The grumpy thread

[High Jetter]

26 minutes ago, Wilko220 said:

Bad news today for Rootes owners

I used to deal with them occasionally when I was in parts back in the 80's in the same general area. Always very efficient and knowledgeable staff, a shame to see their closing.

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, Wilko220 said:

Bad news today for Rootes owners

 

 

Some tosser will purchase the Stock. Lets hope it is not the MR helpful* who purchased the stock from Earlpart when they closed a number of years ago.

[Markeh]

11 hours ago, Markeh said:

Managed to cock up this morning.

I'm not a complete idiot when it comes to some DIY tasks, and I've successfully changed all the light switches and sockets upstairs in my house, as well as one downstairs that broke. Everything working fine, electrician was happy last time I had a callout for something unrelated, all good. Well after a couple of years the cheapo switch I used in the hall started playing up and one side of it now doesn't work at all, bought a replacement switch, lived with it for a bit, didnt think anything of it, managed without a hall light for a bit. Finally decided sod this I want to change it this morning. Moved it over one wire at a time, as I have previously.

Well clearly either this switch is fucked or I've fucked it up as it's now tripping the electrics every time I turn the lights on. After trying a couple of basic wire swaps I decided nope, fuck this, I'm not getting involved. Emergency electrician on the way. Now I'm conscious I look like a know it all who tried it and fucked it up.

Sheer incompetence here. Waited til 6:30pm for an electrician. At about 6pm, I checked the third attempt of wiring I'd done, with the intent of tucking it away, assuming they werent coming, just so I didn't damage anything.

In the process, I wired it up right. I paid an £80 callout charge, all they did was turn the breaker back on and check the switch worked...

In fairness I did get them to change the landing switch while they were here.

Idiot tax paid, lesson learned, don't try and bugger about with electrics before you start work. Hopefully they just charge me for the callout - if they do, I'll probably bother to put some work their way for an outside light I need fitting.

[Wilko220]

5 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Some tosser will purchase the Stock.

I suppose there’s a chance that Rimming Bros will snap it up and put the price of each item up by a million per cent or something 

[junkyarddog]

10 hours ago, Wilko220 said:

Bad news today for Rootes owners

 

 

Got a few spares from them over the years,sad they are going.

[silvercar]

26 minutes ago, Markeh said:

Sheer incompetence here. Waited til 6:30pm for an electrician. At about 6pm, I checked the third attempt of wiring I'd done, with the intent of tucking it away, assuming they werent coming, just so I didn't damage anything.

In the process, I wired it up right. I paid an £80 callout charge, all they did was turn the breaker back on and check the switch worked...

In fairness I did get them to change the landing switch while they were here.

Idiot tax paid, lesson learned, don't try and bugger about with electrics before you start work. Hopefully they just charge me for the callout - if they do, I'll probably bother to put some work their way for an outside light I need fitting.

I found out several years ago when changing a couple of ceiling lights in the hall that because of regs it is perfectly acceptable to use a neutral coloured wire as a switched live. Oh how I laughed my arse off at paying the idiot tax to the grinning sparky as he fixed my wiring faux pas in about 2 minutes.

i feel your pain

[Datsuncog]

So it appears that Sainsburys now reckon they're Spotify, and have (somewhat belatedly) hopped on the groovy train to email me my "2023 Wrapped!!"

I have absolutely no idea what I'm meant to do with this information.

Other than possibly track down the #1 buyer of Belvita Cocoa breakfast biscuits in the local area, and challenge them to a duel to determine the one true champion.

[adw1977]

Apparently my top buy with Sainsbury's in 2023 was Freddos.  That's because my local Sainsbury's petrol station bizarrely decided to sell off their stock at 9p each so I bought pretty much all of them.   The door pockets in my car are still mostly filled with Freddos.

[jakebullet]

On 09/01/2024 at 20:54, vulgalour said:

Don't do it.  Just don't.  You won't be thanked for any trouble you go to, you already know this.  Leave it be.

I got a bazillion messages how does she change arsebook password 'cos HACKERZ*, so I told her and she buggered off for a full day.

Facebook are now saying that my old password is incorrect and I have used it for a very long time, I know it is right and Parry also does. So how do I get out of that one please?.

Er, use the new password, the one you changed it to? I suspect she thinks you change password only for the device you've changed it on, and not all of them.

Yes, trying to avoid further interaction with mad Jean.

[New POD]

13 hours ago, hairnet said:

Got given a prescription by the hospital

Went to collect it and its the same stuff im on now only tiny bit stronger

If you can buy them off the chemist theyre not gonna be mad scary

Ffs - why not given them first no idea

 

As I'm awake and coughing my lungs up, might I be allowed to be a pedant. 

It's a Pharmacist.  Not a chemist. 

The difference is significant. 

Daughter is the former, and son formerly was the later (and now is a chartered financial auditor), and have both previously pulled me up on this common error. 

