The grumpy thread

[High Jetter]

14 hours ago, Talbot said:

And no, I'm not being a big girl's blouse about it.  I've blacked out from the pain of an injection before now.  Needles and me do not get on.  I'm not scared of them, they just fucking hurt!

I usually pass out if a needle is put in me - on my last blood test (lying down - he put an ECG on me for lols) I went out and heart stopped for about 30 secs. They don't hurt me, as such, just my nervous system goes into overload. My dentist is a god - he numbs the gum with Cytanest (not too much - Guy's Hospital overdid it once and, yes, I went out) then somehow slips the needle in so I don't notice it. All lying flat, not moving while it takes effect.

[Talbot]

22 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

My dentist is a god - he numbs the gum with Cytanest (not too much - Guy's Hospital overdid it once and, yes, I went out) then somehow slips the needle in so I don't notice it.

Is he NHS?  If so, I might need his details!

[Tamworthbay]

Injections vary a lot, I self inject medication and have had all sorts over the years, one a day, plus blood test every month, plus steroid injections, vaccinations etc over the last 18 years add up to about 6000 I guess. They do vary massively depending where they are and who does them. The spinal injections aren’t nice and take a few minutes, the injections between the bones of the fingers are also doozers but don’t last as long. Dental injections are probably about a 3/10 compared to those. I think you need to rationalise the benefit/ cost in your mind. I had a conversation about the spinal injections with a consultant who told me about a patient that they were fairly sure was suffering from Munchausens, they were miraculously cured after a single set of spinal injections! I certainly don’t enjoy the bad ones but know when I need them. The daily ones are so minor now that I only notice when I hit a nerve and it’s a small price to pay for a normal life.

[Zelandeth]

3 hours ago, Angrydicky said:

Bit late now, but in the future, transport them in the rear footwell wedged behind one of the front seats. They never topple over there.

Sadly wouldn't help in the Xantia...There's enough room for about four of them in each of the rear footwells unless I made a point of digging a load of stuff out of the garage to use as wedging material.

I've got a few of the flat and stubby shaped ones I've had for years which never topple (nor leak if they do!), I'm just going to label one of those for diesel and be done with it.  At least I have one "spare" I can do that with.

It's just the irritation of buying something that's supposedly made to all kinds of safety standards blatantly obviously not being fit for purpose that hacked me off. 

[LightBulbFun]

3 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

It's just the irritation of buying something that's supposedly made to all kinds of safety standards blatantly obviously not being fit for purpose that hacked me off. 

I wonder if it would be worth taking it back (and demonstrate the issue?), see if they can take it up with their supplier or such, I figured given the safety issues at hand here (or if nothing else how they might get sued if someones car explodes because one of their fuel cans fell over and leaked petrol everywhere LOL)

they might take things a bit more seriously and actually do something about it maybe?

or if nothing at least maybe you can get yourself refund?  

[Zelandeth]

12 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

I wonder if it would be worth taking it back (and demonstrate the issue?), see if they can take it up with their supplier or such, I figured given the safety issues at hand here (or if nothing else how they might get sued if someones car explodes because one of their fuel cans fell over and leaked petrol everywhere LOL)

they might take things a bit more seriously and actually do something about it maybe?

or if nothing at least maybe you can get yourself refund?  

It's Halfords...Not a chance!  Remember the self-destructing fuel line that started rotting out <4 months after it was fitted?  Zero interest whatsoever.  They couldn't have cared less and just told me the error was with how I'd fitted it.

Given the current situation there's no way I'm going back out there for the sake of a £7 refund as that's absolutely *not* an essential journey.  I felt picking it up in the first place was enough of a stretch.  Had planned to just grab one actually at the fuel station but they didn't have any fuel cans.  Which I'm sure more than one driver would have felt was enough of a grump in itself!

Speaking of...this is the grumpy thread...I try to avoid ranting often, but sometimes it's necessary in order to not explode.

 

Why are people so FSCKING STUPID AND/OR SELFISH?!?  We're in the middle of a bloody pandemic, and are meant to be keeping our distance from each other.  So when I meet you coming the other direction on one of the footpaths around Linford Wood etc when I'm walking the dogs and there are three of your walking abreast...Would it really be too much to expect you to drop into single file and move to one side of the path for THREE BLOODY SECONDS while we pass?  Apparently yes.  Over and over, and over, and over, and over again...Yes I know I take the rules very literally.  Sorry, I'm autistic and that's just how my brain works...but based on what I've seen when I've been out with the dogs and when I've actually had to venture into stores over the last couple of months...My local area bloody well deserved to be put into full and complete lockdown months ago.  People just don't seem to give a damn.

