The grumpy thread

[Guest]

The Namcoland arcade where it was contained is long-gone.

[maxpower]

  myglaren said:

  Station said:

 

I also left a pizza in the oven today for 2 hours.

 

Haven't done much cooking for a while, went all Delia and made bœuf bourguignon yesterday. While preparing the shallots & bacon, put the oven on to warm up.

 

Five minutes later put the frying pan on to sear the beef and the resulting explosion was quite spectacular. I'd forgotten that the top oven doesn't ignite automatically and when I lit the top burner the oven igniter lit the accumulated gas in there, blew the door open and a huge gout of flame shot out and warmed me up very nicely. Still have eyebrowses as I had my glasses on at the time.

 

That'll learn me

 

Classic

[Claypole]

  Hirst said:

The Namcoland arcade where it was contained is long-gone.

 

Bastards, what do I do with the binbag of prize tickets I'd been saving?

[retrogeezer]

  lancashireclamper said:

The amusement arcade on Central pier in Blackpool had an MX5 equipped Ridge Racer, was two quid a go 15 years ago!

 

 

 

http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=833&page=1#2693

 

[seth]

My watchmaking mentor died last year after a prolonged battle with cancer. I've kept in touch with his wife because they were both so hospitable, welcoming and helpful whenever I visited or called. I was fortunate to help her out by buying some of his equipment, particularly his lathe which she is really happy I've got because it is the one item that meant so much to him. Anyhow, I spoke to her earlier today for the first time in a couple of months. She's been battling off some sort of viral infection for a little while and it has now transpired that she too has some form of cancer. She was sounding pretty upbeat and the prognosis is apparently good with some invasive surgery she'll be having soon but what a dreadful situation.

[RedSparrow]

Hey Seth, I am sorry to hear that, they sound like a nice couple, I hope she recovers.

 

My whinge kind of pales into insignificance compared to that.

I am seriouly working on emigrating now. I have thrown out mountains of stuff, whIch I needed to do anyway.

My mum called today and so I thought I would let her know about my plans to leave. I was hoping for a 'good for you', sadly all a got was a bit of a guilt trip. I stopped short of reminding her that I am 27 and I can do what I like. I don't like speaking badly about my parents so I won't continue ranting about it, lets just say she said the opposite of what I wannted to hear.

[Mr Lobster]

Not grumpy, more sad.

 

Sat here bored, I had a look at a few of my old cars on the DVLA database...

 

My Alfa no longer comes up so I presume its been scrapped

 

Despite the fact it cost me an absolute fortune, I loved that car and knew as soon as I sold it that I'd regret it in years to come.

 

Alfa 145 Cloverleaf by Mr Lobster, on Flickr

[The Moog]

  RedSparrow said:

Hey Seth, I am sorry to hear that, they sound like a nice couple, I hope she recovers.

 

My whinge kind of pales into insignificance compared to that.

I am seriouly working on emigrating now. I have thrown out mountains of stuff, whIch I needed to do anyway.

My mum called today and so I thought I would let her know about my plans to leave. I was hoping for a 'good for you', sadly all a got was a bit of a guilt trip. I stopped short of reminding her that I am 27 and I can do what I like. I don't like speaking badly about my parents so I won't continue ranting about it, lets just say she said the opposite of what I wannted to hear.

 

Tell me about it!

 

When I told my mum I was going to Aus she told me that it was like a bereavement as she would never see me again .. cheers mum way to make me feel good

 

If it is right for you just do it.

[Guest]

RS: You don't exist to make other people happy, there's nothing wrong with looking after number one. My gran likes to make increasingly more frequent/desperate attempts to guilt-trip me into having a kid. The fact I'm single, only 26 and don't want kids doesn't seem to be a consideration in this matter - sod off woman!

[Cavcraft]

Driving in the dark. Never liked it, doubt I ever will. 12 hours at work today and then a 'quick' trip to collect some Freecycle shit. Only it wasn't a quick trip at all because the fucking A41 is shut for repairs, so I had to trawl round miles and miles of dark country lanes, quite a bit of it being blinded by xenon-headlighted gobshites trying to do 100mph with their headlights on dazzle.

[The Moog]

Excercise - Play football each week but this week is the first week it has been proper cold. getting the ball hoofed at you when your legs are cold is not fun. Nor is the fact that having had man flu over the weekend and then trying to run around all gunked up. Plus the fact that everything is going to hurt for the next two days.

