The grumpy thread

[MikeR]

3 hours ago, New POD said:

What an arse.

In the words of dave sexton. Never drive or ride through a puddle. If you have to, assume its 3 foot deep. 

but I managed to miss the lamp posts that were in plain sight

[fairkens]

4 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

As @Jazoli said above, the roads around here are a disgrace.  If you're around Barrow while you're here....

They're turning me in to a miserable fucker but every pothole I see round here I take a picture and fill out the Council's online form. Fair play to Leeds City Council, its almost always been filled in within a couple of days. Not that the repairs last long at this time of year...

[iainrcz]

Had to spend money 😔

[SunnySouth]

On 05/02/2024 at 12:35, Rustybullethole said:

Focus had had some big love of late in terms of time and money put in which makes this rather disappointing.

Was parked up at the time and bus has just smashed the shit out it. Bollocks. 

Jesus, he’s done a proper job on that

I trust he was honourable and stopped etc?

[New POD]

On 04/02/2024 at 22:40, New POD said:

Noticed a little issue in my daughter's bedroom in the corner.  Little evidence of a leak

started to investigate. Removed some Wall paper to find the lining paper covered in mould.

and investigate more. Under the pink painted lining paper on the outside wall the plaster was pretty damp. 

 

Took off the lining paper on the party wall. 

And scraped off the mould

Looks like there's some sort of small leak from the corner of the loft conversion above, which starts about 50 cm in from the outside wall, and has found an outlet right at the corner. 

Roofer, coming Tuesday. 

Looks like it's a £3k job🤔🤯

[warch]

I finally snapped with the builders working next door. They've had the radio on so loud we can hear it in our house (we both work from home). 

I got the usual arrogant dick swinging arrogant attitude from the sort of cunts you usually get in these sorts of jobs (graduate of the University of Life etc etc). No hint of apology or contrition. 

The thing is the building industry have spent years trying to improve their image with the general public, things like starting work in residential areas at a reasonable hour (this lot start at 7.00), not pissing off neighbours by for example playing loud music and learning how to deal with the public. I've worked on building sites, quarries etc for decades so I'm usually fairly clued up on acceptable site behaviour. 

I'm minded of the bloke who dug a trench across my dad's front garden to locate a water pipe (that my dad had already told him was on the opposite side of the lane), then did a shit job of reinstating it leaving clods of clay all over the place. He did struggle to get the digger going again after my dad had topped the diesel tank up with water overnight.  

 

[Rustybullethole]

3 hours ago, SunnySouth said:

Jesus, he’s done a proper job on that

I trust he was honourable and stopped etc?

Yes made a hell of noise by all accounts. Was witness by her colleague and a load of parents dropping their kids at the school so is as bang to rights as it gets. Bus stopped some way up the road, Ange felt the driver was pretty nonchalant about it all though stagecoach themselves have been great so far. This is good news as our insurance have proven themselves to be really quite shit. 
 

[Jazoli]

2 minutes ago, Rustybullethole said:

Yes made a hell of noise by all accounts. Was witness by her colleague and a load of parents dropping their kids at the school so is as bang to rights as it gets. Bus stopped some way up the road, Ange felt the driver was pretty nonchalant about it all though stagecoach themselves have been great so far. This is good news as our insurance have proven themselves to be really quite shit. 
 

Stagecoach were great with me when they battered my Van which had similar damage (lwb sprinter) they got it sorted at a local bodyshop and provided a hire van.

[Rustybullethole]

35 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

Stagecoach were great with me when they battered my Van which had similar damage (lwb sprinter) they got it sorted at a local bodyshop and provided a hire van.

I hold high hopes though fear it falls into uneconomical repair. Have sourced a replacement from these pages whilst we wait and had been planning on downsizing to something a bit more frugal anyway so maybe a blessing in disguise. If we can get book back on it then that would double what i paid for it. Fingers crossed.

[dozeydustman]

I'm fed up of the permanent snots, catarrh and sore throats I've had since my last lot of Covid (end of September last year). Know-all receptionist at the doctors' not interested as "that's something the pharmacy can help with". Pharmacy happy to sell linctus etc but "You really should see your doctor as your symptoms are persistent". I've tried home made honey, lemon and hot water, I'm drinking plenty of plain water (2-3 litres daily), I get my 5 a day, do anywhere between 15 minutes and 1 hour of exercise daily and it won't shift.

Round and round in this loop since the start of January. Had a blood test in November and my liver function is not normal, but the GP says not dangerously so as only just out of normal ranges.

To top things off the least crap programme available on the TV at the moment is 'Everybody loves Raymond'.

