The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

I use Instagram purely for photos of vacuums and with 0 work have over 300 subscribers... So it works quite well!

[bramz7]

Today has been the worst day of travel I've had for a while.

 

Thankfully the SWR train ran fine so I don't have to slag off my employer.

All the Norwich trains out of Liverpool Street cancelled or disrupted, so NRE advises to go to Kings Cross and go to Ely, and get a connection from there. Okay fine.

Get an Ely bound Great Northern train. Has about 7 additional stops on it which weren't advertised meaning I miss the connecting train.

Wait at Ely for 50 mins.

Get an EMT service to Norwich. Running 25 late now due to a speed restriction to inspect the line.

I dunno what transport related sin I've committed but someone hates me. Not a good omen as I've got a few more long trips coming up too. Sigh.

[robinmasters]

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!

Sorry to dredge this up from pages ago, but a) it's worthy of more derision, and other people may have missed it too.

 

What sort of twinkle thinks a two-day trial of a Zafira-fucking-B is a reasonable thing for a buyer to ask, and then allows it to happen without a deposit, checking the 'buyer's address and identity?

 

I don't think any of this is hindsight, if someone was taking my car away for a couple of days I'd want to be certain about where I could get it back from if they decided not to return it. Also, driving any car cover is usually third party only, so if they dinged it they could just post the keys through your letterbox and disappear.

[iainrcz]

If someone asked me for a "trial" in a car worth £50 I'd tell them to buy it or fuck off.

[castros_bro]

What on earth are you doing - a basic CSCS card for labouring costs about £30 and you need to learn colours of fire extinguishers and what angle ladders should be at, test takes about 20 mins.

No bugger ever asks to see it either unless you are on really big sites.

We set on labourers based on ability to turn up regularly on time and do the donkey work and or ability to ask advice if there is a problem, just need a CIS number and NI number and probably a set of wellies and some steel cap safety boots.

 

 

The point I was making was that there is enough hurdles of paperwork/courses/fees so the yoof of today cannot be arsed to waste their time collecting them before they can get to the point of trying to find a job and get paid. Hence you'll (as I do for the building I manage) struggle to get a plumber/electrician/masseur/cleaner/roofer.

 

CITB/CSCS Test is £21 + travel and  card is £36. Test is 45 minutes to answer 50 multiple choice questions. Pass mark is 47 out of 50 (94%).  Agencies and sites round here will only take CSCS people,  small "one man bands" will do whatever they feel is needed.

 

Here's a question i couldn't answer so had to look it up after passing.

 

 

 

 

 

THE END

[angle]

I know that wanky management speak is a regular visitor to this thread, but Jesus the amount of it on a project I'm working on is getting to me. At first I thought people were taking the piss, only to get death stares when I started laughing - all of the following are regularly used in earnest by people on six figure salaries:

 

Rummage - a meeting. 'There's a parking rummage arranged for Tuesday'

 

Deep Dive - also a meeting. No, of course I don't know the fucking difference. 'The parking rummage was really useful, but we think we need a deep dive on charging for electric vehicles'

 

Best Athlete - someone who knows what they're doing. 'We're running out of time on the parking, we need to get our best athletes on it'

 

Beautiful Child - the thing we're building. 'The change to the parking is going to have an effect on the beatiful child, we need to get the architects involved'

 

(except obviously no one says 'architects' because then people might know what you're wittering on about, they'll say 'work package 23' or whatever)

 

Integrated Delivery Team - consultants. 'Someone in the Integrated Delivery Team kept sniggering whenever I used the word rummage'

 

That's all in addition to the normal holistic offline synergy clouds you get on things like this, obvs. If anyone sees an angry man waving a scale ruler around in Bristol over the next few days, it's probably me.

[Eddie Honda]

Wriggle it onto a plank then it will wriggle easier, then walk it up 2 planks into the trailer.

Thanks, but I deployed my secret weapon...