Second "while I'm out" grump.  Cyclists.  I'm wondering if this is just a "what was normal where I grew up" sort of thing.  I was always taught that when you were out cycling, especially if it's a shared footway/cycleway (as most of the Milton Keynes footpaths are), that when you were cycling up behind someone that unless it was absolutely blindingly obvious that they were aware of you, that while you were still a decent ways, ten seconds or so out, that you'd sound your bell so they knew you were coming.  That way you don't scare the bejeezus out of them and/or their dogs when you appear out of nowhere in their peripheral vision. 

Star is a very, very nervous dog.  She is a rescue dog who was abused as a puppy, so she'll always be nervy.  She really doesn't like things appearing out of nowhere behind her - which is a pain in the tail at times as if she realises that there's someone walking behind us she will sit down, engage ground-anchor mode and then refuse to move until they've passed us.  As such having a cyclist appear out of nowhere and zap past us at 30 odd mph scares her half to death.  Heck, half the time it scares ME half to death.

Is it really too much to ask for those of you on two (or three) wheels to just let me know you're there?

I've actually taken now to walking such that me and the dogs occupy as much of the footpath as physically possible because of this - so they more or less HAVE to let me know they're there.  I've heard of driving defensively, but never thought I'd have to WALK defensively...The moment anyone lets me know they're there (unless of course they do so by screaming "****ing move you ****ing ****ing asshole!" of course), I'll immediately move fully over, bring the dogs onto the short lead so they can't get in the way (they're trained such that they keep fully to the left anyhow so that's really not an issue) and will stay there until whoever it has passed me.  Takes me about 1-2 seconds to do that, so well before the cyclist has reached my location if they've rung their bell at a sensible distance.

Rant over...I'll go back to hiding quietly in the corner now.

[LightBulbFun]

On 31/12/2020 at 12:40, Zelandeth said:

It's Halfords...Not a chance!  Remember the self-destructing fuel line that started rotting out <4 months after it was fitted?  Zero interest whatsoever.  They couldn't have cared less and just told me the error was with how I'd fitted it.

Given the current situation there's no way I'm going back out there for the sake of a £7 refund as that's absolutely *not* an essential journey.  I felt picking it up in the first place was enough of a stretch.  Had planned to just grab one actually at the fuel station but they didn't have any fuel cans.  Which I'm sure more than one driver would have felt was enough of a grump in itself!

thats a very good point on all points!

 

I still find the whole fuel line thing quite shocking and I really do hope something IS done about it in time

given how many people will fit fuel line and wont think to check it again because they dont expect it to start failing in less than half a year!

I feel like there is an unfortunately ticking time bomb somewhere

[Talbot]

I'd take it back.  Demonstrate the issue all over their service desk, and demand they pay for a replacement boot carpet.

But then I'm in a surprisingly foul mood today (as noted by my rant over on the recoveryshite thread!) and would gladly tell Halfords that they're a steaming pile of horseshit.

(Wow..  What has put me in this mood?!?  I might need to step away from the internet.)

[Jmac]

13 hours ago, Talbot said:

Were it an inconspicuous one, I would absolutely do so.  Unfortunately it's front-and-centre.  I either get a root canal, or I have it extracted and an implant put in, which is even more expensive (and sounds even more painful).

I've practically begged my dentist to have it done under general anesthetic.  They absolutely will not do so.  Fucksticks.

I'm sure I saw a program a few years back about dental tourism with people traveling over to eastern Europe to have work done at a fraction of the cost of the UK.  Wonder if that's still a thing.

If your on the south coast nearish Brighton its worth getting a second opinion, I’ve had 3 implants done at “ Brighton implant clinic “ in Hove , they do gum numbing and sedation if you want it . 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Talbot said:

Is he NHS?  If so, I might need his details!

I've seen him on the NHS for over 20 years, not sure if he's taking any on at the moment. I'd go with him privately if I had to.

