The grumpy thread

[danthecapriman]

Day of woe today!

Went to the tip in the Volvo with a boot full of stinking, wet, rotting grass cuttings and garden waste and a smelly old freezer. Wound the windows down for some fresh air and shortly afterwards I could smell a strong, pungent, yet unmistakable odour of a different kind. The car in front of me had lots of smoke coming out of the drivers window but it was weed! Very very strong weed and the tosser was driving!

Later, I took the Mercury out for a drive and some fuel. Pulled up at the pump intending to get super unleaded (no ethanol) and picked up the wrong pump and ended up filling the car and a gerry can (for the Capri) with the standard unleaded by mistake. Twat! 
On the motorway coming home some imbecile didn’t secure their load resulting in a large step ladder flying off and landing in lane 1. Car in front of me swerved and avoided it but I had a car next to me in lane 2 so couldn’t, managed to slow down but part of the now destroyed ladder went straight under the wheel. Naturally the person who’s ladder it was didn’t bother stopping either.

Checked the car over once home and there’s no damage, and the tyre is fine too, luckily. That could easily have been much worse.

This afternoon I’m going to go pour in a cocktail of snake oil and additives to the gerry can of unleaded for the Capri, to hopefully prevent any ethanol related problems! The way todays gone so far I’m bound to do something wrong or cause a small massive explosion or something!!

[sierraman]

Fucking handbrake cable snapped this morning. Bastards 

[bunglebus]

On 07/08/2023 at 21:30, RoverFolkUs said:

Whatever happens I wish you the best of luck 😅

Well this debacle continues. Chased up customer service as they told me I'd hear back within 72 hours - and the person I'd spoken to had done fuck all, hadn't passed it on to anyone to be actioned. Spoke to a lady on the phone and went through it all again, but of course it's a further > 72 wait so nearly a week now.

Then I went to an Autocentre who tested the battery correctly (stop start type)

Surprise surprise it's fucked. 

My Mrs. had been talking to Halfords too via their FB page and gave us a couple of names to speak to in store, one was the manager and he agreed to swap the battery with no argument whatsoever, so now I've got to go home and take the old one off, as I don't trust them to touch it,  then run it back in the other half's car - typically something has happened and half the town is gridlocked too!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

It is a horrible feeling isn't it?  Something I've very much become aware of as a side effect of my own health issues which have been far worse since contracting COVID back in May 22.  I very much have a finite ration of cognitive energy available per day, and once that's exhausted unless it's something already in my brain that can be done more or less on autopilot, forget it.

Spent a good few days a month or two ago trying to learn how to use some new IT tools, and eventually just had to give up as it was plain that the information just wasn't going to stick.  Which given this is a field I've had an interest in since I was old enough to use a keyboard and have considered myself pretty competent in until very recently really doesn't feel good at all.  It made me feel very, very old.  Which at 38 doesn't exactly bode well for my future!

I was chatting to my BIL at the weekend. He's early 40s and generally fit and healthy. Decent job and intelligent bloke.

Earlier in the year he caught covid for the second time. He was rough for a few days but picked back up relatively quickly after. However, he was telling me about how he now has slight brain fog and that he can no longer process lots of ideas at the same time. He reckoned that he just has to concentrate a bit harder to achieve the same result but that it's not quite as easy as previously. Apparently it's been like this for months and he's resigned himself to the fact that the damage could be permanent. 

I was really ill with covid first time around myself and to this day my lung capacity is nowhere near where it used to be. I'm in my late 40s and previously fit and healthy. 

I bet there are more people out there with permanent damage from covid than any stats are ever able to prove. 

[chadders]

I think part of the problem to get any research into 'brainfog' is that it's pretty intangible except to those suffering from it, for example there's no before and after comparisons possible. I guess that it might be covered as part of the 'Long Covid' research but imagine that it would be nigh impossible to get funding to look into it unless someone senior in the research world had a personal interest.

Even if there was the timescale would probably be a decade or more before there were any solid conclusions never mind solutions.

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, Dick Longbridge said:

I was chatting to my BIL at the weekend. He's early 40s and generally fit and healthy. Decent job and intelligent bloke.

Earlier in the year he caught covid for the second time. He was rough for a few days but picked back up relatively quickly after. However, he was telling me about how he now has slight brain fog and that he can no longer process lots of ideas at the same time. He reckoned that he just has to concentrate a bit harder to achieve the same result but that it's not quite as easy as previously. Apparently it's been like this for months and he's resigned himself to the fact that the damage could be permanent. 

