The grumpy thread

[barefoot]

5 hours ago, myglaren said:

I haven't purely as I dislike the term 'app'.

Similarly, I have never eaten yoghurt because I don't like the way it's spelled.

[DavieW]

Went for a night with my my wife. 

We went to new pub in town - £8.50 for a pint and a glass of wine. Had a couple there then went back to our village and had the same round  - £13.80. Guess we won't be frequenting our local very much. 

 

[New POD]

6 hours ago, DavieW said:

Went for a night with my my wife. 

We went to new pub in town - £8.50 for a pint and a glass of wine. Had a couple there then went back to our village and had the same round  - £13.80. Guess we won't be frequenting our local very much. 

 

Did you mention it to the landlord ?  

Is the place empty ? No understanding of schoolboy price vs demand curves? 

Or is the place full, and he's put the price up, because it doesn't impact the sales much. 

[Floatylight]

Not really a grump more of a bemusement. ..

FIL's 70th Birthday today, MIL has booked a table for 12 at a local pub 8pm.

Turn up at 7 45 and the place is packed, outside on the car park a bloke is trying to stop three screaming women from clawing each other, we're pointed to a selection of tables close to the busy bar which had been put into a line, surrounded by burley blokes shouting at one another, we sat down and were looking at the menu when a full band started sound checking for a gig with what must have been at least a 10 piece drum kit, pa speakers, stage monitors, etc about 6ft from us.  The drummer doing full rounds on the drums, the guitarist doing his best Jimi Hendrix and male & female vocalists going 1-2, 1-2 for about 5 minutes as the guy on the sound desk tried to stop the feedback screeching...

Got up and went to the local Toby Carvery instead, you would think they would mention when taking a phone booking they would mention  they've got a live band on...

[brownnova]

This is why travelling on a motorway is shit these days. Ignorant fucking twats who don’t realise the inside lane is default lane and the other two are for overtaking only. On the M6 yesterday there were queues in lanes 3 and 4 whilst lanes one and two were moving perfectly! So many middle lane hogging bastards it’s unbelievable! 

[Floatylight]

38 minutes ago, brownnova said:

This is why travelling on a motorway is shit these days. Ignorant fucking twats who don’t realise the inside lane is default lane and the other two are for overtaking only. On the M6 yesterday there were queues in lanes 3 and 4 whilst lanes one and two were moving perfectly! So many middle lane hogging bastards it’s unbelievable! 

Yeah, I now tend to sit in Lane one undertaking them all, occasional out to overtake a truck then back to lane one and carry on, that way you avoid all the knobs two foot off each others bumpers on the brakes every 5 seconds. 

[sheffcortinacentre]

49 minutes ago, brownnova said:

This is why travelling on a motorway is shit these days. Ignorant fucking twats who don’t realise the inside lane is default lane and the other two are for overtaking only. On the M6 yesterday there were queues in lanes 3 and 4 whilst lanes one and two were moving perfectly! So many middle lane hogging bastards it’s unbelievable! 

Now days they've been redesignated  as follows

Lane 1 peasants/ lorry lane .

Lane2  lorry/giffer lane 

Lane3 van/self entitled lane

Lane 4 as lane 3

[hairnet]

lump

bastard

had a sore leg (being on the bike even tho not a 4 hour at a time jobbie) it was 50 miles stop 50 miles stop leg wouldnt complain doing that

hip/joints get sore so ok itll go away only this time its sore when pressed

not a spot or obv blemish not discoloured

spoke to special people they said speak to doc or haemo tomorrow to see who can see it quicker

fuck (work are gonna love me)

edit since the weekend the lump is bigger - good job i have an appointment tomrrow (their ask not mine)

fuck this week already

Edited October 10, 2023 by hairnet

[Metal Guru]

7 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Now days they've been redesignated  as follows

Lane 1 peasants/ lorry lane .

Lane2  lorry/giffer lane 

Lane3 van/self entitled lane

Lane 4 as lane 3

Lane one is the loser lane.

Lane 2 belongs to the middle lane owners club

lane 3 is the Audi / BMW lane.

Lane  4 is “oh shit there’s my exit lane. Looks like I’m going to be on You Tube!”

