The grumpy thread

[IronStar]

10 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

Can't you just put some random crap there so there's no room for cunt to park but still leave yourself enough room for the Mini?

I can, but

a) That’s not a parking space, but anything lighter than a car he can move out the way

b) I’d block his door that you can see on the left on the first pic, which risks him keying the fuck out of my car(s)

[somewhatfoolish]

Wheel skates, move cunt sideways(or backwards into the general thoroughfare), park; tea and medals.

[IronStar]

In other, not directly related to me news - Hotel Yugoslavia, whose imminent demolition I’ve whined about here already is getting demolished. Because that’s not bad enough - it has about a tonne of asbestos in its construction, which wasn’t removed and not a single safety procedure is being followed. It’s windy in Belgrade these days. They are literally dumping a tonne of asbestos in the air. But apparently raising this as insanity and a health risk to everyone, and asking for the demolition to at least be done properly is a political issue and something that is to be buried because the company doing it has direct ties to heads of party in power.

Loving the ever increasing odds of death from avoidable things through the virtue of living here. 

[reductiongear]

14 hours ago, IronStar said:

I’m paying extra in the long-term-storage garage for a parking spot which is bloody huge and has no sports to park next to it. On the one side, there’s access to some technical room, and on the other is a garage door of some flat. Sounds good, right? The great unwashed not having the possibility to keep slamming doors into your car while it’s in storage, for a bit extra. Oh hang on, what’s this on a not-a-parking then? 

Dude who has door that goes into the garage decided to park there, because smol car and its owner not being around to police it. There’s no way in hell that door is not being opened into my car, as Fiat can barely fit despite a deceptive photo, especially if I store a bigger car there.
Previously, it was also found like this

I’m paying for that you cunt, being temporarily vacated doesn’t mean you can claim it without asking!

I called my landlord, who’s really apologetic, plans to give him another bollocking, and offered me money back if the dude doesn’t fuck off, but something* tells me he doesn’t plan to stop.

What should I do? Accept the cuntish behavior? Park diagonally? Park a car that’s already bartered on his door and completely block it? Get the money back, accepting that won’t really buy me a parking I initially wanted? Something else? I’m worried that any retaliation will end up with my car keyed, with further consequences for everyone involved afterwards. 

Put a bouncy castle in there or some other random object he wouldn’t expect. That would baffle him more than anything else lol

[vulgalour]

I suppose you could just start leaving "sorry I hit your car" notes on the Fiat.  You don't actually have to hit it, you just leave the note every time it's there.

[jakebullet]

CND truely does not give a fuck. Hazel spotted pikey truck dumped outside her house is lacking mot. Or to be more precise it's failed.

Do not drive until repaired (dangerous defects): Offside Front Suspension arm pin or bush likely to become detached (5.3.4 (a) (ii)

Use pikey 2 instead? Nah, fill the fucker with broken breeze blocks  and keep driving WCPGW?

[wuvvum]

I have to say I'm slightly disappointed - I saw jakebullet's name against the grumpy thread and was hoping for some more Mad Jean poetry as a Sunday treat.

[jakebullet]

15 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I have to say I'm slightly disappointed - I saw jakebullet's name against the grumpy thread and was hoping for some more Mad Jean poetry as a Sunday treat.

Not much going on in Jean's world. Pervert photos (morris dancing etc), and confusion about the Facebook prompt (what's on your mind?).

What's on my mind is my business, what's on yours?

Don't ask such personal questions please. 

This is my business only and nobody else's concern. No question to answer then thank you.

Jesus is on my mind.

[Pieman]

Mad Jean is actually you on an alternative account isn't it

As for the truck: go and phone 101.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Won't be interested.

[Spiny Norman]

OOFT - 4000 pages of Grumps, we're a miserable bunch aren't we? 😄

My major fuckage today was to drop my laptop while open and running. At least it wasn't my newer one but it worked perfectly well and had a CD drawer so was handy for ripping CDs, which is still a thing for me.
Completely destroyed itself, hinges, screen, bezel, the whole lot smashed. All I could do was pull out the drive and toss the remains in the bin.

[inconsistant]

14 minutes ago, Spiny Norman said:

My major fuckage today was to drop my laptop while open and running. 

Ouch. Don't run with laptops! 

[maxxo]

had a good long discussion with the landlord yesterday, i have been given permission to do any improvements etc i see fit, in fact i was encouraged and told for most things they'll pay

anyway decided to get started today

going to be fitting an alarm system next week, it does have the remains of an old one so i was looking for cables, nope none

annoyingly under the floor the joists are ran the wrong way so it's going to make it a lot more of a faff

oh well, i've been doing them for a fair few years so it's all part of the fun

but that's my grump for the day, i know it's going to be a massive faff on

 

[High Jetter]

12 minutes ago, maxxo said:

had a good long discussion with the landlord yesterday, i have been given permission to do any improvements etc i see fit, in fact i was encouraged and told for most things they'll pay

anyway decided to get started today

going to be fitting an alarm system next week, it does have the remains of an old one so i was looking for cables, nope none

annoyingly under the floor the joists are ran the wrong way so it's going to make it a lot more of a faff

oh well, i've been doing them for a fair few years so it's all part of the fun

but that's my grump for the day, i know it's going to be a massive faff on

 

At least you chatted, and LL is onside.

[reb]

6 hours ago, maxxo said:

permission to do any improvements

My landlord is the same. I think part of their reasoning in my case is that the property hasn't seen any major improvement outside of the heating, windows and kitchen for a very long time, so if I improve it for them they don't have to.

