The grumpy thread

[cobblers]

In the business center where we work, every radiator in all the communal areas and most of the offices (25000+ sq ft total) has a TRV. Every TRV is turned up to full. They have all the windows open because it's too warm.

Every few days I will walk past the rads in the communal areas and turn the TRVs down. By the next day they're all turned back up to full by the fucking numbskulls who work in the offices.

Give me fucking strength.

[myglaren]

^ Superglue the windows shut.  My kids used to do the same

Daughter had a scare last night.  Twat tailgating her almost ran into the back of her car when she stopped for traffic.

He zoomed round her, stopped in front, got out leaving his door open and was screaming and waving his arms at her, threatening to kill her.

Surprisingly, she was quite scared.  Normally she would have got out and decked him.  She looks and acts the sweet girl but can be lethal where required, very fit and fast and surprisingly strong, martial arts trained.

I think a dashcam would have been a great tool to have had there.

[artdjones]

13 minutes ago, cobblers said:

In the business center where we work, every radiator in all the communal areas and most of the offices (25000+ sq ft total) has a TRV. Every TRV is turned up to full. They have all the windows open because it's too warm.

Every few days I will walk past the rads in the communal areas and turn the TRVs down. By the next day they're all turned back up to full by the fucking numbskulls who work in the offices.

Give me fucking strength.

Usually caused by people who think it's their right to wander around in a t-shirt or something even skimpier every minute they are indoors. Probably best cured by all the fat balding middle aged men wandering around stripped to the waist whenever they get too hot.

[Metal Guru]

Driving up the M6 from Birmingham north a couple of days ago.  Speed restriction signs on and off at random because of “congestion”. There was no congestion apart from that caused by idiots braking hard as soon as they saw a 50mph sign.

Similarly going South a few days before that on M42 , the hard shoulder kept changing from in use to emergencies only at virtually every junction. Late lane changing galore, more manufactured congestion.

I think there are too many people in the control rooms without enough to do all day.

[cobblers]

3 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Driving up the M6 from Birmingham north a couple of days ago.  Speed restriction signs on and off at random because of “congestion”. There was no congestion apart from that caused by idiots braking hard as soon as they saw a 50mph sign.

Similarly going South a few days before that on M42 , the hard shoulder kept changing from in use to emergencies only at virtually every junction. Late lane changing galore, more manufactured congestion.

I think there are too many people in the control rooms without enough to do all day.

I have never, not even once seen those matrix signs showing any accurate or useful information, and I used to drive up and down the M1 every day for 8+ years

Sorry, I tell a lie. I was once in the most incredibly thick fog with visibility about 40 feet, crawling along in traffic. I got underneath one of the signs and you could just about make out the word "fog" on it. Thanks guys.

 

[Lankytim]

11 hours ago, mercedade said:

There is a provision where, all things being equal with two otherwise-impossible-to-split candidates, you are permitted to select the candidate(s) from a currently under-represented group, but there are so many hurdles (and frankly, arseache) that would go along with it, that it is realistically never relied upon.

But the law is clear that 'positive' discrimination at the point of employment is illegal. The UK does not permit discrimination on the grounds of any protected characteristic, regardless of the imagined rationale.

Many of the protected characteristics are largely self-defined - including ethnicity.

This job application was around 2001ish so legislation may well be different now. One employer I looked at said they wasn’t recruiting at the present time, however if I was from a minority or disabled then they were offering interviews.  
 

Hasn’t the RAF been in the news recently for only recruiting from BAME and other minority groups? 

[New POD]

3 hours ago, cobblers said:

In the business center where we work, every radiator in all the communal areas and most of the offices (25000+ sq ft total) has a TRV. Every TRV is turned up to full. They have all the windows open because it's too warm.

Every few days I will walk past the rads in the communal areas and turn the TRVs down. By the next day they're all turned back up to full by the fucking numbskulls who work in the offices.

Give me fucking strength.

Glue them to position 2.5. 

[cobblers]

35 minutes ago, New POD said:

Glue them to position 2.5. 

