The grumpy thread

[MarvinsMom]

fuckin windows and all microsoft software is such a pile of wank,

the computer has updated cos, well it took it upon itself,

and now the colours on the display are shit, and it won't change them,

the nice picture of Flying Scotsman i had as a background has dissappeared not to be found again,

and its just a massive pile of shit.

as has been EVERY microsoft "product" since ver3.11., they are all  a massive pile of shit.

if i ever met that cunt Bill Gates, i'm gonna punch him in the mouth.......

[MikeR]

26 minutes ago, MarvinsMom said:

fuckin windows and all microsoft software is such a pile of wank,

the computer has updated cos, well it took it upon itself,

and now the colours on the display are shit, and it won't change them,

the nice picture of Flying Scotsman i had as a background has dissappeared not to be found again,

and its just a massive pile of shit.

as has been EVERY microsoft "product" since ver3.11., they are all  a massive pile of shit.

if i ever met that cunt Bill Gates, i'm gonna punch him in the mouth.......

I have been having a go of Linux on a laptop , quite nice and it does updates when I want ,

and has some interesting software that does things that you dont find on Android &  MS ... 

if were not for my wife being used to Windows on our Desktop that would be Linux as well !

[MikeR]

now for my thought about today and the rest of 2020 ....

   FUCK OFF YOU BASTARD !!!!

[New POD]

5 minutes ago, MikeR said:

now for my thought about today and the rest of 2020 ....

   FUCK OFF YOU BASTARD !!!!

Sorry to hear about Bilbo. 

[Jamie]

https://fb.watch/1uOQRY-Rez/

 

Shit like this REALLY boils my piss. 

Scumbags throwing fireworks at the police and all filming it like they are proud. 

Not much else to say really. 

 

[Spiny Norman]

What boils my piss when I see things like that is the Police either cannot or will not retaliate.
Also firefighters. You've got massive hoses and BFO axes, if some ned lobs a rock at you, jetwash the fucker clean across the road.

 

[New POD]

I have 2 brother in laws. 

One is a member here and salt of the earth.  Gave me a telly last week for a monitor for my work laptop. 

The other is not a member here and is a total and utter selfish cunt. 

His mother, has been staying with us since his father died, 4 weeks ago.  The combination of grief, and a seriously impaired cognitive function and anxiety, has meant 4 weeks of turmoil.  She's not ready to go back and live alone. She can't even get her own breakfast. When left alone, to make lunch with a plan for an easy but real meal, she has 3 crackers.  She forgets to drink. 

In that time his total support is to have her over for 3 hours on a Sunday night, 3 times.  

The previous week, he decided 7pm was a good time to discuss solicitors letters with her.  No she was up all night trying to make sense of what he said.  She couldn't remember half of it, and it was totally unneeded.  He's the executor.  Just transfer his money to her. And tell her it's all fine.  Anything more and she's lost.

And last night, he decided at 8pm, after sticking her in front of the TV for 2 of the 3 hours she was there, to tell her it was time for her to move back home. On Wednesday. Apparently. 

We know she wants to go back home, and the plan has been that she will spend 3 days this week in her house and come back to ours to sleep. And we'll see how she gets on.  My personal oppinion is that whilst you don't want to take away her independence, she would be better off in a house with other people, and not alone.  You only have to spend 3 or 4 days with her, to see that. 

But will the dickhead talk to my wife? 

No he's the golden boy, 6 years older, and he thinks he's in charge. 

 

[Mally]

2 hours ago, New POD said:

I have 2 brother in laws. 

One is a member here and salt of the earth.  Gave me a telly last week for a monitor for my work laptop. 

The other is not a member here and is a total and utter selfish cunt. 

His mother, has been staying with us since his father died, 4 weeks ago.  The combination of grief, and a seriously impaired cognitive function and anxiety, has meant 4 weeks of turmoil.  She's not ready to go back and live alone. She can't even get her own breakfast. When left alone, to make lunch with a plan for an easy but real meal, she has 3 crackers.  She forgets to drink. 

