The grumpy thread

[sheffcortinacentre]

Iceland frozen meals last week £1 this week £1.60!? Wtf that's some inflation!

Probably down to Brexit? Or Gino Dr Campo to gurn from posters about the new Italian range

[dozeydustman]

Why the fuck do other halves have the knack of bringing a sensitive issue up at the most inappropriate of times.

I have mental issues with needles, injections etc and during a blood test I got very stressed and panicky and asked the nurse to stop faffing about trying to find a vein in my arm and take from the extremely prominent one on the back of my left hand just to make everything slick and smooth. She wouldn’t. My arm looks like a second hand dartboard, I got very angry and sweary because panic attack. Had to tell the wife about it after she finished work.

We’ve had the house to ourselves all afternoon and evening. Talked things through and left it at that. Dinner, glass if wine, watched a movie.

Just got into bed having had a wonderful evening and she brings up the subject of my blood test this afternoon.

I’m now on the sofa-bed and feel like gettin so drunk I’ll be unfit for work for the next 8 weeks

[somewhatfoolish]

  On 03/09/2019 at 09:50, Datsuncog said:

Years of cuts to UK public services set against a background of rising demand, make civic niceties such as tidy verges and smooth roads unaffordable. Tax cuts for the increasingly super-wealthy never have the claimed trickle-down effect to the rest of the economy. As a national body, we're in financial ketosis. There's too much wealth leaking out through offshore trusts and other loopholes, than can be replaced through sustainable national productivity (actual industry, rather than financial services moving-numbers-around). At least, that's my hazy reading of it, based on a background in undergraduate economics.

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Reading my union comic today; in amongst the 'why oh why' letters, the 'industry faces skills shortage' articles which strangely never presage a payrise, there was a mini-pissboiler lurking in the 'news in brief', the government have doled out repeat waivers to 4 service providers in the offshore wind sector allowing them to employ non-EU crew for less than NMW. There wasn't a shortage of qualified seafarers in the UK or the rest of the EU when they doled out these slave licences the first time round and there isn't one now; in common with the piss artists in the fishing sector there are greedy scumbags who don't want to pay a living wage if they can get away with hiring some poor bastard from the 3rd world who's hocked himself to a gangster moonlighting as a crewing agent to get a job and paying them £2/hr and only when there's an r in the month. Unsurprisingly employers who do this are often the same employers who treat their employees like shit, forcing them to bust the working hours limit and giving them unsafe vessels to work on. Given the huge quantities of money shoveled toward wind energy and the subsequent large profits posted by major players this kind of bollocks sticks in the craw.

[5speedracer]

I fucking hate UPS. Yes, hate is a strong word but I do fucking hate UPS.
They won't leave anything safe and around me that can mean on the front step!
Put it around the back or with a neighbour, no can do.
In the mid Naughtys I worked away all week and ordered a Dell computer, delivery by UPS. Turns out it had to be signed for by ME.
Neighbours, no!
To my work, no!
Had to go to fucking Dundee for it on Sat morning as they'd finally agreed to leave it with the gate security. 100 fucking miles each way!
Pricks.

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[MarvinsMom]

  On 03/09/2019 at 21:14, Wack said:

I don't go abroad very often so Germans don't show up on my radar much 

Are they all cunts or are some of them ok , twice this week I've seen them just walk to the front of a queue and walk in ,one on a bus and one at a museum ,  arrogant twats. 

Neither directly in front of me so my "you can fuck right off " wasn't required,  and I was instructed not to go full on basil like I did once in london when this twat decided he didn't need to queue for 20 minutes like everybody else 

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in my own limited experience, all  zee  germans i've come across are indeed cunts, and arrogant fuckers with it. even more so  than parisiens,  which i didn't think was possible!

[MarvinsMom]

  On 03/09/2019 at 21:17, sheffcortinacentre said:

Iceland frozen meals last week £1 this week £1.60!? Wtf that's some inflation!

Probably down to Brexit? Or Gino Dr Campo to gurn from posters about the new Italian range

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or them been "on offer" last week and this week been the usual price? 

i don't shop at Iceland so i cannot say if that is the case

[strangeangel]

  On 03/09/2019 at 21:14, Wack said:

I don't go abroad very often so Germans don't show up on my radar much 

Are they all cunts or are some of them ok , twice this week I've seen them just walk to the front of a queue and walk in ,one on a bus and one at a museum ,  arrogant twats. 

Neither directly in front of me so my "you can fuck right off " wasn't required,  and I was instructed not to go full on basil like I did once in london when this twat decided he didn't need to queue for 20 minutes like everybody else 

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My experience is that people in the European countries I've visited don't generally queue for public transport - they just stand there and when it arrives it's every man for himself. It just seems to be the way.

 

[sierraman]

  On 03/09/2019 at 21:17, sheffcortinacentre said:

Iceland frozen meals last week £1 this week £1.60!? Wtf that's some inflation!

