The grumpy thread

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, fairkens said:

... who has a flipping fax machine now anyway

I did. I need a replacement machine now.....

[BorniteIdentity]

Warning.  DPD are the only company I've experienced in the last 5 months of mayhem who still insist on a signature when delivering a parcel.

I was on the phone earlier on - heard a knock on the door.  I knew it was DPD as they'd text and emailed twice in the previous 30 minutes.  I carried on the phone as all that happens with Herpes is the knock, drop and run.

Nope.  DPD disregard the lights on, the sound of me on the phone and the fact I may well be shielding and fuck off with my parcel.  Contents to the value of £8.

Cracking COVID protocol, lads.  Fucking brilliant. 

 

TBH I don't give a flying shit, it's two inner tubes for a bike that I can't use until Sunday.  But I'm bemused they still want actual contact.  

[BorniteIdentity]

1 hour ago, fairkens said:

who has a flipping fax machine now anyway

Solicitors.  Still one of the simplest, quickest and most secure ways of sending documents from point to point.  You can also use the transmission receipt in court as proof of sending.  

It's the same as cassette tapes.  The biggest user of them until about 2 years ago was the police force.  It's very easy to edit and manipulate recordings on a hard drive - but almost impossible on a cassette.  Any edit (with a razor blade and tape) would be clearly visible.  

 

Horrah for old tech.

[St.Jude]

2 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Solicitors.  Still one of the simplest, quickest and most secure ways of sending documents from point to point.  You can also use the transmission receipt in court as proof of sending.  

It's the same as cassette tapes.  The biggest user of them until about 2 years ago was the police force.  It's very easy to edit and manipulate recordings on a hard drive - but almost impossible on a cassette.  Any edit (with a razor blade and tape) would be clearly visible.  

 

Horrah for old tech.

Fax machines are still incredibly popular in Japan too, amazingly. 

[wuvvum]

Japan are ridiculously behind in terms of technology, bizarrely.  One Japanese company I deal with still has a 5MB size limit for incoming emails, which makes sending large bundles of documentation very tedious.

[fairkens]

43 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Solicitors.  

I am one, cannot remember the last time I received a fax and haven't sent one in over ten years. We have a fancy system that converts emails to faxes (and vice versa) so it would be easy to do.

I agree that it's simple and secure, as long as it has paper in it its not a problem! 

[BorniteIdentity]

2 minutes ago, fairkens said:

I am one, cannot remember the last time I received a fax and haven't sent one in over ten years. We have a fancy system that converts emails to faxes (and vice versa) so it would be easy to do.

I agree that it's simple and secure, as long as it has paper in it its not a problem! 

Conveyancing - mainly - I think.  I haven't worked in Estate Agency for a long, long time now - but my Dad is still going and we were talking about them still being fairly prolific just the other day!

[loserone]

1 hour ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Solicitors.  Still one of the simplest, quickest and most secure ways of sending documents from point to point.  You can also use the transmission receipt in court as proof of sending.

You can do all of that with most email providers too, though our last but one solicitors fell for an O365 phishing campaign and ignored me when I pointed out that they are compromised..

[paulplom]

The council finally got round to fitting me a new garage door after the buglers ripped off the old one.

Great to see the thieves went through all my stuff carfully without making a mess.

 

[SiC]

12 hours ago, djoptix said:

People that call their cars a "track slag" (or "track weapon", even worse).

Universally means it's a shit BMW/MX5 that they have lowered, taken the interior out of, put tow straps on, and probably a host of other modifications which don't make it  go any faster but destroy the resale value.

Cnuts.

Yes! See Clio 172/182. Getting really really hard to find one that isn't stripped out/rollcage/aftermarket seats in. 

Ridiculous thing is that these modified cars are being priced the same or higher than the stock and original cars. Despite having less attached to the car...

No surprise that the stock ones are starting to rise in value rapidly now. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Hmm, have found an identical fax machine to my broken one. Not far away either....

