The grumpy thread

11,048 · March 10, 2019

The chain?

We still pull the chain , although we've never had a bog with a chain....

My wife would always remind the kids to "Flush the chain"

They have never seen a chain-pull toilet!

14,564 · March 10, 2019

My wife would always remind the kids to "Flush the chain"
They have never seen a chain-pull toilet!

My Mrs is the same with our kids.

"Flush the chain!"

They have no idea what she is on about.

And they never flush the dam bog!

One of my colleagues once had to go through all manner of red tape and piss taking at work after he pulled the high mounted cistern off the wall with a enthusiastic tug (of the chain!).

Because it was an old asbestos cistern he had to go on the asbestos exposure register and everything.

23,288 · March 10, 2019

We always say pull the chain- when we were young the house had a ceiling -level cistern with chain and ceramic weight. The chain and weight are still in the shed, the toilet etc went in the 1970s to be replaced by an avocado suite.

11,048 · March 10, 2019

Youngest son and daughter are driving to the there... today for some gig.
Meant to check oil etc yesterday and forgot
Went out at 07:00 to check, removed filler cap which slipped out of my fingers and dropped down the back of the engine but didn't appear on the ground.
An hour later with a torch, four-claw grabber and a 2' steel rod poking at it - the grabber would get it but was unable to lift it.
Eventually managed to get it in a position where I could worm my arm down and get hold of it.
It was between the bulkhead and the drive shaft, the inner gaiter gripping it slightly so preventing the grabber lifting it.
Very mucky and scratchy down there.

Cleaned up, made a cuppa which I promptly knocked over and flooded the kitchen bench, kettle base, tea caddy etc.
I should be fitting a new lock and hinges to another daughters gas meter cabinet.
Not going out until I have to (to feed London bound daughters's cat).

They came back after twenty minutes to get her bluetooth dongle as my CDs are not to their taste. First thought was that car had turned it's toes up.

Sorry to quote my own post but just had a call from daughter.

Thought the car had had a FTP.

She's just been contacted by a disaster agency she sometimes works for and has to fly out to attend the plane crash in Addis Ababa that happened this morning. I think she will be repatriating the British deceased.

23,288 · March 10, 2019

Sorry to quote my own post but just had a call from daughter.
Thought the car had had a FTP.

She's just been contacted by a disaster agency she sometimes works for and has to fly out to attend the plane crash in Addis Ababa that happened this morning. I think she will be repatriating the British deceased.

I was just reading about that. I hope she has full mental health support from the agency.

10,796 · March 10, 2019

My grump is that Louise2cv has just asked to have her Autoshite account deleted, after being a member here for 10 years.

See page 45 of the Autoshite moderator election thread for her "resignation letter" if you're interested in why she left.

16,454 · March 10, 2019

Sorry to quote my own post but just had a call from daughter.
Thought the car had had a FTP.

She's just been contacted by a disaster agency she sometimes works for and has to fly out to attend the plane crash in Addis Ababa that happened this morning. I think she will be repatriating the British deceased.

Good luck to her, a horrible job I am sure but something that will bring some peace to the families involved. A very worthwhile thing to be doing, hope it goes well.

11,048 · March 10, 2019

I was just reading about that. I hope she has full mental health support from the agency.

She is very professional and detached when she is working, as surgeons etc. have to be.

She only deals with the dead and their belongings.

It is still hard on her when children are involved but she stores that up for later.

She did have to deal with some of the victims of the Manchester bombing and the kids were hard to take.

127,961 · March 10, 2019

Sorry to quote my own post but just had a call from daughter.
Thought the car had had a FTP.

She's just been contacted by a disaster agency she sometimes works for and has to fly out to attend the plane crash in Addis Ababa that happened this morning. I think she will be repatriating the British deceased.

Oh, that's terrible but sounds like she can bring some peace as Tamworth says.

16,454 · March 10, 2019

She is very professional and detached when she is working, as surgeons etc. have to be.
She only deals with the dead and their belongings.
It is still hard on her when children are involved but she stores that up for later.

She did have to deal with some of the victims of the Manchester bombing and the kids were hard to take.

I had to be involved in post mortems when I was doing cancer research and it isn’t a nice thing but as long as you think about the reasons for doing it your mind can take a surprisingly large amount of crap you wouldn’t expect it to. And in my experience women were, on the whole, better at coping with the emotional side of working with the dead. The worst were the overly macho types that said they wanted to see dead bodies.

17,561 · March 10, 2019

As somebody that has seen a cadaver, it’s enough when it’s a peaceful moment. Hopefully she will be ok and bring some solace to the families involved.

38,022 · March 10, 2019

FFS the gritters are out again and it's only supposed to be 10 days to spring. I really need to give the MGB a spin too. At least it chose to be cold this week as the next two weeks the garage is blocked by workers re-tarmacing the car park it's in.

8,989 · March 10, 2019

Gritters ! .. I saw a snow plough near Lancaster today !!!

2,925 · March 10, 2019

Gritters out here last night and tonight. Fucking detest the stuff with a passion!

31,985 · March 10, 2019

Not really a grump as it's just one of those things, but my wee lad of 5 has Chickenpox. He's been off colour for about a month but in the last 4 days he has experienced a horrendous onslaught of itchy, fiery spots. They are also painful and some are around his eyelids and in his mouth. They actually look more like the case of shingles that my wife had a few years ago, they are that red and angry looking.

