The grumpy thread

[fordperv]

The posts are still else where

The van reg

[bramz7]

It wasn't that Transit though. And it was facing the other way....

[fordperv]

Have you mentioned it on Facebook?

[bramz7]

Yeah I've had a few people ask me about it and then send me photos of the Transit they believe it to be. I did comment on a post which was later deleted but I'd already told people who asked what it looked, where it was, where it was heading etc.

[fordperv]

That's good then hope the poor sole gets the car back

[loserone]

Yeah I've had a few people ask me about it and then send me photos of the Transit they believe it to be. I did comment on a post which was later deleted but I'd already told people who asked what it looked, where it was, where it was heading etc.

 

People, or the police.

 

I realise the police are people too, but they are the specific people you need to inform.

[SiC]

Buyer has pulled out from our house sale. FFS.

[omegod]

Yeah I've had a few people ask me about it and then send me photos of the Transit they believe it to be. I did comment on a post which was later deleted but I'd already told people who asked what it looked, where it was, where it was heading etc.

 

Facebook rumour is it's been recovered

[Kiltox]

Buyer has pulled out from our house sale. FFS.

Fuck houses.

[busmansholiday]

Buyer has pulled out from our house sale. FFS.

My condolences, we've been there in the past. Not good news, but hopefully another will be along shortly (like buses).

[richardmorris]

There’s one outside work at the moment, but it’s a four door with a boot. Damned thing is literally spouting flames from the exhaust on the overrun.

[Kiltox]

My house purchase is looking deader than a K series that has already had a bottle of KSeal and is still running hot

[busmansholiday]

So on Monday I finally got around to ordering a replacement fuel tank level sender and pick up pipe (they are a combined unit on later MGs). Arrived today.

 

Half hour job I thought, and tbh, it didn't take that much longer. Then the fun.

 

Went to reconnect the battery and the earth lead parted company with the battery terminal connector. Turns out it was a crimped joint which had given up. As I don't have a big fuck off crimper there was only one choice. Drill through where it was crimped so the wire went in then stick it on the gas ring to heat it up (making sure Mrs BMH didn't catch me). Apply solder and let it cool. Job (eventually) done.

 

Now I really should take it for a test drive so went for a wash and noticed time. Three pm, oh fuck. All the local schools finish then, so did I fancy mixing it with parents of obnoxious little bastards driving like ****s, err, no. Fuck, wait for another nice day(!).

 

So cuppa tea and wander up an hour later (I live on a main road so it gets even busier then) to watch a pair of class 20's trundle through our local station. Made up for the rest of the shite.

[cobblers]

At work we have a milling machine. It's really wank, but for some reason one of the gaffers turned up with it one day when he decided he wanted to mill something. They paid nearly £1500 for it along with a load of collets that don't fit and some milling cutters.

 

However, despite it being a milling machine, it looks a bit like a pillar drill, so when someone who has never used a pillar drill came round to do a safety assessment, they said "pillar drill needs a guard at all times", so a guard was ordered from Clarke. This can never be removed, which means this milling machine can never be used to mill anything, because the guard hits the work before the cutter. The guard is useless when drilling because it's too short.

 

So now we have a £1500, really absolutely wank pillar drill.

 

Then, someone else decided that all "heavy machinery" needed to be inspected monthly, and the inspection results recorded on a sheet which must be attached to the machinery at all times.

 

So we're left with this

 

a £1500 pillar drill with an A4 piece of paper that flaps in the way of what you're doing, that's inspected monthly by someone who doesn't know how to even turn it on.

 

The actual safety issues are:

It's not bolted down

There's insufficient space and lighting to use it properly

Nobody other than me has ever had any kind of engineering training to qualify them to use it.

 

But we've got signs and a guard on so everything is OK. The one person who could use it, can't. And the people that shouldn't use it, might and will still hurt themselves.

 

Idiocy. I need to get out of there.

[New POD]

At work we have a milling machine. It's really wank, but for some reason one of the gaffers turned up with it one day when he decided he wanted to mill something. They paid nearly £1500 for it along with a load of collets that don't fit and some milling cutters.

