The grumpy thread

[Zelandeth]

Dammit!

Just spent two and a half hours replacing a hydraulic line...which it turned out had nothing to do with the leak.  It's not the nearside axle to caliper brake line, must be the supply line to the rear...which is buried up above the subframe.

Yay.

[dean36014]

Undo the subframe mountings on one side and let the subframe drop. Easy enough to feed through the pipes then. Might as well do both whilst your in there.

[Floatylight]

Spent about an hour trying to change the cabin filter on the C4GP, what an utter ****

It's in two parts and fits in the matrix housing in the centre of the dash, I'm sure if you've got a LHD one it's a doddle   however impossible to feed through the peddle box, steering shaft, managed to get the old one out which a garage had mashed in however I only managed to get one half back in the other one is in the glove box where it will be staying!

[robinmasters]

I went to a car show today. 

Didn't like it. 

I didn't like it because it was a car show. Rows and rows of Minis, Fords, Beetles and other generic samey stuff. I can no longer be bothered to trudge around all that dross to find the few interesting cars. 

The realisation that most car shows aren't really for me anymore made me a bit sad. A fairly big part of my life, over. 

[Unlucky Alf]

On 9/25/2021 at 1:29 PM, gm said:

I took some garden waste to the tip the other day and now there is a gang of spiders living in the car  

One of the little sods jumped out of the sun visor and scared the shit out of me on the way to work this morning ! 

You think that’s bad…. Using my (very old and repaired) bose wired headphones on yesterday to play CoD on the PS3 and…. What’s that behind my ear?  
 

eeeeeekkkkk,,,,  Bloody great spider inside the ear cup..  Argggggghhhhhhhh!   Out the window it went.  Scared the shit out of me.  
I’m pretty sure it didn’t go down into my lughole…at least I hope it didn’t.

[cobblers]

Finally found a new house, signed all paperwork etc and had 3 weeks before getting the keys. 

Asked previous owner to measure the living room for a sofa, and subtracted 50cm from this measurement for a very comfortable safety buffer to allow for rubber tape measures or general cackhendedness.

Spent £1500 (😵) on a new sofa. 1 month passes, we have the keys and are moving in etc.

 

DFS arrive this morning. Now I have £1500 worth of sofa that is wedged diagonally in the living room and is 4cm longer than the room is.

 

FFS

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Drop the modern off  for service,  mot.. and several warning lights in the dash. Alas the courtesy car is manual and also almost bone dry fuel wise  so I've the fun of siphoning  some fuel out of the Rover and finding said shitter has a fuel leak at the filter,  15 minutes becomes 2 and a half hours.

[Bren]

On 9/24/2021 at 11:28 PM, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Fancy having a go at entering for Britain's Strongest Man, attaching a harness to your new car and hauling it home? Gradients could be interesting....

As a teenager in the scouts I pulled a triumph dolomite for charity. My scrotum was dragging along the floor.

[iainrcz]

Had a fucking tornado locally today.

Ripped tiles off roofs and tipped a motorhome over!

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/live-updates-tornado-hits-humberston-5975256.amp

[High Jetter]

8 hours ago, Bren said:

As a teenager in the scouts I pulled a triumph dolomite for charity. My scrotum was dragging along the floor.

Bollocks

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Modern daily back from service... oh...

 

That's  a third if what was left in there yesterday..🤔

 

But serviced and fixe....ah.

So.. still broken and fuel consumption continues to deteriorate.

 

[Zelandeth]

Asshole school visitor parking job of the day goes to...

Yes, that is parked on the roundabout.

Well... abandoned.  It's about three feet away from the kerb.

[Crackers]

I'd quite like a bit of petrol. I mean, it's not a major issue if I can't get any, but the whole thing really is getting a bit daft now.

I'd also like it to not rain for a minute or two so I can knock back a small area of failed paint on one of the MX5's sills and paint it in temporarily until I have time to do a proper job. I was going to do it ASAP but all it's done since I bought it, is bloody piss down. 

[iainrcz]

PDF in outlook broke in Opera.

So now I'm trying to use Edge. Why is everything hidden! It looks like you need an addon to show fucking menus!

Urgh...

[eddyramrod]

Wife's birthday today.  She's 66.  Yesterday we got a letter telling us her ESA will stop because her state pension should begin.  Consequently I spent all afternoon on the phone and gov.uk trying to sort out the mess this is going to leave us in.

She's spent most of today in bed, ignoring drinks I've taken up for her, and her cards and prezzies, to punish me for not having a new and better line of income ready to step in.  Like I'm some kind of financial expert all of a sudden!  So today I've been doing the same again, with what seems very little effect.

Why the fuck is the benefit system specifically designed to exclude anyone and everyone who might actually need it?

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, iainrcz said:

PDF in outlook broke in Opera.

So now I'm trying to use Edge. Why is everything hidden! It looks like you need an addon to show fucking menus!

Urgh.