We are going up to the Hospital tonight for the 3rd time with him as this seems more severe than the virus should be. Or maybe we are just panicky parents but when he looks like one of those pictures you see in medical textbooks about now-extinct human diseases, you become kind of alarmed. Poor wee lad.

My grump is because Chickenpox can FRO.

19,819 · March 10, 2019

Gritters ! .. I saw a snow plough near Lancaster today !!!

Plenty of milk in the fridge ?

11,634 · March 10, 2019

Not really a grump as it's just one of those things, but my wee lad of 5 has Chickenpox. He's been off colour for about a month but in the last 4 days he has experienced a horrendous onslaught of itchy, fiery spots. They are also painful and some are around his eyelids and in his mouth. They actually look more like the case of shingles that my wife had a few years ago, they are that red and angry looking.

We are going up to the Hospital tonight for the 3rd time with him as this seems more severe than the virus should be. Or maybe we are just panicky parents but when he looks like one of those pictures you see in medical textbooks about now-extinct human diseases, you become kind of alarmed. Poor wee lad.

My grump is because Chickenpox can FRO.

If you can get hold of some then pinetarsol in a warm bath really helped my two.

2,925 · March 10, 2019

Not really a grump as it's just one of those things, but my wee lad of 5 has Chickenpox. He's been off colour for about a month but in the last 4 days he has experienced a horrendous onslaught of itchy, fiery spots. They are also painful and some are around his eyelids and in his mouth. They actually look more like the case of shingles that my wife had a few years ago, they are that red and angry looking.

We are going up to the Hospital tonight for the 3rd time with him as this seems more severe than the virus should be. Or maybe we are just panicky parents but when he looks like one of those pictures you see in medical textbooks about now-extinct human diseases, you become kind of alarmed. Poor wee lad.

My grump is because Chickenpox can FRO.

You do right to get it checked again. Sounds like the poor fella has had it quite a long time. Better safe than sorry!

26,328 · March 10, 2019

It hoofed it down with snow earlier in Oxfordshire! It's all frozen now, although the roads are fine

14,564 · March 10, 2019

Not really a grump as it's just one of those things, but my wee lad of 5 has Chickenpox. He's been off colour for about a month but in the last 4 days he has experienced a horrendous onslaught of itchy, fiery spots. They are also painful and some are around his eyelids and in his mouth. They actually look more like the case of shingles that my wife had a few years ago, they are that red and angry looking.

We are going up to the Hospital tonight for the 3rd time with him as this seems more severe than the virus should be. Or maybe we are just panicky parents but when he looks like one of those pictures you see in medical textbooks about now-extinct human diseases, you become kind of alarmed. Poor wee lad.

My grump is because Chickenpox can FRO.

Remember not to give him anything with aspirin or ibuprofen, it can make chicken pox much worse.

31,985 · March 10, 2019

Cheers chapsb sage advice. Thankfully my wife is a pharmacy technician which keeps medicinal faux-pax to a minimum! I would give anything to just take the virus from him right now. I'd have a triple whisky and go and sit in the suggested medicated batch.

5,172 · March 11, 2019

She's just been contacted by a disaster agency she sometimes works for and has to fly out to attend the plane crash in Addis Ababa that happened this morning. I think she will be repatriating the British deceased.

Could've been me. I was on the very next Air Ethiopia flight to take-off from Addis. The plane crashed 6 mins after take-off at 08.38. My flight took off at 08.35. Must've flown right over it. 157 dead. What a tragedy. I passed through security with those souls. Sat with them at the next gate. Stared at the screens with them. Shared a table at the coffee shop with them. I remember them. It was only a few hours ago. Nobody on our flight knew anything about it (including the crew) until our phones started ringing off the hook when we landed in Zimbabwe 8 hours later.

Anyway, good luck to your daughter. That's heroic work. And life is short people!

23,160 · March 11, 2019

Thats scary monkeys isn't it Alan. Glad you're okay.

16,454 · March 11, 2019

Jeepers that is scary, as above glad you are ok.

39,348 · March 11, 2019

Boiler won’t work, the pilot light will not light for love nor money. FFS!!!!!

Christ that’s a close call with the flight. Can’t imagine Ethiopia Airlines has a very good reputation though. A mate of mine works for Boeing, he says they won’t even deal with some of these tin pot operators in Africa for spares etc.

10,532 · March 11, 2019

I'm pleased that I can park better than a mechanical aid.

19,300 · March 11, 2019

Wanted to go see David Gray as found out his tour starts on Friday

Been 16 years

Can't get ticket as I go on holiday on Friday for a week and the two I could make Liverpooll and Dublin are sold out

Oh well

19,300 · March 11, 2019

Boiler won’t work, the pilot light will not light for love nor money. FFS!!!!!
Christ that’s a close call with the flight. Can’t imagine Ethiopia Airlines has a very good reputation though. A mate of mine works for Boeing, he says they won’t even deal with some of these tin pot operators in Africa for spares etc.

Plane was 4 months old

39,348 · March 11, 2019

Plane was 4 months old

According to Wikipedia Air Ethiopia is one of the safest African Airlines, that’s not to say a lot though. Either way a tragic accident.

20,177 · March 11, 2019

Plane was 4 months old

I was going to suggest bringing back the DC-3 but apparently one of them dropped out of the sky in South America yesterday...

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