The grumpy thread

[MarvinsMom]

my second hand, and very elderly mobile phone has turned up its toes today.

it was a Samsung Galaxy 2.

it did me dad good service before he retired, some 5 odd years ago, and then it gave  me good service too.

most irritating thing? well apart from the now lost contacts, are the many photos that were somewhere on that handset, now lost too.

bloody thing!

 

[Agila]

Put the new bed up. Should be a good day?

Changed from a normal king-size to oak frame super king.

List of injuries on day 1.

Right foot (twice)

Left foot (twice)

Right knee.

I'll have to remind myself it's a foot wider and really really hurts if I crash into it in the dark.

[High Jetter]

The salesmen never warn you of that, do they? No soft-glow LED's on the corner is a bitch.

[Jazoli]

8 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

my second hand, and very elderly mobile phone has turned up its toes today.

it was a Samsung Galaxy 2.

it did me dad good service before he retired, some 5 odd years ago, and then it gave  me good service too.

most irritating thing? well apart from the now lost contacts, are the many photos that were somewhere on that handset, now lost too.

bloody thing!

 

Your Google sign in will transfer your contacts automatically onto your new phone, I don't understand why you didn't back up your pics to Drive or Dropbox? It's free and 2 mins to setup and will save photo's automatically, too late now obvs..

[SRi05]

4 hours ago, Jazoli said:

Your Google sign in will transfer your contacts automatically onto your new phone, I don't understand why you didn't back up your pics to Drive or Dropbox? It's free and 2 mins to setup and will save photo's automatically, too late now obvs..

You don't want your nudes hanging about in the cloud man

[loserone]

Better than them hanging around on some physical disc somewhere ready for taking to PC world

 

[wuvvum]

This has been mentioned before elsewhere on these forums, but the price of kittens is making me grumpy.  It doesn't seem that long ago that the free ads were full of kittens "free to good homes" - now Gumtree is full of chancers asking £400 or £500 for a boggo tabby or black shorthair kitten.  I don't mind paying a bit of money, but that's just taking the piss.

[sierraman]

When did mending cars become a spectator sport? Whenever you are doing something there’s always someone coming along to go ‘are you ok?’ Like you aren’t breathing or something. Would you stop a bloke cutting the grass and go ‘are you ok?’. It’s never like they know what the fuck they’re on about either it’ll be ‘I once changed a fan belt on a Cortina’. Sometimes you just want to get on with a job without the cast of Wheeler Dealers stood round.

[strangeangel]

On 11/10/2020 at 12:45 PM, Tadhg Tiogar said:

He might have worked for Yodel before....

 

 

Definitely!

 

[twosmoke300]

Impressive in a FWD van 

[strangeangel]

2 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Impressive in a FWD van 

 

I wondered about that too. I imagine it's the weight of all our parcels in the back. So next time you get a flattened box from your Yodel courier...

 

[twosmoke300]

Can’t say my ducato has ever done lift off oversteer 

[Cavcraft]

47 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

This has been mentioned before elsewhere on these forums, but the price of kittens is making me grumpy.  It doesn't seem that long ago that the free ads were full of kittens "free to good homes" - now Gumtree is full of chancers asking £400 or £500 for a boggo tabby or black shorthair kitten.  I don't mind paying a bit of money, but that's just taking the piss.

Get that charging something means (in theory) that they will get looked after, rather than being seen as a free toy until the owner gets bored, but that's a stupid amount to ask.

 

Mind you, a Barbara_Lee_Cartland puppy is now knocking on for two and half grand, apparently.  Must be some very rich people about.

[wuvvum]

21 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Can’t say my ducato has ever done lift off oversteer 

I have to say the Sevel Sud vans I've had (and I've had a few) always felt like they were slightly on tiptoes when pushed hard - like the back end could let go at any minute.  I never actually had it happen, but they never felt as planted as say a Renault Master or FWD Transit.

[Mr Laurence]

21 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Get that charging something means (in theory) that they will get looked after, rather than being seen as a free toy until the owner gets bored, but that's a stupid amount to ask.

 

Mind you, a Barbara_Lee_Cartland puppy is now knocking on for two and half grand, apparently.  Must be some very rich people about.

Sadly, a lot of free kittens are also used to train fighting dogs. Charging money is unfortunately the only way to prevent it from happening, but £500+ seems like taking the piss a bit.

[Timewaster]

5 hours ago, wuvvum said:

This has been mentioned before elsewhere on these forums, but the price of kittens is making me grumpy.  It doesn't seem that long ago that the free ads were full of kittens "free to good homes" - now Gumtree is full of chancers asking £400 or £500 for a boggo tabby or black shorthair kitten.  I don't mind paying a bit of money, but that's just taking the piss.

They don't stay kittens for very long,  there are usually plenty of young cats up for rehoming. 

My last moggy came from the Blue Cross, but a decade later after he passed away I went back to them and took my daughter with me. 

The woman I spoke to was a right bitch and sneered about us having children in the house and wasn't sure it was a suitable environment for one of her precious bloody cats. 

