The grumpy thread

[iainrcz]

Does Buxton have any weather other than "fucking tipping it down"?

We've been here since 13:30 yesterday and it hasn't stopped.

 

Whereas Llandudno, +20 degrees all week since Monday. We had two small spells of drizzle.

[omegod]

Sorry about the weather guys, it's all my fault due to me picking up my tools 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

46 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

Does Buxton have any weather other than "fucking tipping it down"?

We've been here since 13:30 yesterday and it hasn't stopped.....

Where d'ye think Buxton gets its spring water from?

[MikeR]

11 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I violently took down our plastic/aluminium greenhouse with a large hammer a few months back.  If you really hate your greenhouse, I can recommend that as a course of action if they're still making noise.  It's even better because bits go flying everywhere.  Bonus points for smashing up some old bits of ply that you have lying around to fit in the car as well.

A 4lb mallet is fun , saves all that hand action with a saw , it sort of just makes things part and fall apart ....

[chaseracer]

9 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Where d'ye think Buxton gets its spring water from?

When it was "fucking tipping it down" 5000 years ago!

[mintwth]

11 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Where d'ye think Buxton gets its spring water from?

Incidentally, never ever drink the Buxton spring water from the drinking fountain in the middle of Buxton!

[sdkrc]

This 5 series has driven through 8-10 inches of water and has broken down.

He's just caused £3k+ of damage by trying to shave 30seconds off his journey. There's a Vectra just out of shot which did the exact same thing before this guy and was broken down, bonnet up. Surely that's enough warning not to do this.

Struggling to see why basics like not driving through floods isn't in the driving test. 

[Split_Pin]

That was some rain that. My kitchen got soaked because the rain bounced back up off the window sill and through the window, which was merely ajar for a bit of air!

[captain_70s]

20 minutes ago, sdkrc said:

Surely that's enough warning not to do this.

Struggling to see why basics like not driving through floods isn't in the driving test. 

People are stupid. You could cover it in the test and have huge flashing signs up and people would still flood their cars.

4 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

That was some rain that. My kitchen got soaked because the rain bounced back up off the window sill and through the window, which was merely ajar for a bit of air!

Aye, the area around my living room window was flooded by similar means, along with being covered in flecks of dirt that'd been smacked off the windowsill outside.

[cort1977]

34 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

People are stupid. You could cover it in the test and have huge flashing signs up and people would still flood their cars.

Yep.  In Houston flooding like that is routine and so is people driving in to it and wrecking their cars.  Despite growing up there.  And it happening three or four times a year.  And flashing signs, depth gauges, etc. etc.  It's incredible.

[beko1987]

I remember racing through flooding roads to get Eva years ago in the XM from amys mums before it was cut off. It got a bit deep at one point so I flicked the suspension into high and bounced through it (zero damping on high, or brakes but tbh I was going so slow I didn't need those). 

Had to come back a different way though

[sierraman]

Why are there so many fucking options these days... whenever you go somewhere it’s a hundred fucking point questionnaire. I just wanted some southern fried chicken legs with some chips. 

[reb]

The landlord for my unit just texted saying they've been in to clean the internal guttering, which is fine I suppose but I had asked if he could wait until I'd tidied the place up a bit so access would be easier but oh well.

The grump though is they've somehow managed to break the lock, which means they've replaced it and I need a new key. He's going to post it rather than drop it off with me or have me pick it up for some reason. So that's me not able to go to the unit for the next few days. Bums.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

42 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Why are there so many fucking options these days... whenever you go somewhere it’s a hundred fucking point questionnaire. I just wanted some southern fried chicken legs with some chips. 

The agony of choice 

[Alan_Green]

2 hours ago, sdkrc said:

This 5 series has driven through 8-10 inches of water and has broken down.

He's just caused £3k+ of damage by trying to shave 30seconds off his journey. There's a Vectra just out of shot which did the exact same thing before this guy and was broken down, bonnet up. Surely that's enough warning not to do this.

Struggling to see why basics like not driving through floods isn't in the driving test. 

The whispering tunnel.  Stand with your back against one archway wall and project your voice at the other arch for a weird sound effect.  #Dennistoun-nostalgia.

[cobblers]

Finally got "picked" as a preferred applicant on a house we want to rent (4th or 5th try, each time there were 10+ applicants for the property!) and we find out that in 6 months the landlord wants to take the entire garden back and build another house on it. It's hardly a large plot to start with. FFS. Back to rightmove!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, sdkrc said:

This 5 series has driven through 8-10 inches of water and has broken down.

He's just caused £3k+ of damage by trying to shave 30seconds off his journey......

...Struggling to see why basics like not driving through floods isn't in the driving test. 

That sense of smug that oleopneumatic Citroën owners get when confronted with a dip.

