The grumpy thread

[Cluffy]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

@Cluffy has informed me that fish & chips from our local is now ten pounds.

Ten quid!

I know: inflation, cost of living, energy prices etc etc.

But also, fuck off Tories and Brexit. Without which it'd still be a fiver.

It was cash only too and only thought I had a £20 note. I was relieved to find a pound coin in my wallet so I could pay jeremy Hunt for some curry sauce as well...

[camryv6]

On 2/13/2023 at 1:29 PM, cobblers said:

I don't drink coke because pepsi max is far superior but schweppes do this on their tonic and it's really awkward to pour the tonic out of the bottle without the top flapping round in the way. What a shit idea. First thing I do when I open one is snap it off, but sometimes it's actually held on their pretty well. 

Problems with your tonic water, i think you might be on the wrong forum 🧐 !!

[Remspoor]

What I think @Supernaut should have said was that the MSNs are late in reporting this.  Both of teh examples given are dated 10 days later.  That should have been "breaking news". There was some sort of news blackout. I found out only by chance because some one sent me the twitter handle. I can only find something in the Daily Fail in the UK.

Look at this from Tory-graph screenshot. Nothing at all, just balloons and a few other bits and bobs including stoned dogs.

If anyone wants to get around paywalls then use  https://12ft.io/

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, grogee said:

@Cluffy has informed me that fish & chips from our local is now ten pounds.

Ten quid!

I know: inflation, cost of living, energy prices etc etc.

But also, fuck off Tories and Brexit. Without which it'd still be a fiver.

It's been £10 around here for a while now. Interestingly, one pla(i)ce nearby had a newspaper cutting on the window about 12-18 months ago forecasting exactly that.

[Metal Guru]

36 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

It's been £10 around here for a while now. Interestingly, one pla(i)ce nearby had a newspaper cutting on the window about 12-18 months ago forecasting exactly that.

The chippy I use most ( in Cumbria),  has been£8.50 for two visits running, first time it’s not gone up in a year. I paid that in Brighton 10 years ago, so I’d guess £10 is considered pretty cheap there. Cheapest I’ve had this year was £7.50 but pretty small portions.

 

[omegod]

£7.50 round my way will get you a full size fish, chips peas and curry 

[eddyramrod]

23 hours ago, trigger said:

Not sure I should be grumpy as I'm very lucky to be here I guess but I've gone to Disneyland Paris this week with my family, over £3000 to go to a overpriced, overhyped, overrated theme Park with far too many people, average hotel rooms (with chewing gum up the door and someone hair stuck in it, we did get a new room though) and queues that take forever to move, especially with a 5 year old who has ADHD trates. 

I'm struggling to see the appeal with the place if I'm honest, also has this Corvette that people was walking into with bags and leaning against that was covered in scratches 

And this 50s Dodge that's used for keeping cheese om

Thank you for that!  I'm in the process of building a road trip there for May/June, to include a couple of days on the Parc because my granddaughters will be there.  My stepson can pay for them!  What bothers me more than anything, even the ridiculous cost, is navigating the park with MrsR.  Will we need her wheelchair?  Or is it worth hiring a couple of Madgewagons so we can keep up with the family?  Did you notice how "the disabled" were treated re access and facilities?

[RoverFolkUs]

Car recovered into us today, new inner tie rod fitted by a competitor franchise garage just before Christmas

What happened? 

It had come undone... 

Now, sure, shit like this happens.. but the grump?

Customer reports the garage told him to "foxtrot oscar" when he asked them to look at it a bit more quickly than 3 weeks away when it's something blatantly unsafe that has failed regarding their workmanship. 

If I were this other garage, I'd be looking to get it in and sorted very quickly with suitable recompense to avoid getting sued...!!

We're not all like this - promise!

[Popsicle]

£6 for fish and chip meal in a box with either peas, beans, curry or gravy round our way. Alternatively if feeling flush £20 at the local posh place - expensive but it is really nice.

[trigger]

1 minute ago, eddyramrod said:

Did you notice how "the disabled" were treated re access and facilities?

The disabled seem very well looked after from what I've seen, there's a lot of people in wheelchairs here and they do get priority onto rides although obviously their limited to the ones they can actually do. 

The best thing I can recommend is to download the Disneyland app as it's very good in telling you where everything is, live queue times and explains what rides are wheelchair friendly, I wouldn't feet it though as you will enjoy it, but be prepared for lots of people! 

