The grumpy thread

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Enquiring in a for sale thread on fsceache, agenuine enquiry for a shedly but decent car (some underside pics and is it running), just to have the seller delete the whole sales post. 🤷‍♂️

[Talbot]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

£10,000 heat pump instead

How on earth can a heat pump cost £10k.  They're essentially an air conditioner in reverse, and there's no way an air conditioner costs that much.

Strikes me that's a price for "early adopters", as in "we'll fleece the living shit out of you for as long as possible"

[cort1977]

4 hours ago, sierraman said:

Reading today about one of these nutcase Green campaign groups called the IEA are suggesting that we should be jettisoning the gas boiler and instead have a £10,000 heat pump instead. So instead of a £2000 bill you’ll have a £10,000 bill. Excellent. 

Where do we end with all this carbon neutral drive? What will they want to ban next? I’m hoping whoever thinks these things up doesn’t plan on travel abroad ever again, that’s incredibly polluting. Let’s ban that, let’s ban meat because the manure creates Co2 emissions, in fact let’s ban everything and we’ll all live to be a hundred or at least it’ll feel like it because the environmental impact of everything you do will be analysed.

The IEA are the International Energy Agency, set up after the 1973 oil crisis to manage the oil supply, hardly a green campaign group.

Where we end up on this carbon neutral drive is ideally keeping the rise in global temperatures below 2 degrees.  Failing to do that will have significant consequences for our children and grandchildren such as droughts, fires and floods creating millions of climate refugees.  Arguably, that's already happening in Africa.

 

[andy18s]

1 hour ago, Low Horatio gearbox said:

Enquiring in a for sale thread on fsceache, agenuine enquiry for a shedly but decent car (some underside pics and is it running), just to have the seller delete the whole sales post. 🤷‍♂️

Probably already sold some time ago,and you just reminded him to take down the add

[cort1977]

1 hour ago, Talbot said:

How on earth can a heat pump cost £10k.  They're essentially an air conditioner in reverse, and there's no way an air conditioner costs that much.

That's true but does that £10k include the larger radiators required for the heat pump?  Either way economis of scale will hopefully bring that down.

[Low Horatio gearbox]

11 minutes ago, andy18s said:

Probably already sold some time ago,and you just reminded him to take down the add

Listed 45 minutes before I asked 🤷‍♂️.

 

My other possible purchase  has 2 people  offering over the asking price but neither commenting to viewing the car. 🤔🤦🏻‍♂️

[Talbot]

27 minutes ago, cort1977 said:

That's true but does that £10k include the larger radiators required for the heat pump?  Either way economis of scale will hopefully bring that down.

Good point.  I often forget the infrastructure required to cope with the lower temperatures generated by a heat pump system.

ideal for underfloor though.

[Chas4545]

Just sold my longest ever owned car. 

I feel a bit like the family pet has died.

[omegod]

23 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Finally had a walk round and successfully found our abducted garden waste bin - tucked away on a driveway right at the opposite end of the street. 

It was retrieved and has now been plastered on reflective tape and had the house number and address marked on the lid plus the number on all sides.

Hopefully that will discourage the gits from trying that again.

Really sick of this sort of suburban nonsense.

I reckon number 18 are going to have you right off 

[Zelandeth]

2 hours ago, omegod said:

I reckon number 18 are going to have you right off 

Tricky as there are only 8 houses on the street!

[320touring]

5 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Tricky as there are only 8 houses on the street!

2 bits of tape needed...

 

"8-1"

 

That's my bin for #7!

[High Jetter]

1 strip of green tape (per and it belongs to no.3

[R1152]

6 hours ago, cort1977 said:

The IEA are the International Energy Agency, set up after the 1973 oil crisis to manage the oil supply, hardly a green campaign group.

Where we end up on this carbon neutral drive is ideally keeping the rise in global temperatures below 2 degrees.  Failing to do that will have significant consequences for our children and grandchildren such as droughts, fires and floods creating millions of climate refugees.  Arguably, that's already happening in Africa.

 

I'd also add in the ever-worsening annual fires in Australia.

[Jerzy Woking]

On 5/16/2021 at 5:28 PM, tobyd said:

What I love more than anything is finding some loser has replaced something with the wrong part and in order to make it work* has also soldered on a connector for said wrong part.

Well done whoever you are.

Good work.

Please don't say it is the SV. If it is, it wasn't me!

[tobyd]

haha, no, thats still going ok I just need to sort the leaky carbs and balance them!

