The grumpy thread

[sierraman]

I’m surprised they checked if you had an mot tbh

[EyesWeldedShut]

4 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I’m surprised they checked if you had an mot tbh

I'm figuring maybe their call centre software  or in the cab gizmo does it automagically - pings DVLA and gets MoT/Tax/V5 info like weights up on the screen for them?

[RoverFolkUs]

They actively record it, if you have the app it displays your tax and mot expiry date. So even if you don't use the app, I assume it's still monitored on their system

[New POD]

I am a bit pissed off.  

I had a second interview planned on Teams, yesterday.  This is my Target job. 

Closest to home, pays the most money, product is expensive and clever.  (carbon ceramic disc brake rotars for people like Mcclaren and Austin Martin)

I planned to work from home yesterday morning. As it was only 30 mins. 

The recruiter screwed up and failed to get it into the hiring managers diary. 

Anyway, they rearranged for this morning. As I have another interview somewhere else, this afternoon, I decided I'd be as well to take the morning off.  

I then had another interview last night for a truck manafacturer in Bamber Bridge. 

Anyway, they've just cancelled saying they had a H&S incident overnight and the hiring manager has to investigate. 

Now it may well be true.  I've offered them any lunchtime next week. 

 

Now to prep for this afternoon. (2nd interview with a site tour) 

 

[5speedracer]

On 4/19/2023 at 11:46 PM, Metal Guru said:

Supermarket special prices for club cards etc. WTF? 
Got to carry round a load of extra cards or pay a couple of quid extra for everything. I’m making a point of boycotting them. So far it’s Tesco, Sainsburys and Co-op.

 

If you've an Android phone you can store them all in your Google Wallet, no cards necessary.

[Remspoor]

13 hours ago, Fennec said:

Kinda wish they were, maybe they'd leave me alone. 🤣 

Rubbed myself in clove oil this week to deter the little twats, it seems to have worked.  😊

The misses makes up her own anti mozzie cream. I cant give you the full recipe as it is in Dutch. Basic include cedar oil, bees wax, lavender oil, Small bit of olive oil and a few other "smelly stuff". I don't get attacked so much as the misses.  also have the jar open when there is an annoying fly near by. They eventually find somewhere else to buzz around.

[Spiny Norman]

Possibly not the best solution health-wise but my Dad would often fire up a nice fat cigar when the Argyll Midge Brigade decided to visit us on holiday. Worked a treat and I grew up quite liking the smell of cigar smoke.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

6 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

They actively record it, if you have the app it displays your tax and mot expiry date. So even if you don't use the app, I assume it's still monitored on their system

 I didn't even use the app but they ask for your registration and pop that in.  So it must flag up as part of their ticketing system.

[eddyramrod]

I've calmed down a bit now...

By 1pm today I had decided that I didn't want to go out in the car again!  People have been randomly throwing themselves across the road in front of my car (and then taking all fucking day to cross the road they've just jumped onto), or with a vehicle at their disposal, appearing from nowhere in droves to fill up any road I might be trying to join.

It would be very, very easy on the evidence of today to assume that I'm being deliberately targeted.

[Jazoli]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

I've calmed down a bit now...

By 1pm today I had decided that I didn't want to go out in the car again!  People have been randomly throwing themselves across the road in front of my car (and then taking all fucking day to cross the road they've just jumped onto), or with a vehicle at their disposal, appearing from nowhere in droves to fill up any road I might be trying to join.

It would be very, very easy on the evidence of today to assume that I'm being deliberately targeted.

Sorry Eddy I had a wander around Barrow centre today and drove around for a bit checking a couple of buildings out, sorry for the inconvenience I wasn't paying a great deal of attention 😀 

[wuvvum]

Made the mistake of having a poke at some grot on the Renault 6.

Oh dear.  Turns out that a section of floorpan which I had thought was solid had actually been lovingly sculpted out of wob.  

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Double grump.  One is my fault, one isn't.  We've had a slow puncture on the BINI for a couple of weeks and the fronts were getting a bit low, so I took it to the local tyre place having ordered a pair of Falkens online.  Got there and had forgotten that it needs run-flat tyres (ideally) so it ended up costing me £25 more a corner than I originally thought it would.  Not their fault and they're really good - just annoying.

