The grumpy thread

[cort16]

  On 26/09/2018 at 11:29, cort16 said:

I flew to Birmingham on Monday and my flight was cancelled and I had a big delay and flew to a different airport. Today I go to check in for the return and the website doesn’t work .

 

I call them up and they say oh youre a no show for your Monday flight so we cancelled your return flight .

No show I says you cancelled the flight.

It says here you didn’t turn up for the flight

How could I there wasn’t a plane to get on

Says no show here

 

Eventually they but me back in the flight . Made me grumpy though.

Aaaand this flight is now cancelled

[oldcars]

  On 26/09/2018 at 13:25, bub2006 said:

Hateful fuckin cuntin twatting modern shitbox cockeyed fucking nissan bastard qashqai poxy DCI engined wank stain heap of shit

I take it your enjoying* the new motor? What's up? Hopefully something that can be sorted under warrenty.

[bub2006]

Nota clue,will know more after diagnosis. It's running horrible and just generally being a tit. The chap at nissan said it's firing fault codes everywhere

[Craig the Princess]

  On 26/09/2018 at 15:38, Exiled_Tat_Gatherer said:

Can I have a word........

Sure

I wanted to talk to you about your hours..... Tuesday

 

Tuesday my ex didn't show at the school, 'in a bad way' as is the usual excuse. I had to scoot and get my son before guarderie closed at 6pm. So I only did 7ish hours (bit over)..... Neither you, nor any of the regulars have said a fucking word about the 11and 12hr days I've done doing the catch up on projects because of your internal incompetence. I'm putting in processes and scripts in place so your monkeys can do everything by clicking a fucking button then I'm surplus to requirements. I clock 8hr days...... if you want, we can go back and I'll take all the timecard swipes and work out how many hours you lot owe me....... OK

 

er..... I didn't mean......

 

Fuck Off - you did mean........ and I don't appreciate it - it was one fucking day for a stranded 8yr old. Do I leave site now - or can I get on with making your monkeys' lives easier?

 

I think I meant.....

 

I'm busy..... fire me for that or leave me alone.

 

He's a tedious little weaselling management wannabe spineless fucking arse....... Only a month to go and I'm done here. The IOS and JS experience is the only thing keeping me interested. The crew I'm with are great and apart from this little shit I'd be having a blast......

 

/endrant

I had a similar warning once. Three days of pointedly leaving at 5pm soon had them backtracking.

[Guest Hooli]

  On 26/09/2018 at 11:21, The Moog said:

Had this with performance direct.

 

They then threatened that they would cancel the insurance and I would have to tell all future insurance companies I had insurance cancelled impacting on future premium.

 

Now i avoid them like the plague

They are useless cunts. I had a wanker swerve into my lane and ram me as I tried to avoid him. Those useless cunts at performance direct settled 50/50!

Did I mention they are cunts?

 

 

Oh and well done Bub, that has to be a new record for you.

[chaseracer]

  On 26/09/2018 at 15:38, Exiled_Tat_Gatherer said:

Can I have a word........ 

 

Fuck Off.....

 

/endrant

 

Bloody well done you.  This should happen more often.

[DodgeRover]

  On 26/09/2018 at 15:38, Exiled_Tat_Gatherer said:

Can I have a word........

Sure

I wanted to talk to you about your hours..... Tuesday

 

Tuesday my ex didn't show at the school, 'in a bad way' as is the usual excuse. I had to scoot and get my son before guarderie closed at 6pm. So I only did 7ish hours (bit over)..... Neither you, nor any of the regulars have said a fucking word about the 11and 12hr days I've done doing the catch up on projects because of your internal incompetence. I'm putting in processes and scripts in place so your monkeys can do everything by clicking a fucking button then I'm surplus to requirements. I clock 8hr days...... if you want, we can go back and I'll take all the timecard swipes and work out how many hours you lot owe me....... OK

 

I t

Top quality rant, 100% justified, good job done, make sure to bill for the next hours now.

[DodgeRover]

The vivas in the for sale thread, apparently an engineless car is not an appropriate birthday present for a loved one. Who knew ?

[panhard65]

  On 26/09/2018 at 13:31, hairnet said:

Hospital.

 

Bastard.

????? Everything ok not fallen off a moped in some far and distant land ?

[yellowperil]

  On 26/09/2018 at 13:31, hairnet said:

Hospital.

Bastard.

Everything ok?

[myglaren]

  On 26/09/2018 at 15:21, Tadhg Tiogar said:

God Almighty, does Classic FM piss you off?

It does when people start talking and adverts come on.