[Zelandeth]

3 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I did. I need a replacement machine now.....

The vast majority of all-in-one printer/scanner setups seem to have one built in.  The three I've had since 2003 up to and including the current one certainly all have one.  Just virtually nobody uses them.

I saved the bacon of a friend who suddenly realised they needed to return a document by fax or in person while they were in the middle of a house purchase.

[anonymous user]

Ah, the good old days, where you could ask a gullible person from another office to fax you some paper as you had run out. Or trying to work out from a phone number who had just sent you a blank document as they had put it in their machine the wrong way around. The worst were the thermal roll type where someone would carefully file the fax, only to discover a few years later that it had faded and was no longer readable.

[New POD]

4 hours ago, rainagain said:

My bank are pissing me off. I went paperless a while back. I now need an actual printed statement for ID purposes. I asked them on live chat and was told they’d send one out. Two weeks passed, no statement. So I called them, the woman apologised and promised to send one out. Another two weeks have passed and guess what, no statement. 
 

I’m going to call them, put in a complaint and go back to paper statements. It‘s only their money they’ll now be wasting having to post me a statement every month. 

Can you trust your solicitor ? I have a pin card reader thing that throws out 8 random numbers to get into barclays. Get him to log in, phone him with 8 numbers and get him to print them off himself. 

[MikeR]

 worst were the thermal roll type where someone would carefully file the fax, only to discover a few years later that it had faded and was no longer readable.

I know some one who took the last working copy of a doc that was printed on that stuff and laminated it .....   it came out clear ....

took a while to sort out as well ....

[MikeR]

knob eads in big black flash cars who think you are going to push into the q for the inside lane at  the start of the motorway , and they lean on the horns and give the " I am snitching on you "  stare

when you are just nipping round to the other 2  outer lanes of the motorway that every one is too scared to q for ...  and they never catch you up because the traffic lights change !!

[New POD]

28 minutes ago, MikeR said:

knob eads in big black flash cars who think you are going to push into the q for the inside lane at  the start of the motorway , and they lean on the horns and give the " I am snitching on you "  stare

when you are just nipping round to the other 2  outer lanes of the motorway that every one is too scared to q for ...  and they never catch you up because the traffic lights change !!

dash cam footage please. 

[MikeR]

6 minutes ago, New POD said:

dash cam footage please. 

of an empty lane in front of me !

[paulplom]

I've been shopped to the council tax people. Gf pretty much lives here but I pay single persons allowance. We still have the other house where she pays single allowance. Not sure what the crack is. Neither of us claim any benefits. Most of her clothes etc are still at hers. I know when you're dole scum/fiddling you're allowed to stay at some one else's three days a week without it affecting you're benefits. Not sure how it affects someone that pays their way.

I think I know who shopped us. I had an argument with a neighbour the other day that got quite heated. If he hadn't run away when I went for him I'd have been locked up.

 

[Floatylight]

4 minutes ago, paulplom said:

I've been shopped to the council tax people. Gf pretty much lives here but I pay single persons allowance. We still have the other house where she pays single allowance. Not sure what the crack is. Neither of us claim any benefits. Most of her clothes etc are still at hers. I know when you're dole scum/fiddling you're allowed to stay at some one else's three days a week without it affecting you're benefits. Not sure how it affects someone that pays their way.

I think I know who shopped us. I had an argument with a neighbour the other day that got quite heated. If he hadn't run away when I went for him I'd have been locked up.

 

Surely if she's still getting her post and paying council tax on the other house then she still technically lives there, no matter how often she  visits yours..

I'm sure when most ppl are dating they go through similar..

[paulplom]

She does live here in reality. Hasn't stayed away since before lockdown. She went there today to swapbsome clothes over and found she had the same letter delivered as me. Deffo grassed on imo.

[Remspoor]

10 hours ago, rainagain said:

My bank are pissing me off. I went paperless a while back. I now need an actual printed statement for ID purposes. I asked them on live chat and was told they’d send one out. Two weeks passed, no statement. So I called them, the woman apologised and promised to send one out. Another two weeks have passed and guess what, no statement. 
 