 

However, despite it being a milling machine, it looks a bit like a pillar drill, so when someone who has never used a pillar drill came round to do a safety assessment, they said "pillar drill needs a guard at all times", so a guard was ordered from Clarke. This can never be removed, which means this milling machine can never be used to mill anything, because the guard hits the work before the cutter. The guard is useless when drilling because it's too short.

 

So now we have a £1500, really absolutely wank pillar drill.

 

Then, someone else decided that all "heavy machinery" needed to be inspected monthly, and the inspection results recorded on a sheet which must be attached to the machinery at all times.

 

So we're left with this,a £1200 pillar drill with an a4 piece of paper in the way of what you're doing, that's inspected monthly by someone who doesn't know how to use it. For safety.

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Obviously it's not bolted down, there's insufficient space and lighting to use it properly and nobody other than me has ever had any kind of formal engineering training to qualify them to use such a device, but we've got signs and a guard on so everything is OK.

I feel your pain. You are obviously qualified to redo the risk assessment. Do it. Remove stupid guard. Bolt to suitable bench. Obtain suitable guard. Obtain instruction manual and use.

 

Do it. Don't ask permission.

[New POD]

Daughter has moved into a new flat with secure gated parking. Every flat has a space allocated with flat number and there are 10 visitor spaces.

 

In the 3 times i have been at the weekend i have noted all the visitor spaces are always taken - i assume because some flats have 2 cars.

And yet half the other spaces are empty. - I asume because the flats are right on the edge of the city centre and people don't own cars.

However my wife insists that if the visitor spaces are used, we should park down the road. Fair enough. It's free parking and there's always space, but I've told my daughter to keep an eye on the space next to hers and see if it is ever used and I'll use that when I visit. Wife is horrified. I might have well suggested raping the pope.

[quicksilver]

Microsoft. What a faff trying to do anything with their products thanks to their tedious installer programs and insistence you can't reboot without installing updates. I wanted to move a SQL Server database from one computer to another. No problem, thought I, I'll just copy the MDF file across and attach it, job done. No dice. Because the file came from a SQL Server 2017 instance I can't attach it to a SQL Server 2012 instance and have to upgrade the latter. That involved the following steps, interspersed with much head banging and swearing.

 

-Find SQL Server 2017 installer and wait for it to download (700MB)

-Run said installer. It decides it needs a reboot before it can install.

-Reboot and wait several minutes for unspecified Windows updates to install

-Run installer again. After several minutes of checks it decides it can't upgrade my SQL Server 2012 instance and I have to install Service Park 2 first.

-Find SQL Server 2012 SP2 installer and wait for it to download (>1GB)

-Run installer and wait for it to unpack. It won't install because the SQL Server 2017 installer is still open.

-Close SQL Server 2017 installer, restart SP2 installer and wait for it to unpack again

-Wait an hour for SP2 to install. It completes and doesn't say a reboot is needed.

-Run SQL Server 2017 installer for a third time. It decides it needs a reboot.

-Reboot and install yet more unspecified Windows updates

-Run SQL Server 2017 installer yet again. Finally all checks pass and it starts installing.

-Wait over an hour for this to install, including the progress bar reaching 100% several minutes before it actually finishes.

-Installer completes and says it needs a reboot. Start menu says there are no more updates to install.

-Reboot and it starts installing even more bloody updates!

-Attach MDF file and finally I have a working database 3.5 hours after starting what I thought would be a 5 minute job. What a fucking kerfuffle.

[cobblers]

I feel your pain. You are obviously qualified to redo the risk assessment. Do it. Remove stupid guard. Bolt to suitable bench. Obtain suitable guard. Obtain instruction manual and use.

 

Do it. Don't ask permission.

I've tried this, but they pay huge amounts of money for external advice and follow it absolutely verbatim, completely unthinking. 

 

I'm their main R&D Engineer, they know my qualifications, they know I've spent 20 years working with power tools and machinery and still have all my eyes and fingers.

 

However, a generic leaflet from the payroll company and some woman who did a three day H&S course 15 years ago absolutely trumps my qualifications and experience - because the person listening to the advice and reading the leaflet doesn't understand any of it.