Against my better judgement I then took it to the hand car wash in Morrisons.  I usually avoid these places for a number of reasons but I didn't have the energy to give it a clean and my other half was paying as she's taking friends out in it in the week and our dog is a shedder.  When it came out, the airbag warning light was on.  Twats there fobbed me off (no point in arguing with them) and only wanted to be paid in cash (so are on the fiddle because they definitely have a card machine).  The best I got out of them is that the under-seat connector may have got wet when they steam cleaned the car.  Other than that they just shrugged and tried to claim that it could happen 'at any time'.  Yeah, fuck off pal.

Now, that can happen and they might be completely correct - but that doesn't help.  I wasn't in the mood to argue about a refund, etc. because I would have just got angry but from reading, it looks like the airbag warning can only be reset with a code reader.  So I've had to book it into a garage on Monday morning.  I'll get shafted for that too, probably.  Not a garage I'm familiar with but they're the only ones with availability (probably a bad sign).  So we'll see.

My other half won't drive it with the airbag light on (they'll be switched off) so I had to fix the driver seat in my Golf and then clean the inside and out.  I wouldn't have usually bothered but she's been invited to go and meet with a potential new employer on Monday after applying for a job with them and arriving in my filthy Golf will set a terrible first impression. I'm now absolutely fucking knackered now, probably dehydrated and I wasn't exactly feeling a spring in my step when I woke up this morning to begin with.

Fucking cars.  At least it got me out of mowing an overgrown and damp 1/3rd of an acre.

[omegod]

I wish someone did home delivery breville sandwiches, no fucker eats them all the time but everyone gets a  craving sometime, yeah that's me tonight and we threw our breville out a year ago

[GrumpiusMaximus]

You can say that again.

[omegod]

2 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

You can say that again.

Sorry, I had a bit of a stutter  

[Pieman]

Called at the local pharmacy earlier this evening to get some throat sweets and my neighbour's daughter was just finishing her shift in there, having recently started working there at weekends while doing her A-levels.  As I was leaving her dad arrived to pick her up, and apparently he takes her there and back for every shift...my grump is, the place is less than ten minutes' walk from our houses!  I thought getting part time work was meant to teach you a bit of independence.

[omegod]

57 minutes ago, omegod said:

I wish someone did home delivery breville sandwiches, no fucker eats them all the time but everyone gets a  craving sometime, yeah that's me tonight and we threw our breville out a year ago

Even grumpier now as there are at least 5 shiters not too far away from me and not one of the bastards has offered to bring me a breville toastie, this place has gone the dogs 😒😁

 

[New POD]

6 minutes ago, omegod said:

Even grumpier now as there are at least 5 shiters not too far away from me and not one of the bastards has offered to bring me a breville toastie, this place has gone the dogs 😒😁

 

Now that's an idea.  

If you'd asked sooner I would be under the drink drive limit. Sorry. 

[New POD]

Grump. My 34 year old flymo has erm failed to proceed. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 hour ago, omegod said:

I wish someone did home delivery breville sandwiches, no fucker eats them all the time but everyone gets a  craving sometime, yeah that's me tonight and we threw our breville out a year ago

I'd do it, but by the time I arrived you'd have been able to go to Argos and buy a machine and have made you and your extended family some toasties.

[New POD]

1 minute ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I'd do it, but by the time I arrived you'd have been able to go to Argos and buy a machine and have made you and your extended family some toasties.

I'm on my own in the house, if he drives up the M57 he can be here in 30 mins. 

I would make him two. 

[wuvvum]

6 minutes ago, New POD said:

Grump. My 34 year old flymo has erm failed to proceed. 

[omegod]

14 minutes ago, New POD said:

I'm on my own in the house, if he drives up the M57 he can be here in 30 mins. 

I would make him two. 

With the new bypass I could do it in 20 , the urge has passed now but I'm going to Argos tomorrow !!!!! 

