The grumpy thread

[Pieman]

Does anything in your life EVER go right?

[maxxo]

11 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Does anything in your life EVER go right?

Yes actually the vast majority these days seems to be going right

its just there’s always some added chaos in there, but I just always try and find the funny side of it, no point dwelling on the negatives

[Yoss]

5 hours ago, maxxo said:

Burglar alarms

just had a frantic Facebook message from one of my parents neighbours and a good friend of mine saying her alarm is going off and won’t stop

welp, guess a 30 odd mile round trip in the freezing weather is in order to sort it

i get there and sure enough it’s in alarm and going ballistic (ADE accenta panel), right open the panel and yep 2 massive skid marks on the PCB, so that’s fucked

anyway time to kill it

and here is the grump, whatever fucking stupid bastard fitted it wired the mains in alarm cable

8 core alarm cable

4 cores for live, 4 for neutral 

one of the live cores had come out and was hanging free

now this was while it was still going off, diagnostic time so to say

my fucking hand brushed against the live core

in doing so propelled it backwards at high speed

right into the side of the gas meter bracket

why yes I said, this does hurt a little bit and what an undesirable situation……… or words to that effect starting with F, C, T and B

anyway got it silenced and time to leave to drive back home to county durham

not before I slip over leaving her house and smack my arse into the pavement

so now I’m home, I’m in pain and I’m cold, I can taste copper and my arm is still slightly tingly

im now sat in bed eating chocolate cos why the hell not

but it was good to help someone out, roads were lovely and quiet too

 

 

ironically enough I’ve been fitting an alarm to my house today, sick of the sight of them for one day

Liked for the chocolate in bed, not the electric shock obvs. 

[Mally]

12 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Hey hey it's the mad Jean:

I have been thrown off for no good reason off spring vale medical centre. This is a very unfair thing to do and have tried to force me onto sleights medical centre when we have always gone to Spring vale Medical centre in Heron Foods Whitby . My husband is 94 years old and i am 81. We were asked to go at 5 p.m. time and it cost us 30 pounds in cash out of our disability money in too cold weather aparg from been out of the town where we live and have done for 30 years we are too old and disabled to travel in taxis at 30 pounds a time out of our disability money. when i went it was not at all to see a doctor it was to trap us into seeing a social presciber who had the cheak to tell me to leave my husband and she wanted to send me to a womans refuge in scarb., i told her i will not i don,t want to leave my ill husband who i have bedn married for for over 60 years, how dare she suggest this to me? the bad person. we live here in whitby but, because of a very nasty towards me talked to me like a dog i got thrown out of the Whitby practice, it should have been her that should have gone or at least had some proper training, i should not, therer was a woman when i was waiting to see the doctor and she heard the upsetmrnt and when i went to sit by her said she is a very wicked person that receptionist that she had actually helped to kill her husband and i said to this lady i can beleive it so is so nasty and there is no call for it whatsoever.  The marriage breaker up at sleights will not be seeing me again, k have not signed any forms requesting to be on their list and i have told them how i was put into contact with them because, the paramedics twisted me into going therr at 2 p.m. early morning they recconed that they booked me in as a member of slights list and this was a big lie i was listening and there was nobody there ,they tried to trick me to be on Sleights list but , i don,t wish to be and have rang and told them i am not on your list, your marriage breaking up list so make sure that i am not because i am Not. and WILL NOT BE EVER. THIS NEEDS A COPY TO BE SENT TO THE PRIME MINISTER AND QUICK, HE NEEDS TO GET THAT ONE SORTED OUT.
 

She actually got dumped because she sent them a nastygram by post demanding X Y & Z members of staff must be fired or she's leaving, and doctors wrote back with you're no longer on our list from X date, so sorry to see you go....

She could have avoided £30 from her disability money by getting in the car in her garage and driving there (it's a huge 4 miles away).

Get on it Sir Keir!

Are the ages at 81 and 94 correct? If so I feel this could go some way to explaining  things.

I'm likely to be like that, well before reaching 94.

I'm hoping I'm gone by 81 to avoid the situation arising.