The local cats protection were much more accommodating and for a small fee (£30 I think) we rehomed a year old cat. 

Although it is totally antisocial, all claws and teeth 🐈.

[Mrcento]

6 hours ago, wuvvum said:

This has been mentioned before elsewhere on these forums, but the price of kittens is making me grumpy.  It doesn't seem that long ago that the free ads were full of kittens "free to good homes" - now Gumtree is full of chancers asking £400 or £500 for a boggo tabby or black shorthair kitten.  I don't mind paying a bit of money, but that's just taking the piss.

Contact your local cats protection. Not only are they far more reasonably priced, but the money goes to charity.

They don't have kittens in often, but when they do, they go mega quick.

Just remember how much work Kittens are. People love the idea of them being cute, playful and growing, but in practice, most people really struggle. Wasn't unheard of for people to take kittens at my old centre and bring them back fairly quickly.

Which says all you need to know about the office lots checks to begin with.....

[Mrcento]

On 11/10/2020 at 9:24 PM, strangeangel said:

 

Hermes are 100% fucking useless... the absolute worst of the worst.

They are the only delivery company i've used to this day that have given me zero issues. Either receiving or delivering a parcel. Possibly luck of the draw and my local agent is just excellent.

DHL on the other hand....Fucking LOL, still haven't delivered me a parcel without some level of nonsense. The absolute peak being the driver arriving at my house and driving away again seconds later without even getting out the van.

Contacting the office, they speak to the driver 'He couldn't get access to your property'.

NO SHIT SHERLOCK, he couldn't even get access to the outside world because he wouldn't get his fat arse out the van. I don't live in a fucking drive thru.

This happened multiple times.

Other crackers include TNT managing to lose an engine. Fedex rerouting a parcel from Edinburgh accidentally to Leeds and UPS forgetting to even put parcels in the van.

 

5 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

Can’t say my ducato has ever done lift off oversteer 

My works one did (in slushy ice). They seem to be pretty nose heavy. They get tons of traction at the front in snow but you find there's very little weight over the back when empty and things can get pretty sideways. Even in the wet, i found it a little squirrelly.

I found it good fun.

My 2 passengers didn't.

[New POD]

On 11/11/2020 at 19:19, rusty_vw_man said:

Some bellend has attacked the rear wiper on the van and bent the whole lot to buggery. 

I have no proof, but I ‘know’ it’s the bloke in his 60s that views the bit of road outside his house where I parked for an hour as his, not understanding that a) it’s not and b) I only have to park there as other people park outside my house. 

A session with the mole grips will see it good enough, but it’s also taken a chunk out of the paint down to metal. Arse....

 

On 11/11/2020 at 19:19, rusty_vw_man said:

Some bellend has attacked the rear wiper on the van and bent the whole lot to buggery. 

I have no proof, but I ‘know’ it’s the bloke in his 60s that views the bit of road outside his house where I parked for an hour as his, not understanding that a) it’s not and b) I only have to park there as other people park outside my house. 

A session with the mole grips will see it good enough, but it’s also taken a chunk out of the paint down to metal. Arse....

You want to have a word.

"Hi, mate, sorry to bother you. 

I don't suppose you heard anything going in in the street last night. My car has been attacked by vandals, and I wondered if your car had been too? 

The police say that they'll look at my CCTV footage later, and see if they can identify the person, but I'd like you to have a look, because they seem to have come out of your garden.  Maybe they were trying to break into your house. Its not really fair, is it, that someone thinks its okay to inflict criminal damage on other peoples possessions. Why they targetted my shit old van when theres some lovely cars down our street. I mean if you were the jealous type, youd (point at the car parked outside your house) attack that xxxx parked ourside my house.  I would mind but fixing it properly will cost £350 including repairing the paint and thats 4 days at work.  Why anyone would do thst is beyond me.  Anyway, if you can come over and look at the footage later, vefore i email it to the police. Not that they will do anything.   My mate danny said, he woukd sort out the person who did it. Mind you hes been to prison for GBH.  He caught someone trying to steal his bonnet badge, and put them.in hospital.  He works in security.  Whatever that means. "

See if you can get an indication that they know you know. You know, suddenly defensive.  Keep it sweet, neighbourly, none accusational. If they did it, you'll know. At some point his voice will give him away. 

[clayts450]

15 hours ago, sierraman said:

When did mending cars become a spectator sport? Whenever you are doing something there’s always someone coming along to go ‘are you ok?’ Like you aren’t breathing or something. Would you stop a bloke cutting the grass and go ‘are you ok?’. It’s never like they know what the fuck they’re on about either it’ll be ‘I once changed a fan belt on a Cortina’. Sometimes you just want to get on with a job without the cast of Wheeler Dealers stood round.

This. You feel like turning around and saying 'look, would you mind awfully fucking off so I can get on with it' (usually when you're fighting a 25 yr old rusty bolt). Trouble is, you can't really say that to a neighbour's five year old kid, who invariably seems to be my key audience.

And the oh-so-funny-never-ever-ever-heard-it-before-honest 'will you do mine next?' when you are washing or fixing your car ?

