The grumpy thread

[horriblemercedes]

11 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

I wasnt sure whether to drop this in the grin, grump or daft tyre name thread.

Typical Rover rivet counter. Simpering over a little piece of plastic when at least one of the tyres on the car is a shitey budget. That's literally the first thing I spot on a car and it speaks volumes.

Sincere question - what is a wheel arch finisher? 

[Supernaut]

22 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Sincere question - what is a wheel arch finisher? 

It's a pro wrestling move, involving hooking your opponent round the neck with a repair panel (bonus points for anything BL) then pulling them to the floor with it, thus finishing the match.

[Split_Pin]

23 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Sincere question - what is a wheel arch finisher? 

Total mud traps, best off in the bin imo.

[Supernaut]

5 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Total mud traps, best off in the bin imo.

TOTAL MUD TRAPS, for all your mud traps and mud trap accessories!

 

No. I don't know why I'm so silly today either. I blame the rhubarb wine from last night.

[kevins]

19 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

Aye it's going to get a lot worse. The roads in Glasgow are littered with deep, sharp edged craters everywhere. The council DGAF and their legal team sacks off all the complaints.
And now we're going to increase the average private car's weight by another half ton or so with all the EVs we're supposed to be buying. Fuck being eco-friendly, at this rate we'll all need Range Rovers just to get to work.
This is fairly typical, often these are every few yards.

yep my old rangie is the only one of our 8 cars I can drive around in without having to worry about pot holes, the idiot following a foot behind in his Audi/Bmw usually gets a nasty shock when I drive through a bad one with no braking or avoidance!

The work Transits are also pretty impervious to them.

[Remspoor]

Those nice Dutch folk set me two letters after my recent visit.

Two speeding fines. one 62kph corrected to 59 kph in a 50. The other 66kph corrected to 63kph in a 50.  Both on the same road one in the morning the other in the evening. now asking for money 261€. That is expensive.

The grumble is the wife is not letting me forget the amount. She who only has a motorbike licence and has not ridden for about 10 years.😞

[Spiny Norman]

6 hours ago, kevins said:

yep my old rangie is the only one of our 8 cars I can drive around in without having to worry about pot holes, the idiot following a foot behind in his Audi/Bmw usually gets a nasty shock when I drive through a bad one with no braking or avoidance!

The work Transits are also pretty impervious to them.

That's why I'm after a SUV/Jeep type of car, with the tallest profile tyres I can get. My old Citroen CX was fantastic over potholes. Oleopneumatic suspension and 80 profile Michelins meant you barely even noticed it running over a crater in the road.

Work vehicles are pretty much impervious to everything mind....

 

[rattlecan]

7 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

That's why I'm after a SUV/Jeep type of car, with the tallest profile tyres I can get. My old Citroen CX was fantastic over potholes. Oleopneumatic suspension and 80 profile Michelins meant you barely even noticed it running over a crater in the road.

Work vehicles are pretty much impervious to everything mind....

 

Yeh, in similar style my E30 320i is lovely to drive from that point of view. 70 aspect tyres on , what are by todays standards, tiny diameter rims, coupled with quite soft & waffty suspension. It’s really rather lovely

[myglaren]

Yahoo mail.

I have long held a Yahoo account since they parted ways with BT and took Flickr with them.

Not used much but it now takes an hour to log in.  They make you wait at least an hour after the initial login attempt.

[GMcD]

Spent the last hour pulling the washing machine out as it's decided to lose all its water and soak the utility. Even better waters seeped into both the toilet and my study through the wall. My study floor is squelching. 

Fuck sakes! 

 

[High Jetter]

5 minutes ago, GMcD said:

Spent the last hour pulling the washing machine out as it's decided to lose all its water and soak the utility. Even better waters seeped into both the toilet and my study through the wall. My study floor is squelching. 

Fuck sakes! 

 

Uh, that's not a washing machine!

[Metal Guru]

16 hours ago, rattlecan said:

Yeh, in similar style my E30 320i is lovely to drive from that point of view. 70 aspect tyres on , what are by todays standards, tiny diameter rims, coupled with quite soft & waffty suspension. It’s really rather lovely

I suppose this is tempting fate, but I have driven the last 20 years in a car with 40 or 45 profile tyres and not had a single puncture or any other pot hole damage. Wife’s Bini has 55 profile tyres and shudders badly if you hit a pot hole but again no wheel or tyre damage. In fact all of the punctures I’ve ever had , have been from nails or screws.

[rattlecan]

Arseholes in their company cars (usually reps, but not exclusively) sat outside my business unit  talking on their phones through the car speakers with the volume still on 90mph driving  setting so you can here them in the next county.

