The grumpy thread

[Bren]

NASA can send a probe to the sun but we cannot manufacture gloss paint that is dry after five bastard days.

[iainrcz]

Fucking don't

I've got to gloss the picture rail and skirting in our dining room next week. After the lot went yellow in under a year.

 

Can't bloody wait.

NASA can send a probe to the sun but we cannot manufacture gloss paint that is dry after five bastard days.

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[Cavcraft]

Charger socket on my 'phone packed up coming back from a day out, then as I was almost level with the front of an AA van on the hard shoulder of the M6, some absolute spoon in a Prius pulled straight into lane 1 in front of me doing about 20mph.

Miracle I didn't crash into him, stupid twat.

[cobblers]

Stood having a piss looking out of the bathroom window at the Talbot parked on the street.

Seemed to be a damp patch under it.

 

Of course, it's about half a new bottle of 10w40 that I put in yesterday when I did an oil change. Great!

 

No I didn't put a new sump washer on because I'm a complete fanny who forgot to order one. I've got fucking thousands of them at my mums house from when I used to be a Peugeot 106 licker and the bloke at Matthewmans gave me a bag full for nowt when they were shutting down, but that's 20 miles away.

 

I'm really really sick to fucking death of having half my tools and stuff miles away, I need to sort a unit out near here or I'm going to go mad.

[iainrcz]

I did the GB oil on my rcz and didn't fit a new washer. Just wazzed the old one with a gas torch.

No leaks.

 

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[stonedagain]

Fucking don't

I've got to gloss the picture rail and skirting in our dining room next week. After the lot went yellow in under a year.

 

Can't bloody wait.

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Oil based paint is shite for turning yellow. B&A own brand water based satin paint stays white far longer & dries in an hour.

[Guest Hooli]

Stood having a piss looking out of the bathroom window at the Talbot parked on the street.

Seemed to be a damp patch under it.

 

Of course, it's about half a new bottle of 10w40 that I put in yesterday when I did an oil change. Great!

 

No I didn't put a new sump washer on because I'm a complete fanny who forgot to order one. I've got fucking thousands of them at my mums house from when I used to be a Peugeot 106 licker and the bloke at Matthewmans gave me a bag full for nowt when they were shutting down, but that's 20 miles away.

 

I'm really really sick to fucking death of having half my tools and stuff miles away, I need to sort a unit out near here or I'm going to go mad.

Sump washer on my bike has done at least 80k of 4k oil changes without leaking.

[artdjones]

Fucking don't

I've got to gloss the picture rail and skirting in our dining room next week. After the lot went yellow in under a year.

 

Can't bloody wait.

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Most brilliant white paint isn't very durable.In order to get that unnatural whiteness too much of the paint is made up of whitener,leaving less volume for things like binders.Ivory or cream will always last better.

[Timewaster]

Sump washer on my bike has done at least 80k of 4k oil changes without leaking.

Most PSA stuff use a crush washer which is only good for one go.

 

Lots of people neglect to change the washer and always get a puddle for their efforts.

[Inspector Morose]

670km is an awfully long way to drive a double deck bus in a day. Also, I managed to trip over in the yard and land with my full, quite considerable, weight on my left knee. It’s now twice the size of the other and no bruising has shown as yet many hours later. Unlike my right hand which I caught on the way down - that looks quite colourful.

[plasticvandan]

Lady owner= parking dents and no clutch left surely?

[Lankytim]

Drove to the local co-op with the Lanklets today, turned in to the narrow entrance for the car park just as a guy in a Range Rover tried to beat a Corsa out to the exit and nearly hit us head on. Annoying but there you go.

 

Nobody using the parent and child spaces had kids, none of the people using the disabled bays had disabled badges, despite most of the car park being empty, the spaces were just close to the door and they CBA walking. A few people even left their cars directly outside the doors to get even closer, half blocking the entrance, or parked on the road making getting in and out of the car park difficult. 

 

I know I shouldn't find any of this irritating, or surprising as it happens all the time pretty much everywhere but sometimes I do. Lazy inconsiderate bastards. 

[dollywobbler]

Sump washer on my bike has done at least 80k of 4k oil changes without leaking.

 

I very rarely change them. Japanese stuff doesn't even seem to bother, because they know what tolerances are. On the other stuff, I might get the washer red hot if it looks a bit squashed, but can't remember the last time I actually fitted a new one.

