The grumpy thread

[myglaren]

9 hours ago, Fumbler said:

Insurers have sourced a Siemens WM14T481GB, which is basically a direct drive version of our old washing machine they've been making for a while.

I only learned of direct drive washing machines a couple of days ago and meant to investigate the likelihood of finding them here - the one I saw was American.

Pricey and look very expensive to fix when they fail.  Hypothetically the failure rate should be low.  Should be.

[Fumbler]

11 minutes ago, myglaren said:

I only learned of direct drive washing machines a couple of days ago and meant to investigate the likelihood of finding them here - the one I saw was American.

Pricey and look very expensive to fix when they fail.  Hypothetically the failure rate should be low.  Should be.

It's been thought for a while that conventional washing machine motors would fail prematurely on purpose, along with the bearings and other consumables as a form of planned obsolesence. Direct drive motors are good- they are efficient and have fierce acceleration and torque. Most new midrange washing machines have now had them for nearly a decade. However, I have a hunch that their inverters (handily removable on some models) and other electronics may br skimped out on.

[eddyramrod]

Thought?  Known, surely?  Or am I just cynical?

[Fumbler]

6 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Thought?  Known, surely?  Or am I just cynical?

You're more than likely correct but I can't find any reliable information that confirms it. That being said though, with everything I've read up over the years, it's my belief that some manufacturers of white goods have done this for a good 2 decades.

[Jerzy Woking]

Been waiting for over four hours now for the water delivery company tanker to turn up. Supposed to be here at 8, and not answering my calls or messages.

I wonder if I am on a blacklist here? Everyone is paid cash, so its not like I don't pay them.

The following tradesmen, who all made arrangements to call round, have still not shown their faces. These are the gardener, skip hire company, swimming pool engineer (he can fuck right off anyway, as I have it sorted out now), electrician and  a builder.

Only person that ever turns up to meetings at the appointed time is my legal rep. She is the wife of the bloke that fitted my alarm and awnings, who also keeps to the appointments we make.

And all those failing to turn up are local Spaniards. Maybe they are busy because it seems that all the "cash in hand" Brit workers have disappeared (not that I'd use any of them anyway).

[myglaren]

 

[Jerzy Woking]

9 minutes ago, volvov70 said:

Where is that?

Howth Station in Dublin 

[Out Run]

14 hours ago, myglaren said:

Went to Tesco in Consett 

Commiserations.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

7 minutes ago, 83C said:

Swintondle insurance.....

EFA

[SRi05]

1 hour ago, 83C said:

Swinton insurance. 

Thieving fuckers, £64.52 to cancel a policy. Fuck them and the gold-plated horse they swam through their ocean of wealth on. 

£64.52 to press a button. Car insurance is a fucking scam 

[Fumbler]

On 06/05/2021 at 20:06, Wack said:

Anybody else think this is a disaster waiting to happen 

I keep seeing this ad on Facebook , doesn't look safe to me 

 

 

On 06/05/2021 at 20:19, reb said:

I've seen those in a few different places and I'm still not at all sure what it's supposed to do.

 

On 06/05/2021 at 20:22, chaseracer said:

Amputate feet extremely efficiently?

Our favourite product examiner, oil tester and lawnmower torturer examines and tests the Foot Remover XL in this video:

 

[beko1987]

I watched that in bed last night! Struck me as amazing for cleaning/clearing overgrown block paving and general weeds from cracks removal, but useless for chopping

I'm surprised no one's used one for bodywork... Could clean a sill up from a nice standing position, safely away from the working area etc

[Bren]

17 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

More like a local Councillor, I'd have thought....

To be fair back in the day she was a stunner.

[Remspoor]

6 hours ago, Jerzy Woking said:

Been waiting for over four hours now for the water delivery company tanker to turn up. Supposed to be here at 8, and not answering my calls or messages.

I wonder if I am on a blacklist here? Everyone is paid cash, so its not like I don't pay them.

The following tradesmen, who all made arrangements to call round, have still not shown their faces. These are the gardener, skip hire company, swimming pool engineer (he can fuck right off anyway, as I have it sorted out now), electrician and  a builder.

Only person that ever turns up to meetings at the appointed time is my legal rep. She is the wife of the bloke that fitted my alarm and awnings, who also keeps to the appointments we make.

And all those failing to turn up are local Spaniards. Maybe they are busy because it seems that all the "cash in hand" Brit workers have disappeared (not that I'd use any of them anyway).

You have not got a public water supply or your own well?

touch wood I have not had issues for appointments recently.

I even managed to get my TIE within the prescribed timescale and with appointment next day after enquiring if it was ready for collect. But there are not many foreigners here.

Ordered a new dyer from Amazon. It arrived a day early. But getting the old one taken away was a rigmarole. time on live chat, stupid questions for the form to be filled in. But they have too because of EU laws.

[Crackers]

I've been staring at various uni assignments for days on end and have written nothing. 

One is due tonight, one is due tomorrow, and more are due in the coming week. 

Out of a combined 3500 words that are due by midnight tomorrow, I've written less than 90. 

My head is empty. 