In that time his total support is to have her over for 3 hours on a Sunday night, 3 times.  

The previous week, he decided 7pm was a good time to discuss solicitors letters with her.  No she was up all night trying to make sense of what he said.  She couldn't remember half of it, and it was totally unneeded.  He's the executor.  Just transfer his money to her. And tell her it's all fine.  Anything more and she's lost.

And last night, he decided at 8pm, after sticking her in front of the TV for 2 of the 3 hours she was there, to tell her it was time for her to move back home. On Wednesday. Apparently. 

We know she wants to go back home, and the plan has been that she will spend 3 days this week in her house and come back to ours to sleep. And we'll see how she gets on.  My personal oppinion is that whilst you don't want to take away her independence, she would be better off in a house with other people, and not alone.  You only have to spend 3 or 4 days with her, to see that. 

But will the dickhead talk to my wife? 

No he's the golden boy, 6 years older, and he thinks he's in charge. 

 

Problem is, as executor he is in charge of many things, but not all.

Let him carry on. Keep an eye on what he does best you can. Only step in when he is outside his jurisdiction, even then tread carefully.

His suggestion of her moving back home is actually in your favour, he could have said, sell your house. give me the cash, and move in with New POD permanently.

Keep a low profile, stressful time for all.

When he's finished sorting, go back to whatever you think is best for all concerned.

 

[Borsuq]

I give up.

In addition to the overall collapse of the healthcare system and the amount of work that entails, one of my subordinates just got stuck in a lift. XD

I honestly can't help but laugh at this point. XD

Also, it's probably gonna be a while until we can get her out because our electrician couldn't get the lift back up and we had to call for outside technicians. Funsies!

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, Borsuq said:

Also, it's probably gonna be a while until we can get her out because our electrician couldn't get the lift back up and we had to call for outside technicians. Funsies!

you should be able to manually wheel the lift to a floor from the lift room and get them out that way

thats what they did last time I got stuck in a lift LOL (and discovered there was indeed a secret basement floor)

this is also worth a watch (the whole TV series is ) 

 

[Borsuq]

8 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

you should be able to manually wheel the lift to a floor from the lift room and get them out that way

thats what they did last time I got stuck in a lift LOL (and discovered there was indeed a secrete basement floor)

this is also worth a watch (the whole TV series is ) 

 

She's been freed just now. I'm completely unqualified to mess with lifts, so I was only doing what our in-house electrician was telling me to do. Since our technical manager decided to get outside techs in I assume it was stuck pretty badly.

[Pat Earrings]

Colleague at work tested positive for Covid..I was with him the first two earlies..so now I have the wonderful honour of isolating for 2 weeks and "working from home" which in my line of work is not enjoyable.

 

Damn and blast.

[sierraman]

Asked if I could lend out a trolley jack, no problem I said, it’s only a crappy no name £25 2 tonne job I’ve got lying about. It’s to jack up a big caravan on rough ground to get underneath it, I said ‘I’ll get you the stands out as well’... Na it’ll be fine the guy whose doing it works on trucks he’ll be fine. Why wait for COVID to get you when you can find a shortcut to the mortuary...

[Cavcraft]

Sausages the wonder dog update:

 

He's been to the specialist vet place and they've done some tests. He has some sort of kidney problem (curable or treatable) which he has to take medication for for a while, they've taken a biopsy of some nodules on his kidney (but don't think it's life threatening) and one or two other things that they aren't too concerned about.

He can't come home tonight as they couldn't  do anything to him until later than planned, so we're picking him up tomorrow afternoon.

[somewhatfoolish]

10 hours ago, New POD said:

 

No he's the golden boy, 6 years older, and he thinks he's in charge. 

 

Unless he has POA why not just politely tell him to fuck off?