I'm half tempted to just shut the balancing valves completely

[iainrcz]

Fitted a new soil pipe on the toilet. Had to lift it out of the way to do it. Isolated and unhooked the filler. 

Fitted new soil pipe, connected all back up and managed to chowder the threads on the bottom of the filler. So obviously it now leaks, even with half a roll of PTFE tape on it 🙄

New part it is then. 

[grogee]

I've received a £50 Halfords voucher, which isn't making me grumpy - far from it, it's a thoughtful gift.

No, it's the fact that those robbing bastards are trying to charge £113 for something that is exactly the same kit as I bought a couple of years back for £25.

[EyesWeldedShut]

5 hours ago, cobblers said:

I'm half tempted to just shut the balancing valves completely

I'd do that - gluing the other valves up could be construed as criminininal damage - shutting the balancer (on every other one maybe ??) may be the way to go.
Or perhaps print off a few notices 'wear a cardigan'; 'get more clothes on'; 'it's feckin Autumn dress appropriately'

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, grogee said:

I've received a £50 Halfords voucher, which isn't making me grumpy - far from it, it's a thoughtful gift.

No, it's the fact that those robbing bastards are trying to charge £113 for something that is exactly the same kit as I bought a couple of years back for £25.

Looks identical to my £11.99 ebay rewind kit, bar the casing is red and all the tools are very surface rusty from being rained on mid job 😂

[grogee]

2 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Looks identical to my £11.99 ebay rewind kit, bar the casing is red and all the tools are very surface rusty from being rained on mid job 😂

Same, same

[neil1971]

Well this is subtle.

[sheffcortinacentre]

10 hours ago, cobblers said:

I have never, not even once seen those matrix signs showing any accurate or useful information, and I used to drive up and down the M1 every day for 8+ years

Sorry, I tell a lie. I was once in the most incredibly thick fog with visibility about 40 feet, crawling along in traffic. I got underneath one of the signs and you could just about make out the word "fog" on it. Thanks guys.

 

Passed one recently that was just constantly changing/trying to show all combinations of lights/ signs at once.

Another on a 4 lane stretch had 3 showing 50 while lane 3 was blank.

[New POD]

10 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Passed one recently that was just constantly changing/trying to show all combinations of lights/ signs at once.

Another on a 4 lane stretch had 3 showing 50 while lane 3 was blank.

So legally you can go 70 in lane 3 but not undertake the dweeb doing 48 in Lane 4, but if you can move to Lane 4 and get said dweeb to move to Lane 3 he can now speed up to 70 but you have to slow to 50. And therefore can't overtake. I think that sounds like fun. 

[New POD]

My S7 has always had a dodgy connector, so I usually charge it up by magic. Yesterday the screen frooze, so I thought I'd leave it to go to 0 charge.  But it won't take a magic charge. And won't charge via the wire. 

I am on my work phone. It has a dual sim. Must work out how to use it. 

[Lankytim]

We're having the bathroom at home refurbished. Everything out, toilet and sink moved e.t.c The company doing it seem alright but the finish date was yesterday and the room is still empty, no tiles on the walls or anything. The guys said they'd be in this morning (Saturday) to do some tiling but haven't shown due to an upset stomach (I'll take his word for that). Weird that he took all his tools home on Friday afternoon instead of leaving them like he usually does.  Earlier in the week all three of the workmen apparently needed to take the day off to take the van for MOT, I looked up the reg and there's still 10 months remaining on the current one, so presumably it was BS and they were on another job or something, that's on top of a no show last weekend after ripping everything out the previous Friday, When they are here they tend to arrive around 9am and bugger off around 3pm. The entire job was meant to take 5 days max but I think it's going to be more like  10, the wife and kids are getting pretty fed up at being without proper washing facilities and having to make do. 

Oh, and the doorway, which is in a stud wall was meant to be moved 10cm over to allow room for a shower enclosure, which they decided not to do without any consultation as "it should just about fit" I'm not amazing at maths but a 700mm shower tray won't fit inside a 680mm gap. obv moving the doorway was included in the initial quote so we'll have to see how that works out.

