The grumpy thread

[sdkrc]

On 04/06/2023 at 20:08, artdjones said:

I drove from Killarney to Killorglin a couple of hours ago which is 12 miles of a national route with a 100kph limit The person in front in a Renault Kangoo Kar insisted on driving at 50-60kph the whole way. Normally there are 6 straights where you can do a quick overtake, but today the opposite side of the road was full of a constant stream of Honda 50s returning from a bike fest.

Haha! I grew up in Killorglin and lived in Killarney. I forgot about the single lane national roads where there are snakes of traffic because of tourists or bizarre locals who think it's safer to drive at half the speed limit. It was always a Yaris causing the traffic back in my days

[artdjones]

7 minutes ago, sdkrc said:

Haha! I grew up in Killorglin and lived in Killarney. I forgot about the single lane national roads where there are snakes of traffic because of tourists or bizarre locals who think it's safer to drive at half the speed limit. It was always a Yaris causing the traffic back in my days

My personal theory is that Toyotas last so long because the typical owner never drives them at more than 45mph. I was surprised that it was a Kangoo 1.2, as they feel nice to press on in.

[Bren]

6 hours ago, Wack said:

I couldn't imagine doing a job where everyone hates you

This is my local post office

As you can see it's not busy , a just eat driver stopped alongside the shop about 25m straight on from where I took the picture

There are double yellows there but they're very faded , not even sure if they're still legal

Anyway

Hiding behind this sign is a traffic warden who waited for him to go in the shop then boom , over with the ticket printer

What a fucking job

Is that near the Hoop and Mallet?

Those lines are in a shit state.

[Metal Guru]

10 hours ago, MikeR said:

Ambled home today in the mobile handbag , had a urban bus in front of me that stopped at a stop on a narrow bend , so I stopped and waited behind him because it's the type of road where a car comes the other way just as you overtake and I am not on a rush  .. Uber taxi stops behind me , waits 5 seconds and decides I am a jerk for waiting and goes for it .....

And a car comes the other way .

He is then stuck beside me , I just give him a broad side of " u are a knob " looks and stay put ...

He then struggles to get back behind me  whilst a q of cars builds up with the lead driver giving him dirty looks .. then the bus moves on ..

Do taxi drivers take driving tests ? 

Of course . Where else do you learn to pull away in 5th without stalling?

[Ghosty]

On Saturday I was working on the MX5 with my dad - changing the diff, so my Civic sedan is parked on the road.
A woman passes walking a small dog (we get a lot of dog walkers passing) and the thing cocks its leg on the car.

I object before the dog does anything, mercifully.

'Oi, don't let your dog do that on my car'.
'Don't park it on the street then'.

I instructed the woman to go forth and multiply in no uncertain terms.

This morning as I came out to go to work a bloke walking a large dog is  passing, fucking thing takes a piss on the bin.
Object in a similar manner and the cunt completely ignores me. (Headphones?)

TRAIN YOUR FUCKING DOGS.

How would they feel if I went round and pissed in their flower beds?

[Wack]

7 hours ago, Bren said:

Is that near the Hoop and Mallet?

Those lines are in a shit state.

It is

[myglaren]

5 hours ago, Ghosty said:

How would they feel if I went round and pissed in their flower beds?

Even better, on their front door.

[High Jetter]

12 hours ago, Wack said:

Bottom line , employees are fucked

That was said years ago, when the silicon chip was first coming out, threatening to take all our jobs (See 'Now the chips are down on iplayer, Horizon from 1978).  As for retiring the over 60's, in most stores round here they're the most efficient on the tills, take an interest and actually know what they're doing.

[Rust Collector]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

Even better, through their letter box.

FTFY

[andy18s]

13 hours ago, MikeR said:

if I ever get to be PM , I will insist every car park is manned , thats another area is being automated !!

get rid of this app and phone nonsense .

When we moved to Bulgaria all parking areas had attendants who would sell you a parking ticket.

You decided how long you wanted, they would scratch off the relevant little grey panel on the card,then wait until they saw you put it on the dashboard of the car.

Now it's text the reg number and have it added to your phone bill..

[New POD]

10 hours ago, Ghosty said:

On Saturday I was working on the MX5 with my dad - changing the diff, so my Civic sedan is parked on the road.
A woman passes walking a small dog (we get a lot of dog walkers passing) and the thing cocks its leg on the car.

I object before the dog does anything, mercifully.

'Oi, don't let your dog do that on my car'.
'Don't park it on the street then'.

