The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

It's got stuck in the liner leaving it to idle fast. Obviously this will be a Porsche only part and will cost £900.

 

You say that, but when I needed a door handle release cable for an Audi 90 I ended up at the Porsche dealer in Sheffield as it was cheaper there than from Audi. Presumably shared with a car of the same era so perhaps 924. 

[captain_cal]

It's perversely fun to see which other cars your Porsche is made of - I've just bought a new speedo cable for mine and the other vehicle listed to fit was a VW Transporter, and almost everything I've taken off broken off so far is stamped VW/Audi.

[treehugger]

Youngest son's laptop died - third one in four years.

Loaned him one of mine that has never had the slightest problem.

48 hours later the hard drive dies

Whats he been looking at then?

[barefoot]

It's perversely fun to see which other cars your Porsche is made of - I've just bought a new speedo cable for mine and the other vehicle listed to fit was a VW Transporter, and almost everything I've taken off broken off so far is stamped VW/Audi.

The rear suspension and front struts are all but interchangable with the late 1303 beetle. I have 944 ventilated discs, calipers etc on my beetle. The hubs simply bolted on. The hndbrake cable took minimal fettling and astonishingly the master cylinders, although different bore and configuration swapped easily, I just pulled all the plastic bits from one and plugged them straight into the other.

[somewhatfoolish]

Buy-to-let investor at the bottom of our chain has pulled out. Apparently couldn't make the figures work. Why couldn't they done that 3.5 friggin months ago? What an utter bell-end. I suspect it's probably them waiting to see what happened with Brexit and see if they could knock money off.

 

So chain now has fallen apart and houses back on the market.

For Fucks Sake.

 

I best now go retrieve my Welding Gas cylinder and get back on with the 1100. Only positive I can take from the situation.

 

Grounds for justifiable homicide shirley? What a turd.

 

[catsinthewelder]

Trying to make an audio file to wind up a workmate and finding it suprisingly hard as I'm a complete Luddite.

 

First idea was to download it onto elderly mates Windows phone and spent 20 minutes trying to get the fucker to connect to the Wifi (in the office he has worked in for a year).  Finally did that but couldn't work the phone and needed to get stuff done so....

 

Found something appropriately annoying on Youtube on the PC at home, held my phone to speaker and recorded sound.  Quality is crap but this isn't an issue, try to set as ringtone and find I need it to be an MP3 and its a .wav.

 

Emailed the file to myself and opened on PC thinking I'll use media player to convert it, nope.

 

Googled it and used the first result that wasn't an ad.  Uploaded the .wav file and nearly fucked the PC when I tried to download the mp3.  In the end I had to restart the PC with the internet cable unplugged and delete the history from firefox.

 

Current tactic is googling for file converter reviews and using the top rated free one.  If I'm not online for a week you will now know why.

[mercrocker]

Download Real Player to capture the desired video from YouTube and then download "Switch" to convert the video to an MP3 file.   Both are free and non-invasive.   Just follow the instructions - I am a complete cybertwat but still managed to collect 350 audio tracks over a couple of evenings....

[wuvvum]

Is Real Player still a thing?  I last used that in about 1998.

[myglaren]

Whats he been looking at then?

He has got the keys for his new house today and has been looking at fridges washing machines, furniture etc.

[Stanky]

I use flvto.biz to rip youtube to audio and video formats. seems to work for me. You can choose the file format it downloads them to as well

[Cavcraft]

Can hardly wait to find out who kicked the jack out from under the car I was working on.
 

 

The suspension is killing me.

[beko1987]

We all laugh but when I was about 12 I was playing out and heard a call for help. Obv pre Jimmy Saville days where you were lucky to get a cup of your balls and a sweet I ran over and this guy was half under the front of his car, was only up by the jack and it had slipped.

 

I jack it back up and he got out and was OK, and that abiding memory is why I use a stand and the jack again on the corner I'm working on.

 

He did come round with a bag of sweets later and told my mum what had happened though. I saw him about a few more times after that too... But then he vanished

[Pillock]

 

 

Current tactic is googling for file converter reviews and using the top rated free one.  If I'm not online for a week you will now know why.

 

If it's something you can get on YouTube, use clipconverter.cc to download just the audio from it (select mp3 rather than download).

