The grumpy thread

[Split_Pin]

10 minutes ago, artdjones said:

If you go on Catcar.info they have the genuine Audi parts diagrams that give the actual sizes of o rings.

Thank you, very useful, I'll have a look now 😃

[EyesWeldedShut]

3 hours ago, Pieman said:

Driving to Birmingham last night, young bloke in a Fiesta next to me slings a banana skin out of the window as we're about to pull onto a roundabout.

Makes a change from the road cyclists doing just that around here. Mountain bikers are much better - they just drop chocolate wrappers up on the mountain
I'd have thought both lots would have been more in touch with nature than a Fiesta driver.

[brownnova]

I was really enjoying owning this again… 

Smooth, lovely to drive, comfy and the kids (even the teenager) loved it.

Sadly it’s off back to its previous owner as the C4 we helped her buy to replace it has shat its gearbox in less than two weeks… 

No Merc, and a C4 with a borked gearbox to deal with.

Fucking great. 

[chaseracer]

Not your problem, shirley...? 🤔

[sheffcortinacentre]

2 hours ago, Kringle said:

Ordered oil, air freshener automatically added to basket. Removed because I prefer the smell of my own farts in the car. Order arrives, contains "freshener" anyway.

Fuck me.

 

I'd send the lot back saying won't be doing business with you again.

Saying I can see a big prick when I go for a piss.

[Pieman]

Where was that from?  I could use a new voodoo doll.

[Bren]

Other people's parental skills.

Visited Caernarfon Castle. Took my youngest, Charlie who is eight.

I held his hand tightly as some of the ramparts are pretty high and an unremarkable metal handrail is all that stops you falling.

Imagine my horror when a toddler comes walking towards us - no more than three years old with a fifty foot drop on one side. I hearded him back to his mother who let him walk ahead again.

Some really are as thick as pigshit.

[brownnova]

1 hour ago, Bren said:

Other people's parental skills.

Visited Caernarfon Castle. Took my youngest, Charlie who is eight.

I held his hand tightly as some of the ramparts are pretty high and an unremarkable metal handrail is all that stops you falling.

Imagine my horror when a toddler comes walking towards us - no more than three years old with a fifty foot drop on one side. I hearded him back to his mother who let him walk ahead again.

Some really are as thick as pigshit.

The tightness with which we held our little one’s hands at Caernarfon!! It’s very high! 

[sheffcortinacentre]

They don't need any as it's other people's responsibility.

[Rocket88]

14 hours ago, Kringle said:

Ordered oil, air freshener automatically added to basket. Removed because I prefer the smell of my own farts in the car. Order arrives, contains "freshener" anyway.

Fuck me.

 

I presume it smells of bullshit?

[iainrcz]

Trying to get a shower under a Mira shower. This is the third one I've had the joy of using.

I'd get wetter asking the Mrs to spit at me.

[cobblers]

41 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

I'd get wetter asking the Mrs to spit at me.

There's no shame in it

[Metal Guru]

45 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

Trying to get a shower under a Mira shower. This is the third one I've had the joy of using.

I'd get wetter asking the Mrs to spit at me.

It’s no wonder when you look at the power of them. Some are as low as 7.5 kW, most around 9 and the best you can get is only 13. My shower comes direct from a gas combi boiler rated at 32kW , so there’s no comparison.

[DavieW]

Not so much grumpy as annoyed/angry. 

A  1 mile section of an A road near me was "surface dressed" with chips last week. Already there are big bald patches where the chips have come off. What a bloody wate of money. 

[Metal Guru]

52 minutes ago, DavieW said:

Not so much grumpy as annoyed/angry. 

A  1 mile section of an A road near me was "surface dressed" with chips last week. Already there are big bald patches where the chips have come off. What a bloody wate of money. 

I was once waiting my turn in the barbers when the guy in the chair told the barber he worked for Autoglass . The barber jokingly says “ oh , I expect you go out at night spreading stones to drum up business”. The guy replied “don’t have to, the council does it for us”.

[artdjones]

On 29/05/2024 at 09:22, iainrcz said:

Trying to get a shower under a Mira shower. This is the third one I've had the joy of using.

I'd get wetter asking the Mrs to spit at me.

 

 

[Pieman]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

 

 

My favourite Simpsons episode ever - every line in that one is gold!

[artdjones]

3 hours ago, Pieman said:

My favourite Simpsons episode ever - every line in that one is gold!

The first ten years were great, they've been flogging a dead horse for decades.

[Datsuncog]

Apparently, banks don't/ won't give you bags of coins anymore.

Or at least, Nationwide doesn't - I was just after a bag or two of pound coins to use as a cash float for a car boot sale tomorrow morning.

But no, coins aren't a thing they keep on the premises anymore. I mean, it's been a couple of years since I last tried to flog a load of assorted tat, but I don't recall having difficulty in making a withdrawal in coin bags before.

I also had to wait in a queue for twenty minutes in order to make this discovery, which annoyed me even more.

I ended up in Tesco on one of their self-serve machines, buying individual bananas with a series of £10 notes in order to get some pound coins and a couple of 50ps in change.

If some twat rocks up early doors trying to buy a 10p comic with a £20 note, they may find themselves involuntarily eating it...

[DavieW]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

 

I ended up in Tesco on one of their self-serve machines, buying individual bananas with a series of £10 notes in order to get some pound coins and a couple of 50ps in change.

 

😄😄

[GeorgeB]

10 hours ago, DavieW said:

Not so much grumpy as annoyed/angry. 

