The grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

if you cut up the wrong one i.e. your old one why should yhe PIN be different?

in fact why would the PIN change for a new card anyway? mine doesn't

 

Because I've got two current accounts (one gets bills taken from it & a single transfer in each month as I find it easier that way). Both had cards but I've no idea of the PIN for the bills account. So I currently have two cards for the bills account that I don't know the PIN for and no card for my normal account I know the PIN for.

 

I rung them & got it sorted, a new card for my normal account & a PIN reminder for the bills account is on the way. I explained what I'd done & the woman on the phone just laughed & said 'you're not having a good weekend are you?'.

[Mally]

How much do they cost if the DMF isn't knackered, that doesn't seem too bad if it's including a new one.

We had a turbo auto diesel ZT which shat the solenoids in the box with no warning giving us a £500 bill

 

90% of the time the DMF is fine.

The correct way is to take the box off, clutch change price around £1,000.

It can be done by sliding the box off a bit and maybe drop the sub frame a little for £600.

Some say this can compromise the fitting of slave cylinder and pipe, resulting in further problems later.

Also the master cylinder is under the dash, about '6 ft' forward. You can hardly see it never mind top it up.

Fantastic car when they work though.

[Zelandeth]

Only been messing with computers for going on 25 years.

 

Just got essentially bitchslapped by the one I was working on this evening when my right index finger got into a fight with one of the case fans. The fan won. Blood sodding everywhere. How can such a small nick bleed so much?

 

Back in 2009 (ish) I built this system for a friend. It's the only lemon I've ever built. Despite all my efforts it was at best "annoyingly" unstable. No matter what I did to it, the darn thing would blue screen at least once a day. Stop codes were unhelpfully vague "something has gone wrong with a driver" ones which got me nowhere. Eventually it got stuffed into the loft when a laptop replaced it (something to do with moving four times in less than two years). Over the intervening few years it got scavenged - only things left in the case we're the motherboard and CPU. I tripped over it last week and threw it back together with random scrap bits and pieces, in the interests of curiousity I figured that if I threw Debian at it, it would at least give me something useful in the logs to tell me what was going on.

 

It's been running for nearly a week now and hasn't even hiccuped once. Go figure.

 

Then it bit me this evening. Ow. Just sorting the fans before sticking the case back together.

 

What do you bet that if I stuff it somewhere out of the way and start it on number crunching duties it will *then* start playing up...

[Shirley Knott]

Had a drink on Saturday night and still feel mildly ropey even this morning, not cool....It's official, I've now entered two day hangover country and this seems to be business as usual for me these days, I didn't even drink that much FFS. 

 

Maybe it's an age thing? I used to be able to dust myself off after 3 hours sleep post bender and get on with the day like nothing had happened, these days the consequences just don't seem to be worth it anymore.

[yellowperil]

I got up and went to work this morning after over a month off, only to be told I look terrible and to go home.

So I drove home and I feel proper knackered my legs feel like jelly.

 

I am soon bored at home.

[New POD]

Had a drink on Saturday night and still feel mildly ropey even this morning, not cool....It's official, I've now entered two day hangover country and this seems to be business as usual for me these days, I didn't even drink that much FFS.

 

Maybe it's an age thing? I used to be able to dust myself off after 3 hours sleep post bender and get on with the day like nothing had happened, these days the consequences just don't seem to be worth it anymore.

If you are drinking 3 pints a night every night, your system is probably tolerant enough to drink 8 pints in one night.

 

If you drink one pint every week, you probably will be pissed after 3 pints.

[Shirley Knott]

Yup, I don't really indulge through the week so that may well be a factor.

 

As mentioned it's not like I even drink herculean quantities but it seems all too easy to induce a pretty grizzly hangover, any more than a couple of glasses is  too much. Seriously thinking about going t-total TBH.

[nacho man]

 

So this happened

 

Is a 255 50 19 space save gonna bollox up my 4x4 system other wheels are 255/55/20

 

Bear in mind it’s a Range Rover and that a moth flying a bit too close to it sets off some sort of warning light

 

 

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[andy18s]

It might give the abs/traction control something to think about as that wheel spins af a different rate to the others

But nuns and kittens should be fine untill it's repaired

[bub2006]

There's calculators online to check rolling radius. I think the computer should have some sort of margin for discrepancy. The radius between the 20s and 19s won't be too different due to the sidewall difference

[Cheggers]

My hearings still bollocksed after Saturday night's gig...I'm getting too old for all this.

