The grumpy thread

[Tamworthbay]

Interestingly I dabbled in some shares in a company called Provexis some years ago who made a juice called Fruitflow which was based around tomato extract (the gel around the seeds as I recall). Apparently it worked as well as warfarin for preventing blood clots. Surprised it didn’t catch on but I think the company were holding on for the big deal from AstraZeneca or Glaxo.

Probably a heck of a lot of things growing on the land or crawling at the bottom of the Marianas Trench that could hold the key to cures for various conditions

AstraZeneca paid for my research, I still have the jacket but nothing else. They had an enormous facility at Bracknell where I worked in conjunction with Royal Holloway. The kit and expertise they had was amazing but sadly the drug I was working on was subject to significant processing within the body and therefore not effective.

[Guest Hooli]

 

Probably a heck of a lot of things growing on the land or crawling at the bottom of the Marianas Trench that could hold the key to cures for various conditions

 

Funny you should say that, I was reading about this earlier & it was found a lot closer than the bottom of the ocean.

 

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/ancient-cure-in-fermanagh-soil-may-lead-to-antibiotic-breakthrough-37494745.html

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Now officially part of the elderly tribe, in that I've now had to order varifocals. Old before my time. Feckin' expensive as well; three hundred quid. There's autoshite out there that costs less.

 

*stumps off into distance, muttering under breath*

[somewhatfoolish]

HMRC. Fuck me.

 

Self Assessment said that I need to pay Student Loan. Despite me entering it into the online SA calculator and also my P60 clearly showing it, after phoning up it appears that their records seem to think I have not paid any in. Took a bit of arguing before he decided to go look elsewhere to check and "wouldn't be a moment". Then the call cut off about 2 minutes later. Of course, its now too late to try and call them back.

 

Even more frustrating is that I paid it off this tax year, but their system doesn't seem to want to even know about this.

Having just done this and encountered the same or similar(student loan fully paid off), I just set the repayment amount to zero; trying to do anything else caused the thing to get upset and send me back to do it again. In related grin territory the SLC decided they owed me a rebate and are sending me £400; curious how them refunding money I shouldn't have paid in the first place feels like a win.

[Kiltox]

Parading the ringer you have for sale on YouTube seems like a great idea https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YTKddTXK-kA

[Remspoor]

Parading the ringer you have for sale on YouTube seems like a great idea https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YTKddTXK-kA

Maybe time call himself Boycie?

[LostnotFound]

Its 2019 now ladies and gentleman. You live in a town where everyone has gas central heating, not in the middle of fucking nowhere with your own forest and seasoned log store.  Burning shit from a petrol forecourt like it's the lifestyle pages of the Guardian in 2005 is really not a sign of how classy you are.

 

Get into the fucking sea morons, lowering air quality more than a dozen old transits idling away just to try and impress your inlaws is proof that old people really shouldn't dare moan about how self obsessed the youth of today are.

[SierraMikeHotel]

There are quite a few on the estate where I live - it's quite a handy way to tell which are still council and which are privately owned. The council are gradually fitting solar panels while the owners are, as you say, attempting to gas themselves. Insanity.

[dozeydustman]

Sorry for your news Junkyarddog

[BorniteIdentity]

Its 2019 now ladies and gentleman. You live in a town where everyone has gas central heating, not in the middle of fucking nowhere with your own forest and seasoned log store.  Burning shit from a petrol forecourt like it's the lifestyle pages of the Guardian in 2005 is really not a sign of how classy you are.

 

Get into the fucking sea morons, lowering air quality more than a dozen old transits idling away just to try and impress your inlaws is proof that old people really shouldn't dare moan about how self obsessed the youth of today are.

 

One of the strongest rants of the year so far.  9/10.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I do know people that have a log burner as their central heating.  In fact, until 1997 my parent's house in the middle of Gravesend didn't have any gas to it and all the hot water was from the Aga - which burned coal.  A twice-daily ritual of my Dad going back and forth with coals to dump them in the metal ash bin at the back of the house.  We even had a coal store in the cellar with a chute and every year or so, we'd get a ton or two of coal delivered.  Like we were in 1890.  Which was appropriate given the house was built in 1898.  Lead cold pipes and all.

 

A right bugger when we came back from holiday, too.  As there was no hot water and you had to re-light it.

 

Must have been a marvel in Victorian times to have running hot water.  However, they eventually capitulated and got gas.

