The grumpy thread

[barefoot]

I've just had a scam phone call, the one about my credit card's just been used...

A flight from East Midlands Airport to St Pancreas!

[Pieman]

15 minutes ago, barefoot said:

I've just had a scam phone call, the one about my credit card's just been used...

A flight from East Midlands Airport to St Pancreas!

[barefoot]

Incidentally, when it's apparent that it's a scam call. ie. It's not from my mother, or my mother in law's number, I've taken to lifting up the receiver and replying with the words, "Hello, Saint Mary Mead Two Three Six". It doesn't seem to fit the script and 90% of the fuckers hang up.

[Pieman]

6 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Incidentally, when it's apparent that it's a scam call. ie. It's not from my mother, or my mother in law's number, I've taken to lifting up the receiver and replying with the words, "Hello, Saint Mary Mead Two Three Six". It doesn't seem to fit the script and 90% of the fuckers hang up.

4291!

[somewhatfoolish]

Allo, Bureau des Etrangers? Bonus if you can impersonate a young John Nettles.

[Metal Guru]

4 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Allo, Bureau des Etrangers? Bonus if you can impersonate a young John Nettles.

Given up the landline.( to go full fibre). We just used mobiles anyway, and it was just scammers and sales using it.

[maxxo]

Just down at my parents today 

i realised the bi annual oiling of the doors was overdue by 2 weeks so decided to do it

of course I dropped the bloody thing on the carpet didn’t i

the lid fell off but I put it back on for the photo

can I hell get the oil slick off the carpet

[reb]

Thought I'd chuck this weeks invoice in a day early so I could have a bottle of wine or something tonight.

Paypal says HAHA FUCK YOU and is having international problems, so the payment has come through but my balance is showing as zero.

Great.

[chadders]

I don't know about PayPal but AMEX seems to have some sort of time delay at times, the balance o/s and the account can differ. This seems to be time zone related. I guess what I'm trying to say, badly, is that it may come through later when the two parts get 'in synch'.

[reb]

4 minutes ago, chadders said:

I don't know about PayPal but AMEX seems to have some sort of time delay at times, the balance o/s and the account can differ. This seems to be time zone related. I guess what I'm trying to say, badly, is that it may come through later when the two parts get 'in synch'.

It normally goes through instantaneously!

It was to do with this:

All sorted now though!

Just another example of my generation's obsession with instant gratification!

[chadders]

2 minutes ago, reb said:

It normally goes through instantaneously!

It was to do with this:

All sorted now though!

Just another example of my generation's obsession with instant gratification!

Enjoy your wine!

[Metal Guru]

Aircon f@cked again. Only got it fixed on 10/10/23. I bet they say it’s a different part failed.

[ruffgeezer]

3 hours ago, maxxo said:

Just down at my parents today 

i realised the bi annual oiling of the doors was overdue by 2 weeks so decided to do it

of course I dropped the bloody thing on the carpet didn’t i

the lid fell off but I put it back on for the photo

can I hell get the oil slick off the carpet

 

 

[High Jetter]

7 hours ago, barefoot said:

Incidentally, when it's apparent that it's a scam call. ie. It's not from my mother, or my mother in law's number, I've taken to lifting up the receiver and replying with the words, "Hello, Saint Mary Mead Two Three Six". It doesn't seem to fit the script and 90% of the fuckers hang up.

Battersea dog's home works well too.

[somewhatfoolish]

Home for the perpetually bewildered, Shoeburyness

Society for people of reduced seriousness, Giggleswick, North Yorks.

 

[High Jetter]

49 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Home for the perpetually bewildered, Shoeburyness

Society for people of reduced seriousness, Giggleswick, North Yorks.

 

Yes but not real, obs!

[sheffcortinacentre]

Best I've heard was a guy in America who convinced them they'd phoned an ongoing crime scene.

It was available online.

[goosey]

So it turns out the house over the road from us is a cannabis grow the couple left in a rush early hours of this morning, it’s a shame as they both seemed so nice 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, goosey said:

So it turns out the house over the road from us is a cannabis grow the couple left in a rush early hours of this morning, it’s a shame as they both seemed so nice 

Did they get a police escort?

[Stanky]

10 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Did they get a police escort?

