The grumpy thread

[cobblers]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Do Halfords really need to be the most absolutely fucking useless shit cunts in existence? 

 

If things operate in a similar way to when I worked there and they first upgraded to this new computer system, then web orders poll directly from the stockfile of the store, then they pop up on a screen in store for someone to pick the parts off the shelf.

Stores will have targets to meet on picking time etc, so someone will have just blindly "confirmed" the order as picked, even when it wasn't. They'll then actually pick it when they get a minute.

In most cases this procedure works OK, ish, unless the stockfile is inaccurate or the stocks are very low and something sells out in between you ordering it and coming to collect. 

I'd put a small wager on the fact that the missing items off your order are something that would be easily stolen? for these things, the stockfile is usually miles off because nobody in the store has time to go and do proper stock counts, so the system things there's a dozen on a peg but in reality they've all been nicked. 

For every pair of mountain bike gloves we sold, we'd get ten stolen. 

[RoverFolkUs]

23 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

Some cunt has driven into my car and smashed the front grill, headlamp brackets and scuffed the bumper and fucked off, utter wankers, it might be a 13 year old Passat but it was genuinely immaculate.

It happens to every car I own, the joy of parking in a public car park at work, I've managed to get new parts ordered for under £150 but I'm still pissed off, seems pointless trying to keep everything nice.

Very poor show, surely must be covered by CCTV?

Although I suppose it will be the typical case of "sorry can't share it due to GDPR...HFTVJIRCBJ" 😅

[Jazoli]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Very poor show, surely must be covered by CCTV?

Although I suppose it will be the typical case of "sorry can't share it due to GDPR...HFTVJIRCBJ" 😅

Nope, I manage the carpark and all the buildings next to it, if there was cctv I'd be all over it, its probably one of my cunting colleagues that have done it.

[RoverFolkUs]

4 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

Nope, I manage the carpark and all the buildings next to it, if there was cctv I'd be all over it, its probably one of my cunting colleagues that have done it.

Mention it, see whose face goes red

Seriously

That's what I'd do

[Jazoli]

26 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Mention it, see whose face goes red

Seriously

That's what I'd do

It won't matter, there's dozens and dozens of people who come and go all day every day, plus a hundred or so members of the public who also use the car park, I'd have better odds buying a lottery ticket than speaking with someone who may have done it, the car park was an ice rink today so I'm not surprised it has happened but still a cunts trick but part of car ownership I've begrudgingly accepted.

[Split_Pin]

That's shite about the Passat especially as it was minted beforehand. People are thick and selfish, in the main  

That's one of the reason I like running cars that are around 20 years old as mainline breakers and ebay still have plenty of parts in stock at cheap prices. Sod paying a grand for a new headlamp on a 3 year old BMW or something (or take the inevitable increased insurance premiums of you go that route).

[twosmoke300]

Checked the weather forecast before I left for work . Heavy snow for the next half hour it said. Get to work - no snow and the forecast has now changed . Are there a bunch of more useless cunts than the met office ?

If you change the forecast as it happens then that’s not forecasting its reporting . 
 

Might see if Mystic Meg has a weather app 

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

17 hours ago, Tickman said:

Hot cross buns in Tesco all year round.

Jings, that's biblical.  

[Split_Pin]

45 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Checked the weather forecast before I left for work . Heavy snow for the next half hour it said. Get to work - no snow and the forecast has now changed . Are there a bunch of more useless cunts than the met office ?

If you change the forecast as it happens then that’s not forecasting its reporting . 
 

Might see if Mystic Meg has a weather app 

 

The icons on the app and website are just generated by a computer model and change at random. They can't predict precisely to the square mile exactly where snow will fall.  It is frustrating though I agree.

I just watch their YouTube forecast for the next few days.

[TataBobu]

On 16/01/2024 at 21:44, beko1987 said:

I think most of it is moisture inside the car, both the crystal filled things I've got in it are quite full now. 

Ironically after scraping it my mate called saying he'd drive today so I locked it up and walked away 😂 Aftr sitting and breathing in it to put more damp inside 🙄

I've been told re-useable microwaveable ones exist which I'll have a look for on pay day. Not going to begin working out where a tiny drop of moisture might be coming in on a 23 year old citroen, it'll only be a problem for a month or so before it warms up again 👌

A sock filled with unused cat litter, the white translucid ones? Same stuff you find satchels of in new shoes?

[Matty]

KSC 110 club in Burnley shutting. Another landmark gone. Be no social clubs left at this rate. Same as pubs. Just trendy bars 😭

[myglaren]

19 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Hot Cross buns in supermarkets now. I bet they're furious about being made so early.

I wanted teacakes before christmas, they had none but there were hot cross buns.

[Rust Collector]

16 minutes ago, Matty said:

KSC 110 club in Burnley shutting. Another landmark gone. Be no social clubs left at this rate. Same as pubs. Just trendy bars 😭

I had to drop a colleague off in the centre of Newhaven yesterday. I was surprised to see that the social club there appears to have closed down - always used to be busy when I was younger. I think the railway club may still be going, which is probably the only place left in town now to get a cheap drink.

That said, I'm not sure you can call any of the pubs left in Newhaven high street trendy. Most of the pubs in the surrounding urban area have gone 'gastro pub' though.