I was really ill with covid first time around myself and to this day my lung capacity is nowhere near where it used to be. I'm in my late 40s and previously fit and healthy. 

I bet there are more people out there with permanent damage from covid than any stats are ever able to prove. 

In my case I've been dealing with chronic fatigue syndrome since my late teens.  Prior to getting COVID it was something that would occasionally kick me in the balls if I over-stretched myself a bit, and would result in the occasional crash.  It wasn't something requiring daily monitoring.

Now though it's serious enough that I really do need to plan out every day to at least some extent and have contingencies in place in case I run out of steam.

[Chas4545]

OK so nobody likes a snitch, but a Tesla model Y (lovely car) today overtook me on double white lines and he's on my car cam video. The  oncoming lane was clear, so to be honest I thought no harm no foul.   However..... two minutes later I am behind him in slow traffic , when  he overtakes  a car, van, and tractor with trailer (which was turning right) on a solid white, over a brow of a hill and round a bend.  Now the driver of    BP23 HSD    is probably the nicest person, but the little old lady in her small peugot that was the next oncoming vehicle missed meeting her maker too early by only seconds.

Does the team think I should snitch?

[Chas4545]

BTW seeing an oncologist this week to see which cancer I've got.

[artdjones]

5 minutes ago, Chas4545 said:

OK so nobody likes a snitch, but a Tesla model Y (lovely car) today overtook me on double white lines and he's on my car cam video. The  oncoming lane was clear, so to be honest I thought no harm no foul.   However..... two minutes later I am behind him in slow traffic , when  he overtakes  a car, van, and tractor with trailer (which was turning right) on a solid white, over a brow of a hill and round a bend.  Now the driver of    BP23 HSD    is probably the nicest person, but the little old lady in her small peugot that was the next oncoming vehicle missed meeting her maker too early by only seconds.

Does the team think I should snitch?

Maybe a good idea, although by the time the constabulary get round to doing anything he'll be dead at that rate. Unfortunately, hell probably take someone else out on the way.

[Zelandeth]

23 minutes ago, Chas4545 said:

OK so nobody likes a snitch, but a Tesla model Y (lovely car) today overtook me on double white lines and he's on my car cam video. The  oncoming lane was clear, so to be honest I thought no harm no foul.   However..... two minutes later I am behind him in slow traffic , when  he overtakes  a car, van, and tractor with trailer (which was turning right) on a solid white, over a brow of a hill and round a bend.  Now the driver of    BP23 HSD    is probably the nicest person, but the little old lady in her small peugot that was the next oncoming vehicle missed meeting her maker too early by only seconds.

Does the team think I should snitch?

If they're driving like that much of an ass and you've got video evidence to back it up, go for it.

When they run out of luck they'll probably walk away from it, but they're entirely likely to kill someone else.

[somewhatfoolish]

6 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

This afternoon I’m going to go pour in a cocktail of snake oil and additives to the gerry can of unleaded for the Capri, to hopefully prevent any ethanol related problems! The way todays gone so far I’m bound to do something wrong or cause a small massive explosion or something!!

Avoid it all together by using alkylate fuel; it's pricy but no need to expose you or the fuel system to stuff that might not play nicely together and there's no ethanol at all.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

If they're driving like that much of an ass and you've got video evidence to back it up, go for it.

When they run out of luck they'll probably walk away from it, but they're entirely likely to kill someone else.

Round here Tesla drivers are rapidly approaching Audi and BMW levels of dangerous driving.

[EyesWeldedShut]

19 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Round here Tesla drivers are rapidly approaching Audi and BMW levels of dangerous driving.

Maybe all three marques tend to be overpowered and underendowed (in intelligence)?

[Zelandeth]

24 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Round here Tesla drivers are rapidly approaching Audi and BMW levels of dangerous driving.

Here too.  Which makes me sad as I still want a Model S...however the stigma that is rapidly becoming attached to them is indeed making me question that.  Despite the fact that I really rather like the car.

[richardmorris]

7 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Maybe all three marques tend to be overpowered and underendowed (in intelligence)?

I don’t know, but generally any car 4 feet behind you in a 30mph limit is going to be one of these. And anyone overtaking into oncoming traffic will more often than not be an Audi.