 

 

[dozeydustman]

TWO. FACTOR. AUTHENTICATION.

 

Enable it right now.

 

Disgusts me that it isn’t standard - i know you’ll probably have to google it to work out what the fuck I’m on about but Microsoft/Google/etc know better.

 

 

Enabled.

 

Doesn't stop hackers as I've had 2 texts over the last 3 days saying my password has been changed. I'll just close the account.

[DodgeRover]

The point I was making was that there is enough hurdles of paperwork/courses/fees so the yoof of today cannot be arsed to waste their time collecting them before they can get to the point of trying to find a job and get paid. Hence you'll (as I do for the building I manage) struggle to get a plumber/electrician/masseur/cleaner/roofer.

 

CITB/CSCS Test is £21 + travel and card is £36. Test is 45 minutes to answer 50 multiple choice questions. Pass mark is 47 out of 50 (94%). Agencies and sites round here will only take CSCS people, small "one man bands" will do whatever they feel is needed.

 

Here's a question i couldn't answer so had to look it up after passing.

 

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THE END

Yoof of today needs to get their arses round the sites and physically speak to people rather than rely on email and agencies. I'm subbing for the biggest loft conversion firm round here and I've never been asked for my card, in fact the only time it was mentioned was when another firm I was with was doing some work on the underground.

 

Surely that test wasn't the basic CSCS one? There was absolutely nothing like that on mine.

[puddlethumper]

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.

It's only going to get worse as far as getting hold of a tradesman.

I'm old, 65, but not worn out, yet, and I'm booked up till at least the end of January and turning down work

more now than ever. Unfortunately a lot of people are more into the ' I want it now' mindset which doesn't help. 

Plumbers have you by the curlies because you tend to need them quick.

Yoofs aren't going into building work because who would want to work on a building site 

in winter freezing your bits off when you can work a computer in an office ?

I'm on 40 odd big ones a year and I'm giving myself a raise on Jan 1st to not far off 50.

Good times, moneywise, in the foreseeable future.

[Snipes]

The point I was making was that there is enough hurdles of paperwork/courses/fees so the yoof of today cannot be arsed to waste their time collecting them before they can get to the point of trying to find a job and get paid. Hence you'll (as I do for the building I manage) struggle to get a plumber/electrician/masseur/cleaner/roofer.

 

CITB/CSCS Test is £21 + travel and card is £36. Test is 45 minutes to answer 50 multiple choice questions. Pass mark is 47 out of 50 (94%). Agencies and sites round here will only take CSCS people, small "one man bands" will do whatever they feel is needed.

 

Here's a question i couldn't answer so had to look it up after passing.

 

IMG_20181101_204311.jpg

 

 

 

 

THE END

"C"? Did I get it right?

Also I see loads of yoofs on site - nearly always JTL apprentices.

[Ghosty]

Flickr are limiting free accounts to 1000 photos.

 

If you have more than that:

 

"*Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download content over the limit. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content actively deleted -- starting from oldest to newest date uploaded -- to meet the new limit.    "

 

 

 

FUCK RIGHT OFF, they've gone full Photobucket.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I've switched to Google Photos for any albums that I share.  Flickr was a crushing disappointment on holiday and I couldn't get a damn fucking thing to upload.  Had my camera sync'd to my iPhone to upload...

[Ghosty]

I've always found it a pleasure to use, and a paragon of reliability. 

Google Photos has always been a mess for me, and Imgur is a hateful thing to use, for the longest time their mobile app was just plain broken too.

[adw1977]

Flickr are limiting free accounts to 1000 photos.

 

If you have more than that:

 

"*Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download content over the limit. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content actively deleted -- starting from oldest to newest date uploaded -- to meet the new limit. "

 

 

 

FUCK RIGHT OFF, they've gone full Photobucket.