[Jazoli]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

The icons on the app and website are just generated by a computer model and change at random. They can't predict precisely to the square mile exactly where snow will fall.  It is frustrating though I agree.

I just watch their YouTube forecast for the next few days.

Yup, forecasting is not and has never been a precise art, its like when it says 100% chance of snow, what it means is there are 100% chance it will snow *somewhere* within a given radius.

[bezzabsa]

received THE phonecall this morning, Mother passed away about 8am she had spend 3 1/2 weeks in Hospital and just over24 hours in a Local Very Good Hospice.. 83 and full of cancer, was still out shopping etc 2 days before taking ill. 

[New POD]

1 hour ago, Matty said:

KSC 110 club in Burnley shutting. Another landmark gone. Be no social clubs left at this rate. Same as pubs. Just trendy bars 😭

I've got unfinished business with Burnley.  I'd happily nuke the town into oblivion. 

Having worked in 2 different factories there years ago and met and worked with the most mean spiritited and xenophobic bunch of blokes you are ever likely to meet.

As my dad (born in Nelson in 1936) said "Aye lad, thee haf met them from Burnley.  All with well balanced personalities. A chip on both fucking shoulders" 

To be fair, the modern way, is not to get your wages in cash on Friday and piss it up the wall on the same night at the local working man's club, which seemed to be how the people I worked with lived.  Bloody millennials, staying at home, cooking vegan meals and drinking mocktails whilst watching Disney plus.  Probably take lunch to work in a satchel. 

[New POD]

3 minutes ago, bezzabsa said:

received THE phonecall this morning, Mother passed away about 8am she had spend 3 1/2 weeks in Hospital and just over24 hours in a Local Very Good Hospice.. 83 and full of cancer, was still out shopping etc 2 days before taking ill. 

I'm sorry for your loss. For her it might be a relief that it was so quick. (Not that it is much consolation) 

 

[Sheefag]

50 minutes ago, New POD said:

Bloody millennials, staying at home, cooking vegan meals and drinking mocktails whilst watching Disney plus.  Probably take lunch to work in a satchel. 

Says the bloke who boasted of sneaking breakfast cereal into hotels, in a ziploc 😂😂😂

[New POD]

3 minutes ago, Sheefag said:

Says the bloke who boasted of sneaking breakfast cereal into hotels, in a ziploc 😂😂😂

I'll have you know, I take it in a leather case with my initials sewn into it. 

[Sheefag]

On 16/01/2024 at 00:07, vulgalour said:

If we're doing the broad strokes approach to countries, then the only thing your average Brit is good at making these days is complaints.

That comment and variations on it about how it's China's fault Britain can't make good stuff any more is utter nonsense.  Britain is no longer a manufacturing power house, hasn't been for decades, while China has been investing heavily in becoming the country that makes everything for everyone.  Stuff made in China runs the whole range from hopeless eBay tat all the way through to high end tech and lots of other stuff besides.

Also Brits are fucking tight and/or skint all the time anyway.  You're not going to pay a premium for a British made thing, you're just going to moan about how expensive it is and then go and buy the Chinese thing you said you didn't want to buy because it's that much cheaper and several levels of quality lower.  Brits are world class hypocrites that way.

People who write off the UK as a manufacturing nation, are badly misinformed.

[sierraman]

2 hours ago, Matty said:

KSC 110 club in Burnley shutting. Another landmark gone. Be no social clubs left at this rate. Same as pubs. Just trendy bars 😭

My local one closed a few weeks ago, we are all devastated. Probably tellingly we have picked another local pub to go to so the community as it were lives on. They can never break that!!! 

[Rust Collector]

26 minutes ago, Sheefag said:

People who write off the UK as a manufacturing nation, are badly misinformed.

I suspect it's the profile of what we manufacture that has changed over time - manufacturing things cheaply here isn't easy from my experience and so you need to manufacture things of value that can support a healthy margin.

[Inspector Morose]

1 hour ago, bezzabsa said:

received THE phonecall this morning, Mother passed away about 8am she had spend 3 1/2 weeks in Hospital and just over24 hours in a Local Very Good Hospice.. 83 and full of cancer, was still out shopping etc 2 days before taking ill. 

Aw, fuck man. So sorry to hear that. If you need anything, just shout out.

[chadders]

48 minutes ago, Sheefag said:

People who write off the UK as a manufacturing nation, are badly misinformed.

We don't do too badly in services:

Rank	Country	Exports (in millions USD)	Year
1	United States	926,012	2022
2	United Kingdom	493,054	2022
3	Germany	428,704

 

[hairnet]

medical can get to fuck

going to hospital - first call said ring 999 which didnt wanna do 

rang them and they said yes go

rather be working

fuck sake

[hairnet]

Motherfucker

[hairnet]

Yay doc said its not heart or respitory

One level was high it went back down ( just waited hour and half for the result

Here's hoping its stays away

 

[Sheefag]

I'd get a 2nd opinion mate if I were you mate, that ECG machine wasn't even plugged in...

[Wibble]

11 hours ago, bezzabsa said:

received THE phonecall this morning, Mother passed away about 8am she had spend 3 1/2 weeks in Hospital and just over24 hours in a Local Very Good Hospice.. 83 and full of cancer, was still out shopping etc 2 days before taking ill. 

Very sorry for you loss.

[SunnySouth]

8 hours ago, hairnet said:

Motherfucker

I initially read that as “EGG MACHINE”….