The grumpy thread

[Bren]

We had a severe weather warning here yesterday - flash floods. It dribbled for about half an hour.

I wonder how much the met office costs? Reading tea leaves would be cheaper.

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

We had a severe weather warning here yesterday - flash floods. It dribbled for about half an hour.

I wonder how much the met office costs? Reading tea leaves would be cheaper.

Same here! Utter doom and gloom forecast. It did go grey and sprinkle down for 10 minutes in the morning. BBC weather would have you building noahs ark fucking ASAP 

Was sports day at school yesterday... 10.20am they bottled it and cancelled. Brightened right up at about 10.45am but by then they'd sent the email 😂

[Bren]

I fancied a pie for my dinner.

Until I saw my reflection in the TV.

I am beginning to look like I have been rogered by an omnibus.

Must get back in the gym.

[iainrcz]

4 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Loratadine. Will try switching.

I take a generic Cetirizine, seems to work ok. Though I'm usually in a world of my own so probably wouldn't notice if it wasn't.

[Pieman]

58 minutes ago, Bren said:

I fancied a pie for my dinner.

Until I saw my reflection in the TV.

I am beginning to look like I have been rogered by an omnibus.

Must get back in the gym.

[myglaren]

14 hours ago, jakebullet said:

KN95 masks are great at keeping the pollen out when you get nagged into cutting the grass. Super cheap now too. Only snag is you attract clever cunts who like to tell you covid is over.

I wear mine most of the time I am out, filters out tobacco smoke,  perfume, deodorant, aftershave etc. pongs that stop me being able to breath.

No-one has commented yet.

Used to have crippling migraines when I was in my twenties.  Nothing for years but recently had a few instances of a weird 'swirling' optical effect, similar to the old screensaver where a whirlpool sort of thing bounced around the screen distorting everything.

[barefoot]

On 6/15/2022 at 9:01 PM, barefoot said:

 

Should two year old/250 mile fuel hose that's only ever seen E5 behave like this?

 

Remember my grumble?

I emailed this to the offending garage on Monday morning. By close of play that day, he had offered a refund which landed in my account this morning. 

I don't think that's too bad a result, do you?

[jakebullet]

It's actually my first year of hay fever, quite how I've managed 48 years without being nobbled before I don't know. Fexofenadine for the win for me.

I'm wondering if it's a covid thing, always had a fairly crappy sense of smell. Suddenly I've got more "smell power", and bonus hay fever.

[Remspoor]

Americans on YT.

First that legend* Mustie. With his will it start video on the Imp. Someone associates it with Mr Bean. 🤦

Next is Albon and his presentation on The Untold True Story of Goodwood. He has made  quite a number of errors in this one. Like associating a WW2 bomber with WW1. Timelines not correct and missing the fact that UK law prohibits road racing. Plus a number of other facts. 😩

[Chas4545]

Never ever put a vaccuum cleaner  anywhere near an eye,, even in jest.

A samsung I had had a pretty explicit diagram of what could happen in the instructions ... ugh

[Rust Collector]

12 minutes ago, Chas4545 said:

Never ever put a vaccuum cleaner  anywhere near an eye,, even in jest.

A samsung I had had a pretty explicit diagram of what could happen in the instructions ... ugh

A mate of mine put the shop vac nozzle on his forehead as a joke a few years back. The bruise it made was incredible; really vivid in colour, perfectly circular, and the same diameter as the nozzle. It didn't go down for ages afterwards either, he looked like a right fucking idiot wandering round in public afterwards. Couldn't have gone any better 😅

I have no doubt it would remove your eye quite easily 😰

[cobblers]

30 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

A mate of mine put the shop vac nozzle on his forehead as a joke a few years back. The bruise it made was incredible; really vivid in colour, perfectly circular, and the same diameter as the nozzle. It didn't go down for ages afterwards either, he looked like a right fucking idiot wandering round in public afterwards. Couldn't have gone any better 😅

I have no doubt it would remove your eye quite easily 😰

As a kid I stuck the bathroom plunger on my 7 year old sisters forehead, she spent about ten minutes ragging at it to get it off which I found absolutely hilarious, but not as hilarious as the mark it left on there for about 2 weeks

 

[Back_For_More]

6 hours ago, cobblers said:

As a kid I stuck the bathroom plunger on my 7 year old sisters forehead, she spent about ten minutes ragging at it to get it off which I found absolutely hilarious, but not as hilarious as the mark it left on there for about 2 weeks

 

a mate of ours regularly drank himself into oblivion..... 1 night passing out with his face on his pint glass. They left him there while they partied. The ring around his mouth lasted about a fortnight.

