The grumpy thread

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@sutty2006

It's not good news mate, been a trying month...

First this 

 

... has totalled both doors.  I was going to live with it and fit some replacement but then a slapdash bit of mot prep followed by a full power test run... 

...and I've fucked it. I managed to not nip up the tensioner enough so it backed off.  I hopefully reset it all and it runs still, but only on 4, somethings knocking and it smokes. Despite having a spare engine I have little time and less motivation to fit it. I think that's game over for the throbber. ☹

 

 

[sutty2006]

I could cry right now….. 

[JeeExEll]

Trying to open a square tin of corned beef.

Using the little key which immediately breaks, then a tin-opener, then a hammer and wood-chisel, then some pliers to twist the lid off.

FFS, it's not 1930.

[chaseracer]

Angle grinder next time.

[JeeExEll]

I did actually think about that, I have a battery one, didn't want bits of metal through the food.

Good quality tin-opener said no. So I hammered the top with a 25mm joiner's chisel then twisted the top off with pliers.  What a performance to make a sandwich. Sharp edges there too.

Why not just package it in round easy-to-open tins like a tin of beans? Maybe even with a ringpull?

[jakebullet]

Animals.

Dumpy the dumped puppy is getting right on my tits. It's either biting me / chewing computer power wire / pissing on rug. It's only playing says Ma. How about we play leave it at idiot sister's house to fuck her things up instead while she's getting pissed in lansergrotty?

The Mrs. has a hamster. She is focusing her OCD powers onto it. Not helped by she's joined an extreme hamster cult facebook group who appear to try and out do each other at being better* hamster owners. You're only using a 20' x 20' room as a hamster enclosure? How barbaric!

She constantly complains that it's "unhappy", and is escalating on buying even more shit to make it happy. It has a large cage. There's an appropriate sized wheel, things to bite, sand pit, food, paper to dig in. It's happy, if rodents actually have emotion. But no she keeps buying more shit that the cultists recommend, that goes in it's 'exercise' enclosure, and that it promptly ignores. 

Every day it's "I've ordered free range organic sticks from the rain forest for it to bite", and when I ask how are they any different from sticks you could pick up for free at the park it's "If you knew anything about hamsters you'd know only rain forest sticks will do. You should read about them and learn something". 

[Pieman]

I don't even know your family and I already fucking hate them.

[Crackers]

I'm ill. Again.

This getting quite tiring now; I hadn't fully got over the cold/flu I had 2 weekends ago and then today I've pulled out of work early with a raging temperature and dry, persistent cough. And yet I continue to test negative for C19. Bumhats.

 

I know, first world problem, could be worse etc.

[barefoot]

3 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

Trying to open a square tin of corned beef.

Using the little key which immediately breaks, then a tin-opener...

What you want is a Super-Kim!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nogent-Star-Super-Kim-4030-Opener/dp/B001E05WQM

It  will take both ends off a can of Spam & it'll last longer than you will.

[High Jetter]

24 minutes ago, Crackers said:

This getting quite tiring now; I hadn't fully got over the cold/flu I had 2 weekends ago and then today I've pulled out of work early with a raging temperature and dry, persistent cough. And yet I continue to test negative for C19. Bumhats.

Wait till tomorrow. Mrs J came down with C-19 last week, probably caught it at the weekend when we went North to meet up with her family. I tested on Friday, clear, but got a faint line this morning. Feel OK though, just slight cold symptoms (so far...)

[AnnoyingPentium]

14 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Animals.

Dumpy the dumped puppy is getting right on my tits. It's either biting me / chewing computer power wire / pissing on rug. It's only playing says Ma. How about we play leave it at idiot sister's house to fuck her things up instead while she's getting pissed in lansergrotty?

The Mrs. has a hamster. She is focusing her OCD powers onto it. Not helped by she's joined an extreme hamster cult facebook group who appear to try and out do each other at being better* hamster owners. You're only using a 20' x 20' room as a hamster enclosure? How barbaric!