[Metal Guru]

48 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

I'm fed up of the permanent snots, catarrh and sore throats I've had since my last lot of Covid (end of September last year). Know-all receptionist at the doctors' not interested as "that's something the pharmacy can help with". Pharmacy happy to sell linctus etc but "You really should see your doctor as your symptoms are persistent". I've tried home made honey, lemon and hot water, I'm drinking plenty of plain water (2-3 litres daily), I get my 5 a day, do anywhere between 15 minutes and 1 hour of exercise daily and it won't shift.

Round and round in this loop since the start of January. Had a blood test in November and my liver function is not normal, but the GP says not dangerously so as only just out of normal ranges.

To top things off the least crap programme available on the TV at the moment is 'Everybody loves Raymond'.

This raises a few questions.

Why does everyone love Raymond? He’s an irritating , whiney, useless prat.

How did he get such a hot wife?

How come Robert is nothing like him. Is one of them adopted or did Marie have an affair? Couldn’t blame her Frank is such a slob.

[dozeydustman]

10 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

This raises a few questions.

Why does everyone love Raymond? He’s an irritating , whiney, useless prat.

How did he get such a hot wife?

How come Robert is nothing like him. Is one of them adopted or did Marie have an affair? Couldn’t blame her Frank is such a slob.

King of Queens is equal in terms of absolute dross. About as funny as receiving a kick to the one string banjo.

[Metal Guru]

8 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

King of Queens is equal in terms of absolute dross. About as funny as receiving a kick to the one string banjo.

Not watched it since they moved Frasier for it. I loved Frasier but had seen most episodes so many times, I knew the words off by heart. 

[sheffcortinacentre]

Never seen either 

[DavieW]

9 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

How come Robert is nothing like him. Is one of them adopted or did Marie have an affair? Couldn’t blame her Frank is such a slob.

I've always fancied getting a t-shirt with my favourite Frank quote - "people, not for me".

[TataBobu]

 

9 minutes ago, DavieW said:

I've always fancied getting a t-shirt with my favourite Frank quote - "people, not for me".

And on the back the one from Costanza's father, "serenity now!" 

[EyesWeldedShut]

Kids.
Last night - provide living proof that the electric power steering pump on the subframe of a Bini likes to be above the water table.
Ring, ring - heeelllllp.
Gorilla the car home in the dark. There's a drone like a wheel bearing in distress too. Grumpyfucketty-fucks.
 

[richardmorris]

13 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Kids.
Last night - provide living proof that the electric power steering pump on the subframe of a Bini likes to be above the water table.
Ring, ring - heeelllllp.
Gorilla the car home in the dark. There's a drone like a wheel bearing in distress too. Grumpyfucketty-fucks.
 

In his top5 of cars that will die in water.

 

[reb]

Apparently having my house number on the door with a foot tall fluorescent yellow number isn't enough for one of our local amazon drivers, as for the second time recently he's stuck my order through my upstairs neighbours door.

Secondary grump for the fact that my neighbour came home, presumably noticed this, and didn't stick it through my door before they went out again.

[rattlecan]

4 minutes ago, reb said:

Apparently having my house number on the door with a foot tall fluorescent yellow number isn't enough for one of our local amazon drivers, as for the second time recently he's stuck my order through my upstairs neighbours door.

Secondary grump for the fact that my neighbour came home, presumably noticed this, and didn't stick it through my door before they went out again.

One of the many reasons I’ve never bought a single item from that establishment 

[EyesWeldedShut]

No comment - at least the wear was even 

[Back_For_More]

DP sodding D...... I literally saw the van slowly crawling down the road and tried to wave him down - just rolled in by...... 

1hr later the email arrived - we had trouble delivering your parcel..... WANKERS

 

[Rust Collector]

I'm applying for a job in the council. The application process is doing my head in.

I can't remember the last time I had to write so much when applying for a job. I really hate writing, and I really hate self promoting, so producing about 6,000 words about myself to address every point in the person spec (not how I'd normally do it, but their specific request) has been torture. I feel like just fucking it off so that I can have a rest, after picking away at it in the odd spare moments I get over the past week I'm sick of the sight of the fucking thing.

[loserone]

Don't fill it out to 6k words if you can meet the person spec in 2.

 

Mrs L1 applied for a job this week and it required details of every job she's ever had, going back 20 years.  Amazing.

[Rust Collector]

25 minutes ago, loserone said:

Don't fill it out to 6k words if you can meet the person spec in 2.

 

Mrs L1 applied for a job this week and it required details of every job she's ever had, going back 20 years.  Amazing.