Or 'what's wrong with the car ?' when you're doing weekly checks.

 

[C1am]

9 hours ago, Mrcento said:

They are the only delivery company i've used to this day that have given me zero issues.

What's your secret?

[rusty_vw_man]

6 hours ago, New POD said:

 

You want to have a word.

"Hi, mate, sorry to bother you. 

I don't suppose you heard anything going in in the street last night. My car has been attacked by vandals, and I wondered if your car had been too? 

The police say that they'll look at my CCTV footage later, and see if they can identify the person, but I'd like you to have a look, because they seem to have come out of your garden.  Maybe they were trying to break into your house. Its not really fair, is it, that someone thinks its okay to inflict criminal damage on other peoples possessions. Why they targetted my shit old van when theres some lovely cars down our street. I mean if you were the jealous type, youd (point at the car parked outside your house) attack that xxxx parked ourside my house.  I would mind but fixing it properly will cost £350 including repairing the paint and thats 4 days at work.  Why anyone would do thst is beyond me.  Anyway, if you can come over and look at the footage later, vefore i email it to the police. Not that they will do anything.   My mate danny said, he woukd sort out the person who did it. Mind you hes been to prison for GBH.  He caught someone trying to steal his bonnet badge, and put them.in hospital.  He works in security.  Whatever that means. "

See if you can get an indication that they know you know. You know, suddenly defensive.  Keep it sweet, neighbourly, none accusational. If they did it, you'll know. At some point his voice will give him away. 

Funny enough I did just that yesterday - he was outside his house, so I asked if he’d seen the van outside and noticed anything, just in the interim whilst the hotel up the street sorted out getting the police their cctv which covered it (plausible, but actually untrue).  
 

He basically shat himself, making it pretty obvious it was him. Even better when later in the day the police were outside (no idea why, nothing to do with me). Hopefully enough to deter him from any future nonsense.....

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, clayts450 said:

This. You feel like turning around and saying 'look, would you mind awfully fucking off so I can get on with it' (usually when you're fighting a 25 yr old rusty bolt). Trouble is, you can't really say that to a neighbour's five year old kid, who invariably seems to be my key audience.

And the oh-so-funny-never-ever-ever-heard-it-before-honest 'will you do mine next?' when you are washing or fixing your car ?

Or 'what's wrong with the car ?' when you're doing weekly checks.

 

Same again this morning, I’m taking the bottom arm bolts out of in laws Corsa ‘you don’t sound very happy?’ What the fuck do people want? Harry fucking Secombe? It’s becominj lately like working in one of those working life museums where you can watch someone being a bloody blacksmith or whatever. 

[rusty_vw_man]

23 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Same again this morning, I’m taking the bottom arm bolts out of in laws Corsa ‘you don’t sound very happy?’ What the fuck do people want? Harry fucking Secombe? It’s becominj lately like working in one of those working life museums where you can watch someone being a bloody blacksmith or whatever. 

I do all my work in the street, it’s the same each time I go out. Even welding “oh that’s a bright light, what are you doing” - truthful answer at that point was probably detaching their retina’s......

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, C1am said:

What's your secret?

He probably owns it via a labyrinth of offshore companies. 

[sierraman]

49 minutes ago, rusty_vw_man said:

I do all my work in the street, it’s the same each time I go out. Even welding “oh that’s a bright light, what are you doing” - truthful answer at that point was probably detaching their retina’s......

I thought people so inquisitive usually ended up falling down a mineshaft or similar. I might invite myself into the engineering works down the road and watch them. Seriously if you want to watch someone working and giving a running commentary fuck off up the M1 to Wakefield to the mining museum or something.

[Noel Tidybeard]

20 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

Impressive in a FWD van 

even moreso with the handbrake quite low on the drivers side between seat & door!

[sdkrc]

My Lidl Fake Dremel © metal locking pin broke. Took it apart and removed the button so I could use something else manually. Whilst putting the screws back in I've gone right through a wire...still works but then my new cutting discs turned out not to fit.

Had to spend 30mins cutting through chipboard with a penknife. Big shout out to the Leatherman Wave for always being there for me. 

[richardmorris]

35 minutes ago, sdkrc said:

My Lidl Fake Dremel © metal locking pin broke. Took it apart and removed the button so I could use something else manually. Whilst putting the screws back in I've gone right through a wire...still works but then my new cutting discs turned out not to fit.

Had to spend 30mins cutting through chipboard with a penknife. Big shout out to the Leatherman Wave for always being there for me. 

I’ve two of those- one at home and one at work. So far ok!

[Pieman]

22 hours ago, Mr Laurence said:

Sadly, a lot of free kittens are also used to train fighting dogs. 

If I ever caught anyone training dogs for fighting, I would happily go down for murder.

7 hours ago, clayts450 said:

And the oh-so-funny-never-ever-ever-heard-it-before-honest 'will you do mine next?' when you are washing or fixing your car ?

ALL my neighbours think it's oh so funny to do this, to the extent I have stopped bothering to wash my car.  I now give them the response "Buy me a crate of Guinness and I'll think about it".