The grumpy thread

[cobblers]

You should have to get a licence before you're allowed to do a poetry

[Bren]

Started the rear caliper flexi replacement on the mondeo. Rigid pipe snapped by the union. Arses.

Waiting now to try and get a flaring kit that does steel pipes....

[goosey]

Really don’t understand why customers want to stand around watching you and question your every action when I’m trying to fault find on their bag of shit machine 

it slows me down, as in takes me more time witch costs them more money 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

7 minutes ago, goosey said:

Really don’t understand why customers want to stand around watching you and question your every action when I’m trying to fault find on their bag of shit machine 

it slows me down, as in takes me more time witch costs them more money 

100 Quid standing twat tax plus 20 per additional question.

[Stanky]

2 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Snow is a strange white word, no frost frost Has asked of bud or bird for winter,s  cost. Yet ice and frost and snow from earth to sky This summer land doth know, no man knows why. In all men,s hearts it is, some spirit old hath turned with malign kiss our lives to mould. Red fangs have torn his face, God,s blood is shed, he mourns from His lone place His chidren dead. O ancient crimson curse! Corrode, consume, give back this universe it,s pristine bloom.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that this might be a very heartfelt description of the ownership experience of an elderly white Mazda which is getting increasingly rusty until it finally fails an MOT catastrophically and gets recycled into a washing machine.

Is there a prize for the right answer?

[jakebullet]

39 minutes ago, Stanky said:

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that this might be a very heartfelt description of the ownership experience of an elderly white Mazda which is getting increasingly rusty until it finally fails an MOT catastrophically and gets recycled into a washing machine.

Is there a prize for the right answer?

Afternoon tea with Mad Jean. If you're really lucky she won't sing.

[ruffgeezer]

OK, but if Mad Jean is the name of your drag act, we're all going to be really disappointed. 

[IronStar]

I caught a cold, and I’m feeling utterly miserable. I have a ton of work to get done today workwise, and the daily 159 is booked for reg tomorrow. Oh, it needs two bulbs changed beforehand, and I’m really not in the state to fuck with it, especially not on 5 degree cold. 
Aresbisquits. 

[myglaren]

Daughter ordered oil for her car from Amazon.  They sent a printer cartridge.

She doesn't have a printer.

Why she didn't go to the car parts shop a mile from where she works I have no idea.  They are good and sensibly priced.

[Zelandeth]

Fecking BT making something that should be relatively simple be needlessly complicated.

Had a call from my grandfather today, he's trying to track down a couple of relations who haven't been in contact for a good long while.  He's in his late 80s and while sharp as a tack and in full possession of his marbles, isn't in any way IT literate, so so was perfectly happy to try to do some of the legwork while he was on the phone.

I had some names and such to work from, but we were pretty sure that people had moved - but not where to.  These are all likely to be folks of the sort of age that Facebook etc isn't going to turn up much useful (not that I ever seem to be able to find *anything* useful via the search function on there anyway), so time to go a bit more old school.

Now my first port of call was going to be to just search for the relevant name in the phone book.  However there isn't any way to just search the whole UK... it's broken up into a separate PDF for each region (which thankfully are searchable), there's no map showing where they have deemed the boundaries to be, and they seem largely made up in a lot of cases.  In this case it's a pretty uncommon name, so I wasn't expecting a huge number of matches - and after going through something like 40 PDFs searching for the name, I found two matches.  

Seriously, you obviously have all the data there...why not offer "all" as one of the bloody area options to download the list from?  Even if you aren't going to offer a tool to search the listing on the website, at least allow us to grab the data in one place to make a nationwide search less of a tedious pain to conduct...

I've actually downloaded all of them and will be joining them together into one big file when I get five minutes, as I'm pretty sure this isn't going to be the last time I get a question like this.

It's very much a first world problem, but it's one of those "there's no good reason for this to be this difficult" sort of things that really irks me when I run into them.

[reb]

One of the downsides of living vaguely far away from town is that it takes fucking ages for food deliveries. It's not that far of a drive, maybe 10 minutes, but it always takes far longer for deliveries to my house than it does to my brother's or mum's houses in town.

I cannot wait to have my licence back so I can just drive into town and pick food up.

[loserone]

34 minutes ago, reb said:

vaguely far away

Man, every time I'm away I get a food delivery just because there is no takeaway in a ten mile radius and nowhere will deliver.  

[reb]

9 minutes ago, loserone said:

Man, every time I'm away I get a food delivery just because there is no takeaway in a ten mile radius and nowhere will deliver.  

Part of my problem is that I'm in a difficult to find place, there's no signage at the road end and Google maps has no idea.

Tonights driver seems to be having significant difficulties finding me.

I ordered over two hours ago, I'm starting to lose hope.

[myglaren]

Can you use 'what three words' for them to find you?

Or perhaps Waze, sometimes works where Google Maps gives up.

Or map co-ordinates?

[MikeR]

2 hours of driving today , just to do a return trip to the center of Liverpool some 13 miles away ...

stopped at every f in traffic light ,even my son commented we would have won traffic light bingo ,  no parking in 3 places I tried , got in a multi story at the end ..

then checked the trains I would/could of used and they went off at 2pm because of a breakdown ...  just like last week ..

tell me again why city center shops are dying ...

 

[reb]

38 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Can you use 'what three words' for them to find you?

Or perhaps Waze, sometimes works where Google Maps gives up.