Yeah, looks like I'll be coughing up about £40 for the next year soon. I can't be uploading thousands of pages of brochure scans somewhere else.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

It just wouldn't bulk upload the way I wanted it to.  It was fine for one or two photos but over about 20 and it would only upload the first 5 or so.  Useless when on some days I was taking over 100.  Admittedly, I was just trying to dump photos up there before going through but Google Photos was much better for that and worked every single time...

[beko1987]

I've yet to find as nicer way to host pictures to embed as picasa used to be... I use ultraimg for now but it's a bit clunky.

 

Anyone know of a place? Needs to have the img tags available

[ChinaTom]

Techfuckingnology.

 

Wifey has 2 mobiles. Galaxy and a Chinese doobryfurkin.

 

Off to Vegas tomorrow, orders a GoPro copy and a gimbal. And some accessories. 2 days ago on Amazon coz fast deliveries. Stress like buggery as packages somehow manage to get over the Cuban wall (yeah you ordered today delivery, yeah. We deliver tomorrow. Maybe next day. Yeah ok, bye).

 

Nothing will connect to anything by blueteeth, or whatever it is.

 

I reluctantly hand over my iPhone and the whole lot comes together like magnets.

 

Why is the iPhone so efficient?

 

So I lose my iPhone for the weekend.

 

So much stress.

 

I used to buy 3 rolls of 36 film from Timothy Whites and make sure my Olympus was packed.

 

Used to be simple...

 

Now iPhone rules.

 

And I am a Blackberry stalwart.

 

Gah.

 

 

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[Split_Pin]

Bastards, I currently have 3919 photos and 46 videos. I received no comms from them about this.

[Pillock]

Google Photos is great for backup but you can't share like Flickr. I don't know anything that works like Flickr for albums, sharing and organisation.

[Uncle Jimmy]

I disagree with some of that. I was sacked from an engineering office type job 6 months ago so decided (well no choice really) to go back to site work after 15 years. 6 months and I haven't quite got all the papers to be a unskilled labourer yet, ie CSCS card etc. The obstacles of "paperwork" and upfront costs have put a stop to most people starting any " building" sort of employment.

 

Have quick read of this to see some of the hoops and costs.

http://autoshite.com/topic/27733-for-nyphur-and-others-how-i-changed-my-career/

I sympathise with that; the CSCS or whatever if calls itself can get fucked; anyone tries to tell me where I can or can't work will have an accident of a different sort

[vulgalour]

Conflicted about the Flickr news.  They're not asking an insane sum of money, like Photobucket were, but they have had adverts on free accounts as a way to offset users who don't want to be pro.  I suspect Flickr are targetting professional photographers rather than folks looking for a reliable image host for forum build threads and the like.  I *may* upgrade to pro because it's affordable but I'm well aware that I was paying for Photobucket quite happily before they dumped their nonsense on all users and killed off so much good content.

 

So it's a gamble.  If I pay their reasonable price now how long before they decide it's not enough and want even more?  The other option is to pick a forum with its own image hosting service, and stick to it, but even that's not so secure.

 

What is annoying is how Flickr have told people.  There's a message on the front page but not a message direct to users.  Wouldn't be surprised if the intention with that is to cull a lot of the free users from the service.  Maybe I should just take less photographs like it's the pre-digital age or something.

 

EDIT:  cleared out enough older content to get it under the 1000 requirement until I make up my mind about what I'm doing.  Does rather make the whole process of building and keeping a build thread long term seem rather futile.

[PhilA]

Just learned that Mississippi demand 5% of sale price to do a title transfer out of state.

 

Mississippi sucks!

 

Phil

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Today has been the worst day of travel I've had for a while.

 

Thankfully the SWR train ran fine so I don't have to slag off my employer.

All the Norwich trains out of Liverpool Street cancelled or disrupted, so NRE advises to go to Kings Cross and go to Ely, and get a connection from there. Okay fine.

Get an Ely bound Great Northern train. Has about 7 additional stops on it which weren't advertised meaning I miss the connecting train.