[GrumpiusMaximus]

13 hours ago, brownnova said:

This is why travelling on a motorway is shit these days. Ignorant fucking twats who don’t realise the inside lane is default lane and the other two are for overtaking only. On the M6 yesterday there were queues in lanes 3 and 4 whilst lanes one and two were moving perfectly! So many middle lane hogging bastards it’s unbelievable! 

I drove from Cheltenham-Kent via the A40, M40, M25, M2, yesterday and I had a situation like this almost all of the way back.  I'm very happy to sit in the inside lane doing 60 on longer journeys, especially in the BINI.

I don't know if this has always been a problem but many, many drivers just do not seem to understand that the inside lane is the lane that you are, by default, meant to be in and that the other two are for overtaking.  If you're doing 70, I can understand being in the middle lane if there's a train of lorries.  Because you're overtaking them.  Otherwise, get the fuck to the inside lane and use the motorway properly.

See also, people overtaking you when other cars are merging from the left at junctions (despite there being signs of an impending junction for at least a mile) and cars getting arsey and flashing you from 150 Yards back when you safely accelerate, indicate and pull over to let traffic in prior to a junction.

Case in point, there's a very marginal junction on the A2 just before you get into Canterbury whereby the traffic entering the A2 from the left gets a very short slip road and it's very hard to actually see the A2 until you're on the slip itself trying to merge:

So, as a courtesy I always try and pull over to the right-hand lane (of two) about 400 yards beforehand as I've seen so many near-misses there.  Did that yesterday and a van that was in the right-hand lane suddenly decides to do 85, catch up with me and start flashing their lights.  They only realised what I was doing when they saw two merging cars nearly have an accident with two cars on the inside lane at the junction and backed off.

The lack of situational awareness on our motorways an A-roads is staggering.

[robinmasters]

9 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I drove from Cheltenham-Kent via the A40, M40, M25, M2, yesterday and I had a situation like this almost all of the way back.  I'm very happy to sit in the inside lane doing 60 on longer journeys, especially in the BINI.

I don't know if this has always been a problem but many, many drivers just do not seem to understand that the inside lane is the lane that you are, by default, meant to be in and that the other two are for overtaking.  If you're doing 70, I can understand being in the middle lane if there's a train of lorries.  Because you're overtaking them.  Otherwise, get the fuck to the inside lane and use the motorway properly.

See also, people overtaking you when other cars are merging from the left at junctions (despite there being signs of an impending junction for at least a mile) and cars getting arsey and flashing you from 150 Yards back when you safely accelerate, indicate and pull over to let traffic in prior to a junction.

Case in point, there's a very marginal junction on the A2 just before you get into Canterbury whereby the traffic entering the A2 from the left gets a very short slip road and it's very hard to actually see the A2 until you're on the slip itself trying to merge:

So, as a courtesy I always try and pull over to the right-hand lane (of two) about 400 yards beforehand as I've seen so many near-misses there.  Did that yesterday and a van that was in the right-hand lane suddenly decides to do 85, catch up with me and start flashing their lights.  They only realised what I was doing when they saw two merging cars nearly have an accident with two cars on the inside lane at the junction and backed off.

The lack of situational awareness on our motorways an A-roads is staggering.

I was on the A2 a while ago, in lane two, overtaking. A grey van closed very quickly on me, really aggressively tailgating. When I was past the traffic I had been overtaking I moved back into lane one, and gave the van driver the Gareth Hunt hand gesture. Only then did the (unmarked) van put their blue lights on. There's a police vehicle compound at Nackington. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

23 minutes ago, robinmasters said:

I was on the A2 a while ago, in lane two, overtaking. A grey van closed very quickly on me, really aggressively tailgating. When I was past the traffic I had been overtaking I moved back into lane one, and gave the van driver the Gareth Hunt hand gesture. Only then did the (unmarked) van put their blue lights on. There's a police vehicle compound at Nackington. 

It was a grey van!  Police driver or otherwise, the occupant was indeed a bit of a Gareth.

