The grumpy thread

[iainrcz]

The brand new extruder at work keeps stopping dead. What a fucking nuisance.

 

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[somewhatfoolish]

Ah a quick Google shows they're air driven. Like how aeroplane headphones used to be, before headphones could be made for pennies.

Like a stethoscope.

[mrbenn]

Hermes.

 

Two different reasons for non-delivery of parcel that totally contradict each other.

 

Seems I'm far from being alone in having problems.

 

Hermes have gone ahead and delivered the parcel, so I'm going to ignore the rather odd reasons for the first and second delivery attempts resulting in failure.

 

However, the Collect Plus location, having received the parcel (and signed for it, luckily) and let the recipient know it is awaiting collection will now not release it to them as it "won't scan". Can only assume this is a failure of systems at their end. They are now talking about returning it to me.

 

It's a small grump in the grand scheme, but why does the simplest of things sometimes seem to end up being such a pain....

[hairymel]

Just remembered I forgot to pay the bloody Dart Charge when I went to the South East gathering the weekend before last. That’ll be a demand letter any day now.

 

Arse...

 

i believe that the first nonpayment fie on a car reg will be waived if you phone them up and ask nicely - worked for me anyway

 

ps wait for the letter as when i forgot to pay i was told to wait for the letter before phoning.

[dozeydustman]

I need to ignore the post about MRIs for my own sanity. Just the mentioning of them is pushing my panic button in. Most traumatic experience of my life was having a brain MRI as my shoulders got wedged in the tube.

[xtriple]

I have been feeling 'under the weather' yet again of late: this time it is my COPD that is playing up and I, simply, cannot breathe! Get out of breath going for a pee and anything and everything has been a massive strain. This morning it seems I finally remembered that I have not used my fancy, once a day breath inhaler, atomizer, nebuliser thing!

Seems to be a fortnight since I last used it (supposed to use it every day at the same time). No idea why I stopped using it, it's sat there with all the other meds, though I have never liked using it as it makes me cough like a bastard, but I do always take my meds.

 

It will take a few days to get back in my system but I feel much better just for realising why I am so out of breath and so much worse for realising I am such a massive wanker!

 

Also (while I am boring one and all with tales of ill health) I had really bad earache the other day, not something I am prone to and to be honest, so long as I didn't touch it, it wasn't too bad, so I left it alone and felt sure it would be better, 'tomorrow'. It sure was but the side of my face was covered in blood and puss intermingled with other gore and unpleasantness. Seems an abscess had manifested itself and blown out all by itself! What a mess and I have been left with a crater in the ear and another just below said lug'ole that looks like a small meteorite has crash landed in the area.

[wuvvum]

I need to remember to stop reading this thread whilst eating.

[xtriple]

I need to remember to stop reading this thread whilst eating.

Sorry! Didn't mean to ruin your nosh

[richardmorris]

Sorry! Didn't mean to ruin your nosh

[xtriple]

Surprisingly accurate!

[LightBulbFun]

if you really want to be put off your food

 

try eating under the Light of a Low pressure sodium Lamp, monochromatic yellow light so literally fuck all colour rendering properties, makes any food look like someone had an explosive lumpy shit all over your plate 

[Pillock]

Absolutely.

 

Although it's not as bad as the habit of my boss' husband.  Apparently he likes to play hardcore gangsta rap through the Sonos system in their house without warning and with all the adult content unfiltered.  This would be fine apart from the 11-year old, 9-year old and 5-year old children and wife that hates gangsta rap...

 

He'll probably find that a Sonos doesn't play very well in a sink full of water, what a dickhead. The whole point of Sonos is you can play it just on the speaker nearest you...

[BorniteIdentity]

RBJ. Very tempting mate.

 

The reasons: She's too young to move to the 'countryside', not ready to retire yet. She likes London. Need to sort PBK son out with a place.

Rather than perving on Rightmove...

 

Go see some places.

 

I’m very keen on the Peak District when it’s time for a change. Great value, lovely folk and an hour to Manchester or Sheffield. We were there just last week and the wife was very keen too.

 

Weirdly, in my industry, the pay is better in the North. I could sell a 3 bed detached here in Cambridge and buy a farm somewhere around Chatsworth - and still be in Manchester in about an hour.

 

Whilst I know and understand how Londoners love London; I see very little of the appeal.

[wuvvum]

Whilst I know and understand how Londoners love London

Really?  I don't.  I'm technically a Londoner myself (born in Islington) but I can't stand the place.

[Timewaster]

in my industry...

 

I could sell a 3 bed detached here in Cambridge and buy a farm somewhere around Chatsworth -

You are DLT and I claim my five pounds.

 

*Runs away*

[Craig the Princess]

Really? I don't. I'm technically a Londoner myself (born in Islington) but I can't stand the place.

Born in Greenwich, can't stand the place.

 

 

That said if you don't want a car and like night life then it's probably your sort of place.

[cobblers]

The peak district is the best place in the world, but don't fuckin tell anyone because I already can't afford a house there.