[Talbot]

31 minutes ago, Jmac said:

If your on the south coast nearish Brighton its worth getting a second opinion, I’ve had 3 implants done at “ Brighton implant clinic “ in Hove , they do gum numbing and sedation if you want it . 

As it happens, I am.  That has to be worth following up.  Many thanks!

[iainrcz]

The Mrs is moaning about going back to work.

So I suggested she set up in business making penis shaped Lebkuchen. Apparently that is silly and childish.

 

It's the last time I try and help anyone out with what I think to be a viable business proposition.

[TataBobu]

Go for it! At 1145 pounds for the simple variant of a tooth implant it has to be cheaper than flying here, getting accommodations and the work done. 

[Talbot]

10 minutes ago, TataBobu said:

flying here,

I'd drive.

Erm.  1600 miles each way... total of about £500 in fuel along.  Flights from under £50 each way.  OK, I'd fly.

[chodweaver]

 
Why are people so FSCKING STUPID AND/OR SELFISH?!? 

I'm hoping that it's just the town (or failing that, the country I live in) and that when i move somewhere else, I'll not have to put up with these selfish and/or ignorant fecks any more. It's not just me, Mrs CW finds the behaviour of the public at large to be disgusting too.

My local area bloody well deserved to be put into full and complete lockdown months ago.  People just don't seem to give a damn.

Ditto. Effing morons.

[chodweaver]

I'd drive.

Erm.  1600 miles each way... total of about £500 in fuel along.  Flights from under £50 each way.  OK, I'd fly.

I'd drive too. As long as I could expect to not feel absolutely shit for both journeys...

[Zelandeth]

1 minute ago, chodweaver said:

 

 

I'm hoping that it's just the town (or failing that, the country I live in) and that when i move somewhere else, I'll not have to put up with these selfish and/or ignorant fecks any more. It's not just me, Mrs CW finds the behaviour of the public at large to be disgusting too.



Ditto. Effing morons.

 

I moved here about 5 years ago from Aberdeen.  Grew up in the back end of nowhere in rural Aberdeenshire, wasn't a fan of living actually in the city but it wasn't bad.  90% of the people you met still were nice at least.

Even before COVID it was like night and day and I felt that moving here was the worst decision of my life (albeit made for all the right reasons).  The sheer degree to which self centred assholery is part of every day life here just baffles me.

I have it.  Every time I have to set foot out of the door.  Cannot wait for the second I can flee back north of the border.

[hairnet]

Muthafuka

I did have a pic of me walking in three inches of snow In The dark but it's disappeared

How the fuck does  a modern car not have a low fuel light

 

 

[iainrcz]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

Muthafuka How the fuck does  a modern car not have a low fuel light

You need a new car, even my rattly Subaru has one of those.

[hairnet]

after searching found out that fuel light only happened in post 03 mx5/miata

what the actual fuck!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!

[Zelandeth]

Have to admit to being able to count on one hand the number of times I've seen the fuel light on in most of my cars...I'm one of those people who starts twitching if the gauge ever drops below 1/4! 

The Lada was the exception, as the low fuel light in that would start blinking at you when cornering from about 2/3rds of a tank.  The frequency just increasing as the fuel level dropped.  The gauge itself only really gave a useful reading when stationary on level ground due to a lack of any damping or baffles in the tank.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

The fuel light is my car's way of saying '40 miles or so, you can wait until tomorrow...'

When I was a teenager playing in a band around SE London and Kent, I'd regularly stop to put a fiver's worth of fuel in my Ka (which held my drum kit and often at least one guitar) and I knew I'd got it right when I turned into the garage at home and the fuel light came on again.  I did run out twice, though.  Once in Bluewater on one of the flyovers on the way in (I had a jerry can with me, no bother) and once outside the Leigh City Technology College in Dartford and had to run up the road and back again with an unimpressed girlfriend waiting.

Nowadays, I brim the tank each time but for over a decade I'd just put in what I felt was necessary...