[Craig the Princess]

 

 

I know I shouldn't find any of this irritating, or surprising as it happens all the time pretty much everywhere but sometimes I do. Lazy inconsiderate bastards.

I've had to stop looking in the cars in the parent and child parking when I can't park there with the little one. Otherwise if probably be stabbed by one of the arseholes who park in there without children. It's the sort of thing that type of person would do.

[Noel Tidybeard]

doctors are prolly only fractionaly worse drivers than private hire drivers!

[bramz7]

Every old car group on FB today:

 

OMG LOL BORIS JOHNSON HAS A CITROEN AX ONE OF US LOL 

 

 

Yeah, I got it the first 50 times, but yeah keep going on about it.

[iainrcz]

Working in the same place of work as lazy, couldn't give a shit arseholes.

 

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[drum]

A couple of minor grumps follow:

 

Grump 1. The sump plug on daughter's polo is supposed to be removed with a 6mm allen key. 6mm bit had play so tried 7mm, but it wouldn't fit. Tried closest imperial size but none fitted well. Had a go with the 6mm but it just turned in the plug - deep joy. Tried a Torx T40, mole grips, loud swearing...nothing. If it had a middle finger, it would be waving it in my face. Thought about welding a nut on it, but had visions of the oil in the sump catching fire and turning the car into a smouldering heap.

 

I'd already thought about sooking the oil out with my Lidl 12v pump, like I did on the wife's golf, but on the polo the dipstick tube is tighter than a budgie's chuff. No way even my pump's wee pipe was going to fit in there, not even with good slather of ky.

 

The dipstick tube has a plastic yellow insert at the top which I removed, then managed to squeeze the pump's pipe into the tube about 5mm. I knew I wasn't going to get all the oil out but thought I'd try it anyway. Switched the pump on and sure enough, it managed to lift some oil out of the sump. After about 10 minutes and almost 3 litres of old oil later, the pump motor changed note indicating it was only pulling air.

 

I changed the filter and got the new gallon of oil I'd bought at home bargains. I'd bought two gallons. One was unipart in a white tub and the other was a different brand in a grey tub, both 5w30. I grabbed the grey tub and put in 2.5 litres, thinking I'll let it settle then check the level and top up as required later.

 

After flushing through the pump with some waste diesel, I went back to top up the polo's oil, only to discover I'd actually picked up a tub of 20w50 that I'd bought for the Land Rover. So I now had to get cold thick oil out of the sump by sucking from the top of the dipstick tube. It took a while but I eventually got a couple of litres out and it now has a blend of old oil, new 20w50 and about 2.5 litres of new 5w30. What a carry on.

 

Grump 2. I sent £14 to the wrong paypal account when trying to pay for a roffle. My fault as I typed in the wrong email address. Sent an email to the recipient explaining my mistake, apologised and asked nicely if she'd send it back and also did a paypal request for money. Almost a week now and no response.

[myglaren]

Most brilliant white paint isn't very durable.In order to get that unnatural whiteness too much of the paint is made up of whitener,leaving less volume for things like binders.Ivory or cream will always last better.

Crown used to do White, not Brilliant White.  Maybe still do and others too, lasts much longer before yellowing.

 

I found Sigma paint to be excellent for remaining white. Unfortunately bought up by Johnson's/Leyland some years back now.

[myglaren]

I very rarely change them. Japanese stuff doesn't even seem to bother, because they know what tolerances are. On the other stuff, I might get the washer red hot if it looks a bit squashed, but can't remember the last time I actually fitted a new one.

 

I usually use a Dowty washer* but a few changes ago I discovered the washer in the bowl of old oil when I emptied it.

Needless to say but the plug was back in, oil refilled and engine running by the time I found it.

Didn't leak, surprisingly as the plug has been butchered and I've been meaning to buy a new one - for the past six years

 

*was the only ones the car parts bloke had in his glory box when I bought oil and filters.

[Fat_Pirate]

Every old car group on FB today:

 

OMG LOL BORIS JOHNSON HAS A CITROEN AX ONE OF US LOL 

 

 

Yeah, I got it the first 50 times, but yeah keep going on about it.

I'm not on any social media (unless this site counts), so didn't know this.  It's a shame, now I'll only think of the AX as the choice of the cynical rabble-rouser.

[somewhatfoolish]

My daughter was grilled mercilessly by the Yank immigration people when she went with her son.

 

He had been all over the world with her including three previous trips to the US.

This time it was because there was no letter from the boy's father - not unusual as he had only recently been identified - she thought it was someone else.