[DodgeRover]

The peak district is the best place in the world, but don't fuckin tell anyone because I already can't afford a house there.

Problem being it's halfway between Manchester and Sheffield and full* on a sunny weekend.

[Snipes]

Is anyone else tired of having Star Wars rammed into every facet of their lives?

I was born too late to witness the original releases but they were popular and did well, Lucas got rich off of toy sales etc and they would be repeated at Christmas and that was fine.

Then Lucas fiddled with them for the first time and I guess that was ok.

Then we had the prequels which IMO were awful but after a few years it was over with and we could go back to our lives.

Then we had even more fiddiing which started getting obnoxious.

Now we have the Disney Machine and fake prequel love, a release every year and merchandise of every conceivable type everywhere I look.

[fairkens]

Never seen it

[cobblers]

Problem being it's halfway between Manchester and Sheffield and full* on a sunny weekend.

True, but literally everywhere is ruined on sunny weekends, no matter where you go.

 

Be it a beauty spot, shop, pub, restaurant, whatever. All ruined by fairweather wankers who only seem to leave the house for 12 days a year and have no idea how to behave when they do.

[loserone]

Not everywhere, but I'm not saying where...

[Cavcraft]

Science fiction is absolute rubbish, so I just ignore it all.

 

On a similar vein to your gripes, Snipes, is that sodding Queen film everyone seems to be rattling on about. Rather eat dog shit and nettle sandwiches than endure watching some over-rated crap band.

[Bren]

Is anyone else tired of having Star Wars rammed into every facet of their lives?

I was born too late to witness the original releases but they were popular and did well, Lucas got rich off of toy sales etc and they would be repeated at Christmas and that was fine.

Then Lucas fiddled with them for the first time and I guess that was ok.

Then we had the prequels which IMO were awful but after a few years it was over with and we could go back to our lives.

Then we had even more fiddiing which started getting obnoxious.

Now we have the Disney Machine and fake prequel love, a release every year and merchandise of every conceivable type everywhere I look.

It began from a cottage industry more or less. Now the money men control it. I will not be watching any more of them.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

.... Whilst I know and understand how Londoners love London;

No they don't. They're only here on sufferance. The very poor are trapped here. The very rich are non-domiciled here.

 

I see very little of the appeal.

So does everyone else.

[Richard]

I've never seen Star Wars because I was too old for it when the first film came out.

[alcyonecorporation]

No longer a Natwest customer after 17 years, due to their repeated fuck ups/refusal to supply information in accordance with DPA. This is not the first time they've shit out the baby and the bathwater, either: they refused to let me transfer money when buying J-T's Impreza and their insistence on me going into branch to sort it made me miss my train because of what they claimed was a historic fuck up - my DOB had been keyed in wrong for 17 years and didn't match (bullshit, I reckoned, my internet banking worked perfectly with the right DOB for that amount of time).

 

That wasn't the best bit, however. I was brushed off when trying to confirm a loan number when moving accounts (long story short, I shredded my documentation by accident and it didn't come up on Natwest's piss poor online banking DD records when it should) despite me being through the loan department and me passing DPA.

 

They were ADAMANT I had to go into branch and pay £1 to retrieve my own information; I politely declined and suggested they ask someone else because I was almost certain they were wrong. No, no, shitmuncher, they said: branch or fuck off.

 

Ended the call, rang back again 30 minutes later, spoke to someone else and got the information I needed within 30 seconds. Made a complaint because a simple fact verification call shouldn't have taken 2 hours of arguing the toss back and forth (did I mention it took 2 hours?) and that two people from the same department told me wildly different things about whether or not they could tell me, the customer, their own information or not.

 

Two days later I got a very apologetic call from someone at the complaints handling team offering me £50 for the cock up.

 

"Very generous," I said.

 

"Thanks, but I'm no longer a customer of yours - stick it in my Barclays account, please."

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I've never seen Star Wars because I was too old for it when the first film came out.

 

 

I've seen them all and the originals in all three versions.

 

After Episode IX comes out, I'm not going to see any more.  I watched Solo because it was on the in-flight entertainment system on a recent flight.  Rogue One was decent.  Episode I & II were shit.  Episode III was ok.  Episode VII was decent, Episode VIII was mixed...

 

With the anthology films (although they've been ok) they're oversaturating the market and I can do without.  Solo took a big hit at the box office and probably for this reason.  I didn't bother going to see it in the cinema, even though it was reasonable and the reviews were fair.

 

It says a lot that the best film of them all was released in 1981 and they've never managed to get close since.

[LightBulbFun]

Whilst I know and understand how Londoners love London; I see very little of the appeal.

 

 

I was born here

 

sadly...

[xtriple]

I watched the first three (now the second three?) when they first came out and enjoyed them. Once they started fannying around, I lost interest and have seen none of the prequals/sequals whatever they are. I feel  the same about all films once they start fucking about with timelines etc.

 

Bohemian Rhapsody is excellent and well worth a watch, so I declare you a 'numpty' and until such times as you see it, I refuse to laugh at any of your utterly appalling jokes