The grumpy thread

[ruffgeezer]

10 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Go to do cam belt on the Citroen. O/S R punctured/flat. No tools to remove cradle under rear of car in the car. 

try to jack car up and my trolley jack is too tall - it fouls the sump and the subframe.

car is also too low for ramps. 

I’m probably going to list this without the belt being done. We need the money so if anyone wants a nice little cheap to run and insure city car with a new clutch and working air con let me know.

Details please? 

[comfortablynumb]

10 hours ago, Markeh said:

Been feeling awful ever since getting back from a festival late Sunday night (note: I stopped drinking on Saturday knowing I'd drive back Sunday) - it's now Tuesday night, I can't stop being a grumpy bastard at work, and can't concentrate enough to do anything properly and as a result I've just caught the zip trying to re-pack my tent and tore a massive hole in the one part of a near £200 tent that isn't available to replace.

I was renowned for being a grumpy bastard at work, mainly due to the work

The problem there is that you stopped drinking 😁

[jakebullet]

Mad Jean has invented a way to put royal mail out of business. All you do is write your mad rant as normal, post it on Facebook and include the name of who you want the rant to go to. Facebook will then make sure it's printed out and on their desk first thing to take action.

Deal with it sir. Kier!!!

[Rocket88]

2 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Mad Jean has invented a way to put royal mail out of business. All you do is write your mad rant as normal, post it on Facebook and include the name of who you want the rant to go to. Facebook will then make sure it's printed out and on their desk first thing to take action.

Deal with it sir. Kier!!!

Think she needs more drugs, not less…..

[maxxo]

going to end up with arthritis or something else from holding this damn phone today

7 different calls to different companies getting all my complaints and moans off my chest trying to sort everything out

excellent isn’t it

yes, I am one of those old fashioned ones who still uses a landline

[warch]

On 24/08/2024 at 17:09, LightBulbFun said:

so how is your day going?...

What were you drinking btw? Looks like old EP90.

I'd love Sports Direct to bring out an entire crockery set, or even a Batchelor special with 1 mug, 1 plate, 1 bowl etc.

[Pieman]

5 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Mad Jean has invented a way to put royal mail out of business. All you do is write your mad rant as normal, post it on Facebook and include the name of who you want the rant to go to. Facebook will then make sure it's printed out and on their desk first thing to take action.

Deal with it sir. Kier!!!

What the fuck was all that??

I bet some git from on here will now go and find that profile and try and add her...

[captain_70s]

3 minutes ago, Pieman said:

What the fuck was all that??

I bet some git from on here will now go and find that profile and try and add her...

We hardly need to, we get a blow by blow account posted here already. 😂

[wuvvum]

17 hours ago, Markeh said:

Been feeling awful ever since getting back from a festival late Sunday night (note: I stopped drinking on Saturday knowing I'd drive back Sunday) - it's now Tuesday night, I can't stop being a grumpy bastard at work, and can't concentrate enough to do anything properly and as a result I've just caught the zip trying to re-pack my tent and tore a massive hole in the one part of a near £200 tent that isn't available to replace.

Was that Reading?  One of the girls at work went and she's come back feeling rough as a badger's arse.

[Markeh]

58 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Was that Reading?  One of the girls at work went and she's come back feeling rough as a badger's arse.

Nah, a smaller one, although I am still feeling rough and sore a few days later I have to admit.

[jakebullet]

1 hour ago, captain_70s said:

We hardly need to, we get a blow by blow account posted here already. 😂

There's not enough space on the server for the day to day Jesus bullshit she comes out with. Plus every carefully considered message must be reposted 25 times just in case you missed it the first time. N all the replies where she agrees with herself wholeheartedly. Oh, n several times a day post that hackers are changing her writing. Not she cant type.

[dozeydustman]

21 hours ago, ruffgeezer said:

Details please? 

Belt done, will be going in Shite for sale thread soon.

[Timewaster]

21 hours ago, Markeh said:

I've just caught the zip trying to re-pack my tent

For a minute I thought that might be a euphemism for something much worse.

[richardmorris]

43 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

For a minute I thought that might be a euphemism for something much worse.

The best reason for a button fly.

[jakebullet]

Sir Keir did fuck all, the bastard swanning around Germany. So mad Jean's contacting the chemist by the medium of facebook:

[EyesWeldedShut]

47 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

The best reason for a button fly.

I dunno, from experience:

- you only catch yourself properly once. Learn from experience, if not surgery.
- I remember those bloody button fly Levi 501s from the 1980s.  10 times slower than a zip, especially after half a dozen drinks

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

I dunno, from experience:

- you only catch yourself properly once. Learn from experience, if not surgery.
- I remember those bloody button fly Levi 501s from the 1980s.  10 times slower than a zip, especially after half a dozen drinks

Life lesson. Tip in the zip is...painful

[Datsuncog]

Oh, do fuck off Sainsburys - it's still August...

[Timewaster]

6 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Oh, do fuck off Sainsburys - it's still August

See also B+M. Fucking advent calendars in August.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

In Oslo.  Put coat away in bag as light drizzle hadn’t come to much.

