The grumpy thread

[twosmoke300]

Have you tried a hat ? 😂

[High Jetter]

Pedestrians: If you have headphones on and are looking at your phone when you amble into the road without looking for traffic you should not be surprised if a driver is slightly* cross that you caused him to make an emergency stop rather than kill you.

[Talbot]

On 10/7/2022 at 9:35 AM, 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.

Very easy fix for this:  You find out who has to pay the energy bill and explain to them what is going on.  Very shortly thereafter there will be a decree that if anyone changes the valves from setting 2 (or whatever works) they will be personally responsible for the Gas bill.

I've had similar battles in the past with people who have absolutely fuck-all understanding of thermostatic control, TRVs, energy consumption etc.etc.  In one company there was about 40kw of electric heaters on under peoples desks, with windows wide open "for fresh air".  I explained all this to our MD, who realised we were spending well over a grand a month on electricity, which was quite literally going straight out the window.  He spent about £5k on a recuperative heat exchanger system for the office (which draws in fresh air, heating it with the warm stale air on the way out) and banned under-desk heaters.  Paid for itself in under 6 months and the office was far more pleasant to be in.

[cobblers]

19 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Very easy fix for this:  You find out who has to pay the energy bill and explain to them what is going on.  Very shortly thereafter there will be a decree that if anyone changes the valves from setting 2 (or whatever works) they will be personally responsible for the Gas bill.

I've had similar battles in the past with people who have absolutely fuck-all understanding of thermostatic control, TRVs, energy consumption etc.etc.  In one company there was about 40kw of electric heaters on under peoples desks, with windows wide open "for fresh air".  I explained all this to our MD, who realised we were spending well over a grand a month on electricity, which was quite literally going straight out the window.  He spent about £5k on a recuperative heat exchanger system for the office (which draws in fresh air, heating it with the warm stale air on the way out) and banned under-desk heaters.  Paid for itself in under 6 months and the office was far more pleasant to be in.

I've mentioned it a few times to the facilities manager but she's an absolute simpleton.

In summer, they bought 4 portable air conditioners to cool down the "meeting room" area which is some massive glazed atrium area, and they just had them stood in the middle of the room pumping the heat out of the back, directly into the room.

When this didn't have the desired effect, they bought two more air conditioners and opened all the windows as well. Had them running like this all summer.

[Talbot]

2 minutes ago, cobblers said:

I've mentioned it a few times to the facilities manager but she's an absolute simpleton.

Go to the MD or shareholders then.  "Do you know that your money is being wasted by doing xxx.  The company has wasted £eleventyK on energy this year, which has come straight out of your profit margin.

That gets people's attention.

[goosey]

Just found out the Neighbour has had his drink drive charges dropped as the Police couldn’t prove he was driving and he denied that he was driving when questioned.

A changed man apparently 🙄

 

[cobblers]

5 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Go to the MD or shareholders then.  "Do you know that your money is being wasted by doing xxx.  The company has wasted £eleventyK on energy this year, which has come straight out of your profit margin.

That gets people's attention.

It's owned by the council, I'd be wasting my breath. The last competent person in the commercial property area left about 18 months ago, and the remaining bloke has been off on long term sick for over a year so the whole department has been left to run itself.

[Talbot]

10 minutes ago, cobblers said:

It's owned by the council

Fuck that then.  You'd have more sucess talking to a brick wall.

[Metal Guru]

10 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Fuck that then.  You'd have more sucess talking to a brick wall.

Contact the press or put it on whatever social media the council uses. They’re all “seen to be green” and don’t like to be shown up for being environmentally irresponsible .

[chaseracer]

33 minutes ago, cobblers said:

It's owned by the council

 

21 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Fuck that then.  You'd have more sucess talking to a brick wall.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/blowing-the-whistle-list-of-prescribed-people-and-bodies--2/whistleblowing-list-of-prescribed-people-and-bodies

[cobblers]

10 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Contact the press or put it on whatever social media the council uses. They’re all “seen to be green” and don’t like to be shown up for being environmentally irresponsible .

They love to be be green, they built a pretty sizeable wind turbine at the end of the carpark. Worked great for about a year until the big warehouse on the adjoining plot was complete,  which blocks all the wind. 

Rather than sell it or move it, it's just been stood there useless since 2006.

[High Jetter]

12 minutes ago, cobblers said:

They love to be be green, they built a pretty sizeable wind turbine at the end of the carpark. Worked great for about a year until the big warehouse on the adjoining plot was complete,  which blocks all the wind. 

Rather than sell it or move it, it's just been stood there useless since 2006.

That's either a very low turbine or a mahoosive warehouse! Someone in planning cocked up there.

[cobblers]

Just now, High Jetter said:

That's either a very low turbine or a mahoosive warehouse! Someone in planning cocked up there.

