The grumpy thread

[purplebargeken]

I'm bored.

 

Hope that didn't offend anyone.

[mercrocker]

As long as its not a sexual reference.

[purplebargeken]

^^ Hell no.

[mrbenn]

^^ Hell no.

 

Can we watch the langauge please.

 

Thanks.

[purplebargeken]

That place where demons live and you go there if you are bad and dead (not London) no.

[Alfamale]

Been fancying a Rover 200 BRM for a while and one pops locally on ebay for not very much wedge with OMGHGF. A query on the ask a shitter thread gives a lead of someone who can remedy this situation for not too much coinage.

 

Finally get a number from the vendor, conversation is promising, same giffef owner for past 18 years, piles of receipts, much loved family car etc..

 

Then the revelation, the one previous owner who had the car for 9 months swapped out the red leather embossed interior for plain black leather. Why would anyone do this? What’s wrong with people?

 

It had th silver nose cone which dealers did to tone them down when they couldn’t sell. This could be easily sorted, but to gt rid of that gorgeous interior? Why not just buy the 200Vi in the first place?

 

As they say at the end of the apprentice, the search continues.

[LightBulbFun]

I'm bored.

 

Hope that didn't offend anyone.

 

May I recommend then you watch

 

 

and

 

 

I also highly recommend the rest of the secret life of machines episodes in general

[purplebargeken]

At least that won't result in me buying anything that I may later totally regret. 

[Tamworthbay]

At least that won't result in me buying anything that I may later totally regret.

 

I thought you totally regretted most of your purchases

[beko1987]

May I recommend then you watch

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr3_AwuO9Y

 

and

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Tp2qpjcgw

 

I also highly recommend the rest of the secrete life of machines episodes in general

I've watched the vacuum cleaner one more than I've watched my own children! Rite of passage to a collector is that

[tooSavvy]

I've watched the vacuum cleaner one more than I've watched my own children! Rite of passage to a collector is that

.... You have seen Teenwolf

[beko1987]

Meanwhile, in vauxhall Zafira owners land...

 

 

Do feel a little bit sorry for the bloke but bloody hell why would you ever do that! Massive face-palm as I read it.

 

I'm talking him through how to get his android location history, because he needs all the help he can get!

[Kiltox]

HAHAHAHAaaaa

 

That is ace. What kind of pikey idiot would give someone a “trial” of a shit second hand car?!?

[beko1987]

I hope he isn't going to represent himself in court...

[SierraMikeHotel]

Had to suffer this when going to Brands Hatch last weekend. What the hell was wrong with throwing a couple of coins into a bucket as you pass through the toll? It's not like the online payment crap makes the traffic move the slightest bit quicker - from the few times I've used it, the traffic seems to be even worse now than with the old system.

My dad lives a couple of junctions back from it (in Pratts Bottom - yes, I know) and he says the same.

[Fumbler]

Firefox is acting reeeeeeeealy buggy today. I hope this isn't the start.

[beko1987]

Firefox is acting reeeeeeeealy buggy today. I hope this isn't the start.

Firefox is crap nowadays, it makes my very expensive work computer crap itself.

 

Tried opera? It's fab!

[loserone]

Tried opera? It's Chrome in a Chinese made Nordic style dress!

[beko1987]

Oh...

 

In my defense all the modern browsers are quite crap. I have them all in my work pc for testing, so based on an i7 kaby lake with 8 gigs of not enough ram:

 

Edge - fuck you edge

Chrome - massive MASSIVE ram hog

Firefox - cpu and ram

Brave - nice idea but it's far too over zealous and blocks stuff you want

Opera - bit bloat but i use it daily because it doesn't freeze as much and remembers the proxy settings it has to use

Safari - too fucking boring

 

Saying that I use Firefox in my Linux Mint vm for WiFi off the work network stuff and it's ace on Linux.

[Uncle Jimmy]

I hate winter; the closer you get to Christmas the more difficult it is to get any cunt to do anything for you. Worst is when bloody tradesmen don't get back to you. Then when you get much past 40 you get tired and cold and even a good night's kip won't help the aches and pains so you wake up feeling like some sadist has been thrashing you with a stick all night long.

Grumble over.

[mercrocker]

I've already had the "might be in time for Christmas" patter.   Fucking better be - 7 weeks to lay a vinyl floor?

[iainrcz]

Harking back to the gas pipe severance of this morning, now the boiler is shitting it's pants.

 

I had a shower earlier and the water kept going cold, and I've noticed the pressure gauge reading keeps dropping.

 

Could the lack of gas have caused an issue given it was running fine until today?

 

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[reb]

 

 

Then when you get much past 40 you get tired and cold and even a good night's kip won't help the aches and pains so you wake up feeling like some sadist has been thrashing you with a stick all night long.

I'm just over halfway there and this rings true already, do you mean it's going to get worse in the next 17 years? Bloody hell.

 

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[New POD]

I've already had the "might be in time for Christmas" patter. Fucking better be - 7 weeks to lay a vinyl floor?

It needs to be by Tuesday as the next tenant moves in on Wednesday, so if you can't do it by then, I won't bother, until they move out.

 

Witness my wife getting a new back door fitted within the week when they were quoting a "Eventually" leadtime.

[paulplom]

Harking back to the gas pipe severance of this morning, now the boiler is shitting it's pants.

 

I had a shower earlier and the water kept going cold, and I've noticed the pressure gauge reading keeps dropping.

 

Could the lack of gas have caused an issue given it was running fine until today?

 

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The pressure dropping means you have a leak on the heating side. Nothing to do with gas unfortunately.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

When you walk into a shared toilet and lock the door, turn around and realise someone's arse has exploded India's finest down the pan.

 

Do you:

A) Use the bogbrush and clean it off so that when you emerge no one will accuse you of being a dirty tinker, or

2) leave it and just tell other users not to go in there for a while?

 

Coz you know, once you've closed that door, whatever state that bog is in, immediately becomes your own responsibility...

 

I just cannot understand why people have to be so unhygenic with such little self respect.

[bolognasal spray]

I sometimes aim a strong jet of slash at the chod and can usually "hose" most of it off if it's "same day". If it's been there for ages it's a different story. Dislodging aged chod takes a slash jet of about 30 bar, I reckon.

 

I sometimes wonder if there's a parallel universe where pissing chod off filthy bogs is a game show - or even a national sport like darts, with elaborate scoring systems and celebrities with their own range of apparel, etc.

 

I appreciate this would be a very male dominated sport btw. So I suppose there'd also be a women's league that got really low numbers of spectators etc.  

[SierraMikeHotel]

You'd think so, but previous jobs that included cleaning mean I know women love pissing on the floor. I suspect they get up to more than we realise. Is three a thread about it on Mumsnet? Or Mrs Datsuncog's thread forum?

[bolognasal spray]

I suspect what happens is that if they're dying for a piss, they sit down - as usual - but the jet unfortunately gets squirted between the narrow aperture between seat and ceramic rim, and dribbles down the outside of the bog. It's the only rational explanation if you think about it. If they were in anything even remotely resembling a standing position the danger of some slash covering their pants and other clothing (positioned around their ankles, or close by) would be quite high. And I haven't noticed many women walking around with piss-smelling wet patches covering their trousers / skirts / dresses etc.

[andy18s]

One of my past jobs involved being next to the packing dept staffed mainly by women

We used to hear tales of huge,unflushable turds being dropped off and the stench of the corridor leading to the bathroom was eye watering on some days