If you're not keen on Firefox, Vivaldi is very good.

[iainrcz]

9 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

If you're not keen on Firefox, Vivaldi is very good.

I used to use Firefox. Then when I reinstalled windows I tried opera.

Oddly I can't access the pdfs in ff either. Same error as opera, but an ancient version of IE and edge work fine.

They both download and view them fine, but neither will preview the contents through outlook.

No big issue really just annoying as both used to.

[gm]

Scumbag pikey catalyst thieving cunts !

looks like they must have got disturbed half way through - fucking arseholes !

[gm]

I chopped a bit of heat shield off to see the damage - almost all the way through 

a bit of scrap aluminium bent round an axle stand 

fixed*
 

 

not quite, still sounds like shit - I’ll see if I can find a tame welder tomorrow  

[Tickman]

@gm worth cutting it off before someone else finishes what they started?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, gm said:

Scumbag pikey catalyst thieving cunts !

looks like they must have got disturbed half way through - fucking arseholes !

If only there was some way of making their jacks collapse whilst they're still underneath...

[junkyarddog]

To be fair,I wouldn't fancy trying to tackle those rusty fixings either😂

At least the cunts didn't get it.

[gm]

At least the centre section is cheaper to replace. 

Suprised they didn't spike the petrol tank while they were under there - twats 

[3VOM]

16 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

 Yesterday we got a letter telling us her ESA will stop because her state pension should begin.  Consequently I spent all afternoon on the phone and gov.uk trying to sort out the mess this is going to leave us in.

I hope there is a Pension Credit qualification that brings this back up for her, but I don't know. Try:

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/help-if-on-a-low-income/pension-credit/before-you-claim-pension-credit/check-if-you-can-get-pension-credit/

https://www.turn2us.org.uk/

https://www.entitledto.co.uk/

[eddyramrod]

Thank you for that!  It's not looking viable for Pension Credit, but once her pension actually starts coming in that might change.  Meanwhile I have applications in for both PIP and ESA, although it's been suggested to me this morning that I might have more chance of Universal Credit than ESA.  Again, I'll have to wait until my application has been processed to find out, and work out what to do next.  It's a jungle, and I'm ridiculously easy to confuse these days. 

Fortunately I'm now in touch with a locally-based Disability Association who seem very capable and helpful.

[Minimad5]

25 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Thank you for that!  It's not looking viable for Pension Credit, but once her pension actually starts coming in that might change.  Meanwhile I have applications in for both PIP and ESA, although it's been suggested to me this morning that I might have more chance of Universal Credit than ESA.  Again, I'll have to wait until my application has been processed to find out, and work out what to do next.  It's a jungle, and I'm ridiculously easy to confuse these days. 

Fortunately I'm now in touch with a locally-based Disability Association who seem very capable and helpful.

Always winds me up that you've got to do all the leg work.

If you or a loved one you care for are genuinely unable to work, you should be assisted in claiming the correct things.

My old man can't work due to various things (fucked back, pissing blood etc) - He's a bit of a fool and feels ashamed when claiming for anything (after working 20+ odd years beforehand) , and both him and mum have no idea what they can and can't claim. Yes even the local Citizens Advice ain't helped.

Yet the rather rotund woman down the road with about 12 kids, has a lovely new Zafira all paid for 🤷‍♂️.

Sorry to go off on one Eddy 🤣, but hope you get it sorted mate, as seems the genuine and nice ones get fobbed off.

[eddyramrod]

I understand your dad's position!  I don't like having to claim stuff, I was brought up to support myself if at all possible, and now that I can't, I feel a very intense sense of failure.  Which is something nobody wants to admit to, but there, it's out now.  I failed.

[3VOM]

3 minutes ago, Minimad5 said:

My old man can't work due to various things (fucked back, pissing blood etc) - He's a bit of a fool and feels ashamed when claiming for anything (after working 20+ odd years beforehand) , and both him and mum have no idea what they can and can't claim. Yes even the local Citizens Advice ain't helped.

Use the two links above to work out what you can get. My guess is Universal Credit plus some additional benefit based on medical issues.

I'm sorry to hear that CA weren't any help. I know about the stuff I've posted* because in non-Covid times I volunteer for CA and there is a feedback/complaint mechanism if you were not happy with the service.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/contact-us/contact-us/make-a-complaint-about-us/

(* I've also worked on IS, JSA and a local authority housing waiting list.)

[mitsisigma01]

Any ideas how to kick social services up the arse and get the process for getting a stairlift fitted. She has been stuck upstairs since January, he is half blind, deaf and gets upstairs on his hands and knees 😡😡

[Rab]

The whole of Ardnamurchan only has four Posties..they have to use the Community Centre in Acharacle as the sorting office...three are off work...we've had no post for days...and theres an Amazon warehouse backlog in Ft William apparently.

Non Grump. Petrol 'crisis'' has scared all the tourists away and its now all very quiet...how we like it...