The grumpy thread

[mitsisigma01]

You can't be totally deranged if you like the Floyd gods

[mitsisigma01]

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[purplebargeken]

Just thinking.... it hurts.

However, just wondering about the lack of manufacturing/producing stuff and other stuff such as fruit and veg picking. What happens when the Big Warehouses that hold a Lot Of Food are empty and no-one is able to properly replenish the warehouses.

We might have HGV drivers, supermarket workers and so on but if there is little to put in the shops from said warehouses we will be somewhat screwed.

Thoughtful grump...

[Ghosty]

I think I'm starting to go a little deranged. For the first time since I was 17 my friends are regularly noticing I'm not myself, and I'm finding myself loking at airsoft shotguns and trying to work out the best way to defend my house in case all goes to shit, seeing as the parents refuse to get a house alarm. A little too much time to think, perhaps?? 

I know I'm a bike mechanic and should be able to go to work, but sadly despite his willingness to carry on last week, my boss is completely demoralised and told me 'this shit isn't worth dying for'. So I don't even have a job to go to. 

[strangeangel]

On 3/23/2020 at 12:39 PM, Crackers said:

"So on top of yesterday's shit show I have just had the report back from the garage.

2buckled alloys =£1030
Broken steering rack =£1916 plus labour to fit
Bent chassis at the place the strut joins the car = £ thousands

Long and short ... the car is a write off"

 

 

I thought we had some round here but, fuck me, that's the pothole to end all potholes ?

 

[Zelandeth]

Well it wasn't unexpected but just had the email through confirming that ConFuzzled has indeed been cancelled.  Knew it was 99.99% likely to happen even weeks ago with how things were going, but it still sucks.

That's now literally every event in my diary this year now cancelled save for FotU - though I'll be massively surprised if that doesn't meet the same fate.

In other news, I need to go back to the damned pharmacy again tomorrow as they've only given me half the sodding order.

[cobblers]

I socially isolate by habit, if I had to keep two meters away from people for the rest of my life then that would suit me perfectly well. Make it 5 meters, I'm happy to shout.

I can go weeks or months with my only social interactions (bar the mrs) are in shops or pubs. Don't get me wrong I don't hate people, but I really enjoy being on my own and honestly the thought of a 1981 "The Quiet Earth" (cracking film) world would suit me perfectly.

But now that we're encouraged to be alone, I have to come home and be with a person, and I can't go and drive my camper to a field 10 miles away, cook up some chilli and rice from a can and watch old episodes of Kitchen Nightmares which realistically would harm nobody and do me a world of good. 

[Yoss]

7 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Doesn't playing Marilion in a public place count as behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace ??

 

6 hours ago, xtriple said:

Marilion is the music of the Gods (but only with Fish warbling) second only to the dearly beloved Pink Floyd  

Another yay to Marillion. Is White Russian the greatest song ever written? It's up there. Thirty years old but as relevant as ever. Very prescient. 

[captain_70s]

11 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

you didn't say it wasn't the acclaim! ?

That also needs work tbh, just less of it... The rad is weeping and the exhaust is rattling in an angry fashion.

In a fresh grump two lightbulbs have blown in the flat since the lockdown was announced. It's like it fucking knows...

[Noel Tidybeard]

Just now, captain_70s said:

In a fresh grump two lightbulbs have blown in the flat since the lockdown was announced. It's like it fucking knows...

essential maintenance due to elf & safety, nuns & kittens etc

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

.....In other news, I need to go back to the damned pharmacy again tomorrow as they've only given me half the sodding order.

Queueing outside Boots Ealing for my usual batch of statins in about three weeks' time will be fun*

[Crackers]

3 hours ago, strangeangel said:

 

I thought we had some round here but, fuck me, that's the pothole to end all potholes ?

 

You're not joking. Here's the offender... I nearly spat my brew out when he sent me these! ???

I can't imagine the noise that must have made as he hit it ?

[DeeJay]

 

6 hours ago, captain_70s said:

In a fresh grump two lightbulbs have blown in the flat since the lockdown was announced. It's like it fucking knows...

They were Government lightbulbs, keeping you in the dark.

 

 

(JOKE. Don't start going all political).

[myglaren]

10 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Well it wasn't unexpected but just had the email through confirming that ConFuzzled has indeed been cancelled.  Knew it was 99.99% likely to happen even weeks ago with how things were going, but it still sucks.

That's now literally every event in my diary this year now cancelled save for FotU - though I'll be massively surprised if that doesn't meet the same fate.

In other news, I need to go back to the damned pharmacy again tomorrow as they've only given me half the sodding order.

Can't they deliver?

There are deliveries from several local pharmacies every hour or thereabouts here (just this street, three dozen houses)

[Cheggers]

You're not joking. Here's the offender... I nearly spat my brew out when he sent me these! [/url]
I can't imagine the noise that must have made as he hit it

'kin hell. Are you sure there have been no sightings of Bigfoot in the area?

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[somewhatfoolish]

9 hours ago, Crackers said:

You're not joking. Here's the offender... I nearly spat my brew out when he sent me these! ???

I can't imagine the noise that must have made as he hit it ?

That needs some attention from Wanksy.

[Dirk Diggler]

 

[Zelandeth]

5 hours ago, myglaren said:

Can't they deliver?

