The grumpy thread

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 04/04/2022 at 16:20, horriblemercedes said:

I will probably get a quote, but I've had this phone a couple of years and don't like it much so might be best to put the repair money towards a new phone instead

if you don't need/want 5G may i suggest a POCO X3 pro- near flagship specs for £200ish

[somewhatfoolish]

8 hours ago, cobblers said:

Sick to fucking death of phones.

I'm trying to run a business here and the phone system provided at the business centre doesn't work properly. The people who run the place, while well intentioned are absolutely useless.

So I'd divert calls to my mobile, but while we're in a well populated busy industrial area, I have very spotty/no mobile phone signal here on any network.

"Use WIFI calling" they say. So I do, and on every call, every 15 seconds the call goes garbled for a while. If I turn wifi calling off, it's 50/50 as to whether I'll even be able to make/receive a call at all.

I don't care about 4g, 5g etc. I hate talking to people on the phone as it is, without having to constantly ask them to repeat themselves or get the call dropped every few minutes.

 

 

Worth hiring an answering service? If there is interweb could VOIP work? In extremis a Starlink dish could be used to go around the shitty inhouse phone system.

[robinmasters]

4 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

What tyres lasted 50 k ?

Haven't you ever watched Top Gear? All roads in Murica are straight, so far less tyre wear. You've probably not owned an Alfa either 🙄

[High Jetter]

14 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I am from Gravesend, so it could be a lot worse.

Really? How? 😀

[PhilA]

7 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

What tyres lasted 50 k ?

BF Goodrich set on my pickup truck.

50k, 60k is not uncommon on a set of tires here.

[twosmoke300]

Oh yeh those BFG’s last for bloody ages .

[grogee]

15 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/264908720123?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item3dadca47fb:g:tM4AAOSwoyFgOR6f&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAAA4JUatwvcuTIAD0CO0l%2BsPoRDUNDA%2B8gUe%2F3sbEHOZ%2Bsda3pjymshVq4MYD6iKLU4sjmgQLsXbPkM98Jz2%2FcUK%2FX7tg3nbaSgirYXfggJgskXhKqghWjI%2FChLdDjxAhCIfDq7WqTNc72krm40lbZgg%2BJ05KcQopKcPRrQLG%2BDOyeR%2F5NPrslPjx2OqByA%2Frbz%2F0glZw7hVqsPowyiPVvKrWyUQOnhEc9zmi0sQQGIzSOr%2FYz1Q2K%2BjKairN3yzvXlUS7mrEYPtROZkQMh%2FWd7mzzZJsxVEBCTgVa73Fi9M7Ay|tkp%3ABFBM3uPgnYFg

I've used this Chinese tyre repair kit a few times and it's always worked. No need to remove tyre either. 

£20 for a repair can get in the sea!

[New POD]

On 06/04/2022 at 07:19, paulplom said:

I didn't have the drums on. I had put new cylinders on and was changing the brake fluid. When I connected the van tyre it popped the pistons out before I realised what was happening.

Fuck knows what I was thinking.

Been there, done that. 

[New POD]

On 06/04/2022 at 22:01, artdjones said:

It's an improvement in that it's a name that's not easily modified into an STD.

EVIL BASTARDS. 

How fucking hard is it? 

[Merryck]

9 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I am from Gravesend, so it could be a lot worse.

At least it’s not Sheerness!

[hairnet]

Bastard

Having spannering issues then this happens but I still cant go out now it's stopped as ground is wet

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

5 hours ago, Merryck said:

At least it’s not Sheerness!

I spent several weeks on Sheppey as a skinny 16-year-old.  Genealogically speaking my observation was that there were a lot more family circles than family trees.

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, hairnet said:

Bastard

Having spannering issues then this happens but I still cant go out now it's stopped as ground is wet

 

The item to the right of the red towel. Is that your undies?

[Jazoli]

14 minutes ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

Fucking car insurance.

Every other car  sub £1,000 for me has doubled in insurance since 2020.  Everything reasonable in insurance is above £3,000.

I'd consider classic insurance but the Micra works perhaps for a day per week, and most of them from what I know want a normal modern as the daily?

Are you a particularly high risk or live in a car crime hotspot? my insurance hasn't really changed much over the last 20 years and is still sub £350 for an old banger or a new Focus, current Volvo shed has just renewed at £220 FC.

[barefoot]

Makes no sense to me either. Have you writ, 'endless trouble with shitty throttle bodies' on the proposal form?

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

Thought i would take my 2 children up to london ( richmond station) from basingstoke next friday.  Basingstoke is only 40 miles from richmond.

Bloody hell, return ticket for 3  £49 ! Plus parking at Basingstoke.

I have been out of the country for a few years but this seems expensive .

Seems it is cheaper to take the 2001 civic.

Parking £10

Congestion charge £15

fuel about £14

total.      £39.   And a good run for the civic .

Surely this needs sorting out Mr railways and London.

 

 

 

[grogee]

56 minutes ago, Sir Chocolate Teapot said:

Thought i would take my 2 children up to london ( richmond station) from basingstoke next friday.  Basingstoke is only 40 miles from richmond.

Bloody hell, return ticket for 3  £49 ! Plus parking at Basingstoke.

