The grumpy thread

[RoverFolkUs]

3 hours ago, MikeR said:

Those attached coke bottle tops ...

Who thought that one up ?

The same people that think up every other environmentally friendly solution*

Infuriate anyone trying to drink the beverage and subsequently encourage them to rip the fucker off entirely and toss it away anywhere else out of frustration!

[PicantoJon]

Been sat waiting in car park at aldi and this specimen has been sat there with their reversing lights on... 🙃

[Ghosty]

Bastard whiplash, can't feel half my face.

[RoverFolkUs]

12 minutes ago, PicantoJon said:

Been sat waiting in car park at aldi and this specimen has been sat there with their reversing lights on... 🙃

Probably thought they've put it in park but are too busy distracted on their phone or something hence holding the brake anyway!

[MikeR]

trip home presented us with a car T boned on the drivers side by a single decker bus on a straight bit of road ...   SMIDNSY ????

anyway the car is scrap , both off side wheels were under the bus ......

[Coprolalia]

31 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Bastard whiplash, can't feel half my face.

That isn't normal for whiplash. Have you had it checked out?

(Speaking as resident quack, not constituting actual medical advice etc etc)

[Coprolalia]

I've had a proper shit day. Got a stinking cold from sprog. Said sprog (18 months old) took the screen protector off my phone at the weekend. It dropped out of my pocket getting out of the car earlier, and the screen shattered. Arse.

My very high end work desktop (bought from my research grant) shat it's graphics card last month. Repaired under warranty. Re-imaged because 'you're now back on site'. No longer have admin rights and everything stored in OneDrive/ cloud server. So that fucking works well for a) sensitive clinical records, and b) anything command line/ bash/ etc coding. Spent all day trying to get Git to work. Does it bollocks.

Seem to have cracked a tooth.

Fuck it all.

[Ghosty]

52 minutes ago, Coprolalia said:

That isn't normal for whiplash. Have you had it checked out?

(Speaking as resident quack, not constituting actual medical advice etc etc)

It's been an occasional thing for the last three weeks but since my last physio appointment (yesterday) it's permanent. Going to look into it.  

[goosey]

Buddy Repperton ruined my Lunch.

[Talbot]

bloody passport office.

While I was of the belief that I needed a passport to travel to Ireland, I booked in for a 1-week fast service.  Having realised that not only will that still not get to me in time, but also I don't actually need a passport to travel to Ireland (unless an airline insists on it), I thought it best to cancel the appointment.

The appointment was for 09:45 on Saturday 25th.  I phoned up just now, at 09:52.  Got held in their menu system for a minute or two, then on hold for another minute or two.  Finally get through to a bod and explain.  Initially he gives me some waffle that it has to be 2 clear working days to cancel without a charge.  I query this as the website info says 48hrs.  He then confirms that it's less than 48hrs, so there will be a £30 cancellation charge that will come off the refund.  He looks up the time I got through to him and confirmed that I was 13 minutes over.  13 bastard minutes.  I can't even re-schedule now, as it's less than 48hrs.  The only options are to come to the appointment, cancel with a £30 fee, or not turn up at all and get walloped for the full cost (which is far enough.. missed appointments are a pain).

I do, of course, still need a passport, but there's no urgency any more, so I may as well use their standard service at £85-ish, so even though I'll lose £30, it still makes sense to do so, as the faster service was £155.

£30 for 13 minutes over.  Cheeky fuckers.  I know they are the passport office, so by definition have to be straight-down-the-line and extremely officious, but that's just bloody rude.  What's really annoying is that you *know* that they'll re-sell the appointment online and not lose a penny.

[Metal Guru]

11 minutes ago, Talbot said:

bloody passport office.

While I was of the belief that I needed a passport to travel to Ireland, I booked in for a 1-week fast service.  Having realised that not only will that still not get to me in time, but also I don't actually need a passport to travel to Ireland (unless an airline insists on it), I thought it best to cancel the appointment.

