The grumpy thread

[PhilA]

Kitchen drain backed up overnight and refused to flow.

Tried all manner of things, nothing wanted to work. Ended up pulling the deck up outside and having a look at the grease trap.

Lurrrrvly. Yes, that smells just as bad as you imagine.

Cleared it out and got it flowing again. Christmas dinner and everything down it coupled with a sudden cold snap meant it congealed solid.

In plunging it, I managed to break the old plug hole, which cracked around the thread. Beat that with chisels and got it out.

Got a shiny new stainless steel plug hole. Need to get another because the left sink now looks like shit with the old one missing all the chrome.

Oh well. I'm now going to scrub myself raw to try get rid of this smell. I hate drains.

 

Phil

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Old chrome over brass plughole which turns out was close to fracturing anyway.

Another $22 at the hardware store and the drains match- I wouldn't have bothered but they were different lengths and it was putting the plumbing on the piss.

 

What an arseache.

 

[bobdisk]

Dont put grease down the drain, or toilet, you had what they call a "fatburg" ! I put my leftover cooking grease in an old tin, or jamjar, then put it in with the rubbish. Never get fatburg trouble. Only trouble I do get is that every so often I have to dismantle the sink's drain and clean it out, cos it stinks. Dont know why.

[omegod]

First day of a weeks leave, lots of plans but just gone to move the fiesta and BOING ! bastard coil spring has snapped, I have a spring but don't have compressors and it's undriveable so I've put a shout out on the local facebook for a mobile mechanic.  It's too cold to be a tight arse 

[bobdisk]

Look on eBay for "car spring compressors" There is several there under £20 that will do your job Will be cheaper than a mobile mechanic, and you will still have a tool to keep.

[Chas4545]

Injections have changed.  It is common nowadays to not feel them at all, especially vaccines, and sometimes people are convinced it was not done.

There are ways to help yourself.  It goes in the shoulder, not the arm, so wear a tee shirt that you can hold  up and reveal the complete shoulder. Then let your arm hang, relax the muscles.  That means the person doing the injecting is not struggling to find the deltoid (?)  Muscle. That struggle to hold up clothing and give vaccine at the same time drives nurses mad.

Ant vacc , anti mask and  hoax believers are frightened people.  They really depress me.  Trust the medics, go with it.

 

 

[myglaren]

  On 04/01/2021 at 06:00, bobdisk said:

Dont put grease down the drain, or toilet, you had what they call a "fatburg" ! I put my leftover cooking grease in an old tin, or jamjar, then put it in with the rubbish. Never get fatburg trouble. Only trouble I do get is that every so often I have to dismantle the sink's drain and clean it out, cos it stinks. Dont know why.

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I pour any out into the garden, insects and bacteria take care of it.

That said, I get very little, mostly from fried eggs.

Wipe the pan out with paper towels that go in the bin.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

I tip waste cooking oil into the kids pull-ups in the bin. Soaks it in just great. I can imagine in 590 years time during a landfill archeological dig they find one and proceed to explain how it's evidence of the high fat diet consumed by children around the turn of the century.

[omegod]

  On 04/01/2021 at 10:45, bobdisk said:

Look on eBay for "car spring compressors" There is several there under £20 that will do your job Will be cheaper than a mobile mechanic, and you will still have a tool to keep.

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Honestly I cannot be arsed in this cold  I need it rolling asap so couldn't wait for compressors to be delivered, also springs scare me somewhat !!

[PhilA]

  On 04/01/2021 at 06:00, bobdisk said:

Dont put grease down the drain, or toilet, you had what they call a "fatburg" ! I put my leftover cooking grease in an old tin, or jamjar, then put it in with the rubbish. Never get fatburg trouble. Only trouble I do get is that every so often I have to dismantle the sink's drain and clean it out, cos it stinks. Dont know why.

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I don't. Most of that is soapy crap from the dishwasher.

Phil

[omegod]

  On 04/01/2021 at 09:55, omegod said:

First day of a weeks leave, lots of plans but just gone to move the fiesta and BOING ! bastard coil spring has snapped, I have a spring but don't have compressors and it's undriveable so I've put a shout out on the local facebook for a mobile mechanic.  It's too cold to be a tight arse 

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Facebook mechanic turned up and was an absolute fucking nutter, flat earther with some unbelievable conspiracy theories and apparently parliament is getting burned down imminently. If he's not on a watch list I'd be very surprised! 

Did a decent job changing the spring though  

[wuvvum]

Probably still safer than entrusting your life to a pair of £20 eBay spring compressors mind...

[Craig the Princess]

  On 04/01/2021 at 16:30, wuvvum said:

Probably still safer than entrusting your life to a pair of £20 eBay spring compressors mind...

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Bill Gates is behind BIG spring compressor? Makes a lot of sense.