[DVee8]

Actually, I'd forgotten about that, I also did diamondbrite for a bit. That came in little bottles instead of sachets, and lasted six cars instead of three.

 

Still have some, somewhere.

I have a couple of  stage 1 and stage 2 bottles in the garage.From when my FiL worked for a local Peugeot dealer some years ago.

[loserone]

The worst time in many ways is between the first contact and diagnosis and the not knowing bit. His appointment is next week so it’s going to be a long few days.

Aye, going to be a long weekend here too, MiL diagnosed today, oncologist Monday.

 

BiL was told he should cancel his flight home, which probably gives an idea of how shit cancer is.

[Zelandeth]

Sodding, fluffing invasive, counterintuitive piece of shit that is Facebook.

 

It's been advertising shit it thinks I want to buy "in my area" non stop for the last 48 hours (it's not been granted any location data access), and I just had the misfortune to have to try to find the post I made a couple of days back to thank someone for their input.  What a bloody faff that was! 

 

Trying to find anything, it's like trying to find something in bloody Asda.

 

Has had me wanting to hurl both the phone and laptop out the nearest window several times now, and I'd really rather just ditch it back into room 101 where it belongs...however it seems that cuts off a huge amount of specialist knowledge as that just seems to be where so many people are these days.

 

Seriously, could they have made it harder to find stuff if they'd tried?

[HillmanImp]

HMRC. Fuck me.Self Assessment said that I need to pay Student Loan. Despite me entering it into the online SA calculator and also my P60 clearly showing it, after phoning up it appears that their records seem to think I have not paid any in. Took a bit of arguing before he decided to go look elsewhere to check and "wouldn't be a moment". Then the call cut off about 2 minutes later. Of course, its now too late to try and call them back.Even more frustrating is that I paid it off this tax year, but their system doesn't seem to want to even know about this.

A lad I know died suddenly a couple of years back. His last post on Facebook was complaining about spending ages on the phone to HMRC earlier that day.

 

Really are better things to be getting with aren't there?

 

Probably best to have something to keep you occupied if you know you're going to call them, crossword, book, copy of Razzle and some tissue etc

[SiC]

A lad I know died suddenly a couple of years back. His last post on Facebook was complaining about spending ages on the phone to HMRC earlier that day.

 

Really are better things to be getting with aren't there?

 

Probably best to have something to keep you occupied if you know you're going to call them, crossword, book, copy of Razzle and some tissue etc

Funnily enough I phoned them up earlier. I've got through to people pretty quickly. Unfortunately most of the time they spend umm'ing and arr'ing while looking at my account.

 

Currently the best I've managed is that if I pay back the student loan that should have been paid that year, I can get it refunded when I do my next tax return for 18-19... So basically want me to pay money for a loan that is already paid off.

 

Part of the problem was that SLC fucked up. I was supposed to go on Direct Debit to pay the final bit off. Except they set it up and never took any money. After 6 months they got HMRC to start taking it out of my salary again. So I let them do that until I paid enough to pay it off. Contact SLC and they told HMRC stop taking money.

 

However the HMRC computers say that I haven't paid the right amount of student loan for 17-18. So they're asking for that. All despite it being paid off.

 

Problem is that it's £k amount and I'll be starting the process of moving house soon. Moving house will be costing many £k and loaning money to the HMRC isn't something that is ideal for me right now.

 

I think I need to find another department and try moaning at someone else. Maybe try the student loan department of HMRC next.

[myglaren]

Posted the forms for my Swedish pension off yesterday.

Been advised that it will take six months to process - it is already 5¾ years overdue through UKPS dragging their heels.

[dozeydustman]

Stepdaughter has managed to deaded the Corolla.

 

Went out at 9:45 to take her g/f home. 10:20 she walks in saying the car won't start, g/f still with her and was due home at 10.

 

Sat in it for god knows how long canoodling with the fan blowing, rear screen, radio and interior light on "waiting for it to de-ice". Without engine running.

 

Got it bumped, took SD's g/f home, but was sluggish to turn over after I'd returned, I'm hoping battery isn't banjaxed. Now I have to be up at half 5 in the morning to take her to work then dig out the battery charger. 

[robinmasters]

Now officially part of the elderly tribe, in that I've now had to order varifocals. Old before my time. Feckin' expensive as well; three hundred quid. There's autoshite out there that costs less.

 

*stumps off into distance, muttering under breath*

I went to the optician today. He said I've got maybe two years before I'm in that boat. Balls.

 

 

...Trying to find anything, it's like trying to find something in bloody Asda...

