The grumpy thread

[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

[jon928se]

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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A long time ago the council dug up my road and in the process removed the tee connections off the gas main for about 4 houses worth of connections.

 

Three days, of the coldest nights we had that year, later they reconnected the supply- Boiler worked for about 5 minutes. Got the gas board to come straight in and look as it was clearly a result of the interuption in supply. Turned out to be sand/soil in the jets clogging it up fixed for free. 

 

About a month later I discovered that the gas meter wasn't going round (clogged up with sand) and likely hadn't been since the interruption going on estimated usage. Waited until winter was over before telling them - had the warmest house ever over winter..

[Guest Hooli]

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.

 

Shit on top of it then shut the window, turn the fan off, radiator to max & close the door on the way out.

 

That's the tradition in my office anyway & as the bog is in the lobby it also deters visitors.

[Cavcraft]

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.

Have you got a link to the advert, please?

[wuvvum]

I made the right* decision to read this thread whilst eating my breakfast.

[tooSavvy]

bns..

 

"..And I haven't noticed many [young] women walking around with piss-smelling wet patches covering their trousers / skirts / dresses etc.."

 

EFA

[sierraman]

Meanwhile, in vauxhall Zafira owners land...

 

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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!

Wow. That’s pretty special. 2 days fucking trial? Who is he? Arnold Clark? I love these people, ‘bad luck’ always seems to find them, I wonder why...

 

Mate the only trial he’s gonna be getting is one for the 120mph offence. As soon as I read ‘Vauxhall Zafira Group’ I knew it would be some batshit story like this. The Mk1/2 Mondeo ones are the same, loads of chavvy idiots asking moronic questions.

[Kiltox]

Wow. That’s pretty special. 2 days fucking trial? Who is he? Arnold Clark? I love these people, ‘bad luck’ always seems to find them, I wonder why...

 

Mate the only trial he’s gonna be getting is one for the 120mph offence. As soon as I read ‘Vauxhall Zafira Group’ I knew it would be some batshit story like this. The Mk1/2 Mondeo ones are the same, loads of chavvy idiots asking moronic questions.

Hahaha I was going to say “who does he think he is, Arnold Clark?” too but couldn’t be arsed editing my post

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Maybe not complaining about it every time? Might mean they give you a bit more leeway?

[Lankytim]

I’ve been on the trail of a couple of old bangers, arranged to collect one last night, one today.

 

First one, a Stilo from a mates brother- “soz mate, can’t get in touch with him, I’ll ring you tonight and let you know what’s going on”. Obv no phone call, this is the start of getting blown out I think “he’s scrapped it M8”

 

Second, a TDI V70, made an offer which he declined, then he accepted, then he was busy the day he wanted it collected, we rearranged for today and now he’s “Scrapped it M8”.

[Uncle Jimmy]

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

I'm just about to phone plumber No.3 in an attempt to get things moving on my place. In fairness many tradesman I meet are old, worn out bastards who can barely get up in the loft.

There is plenty of work to do and it pays alright but the Yoofs are too good for that.

[Tamworthbay]

I’ve been on the trail of a couple of old bangers, arranged to collect one last night, one today.

First one, a Stilo from a mates brother- “soz mate, can’t get in touch with him, I’ll ring you tonight and let you know what’s going on”. Obv no phone call, this is the start of getting blown out I think “he’s scrapped it M8”

Second, a TDI V70, made an offer which he declined, then he accepted, then he was busy the day he wanted it collected, we rearranged for today and now he’s “Scrapped it M8”.

If you do end up breaking a phase one v70 there are a few bits I need.