[Markeh]

8 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Thank you for that!  I'm in the process of building a road trip there for May/June, to include a couple of days on the Parc because my granddaughters will be there.  My stepson can pay for them!  What bothers me more than anything, even the ridiculous cost, is navigating the park with MrsR.  Will we need her wheelchair?  Or is it worth hiring a couple of Madgewagons so we can keep up with the family?  Did you notice how "the disabled" were treated re access and facilities?

They're second to none with disabled guests from what I've seen previously - although I've not been to Paris for a good few years now. My cousins (one of whom has cerebral palsy and uses a chair) went to Florida a couple of years back and they bent over backwards to accommodate them.

[eddyramrod]

Thanks chaps!  That's mostly reassuring, except for the "lots of people" thing.  I'm hoping that going on weekdays outside the peak season should help there.  Crowds are my personal Hell.

[Markeh]

They really do try and go the extra mile. I was in Florida when I was about 14, and suddenly had a massive nose bleed in the queue for one of the rides. Got paramedics to us, got us to their medical facility to lie down for a bit afterwards, they even gave my mum a voucher to go and buy a t-shirt from the shop given I'd got a lot of blood down mine. I suppose from their perspective it meant we were able to stay on the park for the rest of the day rather than go home to recover/change - and they also probably don't want people roaming round the park covered in blood.

[Bren]

My e60 needs two boot struts - it opens on the remote with the power of a medievel catapult. One end is attached to the hinge bracket - the other to a flimsy piece of steel which I suspect, if left, would split.

Looking on internet most appear to be sellers on the continent - in the UK breakers are asking new money.

Not prepared to order from abroad.

 

 

[Rust Collector]

19 minutes ago, Bren said:

My e60 needs two boot struts - it opens on the remote with the power of a medievel catapult. One end is attached to the hinge bracket - the other to a flimsy piece of steel which I suspect, if left, would split.

Looking on internet most appear to be sellers on the continent - in the UK breakers are asking new money.

Not prepared to order from abroad.

What's wrong with ordering the bits from the continent? I've had a few parts from there recently when I haven't been able to source them in the UK, it wasn't really any bother. Up to £135 in value there's no faffing around with customs.

[Bren]

1 hour ago, Rust Collector said:

What's wrong with ordering the bits from the continent? I've had a few parts from there recently when I haven't been able to source them in the UK, it wasn't really any bother. Up to £135 in value there's no faffing around with customs.

Getting the wrong part can be a mare'.

I will see if my local factor can get them.

 

[Popsicle]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

My e60 needs two boot struts - it opens on the remote with the power of a medievel catapult. One end is attached to the hinge bracket - the other to a flimsy piece of steel which I suspect, if left, would split.

Looking on internet most appear to be sellers on the continent - in the UK breakers are asking new money.

Not prepared to order from abroad.

 

 

Have you tried https://www.lllparts.co.uk/

UK based and I've ordered a few things from them over the years, never had any problems with them, but the parts always take around 10 days to turn up.

[3VOM]

Try SGS for them

[vulgalour]

I am unhappy to report I have found a wood muncher in the Lanchester.

It seems localised to this plywood panel which is part of the intermediary boot floor.  Easy solution is to throw this away and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.  For now, it's isolated away from any other wood and especially the car.  Fortunately, the wooden frame in this area is on the other side of steel cladding so I'm hoping it's just this one panel that's been so badly affected.  The little bits of sawdust and haloes around some of the holes indicates activity, the darker cleaner holes are dormant (usually).

I could only find one other spot, also in plywood, which was a single hole that appears dormant on the plywood backing board for the rear seat that was next to the panel above that had been munched on.  Again, the easy solution there is to simply remove the panel (and the seat, and the trim, and whatever else might need it) and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.

Not what I wanted to find today when I was doing final tidying.  There's nothing I can do about it more than I have right now, this could be a job for the weekend weather permitting.  Funnily enough had the car been 'finished' I wouldn't have seen this at all because it would have been under trims so in a way I'm glad I found it now when it's easier to deal with.

[MiniMinorMk3]

On 2/14/2023 at 2:25 PM, grogee said:

@Cluffy has informed me that fish & chips from our local is now ten pounds.

Ten quid!

I know: inflation, cost of living, energy prices etc etc.

But also, fuck off Tories and Brexit. Without which it'd still be a fiver.

 

On 2/14/2023 at 4:21 PM, Cluffy said:

It was cash only too and only thought I had a £20 note. I was relieved to find a pound coin in my wallet so I could pay jeremy Hunt for some curry sauce as well...

 

On 2/14/2023 at 6:26 PM, High Jetter said:

It's been £10 around here for a while now. Interestingly, one pla(i)ce nearby had a newspaper cutting on the window about 12-18 months ago forecasting exactly that.