[barefoot]

Can you not just butter a couple of slices, shove some cheese into an inside out sandwich and drop them into a hot dry pan? Far better than anything that ever came out of a Breville.

[twosmoke300]

3 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Can you not just butter a couple of slices, shove some cheese into an inside out sandwich and drop them into a hot dry pan? Far better than anything that ever came out of a Breville.

Wash your mouth out !

[EyesWeldedShut]

49 minutes ago, New POD said:

If you'd asked sooner I would be under the drink drive limit. Sorry. 

yes but then again, you are in Scotland? No?
Where an opened bottle of whisky in the room is enough to trip the limit (Never mind the inhaled fume from a Toastie)

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Grump. My 34 year old flymo has erm failed to proceed. 

Need some of this.

[RoverFolkUs]

3 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Double grump.  One is my fault, one isn't.  We've had a slow puncture on the BINI for a couple of weeks and the fronts were getting a bit low, so I took it to the local tyre place having ordered a pair of Falkens online.  Got there and had forgotten that it needs run-flat tyres (ideally) so it ended up costing me £25 more a corner than I originally thought it would.  Not their fault and they're really good - just annoying.

Against my better judgement I then took it to the hand car wash in Morrisons.  I usually avoid these places for a number of reasons but I didn't have the energy to give it a clean and my other half was paying as she's taking friends out in it in the week and our dog is a shedder.  When it came out, the airbag warning light was on.  Twats there fobbed me off (no point in arguing with them) and only wanted to be paid in cash (so are on the fiddle because they definitely have a card machine).  The best I got out of them is that the under-seat connector may have got wet when they steam cleaned the car.  Other than that they just shrugged and tried to claim that it could happen 'at any time'.  Yeah, fuck off pal.

Now, that can happen and they might be completely correct - but that doesn't help.  I wasn't in the mood to argue about a refund, etc. because I would have just got angry but from reading, it looks like the airbag warning can only be reset with a code reader.  So I've had to book it into a garage on Monday morning.  I'll get shafted for that too, probably.  Not a garage I'm familiar with but they're the only ones with availability (probably a bad sign).  So we'll see.

My other half won't drive it with the airbag light on (they'll be switched off) so I had to fix the driver seat in my Golf and then clean the inside and out.  I wouldn't have usually bothered but she's been invited to go and meet with a potential new employer on Monday after applying for a job with them and arriving in my filthy Golf will set a terrible first impression. I'm now absolutely fucking knackered now, probably dehydrated and I wasn't exactly feeling a spring in my step when I woke up this morning to begin with.

Fucking cars.  At least it got me out of mowing an overgrown and damp 1/3rd of an acre.

That doesn't make total sense because SRS is a self test system. So the light should go off and the system re-enable although the code may still stay. 

May sound silly, are the interior lights working? 

Disconnect the battery, wait however long you deem for nuns and kittens to be safe (🙂) disconnect the under seat connectors and spray some electrical cleaner in there, and reconnect. Then reconnect the battery. 

That should clear the light. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

4 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

That doesn't make total sense because SRS is a self test system. So the light should go off and the system re-enable although the code may still stay. 

May sound silly, are the interior lights working? 

Disconnect the battery, wait however long you deem for nuns and kittens to be safe (🙂) disconnect the under seat connectors and spray some electrical cleaner in there, and reconnect. Then reconnect the battery. 

That should clear the light. 

That's incredibly helpful, I'll take a look tomorrow.  Thank you.  I have already tried disconnecting the airbag connectors and re-connecting but I'll give it another go (and disconnect the battery this time...).

[RoverFolkUs]

2 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

That's incredibly helpful, I'll take a look tomorrow.  Thank you.

Basically what I'm saying is, as soon as the fault is rectified (if it is just a dodgy connection under the seat) - the system should detect it during its self test and switch the light off the next time you cycle the ignition. And with the battery being disconnected it will only help. 

And the interior light question is in reference to the habit that BMWs have of blowing the interior light fuse and triggering an airbag light because the switch tell tale lamp is on the same circuit (!!) I don't know if minis are the same because I haven't come across it on a mini, but it wouldn't at all surprise me.