I instructed the woman to go forth and multiply in no uncertain terms.

This morning as I came out to go to work a bloke walking a large dog is  passing, fucking thing takes a piss on the bin.
Object in a similar manner and the cunt completely ignores me. (Headphones?)

TRAIN YOUR FUCKING DOGS.

How would they feel if I went round and pissed in their flower beds?

I asked a bloke to not let his dog piss on my house. 

He seemed confused.  Why? 

Well it smells for starters. 

And it takes to paint off. 

And it's anti-social. 

Told me to fuck off. 

I know where he lives.  When the house is sold, and we've moved out, I will shit on his doorstep. 

[sdkrc]

9 minutes ago, New POD said:

I know where he lives.  When the house is sold, and we've moved out, I will shit on his doorstep. 

[Remspoor]

For those of you who are concern about dog piss.

Read this- https://queeniesdailysnippets.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/whats-with-the-water-bottles/

[jakebullet]

I'm on holiday. The Mrs's is being a pain in the arse and the locals are more professional thieves than at home. Here the car door tester was going round the car park on a push bike in daylight. Guess he doesn't like working nights and is confident he can pedal fast. 

[Lankytim]

The wife has just returned from the orthodontist after taking the eldest to have braces fitted. Apparently the place has a shared car park and she must’ve parked in the wrong space as when she went to leave she was blocked in by a guy in a car who took pictures and when questioned told her he was with Parking Eye. Fucksticks. 
 

Edit, went back and the signs are pretty sketchy. It’s a large car park shared with other businesses but only a few signs in one corner referring to AUTHORISED VEHICLES and stating that the driver has to agree to the above terms or agree to pay a penalty. It doesn’t state what constitutes an authorised vehicle, doesn’t mention parking not in a bay etc. It also states that charges will be issued via a ticket on the windscreen, which Mrs Lankytim didn’t get. Apparently Mrs LT parked in space 3 but should’ve parked in 1/2. This red sign was pretty hidden away. Another sign mentions wheelclamping which hasn’t been a thing in England for years. I’ll be amazed if we hear anything and if we do we should be able to tell them to ram It. I suspect the guy taking photos was a bit of a busybody from a neighbouring office, compiling “evidence” to go to the Orthodontist and complain about someone pinching one of their spaces. 

[Metal Guru]

Got my air con topped up last week by ATS (groupon). No leaks they said , all great. When I got in it was freezing but by the time I got home , all of 5 miles , I’m thinking “ that’s not as cold”. 2hr drive on Weds confirms we’re back to no a/c.

Went back today, “oh yes it’s leaking “. So I get a refund then ? No , we tested it , so it must have happened after you left. Yeh, within 10 minutes. Thieving bastards.

[omegod]

22 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Got my air con topped up last week by ATS (groupon). No leaks they said , all great. When I got in it was freezing but by the time I got home , all of 5 miles , I’m thinking “ that’s not as cold”. 2hr drive on Weds confirms we’re back to no a/c.

Went back today, “oh yes it’s leaking “. So I get a refund then ? No , we tested it , so it must have happened after you left. Yeh, within 10 minutes. Thieving bastards.

Our 69 reg Qashqai is blowing warm air , they are notorious for holed condensers but I had Halford's stick a gauge on it yesterday and it's apparently full of gas, I've had a dig around and came across a guy who just does aircon from a tiny place, had a good gab with him today and sounded like an older guy, very passionate about aircon , £140 for a " Sonic/accoustic" diagnostic and a drain and refill, sadly we have the very expensive newer gas.  It's getting looked at on Saturday 

http://www.acvehicleairconditioningservices.co.uk/

[RoverFolkUs]

Consumerism at its finest 😞

Bought a kettle about 2 years ago, slightly impulsively, but now the lid is broken

Kept the old one "just in case" - it has a habit of cutting out early, hence impulsively buying the new one, but works fine. So now I'm back to using the trusty 15 year old kettle which is still working perfectly when the newer one is defunct. 

Why did I bother? 🤣

[AndyIggs]

2 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Got my air con topped up last week by ATS (groupon). No leaks they said , all great. When I got in it was freezing but by the time I got home , all of 5 miles , I’m thinking “ that’s not as cold”. 2hr drive on Weds confirms we’re back to no a/c.

Went back today, “oh yes it’s leaking “. So I get a refund then ? No , we tested it , so it must have happened after you left. Yeh, within 10 minutes. Thieving bastards.