[EyesWeldedShut]

Whoever came up with the idea of putting the washer motor on a Sevel van in the most inaccessible spot possible (but still in view just to drive you mad) should get a feckin' medal. If I was left handed and my fingers weren't freezing off then I'd maybe not be so grumpy.
That and I need to retrieve two picks that I dropped onto the engine undertrays and will I get a new one my Sunday. 

I need some breakfast.

[jakebullet]

5 hours ago, Mally said:

Are the ages at 81 and 94 correct? If so I feel this could go some way to explaining  things.

I'm likely to be like that, well before reaching 94.

I'm hoping I'm gone by 81 to avoid the situation arising.

Yes, accurate ages. But she's always been nuts, I think a lot of current stuff is she's bored and trying to get attention, and doesn't realise if she keeps saying "He's violent" at some point he's going to be taken away.

[barefoot]

30 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

... at some point he's going to be taken away.

Where do they take them all to?

Loggerheads?

[andy18s]

We used to live in Loggerheads.  . 

[Mally]

1 hour ago, jakebullet said:

Yes, accurate ages. But she's always been nuts, I think a lot of current stuff is she's bored and trying to get attention, and doesn't realise if she keeps saying "He's violent" at some point he's going to be taken away.

I've had a rant at a Dr's receptionist. They cancelled a home visit to my wife as too busy. I took her to A +E and she passed on within a fortnight.

I get what's going on, from both sides. But I do have some sympathy for mad Jean.

If she was always slightly deranged this is bound to push her over the edge.

It's a rant, but a good one on some points.

[barefoot]

Traffic calming has recently been installed on the main road through the villiage. A handful of those chicane things. Carnage tonight when a tractor, taking a new line to avoid the new hazard, smashed a man hole cover that no-one normally ever hits, followed almost immediately by a car driving into the low winter sun, hit the new calming obstruction and lost a wheel. Sadly, although they've built the obstructions, they haven't put any warning signs up yet.

[richardmorris]

5 hours ago, andy18s said:

We used to live in Loggerheads.  . 

Mold?

[andy18s]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Mold?

Market Drayton..

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, andy18s said:

Market Drayton..

Mouldy.

[barefoot]

18 hours ago, andy18s said:

We used to live in Loggerheads.  . 

Did you spend much time arguing?

[DavieW]

Booked a blood test last week specifically to check my cholesterol level. Nurse took 2 phials of blood

Phoned the doctor to get the result this afternoon to be told they don't test for cholesterol level if the patient is on statins. So how am I meant to know if I need to increase my dosage? At least my fasting glucose level is OK although I didn't ask for it to be checked.

[myglaren]

32 minutes ago, DavieW said:

Booked a blood test last week specifically to check my cholesterol level. Nurse took 2 phials of blood

Phoned the doctor to get the result this afternoon to be told they don't test for cholesterol level if the patient is on statins. So how am I meant to know if I need to increase my dosage? At least my fasting glucose level is OK although I didn't ask for it to be checked.

I have to go for blood tests on Monday, I'll ask if they do - if I remember of course.

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, DavieW said:

Booked a blood test last week specifically to check my cholesterol level. Nurse took 2 phials of blood

Phoned the doctor to get the result this afternoon to be told they don't test for cholesterol level if the patient is on statins. So how am I meant to know if I need to increase my dosage? At least my fasting glucose level is OK although I didn't ask for it to be checked.

Strange, I get a suite of blood tests done every year including cholesterol, and it gets done even though I'm on statins. How else can you prove they're working?

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, DavieW said:

Nurse took 2 phials of blood

That's very nearly an armful!

[Matty]

Someone's run in the back corner of my car whilst parked. Bumper and back panel out of alignment and a small ripple in the panel. So not like the sort of impact you wouldn't notice. 

Whoever it was I hope your genitals turn black and fall off. And your partner runs off with the milk man.

[95 quid Peugeot]

Whilst not owning an electronic automobile,  I'd be well pissed off and needed to charge whilst this fuckwit parks in a slot, every day !!!!!! Never a lead seen

[Floatylight]

Been and had two new tyres fitted this morning, noticed the inside edge of the nearside rear on the Merc was down to the cords, rest of the tyre fine and front offside worn quite low on the inner edge.

Ordered two new Falkens from Protyre (part of Micheldever) and went down this morning.

Asked them to replace both and have a look at suspension tracking as something is clearly way off.