Every time my mum visits she complains that the quality of finish on the windows is shite, but I actually see a silver lining in it. It's so shite you wouldn't do it like that if you were expecting to have to attract new tenants any time soon, which makes me think my tenancy here is secure for as long as I want it to be.

[sierraman]

I’m surprised they’re happy for you to make alterations especially of an electrical nature if you are unqualified. 

[MikeR]

Waited in all morning so far the leccy board to fit a new meter and is a no show ... Cleaned out under the stairs , moved the bell xformer out of the way. People up early and out , out of the way ... Bar stewards , next appt can be in the new year when the cold weather is over .... 

[captain_70s]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

I’m surprised they’re happy for you to make alterations especially of an electrical nature if you are unqualified. 

Is Maxxo not a house alarm fitter by trade?

I imagine many landlords would be happy for free works. Most I've encountered have simply used "handyman" type operations for as much work as possible.

Whoever wired our kitchen certainly wasn't an electrician...

[maxxo]

walked into town earlier today and then decided i wanted to do my weekly shop so ran back home to get the car

all is well

literally got round the corner from my house

and sat at some traffic lights behind a BMW 320D estate

i happened to note the driver seemed to be staring at the centre console, and the reverse lights kept coming on and going off

next thing i know the reverse lights are on and she's slowly creeping backwards

so i start repeatedly sounding the horn

no reaction

BANG

so i got out and had a look, she had absolutely no reaction at all by this point she had seemingly found the right gear and was happily sat there happy as larry

didn't even bother going up to her car, as no doubt she'd say i ran into her

just walked back to my car shaking my head, as was the driver of the van behind me who saw the whole thing

she has a nasty mark on her bumper and the towing eye cover has popped out

i have a slight mark and that's it

wonder what the hell Citroen made these bumpers from

[maxxo]

2 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

Is Maxxo not a house alarm fitter by trade?

I imagine many landlords would be happy for free works. Most I've encountered have simply used "handyman" type operations for as much work as possible.

Whoever wired our kitchen certainly wasn't an electrician...

indeed i am , self employed albeit not done much the past few months

i have a few electrical qualifications too

[loserone]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

I’m surprised they’re happy for you to make alterations especially of an electrical nature if you are unqualified. 

My last landlord was very pleased to pay me £50 (call put charge)  plus parts to cover anything electric or water related, take a couple of photos, send them on WhatsApp with an amount and a cheque would arrive in a couple of days.  

 

Replaced an electric shower and the ceiling pull, upgraded the cable from the consumer unit, replaced taps, light fittings, a window pane, the roof of the lean-to, a structural wall in the garden which collapsed.. and often the cheque was for a lot more than I'd asked for.  He was 50 miles away and didn't really want a tenant, but the house hadn't sold in a year so we got in, and he was pretty pleased with the situation.  

[Zelandeth]

One of our neighbours has just got a new electric Hyundai thing.

They're one of those people who will never do a three point turn when 27 will do, so takes about five minutes to reverse out of their driveway every morning.  They're also the sort of person who gets into the car, starts it, puts it in gear and then sets about basically doing everything they really should have done before getting into the car before leaving.  The upshot of this is that for a good ten minutes every morning at about 6 am for the last week all I've been able to hear through the window is *Bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...*

It's a tiny grump in the grand scheme of things, especially in the last few weeks - but good lord it's like fingernails down a blackboard after about 30 seconds...

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

One of our neighbours has just got a new electric Hyundai thing.

They're one of those people who will never do a three point turn when 27 will do, so takes about five minutes to reverse out of their driveway every morning.  They're also the sort of person who gets into the car, starts it, puts it in gear and then sets about basically doing everything they really should have done before getting into the car before leaving.  The upshot of this is that for a good ten minutes every morning at about 6 am for the last week all I've been able to hear through the window is *Bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...bong...*

It's a tiny grump in the grand scheme of things, especially in the last few weeks - but good lord it's like fingernails down a blackboard after about 30 seconds...

Yep, dad's ioniq did that noise, I grew to hate it. I also hear it from the road behind my back gate where people turn round and why is it so loud outside the car 😡

[captain_70s]

Which of my cars ices up on the inside? All of them.

Including the 22 plate works van...

[chaseracer]

19 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

OOFT - 4000 pages of Grumps, we're a miserable bunch aren't we? 😄

The only thread NEVER to leave the first page! 😀

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

The only thread NEVER to leave the first page! 😀

I have to go to Oxford tomorrow morning without actually going into it. Headington ish. One of our balances at work played up this afternoon- it’s the colour touchscreen I think as it has stopped responding to inputs but has a block of pixels tracking your finger. I was surprised to find we’d had it since 2013 and this is the first problem . Given that a replacement is £25000+vat  I am not couriering it to European instruments for repair.

[Split_Pin]

On 12/12/2023 at 19:39, Split_Pin said:

Just had a new thermostat:

Fucking bastards.

That "genuine" Gates thermostat I fitted 1 year ago has failed open again.

Fucking bastards.

[Rust Collector]

11 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

That "genuine" Gates thermostat I fitted 1 year ago has failed open again.

Fucking bastards.

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that aside from their belts, Gates’ parts are just bought in kit from third parties and so the quality is a bit of a lucky dip.

[Split_Pin]

28 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that aside from their belts, Gates’ parts are just bought in kit from third parties and so the quality is a bit of a lucky dip.

From what I have read that seems to be the case with a lot of brands*

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

One of our balances at work

Is that some very exspendy scales?