Same with R3 - can't stand listening to them talking especially the news.

 

My CD players are buggered  

[richardmorris]

I’m listening to classic fm ( yes the adverts annoy me too) sitting outside and a damn fly has drowned itself in my pastis!

[Guest Hooli]

Agreed the adverts are the only bad thing about classic FM

[dozeydustman]

My GP appointment about my hearing issues today got cancelled. Only 4 doctors on instead of the usual 6 due to illness and couldn't get a couple of loca (this is the plural of locum, right?). Now delayed to the 9th October. Misophonia is a right arsehole at the moment and now have to spend every mealtime away from my family or with headphones on. It can get fucked.

 

Have discussed this in the d-pressed Fred.

[Tamworthbay]

Classic FM? Classics like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple right?

[myglaren]

  On 26/09/2018 at 18:08, Tamworthbay said:

Classic FM? Classics like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple right?

Not quite

[hairnet]

  On 26/09/2018 at 16:54, panhard65 said:

????? Everything ok not fallen off a moped in some far and distant land ?

no have eye complaint and the doc gave me antbiotics and cream

 

didnt go away so went back and same and extra steroid pllls

 

work were like ewww yer eye - can you not go and get it looked at

 

its not swollen closed bleeding or on fire so no ill finish the course thanks

 

last 4 days - all they talked about

 

came back at lunchtime and 'you need to go a&e - see above

 

it was busy and im like no ill wait till monday (have docs appt booked cos i want more pills)

 

but it got to 1340 and shelf was fucked with stuff to do i just did a french MEH and said fuck it you want me to go ill go

 

3 and a half hours later they gave me an eyewash (why did the gp not do that)

 

and to cap it all off went to chemist - oh we havent got any you need a boots or similar (by then closed)

 

ffs

 

ARGH

 

im going down stairs now for tea and gingerbread men (fnarr)

[hairnet]

oh and the 3.5 hours isnt a grump as expected and the staff that saw me were ace

[Zelandeth]

Bloody fscking stupid modern concealed cistern crap installed by the cheapest contractor employed by the former owner of this house (an interior designer...).

 

Toilet was some bloody daft thing for which we couldn't get a generic seat to replace the cracked one. Only from the manufacturer, and they wanted £140 for a really cheap and flimsy looking piece of crap. There are four versions of the pan we had, and they couldn't tell us which one we had...only way is to try the seat and see if it fits apparently. At £140 plus postage, non returnable a shot...no thanks.

 

So have picked up a replacement pan, Atmitage Shanks, normal seat fitting etc...should be fine for years to come.

 

I then discover that the pipe between the cistern and the pan is about 3/4" too low. Fine says I...just pull it out and trim it...at which point I discover that the whole assembly of waste and flush pipe are attached to a frame, along with the cistern. So to raise the pipe I need to...the whole cistern needs to be lifted.

 

Not the end of the world...except for the fact that all of the fixings in question were out in place before they built a bloody wall and tiled over it...so I've got to now demolish half the bloody bathroom to move a pipe three quarters of a bloody inch.

 

No, there are no dodges to get around this that I can see. There's not enough space between the elbow below the cistern and the back of the pan to fit an elbow or flex joint.

 

Should have just called in a bloody professional to do this. Oh...wait...I tried. Nobody wanted to do it. Like getting the boiler serviced...nobody wanted to do that either.

[bolognasal spray]

  On 26/09/2018 at 18:17, Zelandeth said:

Should have just called in a bloody professional to do this. Oh...wait...I tried. Nobody wanted to do it. Like getting the boiler serviced...nobody wanted to do that either.

 

been there a few times me sen

[Zelandeth]

  On 26/09/2018 at 18:22, bolognasal spray said:

been there a few times me sen

A note to the "that's not worth me getting out the van for" brigade...that suggests to me there's something far bloody wrong with your pricing structure!

[richardmorris]

Rather like the roofers that could never be bothered to turn up to replace the odd slate or two from my parent’s house. None of them got the £10000 re roofing job.

[Zelandeth]

  On 26/09/2018 at 19:57, richardmorris said:

Rather like the roofers that could never be bothered to turn up to replace the odd slate or two from my parent’s house. None of them got the £10000 re roofing job.

So far haven't had any luck getting anyone interested in the repair work on the atrium either...and we know full well that will be expensive.