I’m going to call them, put in a complaint and go back to paper statements. It‘s only their money they’ll now be wasting having to post me a statement every month. 

reason number ***** why the UK need ID cards.

[Remspoor]

8 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I did. I need a replacement machine now.....

You don't when I need to use one for business we used this service.

https://www.myfax.eu/

Fax machines are still used in Spain

Every office has the obligatory typewriter.  I have not seen one of those used for a few years

[Remspoor]

You seen food trucks, you more than likely hated the idea of an old van cut up in a conversion.

Well here is the next example of that Hipster movement. An ex-fire truck stuck in a field for you to sleep in.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/uk-ireland/inside-former-1950s-fire-truck-22623140

I am not going to look at the website, linked to by the Mirror, to see how much it costs to sleep in this lorry which has no loo, bathroom or electricity. They only take you to the truck, but leaving you have to walk to your vehicle which is parked some distance away.

I do like the lorry though.

 

[Angrydicky]

On 9/2/2020 at 6:31 PM, Borsuq said:

Does anyone else get a bit weird when you can't drive your sheds for a while? I've not been able to go for a drive at all (other than taking what a call a scenic route back from work) in 2 weeks, and haven't driven my FSO in about 3 weeks, and that kinda put me on edge. I think I'm really feeling now that winter is coming and my cars will have to go in storage till spring again so I'm feeling a lot of pressure to drive them.

I'm also kinda annoyed with myself for buying a nice Polonez. I wanted one partially because I was craving a shed I could rock all year round, but now that I've bought a really well preserved one it'd be a real shame to ruin it.

Weather better fucking improve soon cause I'm not mentally ready to give up my shit cars for they year quite yet.

Also, in other news, I've been denied a raise I thought was pretty much guaranteed, so that's pretty damn annoying.

Yes, me. I'm glad I pulled my finger out and got my Austin Somerset back on the road. Having an old crock on the road does wonders for the old mental health.

[iainrcz]

Turns out I'm getting old.

We've just had Chinese tea. While knobhead was dishing up I said to her "Wash them tubs out we'll keep them"

Fuck, I'm not even 40 yet.

 

[somewhatfoolish]

The plastic ones aren't bad if you're a mingebag and want containers to keep bits of something while its dismantled or whatever, but tinfoil ones are a hard no.

That's a waste of what looks like a nice Commer Superpoise.

[danthecapriman]

6 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

The plastic ones aren't bad if you're a mingebag and want containers to keep bits of something while its dismantled or whatever, but tinfoil ones are a hard no.

That's a waste of what looks like a nice Commer Superpoise.

Funnily enough, I’ve just filled one of the big deep draws in my roll cabinet toll box with those plastic takeaway tubs. They’re brilliant for storing nuts, bolts, washers, clips etc etc in and keeping it all tidy and separate from each other.

Loads of them in the garage too full of Capri bits!

[robinmasters]

Self-isolating as of today.  Went to work feeling a bit rough, didn't really think about it (brain not working due to symptoms), measured my temp there as 38.4.  Which means I have to have 7 days off, and get tested.  

I didn't want 7 days off.  The test is horrible (I've seen how far they stick the big cotton bud down your throat/nose).  My daughter's friends were arranging a surprise party for her this weekend.  

Under normal circumstances a bit of flu would mean a couple of days off watching the telly.  At the moment it means I've got an enforced week off, an unpleasant test, I'm the world's worst parent, and I've only got maybe half an evening's booze.  

On the upside, I do have to sit in a room on my own looking at the internet and watching youtube videos.  

[iainrcz]

The plastic ones aren't bad if you're a mingebag and want containers to keep bits of something while its dismantled or whatever, but tinfoil ones are a hard no.
That's a waste of what looks like a nice Commer Superpoise.

For storing odds and sods in the house..
I mean shed.