Wait at Ely for 50 mins.

Get an EMT service to Norwich. Running 25 late now due to a speed restriction to inspect the line.

I dunno what transport related sin I've committed but someone hates me. Not a good omen as I've got a few more long trips coming up too. Sigh.

 

That Ely train is my one. They chuck in additional stops when the lines are blocked up so that the extra time taken is not classed as a delay because as soon as the clock ticks over 15 minutes of delay, claims can be made. When the morning train is late or slow, like this morning, right now, I'll roll into Kings cross exactly 14 minutes late!

 

Clever stuff eh? Generally speaking though, since a few months ago they have been trying. It used to be a rubbish service when they altered* the timetable.

[BorniteIdentity]

Fair play to Flickr.  Why should someone who uses the free version enjoy 99% of the benefits of 'pro' at 0% of the price?

 

I genuinely had to look up the difference.  Apparently you get an 'ad free' experience as a pro subscriber.  Well, so do I.  It's called an Adblocker.

 

£40 a year doesn't seem a lot to host all of your content.  I'd not use it as a backup as iCloud and Google Photos does it much better.  What I WOULD like to see is Flickr saying "Ok - you're a free member with 3,291 photos.  We're not going to delete 2,291 of them - thus ruining every page they might be embeded to - but we are going to stop you uploading more.  So many useful threads and 'walk thrus' were obliterated when Photobucket decided to hit the self destruct button.  I hope that's not the case here.  Flickr are highly respected and I hope they appreciate the high esteem in which they are generally held.

[BorniteIdentity]

 What I WOULD like to see is Flickr saying "Ok - you're a free member with 3,291 photos.  We're not going to delete 2,291 of them - thus ruining every page they might be embeded to - but we are going to stop you uploading more.  So many useful threads and 'walk thrus' were obliterated when Photobucket decided to hit the self destruct button.  I hope that's not the case here.  Flickr are highly respected and I hope they appreciate the high esteem in which they are generally held.

 

Wishful thinking on my part.  LOL

 

[bramz7]

That Ely train is my one. They chuck in additional stops when the lines are blocked up so that the extra time taken is not classed as a delay because as soon as the clock ticks over 15 minutes of delay, claims can be made. When the morning train is late or slow, like this morning, right now, I'll roll into Kings cross exactly 14 minutes late!

 

Clever stuff eh? Generally speaking though, since a few months ago they have been trying. It used to be a rubbish service when they altered* the timetable.

Yeah it got to Ely 14 late. I suppose I shouldn't moan as I get a pretty hefty discount.

 

The drive back from Norwich was abysmal. Fine for ages but then there was a slip entry closure on the M11 junction for the way I wanted to go, and then a diversion via the m40 and A404 as I had to go to Reading to get the other half who forgot her house keys and was at her parents. I got home at 130am. Jesus.

[eddyramrod]

"Mark this forum as read"

I struggle to see the point of this button tbh, but the worst thing is, there doesn't seem to be any Undo facility for when you hit it accidentally.  Like someone round here just did...

[SiC]

I genuinely had to look up the difference. Apparently you get an 'ad free' experience as a pro subscriber. Well, so do I. It's called an Adblocker.

 

That's part of the problem, too many other people do too. Without ads, how are they going to make money? Harder to harvest data to make money now thanks to GDPR.

 

(I run an adblock too btw)

[pandamonium]

Fucking Anxiety.

 

After last week's fiasco, my ex has graciously agreed to reinstate the contact with my son (after I mentioned the consequences of breaching the court order), but she's been being sarcastic and condescending ever since, and only communicating via email.

 

I'm due to pick my littleun up today, but I'm scared she will do something to throw a spanner in the works, it wouldn't surprise me.

 

But the main issue is my anxiety hit me hard this past week, chest pains, dodgy stomach, the lot. I know what she is like, and there's nothing I can do to change it, so why the hell do I let it get to me?

 

Fucksake.