They've put two new all seasons on, one on the front right, one on the rear left and not looked at the tracking saying i never asked for it.

Would of expected them to ask if i wanted new ones on front or rear and swap them round.l, especially as new are all seasons and old are summer tyres.

Been using them for years but wont be going back!

Am i being overly picky?

[Tickman]

27 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Am i being overly picky?

Nope

 

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, Floatylight said:

Would of expected them to ask if i wanted new ones on front or rear and swap them round.l, especially as new are all seasons and old are summer tyres.

To be fair, "all seasons" does include summer.

[crad]

would love to meet the genius who decided to put the r53 (or r50 whatever teh fuck theyre called) mini's starter down below the fuckign exhaust manifold in the most inaccessible place possible where it has its own gash little heatshield that you cant fucking move and then the battery negative terminal nut decides to just spin and spin and then you give up bc even if you went through the pullaver of taking the fucking exhaust manifold off you can't jack the think up because the missus' driveway is so steep it might as well be a welsh mountain.

 

off to the garage you fuck. still, i got some shiny new tools so, woo?

 

i also have mega lack of skillz, which doesn't help but, rome wasn't built in a day and all that.

[Zelandeth]

Could insomnia please fsck off and get in the sea.  Got a load of things I need to do tomorrow and I am WIDE awake now.  Like more than I have been in probably a week.  No chance in hell I'm getting to sleep any time soon.  

I don't think I accidentally drank half a gallon of coffee with dinner...

[bunglebus]

Fucking Tuesdays. Some wanker has been at the wiring in the Lupo and buggered up the ISO connector, I can't get the individual connector out so now I've got to order a new one and chop it off then solder the wires. Why can't people leave shit alone if they don't know what they're doing?

Just to add insult to injury, I've just had a £90 fine land on the mat as I've inadvertently strayed into bastard Khan's ULEZ bullshit somehow.

To top it off I've just had to put about a litre of coolant in my Passat, and I've got the horrible feeling it's the heater matrix leaking. The new glovebox for it just turned up so when I fit that I'll pull the fan out and have a look, but I'm not in the mood now today, I just know I'll fuck something else up. Grrr

[BorniteIdentity]

6 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Just to add insult to injury, I've just had a £90 fine land on the mat as I've inadvertently strayed into bastard Khan's ULEZ bullshit somehow.

That is rotten luck.  I guess £90 is if you pay it now, rather than the full £180?

I do say to folks who live near London that it's worth setting up autopay for your car, even if you don't intend to go in the zone.  That way, if you do stray past a camera, it's £12.50 not £180.  

It's worth challenging it.  Certainly with DART they will always wave the first fine if you contest it.  Perhaps ULEZ will be the same.  

Good luck man.

[Popsicle]

10 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

That is rotten luck.  I guess £90 is if you pay it now, rather than the full £180?

I do say to folks who live near London that it's worth setting up autopay for your car, even if you don't intend to go in the zone.  That way, if you do stray past a camera, it's £12.50 not £180.  

It's worth challenging it.  Certainly with DART they will always wave the first fine if you contest it.  Perhaps ULEZ will be the same.  

Good luck man.

Totally agree with setting up an autopay account, you also get the added 'bonus' of getting the odd freebie when the systems not picked you up.

[DavieW]

Got 4 new tyres fitted to the company car yesterday Kwik Fit (lease company says we have to use them).  I was going go to remove the valve caps in case they forgot to replace them, but decided not to. 

Got car back but didn't check till I got home, guess what - no caps. Managed to blag 4 from the Mercedes garage I was in this morning though. 

[bunglebus]

On 06/11/2024 at 22:20, bunglebus said:

Fucksakes

Remember this leaky twat printer from the other week? It had one more trick up its sleeve. I bagged it up at the time and put in the outhouse while I decided whether to have a moan at Tesco about the cartridge. It was in the way so I put it in the recycling bin outside. Today I thought I'd do a nice simple job of picking up all the leaves Bert had deposited everywhere. Moved the bins to get the leaves out and thought WTF is all this black everywhere? Yep, ink, diluted just enough by the rain to fill the bin and leak out all over the path. 

The fucker's in the main bin now, and the neighbours are twitching the curtains while I wash the tin cans on the lawn