Zipping up bag and the heavens open.  Just like being at home.

[IronStar]

FR indicator conked out on CC. That’s just a bulb, let me change it real qui…oh, it’s not a bulb, bulb holder burned out. Apparently common and part is a tenner new, but what the fuck Peugeot? Why is this car so hellbent on driving me insane, one stupid fault at a time?

[sheffcortinacentre]

Because it's french.

[High Jetter]

PH cabs with shagged rear suspension.

[Metal Guru]

Spent much of the day on the East Lothian coastal trail, Edinburgh to North Berwick. Every “town” , 20 mph all the way through. 
20 mph zones? Good thing outside schools (when they are coming and going, what’s the point 24/7?) , town centres (9-5  ok but again why 24/7?) and housing areas  ( most of the time I concede).

But a mile or so as you approach and leave every place? Totally unnecessary. It doesn’t make anything safer because everyone’s staring at their speedo instead of watching what’s happening.

And then, and this is my main moan, because some people are shit scared of being caught doing 21 mph ( whether they’re got 11 points or just would die of embarrassment if they had to deal with the police), they drive at 10-15 mph. FFS!

Putting on my conspirators  hat, I might conclude it’s a plot to make driving such a pain that you choose public transport but this also makes bus travel worse ( if possible).

[myglaren]

Annual trip to Whitby for brother's birthday.  Several places where there is a 50 mph restriction.

Hardly any of us driving at fifty and many flying past at far more.

Then when it goes back to 70 I passed most of them driving at 60 and I was only doing 70.

 

Followed a Ford Focus for 10~12 miles out of Whitby with the brake lights on every ten seconds.  We were in a queue of six cars doing between 30 and 50.  Braking even uphill!

May have been a fault with the brake switch of course but something often seen but not in that degree.

No idea why it has underlined part of "Ford Focus"

[SunnySouth]

7 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Spent much of the day on the East Lothian coastal trail, Edinburgh to North Berwick. Every “town” , 20 mph all the way through. 
20 mph zones? Good thing outside schools (when they are coming and going, what’s the point 24/7?) , town centres (9-5  ok but again why 24/7?) and housing areas  ( most of the time I concede).

But a mile or so as you approach and leave every place? Totally unnecessary. It doesn’t make anything safer because everyone’s staring at their speedo instead of watching what’s happening.

And then, and this is my main moan, because some people are shit scared of being caught doing 21 mph ( whether they’re got 11 points or just would die of embarrassment if they had to deal with the police), they drive at 10-15 mph. FFS!

Putting on my conspirators  hat, I might conclude it’s a plot to make driving such a pain that you choose public transport but this also makes bus travel worse ( if possible).

Yup, utterly brainless isn’t it.  And of course if you were to take even the safest overtaking opportunity, you’d feel like f’king Satan for breaching the holy limit momentarily in a 20, much moreso than you ever would at a higher speed (also applies in 30 limits, but then they tend to be in place because they’re justified and appropriate, not for inexplicable reasons of pure twattery).

[SunnySouth]

18 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Annual trip to Whitby for brother's birthday.  Several places where there is a 50 mph restriction.

Hardly any of us driving at fifty and many flying past at far more.

Then when it goes back to 70 I passed most of them driving at 60 and I was only doing 70.

 

Followed a Ford Focus for 10~12 miles out of Whitby with the brake lights on every ten seconds.  We were in a queue of six cars doing between 30 and 50.  Braking even uphill!

May have been a fault with the brake switch of course but something often seen but not in that degree.

No idea why it has underlined part of "Ford Focus"

I often wonder at just how exactly someone manages to drive inexplicably applying the brakes at random frequent intervals; of course it’s ultimately because they’re halfwits but surely that must be fucking exhausting?!

[New POD]

8 minutes ago, SunnySouth said:

I often wonder at just how exactly someone manages to drive inexplicably applying the brakes at random frequent intervals; of course it’s ultimately because they’re halfwits but surely that must be fucking exhausting?!

My mother used to drove like that 40 years ago. Brake or accelerator.  Almost like she shouldn't leave her foot not doing anything. Exhausting for the passengers.  She's 87 now and drives very smoothly so at some point she must have mellowed. 

There's also the point on EVs where if the setting for foot off regeneration is set too high, the brake lights come on automatically above a set G level.  Only aware of this because I saw a test report on a prototype EV truck and the setting they guessed in the first software version was way to high and it was almost undrivable in the wet. 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, SunnySouth said:

I often wonder at just how exactly someone manages to drive inexplicably applying the brakes at random frequent intervals; of course it’s ultimately because they’re halfwits but surely that must be fucking exhausting?!

And of course they will have no inkling of the wear on the brakes so will probably continue with metal on metal until it all seizes up.

[cort1977]

1 hour ago, SunnySouth said:

I often wonder at just how exactly someone manages to drive inexplicably applying the brakes at random frequent intervals; of course it’s ultimately because they’re halfwits but surely that must be fucking exhausting?!

Sometimes it's an old people thing. My Dad gradually lost his driving confidence as his eyesight declined and at the end he would drive like that, putting the brake on for every new thing in case it became a hazard.