[EyesWeldedShut]

10 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I don’t know, but generally any car 4 feet behind you in a 30mph limit is going to be one of these. And anyone overtaking into oncoming traffic will more often than not be an Audi.

Thing is, I have  maybe 10" discs on my cars and they have, maybe, 16"?  Aids that sense of imperialism I guess?
My wife, who is much more chilled out that me, just eases off the throttle at this point, smiles primly whilst giving the rear view mirror a 'Paddington' hard stare.
Usually she'll glance over and just say 'cunt behind'.

[wuvvum]

38 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Here too.  Which makes me sad as I still want a Model S...however the stigma that is rapidly becoming attached to them is indeed making me question that.  Despite the fact that I really rather like the car.

Dunno, most of the Teslacunts I see around here seem to be in Appliance White Model 3s (with the occasional Appliance White Model Y thrown in to mix things up a bit).  Most of the (admittedly relatively few) Model S's I see are normally being driven quite sensibly.

[richardmorris]

6 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Dunno, most of the Teslacunts I see around here seem to be in Appliance White Model 3s (with the occasional Appliance White Model Y thrown in to mix things up a bit).  Most of the (admittedly relatively few) Model S's I see are normally being driven quite sensibly.

They’re all white or grey here, I’ve no idea which model is which as I’ve no intention of buying one

[DavieW]

49 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Dunno, most of the Teslacunts I see around here seem to be in Appliance White Model 3s (with the occasional Appliance White Model Y thrown in to mix things up a bit).  Most of the (admittedly relatively few) Model S's I see are normally being driven quite sensibly.

3, Y and S models. Who but Musk could name their car range so randomly. 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

My wife, who is much more chilled out that me, just eases off the throttle 

A rare talent, to be commended.

[dome]

58 minutes ago, DavieW said:

3, Y and S models. Who but Musk could name their car range so randomly. 

Model S, 3, X and Y

Because Sexy

What a cunt Musk is.

I find they're often driven by people who have never owned a car with any performance before so don't have a fucking clue how to use it and how it affects others.

Aye, all very good that you can do 0-60 in 2 seconds but if you can't go round a corner faster than a Kangoo with the wrong engine in it then fuck right off

[sheffcortinacentre]

Round here their known as tosslers as usually driven by a  tosser.

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Round here Tesla drivers are rapidly approaching Audi and BMW levels of dangerous driving.

I was in Norway a few years ago and Bergen must have the biggest Tesla dealership in the world . ( Norway’s attitude  to climate change is we’ll sell our oil and gas to the rest of the world while he make our own country the greenest country in the world).

Anyway they have about twice as many speed ( sorry SAFETY) cameras as we do and most of the roads are single carriage way with a 80 or 90 kmph limit.

So being really careful not to trigger a camera in my hired Toyota Auris hybrid (shit, a disguised Prius), driving about 5-10 below the limit and you get a Tesla  up your arse ( most common car there) . Then when you get to the shortest straight,  max acceleration and they overtake , only to slam on the brakes and continue 2 kmph slower than you were going anyway.

Tesslers!

[New POD]

9 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

In my case I've been dealing with chronic fatigue syndrome since my late teens.  Prior to getting COVID it was something that would occasionally kick me in the balls if I over-stretched myself a bit, and would result in the occasional crash.  It wasn't something requiring daily monitoring.

Now though it's serious enough that I really do need to plan out every day to at least some extent and have contingencies in place in case I run out of steam.

My wife was diagnosed with ME CFS in 2006 (god knows how long she had it prior to that).  I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.  We had hoped that 100,000 suffering long covid  would generate new research in the area. Still waiting. 

[chadders]

7 hours ago, New POD said:

My wife was diagnosed with ME CFS in 2006 (god knows how long she had it prior to that).  I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.  We had hoped that 100,000 suffering long covid  would generate new research in the area. Still waiting. 

This is just the first result from a Google search

About RECOVER: The National Institutes of Health Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (NIH RECOVER) Initiative is a $1.15 billion effort, including support through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, that seeks to identify how people recuperate from COVID-19, and who are at risk for developing post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC). Researchers are also working with patients, clinicians, and communities across the United States to identify strategies to prevent and treat the long-term effects of COVID – including long COVID. For more information, please visit recovercovid.org(link is external).

