped at the grocery store yesterday, walking on the way in there's a lady in a pickup truck, twist key rakrakrakrak, dead battery. Grab the two items I needed and walking back out see nobody else has helped so walk over and ask if she needs a jump start. She thanks me and says yes, was about to call someone but they're in Golden Meadow (about 15 miles away).

Go get the car, pull up in front and go grab the little bag of tools I keep in the back of the car. Remove the jump leads, undo the wire tie that's holding them wrapped up because I've never used them before.

Connect up and nothing. Wiggle connections a bit to clear corrosion off the terminals, nothing. Wiggle a bit more and the wire falls off one of the red terminals.

Do what now? Check the rest and they all bloody well fall off, the wires all turned to grayish powder.

Borrow a pen knife off the lady, strip the insulation back until I find moderately decent metal, clip the wires to the terminals with the clamps using them like clothes pegs and away she goes.

 

What the hell is wrong with stuff these days? I understand that in order to make things cheap, China is turned to (they were stamped made in China) but in order for China to make it cheap corners gotta be cut somewhere. Seems in this case it was in materials.

My old man has a set of jump leads from the sixties, made in the UK, they've been stored in the same, if not worse conditions since he bought them and despite being dirty they still work fine and show no signs of deterioration. These leads are only five years old. That and the amount of metal inside the big rubber outside makes it look like you're trying to start a car with spark plug wires.

There's a problem with that, new cars need more reliable electricity than old ones with all the electronic jazz that gets switched on when you flip the key to IGN. How that gets through microscopic modern jump leads I'll never know.

 

Ugh

[PhilA]

Ours too. Next door looks like the sort but says it might be his Yankee candle obsession.

I did not know they did one in Burning Hemp

My guess is that it comes via the cavity walls because the bathroom is the only place we get it.

And as far as I'm concerned that why it's still illegal because if you're inconsiderate enough that you want to get high in public then at least find a method that doesn't reek.

 

I bet the same people would complain bitterly about a fart in an elevator though.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

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Just trying to sell a scrap car ... The last person kept trying to offer £100 even though I told him the scrap man had offered £160.

 

 

This is Gaynor Whittle. Spot the brain cell.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Having to drive the relatives to Lakeside Thurrock. Can't think of a worse place to be trapped for an entire afternoon.

 

I should be at home, putting the new battery into the CX and giving it a run, but no....