He also once shit the bed with his wife getting covered - but that's another story...... no clue how he made it through his 30's

[Datsuncog]

28 minutes ago, Back_For_More said:

a mate of ours regularly drank himself into oblivion..... 1 night passing out with his face on his pint glass. They left him there while they partied. The ring around his mouth lasted about a fortnight.

He also once shit the bed with his wife getting covered - but that's another story...... no clue how he made it through his 30's

He's doing alright for himself these days though, eh?

Well, sort of alright.

[horriblemercedes]

22 hours ago, jakebullet said:

It's actually my first year of hay fever, quite how I've managed 48 years without being nobbled before I don't know. Fexofenadine for the win for me.

I'm wondering if it's a covid thing, always had a fairly crappy sense of smell. Suddenly I've got more "smell power", and bonus hay fever.

Humans develop and lose allergies  throughout life 

[chaseracer]

On 24/06/2022 at 08:20, Bren said:

We had a severe weather warning here yesterday - flash floods. It dribbled for about half an hour.

I wonder how much the met office costs? Reading tea leaves would be cheaper.

You need to take this up with Meteogroup, the private company that took over the BBC contract from the Met Office in 2018...

[AnnoyingPentium]

Strong winds here today... caught the gate and whacked it into my car.

[Low Horatio gearbox]

The vx4/90 was  running  nicely yesterday. Moved it today and it dislikes idling or anything below 2k rpm 🤷‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[D.E]

I am not the person to start whining "is it dun yeeeeet???" ten minutes after I dropped a car off at the garage, but I must admit my patience is wearing a bit thin with the garage where the 205 is at. Yes, I know you run a one man business. Yes, it is okay if the car isn't finished today or tomorrow. But seriously: the car is there since the 29th of May, it has been almost a entire month and he still hasn't done anything at all. I didn't exactly ask to do a nut and bolt restoration either, just two new front tyres and a tie rod. Excuses are variations of " am very busy, hopefully next week" but I 've been hearing that for several weeks now.  I don't really want to go through the trouble of taking the car back unfinished and having to search for a different garage that can actually do the work in a normal time frame, but on the other hand if I exercise more patience this may well drag on for god knows how many more weeks if he keeps doing fuck all.  I don't really understand why my car specifically takes so long either, which is frustrating. I get he's busy, sure, but in that month dozens of cars came and went. Yet there wasn't a single moment to change two tyres and a rod on mine? 

tl:dr: garage takes ages to do job, tired of it.

[chodweaver]

I am not the person to start whining "is it dun yeeeeet???" ten minutes after I dropped a car off at the garage, but I must admit my patience is wearing a bit thin with the garage where the 205 is at. Yes, I know you run a one man business. Yes, it is okay if the car isn't finished today or tomorrow. But seriously: the car is there since the 29th of May, it has been almost a entire month and he still hasn't done anything at all. I didn't exactly ask to do a nut and bolt restoration either, just two new front tyres and a tie rod. Excuses are variations of " am very busy, hopefully next week" but I 've been hearing that for several weeks now.  I don't really want to go through the trouble of taking the car back unfinished and having to search for a different garage that can actually do the work in a normal time frame, but on the other hand if I exercise more patience this may well drag on for god knows how many more weeks if he keeps doing fuck all.  I don't really understand why my car specifically takes so long either, which is frustrating. I get he's busy, sure, but in that month dozens of cars came and went. Yet there wasn't a single moment to change two tyres and a rod on mine? 
tl:dr: garage takes ages to do job, tired of it.