[bobdisk]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Why are people so FSCKING STUPID AND/OR SELFISH?!?  We're in the middle of a bloody pandemic, and are meant to be keeping our distance from each other.  So when I meet you coming the other direction on one of the footpaths around Linford Wood etc when I'm walking the dogs and there are three of your walking abreast...Would it really be too much to expect you to drop into single file and move to one side of the path for THREE BLOODY SECONDS while we pass?  Apparently yes.  Over and over, and over, and over, and over again...Yes I know I take the rules very literally.  Sorry, I'm autistic and that's just how my brain works...but based on what I've seen when I've been out with the dogs and when I've actually had to venture into stores over the last couple of months...My local area bloody well deserved to be put into full and complete lockdown months ago.  People just don't seem to give a damn.

Second "while I'm out" grump.  Cyclists.  I'm wondering if this is just a "what was normal where I grew up" sort of thing.  I was always taught that when you were out cycling, especially if it's a shared footway/cycleway (as most of the Milton Keynes footpaths are), that when you were cycling up behind someone that unless it was absolutely blindingly obvious that they were aware of you, that while you were still a decent ways, ten seconds or so out, that you'd sound your bell so they knew you were coming.  That way you don't scare the bejeezus out of them and/or their dogs when you appear out of nowhere in their peripheral vision. 

Star is a very, very nervous dog.  She is a rescue dog who was abused as a puppy, so she'll always be nervy.  She really doesn't like things appearing out of nowhere behind her - which is a pain in the tail at times as if she realises that there's someone walking behind us she will sit down, engage ground-anchor mode and then refuse to move until they've passed us.  As such having a cyclist appear out of nowhere and zap past us at 30 odd mph scares her half to death.  Heck, half the time it scares ME half to death.

Is it really too much to ask for those of you on two (or three) wheels to just let me know you're there?

I've actually taken now to walking such that me and the dogs occupy as much of the footpath as physically possible because of this - so they more or less HAVE to let me know they're there.  I've heard of driving defensively, but never thought I'd have to WALK defensively...The moment anyone lets me know they're there (unless of course they do so by screaming "****ing move you ****ing ****ing asshole!" of course), I'll immediately move fully over, bring the dogs onto the short lead so they can't get in the way (they're trained such that they keep fully to the left anyhow so that's really not an issue) and will stay there until whoever it has passed me.  Takes me about 1-2 seconds to do that, so well before the cyclist has reached my location if they've rung their bell at a sensible distance.

Rant over...I'll go back to hiding quietly in the corner now.

Especially cyclists, and even more especially those that go through red traffic lights (including road works) and ignore road signs.

[hairnet]

49 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

The fuel light is my car's way of saying '40 miles or so, you can wait until tomorrow...'

 

this - on the bike gauge flashes theres 3/4 litre left and doing back and forth to work thats 2 weeks

car has fuck all in it unless im going somewhere (like FOD or scotland )

for local shizz no point  - if it did have one then at least id have know id be able to do maybe 10 miles............

nope sayonara gaijin - walk

[wuvvum]

59 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Have to admit to being able to count on one hand the number of times I've seen the fuel light on in most of my cars...I'm one of those people who starts twitching if the gauge ever drops below 1/4! 

The Lada was the exception, as the low fuel light in that would start blinking at you when cornering from about 2/3rds of a tank.  The frequency just increasing as the fuel level dropped.  The gauge itself only really gave a useful reading when stationary on level ground due to a lack of any damping or baffles in the tank.

Most of my vehicles have the fuel light on most of the time unless I'm going somewhere specific that is more than two gallons away.  I worked out years ago (admittedly when the fleet was larger and fuel prices higher than now) that if I brimmed every vehicle I owned, I would be over £1,000 poorer.  Since then I've only ever stuck a tenner in at a time - this eases the cash flow and also means I don't have to worry about siphoning 60 litres of fuel out when a vehicle eventually shits itself.

[Out Run]

3 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

I moved here about 5 years ago from Aberdeen.  Grew up in the back end of nowhere in rural Aberdeenshire, wasn't a fan of living actually in the city but it wasn't bad.  90% of the people you met still were nice at least.

Even before COVID it was like night and day and I felt that moving here was the worst decision of my life (albeit made for all the right reasons).  The sheer degree to which self centred assholery is part of every day life here just baffles me.

I have it.  Every time I have to set foot out of the door.  Cannot wait for the second I can flee back north of the border.

The further South, the more selfish and ignorant twats generally, IME.

Hi, from the North East.

[TataBobu]

The ones I use go from full to warning light, and then to full again. The other ones have what's left in them. The one I hate most is the Cielo, which broke down with the LPG tank full, and half a tank of petrol.