The appointment was for 09:45 on Saturday 25th.  I phoned up just now, at 09:52.  Got held in their menu system for a minute or two, then on hold for another minute or two.  Finally get through to a bod and explain.  Initially he gives me some waffle that it has to be 2 clear working days to cancel without a charge.  I query this as the website info says 48hrs.  He then confirms that it's less than 48hrs, so there will be a £30 cancellation charge that will come off the refund.  He looks up the time I got through to him and confirmed that I was 13 minutes over.  13 bastard minutes.  I can't even re-schedule now, as it's less than 48hrs.  The only options are to come to the appointment, cancel with a £30 fee, or not turn up at all and get walloped for the full cost (which is far enough.. missed appointments are a pain).

I do, of course, still need a passport, but there's no urgency any more, so I may as well use their standard service at £85-ish, so even though I'll lose £30, it still makes sense to do so, as the faster service was £155.

£30 for 13 minutes over.  Cheeky fuckers.  I know they are the passport office, so by definition have to be straight-down-the-line and extremely officious, but that's just bloody rude.  What's really annoying is that you *know* that they'll re-sell the appointment online and not lose a penny.

Write to them explaining that you phoned in time but the wait to get through took you under the 48hrs, they might refund it.

A few years ago , they made a mistake with my wife’s passport which we only noticed 2 days before travelling. We had to get to be first in the queue next morning to stand any chance and the passport office was 100 miles away. So we got a hotel nearby and got in there as the doors opened, passport reissued and of on hold next day.

When we returned I told them I wanted reimbursing for the hotel , 200 miles travel and just for the hell of it said the stress of it all ruined the first few days of our holiday and wanted them to pay 3/14ths of the cost. 
Result ,cheque for £550.

[New POD]

18 hours ago, MikeR said:

trip home presented us with a car T boned on the drivers side by a single decker bus on a straight bit of road ...   SMIDNSY ????

anyway the car is scrap , both off side wheels were under the bus ......

Sorry what ?  Are you okay? Pictures, medical report etc. 

[MikeR]

Just now, New POD said:

Sorry what ?  Are you okay? Pictures, medical report etc. 

presented as in "we saw" in Netherton  .. it caused  tail backs right back towards the Broom cross road

bus looked full  as well , plenty of claims for shock and shake ?

[Remspoor]

A women passes by our house everyday to walk her dog. The wife and I have made friends with the woman and pet.

She was going to London on vacation for a few days vacation .Asked what would I like to be brought back. I said tea is always a good choice.I  suggested PGTips. Today she brought me the present. Tea bags. Not PG Tips but Twinings. Great even better. The gripe is.....they are now making the tea bags in Poland. The Brits don't even make the best* tea in the world  now

[somewhatfoolish]

Twinings are bagging their bloody tea in Poland? Is nothing sacred?

[GregZX]

Paid £8k for a completely new bathroom including a £400 Mira Azora waterfall shower back in September.

They did a great job and the shower was fantastic.

Until this morning when it shat itself. Had power to the unit as the switch lit up but when depressed no water would appear.

Took the front off and checked the solenoid for continuity. Nothing.

So no showers until the Mira engineer comes out on Tuesday. Six fecking months it lasted. Anyway, I'm going to get him to show me how to replace the solenoid on this unit as no doubt it will go again as soon as the warranty expires.

[artdjones]

8 minutes ago, GregZX said:

Paid £8k for a completely new bathroom including a £400 Mira Azora waterfall shower back in September.

They did a great job and the shower was fantastic.

Until this morning when it shat itself. Had power to the unit as the switch lit up but when depressed no water would appear.

Took the front off and checked the solenoid for continuity. Nothing.

So no showers until the Mira engineer comes out on Tuesday. Six fecking months it lasted. Anyway, I'm going to get him to show me how to replace the solenoid on this unit as no doubt it will go again as soon as the warranty expires.

It looks very like my 2000 Mira Elite inside. The solenoids lasted 20 years on that. They are cheap, anyway.

[GregZX]

4 minutes ago, artdjones said:

It looks very like my 2000 Mira Elite inside. The solenoids lasted 20 years on that. They are cheap, anyway.

Yeah. £20. All parts seem to be easily interchangeable anyway.

[High Jetter]

Twinings is shite tea.

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, Remspoor said:

A women passes by our house everyday to walk her dog. The wife and I have made friends with the woman and pet.