It's a bit of both, it was built in the mid-2000s so by sizeable I mean "not one of them 8 foot wide things". Construction of the big warehouse was apparently already underway when they built the turbine.

[Dyslexic Viking]

I had to take a trip to the nearest town (Arendal) today and towns and cities are as terrible as ever. And the shops have already started selling Christmas decorations.

[Talbot]

37 minutes ago, cobblers said:

Construction of the big warehouse was apparently already underway when they built the turbine.

[twosmoke300]

4 hours ago, Talbot said:

 

I've had similar battles in the past with people who have absolutely fuck-all understanding of thermostatic control

Insert sexist comment here

 

Women? 🤣

[Talbot]

32 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Insert sexist comment here

 

Women? 🤣

Often, but not always.  The difference also is that in many cases the women are more willing to listen if I try to gently explain.  If it's a man who doesn't understand, he'll almost stick two fingers in his ears walking off shouting "LAA LAA LAA LAA".  While simultaneously expecting the central heating to work more if it's turned up to 30c and complaining that it's too warm and opening up windows.

[Datsuncog]

3 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

the shops have already started selling Christmas decorations.

Shops here have been selling Christmas decorations since the end of August...

I forgot to post my regular annual Supermarket rant about festive goods this year, but looking back through my phone I can confirm that Sainsburys was already stocking seasonal foodstuffs on 16th September.

With a best-before date of 6th October on their mince pies.

FFS.

(I know. I know. It's me.)

[Dyslexic Viking]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Shops here have been selling Christmas decorations since the end of August...

I haven't been to a big shop in town for a long time so I don't know when they started selling Christmas decorations here. But for all I know, it could have been in July or August.

[richardmorris]

8 hours ago, Talbot said:

Fuck that then.  You'd have more sucess talking to a brick wall.

Or go another direction and tell them how it’s mucking up their green plan/ green credentials.

[Remspoor]

8 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I had to take a trip to the nearest town (Arendal) today and towns and cities are as terrible as ever. And the shops have already started selling Christmas decorations.

Started to sell Turrón here in Spain too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turrón

Bollocks to Christmas.

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

4 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Started to sell Turrón here in Spain too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turrón

Bollocks to Christmas.

 

I can't understand why to start so early but I guess it's money as always. But I can't stop thinking about how much trash and food that has to be thrown away this creates.

[jakebullet]

Green bin day tomorrow. Fuckin huge hedge needs trimming again on top as a) current workshy next door never does any trimming and b) bastard hedge is 5 foot thick due to 20 years of renting to workshy cunts.

A bit back I bought a 5 in 1 petrol chopping thing from aldi as long reach, so will be easy* to chop all 5 foot thick hedge. Sadly it's a bit shit, so I'm doing the rev it to max and wave about hopefully thing while overstretching.

No, I didn't fall off the steps. Got too close to the exhaust, burned a hole in my jumper and singed my left boob. 

[hairnet]

which is why ive ran away from xmas the last five years

just cant be arsed

had medical and had issues with it which stopped when part of it disappeared

but went back into work and something someone said triggered it (not on purpose)

just watched prog on tv and what he was doing set it off again

mental and emotional

fuck sake

i want to give up now

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

[High Jetter]

14 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

Green bin day tomorrow. Fuckin huge hedge needs trimming again on top as a) current workshy next door never does any trimming and b) bastard hedge is 5 foot thick due to 20 years of renting to workshy cunts.

A bit back I bought a 5 in 1 petrol chopping thing from aldi as long reach, so will be easy* to chop all 5 foot thick hedge. Sadly it's a bit shit, so I'm doing the rev it to max and wave about hopefully thing while overstretching.

No, I didn't fall off the steps. Got too close to the exhaust, burned a hole in my jumper and singed my left boob. 

Might need to go into brown bin? Green round here is recyclicling.

[jakebullet]

31 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Might need to go into brown bin? Green round here is recyclicling.

Green is garden waste, blue cardboard, brown glass / metal  & black landfill round here. 

I get well confused every time I go to Whitby where it's blue for recycling, green for landfill. Just wrong!

[hairnet]

47 minutes ago, Michael Asphalt said:

if they only played that and shakey i wouldnt care

but they play all the other shite (fuck you jonah louie)

 

[Yoss]

We're blue for recycling, brown for garden waste and green for general which is different again from all the above. This is fun. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

Just now, Yoss said:

We're blue for recycling, brown for garden waste and green for general which is different again from all the above. This is fun. 

Green/grey for general waste, was blue for paper/cardboard (now a trolley thing, more on that in a second), and brown for garden waste. We went from blue wheelies for paper etc and a black tub for cans and plastic to a recycling caddy/trolley that was a pointless exercise since it has nearly no space. They like to disappear in storms too.