Probably down to Brexit? Or Gino Dr Campo to gurn from posters about the new Italian range

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I used to work there years ago. One of the really clever ideas they has was to round up all the prices to easy to add up prices 50p, 75p, £1 etc. At the time I found it bizarre nobody realised what was 85p before was now a £1 for the sake of convenience. 

[sierraman]

  On 03/09/2019 at 21:14, Wack said:

I don't go abroad very often so Germans don't show up on my radar much 

Are they all cunts or are some of them ok , twice this week I've seen them just walk to the front of a queue and walk in ,one on a bus and one at a museum ,  arrogant twats. 

Neither directly in front of me so my "you can fuck right off " wasn't required,  and I was instructed not to go full on basil like I did once in london when this twat decided he didn't need to queue for 20 minutes like everybody else 

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They do have a bit of a superiority complex in that sense. That’s why when you climb behind the wheel of a newish Audi you start overtaking queues of traffic waiting and barging your way in at Junctions. 

[timolloyd]

I have spent lots of time with Germans. Arrogance is not a nationality thing - plenty of Brits push their way to the front of queues or do other arrogant things. Every country has its twats, basically.

 

[stuboy]

amazon deliveries!! most drivers stash it behind the bin or in wooden porch cupboard, or on doorstep (in plain view too steal it) this with stuff 30 quid upwards, yesterday £9 doorbell ive had to reaarange delivery and give details of safe place to leave it..

 

i expect my new mobile to be lobbed over the fence..

[Floatylight]

  On 04/09/2019 at 07:11, stuboy said:

amazon deliveries!! most drivers stash it behind the bin or in wooden porch cupboard, or on doorstep (in plain view too steal it) this with stuff 30 quid upwards, yesterday £9 doorbell ive had to reaarange delivery and give details of safe place to leave it..
 
i expect my new mobile to be lobbed over the fence..

The other day we had an Amazon delivery left in the green bin with all the household waste including the kitchen bin and week old bags of dog doop!

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[iainrcz]

  On 04/09/2019 at 07:11, stuboy said:

amazon deliveries!! most drivers stash it behind the bin or in wooden porch cupboard, or on doorstep (in plain view too steal it) this with stuff 30 quid upwards, yesterday £9 doorbell ive had to reaarange delivery and give details of safe place to leave it..

 

i expect my new mobile to be lobbed over the fence..

We've had stuff chucked over our 6 foot plus high side gate before.

 

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[wuvvum]

  On 04/09/2019 at 07:16, Floatylight said:

The other day we had an Amazon delivery left in the green bin with all the household waste including the kitchen bin and week old bags of dog doop!

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Maybe the green bin is the recycling bin where the driver lives.  It is around here.

[stuboy]

  On 04/09/2019 at 07:25, iainrcz said:

We've had stuff chucked over our 5 foot plus high side gate before.

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i told the courier to chuck my rear rear exhaust over fence he warbled  on about waivers... mild steel box.. 

[Tetleysmooth]

Mrs Tet sent to Barts hospital today for a specialist scan. I think this is more serious than we both thought.

If she's suitable for a stent to be fitted, she may possibly be home soon, the other possibility is a heart bypass.

She's been categorised as high risk.

Bloody, bloody hell.

[paulplom]

Fingers crossed it's stents. Pretty painless in comparison.

[Tetleysmooth]

  On 04/09/2019 at 08:19, paulplom said:

Fingers crossed it's stents. Pretty painless in comparison.

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Yeah, I'm hoping for that too, best possible outcome.

[Wack]

  On 04/09/2019 at 07:06, timolloyd said:

I have spent lots of time with Germans. Arrogance is not a nationality thing - plenty of Brits push their way to the front of queues or do other arrogant things. Every country has its twats, basically.

 

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They do it in cars on the motorway, I cant ever think of an instance where I've been in the uk and a brit has just walked to the front of an obvious queue and joined it 

They even queue in cars in one lane rather than merge even when that's what the signs say to do 

[robinmasters]

  On 04/09/2019 at 06:47, strangeangel said:

 

My experience is that people in the European countries I've visited don't generally queue for public transport - they just stand there and when it arrives it's every man for himself. It just seems to be the way.

 

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I don't often get the bus, but the queuing system here is a cause of huge anxiety to me; there isn't normally a formal queue as such, just people waiting near the bus stop. I don't pay much attention too who's there, then when the bus arrives have to look around and try and work out who was there before me and who wasn't. 

[clayts450]

I always aim to be the last person on the bus to avoid queue politics and stand a healthy distance away from the shambolic line of miserable people masquerading as 'a queue'. A bit like Paul Ince used to when he played at United. Except I keep my shirt on.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 04/09/2019 at 09:16, Wack said:

..... I cant ever think of an instance where I've been in the uk and a brit has just walked to the front of an obvious queue and joined it 

They even queue in cars in one lane rather than merge even when that's what the signs say to do 

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That wasn't what I saw when exiting the North Circular this morning to get to Park Royal!