Did the same to me many years ago, try submitting a chargeback with your bank, worked for me and got the money back. They don't test it for long enough so if its a very small leak it may not show up.

[cobblers]

4 hours ago, jakebullet said:

I'm on holiday. The Mrs's is being a pain in the arse and the locals are more professional thieves than at home. Here the car door tester was going round the car park on a push bike in daylight. Guess he doesn't like working nights and is confident he can pedal fast. 

Where have you gone on holiday? Hull? 😱

[Stanky]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Consumerism at its finest 😞

Bought a kettle about 2 years ago, slightly impulsively, but now the lid is broken

Kept the old one "just in case" - it has a habit of cutting out early, hence impulsively buying the new one, but works fine. So now I'm back to using the trusty 15 year old kettle which is still working perfectly when the newer one is defunct. 

Why did I bother? 🤣

Martin Lewis said that if you email [email protected] he'll send you a tenner.

[RoverFolkUs]

51 minutes ago, AndyIggs said:

Did the same to me many years ago, try submitting a chargeback with your bank, worked for me and got the money back. They don't test it for long enough so if its a very small leak it may not show up.

The vacuum cycle is not leak detection despite what anyone says. It is to purge the system of moisture. 

Yes, it serves as a leak test, and a lot of machines call it a leak test for a couple of minutes after the vacuum, but anything other than a completely blown seal or a hole somewhere which would fail the vacuum and indeed render the system "not airtight" may still pass the vacuum test as it'll just suck in whatever may be leaking. 

The only adequate leak detection is by pressurising the system and blowing out any weak points. Some leaks don't even show until 4/5/6 bar 

[calebaaront]

Not an awful place to have a breakdown. Suspected dirt in the carb.

[Metal Guru]

40 minutes ago, calebaaront said:

Not an awful place to have a breakdown. Suspected dirt in the carb.

Reminds me of a card I saw the other day. Car broken down. Women says “ can you fix it?” Man replies “just crap in the carb”Woman , “ well , ok if you think it will help!”

[jakebullet]

12 hours ago, cobblers said:

Where have you gone on holiday? Hull? 😱

 Was visiting the delights of newbiggin by the sea. Why eye man, would you like your window broken pet?

[Talbot]

13 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

The vacuum cycle is not leak detection despite what anyone says. It is to purge the system of moisture. 

Yes, it serves as a leak test, and a lot of machines call it a leak test for a couple of minutes after the vacuum, but anything other than a completely blown seal or a hole somewhere which would fail the vacuum and indeed render the system "not airtight" may still pass the vacuum test as it'll just suck in whatever may be leaking. 

The only adequate leak detection is by pressurising the system and blowing out any weak points. Some leaks don't even show until 4/5/6 bar 

This this this.  Sooo many aircon people don't understand the pressures that can be present in an AC system.  200psi is not unusual in a hot condenser, and even when the system is at rest there will be 60+psi in there.  A vacuum test is a crude leak test.  I've known systems that will hold vacuum for hours, but then leak on pressure.  Had exactly this on my E300 just recently.

The only decent way to test is with dry nitrogen (or in theory, dry air will do, but getting the required -80c dewpoint is not easy). 

[cobblers]

1 minute ago, Talbot said:

This this this.  Sooo many aircon people don't understand the pressures that can be present in an AC system.  200psi is not unusual in a hot condenser, and even when the system is at rest there will be 60+psi in there.  A vacuum test is a crude leak test.  I've known systems that will hold vacuum for hours, but then leak on pressure.  Had exactly this on my E300 just recently.

The only decent way to test is with dry nitrogen (or in theory, dry air will do, but getting the required -80c dewpoint is not easy). 

Not to mention that if there's a nick in a seal, there's a flipping decent chance that the vacuum will pull the leak closed (I suppose the atmospheric pressure will actually push it closed etcs etcs)

The automatic machines pull and hold a vacuum and say "fail" if it doesn't hold a vacuum, not to say that the system is OK, but as a you say, a very crude way of preventing people just pumping gas into systems with whacking great holes in them.

[Talbot]

How would you get this:

In here:

?

 

[cobblers]

10 minutes ago, Talbot said:

How would you get this:

In here:

?

 

It'd start with a kiss from a rose and escalate into something much more frenzied one the lid was off the poppers

[iainrcz]

I've just recently learnt that talc, as in talcum powder, can contain Asbestos.

We use a lot of talc at work as a filler/bulker in plastics.

I'm thinking I need to raise it as a concern, I'd rather not end up with Cancer.