I have been out of the country for a few years but this seems expensive .

Seems it is cheaper to take the 2001 civic.

Parking £10

Congestion charge £15

fuel about £14

total.      £39.   And a good run for the civic .

Surely this needs sorting out Mr railways and London.

 

 

 

Same. We're going to Think Tank in Birmingham during Easter hols. Mrs Grogee wanted to take master Grogee on the train, for a change/something different. 

Price for the three of us not including parking: £60 (Leamington Spa to New Street return).

It'll be cheaper to drive the Saab there and back even with OMGFUELPRICES and 25mpg. 

[cobblers]

I was talking to a lovely couple the run a campsite. It's on an active farm, they opened up about 3 or 4 years ago - Last summer in particular they had a load of issues with people just letting their young kids just wander around unsupervised, wandering off up the lane, climbing fences etc and going onto their farm, into the barns etc. It was an accident waiting to happen, so this year they decided to open up for adults only. 

They've only been open a ten days but already they have been getting loads of grief from shithead entitled parents who feel personally discriminated against by this policy - Apparently it's got to the point where they have been considering just knocking the whole thing in the head.

 

edit: not all parents are entitled shitheads, I must be clear!

[High Jetter]

Note you can get a third off railfares with a railcard. These cost £30, but you can get one by using just £10 of Tesco clubcard vouchers. Should pay for itself used just once or twice.

[Jamie]

Look at this fucking tosser 

(the mini owner not the police) 

https://fb.watch/cixlGgTxcl/

[MikeR]

Decided to inspect the loose plank on the toy bridge in the garden , u guess the rest , yep , all planks off , rusty nails replaced with proper plank screws , 5 planks need replacing , and then stain it all .

[robinmasters]

7 hours ago, bunglebus said:

...Big flaps

...

I just Googled "spat flaps". The results were all to do with aftermarket mud flaps. 

[High Jetter]

You were hoping for...?

[gm]

i’ve been busy in the garage this afternoon, but all of a sudden the power went off.

i turned around to see 

it’s not the best pic but smoke was pishing out of the welder (which i’d left switched on to cool down and had been idle for a good ten mins)

i casually* unplugged it and moved it outside, set it down in the yard and blew the now visible flames out.

after a good cool down, i popped the lid off

aye, that’s not so good

glad i hadn’t gone in the house for a coffee, could have been nasty  

at least it’s just the fan, hopefully should be easy enough to replace 

 

[chaseracer]

On 10/04/2022 at 08:04, grogee said:

Same. We're going to Think Tank in Birmingham during Easter hols. Mrs Grogee wanted to take master Grogee on the train, for a change/something different. 

Price for the three of us not including parking: £60 (Leamington Spa to New Street return).

It'll be cheaper to drive the Saab there and back even with OMGFUELPRICES and 25mpg. 

Pretty sure Think Tank is inside the "Clean* Air Zone".  Is the Saab pez or THEFUELOFSATAN?

[grogee]

2 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Pretty sure Think Tank is inside the "Clean* Air Zone".  Is the Saab pez or THEFUELOFSATAN?

Pez FTW

[richardmorris]

Don’t think I’ll have this for lunch! Have raised an issue with ocado.

 

[RoverFolkUs]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Don’t think I’ll have this for lunch! Have raised an issue with ocado.

 

Similar experience with a pot of yoghurt purchased from Lidl 2 days before

[RoverFolkUs]

Royally pissed off with an eBay seller at the moment

Ordered the PAS pump and pipes for the Focus early last week, they arrived Friday, except the union nut was missing. 

No problem, these things happens, sometimes orders get mixed up or parts lost during packing etc

Emailed straight away on Friday asking for the nut to be sent ASAP as I had it all planned perfectly to fit it all on my (rare) day off this coming Tues or Weds. 

No response Friday or Saturday, sent another message this morning, again no response. Tried phoning them, they won't talk about it over the phone. 

So thats coming up 4 days they've left me waiting for a SINGLE FUCKING RESPONSE to say whether they have the part and are going to send it or its out of stock, here's a partial refund to purchase elsewhere. 

I would have ordered one elsewhere but I really don't want to use someone else's part as it was a kit and should it start leaking further down the line it'll obviously be the other seller's union at fault 🙄

So because some simpleton can't do their fucking job and answer a simple message with a yes or no that's completely fucked my plans up and now has a knock on effect. 

I wanted to fit it all, use it for a couple of weeks, stick it through an MOT and sort anything out it needs for that then stick it up for sale. 

Now if the PAS pump or pipe shits itself between now and my next annual leave I need to tax and transfer insurance over to Focus #1

All this hassle because of A SINGLE FUCKING UNION NUT and someone who can't do their job and spend 30 seconds responding to an email to keep me out of limbo. 

Get to fuck. Suitable negative feedback will be left unless they by miracle sort it out tomorrow

^^^^^ the source of all my grumpiness. A single fucking union nut

Rant over, and yes I know there are bigger problems in the world at the moment but it really boils my piss when someone is incapable of doing their job

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Don’t think I’ll have this for lunch! Have raised an issue with ocado.

 

I bet the flavour would be a lot richer* now. Also, where did they dig up 'unearthed' from to suggest wholesome food that's not a potato or root vegetable?