 

Best we can tell, because it will require actual work and problem solving rather than throwing some pre fabricated out the box parts and silicone sealant at it. The crooks who strong armed us out of £1600 nonwithstanding, I've never found it so hard as it is down here to get a tradesman to take my money and do work for us. There's the roofing work (the atrium leaks like a sieve, needs work to some of the main timbers too), the heating system wants a service, may as well replace a couple of seized gate valves while things are drained down and replace the split cold water header tank. No, I am not going to replace the damn boiler because it's old. Our gas use is negligible because the house is so well insulated and the hot water is augmented by the solar panels, the thing has five moving parts and zip in the way of electronics beyond a thermostat and one solenoid. Until the gas solenoid or heat exchanger fail, it will be l staying put.

 

I'm not expecting any of this to be done for free! Heck I'm far more interested in the work being done well than what it costs...but nobody seems to want to do it.

[Captain Furious]

I think it’s indicative of modern society, this is not aimed at anyone in this thread of course, because we are all fine upstanding members of society, but there is a definite culture of people who expect everything for nothing, to come with a lifetime warranty and who are poised to trash your reputation on social media at the very first whiff of not liking the cut of your jib.

 

I can totally understand why tradesman are reticent to take on, what they perceive to be, low value jobs

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 26/09/2018 at 17:26, richardmorris said:

... a damn fly has drowned itself in my pastis!

It clearly has taste. Sorry, had.

[Fumbler]

  On 26/09/2018 at 20:26, Tadhg Tiogar said:

It clearly has taste. Sorry, had.

It also is quite clearly very selfish and I'm very pleased that it exterminated itself therefore making the world of Flies a happier place.

[Guest Hooli]

  On 26/09/2018 at 17:26, richardmorris said:

 a damn fly has drowned itself in my pastis!

 

It took me much longer than it should to work out the fly hadn't drowned in a mistyped pasty

[GrumpiusMaximus]

  On 26/09/2018 at 17:27, Hooli said:

Agreed the adverts are the only bad thing about classic FM

 

 

Their compression is lousy, lousy, lousy.

 

When I was about 18/19, the only thing I listened to in a car on my own was Radio 3.  Otherwise I had a habit of thrashing the fuck out of my old Ford Ka.  I have a soft spot for Radio 3.  I think I'm a masochist though because my half-hour commute is usually done with The Today Programme on Radio 4 on, although I always turn over at 'Thought for the Day'...

 

Although I have driven out of work listening to Slayer multiple times.  I like Slayer.  A lot.  It always seems to confuse co-workers...

[somewhatfoolish]

  On 26/09/2018 at 18:17, Zelandeth said:

I then discover that the pipe between the cistern and the pan is about 3/4" too low. Fine says I...just pull it out and trim it...at which point I discover that the whole assembly of waste and flush pipe are attached to a frame, along with the cistern. So to raise the pipe I need to...the whole cistern needs to be lifted.

 

Not the end of the world...except for the fact that all of the fixings in question were out in place before they built a bloody wall and tiled over it...so I've got to now demolish half the bloody bathroom to move a pipe three quarters of a bloody inch.

 

No, there are no dodges to get around this that I can see. There's not enough space between the elbow below the cistern and the back of the pan to fit an elbow or flex joint.

 

Should have just called in a bloody professional to do this. Oh...wait...I tried. Nobody wanted to do it. Like getting the boiler serviced...nobody wanted to do that either.

I'm fairly sure I've seen rubber couplings that are compliant enough to take up that amount of axial misalignment, although you'd probably have to move the pan a few inches further from the wall.

[Zelandeth]

  On 26/09/2018 at 21:04, somewhatfoolish said:

I'm fairly sure I've seen rubber couplings that are compliant enough to take up that amount of axial misalignment, although you'd probably have to move the pan a few inches further from the wall.

That's the problem there - it's flush with the wall. The inlet on the old one was inset a few inches under the top of the pan, new one it's virtually level with the wall.

 

If it was an old school high level cistern it would be easy...or even if it was a normal coupling rather than this stupid modern nonsense.

 

Just to top the day off, the cooling fan on the Lada appears to have lost interest in providing cooling. Thankfully there's enough capacity in the system that I was able to escape the traffic before the gauge made it past 2/3rds. I can hear the relay clicking, so likely to be a wiring issue or an issue with the fan itself. Apparently it thought I had too much free time and needed something else on my to do list.

 

What do you bet it will work perfectly tomorrow when I look at it...

 

So the Xantia has no aux belt attached due to a stuffed tensioner, the Lada has no cooling fan, the Invacar only has 1/3 working brakes and is miles from an MOT still...so looks like the van will be on daily duty for the next few days! ...figures I just filled the Lada up and the van needs fuel. With its 70 litre tank.