He's prioritising two categories of his other customers over you: the ones with lucrative easy* jobs, and the whiners. You need to get a bit more whiney.

HTH

[reb]

The main reason I haven't chucked my 205 into my friendly mechanic to do the work it needs is unless there's a deadline like a looming MOT he takes a fucking age to get round to stuff on cars he knows you don't need as a daily. Even with me putting off doing the work I reckon I'll be quicker doing it myself. Cheaper too.

[Pieman]

Driving home today from Yorkshire to the Midlands, encountered a massive rainstorm in Derbyshire on the M1 and A38.  I slowed right down cos I could barely see where I was going...90% of the other traffic didn't even have any lights on.

We should have permanent full lockdown because most of this fucking country is too stupid and ignorant to be allowed outside.

[Zelandeth]

On 6/24/2022 at 12:01 PM, barefoot said:

Remember my grumble?

I emailed this to the offending garage on Monday morning. By close of play that day, he had offered a refund which landed in my account this morning. 

I don't think that's too bad a result, do you?

Probably because they have enough sense to know that if you were to decide to pursue a claim against them via other means would likely be far, far, far more expensive.

[cobblers]

On 6/15/2022 at 9:01 PM, barefoot said:

 

Should two year old/250 mile fuel hose that's only ever seen E5 behave like this?

 

So much "fake" fuel hose about. 

This was "DIN 73378" fuel hose, but used as a pipe to the vacuum advance on my dizzy. It had never been in contact with anything other than air.

It'd been on the van for about two weeks

[Aston Martin]

Every human being that has ever been born is at Gretna services.

[grogee]

Just been out to tweak the tracking on my Puma. It was slightly too much toe-in so I drew myself a diagram which aimed to correct the very slightly wonky steering wheel as well. 

Put it all back together just as England won the 3rd test match at Headingley. Triumphantly put the tools away then tested with my Gunson's plastic tracking gauge. 

It nearly broke because I've now got way too much toe-in... I've only gone and adjusted the wrong way. 

Now sulking inside. 

Luckily no harm done I suppose, just need to go and undo my idiotic actions...

[meggersdog]

Get home from work on Saturday and my neighbour comes round with a card from DPD . Apparently he's delivered a package to the wrong address and wants it back. My neighbour tries to explain that I am always at work so wouldn't have recieved a parcel. All he said was "get him to call me on this number" I phoned the number only for it to ring out and go to answer phone.

Today I get a phonecall from the DPD driver wanting his parcel back. I told him I never recieved a parcel so can't give it back. After a lot of "are you refusing to give it back" he then starts with "well I will get in touch with our legal department then. I can't give him something back I never recieved. He is all " I delivered it, got a photo of it on your doorstep"  Couldn't comprehend leaving something outside in the open does not mean it has been recieved. He was still talking about his legal team and me refusing to give something , wrongly delvered, back.

I stayed calm but what an arse. The rightful owner might have collected it themselves I don't know . Just made me grumpy that somebodys mistake is down to me. 

 

[Fumbler]

Naturally, as I've just jettisoned the Micra, the BX decides it wants me to hate it. It's done so by leaking more oil from the speedo cable, into the replacement speedo, and buggering it up. Apparently I'm going 70 when going 30. It's now also smelling very fume-y in the cabin. Father's (very nicely) lent out the Volvo for the week.

[Pieman]

Heard today that a friend of mine over in Poland took her own life a few days ago.  She was just 28.  😭

[rainagain]

On 4/7/2022 at 12:51 PM, reb said:

After a few days of niceish weather, it's now absolutely freezing in my house again. My usual approach to this is to go back to bed, but I'm working so can't do that. I've got a wee oil filled radiator next to me but that seems to be doing the square root of fuck all except making the leccy meter (metaphorically) spin like a top.

I'm getting central heating and double glazing apparently, but I'll believe that when it happens.

Small single bed electric blanket laid over your chair can be quite effective. Most are only 40w as well. It’s a shame we don’t live in a nation that’s rich in oil gas and has plentiful wind power, oh wait.