[omegod]

Oh for fuck sake as if the day wasn't bad enough the wife's focus has started fucking about cutting out and losing power. I'm guessing it's the dash cluster playing up so i'd better learn to solder tonight....haven't got a soldering iron mind 😆

[Tenmil Socket]

  On 04/01/2021 at 17:36, omegod said:

Oh for fuck sake as if the day wasn't bad enough the wife's focus has started fucking about cutting out and losing power. I'm guessing it's the dash cluster playing up so i'd better learn to solder tonight....haven't got a soldering iron mind 😆

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@omegod I’ve got one you can use.

[warch]

  On 04/01/2021 at 12:28, Crispian_J_Hotson said:

I tip waste cooking oil into the kids pull-ups in the bin. Soaks it in just great. I can imagine in 590 years time during a landfill archeological dig they find one and proceed to explain how it's evidence of the high fat diet consumed by children around the turn of the century.

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I am an archaeologist and I think that is entirely plausible. What happens is that everything has meaning ascribed to it, so you get lovely little occurrences like a collection of hazelnut nuts buried in the ground getting interpreted as 'evidence of nut hoarding activity' rather than the more prosaic 'evidence of squirrels'. 

[omegod]

  On 04/01/2021 at 18:21, Tenmil Socket said:

@omegod I’ve got one you can use.

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Cheers bud, I'll probably buy a mini torch kit and grab a spare cluster from Mallies scrappy this week to practice on

[TataBobu]

  On 04/01/2021 at 17:36, omegod said:

Oh for fuck sake as if the day wasn't bad enough the wife's focus has started fucking about cutting out and losing power. I'm guessing it's the dash cluster playing up so i'd better learn to solder tonight....haven't got a soldering iron mind 😆

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Do you have an electric oven?  😁

[montytom]

  On 04/01/2021 at 17:36, omegod said:

Oh for fuck sake as if the day wasn't bad enough the wife's focus has started fucking about cutting out and losing power. I'm guessing it's the dash cluster playing up so i'd better learn to solder tonight....haven't got a soldering iron mind 😆

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Next time it does it give the top of the dash a tap if it cures the issues then yes the cluster is at fault. 

[Craig the Princess]

I'm calorie counting to try and lose weight.

 

So I'm hungry and pissed off.

[Stanky]

  On 04/01/2021 at 19:12, Craig the Princess said:

I'm calorie counting to try and lose weight.

 

So I'm hungry and pissed off.

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Sympathy like, I'm in the same boat, 3 days on 800 calories/day to 'kick-start' it and no sodding booze.

grumpy is one way to describe it...

[Craig the Princess]

  On 04/01/2021 at 20:52, Stanky said:

Sympathy like, I'm in the same boat, 3 days on 800 calories/day to 'kick-start' it and no sodding booze.

grumpy is one way to describe it...

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Fuck. I'm on 1920 a day and hate it. At only 800 I'd probably murder someone.

[New POD]

  On 04/01/2021 at 19:12, Craig the Princess said:

I'm calorie counting to try and lose weight.

 

So I'm hungry and pissed off.

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I've been on a semi-vegan, low sugar, low far diet since March

Meat in only 1/2 My meals. 

3 stone lost. 

Not counted calories at all. 

[wuvvum]

DVLA.  The feckers have tried to take a VED payment for the Granvia, which I sold last month.  I transferred the exact amount of money required to cover this month's legitimate VED payments into the specific bank account I used for that purpose, and the attempt to take the payment for the Toyota has resulted in the account going overdrawn - albeit only for a few hours as the bank refused the payment.  

The reason I had to set up a separate bank account was because I kept cancelling VED direct debits when I sold vehicles, which resulted in my main bank account being blacklisted as apparently you're not supposed to do that as the direct debit automatically gets cancelled when you sell the car.  Except it obviously doesn't.  

I'm going to have to make a snotty phone call to the DVLA tomorrow.  Assuming there's anyone actually in the office at Swansea obvs.

FFS.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

  On 04/01/2021 at 21:31, New POD said:

I've been on a semi-vegan, low sugar, low far diet since March

 

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Can you be semi-vegan?

Know what you mean though, I like to try to go meat-free for over half the week

[New POD]

  On 04/01/2021 at 22:25, Mr_Bo11ox said:

Can you be semi-vegan?

Know what you mean though, I like to try to go meat-free for over half the week

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I own Fern Cottons book The Happy Vegan.  Use it once a week at least.  Tonight we had Aubergine and lental bake but added cheese.  

[artdjones]

  On 04/01/2021 at 22:25, Mr_Bo11ox said:

Can you be semi-vegan?

Know what you mean though, I like to try to go meat-free for over half the week

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Yes I'm meat free usually half the time. From 7pm in the evening until 7am the next morning every day.

[High Jetter]

Me too, 9pm to 12noon here.

[ruffgeezer]

Installed new sad and extra ram in my computer, now it keeps freezing. 

 

Cuntballs.

[taranaki]

Meanwhile in New Zealand......

 

[captain_70s]

First day back at work post Crimbo/Noo Year.

Got 4 hours sleep due to wrecked sleeping pattern? Check.
Starting the day with a cheeky wee dental appointment? Check.
9 hour backshift on the horizon? Check.

 

Got root canal to look forward to as a Brucie bonus.