The grumpy thread

[somewhatfoolish]

9 hours ago, Wack said:

Christmas 1995 , then girlfriend , now wife and I went to Egypt , it's was utterly fascinating ,breathtakingly beautiful and felt like going back in time 

 

Fucking Americans

 I'm surprised there's not a big  M on top of the Sphynx 

 

I visited in 2001; no fast food, plenty of piles of stinking rubbish, donkey and camel shit everywhere and a constant barrage of looky looky men trying to flog you (non-vehicular)tat. Plenty of battered Pug 504s and still a few 404s though, which was nice.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

9 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

I visited in 2001; no fast food, plenty of piles of stinking rubbish, donkey and camel shit everywhere and a constant barrage of looky looky men trying to flog you (non-vehicular)tat. Plenty of battered Pug 504s and still a few 404s though, which was nice.

Not too many changes since, although the Egyptians now have a bit of a Sisi running the country...

[Wack]

3 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

I visited in 2001; no fast food, plenty of piles of stinking rubbish, donkey and camel shit everywhere and a constant barrage of looky looky men trying to flog you (non-vehicular)tat. Plenty of battered Pug 504s and still a few 404s though, which was nice.

We did a day tour in a pug 504 , there was an excursion that didnt include much and involved walking up a 15ft plank to get on a boat which my wife declined.

They all had a crap day , we had a great day in this taxi , the guy suggested things we hadn't considered including tea on the terrace at The Old Cateract hotel where Agatha Christie wrote death on the Nile, it was a beautiful view , think the day cost me £20 

Luxor airport was chaos , it was like all the planes arrived and left at the same time so the queue snaked outside the building 

We got out of the taxi and a guy in a suit asked which airline we were flying with , ah yes , please follow me

He picked the cases up and we followed him down this long line of people until there was a gap , he plonked the cases down and put his hand out, baksheesh , it was then we realised he didn't work at the airport

 

[somewhatfoolish]

4 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Not too many changes since, although the Egyptians now have a bit of a Sisi running the country...

It was a day trip from where we were in Ismailia; the taxi ride was genuinely terrifying, I resigned myself to death/maiming quite quickly and just shut my eyes, lots of overtaking and undertaking action, missing bus-sized blocks of concrete by a foot or so at 70+ and playing dodgems with knackered wagons belching clag everywhere.

[Wack]

It never ceases to amaze me what some people consider acceptable , this guy needs a month on the bus 

[Fumbler]

Took the BX to get the suspension height adjusted. I come back and cycle through the heights and now the front is lower than the back again

The Haynes manual measurements are correct, right?

[wuvvum]

11 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

Took the BX to get the suspension height adjusted. I come back and cycle through the heights and now the front is lower than the back again

The Haynes manual measurements are correct, right?

Have you checked that someone hasn't dumped five skips in the boot while you weren't looking?

[Fumbler]

Just now, wuvvum said:

Have you checked that someone hasn't dumped five skips in the boot while you weren't looking?

Just looked, no skips in sight.

It's a linkage issue and needs rebuilding ideally. I'll save up.for it over the winter.

[grogee]

On 10/27/2021 at 1:48 PM, anonymous user said:

You don't need traps or bait, you have a bloody terrier, just put him in there and let him get on with it.

But then you'd have a shit machine that wants walking and would probably bark and smell. 

Don't tell me yours doesn't smell, it does, it's just you can't smell it any more. 

Cats FTW

[Tadhg Tiogar]

16 minutes ago, grogee said:

.... you'd have a shit machine that wants walking and would probably bark and smell. 

Don't tell me yours doesn't smell, it does, it's just you can't smell it any more. 

Cats FTW

....and this, on the whole, is why I have a horse.

[SherpaMog]

3 hours ago, Wack said:

It never ceases to amaze me what some people consider acceptable , this guy needs a month on the bus 

He's just driven past a large layby frequently used by vosa or whatever they are called now, I'm pretty sure the tosser works for a mega tosser I unfortunately know.

What the fuck would make you think this is ok?

[sierraman]

Booked car in today for some new tyres, the ones on the back were lowish and cracked quite badly. Expressly said the new tyres wanted fitting on the back... 

Arrived after work and they had been swapped with the good fronts and the bollocksed ones on the back left on, they’re getting swapped back over on Monday but what is it with people not being able to get things right? I’ll give them benefit of the doubt but if it’s not right Monday then a complaint is winging its way to them. It’s not just this occasion, wherever you go everything’s half arsed. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

25 minutes ago, SherpaMog said:

.....What the fuck would make you think this is ok?

This is just another example of the "don't give a shit" society. Rules are for others. 

[grogee]

7 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Booked car in today for some new tyres, the ones on the back were lowish and cracked quite badly. Expressly said the new tyres wanted fitting on the back... 

Arrived after work and they had been swapped with the good fronts and the bollocksed ones on the back left on, they’re getting swapped back over on Monday but what is it with people not being able to get things right? I’ll give them benefit of the doubt but if it’s not right Monday then a complaint is winging its way to them. It’s not just this occasion, wherever you go everything’s half arsed. 

This happened to me too. I politely told them to fish the good ones out of the skip and put them back on. 

I think half the time the problem is the communication between 'front desk' and man with ugga-dugga gun.

I now use a man in a scruffy unit who paints wheels for a living. 

