The grumpy thread

[maxxo]

another rant about vacuum cleaners

as a cure for boredom i decided to vacuum my grandparents entire house for them, wall to wall deep pile carpets etc

they have some shark thing, quite new, but you have to swap hoses and doesn't have a proper lift off wand as far as i can tell

anyway

it seems to almost have 2 bins inside of it, and kept clogging itself up, literally must have clogged up 20 times or so

oh and blocked it's filter so i took it out

in the end i returned home and got my dyson DC07 and hammered the entire house, and didnt clog once

how come a moder cleaner clogs much much more easily and manages to be much harder and more awkward to switch between wand and upright mode than a cracking on 20 year old dyson that very rarely has it's filters cleaned

progress huh?

i hate to be a fanboy of dyson, but literally every other machine i used has something to moan about or feels a step backwards

[Metal Guru]

  On 20/09/2024 at 20:27, maxxo said:

another rant about vacuum cleaners

as a cure for boredom i decided to vacuum my grandparents entire house for them, wall to wall deep pile carpets etc

they have some shark thing, quite new, but you have to swap hoses and doesn't have a proper lift off wand as far as i can tell

anyway

it seems to almost have 2 bins inside of it, and kept clogging itself up, literally must have clogged up 20 times or so

oh and blocked it's filter so i took it out

in the end i returned home and got my dyson DC07 and hammered the entire house, and didnt clog once

how come a moder cleaner clogs much much more easily and manages to be much harder and more awkward to switch between wand and upright mode than a cracking on 20 year old dyson that very rarely has it's filters cleaned

progress huh?

i hate to be a fanboy of dyson, but literally every other machine i used has something to moan about or feels a step backwards

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Dyson have been taking the piss with the price of their new stuff, £600+ for a vacuum cleaner ffs!

The old stuff lasted well and was like Lego to repair with plenty of pattern parts on eBay well under half the price of Dyson parts.

I had a DC02 for 25 years before the motor final expired. 

[maxxo]

  On 20/09/2024 at 22:34, Metal Guru said:

Dyson have been taking the piss with the price of their new stuff, £600+ for a vacuum cleaner ffs!

The old stuff lasted well and was like Lego to repair with plenty of pattern parts on eBay well under half the price of Dyson parts.

I had a DC02 for 25 years before the motor final expired. 

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we've had 3, had a DC01 from the mid 90s until 2012 or so when that just fell apart, DC33 from then until last year when i blew it up and i bought a mint DC07 off marketplace to replace it which is the best one yet

the new stuff is naff, my ex had a DC75 and it was sooooooo easily clogged up

imo a second hand dyson is the best value vacuum cleaner you can buy, they seem worthless and really easy to pick up for less than £40

[beko1987]

I love both Dyson and shark. Both are very lucrative for me 🤣 (he says with 8 jobs in various states littering the house...) 

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

  On 21/09/2024 at 06:47, beko1987 said:

I love both Dyson and shark. Both are very lucrative for me 🤣 (he says with 8 jobs in various states littering the house...) 

 

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I have a (DC05??) that came out of Argos around 2005 that is like Trigger's broom. Not managed to properly kill it yet. 
Kid bought a Shark 2/3 years back - fucking thing weighs about 50 kg and has so many bells and whistles to go wrong that it makes a Citroen C6 look like a 2CV in simplicity. I hate it (the Shark not the Citroens) - it's bulky, heavy and a fiddly fucker to use.
They 100% bought it because it has those bells and whistles, its what that generation does (iPhone 34 anybody?). 
I do believe that you are in a proper growth industry  

[myglaren]

I've worked in several homes that had Dysons, every one of them broken in some way or other.

One place was an animal rescue place, she had two, one for upstairs, one for downstairs, and a Miele for the stairs* and to follow the Dysons around to pick up cat and dog hair that the Dyson's ignored.  Client was in the process of suing Dyson on that point but died before anything came of it.

The Miele was excellent and when my vac died I bought a similar one.  Not cheap but sited me down to the ground.  Gave it to my daughter when she broke her chapshit vac.  She had it for a few years until her son let a bike fall over onto it and broke the floor tool.  She scrapped it as a floor tool was £40, replaced it with a cheapshit £60 vac that was never any good.

I had bought another Miele and still have it.  My floor tool became a bit crap and evaded my attempts to rectify it, bought a knock-off tool for a tenner that seems OK.  Still have the original turbo head.

Bought daughter another Miele that has withstood her attempts to destroy it. Two of her siblings also have them and are delighted with them.

*They hadn't worked out that the extension hose was housed in the handle.

[Floatylight]

  On 19/09/2024 at 19:59, sheffcortinacentre said:

Shirley being in Tesco car park & is private land & so nothing to do with them until driven out at worst not declared SORN.

I go down with a beaver tail or trailer  & photo it & go to court.

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Someone parked a mini up at our church (with our agreement) and dvsa came in and put a clamp on it as it hadn"t been sorned, church is on a quiet cul de sac. Apparently if the gates are open it's fair game for them to come onto private property.