Which has just happened for 15 mins 

[GMcD]

17 hours ago, GMcD said:

Spent the last hour pulling the washing machine out as it's decided to lose all its water and soak the utility. Even better waters seeped into both the toilet and my study through the wall. My study floor is squelching. 

Fuck sakes! 

 

Ripped up the flooring in the Utility and Study. 

I've got it pretty dry now through using the dehumidifier, fan heaters and central heating on full pelt. My mate has a damp meter I can borrow to check it's actually dried out. New build concrete floors so no basement to worry about. 

I could go through insurance, but unless I run into issues I'll probably be able to fix it over a weekend for less the excess,  increased premiums and general fucking hassle of it all. (£550 excess for escape of water..must remember to check the small print of my renewal next time!).

LVT will be used instead of laminate as it least that won't be immediately fucked should it happen again.   Annoying but could've been worse. 

[jakebullet]

I've stayed an extra day at the Mrs's for an appointment. Just got back home, and I'm in the shit 'cos idiot sister wanted a lift to fetch her car. Er, nobody mentioned anything about IS to me. Yes, Ma knows I'm totally in the dark. But I should have come back pronto, just in case some halfwit who can't be arsed to drop a text message wants driving around. 

TLDR: I'm crap at mind reading.

[anonymous user]

4 hours ago, rattlecan said:

Arseholes in their company cars (usually reps, but not exclusively) sat outside my business unit  talking on their phones through the car speakers with the volume still on 90mph driving  setting so you can here them in the next county.

Which has just happened for 15 mins 

Next time join in on the conversation with them, offer helpful suggestions, or alternatively pretend the chap is in a pub and start arguing that they have had enough to drink and spilled your pint that should go down well with their boss.

[brandersnatch]

49 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

I've stayed an extra day at the Mrs's for an appointment. Just got back home, and I'm in the shit 'cos idiot sister wanted a lift to fetch her car. Er, nobody mentioned anything about IS to me. Yes, Ma knows I'm totally in the dark. But I should have come back pronto, just in case some halfwit who can't be arsed to drop a text message wants driving around. 

TLDR: I'm crap at mind reading.

Can you not just tell Idiot Sister to fuck right off? Seems a reasonable solution to me. 

[jakebullet]

15 minutes ago, brandersnatch said:

Can you not just tell Idiot Sister to fuck right off? Seems a reasonable solution to me. 

Poor little lamb has been having a terrible day. I didn't mind read to drive her about. Then when she went to pay for car timing belt changing man told her engine isn't original to car and belt was about to pop. N he wants paying in Johnny Cash, when she has no actual money and was intending to bang it on credit card.

But yeah, a fuck off would be reasonable, except as usual she doesn't communicate with me. It's all suggestions* to the Ma, n hope I do what she wants by remote control. Perhaps she'll learn to ask after having to walk home.

[Rightnider]

The drainage system has finally had it.  It’s been raining and snowing a lot this winter and water is seeping through the wall in the basement. Time to talk to the bank I guess. 

[brandersnatch]

18 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

But yeah, a fuck off would be reasonable, except as usual she doesn't communicate with me. It's all suggestions* to the Ma, n hope I do what she wants by remote control. Perhaps she'll learn to ask after having to walk home.

Not communicating with you is surely all the more reason to play the fuck right off card?

[Wibble]

3 hours ago, GMcD said:

Ripped up the flooring in the Utility and Study. 

I've got it pretty dry now through using the dehumidifier, fan heaters and central heating on full pelt. My mate has a damp meter I can borrow to check it's actually dried out. New build concrete floors so no basement to worry about. 

I could go through insurance, but unless I run into issues I'll probably be able to fix it over a weekend for less the excess,  increased premiums and general fucking hassle of it all. (£550 excess for escape of water..must remember to check the small print of my renewal next time!).

LVT will be used instead of laminate as it least that won't be immediately fucked should it happen again.   Annoying but could've been worse. 

Don’t rely on a damp meter to determine if concrete slab is dry. Takes much longer than you think and really needs rapid air movement across the surface, as well as a dehumidifier.

We would carry out an Equilibrium Relative Humidity test of the slab to be sure it really is dry, otherwise you could have failure of new flooring installation. This requires specialist kit.

[Zelandeth]

Ordered a couple of parts for one of the cars middle of the day on Wednesday.  Made a point of finding a UK based supplier who had the parts in stock "as that will be quicker than ordering from Germany."

Yeah, have they been dispatched yet?  Nope! 

Would they be here from Germany by now?  Most likely.  Almost definitely by tomorrow morning.

Yes it's a minor grump in the grand scheme of things, but it's still annoyed me.

