The grumpy thread

[sheffcortinacentre]

4 hours ago, omegod said:

I've been having some form of Sciatica , lower back , arsecheek then into my hip and knee which I can deal with, what I can't deal with are the muscles mid back that are going into spasm randomly as a result of the sciatic nerve.  Halfway up out of a chair and it'll feel like I've been macheted 

Had an MRI which shows a bulging disk, been offered a steroid injection into the spine which I think I'll decline and give the physio more of a chance,  The occasional Diazepam to release the spasms ( prescribed) is quite pleasant  !

Welcome to my world did this 25 years ago been in pain since.

Refused the injection ( as it's only pain killing , you can only have it 3 times which meens after that you'll be in more agony as you'll have aggravated it that much nothing will ever give pain relief ever again, will only operate if you loose feeling below the waste).

[gm]

jesus, is that what i have to look forward to ? fuck getting old ! (i’m 53 this year)

[EyesWeldedShut]

1 minute ago, gm said:

jesus, is that what i have to look forward to ? fuck getting old ! (i’m 53 this year)

Treasure your youth lad  
Somebody once told me that my age was just a number - that's just fine and dandy when you're what? 40? 21?
I was 53  seven years ago and, despite my best attempts at ignoring it, things do start to get slower, stiffer (not THAT I'm afraid) and anything you sprain/pull break takes much, much longer to mend. 
Trick is to take a little bit more care of yourself with things like heavy lifting, bending etc etc and even (gasp!) ask for help - yes, I know, not the Victor Meldrew way 

[Yoss]

5 hours ago, Rustybullethole said:

And furthermore 

Bollocks.

 

So glad it was my day off today. I have one of the few jobs (postman) where I'm happy when it rains on my day off. And it was proper rain today, not just a bit of drizzle. And I just sat there drinking coffee, looking out the window and thinking of everybody else out on delivery. And then drinking more coffee. Bliss. 

[Rustybullethole]

25 minutes ago, Yoss said:

So glad it was my day off today. I have one of the few jobs (postman) where I'm happy when it rains on my day off. And it was proper rain today, not just a bit of drizzle. And I just sat there drinking coffee, looking out the window and thinking of everybody else out on delivery. And then drinking more coffee. Bliss. 

there's always some cunt worse off in this world. got home with very wet feet plus couldn't see much as open face lid and no goggles other than sunnies which didn't really work. living and loving the dream.

[Lankytim]

On 8/1/2023 at 3:23 PM, Lankytim said:

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. 

UPS only delivered the gearbox! A couple of hours later I got this message though…. Feck. Have I been scammed? EBay chat was helpful but I’m half expecting the buyer to try a chargeback through their bank in the coming days… The buyer was a new ebayer with 0 feedback. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Google translator I depend on this to be able to post here but I don't know what's happening on it as I have to correct it more and more often now and I'm a dyslexic non native English speaker so should have thought it was better than this.

[Richard_FM]

10 hours ago, Rustybullethole said:

Not just me that feels the need to jump under it then. 

Especially annoying at silly O'clock in the morning!

[myglaren]

14 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Google translator I depend on this to be able to post here but I don't know what's happening on it as I have to correct it more and more often now and I'm a dyslexic non native English speaker so should have thought it was better than this.

Have you tried Babelfish?

I haven't looked at it for years and have used Google Translate a bit and found it adequate but it does seem to me that a lot of Google stuff is deteriorating recently.

[Dyslexic Viking]

8 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Have you tried Babelfish?

I haven't looked at it for years and have used Google Translate a bit and found it adequate but it does seem to me that a lot of Google stuff is deteriorating recently.

Thanks and i haven't so will look at that.

[omegod]

17 hours ago, Lankytim said:

UPS only delivered the gearbox! A couple of hours later I got this message though…. Feck. Have I been scammed? EBay chat was helpful but I’m half expecting the buyer to try a chargeback through their bank in the coming days… The buyer was a new ebayer with 0 feedback. 

I had a similar issue as a buyer, I paid for a spares car and on the hour the transporter was due to pick it up the sellers account disappeared from ebay. I'd stupidly paid by bank transfer too so was somewhat surprised/relieved that the car turned up as described an hour later , it had been left for collection in a field with the keys in apparently 

[Remspoor]

18 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Google translator I depend on this to be able to post here but I don't know what's happening on it as I have to correct it more and more often now and I'm a dyslexic non native English speaker so should have thought it was better than this.