I think most forces retired them a while ago now, chap

 

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Stanky said:

I think most forces retired them a while ago now, chap

 

I set that up and wondered who might hit it into the back of the net! 🤣

[maxxo]

So I’m moving again in the coming weeks

i gave the flat my best shot, but between drug addict violent neighbours, furry fluffy mould in the larder, an infestation of flies, defective not fit for purpose boiler, fly infestation and lastly perhaps my favourite a fucking huge wasp nest in the kitchen loft 

i am deathly afraid of wasps, to the point I can’t even look at them without panicking due to falling in a nest as a child (I don’t care about therapy I am happy avoiding them and never revising it) 

ive given up, 

ive been accepted for a lovely little 2 bed house a mile or so away in Horden, I can’t wait! 

[High Jetter]

Sounds an improvement, hope it suits.

[maxxo]

Think this is the day of grumps

time now is 3:40am, I have just said bye to an emergency engineer from northern gas networks

really strong smell of gas in the flat, yet apparently no leak 

he said he couldn’t smell gas, I can smell gas and it’s only appeared a few hours ago

i know for an absolute fact I can smell gas, why couldn’t he?

i have turned the gas off myself, and opened all the windows, I’ve been awake for 24 hours now and I’ve got a now mild headache

the only difference is I’ve had the heating on for a while today, I’ve got both windows in the bedroom wide open and the door closed, as I suspect co poisoning

He did check and there was apparently some co in the air, so that’s fucking great

thankfully, I’m feeling a lot better than earlier 

I really am absolutely fed up of this flat now, I knew the boiler didn’t smell right that’s why I’ve bared used the heating since I noticed

im utterly fed up

[maxxo]

Turn out to be even more exciting

not just a gas leak but a decently sized leak of carbon monoxide and products of combustion from the boiler

owing likely to the fact the flue seems to have a join where it exits the wall and had become detached

im glad I’m pedantic and notice things instantly or else god knows what would have happened 

[High Jetter]

There should be a CO alarm fitted in same room as boiler, legal requirement for rentals.

[Dyslexic Viking]

I'm so glad we don't have gas in our houses.

[Spiny Norman]

33 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I'm so glad we don't have gas in our houses.

One of the main criteria I had when buying a flat was that the building be gas free. Boilers, pumps and radiators seem no end of bother to everyone I know who has gas heating fitted and despite assurances to the contrary I don't think having a highly flammable gas piped in thin copper pipe round a building full of morons with power tools is particularly safe.
My opinion, YMMV.

[maxxo]

there is a CO alarm, mains powered and pulled just far enough out from it's base so the pins weren't making contact

i have told the housing association to just cap the gas off as i'm leaving soon and i'll just live without heating etc

first time anything like this has happened to me, not keen on it

 

[MikeR]

13 hours ago, maxxo said:

Think this is the day of grumps

time now is 3:40am, I have just said bye to an emergency engineer from northern gas networks

really strong smell of gas in the flat, yet apparently no leak 

he said he couldn’t smell gas, I can smell gas and it’s only appeared a few hours ago

i know for an absolute fact I can smell gas, why couldn’t he?

i have turned the gas off myself, and opened all the windows, I’ve been awake for 24 hours now and I’ve got a now mild headache

the only difference is I’ve had the heating on for a while today, I’ve got both windows in the bedroom wide open and the door closed, as I suspect co poisoning

He did check and there was apparently some co in the air, so that’s fucking great

thankfully, I’m feeling a lot better than earlier 

I really am absolutely fed up of this flat now, I knew the boiler didn’t smell right that’s why I’ve bared used the heating since I noticed

im utterly fed up

we had our boiler changed and in the process the cooker was found to be leaking gas ... replaced , the gas fire was leaking gas ... removed ..

fast forward  a few months and I ask the plumber to do a check up because of musty smell ( my nose dont work properly ) and it turned out to be another leak 

or in fact leaks , one on the boiler and the actual test point on the gas meter , so any way the gas board man recommended getting the under floor pipe to the old fire removed , and we did , so all our gas , water , boiler is now in the kitchen , all gas pipes now outside ...

which is on top of the main supply pipe to the house leaking years ago which meant a mass call out of gas board vans , diggers , grab trucks to dig up the front garden , suck all the gas out of the ground and re line the pipe to the meter ..

so I think we have had  pretty much everything replaced !!!