The grumpy thread

[GrumpiusMaximus]

45 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Out to the shops earlier today; as I got out of the Yaris a sudden gust of wind blew the door back into my face - knocking my glasses off onto the ground.

Plastic frame broken, lenses scuffed on the tarmac. 

Currently superglued back together again, and they may stay that way as I absolutely don't have £300 spare for replacements.

Fuckstix.

I've had quite good luck with the online glasses retailers.  Is your prescription relatively straightforward?

[barefoot]

1 hour ago, vulgalour said:

Picked up another stonechip on the Maestro windscreen today.  It already had one when I got the car, both are outside the swept area of the glass and both are practically invisible unless the light hits it just so.  My windscreen excess is more than the cost of a new screen and fitting too, which is a bit irritating.  Hopefully the new chip doesn't grow and become a crack because I do not have the funds for a new screen right now.  It wouldn't be so bad if I knew fitting a new screen to a car increased its value, fact is it never does.  Now very torn about investing in a new screen if i don't have to (ie: the chips get no bigger) since I am still planning to sell this car next year.

Mend it yourself with a kit from ebay.

Even I managed to make an invisible repair for about eight quid and there was enough left to do a second. 

[Unlucky Alf]

34 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Mend it yourself with a kit from ebay.

Even I managed to make an invisible repair for about eight quid and there was enough left to do a second. 

second that, ive repaired 4 star chips on a screen that lasted, until about a month ago, over 7 years in total. The one that got me was the stone that hit below the wiper blade. I didnt notice it and by the time it spread up the screen  it was too late to repair.

repair kits are available from halfords also.   but you need to repair em quick before they spread

[Tenmil Socket]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Out to the shops earlier today; as I got out of the Yaris a sudden gust of wind blew the door back into my face - knocking my glasses off onto the ground.

Plastic frame broken, lenses scuffed on the tarmac. 

Currently superglued back together again, and they may stay that way as I absolutely don't have £300 spare for replacements.

Fuckstix.

£300! Are they designer?

I’ve only started wearing glasses this year but got 2 pairs from Specsavers for I think it was £40 with a voucher from work! 

I didn’t realise how bad my eyesight was but with these readers now it’s like everything is in FHD 😂

[MikeR]

People who take fat arsed high end cars into the Kirkstone pass , and brake for every dip and corner and far arsed car coming the other way ... 

Completely spoils the fun for a little car ..

[Tenmil Socket]

2 minutes ago, MikeR said:

People who take fat arsed high end cars into the Kirkstone pass , and brake for every dip and corner and far arsed car coming the other way ... 

Completely spoils the fun for a little car ..

Where’s that?

[MikeR]

29 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Where’s that?

A steep narrow road in the Lakes .

I think there is a steeper one I did years ago , I dread to think what that is like now for traffic ..

[Popsicle]

49 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

£300! Are they designer?

I’ve only started wearing glasses this year but got 2 pairs from Specsavers for I think it was £40 with a voucher from work! 

I didn’t realise how bad my eyesight was but with these readers now it’s like everything is in FHD 😂

I think I've done well if its less than a monkey and thats without being silly, varifocals, thinned lenses, large frames due to fat head and some polarised shades soon adds up each time.

[vulgalour]

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

£300! Are they designer?

I’ve only started wearing glasses this year but got 2 pairs from Specsavers for I think it was £40 with a voucher from work! 

I didn’t realise how bad my eyesight was but with these readers now it’s like everything is in FHD 😂

I can top that, mine were £450.  Varifocals aren't cheap.  The frames were something like £70, all the cost was in the lenses.

[High Jetter]

Mine were nearer £600, again a complex varifocal scrip, photo-chromatic too. From a high street indy, I gave up on chains as the chances of getting a good opthalmist and a good dispenser is rare at them round here. Sight is too important to fuck around with, IMHO.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Where’s that?