[chaseracer]

  On 21/09/2024 at 09:12, Floatylight said:

...if the gates are open it's fair game for them to come onto private property.

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The thin end of the wedge...

[comfortablynumb]

They're welcome to come into mine if they find the gates open

Six German shepherds may have other ideas though 😁

[comfortablynumb]

More of a sad, than a grump.

Aloysius Parker has died. ' Yus, m'lady'

Well actually the voice of him, but still another memory from my childhood gone .RIP David Graham, lots of children will have heard you as grandpa pig, and who doesn't know the daleks? 😕

[Blunderguts]

Firefox's recent update has broken private browsing mode. Any attempt to go on utube results in neverending cookie consent pages. I click 'fuck off' (they call it reject) and get presented with the consent page again. No amount of clicking fuck off works.

Only fix is to turn off private browsing.

Cnuts.

[Zelandeth]

  On 22/09/2024 at 09:39, Blunderguts said:

Firefox's recent update has broken private browsing mode. Any attempt to go on utube results in neverending cookie consent pages. I click 'fuck off' (they call it reject) and get presented with the consent page again. No amount of clicking fuck off works.

Only fix is to turn off private browsing.

Cnuts.

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Does clicking accept work?  Any cookies will just be wiped when the tab is closed if you're in private browsing mode.

[myglaren]

Will have to give it a try, never use it normally, no need.

I do run the browser cleaners on shutdown, followed by BleachBit, so nothing remains.

 

 

EEE dit.

Looks as though private browsing locks out the adblockers.  A couple of very brief ads, gone in the time it took me to turn the amplifier on.

May try the Brave and Chromium options to see what they do.

[Blunderguts]

  On 22/09/2024 at 10:19, Zelandeth said:

Does clicking accept work?  Any cookies will just be wiped when the tab is closed if you're in private browsing mode.

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Nope, same thing irrespective of what is clicked. It runs fine in 'normal' mode.

Firefox are normally pretty good at fixing issues so we'll wait and see.

[dozeydustman]

Bought everything for the Kia’s front suspension as it has a weak spring and very crusty shocks. Or so I thought.

Top mounts in the box are just the bearings and rubbers not the mounting plate for the car. No locknuts to fit the damper to the top plates.

And my compressor’s hooks are too short for the spring coils, so won’t grip it properly.

Arse.

[twosmoke300]

  On 19/09/2024 at 22:32, Metal Guru said:

When my son was coming up to 17, I got him a car a few months before his birthday. I thought we could use car parks for lessons before he was 17 and got a provisional , but found out for insurance and  licensing purposes, private ground with public access was the same as on road.

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I’ve heard your local park is good for that kinda thing 😂

[Bren]

  On 20/09/2024 at 09:43, horriblemercedes said:

Yep, this is almost completely the case as defined in the Road Traffic Act (1988).

 

It has occasionally been challenged, but it's best to assume it's a public place. Here are some examples of it going either way:

Quote:

This is a matter of fact to be determined by the court. The following have been held to be "public places":

• The car park of a pub; Vannet v Burns (1988)
• A hotel driveway; Dunn v Keane (1976)
• A multi-storey NCP car park; Bowman v DPP (1991)
• A hospital car park; DPP v Greenwood (1997)
• The car park of a car dealership; May v DPP (2005)
• A field used for point-to-point racing; Collinson (1931)
• A field used for parking at an agricultural show; Paterson v Ogilvey (1957)
• A privately owned caravan site; DPP v Vivier (1991)
• Freight immigration lanes at a dockyard; DPP v Coulman (1993)
• A school playground; Rodger v Normand (1994)

The following have been held not to be "public places":

• Privately owned land next to a private club; Pugh v Knipe (1972)
• A community centre car park; Havell v DPP (1993)
• A company car park used by staff and customers; Spence (1999)
• An internal roadway at a University campus; Cowan v DPP (2013)

 

 

Source:

https://www.counsel.direct/news/2015/11/18/what-is-a-public-place-in-the-context-of-the-road-traffic-act

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I know of things being chucked out on the basis that the land was neither owned or maintained at public expense.

[Zelandeth]

  On 22/09/2024 at 10:32, Blunderguts said:

Nope, same thing irrespective of what is clicked. It runs fine in 'normal' mode.

Firefox are normally pretty good at fixing issues so we'll wait and see.

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Seems it must be somewhat dependent on the system in question.

I just out of sheer curiosity tried it here and it worked fine.  Firefox last updated this morning according to the logs.  This is on a Linux host though, so no idea how different things might be with regards to the inner workings of the browser.  My curiosity didn't extend as far as rebooting into Windows and no doubt having to install a couple of dozen updates, to see if it was working as well.

[Spiny Norman]

Fucking Asda!

Ordered stuff online end of July for click & collect, never got the goods and was told my card would be refunded, fair enough.
That was the end of July and I'm still waiting for a refund. They're a near impossible company to get any sort of meaningful response from, I can't find an email address that gets answered, Faceache messages go unanswered, and I've waited over an hour more than once for the phone not to be answered.