[cobblers]

6 minutes ago, Lankytim said:

tradesmen

Out heating packed up 'tother day. I'd have a look at it myself but the landlady had a plumber booked to do a boiler service on Monday anyway so I just let her know, to let the plumber know.

Mrs had all day off work monday, plumber didn't show up. Apparently he had crashed his van but he didn't think to let any of the bookings for that day know. Landlady very apologetic, she booked another guy to come out on Wednesday afternoon.

Mrs finished work at 11:30 and went home to let the guy in. Landlady rang him up at 5pm, and he said "yes I'll be there in half an hour"

6PM we called him "Sorry, I was just leaving my previous job and I have drove my van into a bollard and broke my nose"

 

So just fixed the heating myself. (2 port valve)

[grogee]

19 hours ago, grogee said:

I've received a £50 Halfords voucher, which isn't making me grumpy - far from it, it's a thoughtful gift.

No, it's the fact that those robbing bastards are trying to charge £113 for something that is exactly the same kit as I bought a couple of years back for £25.

Here's another one. £50 heat shrink.

[Metal Guru]

12 minutes ago, grogee said:

Here's another one. £50 heat shrink.

That’s “only” 33p per piece. Similar pack £3.99 on eBay.

[Yoss]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

Here's another one. £50 heat shrink.

I thought the first one was ridiculous but defies belief. I'd want a heat gun as well at that price. Not that it needs a heat gun, the stuff I I have upstairs for the model railway shrinks perfectly well with a hair dryer but a heat gun might come in handy for other stuff. 

There doesn't even look like there's that much in it. I bought a box about double that size with five colours for a fraction of that price. 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Lankytim said:

We're having the bathroom at home refurbished

I do hope you haven't paid in full upfront. It sounds like they're stringing you along TBH.

[Kiltox]

Laser tools have become a massive rip off. Same Chinese crap you can get on eBay in a blue box. 
 

 

[reb]

22 hours ago, grogee said:

I've received a £50 Halfords voucher, which isn't making me grumpy - far from it, it's a thoughtful gift.

No, it's the fact that those robbing bastards are trying to charge £113 for something that is exactly the same kit as I bought a couple of years back for £25.

I'll echo the sentiment that that's identical to the sub £15 set I have.

For more generic tools (like a screwdriver or whatever) Halfords are actually quite reasonably priced for the quality, especially with a trade card.

There's no chance that the checkout person believed me that I was a trader, but they still gave me the card, it's all good.

[Lankytim]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

I do hope you haven't paid in full upfront. It sounds like they're stringing you along TBH.

We’ve paid half up to now, it’s a priced job rather than a day rate, although they’re acting like it’s a day rate. 

[High Jetter]

I'd be hesitant about paying any more until the job's finished, then.

[grogee]

16 minutes ago, reb said:

I'll echo the sentiment that that's identical to the sub £15 set I have.

For more generic tools (like a screwdriver or whatever) Halfords are actually quite reasonably priced for the quality, especially with a trade card.

There's no chance that the checkout person believed me that I was a trader, but they still gave me the card, it's all good.

+1 on the generic tools, and they're lifetime warranty (or they were). 

Think I'll use my voucher to get some old fashioned 10w40 for the Maestro and maybe a rachet or summat.

I think the oil filters and stuff were reasonably priced last time I checked. 10-20% more than the Bay, but open on a Sundii when you're actually balls deep in car grease.

[Jerzy Woking]

On 10/1/2022 at 2:21 AM, Zelandeth said:

Christ on a bike, travel insurance has got expensive.  Last time we went to the US in 2018 it was ~£300 for the four of us.  This trip: Just over a bloody grand!  Not like it's something you can just chose not to have and the providers have a captive audience...so just a case of grimacing and dealing with it.  

Definitely more ammunition for me saying I'll just stay home next time I think!

What you need to do is go without insurance  then, when it all goes tits up, get someone to set up a JustGiving /GoFundMe page asking for contributions to pay your medical bills or fly your body home, like this

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/i-just-want-baby-home-7091363

[reb]

Ordered a fuel cap for a 2011 MiTo from ECP, collected it and the box says it's for a 1999 145...

The part number matches and it looks sort of like it might fit, but I'm not holding out much hope.