The grumpy thread

[comfortablynumb]

There's (was?) a shop in Norwich centre called Lush, all those bath bombs and soaps etc.

I couldn't even stand outside it, it gave me a headache, god knows how anyone worked there 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

There's (was?) a shop in Norwich centre called Lush, all those bath bombs and soaps etc.

I couldn't even stand outside it, it gave me a headache, god knows how anyone worked there 

I used to be the same with Bodyshop.

[comfortablynumb]

Not content with working out how to open the back door and let his entire family into the house with Muddy feet, one of my GSD's has now decided that jumping a 6foot gate is far too much work, and so has now taught himself how to take the bolt off, and open it to save himself the trouble!

GSD? I think he's bloody Einstein reincarnated 🤦

[MikeR]

If the internet went off tonight , millions of people would not find there way home .....   Just sat behind one person navigating by phone ... On the train !!! 

[maxxo]

So you remember last weekend I replaced the intruder alarm panel at my parents house and got the system working properly again?

got a text today to say the alarm went off….

zone 1014, which is the 30 odd year old shock sensor on one of the bedroom windows

rang my dad and asked out of curiosity had he checked it? No

anyway lo and behold it wasn’t a false alarm

turns out their next door neighbour was getting scaffolding put up and they’ve smashed a pole through the window somehow

so that’s me down their house next week waiting for a glazier to come and sort it

 

[Metal Guru]

Clicked on an internet “news” item, “Exercises to reduce your blood pressure”.

Of course it directs you to a pay wall.

That’s done wonders for my blood pressure. Thanks Daily Torygraph.

[beko1987]

8 hours ago, maxxo said:

So you remember last weekend I replaced the intruder alarm panel at my parents house and got the system working properly again?

got a text today to say the alarm went off….

zone 1014, which is the 30 odd year old shock sensor on one of the bedroom windows

rang my dad and asked out of curiosity had he checked it? No

anyway lo and behold it wasn’t a false alarm

turns out their next door neighbour was getting scaffolding put up and they’ve smashed a pole through the window somehow

so that’s me down their house next week waiting for a glazier to come and sort it

 

Congratulations, your wiring worked 👌😂

If you were pumping it all through home assistant you'd have got that entity named nicely with a friendly name... 

[sdkrc]

I'd like to use this post to warn others about Chargeplace Scotland. 

10mins to login to their app, £160 in pre authorised charges and 0% of my battery charged because 2 separate charge points in different locations didn't work. Left me up shit creek twice in 24hrs and I only used them because there were no other options. 

What an embarrassing scam of a company. 

[comfortablynumb]

If it's on a card @sdkrc, can you do a chargeback?

[MikeR]

Not had that before a pc that would not power up because it was too cold , it was the disaster recovery server and it's just been down to -10 Deg cel  ...and was at 2 Deg cel , It just sat there cycling it's power on and off , so I checked it over , and then put it against a radiator for half an hour , and it started up ok !! ...... 👍

[maxxo]

4 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Congratulations, your wiring worked 👌😂

If you were pumping it all through home assistant you'd have got that entity named nicely with a friendly name... 

there is a facility on the Galaxy panels called “selfmon” which is an IP module where you can control everything remotely

you could easily integrate it to home automation 

[Yoss]

8 minutes ago, MikeR said:

Not had that before a pc that would not power up because it was too cold , it was the disaster recovery server and it's just been down to -10 Deg cel  ...and was at 2 Deg cel , It just sat there cycling it's power on and off , so I checked it over , and then put it against a radiator for half an hour , and it started up ok !! ...... 👍

I've not had that either but I did have a potatocam that wouldn't work because it was too hot. I was in Hungary and it was 38°. The rest of the phone worked but on camera it just said it was too hot and would shut down in three seconds. I had to wave it around for a couple of minutes to get it to work again. 

[autopaul]

After being unable to drive since the start of December due to a dislocated shoulder that now has became very unstable (a little like myself).

I took the car out for a quick drive. Noticed it was pulling to the left, apparently the other half hasn't noticed this. Low and behold 7psi in the nsf, pumped it up and yes back to 7psi over night.

Whipped the wheel off to check for puncture, with crossed fingers that it would be repairable..... 

Culprit found, I suspect with air in the tyre it'll have a nice little bulge there too.

😔

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, autopaul said:

After being unable to drive since the start of December due to a dislocated shoulder that now has became very unstable (a little like myself).

I took the car out for a quick drive. Noticed it was pulling to the left, apparently the other half hasn't noticed this. Low and behold 7psi in the nsf, pumped it up and yes back to 7psi over night.

Whipped the wheel off to check for puncture, with crossed fingers that it would be repairable..... 

Culprit found, I suspect with air in the tyre it'll have a nice little bulge there too.

😔

Drop of qbond? 

I remember when the ex cracked an alloy. We stopped 4 times to pump it up, slowly getting home (I'd driven out to her and child) before we realised that as long as she didn't stop and kept moving the crack stayed airtight... It was flat by the time she pulled up at home but we didn't care by then. ASM netted 4 replacement vectra alloys for our Zafira b with better tyres than the Zafira had on it for cheaper than a used penta (special fancyalloys it wore) and that did the job

[autopaul]

29 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Drop of qbond? 

