The grumpy thread

[Remspoor]

At the local health centre the other day for a doctors appointment. In the seating area next to the one I was in was a family, mother son and grandmother. The latter was wearing a mask. That is not the grump. Grandma took out a paper handy and blew her nose whilst wearing the mask. I am just glad I was not near enough to see the results afterwards.  Still make me shiver at the thought of her actions. Yuk!

[chaseracer]

I shouldn't laugh at that... but I will!

[Matty]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fuming-dad-banned-parking-vintage-32719113

DO NOT PAINT. Bastards.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

At the local health centre the other day for a doctors appointment. In the seating area next to the one I was in was a family, mother son and grandmother. The latter was wearing a mask. That is not the grump. Grandma took out a paper handy and blew her nose whilst wearing the mask. I am just glad I was not near enough to see the results afterwards.  Still make me shiver at the thought of her actions. Yuk!

Snot...funny

[sheffcortinacentre]

37 minutes ago, Matty said:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fuming-dad-banned-parking-vintage-32719113

DO NOT PAINT. Bastards.

Would they tell gypos to do that I doubt it or some toff to shift their Bentley, it's about time all this anti motorist stuff was knocked on the head.

Criminals are treated better & have more rights god knows what councils would do without the money screwed out of us year on year by government.

[Stanky]

8 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Tried them, no mats for the car I need it for.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266487142428

I got a set of these years ago in Aldi for £25 and they've been in every car I've owned since. Proper heavy, supple rubber, no 98% plastic rubbish. They are heavy and easy to cut to shape with a pair of stout scissors. Yes they are £40 a set, but they will literally last a decade+

They can be jetwashed, hoovered, and are heavy enough that they self-flatten into the footwell of any car, and being either very high rubber content, or pure rubber they don't slip or slide about in the footwell.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Next door have bought a 15-plate Citroen Cactus.  Good for them. 

Noticed a trail of oil down the road a few days ago.

Turns out that their old 11-plate Juke had a leaky oil filter, ran out of oil and the engine catastrophically failed a couple of miles up the road.  Neighbour said that as far as they knew, the oil filter hadn't been changed recently.  Which means that it probably hasn't been serviced, the seal has failed and it's blown up as a result.  Irritates me that a car has been cubed just because of a 50p seal failing.

[Noel Tidybeard]

45 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Next door have bought a 15-plate Citroen Cactus.  Good for them. 

Noticed a trail of oil down the road a few days ago.

Turns out that their old 11-plate Juke had a leaky oil filter, ran out of oil and the engine catastrophically failed a couple of miles up the road.  Neighbour said that as far as they knew, the oil filter hadn't been changed recently.  Which means that it probably hasn't been serviced, the seal has failed and it's blown up as a result.  Irritates me that a car has been cubed just because of a dickhead owner

FIFY

[GrumpiusMaximus]

They're nice folks next door but I do go the distinct impression that preventative maintenance is low on the list of priorities.

[Lord Sterling]

On 03/05/2024 at 23:58, Stanky said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266487142428

I got a set of these years ago in Aldi for £25 and they've been in every car I've owned since. Proper heavy, supple rubber, no 98% plastic rubbish. They are heavy and easy to cut to shape with a pair of stout scissors. Yes they are £40 a set, but they will literally last a decade+

They can be jetwashed, hoovered, and are heavy enough that they self-flatten into the footwell of any car, and being either very high rubber content, or pure rubber they don't slip or slide about in the footwell.

I know they can be modified with scissors but I absolutely hate universal mats, I cannot stand them. Didn't mind them a couple of decades ago but then I was fairly new to the world of owning a car.

I'd rather search high and low and come across either a properly tailored set or originals. 

When I had my old Vectra B estate diesel I managed to find and buy a set of original front rubber mats.

[Chas4545]

Off topic but anyway...  Ive had to stop watching the PO enquiry as its winding me up too much, but one thing leaves me puzzled. 

Why are there no youtube videos of a certain ex PO boss preaching?