She constantly complains that it's "unhappy", and is escalating on buying even more shit to make it happy. It has a large cage. There's an appropriate sized wheel, things to bite, sand pit, food, paper to dig in. It's happy, if rodents actually have emotion. But no she keeps buying more shit that the cultists recommend, that goes in it's 'exercise' enclosure, and that it promptly ignores. 

Every day it's "I've ordered free range organic sticks from the rain forest for it to bite", and when I ask how are they any different from sticks you could pick up for free at the park it's "If you knew anything about hamsters you'd know only rain forest sticks will do. You should read about them and learn something". 

On what HarmonicCheeseburger recommended, I can play the recorder... terribly. So if you don't mind your ears bleeding as I screech out 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' then I'm more than happy to assist.

[paolodivichio]

Delivery drivers... Why oh why do they not shut gates??? 

Spent 2 hours yesterday afternoon looking around the local area for the dog after an amazon delivery driver left the garden gate open. Luckily in the end I found the dog at a neighbours who had taken her in after seeing her wandering along the road. But it could have been a lot worse, especially as we live on a very busy main road! If a gate is shut, its shut for a reason so how hard is it to shut it behind you! Grrrr

[mitsisigma01]

You could always fit a gate closer ....

Some delivery people aren't the brightest .... Recently had leaflets for conservatories ....In a block of flats ...

[chaseracer]

43 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Recently had leaflets for conservatories ....In a block of flats ...

You should get them to give you a quote...

[HillmanImp]

1 hour ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

On what HarmonicCheeseburger recommended, I can play the recorder... terribly. So if you don't mind your ears bleeding as I screech out 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' then I'm more than happy to assist.

Or you could use a recorder for your own drum and bass remixes like this chap. 

*note, I realise for a lot of people, the flute may be the highlight of this, we all have different likes and dislikes. 

[Metal Guru]

18 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

I did actually think about that, I have a battery one, didn't want bits of metal through the food.

Good quality tin-opener said no. So I hammered the top with a 25mm joiner's chisel then twisted the top off with pliers.  What a performance to make a sandwich. Sharp edges there too.

Why not just package it in round easy-to-open tins like a tin of beans? Maybe even with a ringpull?

I bought a tin of Fray Bentos with a ring pull the other day. Progress? Well, not really. The new packaging was in a  Spam shape tin without the tapering sides, so it was still a b@gger  to get out once the lid was off.

[AnnoyingPentium]

Just now, HillmanImp said:

Or you could use a recorder for your own drum and bass remixes like this chap. 

Well that's this weekend's plans sorted then.

[Fumbler]

Bought a replacement radiator cap on Monday for the BX for £cheap on Buycarparts.co.uk. I thought it looked similar to the Autodoc website but decided to order anyway because "oh it has a UK web address and it's probably a new UK distributor." Nope. I've just got a message (from a German courier) my parcel has been dispatched from Braunschweig today, so that throws delivery in time for the weekend into doubt.

[horriblemercedes]

4 hours ago, paolodivichio said:

Delivery drivers... Why oh why do they not shut gates??? 

 

Probably desperate to save time any way possible or stressed because of trying to save time and forgot

[New POD]

Fucking Hermes. 

That's it. 

Apparently 3 attempts whilst I was in to deliver my chimney brush and rods kit.

3 separate photos of my front door. 

2 foot from my front door is another door. On it is a lock. 

I've uploaded details to thier App. 

A picture of my safe space.

I have a door bell so loud that it will wake the dead. 

I've not been out. 

They are fucking fucking fucking fucking usefuckingless. 

[RoverFolkUs]

3 minutes ago, New POD said:

Fucking Hermes. 

That's it. 

Apparently 3 attempts whilst I was in to deliver my chimney brush and rods kit.

3 separate photos of my front door. 

2 foot from my front door is another door. On it is a lock. 

I've uploaded details to thier App. 

A picture of my safe space.