Surprised it’s not nose to tail with fucking camper vans. Highland Scotland is.

[Fumbler]

I bought this lovely old insulation/continuity tester at the start of May for use around the house. It came in a nice little carry case and all the test leads were in great shape.

It was even calibrated in 2016, not too long ago I thought. I decided to send it in for calibration and see how it's holding up...

Cock.

Store your test gear correctly, people. Especially analogue stuff!

[Mrcento]

12 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

When my son was learning to drive I'd leave the 'L' plates on the Corsa and go to work or town in it. It's amazing how many dickheads would drive at you, tailgate or try and bully their way past. Pretty much all sad fat middle aged bastards, and pretty much all oddly enough seemed far less inclined to stop and discuss things when they realised you weren't some young nervous kid.

The best/worst one i had is one nobody ever (and i mean EVER) believe me could happen, let alone actually happened wasn't even another driver.

Was on a lesson, in a driving school car (so a walking L billboard you could see a mile off), driving down a main road, i was doing about 20mph.

There was a woman walking down the pavement to my left with a pram, she looked over her shoulder, saw the learner car, and with all her might, shoved the pram like somebody discarding a trolley into a trolley park at Tesco, right into the road. I'm not talking her crossing the road carelessly, she had no intention of doing that, she was in the middle of the pavement!, she threw the pram. as in let it go and threw it into the middle of the road.

I've never slammed on the brakes as hard in my life and actually caught it before the instructor did with the dual controls. He rolled down his window in disbelief and screamed at her 'What the fuck are you doing?' She laughed and said' well he's got to learn, hasn't he?'.

And you might think this was just somebody scummy having a laugh with an empty pram.... it did have a baby in it, it was crying when she retrieved the pram from the middle of the road.

Mother of the year right there, throwing a kid into traffic i'd assume to try and milk some insurance/drug money.

[MikeR]

Pulled into a full pub car park whilst the wife booked a table for the evening , so I waited in the car .

In comes a woman in a camper van looking for a space , car behind me goes and leaves a space , did she ask if I was waiting ? 

Nope ,   straight in and walked off .

Nice to know what to do next time I see a space around here ..

[Datsuncog]

Cheers for the kind thoughts and suggestions about the busted glasses, folks.

I do have a copy of my prescription - but my eyes are pretty terrible in about three different ways, and have been since I was a kid, so it's a fairly complex prescription. I'm not sure it's something that www.bargainspex.com or similar will be able to knock out for £20, much as I'd like it - though I'll have a look online.

The optician I used to go to was great, but sadly he retired in 2006 - and I've had some extremely variable experiences since then. Boots Opticians were ok, but then they closed down all their stores near me so that was no good.

I tried Specsavers about ten years ago, but they still cost me nearly £200 and were absolutely terrible. I went back about eight times explaining that I still couldn't see a damn thing and they were really snotty about it. May have just been a bad attitude by whoever was running the place - their Ann Street store shut down not long after - but it was a total waste of money and I just ended up having to go somewhere else anyway.

My current place is good, they're an independent opthalmic optician outfit run by the same family for over 100 years, very helpful and pretty thorough; but not all that cheap. I guess it's just the way it is.

The frames were only £49, so not designer by any stretch - but I had a look online there and they're apparently no longer in production.  Most of the cost is in the lenses. though.

As it is, I've superglued the frame back together and it's solid enough but looks pretty rubbish. Both lenses are scuffed from their contretemps with the tarmac though, and so it looks like there are smeary fingerprints all over the front - and as such I'm finding it quite difficult to focus on the laptop screen today.

I went up to the attic yesterday to find my last-but-one pair which I'd kept as a spare set, thinking they may be better than the damaged ones - but had forgotten that one leg had broken off a few days before I got my current set, so it turns out they're not really wearable either.

I'll have to make an appointment with the optician.

Bollocks.