There are deliveries from several local pharmacies every hour or thereabouts here (just this street, three dozen houses)

In theory yes.  However they're not accepting new registrations onto the system currently due to the existing workload.

[sdkrc]

I'd like to make another big shout out to everyone who doesn't believe the rules apply to them. Fuck you. 

Had to go to the shops. 2min drive. Street was busier than I've ever seen it. Guy with fishing gear, 2 big groups of 4+ people walking together, guy washing his bike on the pavement...

Good lump of people on here are just as bad. 

What's the point? 

[castros_bro]

After 9 days of mainly having a virus (you may have heard of it?) and now apparently now being nontoxic I took my Boris permitted exercise of walking almost 75 meters to the PUG 206 to find milk, bread all gone very off and engine no longer working so walked the 75 meters back.  That bodes well for next week as work decided to carry on. Wonder if I can be bothered as a testing non-medical stuff in a secure production facility seems non essential but being a hourly contractor is no work no pay.

[Tamworthbay]

1 hour ago, sdkrc said:

I'd like to make another big shout out to everyone who doesn't believe the rules apply to them. Fuck you. 

Had to go to the shops. 2min drive. Street was busier than I've ever seen it. Guy with fishing gear, 2 big groups of 4+ people walking together, guy washing his bike on the pavement...

Good lump of people on here are just as bad. 

What's the point? 

People are Dicks, the idea that GREAT Britain is in some way special seems to make these knobheads feel immune. In a fortnight we will be making Italy and Spain look worth going to again.

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, sdkrc said:

I'd like to make another big shout out to everyone who doesn't believe the rules apply to them.

 

Aye.  I've noted when out for a quick walk to get my allowed once daily exercise and to walk the dogs that the park local to us is way busier than usual and there's just generally a lot of people around.  We had to make a run to a supermarket yesterday and the town centre seemed maybe 20% quieter than usual.

Just back from today's pilgrimage to the pharmacy to pick up the stuff they forgot to give me yesterday.  This was the queue.

Not helped by them having massively restricted their opening hours.  They normally run 0700-2300, now are just doing 1000-1700...and obviously it's taking longer to serve folks as they're using the window counter only (they're painfully slow even on a normal day), plus they're clearly going to see additional demand as folks don't want to get stuck at home and run out of meds. 

I realise that these are trying times and all...but a pharmacy is an area I'd have expected them to do what they can to improve accessibility not reduce it.

Aside from anything else, how are you meant to pick up your medication if you're working normal hours?  You're snookered.

[somewhatfoolish]

Are they making the script up there and then? Ours get emailed to the chemist and made up, you just go in, identify yourself and they hand it to you, much quicker and less risk of lurgi transfer.

[Zelandeth]

Nope, that's after it's taken nearly a fortnight to be signed off by the GP, sent the thirty feet from the GP to the pharmacy electronically and been made up ready to dispense.

I saw this coming and had requested a top up to my medication on like the 2nd or 3rd of March as I expected stuff to go mad.  It was only ready to be dispensed yesterday.  If I'd waited until a week before like they instruct you to I'd still be a week away from getting it.

Really irks me that they don't automatically fill any repeats here now, you have to manually request everything.  It's a pain when you're on eight different medications, all of which run out at different times.

[dozeydustman]

I have no idea what this sitcom is on ITV, but it’s actually worse than Mrs Brown’s Boys, which I didn’t think was possible

[outlaw118]

17 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

it’s actually worse than Mrs Brown’s Boys, which I didn’t think was possible

FAKE NEWS

 

[omegod]

Guys please have some pity on pharmacists at the minute, I've been to about 30 this week so far and they are under incredible pressure and have bent over backwards to support other NHS services, remember that if they fuck up slightly they can quite easily kill you.  2 at a time is to protect them as well as you, if they go down we are seriously in the shit. A thank you and patience would be very much appreciated.  

[dozeydustman]

9 minutes ago, omegod said:

Guys please have some pity on pharmacists at the minute, I've been to about 30 this week so far and they are under incredible pressure and have bent over backwards to support other NHS services, remember that if they fuck up slightly they can quite easily kill you.  2 at a time is to protect them as well as you, if they go down we are seriously in the shit. A thank you and patience would be very much appreciated.  

This. It's not just hospital staff that are putting their necks on the line at the moment.

[HillmanImp]

1 hour ago, dozeydustman said:

I have no idea what this sitcom is on ITV, but it’s actually worse than Mrs Brown’s Boys, which I didn’t think was possible

I was watching this comedy series called 'BBC NEWS' earlier and it had this fat man in an ill fitted suit wearing a bad wig, doing some sort of surrealist stand up, whilst people shouted at him from a telly stood at the other end of the room. 

It was like, maybe French or something but remade for UK telly, I'm not sure? 

Anyway I didn't like it. 

[Zelandeth]

Now we've got our stuff we've switched our preferred pharmacy to another one.  We absolutely fully expected stuff to be slower than usual and there to be a queue.  As there was one neighborhood over where we were picking up stuff to drop off with a friend who's in full isolation and can't leave the house at all.  Waited about half an hour, perfectly reasonable.

Our local one though is just a nightmare at the best of times.  I've been handed the wrong medication on several occasions and twice a prescription for a completely different person.