The grumpy thread

[Markeh]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

The poor p30? Again from my friend, but I never found a case that fitted it. Cos of the curved screen the sexy bastard. I had to park very naughtily at the John Radcliffe when my mum had to go there after passing out infront of Chris once and as I climbed over to the passenger side to get out it slipped from my trousers and smashed front and back on the car park. 

Must be something about hospital car parks - I killed my Sony Z2 in a similar fashion. The back had broken ages before (tripped over a kerb with it in my hand), and it lost some structural rigidity. Struggling to get out of the car in a tight hospital car park, it got wedged between my thigh and the B-pillar of the Megane I had at the time, and it suddenly became an early Z Flip prototype.

I said I'd keep one til it died after upgrading to an S20+ and ending up buying it outright cheaply (thanks to Three for lying about coverage in my area), and that lasted right up until the S23 came out, I was having a bad week, and I worked out I could get £300 off an S23 Ultra by trading in an S3 Mini with a cracked screen that owed me £2, plus the £150 I got for the S20+ separately, I ended up paying about £800 for what was then £1300 of phone (and getting it in a unique non-boring colour on release day). If there's not a cheap offer similar to that when the S25 comes out and my Samsung finance is paid off on this one, I'll probably stock up on a couple of Spigen cases and screen protectors, and keep it til it dies.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I still think my favourite phone was a Nokia Lumia 800 in black.  It was a beautiful bit of design and with Windows Phone 7, lovely to use.

[beko1987]

I skipped all that, had my HTC m7 then and was fully in love! Before dropping the p30 that was the last phone I smashed a screen on so I had a good run. 

Nearly fucked my m8 when it slipped down the back of the rear seat of my green zx as I was folding it down and I felt the resistance of the seat on the screen... It didn't break the glass but the lcd in that area was a yellow tinge forever more. 

I don't count my flip breaking as it broke itself. The ribbon cable went and the screen went black randomly and that made it unuseable for Google maps in the car

[bramz7]

God, some of the posts about phones give me flashbacks to the six years I spent in telecommunication retail. 

'Why can't I get WhatsApp on my Lumia etc etc...' AGH

I've been a staunch Pixel user for many years. Hate all the UIs on the other Android devices. Aside from an increasingly poor battery, my 6A is fine. 

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

1 hour ago, bramz7 said:

God, some of the posts about phones give me flashbacks to the six years I spent in telecommunication retail. 

'Why can't I get WhatsApp on my Lumia etc etc...' AGH

Pretty much why I moved on from Windows Phone.  In the end I got an iPhone and I’ve been using a succession of them since 2014.  Currently on a 13 Pro Max I’ve owned for a couple of years and it’s great…

[Westbay]

Wish my Motorola PEBL still worked…

[reb]

Something I've noticed is that my S22 seems to have acquired all of the features they advertise the S24 as having. And when it boots it just says "Samsung Galaxy" rather than mentioning the model number like it used to, something which I think has rolled out onto even my Note 9.

We have reached a point where year to year the hardware doesn't change all that much. The real advances will be in software from now on I think. Midrange and up mainstream phones have a lot more power than they really need for day to day stuff, so there's a lot of headroom for them to do something interesting without everyone having to upgrade hardware every year.

I have about 18 months left until my S22 is paid off, totalling about £500. I can in theory pay off the balance and get an upgrade sooner, but I don't really see any benefit in doing so this time round. The only real benefit would be having an extra phone to use as a camcorder.

[Datsuncog]

Sainsburys.

 

It's 

👏

Still

👏

Chuffing 

👏

August.

👏

Mince pies that are best before 28 October.

Yeesh.

[beko1987]

5 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Sainsburys.

 

It's 

👏

Still

👏

Chuffing 

👏

August.

👏

Mince pies that are best before 28 October.

Yeesh.

Blimey their £1.50 in my sainso's local, not long been stood infront of the same shite thinking the same thing 😂

I'm waiting for them to be a quid or less which they will be. Me and Eva like them 👌

[iainrcz]

The flusher in the upstairs bog has broken 🙄

[Agila]

17 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

The flusher in the upstairs bog has broken 🙄

Hopefully a bog mess monster is not trapped in there. 💩 

[iainrcz]

40 minutes ago, Agila said:

Hopefully a bog mess monster is not trapped in there. 💩 

Thankfully no cocker.

[Low ontime]

1 hour ago, iainrcz said:

The flusher in the upstairs bog has broken 🙄

Bucket and chair method works as a temporary method …. Always something to do at home.. 

[Rustybullethole]

1 hour ago, Low ontime said:

Bucket and chair method works as a temporary method …. Always something to do at home.. 

Cut a hole in the chair and shit in the bucket? 

[richardmorris]

9 minutes ago, Rustybullethole said:

Cut a hole in the chair and shit in the bucket? 

Reminds me of Terry Wogan’s whisky glass and postcard method for getting rid of spiders. Distract it with the postcard and whack it with the glass from behind.

[Low ontime]

10 minutes ago, Rustybullethole said:

Cut a hole in the chair and shit in the bucket? 

Sure if you want to … then what??

[Lord Sterling]

Ah yeah, so back onto the phone thing.

Now, phones to me are generally inanimate objects, they just do what they do. Generally I'll keep one until the screen finally smashes (in a lot of rage or dropping carefully onto a soft passenger footwell) or the software is too old to update, thus it gets very slow.

I now have a Samsung S21, I'm sorry but I honestly cannot stand iPhone, I've used then and I don't like them.