[mercrocker]

Is Real Player still a thing?  I last used that in about 1998.

 

I last used it last week.....Aye there are probably dozens of newer/better ideas but it works for me!

[catsinthewelder]

Sorry to complely ignore everyone but before you responded I downloaded Freemake which the reviewers said was the only free one not to add other things.  It seems good and easy to use so I downloaded their video downloader too.  That works well enough but wants me to upgrade to premium to download videos longer than 3 mins so will probably get binned soon.  I never really intended to install a video downloader in the first place as I'm generally happy to stream stuff but while its here I'll grab a few tracks from rich bands that won't miss my money.  If I get on with these new fangled mp3 things I might buy some tracks from the smaller bands I like (such as The Skints appropriately enough).

[Eddie Honda]

VLC should do the trick.

 

https://www.videolan.org/

[beko1987]

There's a cracking converter built into Ubuntu! I've used to to make some ogg files I downloaded into mp3 before.

[Supernaut]

Audacity is good, too.

 

For converting files, at least. Not downloading from YouTube.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Mobile phone updates can get in the fucking sea.

 

With every update they change stupid pointless shit and have now made it worse than ever.

Why move a clock? Why change icons? Why change the entire Bluetooth menu so it no longer connects properly? Why change more icons? Why change volume settings to something that is broken? WHY????

[busmansholiday]

Mobile phone updates can get in the fucking sea.

 

With every update they change stupid pointless shit and have now made it worse than ever.

Why move a clock? Why change icons? Why change the entire Bluetooth menu so it no longer connects properly? Why change more icons? Why change volume settings to something that is broken? WHY????

Because it justifies them charging more money for a worse service.

 

Pissed me off two. If it's not broken don't mess with it no longer applies.

[Tamworthbay]

Do people who can’t park have kids just so they use the parent/toddler spaces? judging by the parking at Asda I think the answer is yes.

[paulplom]

Mobile phone updates can get in the fucking sea.

 

With every update they change stupid pointless shit and have now made it worse than ever.

Why move a clock? Why change icons? Why change the entire Bluetooth menu so it no longer connects properly? Why change more icons? Why change volume settings to something that is broken? WHY????

I agree. Mine updated about three weeks ago and everything changed. I'm just starting to get used to it now. Even trying to make a phone call is a total pain in the ass. Everything is worse imo.

[loserone]

Jesus what kind of phone is this?

 

I'm actually enjoying monthly updates with Android One

[dollywobbler]

My Samsung recently updated. For the worse. They've hidden how to disable the sodding Bixby button. The camera is now a bigger pain in the arse to use too. So bad I'm actually starting to wonder if I should buy an actual camera...

[loserone]

Aye, Samsung always used to be bad for stupid functions you don't want

[The Moog]

You can download different camera apps which can improve it.

 

Same with Bixby - I used nova launcher which creates your own layout which doesn't change as it updates

[barefoot]

I have a 105 it never changes, sometimes it rings.

 

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Jesus what kind of phone is this?

 

I'm actually enjoying monthly updates with Android One

 

Motorola, update to android 9. The phone was ace when I bought it. Now after 4 'security' updates the software operates worse, navigates worse and looks worse than ever before.

 

Shame, I've had a few Moto's and enjoyed having them and found them extremely user friendly with great features. This update caper is not reselling it to me.

[Supernaut]

You can download different camera apps which can improve it.

 

Same with Bixby - I used nova launcher which creates your own layout which doesn't change as it updates

 

+1 for Nova Launcher. I've been using it on 3 phones on the trot now.

 

Dare I ask, though, WTF is Bixby?

[Lankytim]

There's a strip of grass on our shared driveway and a mystery local dog walker is allowing their pooch to shit all over it and doesn't pick it up. I've been trying to find out who it is but with no luck, I guess if anyone is out and about on the shared driveway the dog walker doesn't let their dog crap on the grass maybe.

 

Popped out for 30 mins, come back and there's another huge pile of shite for me to clean up. The phantom shitter has struck again.

 

 

When I find out who is is can I rub the owners nose in it? follow them home, tie the turd to a brick and throw it through their living room window? Should I just accept it and clean up after them forever?