[sierraman]

I wish the wife would get banned from fucking B&M Bargains. Constantly bringing home the Chinese dog shit they sell in there, last week it was a toilet seat that despite several attempts keeps sliding sidewards and coming loose. Then it was a indoor broom, shaft bent upon first use with finger tip pressure. This week she has invited them to burn the house down courtesy of one of those wax burner things you plug into the socket. Completely fucking dangerous, it gets to an unbelievably hot temperature which shouts ‘fire risk’ to me. Fortunately tomorrow it’ll cause the electrics to trip and I’ll condemn it. 

[jakebullet]

Bob the fucking builder at it again. Considerate* parking this time.

Curtain twitch network thinks new pikey truck may have had attempted theft. Blocking pavement isn't going to stop a determined pikey if they want it.

Suspect attempting to report said great parking is futile.

[Talbot]

2 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

Suspect attempting to report said great parking is futile.

I'd absolutely report that as a serious hazard.  There's parking on the pavement, and then there's this... which is absolutely taking the piss.

[MarvinsMom]

3 hours ago, Bren said:

To be fair back in the day she was a stunner.

strangely Joker is now one of the weather presenters on Look North.

" have you ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?"

[jakebullet]

1 hour ago, Talbot said:

I'd absolutely report that as a serious hazard.  There's parking on the pavement, and then there's this... which is absolutely taking the piss.

Best way to grass? I'm thinking it's prolly council's problem and they're 9 - 5 when he's out.

By coincidence it is bin day tomorrow. I may* be slow in taking my bin in.

[Garythesnail]

2 hours ago, Crackers said:

Out of a combined 3500 words that are due by midnight tomorrow

This sounds familiar . . . . @Crackers . . . .  3500 . . ..  . @Crackers . . . .. 3500

 

Nope - can't remember.

[Crackers]

5 minutes ago, Garythesnail said:

This sounds familiar . . . . @Crackers . . . .  3500 . . ..  . @Crackers . . . .. 3500

 

Nope - can't remember.

CCs are more important to me than word counts.

I wish all my assignments were the word count equivalent of a Trabant.

[crad]

46 minutes ago, Crackers said:

CCs are more important to me than word counts.

I wish all my assignments were the word count equivalent of a Trabant.

could always do what a bloke i knew did for his dissertation and just write a fake wordcount on the cover sheet

[Jerzy Woking]

5 hours ago, Remspoor said:

You have not got a public water supply or your own well?

touch wood I have not had issues for appointments recently.

I even managed to get my TIE within the prescribed timescale and with appointment next day after enquiring if it was ready for collect. But there are not many foreigners here.

Ordered a new dyer from Amazon. It arrived a day early. But getting the old one taken away was a rigmarole. time on live chat, stupid questions for the form to be filled in. But they have too because of EU laws.

No mains water or well, just a big underground tank. The tank lasts me about 6 months.

Anyway, the tanker turned up at 8pm tonight and proceeded to fill my half empty pool, plus two 1000 litre plastic tanks I use for watering the garden throughout the summer. Total cost was €80, which i think was good.

My TIE was so straight forward too. This was backdated to the date my application went in, not, as I thought, the date it was approved. 

I've got to buy a washing machine and a built in oven, so will no doubt find out about the disposal of my old oven.

 

[Crackers]

27 minutes ago, crad said:

could always do what a bloke i knew did for his dissertation and just write a fake wordcount on the cover sheet

I'd give it a go, but I think it'd probably be quite obvious if the cover sheet said 2500 words when there were actually only 87.

[crad]

31 minutes ago, Crackers said:

I'd give it a go, but I think it'd probably be quite obvious if the cover sheet said 2500 words when there were actually only 87.

aye they might notice that. either way i hope your creative juices will soon flow out like a cascading waterfall

[Talbot]

2 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Best way to grass? I'm thinking it's prolly council's problem and they're 9 - 5 when he's out.

I'd go with the 5-0 to begin with.  That's blatant obstruction of the pavement, which is an offence.  If you happened to mention that it's forced several people to walk in the road, possibly with prams, and there have been a few near misses, that might make them take notice.  I reported something not dis-similar many years ago where the parked car was almost as bad as this; initially the 5-0 seemed a little dis-interested, so I commented, "OK, well I'll call you back when there's been a fatal collision with a pedestrian forced into the road.  With what I can see, it won't be long".

10 mins later and the fuzz had appeared, the car was moved and the driver had a nice big fine.  Which is good, because he was a complete cunt.  If he'd been more pleasant, I'd have just asked him to move it.  But he wasn't, so I didn't.  He even had a massive sweary rant at the fuzz who turned up, which I'm sure in no way affected their decision to throw the book at him.

[beko1987]

11 hours ago, Crackers said:

I've been staring at various uni assignments for days on end and have written nothing. 

One is due tonight, one is due tomorrow, and more are due in the coming week. 

Out of a combined 3500 words that are due by midnight tomorrow, I've written less than 90. 

My head is empty. 

Any luck yet? 

[Crackers]

2 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Any luck yet? 

No.

Couldn't drag myself out of bed this morning even though I'd told myself I was going to focus on it today, it just isn't happening. 

I did manage to summon the effort to put in a job application elsewhere last night though. I think that's a sign.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

17 hours ago, sierraman said:

I wish the wife would get banned from fucking B&M Bargains....

So she likes to spend money. Name one other extravance!