[MikeR]

our last visit to the vets , after finding the dog flopping around the floor having pissed itself etc

consisted of some email conformation of the address containing a google map that may as well been a chocolate kettle ..

but as I knew of the place , and it being near my work place I could just hit the road , and at 8 30 am on a Sunday  , with a dying dog in the back of the car I did that .

the engine growled all the way with some interesting speeds hit for the first time in its life ,  we arrived at the vets , with a dog that had glazed over .cue screams and tears ...

it was rushed inside , and some 3 hours later , did not make it , despite having a slight recovery

sorry about the dog , it was a nice one , by the way thats 800 notes ... chi ching !

having another dog ... errrr

[chaseracer]

On 31/10/2020 at 20:18, Spiny Norman said:

Chuffing PayPal.

Every time I want to order some doo-dad or other in eBay or log into their website they're wanting to verify it's me by sending me a text message which I have to enter to continue.
EVERY FUCKING TIME!

GITFS.

 

Same.

Bank too, which is eleventy times more annoying.

[Mally]

So thought I. Sod staying in for a month, on me tod, I'll go to Spain for a month instead.

Got to fly Tues or Weds to dodge Boris.

Planes are all full up, I'm not the only one that thought it.

[artdjones]

11 minutes ago, MikeR said:

our last visit to the vets , after finding the dog flopping around the floor having pissed itself etc

consisted of some email conformation of the address containing a google map that may as well been a chocolate kettle ..

but as I knew of the place , and it being near my work place I could just hit the road , and at 8 30 am on a Sunday  , with a dying dog in the back of the car I did that .

the engine growled all the way with some interesting speeds hit for the first time in its life ,  we arrived at the vets , with a dog that had glazed over .cue screams and tears ...

it was rushed inside , and some 3 hours later , did not make it , despite having a slight recovery

sorry about the dog , it was a nice one , by the way thats 800 notes ... chi ching !

having another dog ... errrr

I feel your pain. Our dog went off her food in February.Her normal vet had died ,so went to a new one. She was bloated with excess fluid,so the X ray didn't show much. She had about 3 litres of fluid drained out of her and another X ray, showing a big growth on her liver. So it was obvious that the end was near.But the vet wanted to do an ultrasound as well at €200 per body cavity.I refused. She perked up slightly,but two days later went rapidly downhill,one day after,put down.

TL:DR - pay out €450 ,get a dead dog,with the option of spending another €350 on top for some belt and braces confirmation that it's all up.

The month after my wife had a  private ultrasound - it was 25% cheaper than the quote for the dog 🤔

[Jerzy Woking]

I like living in Spain but do miss family and friends. Hopeful to see some of them soon.

Yesterday an ex girlfriend kindly pointed out I am "only a 3 hour flight and 14 days quarantine away".

That made me really happy!

[omegod]

The vet stories reminded me of this old joke, apologies if not appropriate/too soon  :

 

A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest.

After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said, "I'm sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away."

The distressed woman wailed, "Are you sure?" "Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead," replied the vet..

"How can you be so sure?" she protested. "I mean you haven't done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something."

The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a few minutes later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck's owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.

The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room. A few minutes later he returned with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room.

The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck." The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman.. The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill. "$150!" she cried, "$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!"

The vet shrugged, "I'm sorry. If you had just taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it's now $150."

[BorniteIdentity]

£53 to cancel a £230 insurance policy. I had three attempts at negotiating with them on the basis they insure another car for me, but no dice. 

I’ll make a bit of fuss with the FOS or whoever it is, as £53 seems disproportionate to cancel a policy - especially when changing to another car is £26. 

[Cavcraft]

54 minutes ago, artdjones said:

I feel your pain. Our dog went off her food in February.Her normal vet had died ,so went to a new one. She was bloated with excess fluid,so the X ray didn't show much. She had about 3 litres of fluid drained out of her and another X ray, showing a big growth on her liver. So it was obvious that the end was near.But the vet wanted to do an ultrasound as well at €200 per body cavity.I refused. She perked up slightly,but two days later went rapidly downhill,one day after,put down.

TL:DR - pay out €450 ,get a dead dog,with the option of spending another €350 on top for some belt and braces confirmation that it's all up.