[drivewaymyway]

Who buys a first home, knocks down internal walls, ceilings / replaces plumbing / electrics / kitchen / MASSIVE FOOKIN TELLY !! x2 ONE IN LIVING ROOM AND ONE IN BEDROOM ??!! other than that the house is a dump, gets friends round and gets pissed, shouts, behaves like a 10 year old and plays indoor football ?? Inconsiderate / noisy Fuckers !! I know, sounds like good fun to play indoor football whilst drunk but it's a quick way to pissing off the neighbours... I wish I could get rid of these assholes but complaining just gives them something else to laugh at.. What to do ???

[BorniteIdentity]

My block of flats used to be a parking free for all, but recently they designated spaces. It's tricky as the car park is shared between 3 different small blocks of flats, and our block of 6 only got 3 spaces to share - fortunately only 3 of us have cars so I got one of the spaces, and handily is the place I used to park mostly when it was a free for all.

 

Anyway, at least once a week for the last few weeks there's been a 3 series parked in my space. I left a couple of polite notes the first couple of times, but they didn't stop parking there. I'd have loved to just dump my car infront of theirs for the weekend and block them in but due to the layout of the car park I'd block the flow for 3/4 of the car park.

 

I had a vague idea who the car belonged to (someone from one of the other blocks) but never caught them in the act to have a word.... Until I came home tonight and spied who I thought it was stood in the middle of the car park going batshit at someone on their phone. Parked my bike up and got changed so as to not look "biker thug" and went back to the car park to find that the cause of the commotion being that the 3 series was blocked in by a new Vauxhall Viva. Oh delicious irony. The woman with the 3 series was off the phone and pacing around now so I politely enquired was she the owner of the BMW. Over the space of about 15 minutes in which she got increasingly mental at me, the conversation could be boiled down to...

 

Me - don't park your car in (my) space again please

Her - someone else parks in my space so if that happens again I'll park in your space

Me - no you won't, you should take your argument up with the person parking in your space

Her - I see loads of people parking in your space, why do you only tell me to move

Me - you're the only person I've ever seen park there, and it's at least once a week

Her - I think you're a racist and you only pick on me because I'm (nationality)

Me - oh fuck off you silly cow

 

Went down hill from there a bit...

Anyway a friendly neighbour came and knocked my door just now and said they'd heard us rowing so was doing a bit of curtain twitching. It seems not long after I'd left the 3 series owner to it she'd decided she couldn't wait for the viva owner to move and tried a million point manoeuvre to get out through the tiny gap which was left, and bashed her car into the wall in the process.

 

Every cloud.

A few options.

 

One. Park elsewhere for a month whilst one of my cars is in your space - it’ll reset her brain and maybe stop her from even checking your space is available. (!)

 

Two. Get a bolt down bollard. They’re not very expensive and, even if you rent, you could take it with you when you move.

 

Three. Just continue to cause her absolute hell every time the space is blocked, so that it simply becomes totally unworthwhile.

 

In my first flat I had a parking issue. The old boy I bought my flat from was dead AF - and the neighbour always parked across both spaces so his wife could disembark easier. Having left a note that was ignored, one day I wedged my mini in and left it there for about two weeks. When he saw me he wasn’t best pleased, but a big shit eating smile and a ‘I wouldn’t want to park it in anyone else’s space, it’d be rude’ and he stfu.

 

Good luck man. Sadly, there’s obviously a sense of entitlement here.

[New POD]

Who buys a first home, knocks down internal walls, ceilings / replaces plumbing / electrics / kitchen / MASSIVE FOOKIN TELLY !! x2 ONE IN LIVING ROOM AND ONE IN BEDROOM ??!! other than that the house is a dump, gets friends round and gets pissed, shouts, behaves like a 10 year old and plays indoor football ?? Inconsiderate / noisy Fuckers !! I know, sounds like good fun to play indoor football whilst drunk but it's a quick way to pissing off the neighbours... I wish I could get rid of these assholes but complaining just gives them something else to laugh at.. What to do ???