The boy was left alone and crying as he had no idea what was going on - he was five at the time.

 

The irony was that she was there to marry an American and had all the support documents to prove it.

They just stuck her back on the next flight to the UK.

They refused entry to a mother and her child? God bless homeland security, #MAGA etc.

 

Other grump today is that one of my customer’s had a bit of an explosion yesterday and killed some staff. I don’t think it’s anyone I’ve met though. Chemical industry in the uk is generally very health and safety conscious these days and I’m sure there will be a thorough investigation.

Chemring?

 

Every old car group on FB today:

 

OMG LOL BORIS JOHNSON HAS A CITROEN AX ONE OF US LOL 

 

Yeah, I got it the first 50 times, but yeah keep going on about it.

BJ has french chod? Shirley he should have a Metro VDP?

 

A couple of minor grumps follow:

 

Grump 1. The sump plug on daughter's polo is supposed to be removed with a 6mm allen key. 6mm bit had play so tried 7mm, but it wouldn't fit. Tried closest imperial size but none fitted well. Had a go with the 6mm but it just turned in the plug - deep joy. Tried a Torx T40, mole grips, loud swearing...nothing. If it had a middle finger, it would be waving it in my face. Thought about welding a nut on it, but had visions of the oil in the sump catching fire and turning the car into a smouldering heap.

 

Will not catch fire(unless lots of oil lubricating it externally), although it may well smoke a bit.

[rantingYoof]

Since 2007 MotherYoof has had multiple myeloma (i.e. cancer of the plasma cells). She has lived with it for 10 years now, which is well above average, and given her type is particularly aggressive (remission only lasted around six months following pretty brutal treatment) it makes it even more remarkable.

 

However, she's been looking frailer and weaker the last few weeks and what I've begun to quietly suspect to be the case was confirmed today with a frank conversation in which 'end game', 'palliative care' and 'kidneys starting to fail' were all used.

 

I've had the fortune of ten years to brace myself for this moment, and I'm using some of this mental prep to absorb the weight of this.

 

But it still remains unfathomable to me that shortly she will be gone.

 

And I've not yet broken the news to MrsYoof, who I suspect isn't quite as aware or prepped as I am...poor thing.

She didn't hang about.

 

A lovely evening on Friday, chatting, laughing etc, even ate some fish and chips, seemed to be all she wanted was a last good memory, because by Sunday she could barely move, too weak to even speak, and then she passed very peacefully away this morning with my dad by her side.

 

About the best way for it to happen really. Supporting my dad at the moment, his pain comes first (together best part of 50 years), feel surprisingly solid right now but not sure how long it'll last.

 

Please keep your sarcastic and relatively inconsequential grumps coming...life goes on after all.

 

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[Supernaut]

Aw, dude.

 

That was bloody quick. Virtual manhugs (and real next time I see you).

[AMC Rebel]

I know there are going to be a million reasons why there's signs saying three-way traffic control and a 2-way set of temporary traffic lights "guarding" a pristine area of the road.

 

I just can't see what they can be - or what sort of person would think this is all ok

 

  

[Tamworthbay]

I know there are going to be a million reasons why there's signs saying three-way traffic control and a 2-way set of temporary traffic lights "guarding" a pristine area of the road.

 

I just can't see what they can be - or what sort of person would think this is all ok

 

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Cone salesman?

[Cavcraft]

‘I’d like to offer 30% less than the advertised price for your house because I feel it needs work’

 

Yeah, the same fucking work as it said on the advert for it.

 

 

 

 

RY, sorry to hear of your loss, chief.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Yoof - very sorry for your loss dude - 50yrs is a hell of a run to be with someone, that's rather special....... not wanting to sound out of order, but that part made me smile...... something a lot of us aspire to and may/will never achieve. Hope that makes sense.......

 

Inconsequential grump - yup - the sodding bank have taken the payment I requested stopped 6mths ago yet again..... been back in and shouted a lot - all sympathy, I do actually feel for the poor sods on the front as they see me coming now and he actually said "no, not again - they can't be that dumb" as I walked up. 

 

Trying to look at it as a savings fund I didn't expect..... so IF I get it back in a lump sum.... cheap Monteros, Holdens or other oversized tow capable chod better watch their fuggin backs - 'cos I'm coming!

[mrbenn]

Very sad news, really sorry

[rantingYoof]

Totally, mate.

 

It's what I'm aiming for myself in terms of relationship goals.

 

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