[DodgeRover]

 

So this happened

 

Is a 255 50 19 space save gonna bollox up my 4x4 system other wheels are 255/55/20

 

Bear in mind it’s a Range Rover and that a moth flying a bit too close to it sets off some sort of warning light

 

 

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Personally I wouldn't run it further than you absolutely have to in order to get that fixed.

[nacho man]

Personally I wouldn't run it further than you absolutely have to in order to get that fixed.

 

Found a massive screw in the couple of month old Pirelli ( In the side wall so no repair), £240 quid later got a new tyre. Not the easiest size to get either.

 

Need to sort a proper sized spare of a different space saver.

[Guest Hooli]

Did they do different size space spavers according to the wheels ticked as options?

[dollywobbler]

My hearings still bollocksed after Saturday night's gig...I'm getting too old for all this.

 

I don't go to live music gigs anymore. They're always too loud. Actually, that's not fair. I saw a local band recently, but they were entirely acoustic. No amps at all, and utterly tremendous!

[AMC Rebel]

All gigs too loud - that's a grumpy thread winner!

 

I have to go to loud gigs as I spent so much of my youth doing it (and DJing) I can't hear anything at quiet ones.

[iainrcz]

I've been to many an iron maiden gig and my ears ring for weeks afterwards.

 

Metallica are loud too.

 

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[Cheggers]

I've been to many an iron maiden gig and my ears ring for weeks afterwards.

 

Metallica are loud too.

 

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This was Lady Winwood's Maggot, a local death western band.

[bramz7]

I was at a 3 hour Machine Head gig a few months ago and used some earplugs, and they worked a treat. It blocks just enough for you to hear it (better some would say) and no headaches after.

[DVee8]

I used earplugs at the last gig i was at,after Skid Row broke my left ear earlier this year.

[Zelandeth]

Thanks for that, Milton Keynes Council.

 

 

Nice to see you going the extra mile to ensure that it's as awkward as possible to recycle anything large or bulky in your area.

 

I already avoid the Newport Pagnell site like the plague as it's been an utter zoo on the couple of times I was there and there was crap all over the vehicle area. At least they seem to do a decent job of keeping puncture fodder off the road at New Bradwell.

 

Wouldn't grump quite so much if the area didn't already have such a *horrendous* problem with fly tipping.

[Mally]

I'm partially deaf from childhood.

LOUD is good.

[dollywobbler]

I would like to get some calendars made up. I thought it might be nice to try and use a small company rather than CORPORATE BIG BUSINESS, but so far, it's been a complete and utter nightmare. One company sent me a demo that looked half-arsed even by HubNut standards, while several others have promised loads, taken money and then had design systems that are UTTER ARSE and refuse to accept any of my images. Try customer services, and you quickly discover that the friendly little company presented via the website is actually CORPORATE BIG BUSINESS in some bloody foreign country where they don't understand anything at all. 

 

So I went to a local printer (by local, I mean a 40-minute drive away). They designed something that looked like a child had done it. Hopeless. 

 

It's going to be bloody Vistaprint isn't it?

[dozeydustman]

It's going to be bloody Vistaprint isn't it?

 

 

You got Microsoft Publisher? Design how you want, then get a printing company to ream them out & bind up.

[dollywobbler]

You got Microsoft Publisher? Design how you want, then get a printing company to ream them out & bind up.

 

Nope. I have no publishing software.

[Tamworthbay]

If you can afford it get specialist audio custom made earplugs, they just take the top off but leave the sounds almost exactly as was. Makes life so much more comfortable at gigs. I saw feeder last year in Brum and the sound was bloody awful, only the earplugs made it bearable.

[Angrydicky]

I was at a 3 hour Machine Head gig a few months ago and used some earplugs, and they worked a treat. It blocks just enough for you to hear it (better some would say) and no headaches after.

Yep,I never go to any gigs without mine now. Too many of my friends have tinnitus, and that ringing in my ears and or headache is awful.

[DodgeRover]

Found a massive screw in the couple of month old Pirelli ( In the side wall so no repair), £240 quid later got a new tyre. Not the easiest size to get either.

 

Need to sort a proper sized spare of a different space saver.

You know you can have sidewall repairs done? Normally £20ish look for wherever they take wagon tyres to locally for vulcanised repairs.

[Snipes]

I thought nobody bothered with major repairs nowadays (for cars)?

[DodgeRover]

I thought nobody bothered with major repairs nowadays (for cars)?

Usually only because all the chain type places swear it's illegal to repair sidewall damage, when what they really mean is we can't do that type of repair as it's more involved than flogging you a new tyre.