It would be interesting to see her talk about how we should behave.

[MikeR]

walking past the banana shaped  double glazed caravan door yesterday and I finally noticed what's up with it ....

now considering the door  "experts" have been out and looked at it and other doors which were not shutting properly ..

which still needed attention after they had gone ...

I can now see the bottom panel is too big for the opening in the door frame for it , it must of been forced in to place  with some effort when the door was made !!

as its concave in the middle !!  

the door frame is straight , but the pressure from the panel is warping it out of true with the top of the door ..  the rubber seal between the door frame and panel changes thickness under the pressure ..

so even if the trim is removed I bet it would still be interesting to get the panel out and trim it to shape !!

as its a green coloured  door , any work will mark the paintwork , and a replacement panel would probably not match !

[Zelandeth]

Got the news today that my Nan passed away early this morning.  Not too broken up over it to be honest as firstly I really wasn't all that close.  Secondly it really didn't come as a surprise.  She was 97 of my math is right, and has had endless medical issues, especially over the last 10 years and has been resolutely miserable for at least that long, so something of a mercy in some ways.  It's also felt like it was going to happen at any minute for years.  

Timing could be better though...I've one of the two big events I've been looking forward to this year coming up over the last Thursday to Tuesday in May.  I'd be putting really good odds on either the funeral or other legal bits and pieces going on over that period...

I at least used to be noted as the executor or her will, though we're waiting for confirmation on that as as her husband put it "She was endlessly messing with things" so that could well have changed since it was last mentioned to me about 20 years ago.  Either way there will be some input required from my part I'm sure.  On the plus side they're only an hour or so from here so it's not like I'm going to need to endlessly run backwards and forwards up and down the country.  Plus she had actually written and properly registered a will, and everything relating to it is apparently pretty black and white so shouldn't be any squabbling between the remaining family at least.  Hopefully.

[Pieman]

On 03/05/2024 at 19:23, Matty said:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fuming-dad-banned-parking-vintage-32719113

DO NOT PAINT. Bastards.

Stick another vehicle there that's all shiny and new, then set it on fire and tell them someone else did it.

@Zelandeth - sorry to hear your sad news, hope you eventually have something good happen in life. -hug-

[Zelandeth]

12 hours ago, Pieman said:

Stick another vehicle there that's all shiny and new, then set it on fire and tell them someone else did it.

@Zelandeth - sorry to hear your sad news, hope you eventually have something good happen in life. -hug-

Appreciate it.  We're getting by all right all told.  Yes there are frustrations in my life, but compared to the vast majority of folks I've had a pretty lucky roll of the dice in a lot of ways.  We're working on sorting a lot of the real day to day annoyances as well.  I think the biggest source of grumbling for my part there is that the timescales are kinda nebulous as they rely on a number of factors which are completely beyond my control cooperating.

Also, insomnia can get in the fscking sea please.

[Joey spud]

I own just one pair of shoes that are exclusively used for weddings,funerals and maybe a very rare outing to a posh do. They are only cheapies but tidy and really comfortable to wear all day if needs be.

Anyhow I was at a wedding yesterday and sitting down waiting for the death sentence/ceremony to start I jokingly said to the wife "these shoes must be knocking twenty years old and still look new I reckon they'll see me out"...

Later in the day I stood up to venture to the bar,took a few steps and found I had suffered a major fail to proceed in the footwear department.

Gutted doesn't even cover it. 

Any suggestions of what I can use to glue them back together with so I can get another twenty years out of them ?

[MorrisItalSLX]

6 minutes ago, Joey spud said:

I own one pair of black shoes that are exclusively used for weddings,funerals and maybe a very rare posh do. Really tidy and comfortable to wear all day if needs be.

I was at a wedding yesterday and sitting down waiting for the ceremony to start I jokingly said to the wife "these shoes must be knocking twenty years old and still look new I reckon they'll see me out"...

Later in the day I stood up to venture to the bar,took a few steps and found I had suffered a major fail to proceed in the footwear department.

Gutted doesn't even cover it. 

