The grumpy thread

[Low ontime]

On 7/28/2023 at 7:18 AM, paulplom said:

I had one homless bloke ask me for change last week. Sorry, I don't have any I replied. Join the club, I don't have any either I'm fucking skint he said. 

If I was carrying he would've had it.

I really don’t like this carry on, why are they making their problem your problem!

realistically we are all a few pay checks away from homeless if it all goes tits up.

one of many reasons why I don’t carry change and I’m certainly not swiping my card down their ass crack to help them out. As for the ones hanging around car park pay machines.. fuck off you are scaring the kids!   

[chaseracer]

You seem to be also running low on empathy and the milk of human kindness.

[Bren]

Still looking at the classifieds.

Jesus wept.

I think I may be better off keeping my car.

[sheffcortinacentre]

1 hour ago, Low ontime said:

I really don’t like this carry on, why are they making their problem your problem!

realistically we are all a few pay checks away from homeless if it all goes tits up.

one of many reasons why I don’t carry change and I’m certainly not swiping my card down their ass crack to help them out. As for the ones hanging around car park pay machines.. fuck off you are scaring the kids!   

Nowadays quite a few are doing this for a living ,a mate saw one woman swapping her outfit with another at their car.

& I've seen a guy regularly at two different supermarkets about 5 miles apart.

[sierraman]

24 minutes ago, Bren said:

Still looking at the classifieds.

Jesus wept.

I think I may be better off keeping my car.

I thought you’d only just bought one! 

[3VOM]

Bollocks

 

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

I have noticed in the last few days how appallingly driven some buses are.

I thought I was over reacting until I had my wife as a passenger - even she commented.

It's as if their drivers have only just passed their test.

They always seem to stop with a jerk. I don’t know if that’s air brakes and you can’t ease off for a smoother stop as in a car ,( someone enlighten me, never driven a vehicle with air brakes),  or whether they like seeing passengers struggling to stay in their feet.

Also they don’t seem to even notice Mini roundabouts round my way. Now I realise it’s impossible to get a bus round one, but they just ignore the give way lines or any one else there and just drive through.

[Rustybullethole]

47 minutes ago, 3VOM said:

Bollocks

 

Is that a fossilised dog shit on your rad there?

[High Jetter]

I'm no expert, but I think something is missing...

[3VOM]

33 minutes ago, Rustybullethole said:

Is that a fossilised dog shit on your rad there?

Possibly but I am not going to do a forensic investigation.

29 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

I'm no expert, but I think something is missing...

Fan assembly for the condenser. The circle of shit is where the dead fan has been for years. It was remove bumper, 6 x 8mm & 2 x 50 torx. Then remove 4 x 8mm. Then find another 2. Then find two more that you can't get to without removing the headlights. Remove headlights. Then remove intake for more access and shear bolt holding it. Remove 4 more bolts and then remove fan assembly. Marvel at how rusty the whole thing was and how much water it held.

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

3 hours ago, Bren said:

I have noticed in the last few days how appallingly driven some buses are.

I thought I was over reacting until I had my wife as a passenger - even she commented.

It's as if their drivers have only just passed their test.

Nope that's how most bus steerers ( don't forget their professional drivers) move there vehicles like most nowadays they use the might is right principle.

There one of the simplest vehicles to drive once your used to the size.

[artdjones]

4 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I’m imagining a coffin for a snake.

[High Jetter]

What if it's curled up when it dies, would they get rigor too?

[warch]

37 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

What if it's curled up when it dies, would they get rigor too?

Aah, you’d need one of these…

[myglaren]

19 hours ago, Bren said:

I have noticed in the last few days how appallingly driven some buses are.

I thought I was over reacting until I had my wife as a passenger - even she commented.

It's as if their drivers have only just passed their test.

Oddly enough I have been traveling a bit by bus recently since I got my giffercard.  They offered me one twenty years ago (a mistake, probably) but it was no use to me then.

What has impressed me is the standard of driving in very difficult conditions.  Cars 'parked' everywhere, both sides of narrow roads, on corners and even in the bus stops.

And car drivers failing to give way or appreciate the busses need more room at junctions, and the absolute necessity to get past the bus regardless of other traffic, to then sit in front of it for ages.

[myglaren]

16 hours ago, High Jetter said:

What if it's curled up when it dies, would they get rigor too?

It was very loose and floppy, just went straight into a  purpose built hole in the ground, to feed next years flowers, which were rubbish this year.  A bit of unused council land that I have annexed.

[andyberg]

31 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Oddly enough I have been traveling a bit by bus recently since I got my giffercard.  They offered me one twenty years ago (a mistake, probably) but it was no use to me then.

What has impressed me is the standard of driving in very difficult conditions.  Cars 'parked' everywhere, both sides of narrow roads, on corners and even in the bus stops.

And car drivers failing to give way or appreciate the busses need more room at junctions, and the absolute necessity to get past the bus regardless of other traffic, to then sit in front of it for ages.

One reason I gave up coach driving on public roads. The sheer stupidity, arrogance and selfishness of most car drivers beggars belief sometimes. It definitely got worse after the lockdowns. I didn't need the stress, so now I drive around an airport all day watching the airplanes and people watching!

