The grumpy thread

[maxxo]

37 minutes ago, loserone said:

I get that it's your choice but that sounds like a generous well intentioned gift and a stroppy ungrateful response to be fair.

Why yes I completely agree, which is why I’ve hidden my true feelings somewhat, I’d rather not feel this way just got quite annoyed when my television set was called old crap

[richardmorris]

23 minutes ago, maxxo said:

Why yes I completely agree, which is why I’ve hidden my true feelings somewhat, I’d rather not feel this way just got quite annoyed when my television set was called old crap

I know what you mean. The only downside with plasma is that they can be expensive to run. We used to do analysis for the company that was developing OLED technology. A spin off from UCL I think. Sold out to merck or someone and left us with three months of bills unpaid. Nearly put us under twenty years ago.

[maxxo]

13 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I know what you mean. The only downside with plasma is that they can be expensive to run. We used to do analysis for the company that was developing OLED technology. A spin off from UCL I think. Sold out to merck or someone and left us with three months of bills unpaid. Nearly put us under twenty years ago.

I realise how ungrateful I do sound, I really don’t intend to and I realise that’s a me problem

im just set in my ways really, but I can’t lie that television isn’t all that good

[loserone]

Just now, maxxo said:

television isn’t all that good

Absolutely true.  

[Spiny Norman]

2 hours ago, maxxo said:

toshiba fire tv, don’t bother, it’s a pile of crap

thankfully I’ve said I’ll never watch it

What exactly is wrong with it? New monitors can take a day or two to bed in, and often need a bit of tweaking in the settings for colour, contrast etc.
The sound will likely be shite but that's the case on most new flat panel TVs now, you're expected to use a soundbar or hifi with them.

[maxxo]

1 hour ago, Spiny Norman said:

What exactly is wrong with it? New monitors can take a day or two to bed in, and often need a bit of tweaking in the settings for colour, contrast etc.
The sound will likely be shite but that's the case on most new flat panel TVs now, you're expected to use a soundbar or hifi with them.

Extremely washed out colours, manages to be both dull and extremely bright at the same time

does this weird frame smoothing thing where everything looks unnatural 

HDMI inputs look horrendous, very grainy 

settings make very little difference 

sound is surprisingly good actually!

keeps turning itself on through the night 

[Kiltox]

On 06/04/2024 at 12:21, rattlecan said:

Paint, it’s shite nowadays. Wtf is going on?

I’m decorating the hall & landing, used Dulux (so not cheap crap) it’s magnolia over what is already magnolia, so no massive colour changes & literally every surface needs 3 coats (some bits 4) & same with the woodwork. Tin says ‘one coat’ yeh right one coat my arse.

This stuff is expensive as all fuck however I’ve never known paint to cover like it. It’s extraordinary. 
 

https://coatpaints.com/

[RoverFolkUs]

1 hour ago, Spiny Norman said:

What exactly is wrong with it? New monitors can take a day or two to bed in, and often need a bit of tweaking in the settings for colour, contrast etc.
The sound will likely be shite but that's the case on most new flat panel TVs now, you're expected to use a soundbar or hifi with them.

Cheap modern LCD TVs (they're all LCD regardless of whether they're branded as LED or QLED or ULED) are all shite. Toshiba is made by a company called Vestel who manufacture Bush, Hitachi, JVC, even entry level sets from Panasonic which should be a good name! Among many others. It's all bottom of the barrel shite using poor quality screens and components that might last a year or two

Going from an old Plasma TV to a modern entry level set is roughly equivalent to transitioning between a proper W123 Mercedes to a modern A-Class with the 1.5 Renault engine... I'm being deadly serious 

I agree it was a kind gesture from Maxxo's in laws (?) , most ordinary folk who treat a television as an appliance would struggle to see what's wrong, but anyone who could tell a quality TV apart from a bad one in a batch of 100 would be miffed if they thought they'd be upgrading from their 15 year old telly when they would realistically be worse off

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, Mally said:

47 in a 40.  Long while since I had my last classroom stint.

Hope I get  chance of another.

First one didn't work, then?🤣

[Mally]

15 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

First one didn't work, then?🤣

Returning home from Kings Lynn Stock cars and must have got carried away. 

Know the route very well but I'm not normally driving.