The month after my wife had a  private ultrasound - it was 25% cheaper than the quote for the dog 🤔

It's not cheap to keep them going, but worth every penny if they make it. They casually mentioned today's treatment was 'probably going to be  £2,000-£2,500'

[clayts450]

18 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

£53 to cancel a £230 insurance policy. I had three attempts at negotiating with them on the basis they insure another car for me, but no dice. 

I’ll make a bit of fuss with the FOS or whoever it is, as £53 seems disproportionate to cancel a policy - especially when changing to another car is £26. 

[man maths]Is the solution 'buy another car' ?[/man maths]

[omegod]

29 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

It's not cheap to keep them going, but worth every penny if they make it. They casually mentioned today's treatment was 'probably going to be  £2,000-£2,500'

It certainly isn't, we plunged into chemo with our dog before having confirmation that the insurance would cover it, eventual bill was circa £10,000 mostly covered thankfully. We got an extra 18 months with the little beauty 

[New POD]

5 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Unless he has POA why not just politely tell him to fuck off?

All of them have POA

MikeRs Wife.

My wife 

And dickhead.

Who really is a fucking dickhead. 

So he saw his 10 year old granddaughter last week.  An emergency as his daughter had to take another of her kids to A&E due to him running into a wall.  Having spent 4 hours with the three kids, it turns out that he found out on Thursday that the other Grandads brother had tested positive for C-19, and he was told that both spend alot of time together, and the granddaughter had spent 2 days with the other grandad. 

So knowing that there was a small possibility that transmission from brother to brother to granddaughter to him was possible, he decided not to cancel Sunday night tea with his mother as "she'd be disappointed".  So today the results are in for the other grandad. Yes he has a positive result. So today, his unsuspecting mother spent the day in the company of MikeRs wife. (Mike whose dog died on Sunday and who himself had a kidney removed in February due to cancer.) 

And dickhead waits til 5:30 pm to inform us that with the lockdown, it's probably not a great idea for her to come around on a weekend.  You know because well, they have his daughter and 4 kids in a social bubble, whilst each of the 4 kids is also visiting separate dad's and their families. 

So my wife's mental health has taken a dip.  Shes worried that her mother will now infect me. Who must be at risk due to a heart attack in June.  

She's suggesting I move temporarily to her parents house. 

I'd rather not.  All because dickhead, couldn't face saying "look, mum, there's a problem, we need to postpone for a couple of weeks. 

 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 minutes ago, New POD said:

All of them have POA

MikeRs Wife.

My wife 

And dickhead.

Who really is a fucking dickhead. ....

The LPA is (probably) better than nothing, but it can be a double-edged sword and it looks like you're finding this out.

[New POD]

4 hours ago, omegod said:

It certainly isn't, we plunged into chemo with our dog before having confirmation that the insurance would cover it, eventual bill was circa £10,000 mostly covered thankfully. We got an extra 18 months with the little beauty 

You see, this is where I struggle. Maybe I was a farmer with no emotional soul in another life. 

[New POD]

3 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

The LPA is (probably) better than nothing, but it can be a double-edged sword and it looks like you're finding this out.

Oh and the icing on the cake.  As part of his "job" as executor, he's been emailed 4 documents (15 pages) from.the solicitor that he needed to print off.  Now he apparently has a very important job.  Something like General Manager...He's working from home. Apparently doesn't have a printer. What the fuck? He wants me to print them for him.  

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, New POD said:

Oh and the icing on the cake.  As part of his "job" as executor, he's been emailed 4 documents (15 pages) from.the solicitor that he needed to print off.  Now he apparently has a very important job.  Something like General Manager...He's working from home. Apparently doesn't have a printer. What the fuck? He wants me to print them for him.  

You'd be surprised that quite a few people are content to work with laptop and WiFi, but don't bother with a printer.

Bear in mind that being an Executor isn't exactly a bunch of laughs and if he gets it wrong, he is personally liable.