You were surrounded by angry chavs, arguing over slightly reduced products while threatening to hit their (swearing) kids?

[DodgeRover]

Sodding, fluffing invasive, counterintuitive piece of shit that is Facebook.

 

It's been advertising shit it thinks I want to buy "in my area" non stop for the last 48 hours (it's not been granted any location data access), and I just had the misfortune to have to try to find the post I made a couple of days back to thank someone for their input. What a bloody faff that was!

 

Trying to find anything, it's like trying to find something in bloody Asda.

 

Has had me wanting to hurl both the phone and laptop out the nearest window several times now, and I'd really rather just ditch it back into room 101 where it belongs...however it seems that cuts off a huge amount of specialist knowledge as that just seems to be where so many people are these days.

 

Seriously, could they have made it harder to find stuff if they'd tried?

Try mbasic.facebook.com

 

Much better?

[Wack]

Now officially part of the elderly tribe, in that I've now had to order varifocals. Old before my time. Feckin' expensive as well; three hundred quid. There's autoshite out there that costs less.*stumps off into distance, muttering under breath*

I'm officially old now too, I turn the ringer of on my phone in the evening , just picked it up to see a missed call with a +225 country code

+225 where the fuck is +225 so I google it

 

The ivory coast , so not only am i in the target group for scam emails they now think it's worth giving a phone call a go

[EssDeeWon]

Stepdaughter has managed to deaded the Corolla.

 

Went out at 9:45 to take her g/f home. 10:20 she walks in saying the car won't start, g/f still with her and was due home at 10.

 

Sat in it for god knows how long canoodling with the fan blowing, rear screen, radio and interior light on "waiting for it to de-ice". Without engine running.

 

Got it bumped, took SD's g/f home, but was sluggish to turn over after I'd returned, I'm hoping battery isn't banjaxed. Now I have to be up at half 5 in the morning to take her to work then dig out the battery charger. 

 

Ban me now and close the thread, but birds and cars!!! That is seriously annoying dozeydustman.

 

Takes me onto 'ONE LADY OWNER' hype, seriously I prefer not to even accept a lift in some of the unserviced run down shit heaps that girlfriends have owned over the years, let alone be the poor bugger to end up being the next owner of some of those cars.  Latest one, a friend, a girl, not a GF, you get the idea, runs an old Figaro that she paid about a million pounds for a few years ago (or whatever they go for now) and does loads of miles in it, used daily to schlep across essex. I asked her recently has it been serviced lately? Erm no. Oil and water checked? Erm No.   

 

Text over christmas to ask if I topped the water up, yes I did because it was low.  "Oh well its all gone again, my dads putting rad seal in it'

[Floatylight]

FL junior had a scuffle with eldest over the remote control and looks like he's broken his nose, been in A&E for 3 hours, may have another two hours before he is seen by a doctor. Bloody teenagers! Bloody NHS, staff brilliant but woefully understaffed *Further comments banned due to politics*

 

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[Louise2cv]

* "older people" spectacles disappointments *

I had to have bifocals when I was 13. Luckily such was the level of my uncoolness at this time that it had very little impact on my status within my peer group (odd boring geek girl has old lady glasses = meh).

[DodgeRover]

I had to have bifocals when I was 13. Luckily such was the level of my uncoolness at this time that it had very little impact on my status within my peer group (odd boring geek girl has old lady glasses = meh).

Did they not watch Daria on MTV?

[Sheefag]

I'm officially old now too, I turn the ringer of on my phone in the evening , just picked it up to see a missed call with a +225 country code

+225 where the fuck is +225 so I google it

 

The ivory coast , so not only am i in the target group for scam emails they now think it's worth giving a phone call a go

 

That was me, mate. Sorry an' all that.

[robinmasters]

Louise 2cv in person on Autoshite was odd boring geek shocker?

 

I don't believe it.

 

I had to have bifocals when I was 13. Luckily such was the level of my uncoolness at this time that it had very little impact on my status within my peer group (odd boring geek girl has old lady glasses = meh).

[PhilA]

Grande burrito my ass.

 

As promised:

 

As unboxed at home:

 

My food was assembled by Johnny No Stars. I hate fast food sometimes.

 

Phil

[Datsuncog]

^^^ Limited-edition Healthy January burrito??

(Sorry, that is a tragic affront to the noble art of Mexican cuisine. Worth Twitter-shaming the @TacoBell account?)

[Ghosty]

At $1 I'm not that surprised tbh.