The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

I just found out that cleaning trains pays more than second-line IT. However, I'd also probably be knocked back for being overqualified if I were to apply.

 

If anybody is even thinking about getting into IT, just fucking don't.

 

Hell, I'm so sick fed up of it I just submitted an application to be a van driver for the local motor factors.

My son did train cleaning and is quite well qualified (in other things) and his mates are still doing it. Would suggest it’s worth going for if you can.

[Rocket88]

Sat in passenger seat of the car today, the mrs is driving along about 50mph, accelerating away from a junction. Ahead, the traffic lights turn red and the cars in front are stopping.

She continues accelerating - it's clear she hasn't noticed.

 

I wait a couple more seconds and have to butt in  "Whoa, they're stopping in front!!!!"

 

"I KNOW I KNOW" she says, braking hard to stop in time. Arrested development Narrator: "She didn't know"

 

But apparently I'm rude for shouting and she got the face on with me. Pointing out that by the time I'd have politely said "Darling, I'm not sure if you've noticed, but think it's worth mentioning..." we would have been about 3 feet deep into the back of a fucking Mondeo didn't improve her mood.

About 5 minutes later, the same thing happens again - She looks about 40 feet infront of the car while driving, so every single thing that happens is a complete surprise - hence her going through a set of brake pads (down to the metal) in 8000 miles. I need to try and get her to look at the road properly, but she won't listen to me.

 

Her driving is absolutely atrocious, I try and point it out as delicately as possible, she goes mega on the defensive and takes it as an insult rather than a concern.

 

Pull up handbrake......drop 20p in mechanism.........

[Des]

I just found out that cleaning trains pays more than second-line IT. However, I'd also probably be knocked back for being overqualified if I were to apply.

 

 

Take along two buckets to the interview, you won't be considered qualified for anything else.

[wuvvum]

This morning was even worse, I’d forgotten I’d actually stated what cars my lloy wheels would fit, yet some brain donor asked repeatedly what they would fit. Obviously, these questions were punctuated by ‘????’ every other fucking nano-second before I could reply.

Anyone who pulls the question mark card on Gumtree gets immediately ignored.  Along with anyone who sends an offer without any covering message and under the name "A potential buyer".  I have a very low tolerance for fuckwits, which may be why I have little success with selling on Gumtree.  I did have a chap interested in the Perodua who actually seemed quite reasonable - he wrote in intelligible English, understood that the car was a former Cat C and was fine with it, and seemed to have realistic expectations.  He was supposed to come and look at it yesterday morning, but then emailed me to say he couldn't make it.  The fact that he actually bothered to email me is a minor miracle for Gumtree I appreciate, but he seemed to be the only one out of all the responders capable of stringing a sentence together, so I've kind of lost hope a bit now.

[Zelandeth]

Somewhere in this house, there is a box. It's brown, cardboard, roughly a 1.5' cube, and has "Fragile stuff, lounge" scrawled on the top in red biro.

 

Can I find the damn thing? Can I hell.

 

I've turned both lofts and the garage upside down about five times now and am no closer to locating it.

[tooSavvy]

Take along two buckets to the interview, you won't be considered qualified for anything else.

Didn't get the job?

 

Obviously a 'two bucket wrongun' then...

[fordperv]

Just to even things up, my wife is a smoother, more careful and considerate driver than I am.

Mine is batshit crazy, I taught her to drive which was a bit of a mistake on my side because I taught her fast driving techniques and she loved the feeling behind the wheel, I possibly made it worse by insuring her on my cars which were never below a 1.8 and always modified, within a year of driving she was racing on country roads embarrassing evo drivers and the like in my modified mk6 escort, yes you read that right, this continues throughout the years because of her escort rs turbo which she has embarrassed many a faster on paper cars, she has never crashed either, I've created a monster

[LightBulbFun]

Somewhere in this house, there is a box. It's brown, cardboard, roughly a 1.5' cube, and has "Fragile stuff, lounge" scrawled on the top in red biro.

 

Can I find the damn thing? Can I hell.

 

I've turned both lofts and the garage upside down about five times now and am no closer to locating it.