I've accepted I've lost the money but any ideas how one might theoretically 'hurt' them to the tune of about £50? If I see one of their vans parked up I'm quite tempted just to tan the windscreen but they've probably got cameras in them...

[somewhatfoolish]

Claim it back via the card company?

[Spiny Norman]

Believe me, I've tried. I don't have all the information they need for the claim and of course I'm not going to get it from Asda.

[Metal Guru]

  On 23/09/2024 at 00:43, Spiny Norman said:

Believe me, I've tried. I don't have all the information they need for the claim and of course I'm not going to get it from Asda.

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Re-order but for delivery to your home. Then deny you’ve ever received anything. This time make sure you’ve got all the info for a credit card refund.

Alternatively, shop lifting to the same value.

[somewhatfoolish]

  On 23/09/2024 at 00:43, Spiny Norman said:

Believe me, I've tried. I don't have all the information they need for the claim and of course I'm not going to get it from Asda.

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Worth going to an in-store help desk and camp out until they get bored looking at you.

[andy18s]

  On 23/09/2024 at 06:29, somewhatfoolish said:

Worth going to an in-store help desk and camp out until they get bored looking at you.

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Surely just filling a trolley and walking out is how it's done these days?

[Blunderguts]

  On 22/09/2024 at 20:07, Zelandeth said:

Seems it must be somewhat dependent on the system in question.

I just out of sheer curiosity tried it here and it worked fine.  Firefox last updated this morning according to the logs.  This is on a Linux host though, so no idea how different things might be with regards to the inner workings of the browser.  My curiosity didn't extend as far as rebooting into Windows and no doubt having to install a couple of dozen updates, to see if it was working as well.

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It's doing the exact same thing on my Android tablet.

[Metal Guru]

  On 23/09/2024 at 06:29, somewhatfoolish said:

Worth going to an in-store help desk and camp out until they get bored looking at you.

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I tried that in Comet once when they wouldn’t refund me something with a three year guarantee because I didn’t have the box. Who keeps a box three years ffs?

I just stood by the entrance telling people not to buy anything because they don’t honour guarantees. No one turned away or even asked me about it. More interested in the instant gratification of spending £2k on a telly.

Any way my wife getting more and more embarrassed dragged me away.
 

[warch]

Not absolutely sure whether this should be in the other thread, because I'm perversely enjoying people losing their shit about this. 

I live right next door to a level crossing on a railway line into Wales (sadly about a mile outside God's own country so I don't get free prescriptions or Bara Brith). Anyway Network Rail decided that the level crossing needed completely ripping out and replacing, quite a major task even on a single track line. They started the works last Friday which obviously involved closing the crossing and the road that runs over it (until Wednesday when they can finish off the resurfacing).

Oh the drama... The village Faceache page is chocka with people whinging about not been able to get through, not been able to take their kids to school or get to work. There are still two ways out of the village on either side of the crossing, and a five/ten minute detour will get anyone where they need to go. Or they can use the booted bony things on end of each of their legs should they need to go somewhere in the other of crossing (which is open to foot traffic).  The irony with this is that amongst the only people not moaning are the two families that live directly next to the crossing where all the noise (night works) was going on*.

I'm not going to mention that they got to close the road again in a few months time to replace the tracks as well...

*The noise used to really annoy me, but happily I invested in a set of super duper noise cancelling earbuds for me and mrs Warch. Not cheap at 6 quid a pair (although you can pay ten times that) but absolutely gamechangingly effective at cancelling out things like Stihl saws, tracked machinery, reversing beepers and concrete breaking right outside my bedroom window at three in the morning.  

[Westbay]

  On 23/09/2024 at 00:43, Spiny Norman said:

Believe me, I've tried. I don't have all the information they need for the claim and of course I'm not going to get it from Asda.

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Have read of this :-

https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money

 

[comfortablynumb]

BBC news is pissing me off.

Massive floods a bit further south than me, fortunate for me, but I feel for the poor sods whose lives are turned upside down from it, having had a relative flooded I have some idea of the toll it takes.

What do the BBC go on about?

A football match has had to be cancelled 

Fuck off. Just fuck off 

I'm becoming more and more in the Guy Martin camp that there's a conspiracy to force football down peoples throats to stop them realising how much shit theyre in.

And what did George Orwell say in '1984?'

 

TL:Dr I fucking hate football 

[Rocket88]

  On 23/09/2024 at 13:27, comfortablynumb said:

BBC news is pissing me off.

Massive floods a bit further south than me, fortunate for me, but I feel for the poor sods whose lives are turned upside down from it, having had a relative flooded I have some idea of the toll it takes.

What do the BBC go on about?

A football match has had to be cancelled 

Fuck off. Just fuck off 

I'm becoming more and more in the Guy Martin camp that there's a conspiracy to force football down peoples throats to stop them realising how much shit theyre in.

And what did George Orwell say in '1984?'

 

TL:Dr I fucking hate football 

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You think you’ve got problems, my other half supports Scunthorpe….