I've been as concise as I can without removing any useful information, but they've specifically asked for it laid out with each point on the person spec as a heading. In the 'essential' skills there is 21 headings alone... There's less in the desirable spec, but they need a bit of fleshing out as I'm not qualified in anything so I'm having to show the principles they're asking about through projects I've worked on.

Until I read the application properly (I promise I'm actually capable, sometimes...) I was planning on just lumping the headings together into themes and giving examples that covered a few points in one go, in order to keep it as condensed as possible. I can see why they want it split out by the headings though - the applications will be scored, so it's easier to just tick or cross the example under each heading and then tally up the scores at the end.

Yep, had to give every job ever as well. Like fuck can I remember what my roles and responsibilities were in the early ones.

When I've read job applications that have been sent to me for roles in my office I've hated having to read through them if they've got loads of info in them. I'm only really interested in what they do now (unless a previous role directly related to the role they applied for) and if they write like a normal human being. Much prefer something concise that I can skim through and see if they sound half sensible, then check them out properly at interview. It's probably really mean spirited, but I've had a really good laugh at some of the absolutely fucking mental applications that get sent in too.

[cobblers]

I've just got a fancy new phone (samsung s24) and I've not even got around to putting a sim card in it yet and properly swapping things over. it's just been sat on the side. It gets 10+ notifications every day for complete BOLLOCKS bloatware samsung installed on it. Buzzing and beeping away to tell me some unknown celebrity has "called out" another, or to remind me about it's fantastic AI features.

 

It woke me up at 1AM last night to show me a musical slide show it'd made from pictures I took of the terrifying red blotches on my dog to send the vet. The dog we had to put to sleep a few days later. It's the anniversary of her death today and every time I think of her it buckles me. 

What an absolute heap of shit. The "future" we live in is the absolute worst, I wish I'd ended up in the fork where technology made things better rather than much much worse.  

[BorniteIdentity]

20 minutes ago, cobblers said:

I've just got a fancy new phone (samsung s24) and I've not even got around to putting a sim card in it yet and properly swapping things over. it's just been sat on the side. It gets 10+ notifications every day for complete BOLLOCKS bloatware samsung installed on it. Buzzing and beeping away to tell me some unknown celebrity has "called out" another, or to remind me about it's fantastic AI features.

 

It woke me up at 1AM last night to show me a musical slide show it'd made from pictures I took of the terrifying red blotches on my dog to send the vet. The dog we had to put to sleep a few days later. It's the anniversary of her death today and every time I think of her it buckles me. 

What an absolute heap of shit. The "future" we live in is the absolute worst, I wish I'd ended up in the fork where technology made things better rather than much much worse.  

Don’t despair - proper Android phones quickly learn what you want, and a swift mute will take care of others.

I was going to extol the virtues of Apple; and how their stuff comes deliciously free of bloat. Then, inexplicably, I found myself whistling U2 - Songs of Innocence. 

As you were… 

[Bren]

A couple of times now I have bought minature shite from ebay. Despite the piss taking cost of P&P I am getting cards through the door from Royal Fail telling me I have to stump up money to get my item delivered because the postage was insufficient.

[Supernaut]

51 minutes ago, cobblers said:

I've just got a fancy new phone (samsung s24) and I've not even got around to putting a sim card in it yet and properly swapping things over. it's just been sat on the side. It gets 10+ notifications every day for complete BOLLOCKS bloatware samsung installed on it. Buzzing and beeping away to tell me some unknown celebrity has "called out" another, or to remind me about it's fantastic AI features.

 

It woke me up at 1AM last night to show me a musical slide show it'd made from pictures I took of the terrifying red blotches on my dog to send the vet. The dog we had to put to sleep a few days later. It's the anniversary of her death today and every time I think of her it buckles me. 

What an absolute heap of shit. The "future" we live in is the absolute worst, I wish I'd ended up in the fork where technology made things better rather than much much worse.  

Even my moto g13 I got in December does this bullshit sometimes.

It comes up with a notification that it won't let me dismiss, telling me to select some games to install.

So I untick all of the suggestions and click ok.

 

It's also worse than all the other Motorola phones I've had because the karate chop for the torch doesn't bloody work! I have to go into the settings then turn it off then on again before it decides to work for about 10 minutes, then it completely ceases functioning again...

[vulgalour]

I got a smartphone because I had to, quite often the 2FA sign ins I end up having to resort to my dumbphone because the smartphone is apparently unable to be reached.  Also had to turn off a load of Google stuff to stop it chewing through my monthly bandwidth with updates to apps I don't use and will never use, or adding extra apps I don't even want.

The future is here.  The future is stupid.