 

Supposedly this is good for you

[Louise2cv]

Chasing out stone/rubble walls. Not impressed.

[RedSparrow]

  Hirst said:

RS: You don't exist to make other people happy, there's nothing wrong with looking after number one. My gran likes to make increasingly more frequent/desperate attempts to guilt-trip me into having a kid. The fact I'm single, only 26 and don't want kids doesn't seem to be a consideration in this matter - sod off woman!

 

You are right, and I know it. The thing is that for about 15 years I have been the 'reliable' one, the only one who doesn't cause arguements. I guess they're scared of loosing this and have got too used to me being around and mediating between them. The only thing I genuinely feel guilty about is my Grandma, who is a lovely person and is in her 80s now. I don't see her enough as it is. However, as my friend pointed out, she could live for another 10 years (I hope she does), so I shouldn't stay just to wait for someone's last days because hopefully that's a long way off.

[Mr Lobster]

RS, The other thing to bear in mind is that the world is a relatively small place these days. If you move away family can come and visit, if anything unexpected and bad happened to anyone so you might have to dash home.

 

A friend of mine has just moved to America but has Skype and they speak to their parents all the time. If they find cheapish flights then his parents go across when they can. It doesn't have to mean you'll never see friends / family again.

[Guest]

  RedSparrow said:

Hey Seth, I am sorry to hear that, they sound like a nice couple, I hope she recovers.

 

My whinge kind of pales into insignificance compared to that.

I am seriouly working on emigrating now. I have thrown out mountains of stuff, whIch I needed to do anyway.

My mum called today and so I thought I would let her know about my plans to leave. I was hoping for a 'good for you', sadly all a got was a bit of a guilt trip. I stopped short of reminding her that I am 27 and I can do what I like. I don't like speaking badly about my parents so I won't continue ranting about it, lets just say she said the opposite of what I wannted to hear.

 

If you want to go RS, go. I would.

[garethj]

  Mr_Bo11ox said:

I bust the placca top hose pipe stub off the radiator of my Rover.

 

It was a clean break and I thought it would repair OK.

 

Mixed up some araldite, glued it, clamped it with a G-clamp, left it overnight in the warm, came back next day and snapped it straight off using all the power of a 2-day old foetus. CHEERS ARALDITE

If the tank is made from polyamide (it should say PA on there) or Nylon as it's often called, it should glue ok. As Albert says you need to provide more bond area by a sleeve either inside or outside.

 

If it's made from polyoxymethylene (it'll be marked POM), its friends call it acetal then it'll never glue. It's got really low molecular bond strength so the molecules tear apart, it's got a waxy feel and they use it for the lid of superglue tubes.

 

Adhesive is all about bond area, clamping force and time. Enough of those and it should stick like chewing gum to the cat.

[ashmicro]

Freeview. After 2+ years of flawless operation with the wrong aerial, mine has decided to play funny buggers. New box bought, no better. New, BFO aerial bought, no better. All wireless devices in the house turned off, same. Looks like Sky+ is the way. BAH!

[Guest]

Whisper, whisper.

 

*TEXTING*

 

Giggle. Whisper, whisper, fucking whisper.

 

Listen you little shits, I've paid damn near £4K for this course, and I'm really not arsed if you don't like it. Can you PLEASE shut the fuck up for 2 hours so I can hear what's being said in the lecture? Please?

 

Aaaargh.

[Timewaster]

  watanabe said:

Whisper, whisper.

 

*TEXTING*

 

Giggle. Whisper, whisper, fucking whisper.

 

Listen you little shits, I've paid damn near £4K for this course, and I'm really not arsed if you don't like it. Can you PLEASE shut the fuck up for 2 hours so I can hear what's being said in the lecture? Please?

 

Aaaargh.

 

This behavior pissed me off enormously on a course that my company were paying for. If it were my own cash I would have told the feckin morons on the course to STFU louder and sooner than I did!

My advice - let them have it. 1 or 2 might respect you for it, but they'll probably just call you a miserable old scrote. You should be able to shut them up with a psycotic glare afterwards though.