[Metal Guru]

25 minutes ago, New POD said:

As I'm awake and coughing my lungs up, might I be allowed to be a pedant. 

It's a Pharmacist.  Not a chemist. 

The difference is significant. 

Daughter is the former, and son formerly was the later (and now is a chartered financial auditor), and have both previously pulled me up on this common error. 

It latter not later. 

[New POD]

1 minute ago, Metal Guru said:

It latter not later. 

Its latter. 

[Metal Guru]

2 minutes ago, New POD said:

Its latter. 

It’s latter!

[chadders]

8 hours ago, New POD said:

As I'm awake and coughing my lungs up, might I be allowed to be a pedant. 

It's a Pharmacist.  Not a chemist. 

The difference is significant. 

Daughter is the former, and son formerly was the later (and now is a chartered financial auditor), and have both previously pulled me up on this common error. 

So why was it 'Boots the Chemist' then?

[New POD]

29 minutes ago, chadders said:

So why was it 'Boots the Chemist' then?

Because...don't know...but.....he didn't sell boots....😁

[myglaren]

He was a pharmacist that had booted the chemist out.

 

Apothecary sounds better though, eye of newt and all that.

[vulgalour]

They couldn't afford the Oxford Comma.

While we're at it:

Chock full, not chalk full

Have, not of

Bought, not brought

Needs replacing, not need replaced (no, Scotland, sit down.  Not now.)

[Billy - Medhurst]

SillY Cow in in a Kia drove into the back of me at the traffic lights tonight. Damaged the rear bumper - I was stationary and had been for a while. Wanted to bung me a tenner to keep it off insurance as she has had a recent claim. Jog on love - that bumpers knackered now.

[High Jetter]

A tenner???????

[New POD]

9 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

A tenner???????

The price of a can of fix it 

[auntiemaryscanary]

My mum has been suffering with shortness of breath, a cough and weight loss. The GP started investigations v end of Nov and the hospital continued that through December and with invasive stuff last week.

She got the diagnosis yesterday. Mesothelioma - lung cancer from asbestos. Beyond the devestation for her and us as a family we can't think of anywhere she's been to be exposed to asbestos. Ultimately we'll never know where the asbestos came from.

The NHS and GP has been absolutely top notch.

It's all v v sh*t.

[New POD]

9 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

A tenner???????

The price of a can of fix it 

[RoverFolkUs]

5 minutes ago, New POD said:

The price of a can of fix it 

You can say that again

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

You can say that again

It's the can can.

[New POD]

8 hours ago, auntiemaryscanary said:

My mum has been suffering with shortness of breath, a cough and weight loss. The GP started investigations v end of Nov and the hospital continued that through December and with invasive stuff last week.

She got the diagnosis yesterday. Mesothelioma - lung cancer from asbestos. Beyond the devestation for her and us as a family we can't think of anywhere she's been to be exposed to asbestos. Ultimately we'll never know where the asbestos came from.

The NHS and GP has been absolutely top notch.

It's all v v sh*t.

Sitting next to someone on a bus, who has been working on a construction site all day. 

Putting drawing pins onto walls of school buildings. 

It's all pretty shit.  Even one stray fibre could be enough. (Although the greater the exposure the more likely) 

[Remspoor]

On 11/01/2024 at 00:07, Wilko220 said:

I suppose there’s a chance that Rimming Bros will snap it up and put the price of each item up by a million per cent or something 

Shame you cut of some  of my comment. But still here video which suggests that all part supplies are getting greedy.

 

 

[myglaren]

6 hours ago, New POD said:

Sitting next to someone on a bus, who has been working on a construction site all day. 

Putting drawing pins onto walls of school buildings. 

It's all pretty shit.  Even one stray fibre could be enough. (Although the greater the exposure the more likely) 

Steve McQueen allegedly got it from just walking through naval dockyards.

My dad smoked and also dragged it out of locomotive boilers and repacked then with it.

Died at 92  but not from that, completely unaffected.

My youngest grandson's other granddad got it working in a factory environment, he was an electrician fitting and servicing electric roller shutters.  It had been decades before it was detected.  Half million pounds compensation.

[sierraman]

18 hours ago, Billy - Medhurst said:

SillY Cow in in a Kia drove into the back of me at the traffic lights tonight. Damaged the rear bumper - I was stationary and had been for a while. Wanted to bung me a tenner to keep it off insurance as she has had a recent claim. Jog on love - that bumpers knackered now.

Ten pounds? Are these people for real 😂

[sierraman]

On 10/01/2024 at 12:36, Wilko220 said:

Bad news today for Rootes owners

 

 

Didn’t even know they were still open? Weren’t they something to do with that place in Coulsdon that did Rootes/Talbot parts, had a load of dilapidated sheds full of Talbot bits that went up in flames?

[New POD]

4 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Ten pounds? Are these people for real 😂

Wouldn't cover the stamp for the whiplash claims.