I remember when the ex cracked an alloy. We stopped 4 times to pump it up, slowly getting home (I'd driven out to her and child) before we realised that as long as she didn't stop and kept moving the crack stayed airtight... It was flat by the time she pulled up at home but we didn't care by then. ASM netted 4 replacement vectra alloys for our Zafira b with better tyres than the Zafira had on it for cheaper than a used penta (special fancyalloys it wore) and that did the job

I have bonded it and I'll see how it holds pressure over night. But I've just picked a set of Audi A5 alloys up for £200 to pop on the car for now.  It's a Scirocco with the turbine wheels on, which seem to hold their money.  I'll run the A5 wheels for now and decide on what to do with the turbines. I might keep 1 set as winter wheels and get some cheap winter tyres fitted. Not sure the 5 spokes will suit the Scirocco.

[Pat Earrings]

Driving the Ampera on electric only and realise the other day I had no heat in the cabin. Works on hybrid mode so, the electric auxiliary water pump is dead 🥲

not a hard job at all, but I can only find it from RockAuto in the USA. Annoying as other than that it’s been brilliant.

 

[Rust Collector]

More a grump at the work I’ve caused myself; I definitely won’t be parking on the lawn again. Probably.

I didn’t take a before picture because I’m an idiot. Imagine a Land Rover sized patch of bare earth:

Last time I was laying turf at this house (when the back garden tried to swallow an SLK like Artax in The Swamp of Sadness), my mate who owned the Disco was still alive and helping me. I did it on my own this time, but remembered what he taught me at least. I missed him though.

The digging was the worst part, I’m too fat and unfit so I felt like I was going to vomit as I took the top off the old stuff.

It stands out a bit at present, and in an ideal world I’d have done the whole thing and levelled the it entirely as the lawn already had a lot of undulation, but for less than £100 it’ll do for now. After a season of growing/cutting it’ll all blend , like it does at the back of the house now. I imagine I’ll dig it up before the next mud season, and lay something that gives a bit more room for manoeuvring.

On a not grumpy front, a lot of my neighbours stopped for a chat whilst I was working. They were all quite friendly, so it’s good to see I haven’t fucked off everyone to the point of open hostility.

I now can’t* wait to clean out the boot of the XM after lugging the turf:

[jakebullet]

Been tidying up spare room to make space for 3D printer to go. Along comes Ma interfering and announces "we're going to have a sideation". This is one of her made up words that means we're going to throw away anything that belongs to you and keep all the shite that belongs to me.

So my stuff like the mint spare set of capri door cards is for the bin. Er, no.

Things she wants to save include:

Half a tin of paint. What if the kitchen needs touching up? Er, we'd have to take the tiles off the wall first. 

2 square foot of random carpet. Half a roll of wallpaper. Plastic plant pots. So many empty cardboard boxes. 

I try being diplomatic. Go and watch for delivery van coming. Have a cup of tea while I finish up. No chance she wants to rake thru the good stuff pile and try to destroy as much as possible. 

Bonus of helping* by moving the door. The one the pool ball stack is resting against. There's a lot of balls when the stack is 5 foot high and 3 foot square.

[Pieman]

Are you actually 16 years old?

[ruffgeezer]

53 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Are you actually 16 years old?

No mention of razz mags or loose floorboards so it doesn't check out.

[Remspoor]

On 19/01/2025 at 06:53, Metal Guru said:

Of course it directs you to a pay wall.

try this.

https://github.com/bpc-clone?tab=repositories

[MikeR]

drivers door on the C1 made a orrid clacking sound as I opened and shut it last night , turns out the two door strap bolts were loose allowing the mounting to move around ...

as was the passenger side door  with one loose bolt 

10 mins with a 10mm spanner fixed in time for the horrid strong winds on Friday ..

[Dyslexic Viking]

Can't go for walks now in all the snow, so today I finally got the motivation to find the snowshoes and the snow is bad so sank into the snow straight away so can forget about using them.

And I'm going to get more snow on Thursday.

I've had enough of winter now and want spring.

[Bren]

Yesterday I contacted my local garage about a rear silencer for the mondeo. They said they would ring me back with a quote.

I rang them again today as they had not  contacted me. I was told they were still waiting for their supplier to get back to them.

If it is becoming difficult to get hold of a silencer for a mk IV mondeo then lord help us.

[Boycie]

Things haven't been the same since covid , we,ve thousands of MG HS/ZS on fleet , it's a month wait to get cars in for warranty work , and that's using a industry only booking system ...

[barefoot]

Please tell us more.

[Boycie]

Dealers can't get through the warranty work , we are even using our service agent to do work which really should be done through warranty , MG,s it's mostly infotainment and electrical issues ( sensors ) new one is air con units draining batterys meaning new units req , last year was ZS clutch fork faults leaving no gears , not helped by most of our dealers being A Clark , they lost Toyota and Ford last few years due to service provided , Toyota is now Maklin , found them to be really good , to be fair all my communication is electronic

[andyberg]

16 minutes ago, Boycie said:

Things haven't been the same since covid , we,ve thousands of MG HS/ZS on fleet , it's a month wait to get cars in for warranty work , and that's using a industry only booking system ...

When I was at Europcar we had the MG ZS/HS.  We had to wait 6 months for an air conditioning relay!

[Boycie]

Funnily enough the fleet im talking about is ...... over 25 years 

[hairnet]

On 21/01/2025 at 17:58, Dyslexic Viking said:

Can't go for walks now in all the snow, so today I finally got the motivation to find the snowshoes and the snow is bad so sank into the snow straight away so can forget about using them.

And I'm going to get more snow on Thursday.

I've had enough of winter now and want spring.

phil would say teh same