The grumpy thread

[OM646]

The surprise my Merc decided to give me:

[MikeR]

No 6 is dead , caught in the trap ..

never caught so many mice in such a short time !!

[New POD]

14 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Can't stand coffee anyway....

Neither can my kids, but i still tolerate them. 

I've been forced to drink mostly decaf since last year and I miss the hit. But am probably a better person as a result if not having 10 hits a day anymore. 

 

[hennabm]

19 hours ago, R1152 said:

As I often tell people, I woke up to deep snow (deeper than that pictured) on the morning of Good Friday in 1975: that was the year we had snow in June before going on to have a summer very similar to 1976.

Must be around that time, I remember the Transatlantic trophy been cancelled at Mallory Park, due to snow.

[Talbot]

16 hours ago, Talbot said:

given the silly number of cups of tea I manage to let go just cold enough to not be able to drink, and hence then go and make a new one, I wonder what the break-even point is for the number of cups of tea one of these would *prevent* me having to re-make to actually mean I'm reducing power consumption.  6 months worth of use?  Maybe a year?

This was playing on my mind and I had to go and throw some numbers at it.

With various assumptions about the cost of electricity, the amount of water I'm re-boiling, the energy needed to keep milk cold etc.etc. it works out that the cost break-even point would be a minimum of 3 years worth of my forgetfulness for the cost of the mug to make sense.  At which point it would likely be broken already, so that's rather pointless then.

Also, my forgetful tea costs are borne by my employer, whereas the cost of the mug would be mine, so it's a non-starter in the first place.

I do wonder about a tiny little fixed hotplate keeping my existing mug hot though.  They're much cheaper, and don't have to have a bluetooth device, or a battery, or firmware updates or any of that bollocks.

And I like hot tea.

[MikeR]

C1 oil has been changed  , wheels last put on with a ugga ugga gun when the brakes got redone , my scaffold tube did the undoing ,the oil filter was 2 hands and a rubber glove job    oh err missus  !  .... And the sump nut ...... Finger  tight !!!!! 

The oil was very black , start up is a lot less clattery . 

Shed side fixed with a tenners worth of wood ..... 

Wife lurking on new caravan sites and in spend mode ......

[New POD]

I've just saved £80 on my insurance for the omega by ringing up and saying. "You've obviously made a mistake in your calculation" 

It's still more than the cheapest quote, but not by much. 

[Inspector Morose]

4 hours ago, Talbot said:

And I like hot tea.

Two stainless rods mounted in a piece of wood, spaced about 1/8 inch.

Connect a two core flex, live to one rod, neutral to the other. Fix plug on to other end of flex.

Lower rods into tea and plug in. Hot tea in a matter of seconds. Just don’t use a metal spoon to stir it with.

Hot tea not safe tea.

[MarvinsMom]

so much for friggin' "april showers"......

 

[MikeR]

Last job of the day was to sweep out the shed of mouse droppings and bin some more stuff .... Looks like handy Andy was ok from the mice .....

[Vince70]

I decided to go ahead a fit a new door window seal today on the compact and managed to snap the end off on the new seal putting it on and the seal is £40 a pop.

I know I could just stick the end down with a bit of glue but it will bug me so I will end up getting a new seal lol.

 

[R1152]

1 hour ago, MarvinsMom said:

so much for friggin' "april showers"......

 

I had about five minutes of that before I took the E60 to have investigations. Of course, the bloody gearbox behaved itself today!

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, Inspector Morose said:

Two stainless rods mounted in a piece of wood, spaced about 1/8 inch.

Connect a two core flex, live to one rod, neutral to the other. Fix plug on to other end of flex.

Lower rods into tea and plug in. Hot tea in a matter of seconds. Just don’t use a metal spoon to stir it with.

Hot tea not safe tea.

PowerLumpTM ExSTEAMly...? 😃

[MikeR]

Fit bit thingy says 5k more steps to target ...

Fuck off , cant it read the weather info ..

Plus its not taken into account an oil change and tyre juggling .....

[hairnet]

Oh fuck off

[Mally]

2 hours ago, MikeR said:

Last job of the day was to sweep out the shed of mouse droppings and bin some more stuff .... Looks like handy Andy was ok from the mice .....

Made me shudder that. I don't find it at all funny.

I know someone involved with a ram who it happened to quite recently.

[High Jetter]

I take it that wasn't sheep-related?

[davehedgehog31]

Encountered this top tier fuckwit earlier this evening. 