A  1 mile section of an A road near me was "surface dressed" with chips last week. Already there are big bald patches where the chips have come off. What a bloody wate of money. 

Don't worry about the waste. The chips are now protecting* the bottom of your car.

* attracting dirt and rust.

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Apparently, banks don't/ won't give you bags of coins anymore.

You may find local post offices more accommodating, I know my one is.

[Zelandeth]

4 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Apparently, banks don't/ won't give you bags of coins anymore.

Or at least, Nationwide doesn't - I was just after a bag or two of pound coins to use as a cash float for a car boot sale tomorrow morning.

But no, coins aren't a thing they keep on the premises anymore. I mean, it's been a couple of years since I last tried to flog a load of assorted tat, but I don't recall having difficulty in making a withdrawal in coin bags before.

I also had to wait in a queue for twenty minutes in order to make this discovery, which annoyed me even more.

I ended up in Tesco on one of their self-serve machines, buying individual bananas with a series of £10 notes in order to get some pound coins and a couple of 50ps in change.

If some twat rocks up early doors trying to buy a 10p comic with a £20 note, they may find themselves involuntarily eating it...

Santander won't accept coins either unless you have a business account.  Because why would a bank take money and store it for me?  What a bizarre idea!

[Mrcento]

5 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Santander won't accept coins either unless you have a business account.  Because why would a bank take money and store it for me?  What a bizarre idea!

Banks don't want to handle money, full stop. Coins or notes. They basically just want to move money about on screens between accounts and cash cheques.

Last few times i've had anything to do with money and banks (not even big amounts, we're talking cheap runabout car money), it's been hellish. They basically treat you like some kind of drug running gangster, take you off to the side or shuffled off into a back room with several staff members, get questioned about where you got the money (or what you want it for if you're taking it out, like it's any of their fucking business), basically cordoned off half the branch over somebody having the audacity to do something with about 1k of their own money. It's insane.

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, Mrcento said:

Banks don't want to handle money, full stop. Coins or notes. They basically just want to move money about on screens between accounts and cash cheques.

Last few times i've had anything to do with money and banks (not even big amounts, we're talking cheap runabout car money), it's been hellish. They basically treat you like some kind of drug running gangster, take you off to the side or shuffled off into a back room with several staff members, get questioned about where you got the money (or what you want it for if you're taking it out, like it's any of their fucking business), basically cordoned off half the branch over somebody having the audacity to do something with about 1k of their own money. It's insane.

Banks really don’t want cheques either. That involves physical movement of bits of paper, a real pain. 
My mother still writes cheques for everything. When she runs out and needs a new cheque book, the bank is like “ what have you done with all those cheques? No one asks for a new cheque book any more”.

[hairnet]

Ffs

So left 8

M1 down to one.lane.from 4 and was shut further down nearer london and also at 15

So cross countried it from there to cambridge then m11

M11 samw down to one lane also A1 shut in herts

Planned on being here at 1am the map plot said 4.45 hours so about right 

Even with rhe faff was here at half one

Thats not so bad - 300 miles maybe?

[New POD]

1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

Banks really don’t want cheques either. That involves physical movement of bits of paper, a real pain. 
My mother still writes cheques for everything. When she runs out and needs a new cheque book, the bank is like “ what have you done with all those cheques? No one asks for a new cheque book any more”.

Paying in a cheque is so much easier.  My Lloyds banking app, has you take 2 photos, and jobs done. Good job, because they closed the branch in March. 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Paying in a cheque is so much easier.  My Lloyds banking app, has you take 2 photos, and jobs done. Good job, because they closed the branch in March. 

But most people who use cheques don’t do apps.

[Mrcento]

Bank branches seem to basically just be there to sell insurance and finance/loans now. It's no wonder they are closing, they've long stopped being useful by design.

They don't seem to want to do actual banking and expect that everything like that will be done via apps or cash machines.

The fact they still offer it at all (and make it deeply unpleasant an experience) more because they have to be seen to. And even then, i was sat in the bank a few months back trying to sort a missing card out (old one had expired and 2 replacements they sent out never arrived) and whilst waiting for a manager to be taken into the back rooms like all the criminals are, there were older people coming in and out wanting to do actual banking, like stick some money in or put a cheque in.

They basically got as far as the front desk and sent over to a machine, effectively to say 'We don't give a fuck, if you want that done, go do it your fucking self'. Of course, they couldn't do it and 1 of the 2 woman on the front desk basically had to guide them through it.

Meanwhile, 3 cashiers sat there, doing fuck all, whilst a small queue waited for the remaining woman on the front desk to assign them to a machine to go do it themselves or take a seat alongside me to wait to be seen by someone more senior. I think only 1 or 2 from a dozen or so ended up actually seeing a cashier.

[artdjones]

13 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Apparently, banks don't/ won't give you bags of coins anymore.

Or at least, Nationwide doesn't - I was just after a bag or two of pound coins to use as a cash float for a car boot sale tomorrow morning.

But no, coins aren't a thing they keep on the premises anymore. I mean, it's been a couple of years since I last tried to flog a load of assorted tat, but I don't recall having difficulty in making a withdrawal in coin bags before.

I also had to wait in a queue for twenty minutes in order to make this discovery, which annoyed me even more.

I ended up in Tesco on one of their self-serve machines, buying individual bananas with a series of £10 notes in order to get some pound coins and a couple of 50ps in change.

If some twat rocks up early doors trying to buy a 10p comic with a £20 note, they may find themselves involuntarily eating it...

Ask your local window cleaner, or anyone who handles lots of small transactions.