The grumpy thread

[MikeR]

 

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[myglaren]

^  I know how you feel.

Took me 20 years to replace my broken pan/tilt head. £70

[chadders]

Lovely day out there today and I've got all morning that I can be doing work on the 1100. Except I appear to have an eye infection in my right eye and now need to go to the pharmacy or maybe the eye hospital.

 

FFS.

 

 

I've just had something like this - it was Blepharitis which caused my right eye to look very bloodshot and feel itchy.

 

I went to the docs and they gave me some ointment and it's nearly gone now.

[beko1987]

I'm drinking more coffee driving dad's car about. Bloody isolated bubble, no feedback through the steering, no feedback through the pedals, found myself feeling tired!

 

So I pulled everyone over! 60 miles to go

[gm]

the cheeky buggers want £3 for free wifi on this train ? I don't think so, mr branson. today's collection mission will take the form of edited highlights after the news at ten

 

 

(the phone signal is pish and I'm down to 40% battery already)

[Christine]

Inlaws are in their 90's .. Grandad   has dementia  ,  and had his licence removed . He potters around his large immaculate garden but can't cope with it all on his own , and can't take the bags of garden waste to the tip ..They get a "gardener" a morning a week .who's crap but they like him as he pops in for tea as he's "in the area " . Then he suggests he helps grandad  by giving him a lift with his sack of rubbish to the tip ,as he's on his way there anyway... Thrice a week now !  ... and each time , Grandad told me , they have to get some petrol on the way as he's empty . I know damn well Grandads saying " Let me get that " (as he's like that ), and buying him a tankful twice a week . On top of the gardening bill that is ..

 

  I bought 2 gallons of petrol for  Grandads mower t'other day . This week ,the gardeners car " was out of petrol " (again)  so he asked if he could just top up enough to get to the garage ,with the mower fuel..? Grandad said   " of course "  ...

There's a cupful left.. I'm gunna swap fuel cans and put sugar in it  as well ,this time, and oil to fuck his cat up.

[Tamworthbay]

I bought 2 gallons of petrol for  Grandads mower t'other day . This week ,the gardeners car " was out of petrol " (again)  so he asked if he could just top up enough to get to the garage ,with the mower fuel..? Grandad said   " of course "  ...

There's a cupful left.. I'm gunna swap fuel cans and put sugar in it  as well ,this time, and oil to fuck his cat up.

Oil is the way to go, in a mower it will just smoke a bit but will shag the cat as you suggest. If you sugar it up it knacker the mower if he happens to use it. Of course if you really want to fuck an engine then putting a third brake cleaner, panel wipe or thinners in makes for an entertaining couple of minutes before the bang.

[Christine]

Noted

 

Thing is , he probably isn't empty , just saying he is ..,so it will be a bit diluted if he's got half a tank still

[GrumpiusMaximus]

The weeds living in my front garden are fucking Triffids.  It's all grassed over, mulched, etc. but there was a big fucker under my living room window in the mulched bed.  Tried to get it out.  Spent ten minutes, had to dig it out in the end and the root was about a foot long, with lots of offshoots.  No doubt it'll come back but I know where it is and might nuke the area with weedkiller.  There was a fuck off flint buried in there too and it caught my fingernail when I was using my hands to dig.  Sore.

 

Did my good deed and got the worst off the other side of the front garden that belongs to next door, though.  They're lovely people so I thought I may as well while I was out there...

[Christine]

Japanese Knotweed  most likely  ,on brought in topsoil ..(.just to help the depression     )

[Tamworthbay]

Noted

 

Thing is , he probably isn't empty , just saying he is ..,so it will be a bit diluted if he's got half a tank still

That is trickier, carborundum dust would probably just clog a filter, I once tried to run a Honda C50 on thinners and that ended very badly but it does smell so you couldn’t get away with trying to do it neat. What about good old water? Petrol would sit on top so it would look like normal fuel and even if the first hit didn’t get him a second or third probably would as it would build up at the bottom of the tank until it got high enough to be sucked into the intake. Probably the easiest, cheapest and best way to induce an ftp.

[Parky]

I bought 2 gallons of petrol for  Grandads mower t'other day . This week ,the gardeners car " was out of petrol " (again)  so he asked if he could just top up enough to get to the garage ,with the mower fuel..? Grandad said   " of course "  ...

There's a cupful left.. I'm gunna swap fuel cans and put sugar in it  as well ,this time, and oil to fuck his cat up.