 

On 2/14/2023 at 7:05 PM, Metal Guru said:

The chippy I use most ( in Cumbria),  has been£8.50 for two visits running, first time it’s not gone up in a year. I paid that in Brighton 10 years ago, so I’d guess £10 is considered pretty cheap there. Cheapest I’ve had this year was £7.50 but pretty small portions.

 

 

On 2/14/2023 at 8:28 PM, omegod said:

£7.50 round my way will get you a full size fish, chips peas and curry 

 

On 2/14/2023 at 10:32 PM, Popsicle said:

£6 for fish and chip meal in a box with either peas, beans, curry or gravy round our way. Alternatively if feeling flush £20 at the local posh place - expensive but it is really nice.

Its 1/9d here, 2 bob with delivery. With inflation, if your fiss supper costs £10 now, that's 10,000% since 1963. How will Millenials cope when their fish and chips cost £1,000 in 2083?

 

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Having  a wonderful*  change of circumstances with the opportunity to decrease fleet size by 1. 😒

[New POD]

On 14/02/2023 at 20:28, omegod said:

£7.50 round my way will get you a full size fish, chips peas and curry 

You need to not go to.the place next to Freshfield Station. Awards. And Given that it's on the same Road that Most of the Liverpool and Everton players live on, it's not like the locals can't afford it.  £15 I think. 

[Wibble]

5 hours ago, vulgalour said:

I am unhappy to report I have found a wood muncher in the Lanchester.

It seems localised to this plywood panel which is part of the intermediary boot floor.  Easy solution is to throw this away and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.  For now, it's isolated away from any other wood and especially the car.  Fortunately, the wooden frame in this area is on the other side of steel cladding so I'm hoping it's just this one panel that's been so badly affected.  The little bits of sawdust and haloes around some of the holes indicates activity, the darker cleaner holes are dormant (usually).

I could only find one other spot, also in plywood, which was a single hole that appears dormant on the plywood backing board for the rear seat that was next to the panel above that had been munched on.  Again, the easy solution there is to simply remove the panel (and the seat, and the trim, and whatever else might need it) and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.

Not what I wanted to find today when I was doing final tidying.  There's nothing I can do about it more than I have right now, this could be a job for the weekend weather permitting.  Funnily enough had the car been 'finished' I wouldn't have seen this at all because it would have been under trims so in a way I'm glad I found it now when it's easier to deal with.

We see a lot of this with furniture restoration, usually inject the holes with woodworm killer and then brush over the surface. 

As you say, dark holes usually indicate old activity but the “sawdust” is actually the faeces of the beetle and indicates recent action.

[omegod]

43 minutes ago, New POD said:

You need to not go to.the place next to Freshfield Station. Awards. And Given that it's on the same Road that Most of the Liverpool and Everton players live on, it's not like the locals can't afford it.  £15 I think. 

If you want top quality I'd suggest Byrnes on Stuart Road in Walton, never had better and cooked to order for about £10 for the full monty 

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, omegod said:

If you want top quality I'd suggest Byrnes on Stuart Road in Walton, never had better and cooked to order for about £10 for the full monty 

Cooked to order seems to becoming fairly standard these days, rather than cook 50 pcs of fish and leave it to dry out under the heat lamps for 2hrs. Guess they can’t afford to throw any away at the end of the night at today’s prices.

[artdjones]

7 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Cooked to order seems to becoming fairly standard these days, rather than cook 50 pcs of fish and leave it to dry out under the heat lamps for 2hrs. Guess they can’t afford to throw any away at the end of the night at today’s prices.

I can see why they're doing it, but the point of fish and chips is to be fast food. If you have to hang around for 20 minutes while they get your order ready you might as well go straight home and make something yourself.

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, artdjones said:

I can see why they're doing it, but the point of fish and chips is to be fast food. If you have to hang around for 20 minutes while they get your order ready you might as well go straight home and make something yourself.

I disagree. Nothing worse than the fish dried up and luke warm. 
Another trend is the price of a portion of chips alone seems to have gone up proportionally even more than a fish supper. Presumably , so they don’t just end up selling chips on their own.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Nothing worse than food dried up and luke warm.

EFA. Totally agree, and 10 minutes is what local shops take for fish n chips. I'd far rather wait that long than have food that's been hanging around.

[Spurious]

Fecks sake. I would have thought that Japanese cars used a DIN flare. But no they don't. 

Predictably I don't have the right tool. 

 

[Alan_Green]

On 17/02/2023 at 16:20, MiniMinorMk3 said:

 

 

Blimey.  Manse Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh.  My first love lived on Manse Road.  (Liz, if you see this, I'm sorry, I didn't mean what I said about your mother).