[fairkens]

9 hours ago, maxxo said:

Extremely washed out colours, manages to be both dull and extremely bright at the same time

does this weird frame smoothing thing where everything looks unnatural 

HDMI inputs look horrendous, very grainy 

settings make very little difference 

sound is surprisingly good actually!

keeps turning itself on through the night 

FWIW my mate bought a Toshiba recently and took it back complaining of v similar issues. 

Lovely of someone to buy you a new telly but as with so many things and expensive old thing is better than a cheap new thing

[DavieW]

The council were out giving the grass its first cut of the year to the communal area next the house. It looks like they've been rallying on it. Feel sorry for the kids who play there. 

Surely they would stop when they saw the mess they were making. 

[myglaren]

2 hours ago, fairkens said:

FWIW my mate bought a Toshiba recently and took it back complaining of v similar issues. 

Lovely of someone to buy you a new telly but as with so many things and expensive old thing is better than a cheap new thing

I have an old LG plasma TV.  Rarely watch it but it is excellent image quality.  Mostly used for music DVDs so the sound piped through a stereo that cost a lot more than the TV.

I didn't know what I was looking for, just a replacement TV and was shown the difference between LED and plasma TVs.  The choice was easy.

Keeps the room warm too  

[Rust Collector]

22 minutes ago, DavieW said:

The council were out giving the grass its first cut of the year to the communal area next the house. It looks like they've been rallying on it. Feel sorry for the kids who play there. 

Surely they would stop when they saw the mess they were making. 

I don't know how it works in your area, but in my area the council has outsourced that type of work to private companies. We had one based in a unit a few doors down from my work, the bloke who ran it was not pleasant and had a piss poor attitude to the folks he employed. Shite wages and high staff turnover, so no doubt the lads out doing the work probably gave no fucks about doing a good job. The only winner is the bloke running the company, everyone else (council, his employees, general public) gets the shit end of the deal.

[Metal Guru]

15 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

I don't know how it works in your area, but in my area the council has outsourced that type of work to private companies. We had one based in a unit a few doors down from my work, the bloke who ran it was not pleasant and had a piss poor attitude to the folks he employed. Shite wages and high staff turnover, so no doubt the lads out doing the work probably gave no fucks about doing a good job. The only winner is the bloke running the company, everyone else (council, his employees, general public) gets the shit end of the deal.

My neighbour uses a gardener. He turns up at the same time and day every week and proceeds to cut the grass regardless of the weather. I cut my own grass and wait until it’s dry  so I won’t  turn it into a mud bath. 
However, what’s he going to do? Have a day off ( without pay) if it’s raining? Not going to happen is it ?

Same with the council. While it’s not unusual for council workers to sit around (because they’re badly managed, don’t shoot me), if they don’t cut the grass today, it won’t get done until the next scheduled time , and will look even worse. 

[Rust Collector]

1 minute ago, Metal Guru said:

My neighbour uses a gardener. He turns up at the same time and day every week and proceeds to cut the grass regardless of the weather. I cut my own grass and wait until it’s dry  so I won’t  turn it into a mud bath. 
However, what’s he going to do? Have a day off ( without pay) if it’s raining? Not going to happen is it ?

Same with the council. While it’s not unusual for council workers to sit around (because they’re badly managed, don’t shoot me), if they don’t cut the grass today, it won’t get done until the next scheduled time , and will look even worse. 

I would hazard a guess that if you can't mow the lawn due to the ground being saturated then you probably find something else productive to do and resume mowing at the next opportunity. You'd hope that a well managed team responsible for maintaining all the public land in the county could do the same, there's plenty of places that could be worked on still whilst it's wet out with no detriment to their usage. A bloke who works for himself mowing private gardens isn't really comparable in my opinion, because as you rightly point out his livelihood is directly tied to doing the jobs exactly when they're scheduled in and there's no real flexibility in it.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

On 09/04/2024 at 09:23, loserone said:

So my grump is people who post 80% of their posts having a dig at people in the grumpy old man thread without a hint of irony.

 

16 hours ago, loserone said:

I get that it's your choice but that sounds like a generous well intentioned gift and a stroppy ungrateful response to be fair.

I’m now lost in an ironic vortex.

[loserone]

14 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

 

SO I’m now lost in an ironic vortex.

Fixed that for you

[NorfolkNWeigh]

1 hour ago, Rust Collector said:

I don't know how it works in your area, but in my area the council has outsourced that type of work to private companies. We had one based in a unit a few doors down from my work, the bloke who ran it was not pleasant and had a piss poor attitude to the folks he employed. Shite wages and high staff turnover, so no doubt the lads out doing the work probably gave no fucks about doing a good job. The only winner is the bloke running the company, everyone else (council, his employees, general public) gets the shit end of the deal.