[cort1977]

First World problem I know, but why is it so bloody hard to get from terminal 5 to terminal 4 at heathrow? I've been to a lot of shit airports in my life but they let you walk from one terminal to another. It took me an hour to go about a mile today, ended up on the tube to Hatton Cross and back. Was starting to feel like Tom Hanks by the end of it.

[Zelandeth]

13 minutes ago, cort1977 said:

First World problem I know, but why is it so bloody hard to get from terminal 5 to terminal 4 at heathrow? I've been to a lot of shit airports in my life but they let you walk from one terminal to another. It took me an hour to go about a mile today, ended up on the tube to Hatton Cross and back. Was starting to feel like Tom Hanks by the end of it.

Oh this a thousand times.  We ran into this problem last time we went to the US.  Return flight was direct, whereas outbound was via Paris.  So return flight was into T5, we'd left from T4, so the car was at T4.

We'd been on the go for >20 hours thanks to delays, had had a horrible flight full of screaming kids, been pissed about by the border crossing, and just wanted to get to the damned car and go home.  The discovered there was a signal failure so the shuttle rail service wasn't running.  Was an overnight flight as well which is never a great start heading this way.

Nearly two bloody hours it took us...we were all about ready to murder someone.  If we'd known it was going to be such a bloody hassle we'd just have got a taxi - but we kept thinking "surely we're missing something..." At every step which then went wrong and ended up with us getting further and further away from our destination!

Never. Ever. Again. Even if it doubles the sodding cost, we will make sure to fly back to the same bloody terminal we left from.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Because the world but especially the UK is fucked.

Anyone in charge of anything hasn't got a clue what or how to do it.

So just pass the buck to the people below them.

[EyesWeldedShut]

54 minutes ago, cort1977 said:

First World problem I know, but why is it so bloody hard to get from terminal 5 to terminal 4 at heathrow? I've been to a lot of shit airports in my life but they let you walk from one terminal to another. It took me an hour to go about a mile today, ended up on the tube to Hatton Cross and back. Was starting to feel like Tom Hanks by the end of it.

Because LHR is a dog's dinner of cobbled together architectural fuckups loosely coupled in a semi-airport-like format. T1 , T2 & T3 kind of hung together as the  'originals' even if T3 was out on a bit of a (geographical) limb.
T4 & T5 are extremely out by themselves and (especially the latter) are quite divorced from the other four. 

Better to think of them as (almost) separate destinations??

6 minutes ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Anyone in charge of anything hasn't got a clue what or how to do it.

Those in charge of keeping the money down in that there London knew exactly what they were about - have a gander at how hard they pushed to get T5 up and running (even relocating the, rather vast, local shiteworks) rather than lose the traffic to one of the regionals.

https://framearch.co.uk/t5/2007/04/24/the-perry-oaks-water-treatment-works/

(I'd take issue with the use of 'disused' in that article as Perry Oaks was only decommissioned after BAA and Thames Water reached a £££ agreement)

[sheffcortinacentre]

I ment the day to day managerial side.

[rattlecan]

35 minutes ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Because the world but especially the UK is fucked.

Anyone in charge of anything hasn't got a clue what or how to do it.

So just pass the buck to the people below them.

Which is why in my ‘old age’ (59 last week) I’m digressing into hating everyone & everything about the modern world. (Bit ironic saying that on the internet, but clearly none of you are actual people, just replies, I can dip in & out of) I don’t live in a particular over populated area but I am genuinely spending more time looking at houses in the middle nowhere, so I don’t have to put up with cunts

[Wack]

BBFC 

42 minutes ago, rattlecan said:

Which is why in my ‘old age’ (59 last week) I’m digressing into hating everyone & everything about the modern world. (Bit ironic saying that on the internet, but clearly none of you are actual people, just replies, I can dip in & out of) I don’t live in a particular over populated area but I am genuinely spending more time looking at houses in the middle nowhere, so I don’t have to put up with cunts

It's just an age thing, wait until you hit 60, everyone else  instantly becomes a cunt, especially if they wear a hat while driving 

Doesn't matter what kind of hat,

trilby, old cunt,

baseball cap, just a cunt 

Other cunts stop you going where you want to go just by being in your way, phrases like, " where are all these cunts going, it's 11am" and "does no cunt work anymore" just enter your vocabulary and after a week or so just fall out of your mouth. 

I'm looking for this wholesale so I can rig it up on my car with a crop sprayer so it works like a machine gun 

[Wack]

BBFC, 

Just gone to watch a film I knew nothing about but the " somebody might be offended" so we can't just age rate it warning  more or less told me the whole fucking plot.