 

perhaps its taken the Macintosh SEs hiding spot, considering the PITA that was to find it cant be too far away from there I imagine? 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....The best way to avoid the fines in France is either not speeding (not as easy as it sounds) or have a UK registered car as the good old DVLA tend not to give the Frenchies our details.

 

Interesting. I've been told that it's not a problem for the Swiss traffic authorities, the best anecdote being the one about the British driver who was caught speeding by a Swiss road camera whilst on holiday. By the time he got back home, the penalty notice was waiting for him on the doormat....

[Zelandeth]

perhaps its taken the Macintosh SEs hiding spot, considering the PITA that was to find it cant be too far away from there I imagine? 

My guess was that it would have been in the same general area that I found the Mac hiding, however it seems I was mistaken. I've just got back from systematically going through every box up there marking each one as it was checked...no sign of the one I'm after.

 

This is starting to annoy me now.

[Wack]

I was thinking more when your wife drove it in light of your comments earlier! Or is she not allowed to drive it?

 

 

FUCK NO !

[alcyonecorporation]

The utter slaying magazines are getting on the other thread.

 

It's a fascinating read but I temper it with the knowledge that most of my graft is despised. It wasn't personal - I realise that - but it's like Bloom's death of the father all over again.

 

I'd like to comment in that thread but I'd probably get knobbled for speaking my mind. Not by the mods, by work.

 

FWIW, Setright, Llewellyn, Bulgin, Goodwin and Bishop. Any order you want.

[Wack]

My son did train cleaning and is quite well qualified (in other things) and his mates are still doing it. Would suggest it’s worth going for if you can.

Just googled train cleaner, the only job that came up was train presentation operative , fuck me you can't even be a cleaner now , it'll be the millennials , I'm not cleaning a train, oh right train presentation operative , that sounds good

[SiC]

Apparently my wife fills up the draw to the max marker instead of dosing using the measurer. The draw takes 100ml of liquid. Container says 33ml dose.

 

Ended up with the machine rather bubbly.

 

No wonder my ezcma flares has been flaring up.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Can't say smoother, but my wife is certainly far less prone to unnecessary bouts of 7000rpm. She doesn't hang about, but she still achieves far better fuel economy than I can. There are very, very few people I trust enough to drive my 2CV. Especially out of sight. My wife is definitely one of them.

 

 

then again has thisgot anything to do with the fact she can beat you at arm wrestling? lol :mrgreen:

[Timewaster]

The utter slaying magazines are getting on the other thread.

 

It's a fascinating read but I temper it with the knowledge that most of my graft is despised. It wasn't personal - I realise that - but it's like Bloom's death of the father all over again.

 

I'd like to comment in that thread but I'd probably get knobbled for speaking my mind. Not by the mods, by work.

 

FWIW, Setright, Llewellyn, Bulgin, Goodwin and Bishop. Any order you want.

 

Setright drifted away from the subject a but too much for my liking, but otherwise I concur.

 

Any media gets it.

 

There are forums with pages and pages of how crap radio is now and how "Hirsty" should have got Chris Evans job blah blah blah

 

TV is all dumbed down now, Top Gear used to be a proper car programme blah blah blah

 

Don't listen to a word of it.

[busmansholiday]

Apparently my wife fills up the draw to the max marker instead of dosing using the measurer. The draw takes 100ml of liquid. Container says 33ml dose.

Ended up with the machine rather bubbly.

No wonder my ezcma flares has been flaring up.

Ha,ha, Mrs BMH has no idea of what 8kg max means. She just stufs as much as she can in the machine before turning on. On our third this year for some reason ?

[SiC]

Ha,ha, Mrs BMH has no idea of what 8kg max means. She just stufs as much as she can in the machine before turning on. On our third this year for some reason ?

This Samsung thankfully refuses to run if overloaded.

[Craig the Princess]

Just googled train cleaner, the only job that came up was train presentation operative , fuck me you can't even be a cleaner now , it'll be the millennials , I'm not cleaning a train, oh right train presentation operative , that sounds good

That shit has been going on since the 80s.

[Tamworthbay]

That shit has been going on since the 80s.

The yuppie bollocks where a salesman became a sales ‘executive’ and all that ‘look at how important I am’ shite that eventually led to cars parks full of ridiculous oversized cars of increasing pointlessness just to impress the neighbours.