Any suggestions of what I can use to glue them back together with so I can get another twenty years out of them ?

A cobbler should have them back together in no time.

Would it be cost effective compared to buying a new pair? Possibly not, but as a member of this forum repairing old tat instead of doing the sensible thing and buying new is in your blood.

[beko1987]

22 minutes ago, Joey spud said:

I own just one pair of shoes that are exclusively used for weddings,funerals and maybe a very rare outing to a posh do. They are only cheapies but tidy and really comfortable to wear all day if needs be.

Anyhow I was at a wedding yesterday and sitting down waiting for the death sentence/ceremony to start I jokingly said to the wife "these shoes must be knocking twenty years old and still look new I reckon they'll see me out"...

Later in the day I stood up to venture to the bar,took a few steps and found I had suffered a major fail to proceed in the footwear department.

Gutted doesn't even cover it. 

Any suggestions of what I can use to glue them back together with so I can get another twenty years out of them ?

Tiger seal and some clamps? If its got 3 to 4 years to dry before you next need to wear them they'll set off nicely 😂

[Joey spud]

3 minutes ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

A cobbler should have them back together in no time.

Would it be cost effective compared to buying a new pair? Possibly not, but as a member of this forum repairing old tat instead of doing the sensible thing and buying new is in your blood.

I'd clean for gotten about cobblers. I think there maybe aTimpsons (or similar) in nearby Strood.

Obviously I haven't bought a pair of shoes for decades and have no idea of their cost nowadays but I would happily pay £20 or so to fix them rather than endure the torture of going shopping for new shoes.

[Popsicle]

2 hours ago, Joey spud said:

Any suggestions of what I can use to glue them back together with so I can get another twenty years out of them ?

Contact adhesive has held mine together for a few years of minimal use or you can get proper shoe cement, but it is expensive.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374741981353?epid=5042215996

[ETCHY]

On 03/05/2024 at 12:43, Dyslexic Viking said:

I had the fun of doing the worst job on a gen 2 i10 now, changing the daytime running light lightbulbs.

This involves removing the wheel and loosen the front of the arch liner so sticking your hand into the back of the bumper without seeing much and tearing off large amounts of skin on your hands while fighting a light bulb holder that won't go off or on again. I replaced both bulbs with new ones from Osram which will hopefully last a long time so I won't have to do this again anytime soon. And I got a little angry so I destroyed an arch liner so need to change that also.

Those who work as mechanics who have to do this daily have my greatest respect.

I've said it before & i'll say it again. We have rules & regulations for bloody everything on cars but none for basic safety shit like light-bulbs being able to be changed easily. It should be mandatory that all bulbs can be changed easily with minimum effort & tools at the roadside. It's common-sense & it's heavily linked to safety.
Will it happen ? Fucking never.

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, Joey spud said:

I'd clean for gotten about cobblers. I think there maybe aTimpsons (or similar) in nearby Strood.

Obviously I haven't bought a pair of shoes for decades and have no idea of their cost nowadays but I would happily pay £20 or so to fix them rather than endure the torture of going shopping for new shoes.

Are Timpsons proper cobblers these days? Last time I was in there ( for shoes laces £3.99!, no thanks 2 for 79p in Home Bargains), they just seem to sell shoe related items  like that and polish, and cut keys. 

[Metal Guru]

22 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Got the news today that my Nan passed away early this morning.  Not too broken up over it to be honest as firstly I really wasn't all that close.  Secondly it really didn't come as a surprise.  She was 97 of my math is right, and has had endless medical issues, especially over the last 10 years and has been resolutely miserable for at least that long, so something of a mercy in some ways.  It's also felt like it was going to happen at any minute for years.  

Timing could be better though...I've one of the two big events I've been looking forward to this year coming up over the last Thursday to Tuesday in May.  I'd be putting really good odds on either the funeral or other legal bits and pieces going on over that period...