Prior to this phone, I updated with a Samsung S20, but for some reason, this phone was just an absolutely evil little bastard that took issue with being owned by me. Firstly, it wouldn't talk to my bluetooth system in the Peugeot, despite other phones having no issue, then one time, as I was driving it dropped off a very secure phone holder in the car knocking into the recently swapped out new VCM I'd fitted in the car leaving a tiny bit of lasting damage to the pixels. In a fit of rage, I chucked into the footwell where I had 2 plastic bottles of milk in a plastic bag, it somehow managed to split one of them open. Thankfully as the milk bottles were in a plastic bag and that I had thick OEM rubber mats in the footwells, most of the milk just stayed in there until I washed it all off. The phone was then binned with the damaged milk bottle and bag.

[Rustybullethole]

35 minutes ago, Low ontime said:

Sure if you want to … then what??

Walk away and pretend it wasn't you. 

[Low ontime]

Just now, Rustybullethole said:

Walk away and pretend it wasn't you. 

Think I’ll just fill the bucket with water,  stand on chair and chuck water down bog pan . Job done. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

If you are a black sheep and reading this, please start wearing a reflective vest.

[ruffgeezer]

Doing a bit of gardening and when hoeing managed to catapult something back straight into my eye.

By christ it hurt, worked on for a bit before giving up and having an early night. It seems a lot less painful this morning.

[New POD]

10 hours ago, Low ontime said:

Think I’ll just fill the bucket with water,  stand on chair and chuck water down bog pan . Job done. 

My great aunt, was apparently doing this for the 10 years before she went into a home.  She carried a bucket from the outside tap upstairs to the bathroom, 2 or 3 times a day.  Stupid thing was that when she died, there was money in the bank. Lots of it. 

I don't think she stood on a chair. 

[New POD]

9 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

If you are a black sheep and reading this, please start wearing a reflective vest.

Only works if the other sheep have head torches. 

7 minutes ago, ruffgeezer said:

Doing a bit of gardening and when hoeing managed to catapult something back straight into my eye.

By christ it hurt, worked on for a bit before giving up and having an early night. It seems a lot less painful this morning.

Some might say that elf and safety has gone too far, but safety specs or goggles might be advisable.  If I ran a council parks and gardens department* mandatory use of eye protection whilst weeding would be high on my agenda.

*note, my Grandad was Director of Parks and Gardens for the London borough of Bexley in the up.to the mid 70s and his one health initiative was to have everyone working in the greenhouses when it was raining heavily.  Reduced deaths from pneumonia, by 100% amongst the work force. 

[Boycie]

18 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Sainsburys.

 

It's 

👏

Still

👏

Chuffing 

👏

August.

👏

Mince pies that are best before 28 October.

Yeesh.

Is there any iced ones .......if so can u get me a couple of boxes

[Low ontime]

4 hours ago, New POD said:

My great aunt, was apparently doing this for the 10 years before she went into a home.  She carried a bucket from the outside tap upstairs to the bathroom, 2 or 3 times a day.  Stupid thing was that when she died, there was money in the bank. Lots of it. 

I don't think she stood on a chair. 

Demands on the nightmare in the pan below v back splash… chair is optional! 

[myglaren]

[Rustybullethole]

6 hours ago, ruffgeezer said:

Doing a bit of gardening and when hoeing managed to catapult something back straight into my eye.

By christ it hurt, worked on for a bit before giving up and having an early night. It seems a lot less painful this morning.

Dirty hoes! 

[nev_jr]

I've been working on parts all fucking summer after being asked to cover it. That slowly but surely snowballed into it now being September and I'm looking at another month of this supposed "cover" at least. Parts was the first role I had in the motor trade and I fucking hated it, I resigned just over a year into it. Now the worst of it is, IT'S THE SAME FUCKING COMPANY that I'm doing it for so they know full well my stance towards it. I feel really let down because of that and because most of the summer I've been trying to and finally managed to get a mortgage so I couldn't leave and balls all that up, so  they have used me as an absolute dogsbody fuckpig, "It's good having you around the office because you're our floater". So I am a shit. Nice. I see through your facade, I cost far less than the amount of people you would need to replace me and you replaced me with me anyway.

 

Sorry for the rant ladies and gents, been on my tits for a while now. What a shit summer, more bad news coming next week probably so stay tuned. 

[ProgRocker]

44 minutes ago, nev_jr said:

 I feel really let down because of that and because most of the summer I've been trying to and finally managed to get a mortgage so I couldn't leave and balls all that up, so  they have used me as an absolute dogsbody fuckpig, "It's good having you around the office because you're our floater". So I am a shit. Nice. I see through your facade, I cost far less than the amount of people you would need to replace me and you replaced me with me anyway.

 

Sorry for the rant ladies and gents, been on my tits for a while now. What a shit summer, more bad news coming next week probably so stay tuned. 

Been in that situation a few times in the past. Treated worst while employed DHL as a courier where I earned the nickname "The Fall Guy" getting sent to deliver and collect items from clients where there was an active complaint.  The Managers kept taking me for granted so I handed in a month's notice and left without another job lined up.

No job on the planet is worth any detriment to one's mental health.

[nev_jr]

Just now, ProgRocker said:

Been in that situation a few times in the past. Treated worst while employed DHL as a courier where I earned the nickname "The Fall Guy" getting sent to deliver and collect items from clients where there was an active complaint.  The Managers kept taking me for granted so I handed in a month's notice and left without another job lined up.

No job on the planet is worth any detriment to one's mental health.

Looks like I'll be following suit soon enough, has majorly taken me out of my rhythm.