[purplebargeken]

Agreed. In the early 00's in the Wood Lane area of West London, just further on from the BBC HQ, a metallic blue Rover 100, slightly jazzed up boy racer style used to hook around locally. The only issue being that it was an unmarked plod wagon. I was on my slightly loud TRX riding home from a shitty shift at Charing X hospital. I had stopped at the light on Wood Lane, pizza moped next to me. Next thing much horn blowing and this car forces its way through, thought it was going to hit the pizza guy. A few seconds later the lights changed and I rode off the same way as the dickhead in the car. I put my full beams on as I caught up with him, pulled alongside as the road was chocker and berated him verbally and loudly as his window was open. He shouted back that he was a police officer and waved his warrant card at me whilst shouting. I plucked it out of his hand, told him I didn't give a fuck, informed him that he drove like a fucking wanker and flung his card onto the pavement somewhere. I then fucked off by filtering through the traffic. I regret nothing. 

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, purplebargeken said:

He shouted back that he was a police officer and waved his warrant card at me whilst shouting. I plucked it out of his hand, told him I didn't give a fuck, informed him that he drove like a fucking wanker and flung his card onto the pavement somewhere. I then fucked off by filtering through the traffic. I regret nothing. 

Chapeau, Ken.  Chapeau... 😎

[Pieman]

On 10/8/2023 at 6:57 PM, brownnova said:

This is why travelling on a motorway is shit these days. Ignorant fucking twats who don’t realise the inside lane is default lane and the other two are for overtaking only. On the M6 yesterday there were queues in lanes 3 and 4 whilst lanes one and two were moving perfectly! So many middle lane hogging bastards it’s unbelievable! 

I will admit, in a situation like that I just do 70 along lane 1 and undertake the lot of them.  I'm past caring these days.

[brownnova]

54 minutes ago, Pieman said:

I will admit, in a situation like that I just do 70 along lane 1 and undertake the lot of them.  I'm past caring these days.

In this picture MrsB was driving…. When I was driving on the way down what you describeis exactly what happened! 

[Spurious]

Just binned about £150 worth of dry stores, condiments, herbs etc from the cupboard as we got bloody pantry moths in it. Utter basterdz. I was on a mission to eradicate them by the end armed with two cans of cockroach spray from the corner shop. 

0/10, would not recommend. 

[Burnside]

The coolant bottle on my Stilo has developed a hairline crack, right were the rubber pipe joins on.

Just what I needed as I really needed the car tomorrow. Tried bodging it tonight, but can't seal it enough to stop leaking under pressure. So it will have to stay off the road till it's fixed. Great.

 

 

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, Spurious said:

Just binned about £150 worth of dry stores, condiments, herbs etc from the cupboard as we got bloody pantry moths in it. Utter basterdz. I was on a mission to eradicate them by the end armed with two cans of cockroach spray from the corner shop. 

0/10, would not recommend. 

You have my sympathies.  We had a grain mite infestation a couple of years back which wiped out basically everything in the kitchen.  Getting rid of them was an absolute pain!

[jakebullet]

I suspect many know the phrase "You're good with computers" and the total despair that follows dealing with the terminally confused. I made the mistake of fixing the Mrs's mum's tablet when I was there so I am now the expert* 

Symptoms this time are, and I quote "There's something wrong with my google". 

Google what? Chuff knows.

Last time it was "Messenger isn't letting me login", which turned out to be she'd somehow stored her facebook password as the wireless password, so big surprise it wouldn't let her connect to the wireless. She has three tablets, and basically uses one until it's fucked up, then when she kills all three some lucky mug gets to sort them out.

[Zelandeth]

2 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

I suspect many know the phrase "You're good with computers" and the total despair that follows dealing with the terminally confused. I made the mistake of fixing the Mrs's mum's tablet when I was there so I am now the expert* 

Symptoms this time are, and I quote "There's something wrong with my google". 

Google what? Chuff knows.

Last time it was "Messenger isn't letting me login", which turned out to be she'd somehow stored her facebook password as the wireless password, so big surprise it wouldn't let her connect to the wireless. She has three tablets, and basically uses one until it's fucked up, then when she kills all three some lucky mug gets to sort them out.

Oh god, run!

[Spurious]

10 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

You have my sympathies.  We had a grain mite infestation a couple of years back which wiped out basically everything in the kitchen.  Getting rid of them was an absolute pain!