[Bobthebeard]

As a taxi driver in Lytham St Annes most of my customers are old and/or disabled. This means that I often have to drop them off or pick them up from places that inconvenience other drivers. The amount of verbal abuse I get for stopping in awkward places is incredible. Despite it being obvious that I am helping an elderly man/lady into a wheelchair and onto a footpath or into a shop  horns are tooted and I get yelled at and called a twat. Am almost immune to it now, but it still annoys me. 

[reb]

The starter on one of my kitchen lights has gone.

That's not the grump.

In the process of trying to swap the one from the other strip to check if it was definitely the starter the fitting disappeared into the housing necessitating taking it to bits to retrieve it.

That's not the grump either.

The grump is everywhere I can go and buy one from an actual shop want £3+ for one, or Screwfix wanting £5 for a 5 pack when the same (unknown to me) brand can be had from online suppliers for 50p each. Ended up ordering a 10 pack of Philips ones from Amazon for £5.95, that should last me a while.

Batteries too, why does a 30 pack cost basically the same as an 8 pack? I only wanted one for my kitchen timer!

Someone somewhere (possibly on here) once said that supermarkets/retailers are in the business of selling you packaging rather than the contents. I think it's even more true than I believed before.

 

Next time on "Robin moans about consumerism"; I try to buy decent kitchen knives.

[LightBulbFun]

  On 04/09/2019 at 14:46, reb said:

The grump is everywhere I can go and buy one from an actual shop want £3+ for one, or Screwfix wanting £5 for a 5 pack when the same (unknown to me) brand can be had from online suppliers for 50p each. Ended up ordering a 10 pack of Philips ones from Amazon for £5.95, that should last me a while.

 

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happy to hear you went for some decent Philips (S10 im guessing?) starters in the end, Philips starters are pretty much the best starters you can get outside of something like an EFS600 Pulse starter 

the £3 Starters local shops sell you are an absolute rip off and are complete chinese junk

[reb]

  On 04/09/2019 at 14:55, LightBulbFun said:

happy to hear you went for some decent Philips (S10 im guessing?) starters in the end, Philips starters are pretty much the best starters you can get outside of something like an EFS600 Pulse starter 

the £3 Starters local shops sell you are an absolute rip off and are complete chinese junk

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Yes, S10. I have to be honest I don't understand the difference, but the reviews seemed to suggest they start that bit quicker than the cheapo ones. My logic though is I'd rather do the fit and forget thing rather than burn through many many cheap ones. Still nice to have spares though.

[LightBulbFun]

  On 04/09/2019 at 15:01, reb said:

Yes, S10. I have to be honest I don't understand the difference, but the reviews seemed to suggest they start that bit quicker than the cheapo ones. My logic though is I'd rather do the fit and forget thing rather than burn through many many cheap ones. Still nice to have spares though.

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out of sheer curiosity what fixture are these going into?  

yeah the Philips S10s are very good in that regard

(its not so much how quickly a starter starts a tube, but how well it preheats the electrodes before striking the arc, if you strike an arc with cold electrodes then you shorten the tube life)

[reb]

  On 04/09/2019 at 15:03, LightBulbFun said:

out of sheer curiosity what fixture are these going into?  

yeah the Philips S10s are very good in that regard

(its not so much how quickly a starter starts a tube, but how well it preheats the electrodes before striking the arc, if you strike an arc with cold electrodes then you shorten the tube life)

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There's no branding at all on the fixtures, if the rest of the flat is anything to go by, probably the cheapest ones on the market.

[LightBulbFun]

  On 04/09/2019 at 15:09, reb said:

There's no branding at all on the fixtures, if the rest of the flat is anything to go by, probably the cheapest ones on the market.

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Yeah thats a pretty "cheap and cheerful" fixture, not too surprising the starter failed as it was probably something cheap and nasty along with the rest of the fixture!

at least its magnetically ballasted which is always quite robust regardless of how cheap it is  

(side we have the same smoke alarms fitted around the house, council put them in a few years ago, when 1 goes off they all go off which is fun* when my mum or someone makes the mistake of trying to actually cook something in the kitchen  )

[BorniteIdentity]

  On 04/09/2019 at 12:20, Bobthebeard said:

As a taxi driver in Lytham St Annes most of my customers are old and/or disabled. This means that I often have to drop them off or pick them up from places that inconvenience other drivers. The amount of verbal abuse I get for stopping in awkward places is incredible. Despite it being obvious that I am helping an elderly man/lady into a wheelchair and onto a footpath or into a shop  horns are tooted and I get yelled at and called a twat. Am almost immune to it now, but it still annoys me. 

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Keep buggering on, Bob. It’s gestures like yours that give the rest of us hope.