The second id a UK one:

 

REACT Long COVID

The REACT Long COVID (REACT-LC) study involves follow-up of over 120,000 people to understand why some people who are infected continue to have symptoms for several weeks or months – a condition called Long COVID – while others don’t. REACT-LC is uniquely placed to include a large and diverse group of people from the wider REACT programme who have had different experiences of COVID-19. REACT-LC aims to identify new approaches to diagnosing, supporting and managing Long COVID

 

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/research-and-impact/groups/react-study/studies/react-long-covid/

[EyesWeldedShut]

3 hours ago, New POD said:

My wife was diagnosed with ME CFS in 2006 (god knows how long she had it prior to that).  I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.  We had hoped that 100,000 suffering long covid  would generate new research in the area. Still waiting. 

My missus caught swine flu really badly back in 2009/2010 wave and ended up with CFS plus it ate all the nerves in one ear so she was deaf, couldn't stand up and lost her Driving Licence. She's now balanced, back driving (2016) and her hearing has adjusted so that she can get by.
She still sleeps for England tho'.
When COVID hit she locked herself away on our Welsh Mountain for two years as no way she wanted that.

There's not much NHS help here either nor is there much research - we use various charities for advice/support and anybody who tells you long covid/CFS is a state of mind or swinging the lead needs to catch it for themselves. 

[fairkens]

9 hours ago, richardmorris said:

They’re all white or grey here, I’ve no idea which model is which as I’ve no intention of buying one

I saw a model S in Porsche peppermint green the other week. First time I've seen one that wasn't white or grey. I did wonder if it was a wrap

[Zelandeth]

10 hours ago, fairkens said:

I saw a model S in Porsche peppermint green the other week. First time I've seen one that wasn't white or grey. I did wonder if it was a wrap

Which is a shame, as particularly the deep blue they're available in really suits it (in my opinion).

Likewise a shame that the interiors nearly always seem to be hospital operating theatre white with either a piano black fingerprint magnet of a dash or fake carbon fibre, or the whole cabin in black on black on black.

Other options are available.

I'd probably go with darker carpets from a practicality perspective...but to me that just looks far more welcoming.  I hate that so many modern cars these days seem to be so dark and or cold looking inside.

My reason for being in this thread right now though is just a very generalised grump.  Today has simply been one of those days and can get in the sea.  Literally everything I have tried to do has fought me every step of the day, and I'm pretty sure I've got a longer to do list now than when I got up this morning.

Also I just left the garage door not fully open to use as a rain shield while I was rummaging for stuff just inside the door.  Five minutes later went to walk back into the garage and yes, you guessed it, walked straight into the door that I'd left nicely at just above forehead height.

Properly rattled my brains (assuming I have any) and hurt like hell.  I just calmly closed and locked the door then retreated inside at that point.  Writing the day off as a total loss, hopefully tomorrow will be better!

[Rustybullethole]

Upstairs neighbour. He's a cunt. For years he repeatedly blocks the drive even when my van is down there in full view that i use for work almost every day. Main arse ache is that he's on the top floor too and i cant see if he's blocked me in till i get all the way down stairs before needing to climb all the way back up to bang on his door. Ive been polite though he just parks there again and again. One morning after he didn't answer the door i decided id put his window through so i could roll his car past the gate and get myself to work. He appeared just as the steering lock was at full swing. He still parks there. I have been less polite. He still parks there. The family go to church every Sunday. Few weeks back i had to carry all my tools up from the garage as he was blocking access and not answering the door. 

I wrote a message on the gate for him.

Pics not that great can just about read it on zoom.

The Mrs thought this was a bit much and she may be right but i honestly don't know how to get through to him. The kids are the same. They think its ok to play football in the concrete stairwell booting the ball against the windows. Just been woken up by them as I have many times before. They packed it in when i opened the front door and said 'take it up the fucking park will ya' I did add 'mind the roads' as may have come across a bit blunt.

 

 

[Mike Whiskey]

Returned home from holiday yesterday to that horrible water leak damp smell. 

Valve in the water tank in the loft not quite shutting properly, and overflow not watertight means several days of drip drip drip in the loft above our bedroom.

We've been using enough water for it to not show up when we are here, but a week away was enough. I normally turn the water off when we go away, but forgot this time....

Water side is fixed now, but the ceilings a mess.   Still it wasn't all on the bed when we got home so could be worse.

 

MW