Another suggestion.

https://www.deepl.com/translator

it has a limit on the number of words it translates but you can open the web page numerous times at the same time. Thus you can max it out.

[goosey]

Sat in my Hotel room and for some reason there is a really overwhelming smell of shit drifting in through the window

[artdjones]

9 minutes ago, goosey said:

Sat in my Hotel room and for some reason there is a really overwhelming smell of shit drifting in through the window

You hope. I'd take a quick look under the bed.

[Lankytim]

1 hour ago, omegod said:

I had a similar issue as a buyer, I paid for a spares car and on the hour the transporter was due to pick it up the sellers account disappeared from ebay. I'd stupidly paid by bank transfer too so was somewhat surprised/relieved that the car turned up as described an hour later , it had been left for collection in a field with the keys in apparently 

Crikey, I bet that was stressful, especially as there was a third party transporter involved! 

[nomiST]

1 hour ago, goosey said:

Sat in my Hotel room and for some reason there is a really overwhelming smell of shit drifting in through the window

Are you near the coast?

[tooSavvy]

6 minutes ago, nomiST said:

Are you near the coast?

&/Or ... In Blackpool 🙈🙉🙊

[goosey]

24 minutes ago, nomiST said:

Are you near the coast?

Congleton, think it’s the Fields 

[sheffcortinacentre]

A shital/marina parked outside?

[Mally]

3 hours ago, tooSavvy said:

&/Or ... In Blackpool 🙈🙉🙊

That's me day after tomorrow.

It'll be fine.

[High Jetter]

TV presenters* who smile and nod... before the interviewee has finished their answer. 

[Richard_FM]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

TV presenters* who smile and nod... before the interviewee has finished their answer. 

or do that hissing thing to punctuate things!

[Mrcento]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

TV presenters* who smile and nod... before the interviewee has finished their answer. 

There's a reason for that (especially in things like news interviews), It's called (rather rudely) doing a noddy. 'ooh err' etc etc.

It's for editing purposes, so if there are bits of an answer they don't want to use in a recording of an interview, they have some footage to cut to on camera 2 whilst the bit they do want to use is being said. They can then cut back to whatever they want to use on another camera much less obviously than a hard cut would be mid answer.

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, Mrcento said:

There's a reason for that (especially in things like news interviews), It's called (rather rudely) doing a noddy. 'ooh err' etc etc.

It's for editing purposes, so if there are bits of an answer they don't want to use in a recording of an interview, they have some footage to cut to on camera 2 whilst the bit they do want to use is being said. They can then cut back to whatever they want to use on another camera much less obviously than a hard cut would be mid answer.

Thanks, and I can appreciate that for live work, but not when it's a documentary when 2 who know each other are informing us rather than themselves.

[Split_Pin]

'Find another' at the end of a for sale advert ( in this case a very overpriced Vectra B).

Rarity does not equal value you potless cretin.

 

[Wack]

This really pisses me off 

[DavieW]

Not so much grumpy but sad (and pissed).  Best mate's mother died this morning and also my neighbour's beautiful huge black German shepherd. 

Now In Wetherspoons toasting both losses. 

[RoverFolkUs]

2 hours ago, Wack said:

This really pisses me off 

"While still being robbed" 

[RoverFolkUs]

10 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

'Find another' at the end of a for sale advert ( in this case a very overpriced Vectra B).

Rarity does not equal value you potless cretin.

 

Rarity of a once ubiquitous vehicle is usually an indication of their overall desirability, rather lack thereof 😄

[Zelandeth]

Fscking Autodoc...

Not even so much their existence or anything, I do use them often enough.  My particular grump here is that they have popped up now under so many different names and web domains that about the first 3000 matches for anything you search for on Google in terms of car parts winds up redirecting to them...which is fine if they have what you need - but if they don't it just gets absolutely maddening to keep coming back to the same damned page over and over and over and over again just with a slightly different graphic in the header.

It's a really horrible practice on their part as it's clearly intended to simply wipe any other providers off the search results so they can pocket all the customers.

Searching for apparently completely extinct consumable parts is frustrating enough as it is.