[wuvvum]

My local tyre place only has two people working there so the man on the front desk also wields the ugga dugga gun.  

They also tighten wheel bolts / nuts properly with a torque wrench, rather than doing them up to 3,750 lb/ft with the gun and then going "click" with the wrench.

[sierraman]

11 minutes ago, grogee said:

This happened to me too. I politely told them to fish the good ones out of the skip and put them back on. 

I think half the time the problem is the communication between 'front desk' and man with ugga-dugga gun.

I now use a man in a scruffy unit who paints wheels for a living. 

That’s what’s getting done Monday. It’s saved me a couple of quid parking as I’ll drop it off before and pick it up after work but that’s bye the bye.

[New POD]

On 27/10/2021 at 21:25, MikeR said:

Ping , my next CT scan date has popped into my inbox ....it's like a dreaded MOT .

Spin the wheel of life 

Pass  or scrap !!!!

FFS the brain is starting to spin.

You okay? Phone me if you want to chat. 

[dozeydustman]

Sister in law has just phoned up in tears.

her partner had a sub-arachnoid aneurysm this afternoon and they’re switching life support off tonight.

Fuck.

[Dabooka]

Oh man, that's just awful news. So sorry.

[MikeR]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

You okay? Phone me if you want to chat. 

the wife was concerned , but she is still shopping in London and back on Sat .

now I find my booster jab is due , but I cant have that as it might make my Lymph nodes swell up , which will/might  confuse the CT cancer scan .

so its scan first , then booster jab ..

I am having some 11% proof medicine at the moment

[artdjones]

2 hours ago, grogee said:

This happened to me too. I politely told them to fish the good ones out of the skip and put them back on. 

I think half the time the problem is the communication between 'front desk' and man with ugga-dugga gun.

I now use a man in a scruffy unit who paints wheels for a living. 

I've changed quite a lot of tyres. I generally found using my eyes always worked in those situations. If the tyres I was asked to change looked good, I would maybe ask if the instructions were wrong?

[mintwth]

3 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

....and this, on the whole, is why I have a horse.

Wow! You must have BIG rats! 😳

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, mintwth said:

Wow! You must have BIG rats! 😳

There are some big ones that I've seen around the yard. The bastards breed quicker than the yard cats can eliminate them. 

[TataBobu]

On 10/29/2021 at 2:17 AM, Wack said:

Christmas 1995 , then girlfriend , now wife and I went to Egypt , it's was utterly fascinating ,breathtakingly beautiful and felt like going back in time 

 

Fucking Americans

 I'm surprised there's not a big  M on top of the Sphynx 

 

That Pizza Hut is actually a combo, there's a KFC under it. Or at least it was in 2004.

[jakebullet]

My weekend gets better. Some twat in a taxi has just scraped down side of my c1 while parked. While I'm sat in it leaning on horn. Then tries to say it isn't him and I'm trying to con him as his car is already scratched to fuck and he can't see any new damage to his car.

I'm no win here as if I go thru insurance any paint repair on a 2009 car is going to be write off plus premium jack for years.

He then says it isn't him but he'll offer 50 to go away. 

FFS!

[Stanky]

Fashionably* late to the party as ever, I've been struck down with the Covid.

Been feeling pretty lousy since Wednesday, off the back of 2 weeks of colds - snot everywhere, coughing up lung butter, the usual sorts of things. Then what I think might be a migraine set in, and wouldn't go. Everything aches, my smell and taste are off, but still work. I've been pouring with sweat at night so finally put 2 and 2 together and did a lateral flow test this morning. The T line showed up within about 45 seconds, never mind 30 minutes.

Well that explains that then. Emailed work to say I'd be WFH for the next week.

Interestingly* taking paracetamol and paramol did absolutely nothing for the migraine and aches. Ibuprofen though is a wonder drug, I feel almost fine if I take 2 tablets twice a day. 

Won't be going anywhere for a little while though. Glad I had my 2 doses of vaccine earlier in the year, its been annoying but nothing more serious than that, mercifully.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

7 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

My weekend gets better. Some twat in a taxi has just scraped down side of my c1 while parked. While I'm sat in it leaning on horn. Then tries to say it isn't him and I'm trying to con him as his car is already scratched to fuck and he can't see any new damage to his car.

I'm no win here as if I go thru insurance any paint repair on a 2009 car is going to be write off plus premium jack for years.

He then says it isn't him but he'll offer 50 to go away. 

FFS!

Drivers are much more willing to be brazenly dishonest nowadays. Dashcams always useful. 

[eddyramrod]

And as if the world wasn't fucked up enough... postie's just brought me a letter from PIP turning me down, again.  I don't know whether to challenge it or not.

[Zelandeth]

6 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

And as if the world wasn't fucked up enough... postie's just brought me a letter from PIP turning me down, again.  I don't know whether to challenge it or not.

Always challenge it.  If it goes to the appeal tribunal while it's a bunch of extra hassle that gives you the opportunity to present your case in front of actual human beings face to face.  They're not part of the same organisation either so there's no pressure for them to say no if they think you've made a decent case for yourself.  Especially if your case is anything vaguely resembling unusual or complicated.

[omegod]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

And as if the world wasn't fucked up enough... postie's just brought me a letter from PIP turning me down, again.  I don't know whether to challenge it or not.

Do it Eddie, don't let the bastards grind you down as that is their plan , I've never known an appeal fail 

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