[New POD]

17 minutes ago, cobblers said:

Finally got "picked" as a preferred applicant on a house we want to rent (4th or 5th try, each time there were 10+ applicants for the property!) and we find out that in 6 months the landlord wants to take the entire garden back and build another house on it. It's hardly a large plot to start with. FFS. Back to rightmove!

Has he got planning permission yet? Object. 

[Jazoli]

3 hours ago, sdkrc said:

This 5 series has driven through 8-10 inches of water and has broken down.

He's just caused £3k+ of damage by trying to shave 30seconds off his journey. There's a Vectra just out of shot which did the exact same thing before this guy and was broken down, bonnet up. Surely that's enough warning not to do this.

Struggling to see why basics like not driving through floods isn't in the driving test. 

That is piss poor and standard form from BMW, a modern car should be able to tackle a foot of water, its a joke really.

[cobblers]

10 minutes ago, New POD said:

Has he got planning permission yet? Object. 

It's all planned and ready apparently. He's been having trouble getting builders in but now has them booked to start in February. Obviously the house is marketed with a lovely big garden and drive etc, but all of that is gone! 

Bit of a swizz really, wasted a morning off work to go and look at it etc etc. 

[New POD]

Just now, cobblers said:

It's all planned and ready apparently. He's been having trouble getting builders in but now has them booked to start in February. Obviously the house is marketed with a lovely big garden and drive etc, but all of that is gone! 

Bit of a swizz really, wasted a morning off work to go and look at it etc etc. 

Sounds like 12 months of living on a building site. 

[cobblers]

Yup, fuck that.

in the ~160 square mile area we have as a search on Rightmove (most of the peak district, from Castleton down to practically Ashbourne ) there are ~12 houses to let. Just three of them have a garden. Two won't take tenants with pets, and the other one is this one where they're building a shitty bungalow on the garden.

It's madness man!

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 05/08/2021 at 21:25, brownnova said:

After once having a blow out on the M5 at 60 mph with an old tyre in a previous Campervan I am wary of old tyres… domestic management even more so. These tyres look like they’ve barely done any miles at all, although in all fairness the van has only done about 2000 miles in the last 8 years… but they are all 2008 or 2009 dated. I’ll drive short distances but SWMBO has put her foot down that I get tyres before this trip. 

Of course the irony being that I can’t take both the littleuns and the wife on board as there aren’t enough seatbelts, and for all my “it’ll be easy to fit extra seatbelts” it really isn’t. So the van may have to go… after just two trips in our ownership unless I can figure out a solution. 

https://www.salopleisure.co.uk/press/articles/touring-caravans/motorhome-seatbelt-laws-in-the-uk/11952

[Fumbler]

6 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

That sense of smug that oleopneumatic Citroën owners get when confronted with a dip.

Indeed I had that sense of smugness- it was fantastic. Then I discovered the petrol station I was wading over to was closed for an emergency.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

47 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

... the petrol station I was wading over to was closed for an emergency.

Fuel contaminated by water?

[Fumbler]

1 minute ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Fuel contaminated by water?

Naw, the station was on a hill with the price board conveniently hidden from the road. There was a size 16 font notice taped to the board which you'd have to park next to to actually read. From what I could make out before driving back in a huff, it was closed until further notice for some urgent repairs or something.

[High Jetter]

1 minute ago, Fumbler said:

From what I could make out before driving back in a huff

So the Citroen was a FTP?

[Fumbler]

Just now, High Jetter said:

So the Citroen was a FTP?

Citroen perfomed fine. Other cars, no. I saw at least 1 car that was in trouble after it got over the other side. Petrol station definitely wasn't having a good time as it was closed all week.

[High Jetter]

...but you drove back in a...?

[Fumbler]

21 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

...but you drove back in a...?

No no no no...

Sequence of events went like this:
I'm returning home from work in my BX and I notice I don't have much fuel left. I'm in Peasmarsh and a Jempsons store with petrol station is approaching, so I turn left into the entrance and I'm greeted with a pond for a road. I raise the car up, wade across, bounce around for a bit (because high suspension. Oops), lower the car back down and continue to the carpark. I notice the lit sign that says how much fuel costs is off and the forecourt is dark with cones around it. As I get closer there's an A4 sized sign saying something to the effect of "We're sorry, the petrol station is closed until further notice." Filled with anger and frustration, I make a U turn and go back, setting the suspension to high, wading through, lowering the suspension and driving home to find another petrol station, albeit in a huff this time because nowhere else has cheap fuel, and there wasn't a sign on the road saying there was no fuel to save me from going to the effort. No Citroens were harmed in this epic ordeal. A Vauxhall Zafira was, though, because the prat driving it flooded the engine trying to get through.