Could you tell the gardener that there was a problem with the fuel and it was a batch that had a load of silica in it from the refinery? Perhaps mention how it had buggered up your o2 sensor and your cat leaving you with a big old bill etc. Maybe mention that for some cars it isn’t triggering warning lights but a load of cars are failing their MOT’s because of knackered cats as a result but the fuel company are only paying for repairs if you have the receipt or proof of purchase on one of the days the fuel was in the tanks at the garage?

 

Unfortunately you had the receipt but had to hand it in with the claim. Oh I do hope the fuel hasn’t damaged your car, be ever such a big bill at MOT time....

 

Might make him think twice

[Tamworthbay]

Sadly a two second google search would show its BS, if speaking to him better to just say you are aware he is a scumbag and watching him like a hawk for the tiniest reason to go to the Police over his actions on a vulnerable person.

[Parky]

What about a new Gardener?

[Tamworthbay]

What about a new Gardener?

Best possible solution.

[adw1977]

Can you still get leaded petrol, or lead additive? I'm assuming the lawnmower won't care, but matey's catalyst will.

 

Assuming you're avoiding a confrontation for your Grandad's sake, the problem with anything causing an immediate FTP is that he'll know where the contamination came from.

[andy18s]

Maybe but if he's robbed it from a can he can't really come round and get shouty over it

[Parky]

What we need is an additive which is perfectly legit and sensible for a lawnmower but not so good for cars.

 

Or empty the tank out because you needed somewhere to keep your killer bees...

[artdjones]

Perhaps Evil Warren does house calls?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Just smilingly and politely knock the cost of a gallon of juice off his next bill

[Tamworthbay]

What about a handful of rust? May block the filter and if stripped they would just assume it’s from the tank. If spotted in the petrol can you could just blame the petrol station.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

If Grandad's happy , can afford it and that's the extent of his piss taking, I'd either ignore it or go down Bollox's route, just so he knows you know etc.

For the sake of a few quid it's peace of mind that someone's checking on them and Grandad's getting out occaisionaly.

For real extortionate OAP exploitation ,look at what a home would cost!

[Tamworthbay]

But it won’t stop at that, my Nan was fleeced for over £15k as she went downhill with the early stages of dementia, a few quid here and there soon adds up. A couple of tankfuls of fuel will be £100 or more and someone who is that dodgy would probably not worry about any cash lying around. Get shot, enough geniune people in the world and the last thing you want is an exploitative person in the house.

[The Moog]

Anyone seen my mx5 key?

 

After taking off the keyring to fix the Saab it has been loose in my pocket. Now I can't find the flipping thing!

[Snipes]

Further to my previous grumps about BT and our non-op WiFi, suffice to say it still isn't working, with the router now refusing the password and showing all kinds of error lights.

Several long phone calls: Achieved Nothing

Logging a complaint: Also Nothing

0/10 on their Feedback form; Also Nothing

 

The phone line is back on, so I guess you could say they fixed that, but still no broadband. They sorta think the router is faulty, maybe. The only way they could provide a replacement is by us signing a whole new contract. Even though they completely failed to fix the service, they tried to sell me a new service. And the only thing the complaint has done is them pestering me to agree to close the complaint. They literally couldn't have cared less.

 

They also offered, as part of the new package, their premium service which is priority fault fixing (lol!) and UK only call centers, which suggest to me they obviously believe the centers in India or whatever are inadequate but they only care if you're willing to pay an 40% a month.

 

This all leaves me with a much bigger mobile bill, due to all the 4G I've had to use, and in the soul destroying world of shopping for broadband. Also, the only reason I've been able to tell BT to FRO is because we're out of contract, despite never missing a bill or anything. Literally no idea what that is about.

[dozeydustman]

Just sack the bastard.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Japanese Knotweed  most likely  ,on brought in topsoil ..(.just to help the depression     )

 

 

Tosser!

 

Fortunately enough, it's not.  Thank fuck.  I'd kick off to the developer if it was...

[SiC]

What we need is an additive which is perfectly legit and sensible for a lawnmower but not so good for cars.

 

2 stroke oil! Especially in a nice rich mix. A lawnmower won't care about it apart from being smokey. Where as a car will be a bit smokey...

 

Cat will take time to bugger up. Likely the O2 sensor will kick the bucket first and throw up an EML.

 

Plausible deniability is that you mixed up fuel between your 2st mix for garden tools and mower fuel.

[Richard]

How did the eye business go, SiC?

[NorthernMonkey]

How did the eye business go, SiC?

Eh? Who said that??