[dollywobbler]

Living in the sticks. We've FINALLY got a phone line, but no broadband yet. That'll take another... THREE WEEKS! WTF! Surely some dope in an office just has to flick a switch or something? You can get broadband in the village so there's no big problems there. The company we're dealing with (TalkTalk, part of Carphone Shitehouse, so you know customer service is going to be good...) have pretty much admitted that if we lived somewhere that more people also lived in, they'd deal with it quicker. Oh, and if we lived in a really popular place, our shite 1Mb-if-you're-lucky broadband would be both must faster and cheaper! Gee thanks.

 

The lack of internet is pissing me off so much that I'm currently back at our old house, where the broadband is still live and I can actually do some research - albeit far later in the evening than I'd really like and after a particularly shit drive on the car park that got designated M6.

 

Thankfully, there are also many grin-worthy aspects or our new abode, or I'd be on a sharp-object ban by now. It's amazing how knackered you are with no internet. Can get it on my phone, but it's slower than dial-up. I know this, because as of yesterday, we did finally get dial-up. Which pretty much made me cry with its slowness.

 

Oh, and we're starting to realised that removing a gas fire BEFORE we get a log burner was a silly idea. Nature pointed this out to us by treating us to a really heavy frost. Brrrr.

[seth]

My grump for today was finding that the previously repaired passenger side floor by the inner sill was in fact four layers thick

[eddyramrod]

Getting pipped at the post for some lovely NOS mirrors on ebay, from a seller I've actually met. It hurts even more that they were for someone else.

 

Also, rang up my old friend from art college to wish him Happy Silver Wedding Anniversary... only to discover he's alcoholic, moved back to Liverpool and about to be divorced; not only that, his wife, who I did get to speak to and have always regarded as a friend too, has been off work 6 months with a shoulder injury and couldn't drive until very recently. I spent most of that conversation telling her how sorry I was all-round...

[Pillock]

  garethj said:

If it's made from polyoxymethylene (it'll be marked POM), its friends call it acetal then it'll never glue. It's got really low molecular bond strength so the molecules tear apart, it's got a waxy feel and they use it for the lid of superglue tubes.

 

Well.... learned something new today! I always wondered why superglue lids didn't glue shut.

 

  garethj said:

bond area, clamping force and time.

 

Reminds me of a girl I used to know.

[garethj]

  Pillock said:

Reminds me of a girl I used to know.

There was a young hooker named Lou,

Who filled up her fanny with glue,

She said with a grin,

"They'll pay to get in

And they'll pay to get out of it too"

[AnthonyG]

  watanabe said:

Whisper, whisper.

 

*TEXTING*

 

Giggle. Whisper, whisper, fucking whisper.

 

Listen you little shits, I've paid damn near £4K for this course, and I'm really not arsed if you don't like it. Can you PLEASE shut the fuck up for 2 hours so I can hear what's being said in the lecture? Please?

 

Aaaargh.

 

Complain to the lecturer. I teach in universities and regularly tell students to STFU (not in those words) I usually say something along the lines of 'if you're not interested. you can either shut up or leave'

 

If the lecturer does eff all about it, or it doesn't change their behaviour, complain to your personal tutor or the course adminstrator.

 

Join the staff student committe for your course/module, or get your rep to bring it at the next meeting. If all else fails tell the Uni adminstrator you will put in a low score to the NSS (National Student Survey) because of this issue. All universities (apart from the elite) are very conscious of their NSS scores as soon all students will be funding their own courses, making more of a geniune 'market'.

[Station]

I remember a fellow student who was sitting next to me, had headphones on, and spent five minutes tapping away on the table in a quiet lab with about 5 people in it. It was constant and he knew he was being a pain in the arse. I couldn't take it anymore so I used my fists on the desk to thud out the intro to Dittohead. FFS!!!! He turned to look at me and stopped!

I experienced a level of apathy and un-arsedness with other students, their projects were so shit, they had no idea what they were doing and used it as an excuse to get a student loan and pissing it up the wall in a week.

 

 

Can someone advise me: I cancelled my insurance policy with some shitty insurer months ago and they're still taking random money from my bank. I was paying direct debit. How the heck can they take

[barrett]

direct debits scare me slightly.

Is there a way to cancel it with your bank, just say 'These guys are forbidden to take any more money from my account'?

[retrogeezer]

If you have on-line banking you can cancel a direct debit instantly..

[Station]

It is cancelled, but they're taking money nonetheless.

[eddyramrod]

Surely that's theft! Complain to the cops. Send copies of everything to the Banking and Insurance Ombudsmen too (there will be one for each) with strongly-worded letters.