I have a door bell so loud that it will wake the dead. 

I've not been out. 

They are fucking fucking fucking fucking usefuckingless. 

They've changed names now I think. "Evri" I believe. 

They are absolutely brilliant in my area, the chap who is my regular courier always waits until you get to the door

Must be a rare exception in my case!

[goosey]

16 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Probably desperate to save time any way possible or stressed because of trying to save time and forgot

When I subcontracted for Citylink I didn’t even have time to take a piss, let alone shut gates 

[HillmanImp]

16 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

They've changed names now I think. "Evri" I believe. 

They are absolutely brilliant in my area, the chap who is my regular courier always waits until you get to the door

Must be a rare exception in my case!

[horriblemercedes]

13 minutes ago, goosey said:

When I subcontracted for Citylink I didn’t even have time to take a piss, let alone shut gates 

When I drove for Sainsburys it was never really bad, but there was one customer whose gate I deliberately left open (I'm not suggesting that our man on this thread is anything like this woman!)

I drove up to the gate, she was about 10 yards away from it. She just stared at me. So I got out and opened it. Walking back to the van, this:

Her: You will shut that gate after you drive through it. You wouldn't know the rules of the countryside, but the main rule is that you must always shut any gate you open gate.

Me: *Drive through and shut gate behind me. Drive up to the house and she slowly follows, about 90 seconds behind me.

Her: I know that people like you grow up in towns and don't understand the lifestyle that living in such fortune provides, but that doesn't mean that you can't attempt to appreciate it. *Goes on like this for a while*

 

I didn't say a word the entire time I was with her, I just drove off and left the gate open.

[goosey]

6 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

When I drove for Sainsburys it was never really bad, but there was one customer whose gate I deliberately left open (I'm not suggesting that our man on this thread is anything like this woman!)

I drove up to the gate, she was about 10 yards away from it. She just stared at me. So I got out and opened it. Walking back to the van, this:

Her: You will shut that gate after you drive through it. You wouldn't know the rules of the countryside, but the main rule is that you must always shut any gate you open gate.

Me: *Drive through and shut gate behind me. Drive up to the house and she slowly follows, about 90 seconds behind me.

Her: I know that people like you grow up in towns and don't understand the lifestyle that living in such fortune provides, but that doesn't mean that you can't attempt to appreciate it. *Goes on like this for a while*

 

I didn't say a word the entire time I was with her, I just drove off and left the gate open.

 

Ma Man 👌

[Spiny Norman]

When I'm buying anything online I make a point of looking to see who's delivering the package, and if it's not Royal Mail I buy elsewhere. RM aren't perfect but if I'm not in the sorting office is half a mile away if I need to pick it up.

[New POD]

DPD manage to follow simple instructions. 

[barefoot]

Hermes around here are great. It's a lad I used to go to school with. Back then he had multiple paper rounds, then he worked at the post office until he was somewhat erroneously sacked - he didn't chuck away a load of free giveaway items, but sold them on ebay. From there he went to Hermes & sorted himself a round in its very early days. Now he has a couple of people working for him. Nearly sixty, and still doing effectively the same job he has always done!

[vulgalour]

Hermes were good here but lately we've had a string of parcels just left on the door step.  None of the delivery people look anything put stressed and fed up on the rare occasion I'm outside when they deliver, they all have that "got to do the next one" face I remember well from warehouse work.

The rebrand to Evri just makes them sound like a spambot lady offering special services, or a doctor reverend prince who wants to deposit some money into my Christian bank account thank you please and personal details.

[dozeydustman]

21 hours ago, Crackers said:

I'm ill. Again.

This getting quite tiring now; I hadn't fully got over the cold/flu I had 2 weekends ago and then today I've pulled out of work early with a raging temperature and dry, persistent cough. And yet I continue to test negative for C19. Bumhats.

 

I know, first world problem, could be worse etc.

Have you gone for a PCR?

I had SARS before xmas, that’s going around as well in our kneck of the woods