Once I had a car that "forgot" to put on the warning light, it was burned-out due to so many times being on. And that's the last time I've got stranded by the side of the road, actually right in the way of trolley-buses, on the corner of an intersection.

[wuvvum]

20 minutes ago, TataBobu said:

The one I hate most is the Cielo, which broke down with the LPG tank full, and half a tank of petrol.

Aye, it's a bit awkward to siphon out a tankful of LPG...

[MikeR]

5 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

It's Halfords...Not a chance!  Remember the self-destructing fuel line that started rotting out <4 months after it was fitted?  Zero interest whatsoever.  They couldn't have cared less and just told me the error was with how I'd fitted it.

Given the current situation there's no way I'm going back out there for the sake of a £7 refund as that's absolutely *not* an essential journey.  I felt picking it up in the first place was enough of a stretch.  Had planned to just grab one actually at the fuel station but they didn't have any fuel cans.  Which I'm sure more than one driver would have felt was enough of a grump in itself!

Speaking of...this is the grumpy thread...I try to avoid ranting often, but sometimes it's necessary in order to not explode.

 

Why are people so FSCKING STUPID AND/OR SELFISH?!?  We're in the middle of a bloody pandemic, and are meant to be keeping our distance from each other.  So when I meet you coming the other direction on one of the footpaths around Linford Wood etc when I'm walking the dogs and there are three of your walking abreast...Would it really be too much to expect you to drop into single file and move to one side of the path for THREE BLOODY SECONDS while we pass?  Apparently yes.  Over and over, and over, and over, and over again...Yes I know I take the rules very literally.  Sorry, I'm autistic and that's just how my brain works...but based on what I've seen when I've been out with the dogs and when I've actually had to venture into stores over the last couple of months...My local area bloody well deserved to be put into full and complete lockdown months ago.  People just don't seem to give a damn.

Second "while I'm out" grump.  Cyclists.  I'm wondering if this is just a "what was normal where I grew up" sort of thing.  I was always taught that when you were out cycling, especially if it's a shared footway/cycleway (as most of the Milton Keynes footpaths are), that when you were cycling up behind someone that unless it was absolutely blindingly obvious that they were aware of you, that while you were still a decent ways, ten seconds or so out, that you'd sound your bell so they knew you were coming.  That way you don't scare the bejeezus out of them and/or their dogs when you appear out of nowhere in their peripheral vision. 

Star is a very, very nervous dog.  She is a rescue dog who was abused as a puppy, so she'll always be nervy.  She really doesn't like things appearing out of nowhere behind her - which is a pain in the tail at times as if she realises that there's someone walking behind us she will sit down, engage ground-anchor mode and then refuse to move until they've passed us.  As such having a cyclist appear out of nowhere and zap past us at 30 odd mph scares her half to death.  Heck, half the time it scares ME half to death.

Is it really too much to ask for those of you on two (or three) wheels to just let me know you're there?

I've actually taken now to walking such that me and the dogs occupy as much of the footpath as physically possible because of this - so they more or less HAVE to let me know they're there.  I've heard of driving defensively, but never thought I'd have to WALK defensively...The moment anyone lets me know they're there (unless of course they do so by screaming "****ing move you ****ing ****ing asshole!" of course), I'll immediately move fully over, bring the dogs onto the short lead so they can't get in the way (they're trained such that they keep fully to the left anyhow so that's really not an issue) and will stay there until whoever it has passed me.  Takes me about 1-2 seconds to do that, so well before the cyclist has reached my location if they've rung their bell at a sensible distance.

Rant over...I'll go back to hiding quietly in the corner now.

I had a chap like that at the bank , old guy as well shitting himself about being out in the wild with Covid about , stood in the middle of the exit ignoring the fact it was wrong and had ages to get out of the way  ...just ignored him and pushed past , he probably went home and had a full decontamination and threw his clothes on the fire ..

and joggers , out on the fresh ice this morning , like one slip , broken bone , A& E , covid , dead .... for trying to keep fit  !! , he even had a bad ankle , nothing like resting it !!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

56 minutes ago, Out Run said:

The further South, the more selfish and ignorant twats generally, IME.

Hi, from the North East.

Can't disagree. 

Hi, from East Kent...