Get up early after they have had a session and wake the fucked up. Use Any excuse. Make fake parcels and tell him theyve been delivered to you. Knock on his door, tell him you are mowing your front lawn, would he like you to do his. Put your music on at full blast at 7 am and go and sit in the garden.

Drill with hammer action into the shared walls.

Always complain. But not when it's happening. Stop him on his way to work, thus forcing him to talk to you when he's late already.

Get a solicitor to get an injunction.

[chadders]

Just back from a week in Crete where a fucking maniac on a motorbike mowed my missus down when she was halfway across a zebra crossing.

 

She's got a fractured elbow and a cracked rib and is bruised to fuck.

She's dealing with it well but obviously is not a happy bunny and can't drive for at least 4 weeks.

 

They're nutters there - there was one guy on a moped using both hands to put his shoes on and looking down to do so as he 'rode' along.

[bub2006]

Had to cut holiday short. Not car related but my son is a little shit. He can be so beautiful and innocent to people when he wants to but has now been expelled for what I've been told is violent and abusive behaviour to teachers and other staff. Meeting with the head in the morning.

[fordperv]

Who buys a first home, knocks down internal walls, ceilings / replaces plumbing / electrics / kitchen / MASSIVE FOOKIN TELLY !! x2 ONE IN LIVING ROOM AND ONE IN BEDROOM ??!! other than that the house is a dump, gets friends round and gets pissed, shouts, behaves like a 10 year old and plays indoor football ?? Inconsiderate / noisy Fuckers !! I know, sounds like good fun to play indoor football whilst drunk but it's a quick way to pissing off the neighbours... I wish I could get rid of these assholes but complaining just gives them something else to laugh at.. What to do ???

Have you got shite to work on? What about some early morning sessions with grinders and hammers the mornings after they have had a skin full

[D Spares & Tyres]

Homework

 

My lad has just turned 5 and has homework every day. I don't bother getting him to do it, he is far too young. School exhausts him enough as it is. If they can't manage to teach the basics within the school hours then surely they are doing something wrong.

I'm sure I wasn't asked to do it until I was 12 or so

[New POD]

Homework

 

My lad has just turned 5 and has homework every day. I don't bother getting him to do it, he is far too young. School exhausts him enough as it is. If they can't manage to teach the basics within the school hours then surely they are doing something wrong.

I'm sure I wasn't asked to do it until I was 12 or so

 

Go and explain this to them 

[Cavcraft]

Buyer has pulled out from our house sale. FFS.

We’ve just had that too. Oh, what fun

[artdjones]

Homework

 

My lad has just turned 5 and has homework every day. I don't bother getting him to do it, he is far too young. School exhausts him enough as it is. If they can't manage to teach the basics within the school hours then surely they are doing something wrong.

I'm sure I wasn't asked to do it until I was 12 or so

Yes,it used to be only in secondary schools.A five year old shouldn't have to do anything outside of school hours,and in many European countries school doesn't even start until 7.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Homework

 

My lad has just turned 5 and has homework every day. I don't bother getting him to do it, he is far too young. School exhausts him enough as it is. If they can't manage to teach the basics within the school hours then surely they are doing something wrong.

I'm sure I wasn't asked to do it until I was 12 or so

I don’t disagree particularly but I will play Devil’s advocate for a second:

 

Some households have children going to school that have little to no parental support. In those homes, the parents are often functionally illiterate and the child may also have language issues because of a lack of child-facing communication. These things often happen hand in hand. The homework is not necessarily for the kid, it’s sometimes to get the parents to engage with their kid’s education. And if the kid has got language problems, then all the hours in the school day might not be enough...

[xtriple]

Just taken the mutts to the vets (or, Phoebe's second home) for their annual jabs, Phoebe's pills, tramadol and Bravecto for them both  - £228! Got the annual bollocking for the size of Chester's gut (deserved) but he hasn't actually put any weight on this year!  I have discovered that Phoebe costs more to run than a decent car but she is worth it... I suppose She has got to have a molar out as it's split but a bit scared of her having yet more anaesthetic, it doesn't seem to be bothering her so I may wait a bit until she needs something else doing and get both done under one anaesthetic - good idea or not?