[somewhatfoolish]

I was in a Peugeot Partner with a colleague the other day who drives even worse than my girlfriend. He used the cruise control in built up areas and on twisty roads, slammed on the brakes for moderate corners, slipped the clutch trying to pull away in too high a gear, a really unsettled and jerky driving style, all with a supported person in a wheelchair in the back.

How do berks like this pass the test? Basic car control is supposed to be part of the examination, and surely if driving with clients on board is part of the job employers are in significant risk of legal shenanigans as a result of employing shit drivers who have accidents or injure clients through being incapable of operating simple machinery.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

How do berks like this pass the test? .....

Who says they have done the test at all?

 

Some years ago, there was a spate of driving tests where the test candidate wasn't the same person as the provisional licence holder.

[wuvvum]

The yuppie bollocks where a salesman became a sales ‘executive’ and all that ‘look at how important I am’ shite that eventually led to cars parks full of ridiculous oversized cars of increasing pointlessness just to impress the neighbours.

I work in a 1970s office building which has a 1970s car park with spaces designed for 1970s cars.  Bloated moderns really don't fit.  Someone has recently bought a Jaguar F-pace - it's highly amusing watching them trying to squeeze it into a space, and even more amusing watching them try to get out of it without hitting the next car ('cos you never know whether its owner might be watching you out the office window).

 

One of our IT guys has the right idea.  He has a new 3-series, proper wanker chariot spec, private plate, huge alloys, M-Sport badging etc. etc.  He also has an orange Daewoo Matiz, which he drives to work in most days simply because it fits in the parking spaces.

[Zelandeth]

Grrrr...

 

Carzana has decided today to stop showing the approx valuation unless you're logged in...then only gives you one a day unless you sign up as a trader.

 

Not a real problem, just means a column in the spreadsheet of "what cars I can find left from the 90s Autocar mags" won't have any data now. Whole project is just a random bit of curiousity, but I like having data to put in.

[dollywobbler]

The utter slaying magazines are getting on the other thread.

 

It's a fascinating read but I temper it with the knowledge that most of my graft is despised. It wasn't personal - I realise that - but it's like Bloom's death of the father all over again.

 

I'd like to comment in that thread but I'd probably get knobbled for speaking my mind. Not by the mods, by work.

 

FWIW, Setright, Llewellyn, Bulgin, Goodwin and Bishop. Any order you want.

Don't let it bother you. I find the discussion interesting, but sales are still mostly strong for mags. Plenty of people like what they get, but niche fans are always going to be disappointed by current mainstream offerings.

[New POD]

Apparently my wife fills up the draw to the max marker instead of dosing using the measurer. The draw takes 100ml of liquid. Container says 33ml dose.

 

Ended up with the machine rather bubbly.

 

No wonder my ezcma flares has been flaring up.

SHE be using bio too. Gets rid of stains, but flares up the eczema big time. It's them fucking active enzymes

[Floatylight]

These popped up on my faceache earlier, seems a somewhAt irresponsible item to be selling (Grump 1)

 

Away from home with work stopping in a Premier Inn (that costs over £150pn, I'm not paying but still £150 !!! Ffs!) And can't sleep and can hear someone snoring like a chainsaw (Grump 2)

 

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[BavarianRetro]

Always fancied the motor factors driver

Ahh. The Dingbro girl. Always on our best behaviour when she pitches up.

[Kiltox]

These popped up on my faceache earlier, seems a somewhAt irresponsible item to be selling (Grump 1)

 

Away from home with work stopping in a Premier Inn (that costs over £150pn, I'm not paying but still £150 !!! Ffs!) And can't sleep and can hear someone snoring like a chainsaw (Grump 2)

 

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That shit has been available on eBay etc for ages. Pretty nuts.

 

Premier Inn - complain and they’ll refund you. Guaranteed.

[New POD]

That shit has been available on eBay etc for ages. Pretty nuts.

 

Premier Inn - complain and they’ll refund you. Guaranteed.

Indeed. Be careful who they refund.

 

My employer once paid in advance for a night but on check in they needed a swipe of a credit card. The following morning there was a problem which meant they made me an hour late for a meeting. So they refunded the whole night to my credit card.

I only noticed about 3 months later. Honest.????????