[ruffgeezer]

Well very sadly we had to say goodbye to our beloved Hollie a few days ago,  what follows now is untangling the web of insursnce, vet, specialist and EOL fees.

I may have to drop the S40 for a quick sale price to cover off any invoices landing this way.

The admin bit is really shitty to have to deal with when all we want to do is mourn her loss.

She was fucking ace.

[Low ontime]

On 7/29/2023 at 1:11 PM, chaseracer said:

You seem to be also running low on empathy and the milk of human kindness.

Not at all, give to charity that supports those in need is fine and a good thing to do , but for beggars to get mouthy at people who cannot give for whatever reason is  not on! 

[purplebargeken]

Sick of work stupids and excessive amounts of fucking rain.

[Jazoli]

1 hour ago, purplebargeken said:

Sick of work stupids and excessive amounts of fucking rain.

I'm just sick of fucking rain, constant incessant fucking rain, its shit, its rained almost every day here since the end of June, fuck English weather and fuck the Lake District, forecast is rain for the next 3 fucking weeks too, wish I could move back to Spain (although it's too fucking hot there)

[sierraman]

Just now, Jazoli said:

I'm just sick of fucking rain, constant incessant fucking rain, its shit, its rained almost every day here since the end of June, fuck English weather and fuck the Lake District, forecast is rain for the next 3 fucking weeks too, wish I could move back to Spain (although it's too fucking hot there)

I feel cheated to be honest with the weather this year. 

[adw1977]

It's been a real non-summer since late June but I still prefer 18°C and drizzly to 45°C and on fire.

[EyesWeldedShut]

I'm very happy with 18 degrees but I'd really like at least one sunny day  once a week to do stuff like mow the lawn and fix the car (please)

[Metal Guru]

5 hours ago, sierraman said:

I feel cheated to be honest with the weather this year. 

According to the data from my solar panels, June 23 was 13% sunnier than June 22, but July 22 was 12% sunnier than July 23, so overall , pretty much the same.

[Lankytim]

Sold a gearbox on eBay (the same one I couldn’t send before, if anyone remembers) UPS came to collect it and gave me approx 30 seconds to get out of bed and get to the door, by which time he was in his van with his indicator on trying to pull away.  “Not this time, you khaki shorted bastard!” The wife and children were in the garden so didn’t hear the light tap he did on the front door, despite there being a ring doorbell right next to him which would’ve alerted the whole household. I had to sprint to the van in my keks and bang on the bonnet to get him to stop.  He took the gearbox but neglected to scan it so it’s still showing as “label created”. Hope it gets there. 
 

Oh, and despite gearboxes being on the list that UPS are fine to accept and having sent many in the past via UPS I listed it as an AC MOTOR as last time I tried to drop it at the depot the boss had a hissy fit about a drained, cleaned, plugged and thoroughly shrink wrapped gearbag being sent. 

[Zelandeth]

Fscking eBay.

Trying to return a defective item.  Rather than just govotyou a label to print, they now give you a QR code the post office have to scan to generate the label.

Great.  Except the automated system which generated said code had created a label for a large letter.  Not 15kg of box.  So got the teller at the post office to give me the address so I could label it up myself and send it that way.

The seller has already been arsey about handling the return, so I reckon I may as well just have set fire to the money spent posting it, but we'll see.

Not holding my breath.

[gm]

sciatica  

and it’s fucking sore  

on the bright side, i phoned the docs this morning and got an appointment for this afternoon - i am now armed with the good tablets, i hope they kick in soon.

don’t expect much spannering from me this week  

[RoverFolkUs]

6 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Fscking eBay.

Trying to return a defective item.  Rather than just govotyou a label to print, they now give you a QR code the post office have to scan to generate the label.

Great.  Except the automated system which generated said code had created a label for a large letter.  Not 15kg of box.  So got the teller at the post office to give me the address so I could label it up myself and send it that way.

The seller has already been arsey about handling the return, so I reckon I may as well just have set fire to the money spent posting it, but we'll see.

Not holding my breath.

This is a weird flaw/loophole with eBay.

Whatever the jobsworth on the post office counter says, it should still be accepted and it will get there

I had exactly that recently, a towbar kit so you can imagine the size. I was given a label for a small parcel, upto 2kg. The box was over a meter long and weighed at least 15kg, but I simply attached the label, posted it and it got there without delay, I was only charged around £3.35 for the label. (Buyers remorse, not faulty) 

The guy in my local post office knows me fairly well and generally doesn't give 2 shits about what you're trying to post unlike 95% of post office workers who seem to have a face of thunder by default and take great pleasure when your large letter doesn't fit through their shitty template without resistance. 

But I imagine the large letter label would have still managed to get your item delivered!

There should have been an option to print the label yourself? I remember having to navigate around the forced QR code though, but I did manage to print it myself. 

[High Jetter]

56 minutes ago, gm said:

sciatica  

and it’s fucking sore  

on the bright side, i phoned the docs this morning and got an appointment for this afternoon - i am now armed with the good tablets, i hope they kick in soon.

don’t expect much spannering from me this week  

Tabs won't sort it tho, are you in for physio?