She was going to London on vacation for a few days vacation .Asked what would I like to be brought back. I said tea is always a good choice.I  suggested PGTips. Today she brought me the present. Tea bags. Not PG Tips but Twinings. Great even better. The gripe is.....they are now making the tea bags in Poland. The Brits don't even make the best* tea in the world  now

The tea comes from India anyway. Hardly made in Britain .

[artdjones]

4 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

The tea comes from India anyway. Hardly made in Britain .

True, but Britain has a long history of tea processing and blending. Poland , I'm not sure. 

[Remspoor]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

The tea comes from India anyway. Hardly made in Britain .

Well sort of true. Yes tea plants are not grown in the UK and they are not just grown in India. However, tea has been processed, made into drinkable tea, for a long, long time in the country. Look at the history of Twinings for instance.

There is nothing like British tea, IMHO.

[artdjones]

13 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

There is nothing like British tea, IMHO

The Irish might have something to say about that.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

FFS. Favourite mug, too!

Who was the member on here who organised these a few years back? 

[myglaren]

 

 

Yorkshire Tea, grown on the sunny slopes of Ilkley Moor.

In inclement weather it comes from the Barnsley tea mine.

 

On that note I saw on QI something called Duck Shit Tea, which only grows in cold, damp places so Yorkshire could be ideal.

Yorkshire Tea is the only tea that I partake of.

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, artdjones said:

The Irish might have something to say about that.

Good stuff, that. We always go for Barry's when over there.

[MiniMinorMk3]

19 hours ago, Remspoor said:

A women passes by our house everyday to walk her dog. The wife and I have made friends with the woman and pet.

She was going to London on vacation for a few days vacation .Asked what would I like to be brought back. I said tea is always a good choice.I  suggested PGTips. Today she brought me the present. Tea bags. Not PG Tips but Twinings. Great even better. The gripe is.....they are now making the tea bags in Poland. The Brits don't even make the best* tea in the world  now

 

19 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Twinings are bagging their bloody tea in Poland? Is nothing sacred?

 

15 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

The tea comes from India anyway. Hardly made in Britain .

 

10 hours ago, artdjones said:

True, but Britain has a long history of tea processing and blending. Poland , I'm not sure. 

 

6 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Well sort of true. Yes tea plants are not grown in the UK and they are not just grown in India. However, tea has been processed, made into drinkable tea, for a long, long time in the country. Look at the history of Twinings for instance.

There is nothing like British tea, IMHO.

Her indoors used to work at Twinings, She left before production moved to Poland in 2012.

However, the plant was taken over by Spicers, who blend speciality teas in the old Twinigs factory to this day.

Keith Spicer (keith-spicer.co.uk)

They make the biggest rival to Yorkshire tea

and for softy southerners there's

and for traditionalists there's

 

[Matty]

Shower of bastards. Have to come here once a week for kids swimming. Bought a ticket as always for longer than I was staying. They've recently changed the machine from printing sticky tickets for the screen to plain pieces of paper. Laid it on the dash and checked after shutting the door that it hadn't blown over. Then our Eve went to the car for something. Preditcable end result. I hope the cunts tea is burnt when he gets in!

[Remspoor]

 

4 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Her indoors used to work at Twinings, She left before production moved to Poland in 2012.

In the 1950s the main factory in southeast London was struggling to cope with demand. Production was relocated to a new plant in Andover, Hampshire  1966. At the time this cost £3 million. Andover was chosen as it was halfway between London and Avonmouth, where the tea docked, and close to Southampton, from where it was exported. Eighty families were relocated to the new factory. The seven acre site contained one of the most modern automated factories in the world, and employed 700 workers. The present day work force is vastly reduced from that number.

https://goo.gl/maps/xYFRpkFd7AMQUjhT7

The factory in North Shields was opened in 1970. So that did not last so long, unfortunately.

The Chinese side of the company.

https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0173412D:CH

 

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

2 hours ago, Matty said:

Shower of bastards. Have to come here once a week for kids swimming. Bought a ticket as always for longer than I was staying. They've recently changed the machine from printing sticky tickets for the screen to plain pieces of paper. Laid it on the dash and checked after shutting the door that it hadn't blown over. Then our Eve went to the car for something. Preditcable end result. I hope the cunts tea is burnt when he gets in!

Had this happen to me a few years ago.  It's worth contesting, you have clear evidence of payment.