[Stanky]

£30 #justsayin

https://shop.rnib.org.uk/ambutech-folding-aluminium-long-cane-roller-marshmallow-tip-89923?ML196

 

[artdjones]

31 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Cheers for the kind thoughts and suggestions about the busted glasses, folks.

I do have a copy of my prescription - but my eyes are pretty terrible in about three different ways, and have been since I was a kid, so it's a fairly complex prescription. I'm not sure it's something that www.bargainspex.com or similar will be able to knock out for £20, much as I'd like it - though I'll have a look online.

The optician I used to go to was great, but sadly he retired in 2006 - and I've had some extremely variable experiences since then. Boots Opticians were ok, but then they closed down all their stores near me so that was no good.

I tried Specsavers about ten years ago, but they still cost me nearly £200 and were absolutely terrible. I went back about eight times explaining that I still couldn't see a damn thing and they were really snotty about it. May have just been a bad attitude by whoever was running the place - their Ann Street store shut down not long after - but it was a total waste of money and I just ended up having to go somewhere else anyway.

My current place is good, they're an independent opthalmic optician outfit run by the same family for over 100 years, very helpful and pretty thorough; but not all that cheap. I guess it's just the way it is.

The frames were only £49, so not designer by any stretch - but I had a look online there and they're apparently no longer in production.  Most of the cost is in the lenses. though.

As it is, I've superglued the frame back together and it's solid enough but looks pretty rubbish. Both lenses are scuffed from their contretemps with the tarmac though, and so it looks like there are smeary fingerprints all over the front - and as such I'm finding it quite difficult to focus on the laptop screen today.

I went up to the attic yesterday to find my last-but-one pair which I'd kept as a spare set, thinking they may be better than the damaged ones - but had forgotten that one leg had broken off a few days before I got my current set, so it turns out they're not really wearable either.

I'll have to make an appointment with the optician.

Bollocks.

If they are plastic lenses a rub with some cutting compound might help. (Advice not guaranteed)

[somewhatfoolish]

Specsavers are all franchises IIRC, so what you get at one outlet may be completely different at another.

[Metal Guru]

14 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Specsavers are all franchises IIRC, so what you get at one outlet may be completely different at another.

I’ve used Specsavers for at least 20 years and always been satisfied. However , I have a straightforward simple prescription, but my wife has quite a complicated prescription and has had a few problems with them,especially with varifocals.

As you say , they are franchises but any businesses with multiple outlets can have a vast difference in standards.

[adw1977]

I've had good experiences at several different Specsavers over the years, albeit with a straightforward prescription for short-sightedness, except for the (then newly opened) Sevenoaks franchise who tried to tell me that it wasn't possible to fit new lenses in my existing frames.  Presumably they thought I would cough up for new frames.  Instead I demanded a printout of my prescription and took it to another Specsavers who quite happily replaced my lenses.

The daft thing was the eye test was free, as an opening offer, so they just wasted their time getting £0 out of me.

[High Jetter]

Worst experience I had was at an Asda optician. Went to collect my specs, and the girl took them out of the packet, picked up a spray and cloth, and then wiped off the locating marks on the lenses that should be used to ensure they're fitting at the right height. I queried it with her, who said "my manager told me to do it". They had to send them back to get re-marked. Oh, and another cheapo franchise who just handed me my new specs without any attempt to ensure they fitted correctly

[Wack]

What does this even mean , they might've been speeding but we couldn't prosecute so we gave them a section 59 , or they overtook someone in sight of a PCSO on a bike  who didn't like it.

I'd be stopping them to tell him that's the best micra I've ever seen 

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, Wack said:

What does this even mean , they might've been speeding but we couldn't prosecute so we gave them a section 59 , or they overtook someone in sight of a PCSO on a bike  who didn't like it.

I'd be stopping them to tell him that's the best micra I've ever seen 

What’s “anti social” driving? Overtaking people who are doing 20mph and are shit scared because they’ve never seen a hairpin bend before?