I was heading straight onto the M8(W) but had to divert thanks to him. Pulled alongside him at the lights and looked as if to say "what the fuck?". Bit my tongue as I had my kid in the back. He proceeded to hurl abuse at me.

If he had just held his hands up I'd have just left it, worth reporting to the police, or will it be entirely inadmissible? 

[MarvinsMom]

the recent high winds have apparently shredded the cover thing we had over the slightly broken car on Kerry's drive.

what a shock, not.

i am so fuckin' sick of shitty, ungrateful, needy, broken shitboxes i have gone and listed the little turd for sale.

i am fed up of the "old car" thing as it has stopped been fun, in fact it stopped been fun along time ago.

i cannot wait to see the back of all of these crappy cars that i have ended up with.

[Minimad5]

davehedgehog31 ^ not worth the hassle with police etc. (After being hit by a car and getting a letter from police basically saying 'Well you're still alive so we've left it at that' ... I lost a lot of time for them)

Just remove his tyre valves if you ever see his car parked up.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

At worst they'll do nothing, at best he'll get fined for driving without stopping.  Personally I'd report it and you've got pretty clear eveidence of him being in the wrong there.  That's my view anyhow.

Did a long drive yesterday.  Golf has been doing fine lately but yesterday it started making a nasty noise at full lock when manouvering.  That'll probably be the power steering, then...

[Mally]

14 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I take it that wasn't sheep-related?

Bailing press actually.

If you need more detail I could pass on the name of the person who applied a ratchet strap to the stump.

And the court details.

[Talbot]

12 hours ago, davehedgehog31 said:

Encountered this top tier fuckwit earlier this evening. 

He proceeded to hurl abuse at me.

I'd report it and submit the video you have.  I'd also report that he hurled abuse at you as that changes the nature of the incident from a slip up or mistake to agressive/dangerous driving.  Some police forces are beginning to make good use of dashcam footage for prosecutions as it's easy work for them.  If nothing else, it will be additional evidence for the next person who submits dashcam footage of the same bellend wiping someone off the face of the planet.

It's incidents like that that make me want my old RR classic with a fecking great nudge bar on the front again.  You don't bother swerving for tossers like that, you just punt them off the road.

[MikeR]

Mouse No7 has departed this planet this week .  Wondering if we will make double figures , little nipper and butter is a deadly setup . 

[mercedade]

On 04/04/2021 at 02:26, Mally said:

Yes it has been changed, afaik used to be your problem up to the main sewer. Now once outside your property its the Waterboard.

I had United Utilities out because the sewer shared by our 4 flats (building looks like semi-detached houses, but is actually 4 flats) was blocking up and coming up through the rainwater drains. The access point is in my back garden and it was my drains that stank like shite for a few days.

Free free free to resolve, and they said if it ever happens again they'll be back out quicker this time. BIG approve.

[Zelandeth]

Finally got an appointment at the top today.

Went to start loading the car up.

Boot won't open...oh c'mon!  Have never had the slightest issue with that before, but today it's not interested.  So have had to load things through the rear doors.  My back loved that.

Then my oil transfer pump decided to not work...so had to decent the 20-ish litres from the catch pan into bottles with a not-really-big-enough funnel, and predictably spilled it all over the place.

Then went to pick up the dead battery from the BX and the handle snapped off and it landed square on my right foot.

Yeah...this is going to be one of *those* days isn't it...

[Pieman]

People who put "asking for a friend" on the end of every question they post online.  It's not fucking funny any more.

[wuvvum]

Why does it annoy you so much?  Asking for a friend.

[somewhatfoolish]

This bloke dying, although it raises the question; will @Jim Bell be making a move on the merry widow?

[Zelandeth]

Yep...they have arranged things at the tip in a way to make things about as awkward and inefficient and to maximise the degree to which you have to walk around people as far as possible.  Which given prior experience with that place on a normal day I fully expected.

Carting 40 odd litres of oil from one side of the site to the other was fun...as was carrying about 2/3rds of a bootload of rotten chipboard halfway around the site, and getting shouted at for dropping things.  Really enjoyed getting told to hurry up when my 15 minute window was nearly up too.

Seriously...just let us park up near to the bloody bins... especially as you're only letting half a dozen cars at a time into the site at a time.  Would vastly minimise the amount of time people were there and the amount of walking around they'd be doing.

Think I saw one person other than me there with a mask on, which given the signs plastered everywhere and red bold letters in the appointment email saying they're mandatory just hacks me off.