You forgot his mate at the Council that he takes on golf and whoring weekends in Marbella( probably).

[maxxo]

4 hours ago, fairkens said:

FWIW my mate bought a Toshiba recently and took it back complaining of v similar issues. 

Lovely of someone to buy you a new telly but as with so many things and expensive old thing is better than a cheap new thing

I know it was absolutely lovely and I do appreciate it but it just really annoys me watching it, I’m really surprised at how bad the picture actually looks on it

 

[mercedade]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

I have an old LG plasma TV.  Rarely watch it but it is excellent image quality.  Mostly used for music DVDs so the sound piped through a stereo that cost a lot more than the TV.

I didn't know what I was looking for, just a replacement TV and was shown the difference between LED and plasma TVs.  The choice was easy.

Keeps the room warm too  

I used to have a fabulous Panasonic plasma - weighed 3 metric fucktonnes and heated the living room.

I managed to get a good deal on a Samsung QLED (their 'better than LED but not quite OLED' offering) last year after working out that once I'd taken up their £150 cashback for my old TV, 12 months 0% finance, and a banging offer through my Perks at Work, the TV would pay for itself in under three years of energy bill savings.

[mercedade]

EDIT: will freely admit the picture wasn't as smooth or rich as the plasma, but it did only take me a week or so to get used to it.

[Markeh]

Got rid of my LG plasma (freebie in 2016, needed a new power board, only had one working HDMI port but was still a cracking picture - I think the local air cadets are still using it for a flight sim!) almost 3 years ago to the day for an LG OLED (55CX, just over £1k thanks to newer models on the horizon and an ambitious pricematch attempt that Richer Sounds honoured - this was my 'I've saved x amount due to not commuting thanks to lockdown, I'm treating myself' present) and it hasn't disappointed. I'll absolutely be running it until it dies. Can't see anything on the horizon that would ever make me think about upgrading. My only minor gripe is that I need to get a new TV cabinet in order to accommodate my centre speaker as you can't get anything low enough to sit under the screen without obscuring the picture.

[jakebullet]

Ma keeps complaining the milk is going off cos shit milk from that shop. Hmm. One quick measure of the fridge temperature suggests it may* be related to fridge being set at 12 degrees.

So I turned it up a bit. Next day she's chuntering about the carrots being cold so I may have gone a smidge too far. Bit hard to tell cos she's turned it back down.

Now on day 3 of "this has been ruined because you've frozen it". Oh do fuck off mother dear. Put it all in the fucking bin, I'll take you to monkey spunks and you can restock the bastard with stuff thats guaranteed not to go off at 12 degrees. 

Bonus grump of idiot sister texts Ma, am I putting any bets on the grand national? Maybe I am, but not for her. Get her own account and place her own bets.

Why am I being like that???? Well, could be something to do with if she wins she wants paying out and if she loses she accidentally forgets to pay for the stake.

[Supernaut]

No.

 

I'm calling it.

Jake is actually a joke account trying to wind us up.

[jakebullet]

Ha ha, I left out the other sister thing today as being too fantastical. She's started another miracle diet, I think it's one of those where you have like 800 calories a day in packet soup etc, and starve yourself thin. While giving them £70 a week for food* supplies.

So it's day 3, are we by any chance going near Staniforths? Well no, wasn't planning on it. Why?

Surprise, we are going there, her diet needs a fuck off cream cake. But it's ok, the diet is based on ketones as well as 800 calories, so cakes are in.

[Supernaut]

Nah.

You're just going over to mumsnet and making stuff up based on a cocktail of their latest topics.

There's no way one person's life is so full of drama and sheer fucking stupidity.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

1 hour ago, Supernaut said:

Nah.

You're just going over to mumsnet and making stuff up based on a cocktail of their latest topics.

There's no way one person's life is so full of drama and sheer fucking stupidity.

And if it was, there's no way that said person wouldn't be a serial killer by now.

[Supernaut]

We need to start compiling all these jakebullet tales into a book.

It would make any reasonable person's toes curl.

[Metal Guru]

5 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Nah.

You're just going over to mumsnet and making stuff up based on a cocktail of their latest topics.

There's no way one person's life is so full of drama and sheer fucking stupidity.

They just the scripts from Sorry!