Or map co-ordinates?

All of these would require the driver to have enough comprehension of english to understand what I'm saying.

 

Also Just Eat already gets you to drop a pin on the map, something which delivery drivers seem to not know for whatever reason

[myglaren]

A bit like my son's place in Buckhurst Hill.   Right on the main drag but Google and my satnav are oblivious to it and take me into a housing estate dead end.  I can see his house but can't get to it from there.

[IronStar]

7 hours ago, IronStar said:

I caught a cold, and I’m feeling utterly miserable. I have a ton of work to get done today workwise, and the daily 159 is booked for reg tomorrow. Oh, it needs two bulbs changed beforehand, and I’m really not in the state to fuck with it, especially not on 5 degree cold. 
Aresbisquits. 

Fog light replaced, rear plate light holder burned out. 🤦‍♂️

I’m tired like I’ve ran a marathon, can’t wait* for tomorrow’s extra faff and driving across town. It’s booked for the noon. 

[maxxo]

i have just managed to fall through the ceiling

i've been in this house for nearly 2 weeks

gives me something to fix i suppose

i had been worried about the valve on the tank dripping, so i went up to go and waggle it around and have a look

i put my foot in the wrong place and it went right through

in doing so i managed to smack my head off the side of the tank and pull the overflow pipe out of it

i see why people call me Frank Spencer

managed to sort the overflow but going to have to spend money i don't have tomorrow to fix the ceiling

i'm impressed with myself

[IronStar]

5 minutes ago, maxxo said:

i have just managed to fall through the ceiling

i've been in this house for nearly 2 weeks

gives me something to fix i suppose

i had been worried about the valve on the tank dripping, so i went up to go and waggle it around and have a look

i put my foot in the wrong place and it went right through

in doing so i managed to smack my head off the side of the tank and pull the overflow pipe out of it

i see why people call me Frank Spencer

managed to sort the overflow but going to have to spend money i don't have tomorrow to fix the ceiling

i'm impressed with myself

Call your landlord. Not your property, not your problem, plus if you fell through the bloody ceiling it’s absolutely not you. Oh, and it’s rented in unsafe condition. 
I’d be shocked if he doesn’t come running and knock at least some of the rent off.

[maxxo]

Just now, IronStar said:

Call your landlord. Not your property, not your problem, plus if you fell through the bloody ceiling it’s absolutely not you. Oh, and it’s rented in unsafe condition. 
I’d be shocked if he doesn’t come running and knock at least some of the rent off.

i feel somewhat embarrased about it, i didn't want to have an overflow so i want to see if it needed adjustment, it has been adjusted

yes i agree about that, it's a part of the loft which isn't floored but not hidden away so i may well alert him

[Mr Pastry]

@maxxoThe landlord will probably be able to claim for the repair on his insurance. It's just accidental damage. 

[sheffcortinacentre]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

2 hours of driving today , just to do a return trip to the center of Liverpool some 13 miles away ...

stopped at every f in traffic light ,even my son commented we would have won traffic light bingo ,  no parking in 3 places I tried , got in a multi story at the end ..

then checked the trains I would/could of used and they went off at 2pm because of a breakdown ...  just like last week ..

tell me again why city center shops are dying ...

 

Welcome to Sheffield.

[captain_70s]

36 minutes ago, IronStar said:

Call your landlord. Not your property, not your problem, plus if you fell through the bloody ceiling it’s absolutely not you. Oh, and it’s rented in unsafe condition. 
I’d be shocked if he doesn’t come running and knock at least some of the rent off.

Worth checking the wording of the tenancy as access to and use of the attic space is often explicitly forbidden.

[High Jetter]

7 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

Worth checking the wording of the tenancy as access to and use of the attic space is often explicitly forbidden.

 

53 minutes ago, maxxo said:

i have just managed to fall through the ceiling

i've been in this house for nearly 2 weeks

gives me something to fix i suppose

i had been worried about the valve on the tank dripping, so i went up to go and waggle it around and have a look

i put my foot in the wrong place and it went right through

in doing so i managed to smack my head off the side of the tank and pull the overflow pipe out of it

i see why people call me Frank Spencer

managed to sort the overflow but going to have to spend money i don't have tomorrow to fix the ceiling

i'm impressed with myself

How is you relationship with the LL?

 

[maxxo]

30 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

 

How is you relationship with the LL?

 

no idea it's owned by a company down in Birkenhead

attic use is permitted as it's half converted

 

[High Jetter]

Accidental damage, shirley?

[sierraman]

8 hours ago, IronStar said:

Call your landlord. Not your property, not your problem, plus if you fell through the bloody ceiling it’s absolutely not you. Oh, and it’s rented in unsafe condition. 
I’d be shocked if he doesn’t come running and knock at least some of the rent off.

Not sure it works like that… I’d expect a right battle getting the deposit back now damage has been done to the property. The whole ‘not your property - not your problem’ would apply to poking about in the loft ‘fixing’ things. 

[chaseracer]

AS hive mind: who do we know in the TS postcode area might be able to help Max fix this without involving the landlord?

[beko1987]

I've always treated the loft as a grey area, I've not been told off yet for using mine. (luckily the current landlord bought it with me as a sitting tenant many years ago so it was there when we moved in, honest. 

I'm no plasterer, but can you cut a nice square out of it? Back to a joist on at least one side. Then an square of new plaster board should be easy to cut and fit. Not artexed is it?