I spotted them as the larvae tend to climb onto ceilings and spin their cacoon. So far after the "great mass extinction pantry moth event" there's been none spotted for 2 hours. 

Utterly hateful job throwing away food. Cockroach spray was super effective however and I'm crossing my fingers that there's none exploring the ceiling tomorrow morning. 

Root cause was herself's aunt brought over a batch of walnuts and they must have come in with them... 

[GMcD]

31 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

I suspect many know the phrase "You're good with computers" and the total despair that follows dealing with the terminally confused. I made the mistake of fixing the Mrs's mum's tablet when I was there so I am now the expert* 

Symptoms this time are, and I quote "There's something wrong with my google". 

Google what? Chuff knows.

Last time it was "Messenger isn't letting me login", which turned out to be she'd somehow stored her facebook password as the wireless password, so big surprise it wouldn't let her connect to the wireless. She has three tablets, and basically uses one until it's fucked up, then when she kills all three some lucky mug gets to sort them out.

Just think..with three tablets you get to deal with her 66.666666% less in comparison to having one.

Glass half full n that. 

Buy another seven. 

[myglaren]

Grandson has started work at Durham University (work, not student).

He had booked a train for this morning but got on the wrong train.

£58 from Newcastle to Durham!

[New POD]

14 hours ago, Burnside said:

The coolant bottle on my Stilo has developed a hairline crack, right were the rubber pipe joins on.

Just what I needed as I really needed the car tomorrow. Tried bodging it tonight, but can't seal it enough to stop leaking under pressure. So it will have to stay off the road till it's fixed. Great.

 

 

Look...

On

the

bright

side.

You caught it before it ran dry and you cooked the cylinder head gasket.

My astra did that and i caught it. Just.

It turns out that it's a common thing on them.  On some they have a coolant level indicator. On my SRi it doesn't. But it does have tyre pressure monitoring and front and rear sensors. On my wife's poverty spec astra. It has the sensor. 

[New POD]

15 hours ago, jakebullet said:

I suspect many know the phrase "You're good with computers" and the total despair that follows dealing with the terminally confused. I made the mistake of fixing the Mrs's mum's tablet when I was there so I am now the expert* 

Symptoms this time are, and I quote "There's something wrong with my google". 

Google what? Chuff knows.

Last time it was "Messenger isn't letting me login", which turned out to be she'd somehow stored her facebook password as the wireless password, so big surprise it wouldn't let her connect to the wireless. She has three tablets, and basically uses one until it's fucked up, then when she kills all three some lucky mug gets to sort them out.

Just because I can record a macro in excel, and can sometimes modify it, (usually with dificulty)  people think I know all about computers. I don't.  

 

[Vince70]

I need a breather hose for my 2.0 V5 Golf as it’s torn and collapsed.

I recently bought a similar Hose for my 2.0 litre Golf which is an older car as it’s based on the MK3 and that cost me all of £7.50, but for the V5 it’s unobtainable, but I did find one for £265 in the US.

So the old girl might be getting a catch can.

[omegod]

Currently dealing with the the aftermath of my FIL's sad passing on Sunday.

 How the fuck can it cost £867 to dig a hole in an already purchased plot and how the fuck can a cemetery only manage to do one burial per day !  

[loserone]

2 hours ago, myglaren said:

£58 from Newcastle to Durham!

That's more than £4 a minute.  Fucking hell.

[myglaren]

42 minutes ago, omegod said:

Currently dealing with the the aftermath of my FIL's sad passing on Sunday.

 How the fuck can it cost £867 to dig a hole in an already purchased plot and how the fuck can a cemetery only manage to do one burial per day !  

That sounds outrageous.  Could be some sort of scam, there have been lots of scams involving funeral services.   Funeral Scams

There is a complaints procedure Complaints about pre-paid funeral plans     (Financial Ombudsman Service)

I know of two locally.  One of my daughters works at a funeral directors and tells me of these things.

There's a petition going on at change.org currently about just this.  Be wary of doing any more than sign their petitions as they are a for-profit American organis(z)ation and not all contributions go to the intended recipients.