[artdjones]

13 hours ago, R1152 said:

I'd also add in the ever-worsening annual fires in Australia.

Are you sure they're getting worse. The biggest ever was in 1851 and burned out ¼ of what is now Victoria. There's more deaths and property destruction than before, but that could be owing to people deciding to live in vulnerable areas. Most of Australia isn't really suitable for human habitation, unless you are willing to adopt the same lifestyle as the Aborigines.

[Zelandeth]

Nice day.  Have errands to run.  Would like to take TPA out.

Not going to happen as I can barely get out of my drive because of the school parking situation, much less shuffle cars around to get anything out of the garage (which is behind two parking spaces worth of driveway).

Really wish we could bump "redevelopment of the front garden/driveway" up the priority list to solve that.  Oh, or indeed find someone willing to come and give us a quote for the work...rather than just sucking air through their teeth and saying "That's gonna be expensive mate!"

Yeah...no shit Sherlock... I'm asking you to basically bulldoze a 30 by 10 metre area and lay a complete new driveway, path, lawn etc, sorting the drainage while you're at it...Of bloody course it's going to be expensive.  If it was a simple one day job I'd do it myself. 

[R1152]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

Are you sure they're getting worse. The biggest ever was in 1851 and burned out ¼ of what is now Victoria. There's more deaths and property destruction than before, but that could be owing to people deciding to live in vulnerable areas. Most of Australia isn't really suitable for human habitation, unless you are willing to adopt the same lifestyle as the Aborigines.

Perhaps I should have said "more frequent" but to me, they do seem to be getting worse. I'm not sure the residents of VIC who lost their homes last year will be terribly comforted to know it was bigger in 1851 but yes, I'm aware most of Aus isn't suitable for habitation - I spent several months working there in the early 00s.

It's not a place I'd choose to live; the popular image is somewhat at variance with the experience I had.

[artdjones]

2 minutes ago, R1152 said:

Perhaps I should have said "more frequent" but to me, they do seem to be getting worse. I'm not sure the residents of VIC who lost their homes last year will be terribly comforted to know it was bigger in 1851 but yes, I'm aware most of Aus isn't suitable for habitation - I spent several months working there in the early 00s.

It's not a place I'd choose to live; the popular image is somewhat at variance with the experience I had.

Yes, I had a friend whose dream it was to live there, who finally made it around 1990, a civil engineer. He hated it and went back to Wales after 6 months. 

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, R1152 said:

It's not a place I'd choose to live; the popular image is somewhat at variance with the experience I had.

I found that.  It's nowhere near as laid back as I had been led to expect, and there are just as many arseholes there as there are everywhere else.

[artdjones]

Yes, the friend who I mentioned above left because to quote him ,"if you meet four people walking abreast down the pavement they won't make room for you but just push you into the gutter." He felt that epitomised the behaviour out there. He himself was a very considerate individual, without being a wuss.

[cort1977]

6 hours ago, artdjones said:

Are you sure they're getting worse. 

Yes.  It's been well proven by the CSIRO and many others.  I'm going to stop debating this now, promise.

14 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I found that.  It's nowhere near as laid back as I had been led to expect, and there are just as many arseholes there as there are everywhere else.

Definitely.  I lived there for six years, it's amazing but the people are no better than anywhere else and my family are back here now.

[R1152]

4 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I found that.  It's nowhere near as laid back as I had been led to expect, and there are just as many arseholes there as there are everywhere else.

Exactly my experience: in fact I've not worked in a place so bloody bureaucratic and officious as Australia, and I've worked in France!

[wuvvum]

17 minutes ago, R1152 said:

Exactly my experience: in fact I've not worked in a place so bloody bureaucratic and officious as Australia, and I've worked in France!

I think Belgium might give it a run for its money to be fair...

[R1152]

54 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I think Belgium might give it a run for its money to be fair...

But Belgium has a redeeming feature that Australia never will; and that is excellent beer.

[wuvvum]

Fair point.

[chaseracer]

And frites au mayonnaise, which is the food of the gods.

[Fumbler]

And Ypres, which is a fantastic place to visit if you get the chance. When I went there 3 years ago it was excellent from morning till dusk.

[Talbot]

18 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

And frites au mayonnaise, which is the food of the gods.

One assumes you have at some point tried Patat met Fritessaus when in the Netherlands.

[chaseracer]

15 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

And Ypres, which is a fantastic place to visit if you get the chance. When I went there 3 years ago it was excellent from morning till dusk.

Did you stay till 8pm for the firemen giving the Last Post at the Menin Gate?  That's an experience...