Dam, I was planning to go that way this weekend. It’s a useful diversion from the A66 to Carlisle avoiding queueing up for half an hour at Penrith roundabout. ( doesn’t save any time overall but I’d rather drive for an hour than queue for half an hour).

[Zelandeth]

Not particularly grumpy about this as it's something I'd probably never use anyway - but this made me roll my eyes.

This arrived in this morning's post.

Junk from Screwfix.  With a voucher attached which expired three weeks ago.

Not sure if they've sent it out like that or if it's been lost in the mail system for a month.  No other date on it anywhere so no way to tell.

Only usually use them if Toolstation don't have what I need these days, so that voucher was very unlikely to get used anyway.

[dave j]

21 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Cheers for the kind thoughts and suggestions about the busted glasses, folks.

I do have a copy of my prescription - but my eyes are pretty terrible in about three different ways, and have been since I was a kid, so it's a fairly complex prescription. I'm not sure it's something that www.bargainspex.com or similar will be able to knock out for £20, much as I'd like it - though I'll have a look online.

The optician I used to go to was great, but sadly he retired in 2006 - and I've had some extremely variable experiences since then. Boots Opticians were ok, but then they closed down all their stores near me so that was no good.

I tried Specsavers about ten years ago, but they still cost me nearly £200 and were absolutely terrible. I went back about eight times explaining that I still couldn't see a damn thing and they were really snotty about it. May have just been a bad attitude by whoever was running the place - their Ann Street store shut down not long after - but it was a total waste of money and I just ended up having to go somewhere else anyway.

My current place is good, they're an independent opthalmic optician outfit run by the same family for over 100 years, very helpful and pretty thorough; but not all that cheap. I guess it's just the way it is.

The frames were only £49, so not designer by any stretch - but I had a look online there and they're apparently no longer in production.  Most of the cost is in the lenses. though.

As it is, I've superglued the frame back together and it's solid enough but looks pretty rubbish. Both lenses are scuffed from their contretemps with the tarmac though, and so it looks like there are smeary fingerprints all over the front - and as such I'm finding it quite difficult to focus on the laptop screen today.

I went up to the attic yesterday to find my last-but-one pair which I'd kept as a spare set, thinking they may be better than the damaged ones - but had forgotten that one leg had broken off a few days before I got my current set, so it turns out they're not really wearable either.

I'll have to make an appointment with the optician.

Bollocks.

I broke my glasses frame not long after buying them so I found a second hand pair the same on eBay and swapped the lenses over. Cost me about 30 quid instead of about 200

[maxxo]

grrrrr

[fairkens]

10 hours ago, Wack said:

What does this even mean , they might've been speeding but we couldn't prosecute so we gave them a section 59 , or they overtook someone in sight of a PCSO on a bike  who didn't like it.

I'd be stopping them to tell him that's the best micra I've ever seen 

Probably judging others by my own standards but I read that as them having passed the plastic plod too closely, probably on purpose

[Wack]

14 minutes ago, fairkens said:

Probably judging others by my own standards but I read that as them having passed the plastic plod too closely, probably on purpose

I dont think it is that , they have bodycams , people have been convicted of driving without due care off dashcam footage for getting too close so if they had bodycam footage it'd definitely be more than a section 59 

I think he thought they were speeding but had no evidence 

[sheffcortinacentre]

So more cracking down on the real menaces to society!  Great way to boost police relations.

[EyesWeldedShut]

3 hours ago, Wack said:

I dont think it is that , they have bodycams , people have been convicted of driving without due care off dashcam footage for getting too close so if they had bodycam footage it'd definitely be more than a section 59 

I think he thought they were speeding but had no evidence 

It's Twatter - it's not real life. Everybody thinks it is a really, really important piece of society as they tweet into the abyss that is their personal echo chamber.

That includes the Old Bill. MPs. My Boss. Her Boss. Her Cat,

Why bother?

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