I at least used to be noted as the executor or her will, though we're waiting for confirmation on that as as her husband put it "She was endlessly messing with things" so that could well have changed since it was last mentioned to me about 20 years ago.  Either way there will be some input required from my part I'm sure.  On the plus side they're only an hour or so from here so it's not like I'm going to need to endlessly run backwards and forwards up and down the country.  Plus she had actually written and properly registered a will, and everything relating to it is apparently pretty black and white so shouldn't be any squabbling between the remaining family at least.  Hopefully.

If there’s money involved , there WILL be arguments, usually because the lazy greedy  bastards who visited only in the last days , get as much if not more than those who cared for the deceased over many years.

[vulgalour]

29 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Are Timpsons proper cobblers these days? Last time I was in there ( for shoes laces £3.99!, no thanks 2 for 79p in Home Bargains), they just seem to sell shoe related items  like that and polish, and cut keys. 

Some Timpsons do cobbling, some don't, depends on the one you find.  Bigger ones do keys, engraving, cobbling, watch batteries, and dry cleaning, smaller ones tend to just do one or two things.

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

If there’s money involved , there WILL be arguments, usually because the lazy greedy  bastards who visited only in the last days , get as much if not more than those who cared for the deceased over many years.

Well if I do end up getting roped in that will be for the legal advisors to handle as per the instructions set out in the will.  We learned the lesson that it's absolutely worth paying someone a cut to handle that nonsense in having helped out with similar duties following the passing of a friend a couple of years ago.  We largely handled that ourselves and swore never again.  Folks who were lost directly involved in that are away until tomorrow, so I'll be picking their brains when they're back. 

I've not really ever been that close, and it's a fair while since I've seen her in person though we spoke on the phone every week or two.  I'm really not expecting anything much out of things, and I'm fine with that.  It was her decision to chose how to split up anything she left.

[maxxo]

Helping my elderly grandparents out today by replacing a light switch in their kitchen 

turns power off etc all going to plan

removes old switch 

sees there’s a lot of slack on the cables

excellent I’ll just straighten them out 

you can see where this is going

crap I thought

oh well I’ll just cut off the rotten part and use the good stuff for the switch

oh mega crap

so that’s the entire cable fucked then

thankfully they have a pair of old fluorescent lights fed from another switch this was just for another light on the ceiling

but still annoying 

we all decided to just not bother repairing it and I’ve made it safe and put a blank over it

[Dick Cheeseburger]

20 minutes ago, maxxo said:

Helping my elderly grandparents out today by replacing a light switch in their kitchen 

turns power off etc all going to plan

removes old switch 

sees there’s a lot of slack on the cables

excellent I’ll just straighten them out 

you can see where this is going

crap I thought

oh well I’ll just cut off the rotten part and use the good stuff for the switch

oh mega crap

so that’s the entire cable fucked then

thankfully they have a pair of old fluorescent lights fed from another switch this was just for another light on the ceiling

but still annoying 

we all decided to just not bother repairing it and I’ve made it safe and put a blank over it

If that's a general representation of the state of the wiring in your grandparents house, I'd be insisting they get the place rewired before the lot burns down. That looks like a disaster waiting to happen. 

[Remspoor]

4 hours ago, ETCHY said:

I've said it before & i'll say it again. We have rules & regulations for bloody everything on cars but none for basic safety shit like light-bulbs being able to be changed easily. It should be mandatory that all bulbs can be changed easily with minimum effort & tools at the roadside. It's common-sense & it's heavily linked to safety.
Will it happen ? Fucking never.

There is still a law, here in Spain, that you have to carry a set of spare bulbs in the car. I have never been checked by the law to see if I actually have a set, but I do. However, I cannot change some beside the road without tools and there are too may different types for the box.

[maxxo]

26 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

If that's a general representation of the state of the wiring in your grandparents house, I'd be insisting they get the place rewired before the lot burns down. That looks like a disaster waiting to happen. 

They won’t get it rewired

ive checked everything I can today and made whatever I can as safe as possible

its absolutely horrendous tbh

[High Jetter]

Tell them you're fitting an alarm, but subtly re-wire the place?