The grumpy thread

[warch]

On 09/06/2025 at 16:37, warch said:

Bloody fucking Evri. Why is possible to be so shit or wilfully incompetent at something? I ordered some new plants from ebay, then saw who was expected to deliver them. Sure enough I got the delivery attempted message a few days later (translation, we've nicked or binned your parcel so we don't have to deliver it).

The stupid thing is that I'd be quite happy to pay extra to actually receive things I order but I can't find out who the deliverer is going to be (unless I go via Amazon) until I've ordered. 

Fucking Evri have done it again. Claimed to have delivered something and then delivered someone else's parcel (from a town 15 miles away). 

Useless fuckwits, why would anyone wilfully do a job so badly? It really isn't difficult, pick parcel up, drive van to destination, deliver parcel (especially with loads of easy to use apps to help you). 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

The cunt that registered their insurance at my fucking address causing the police to wake me up.after having had four hours sleep on a split rest day week.

The police were thoroughly decent; apparently the owner of that car has been doing some naughty shit.

[robt100]

4 hours ago, Steviemillar said:

Our new Evri driver insists on leaving our parcels on the bonnet of my car.

No, I've no idea why either!

I think they go to a special school for odd parcel placement, a bit like royal mail send all their van drivers to a dangerous parking school....

Any parcel we get quite clearly states to leave it in the passageway to the left of the house... Evri delivery guy seems to read that as "go down the right hand side of the house, through the carport and either lob it over the 7ft gate or balance it on top of a very rusty heating oil tank in the blazing sun".. The next delivery is a set of discs, pads and upper arms for the BMW, if he puts that on the tank I reckon he might put a hole through it!

[Remspoor]

The  autonomous community I live in here in Spain wants us good citizens to help eliminate the Asian wasp. There is a three digit phone line number to report them. I done that and received a incident number. The nest was being built right above our front door. I am allergic to normal wasp stings

A few hours later got a phone call. The report got passed onto a private company because all of the council bods were busy. The company wanted 200€ to remove the nest. They are located in the next town just 7KM away.  They can go to sea.

Talking to a shop in the same town found a insect spray especially for these buggers. You fire it from 4 m away! Poor thing is now dead.  Cost of spray was 12 €

Should add I will not be reporting a nest again.

 

[High Jetter]

No hot wasp action then?

[comfortablynumb]

Don't think I'd want to get close enough, but according to YouTube (!) a cup of petrol held over the nest will rapidly terminate the buggers.

Someone else try it and let us know how it goes...😱

[SunnySouth]

F*king cars…

In a further display of “I’m knackered, you should probably scrap me”, the ‘cheap runabout’ 07 plate Mini - initially joyfully called ‘Pumpkin’, but fairly rapidly renamed The Little Orange Bastard - has now been diagnosed in a highly technical manner with shagged gearbox selector cables. Gratitudes to the Mini forum guys for explaining the basics of where to have a look; the rubber bushes are shot. They can be replaced, but only by lifting the car and dropping the exhaust and heat shields of course. This follows the discovery/realisation a few weeks after buying it that the clutch is a bit slippy, like… Yay. Having shod it with new discs and pads all round and freshly tested it, the delightful little bugger decided to reveal this latest terminal failure literally on the way home from the MOT. Arsehole. 

That age old and oft-repeated dilemma of what to do with a shed needing fixes that are more than it’s worth 🙄

[comfortablynumb]

I usually make decisions like that on how much I like the car @SunnySouth, and it sounds like you've had enough of it.

Offer it on here as spares or reapers? 

[SunnySouth]

36 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

I usually make decisions like that on how much I like the car @SunnySouth, and it sounds like you've had enough of it.

Offer it on here as spares or reapers? 

Yeah might come to that. I’m not overly moved by it either way really; it’s a ragtop and I did quite enjoy the go kart vibe initially, but then knowing that every journey is one step closer to clutch explosion killed that off pretty sharpish! 

Mrs Sunny South is not impressed; her input was if you can’t get back what you paid for it then soldier on and get it spannered and use it. Can’t argue with that I guess, buy another shed and start all over again isn’t overly appealing!

[comfortablynumb]

Buy another one and use the good bits on that, then get a few quid back over the bridge?

Ran cars like that for many years, bug before complicated electronics 😔 

[captain_70s]

8 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Buy another one and use the good bits on that, then get a few quid back over the bridge?

This assumes there are any Binis around that aren't fucked...

[SunnySouth]

21 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

This assumes there are any Binis around that aren't fucked...

Yeah, wish I’d listened to that sentiment before I bought the bastard thing! 😂

[Supernaut]

Yeah, I think its biggest problem is that it's a Bini.

The thread over on the modern section that's basically full of masochistic apologists is hilarious and admirable but it's also put me off them for life!

[comfortablynumb]

1 hour ago, SunnySouth said:

Yeah, wish I’d listened to that sentiment before I bought the bastard thing! 😂

Never had one.

Not likely to....😁

[EyesWeldedShut]

22 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

Yeah, I think its biggest problem is that it's a Bini.

The thread over on the modern section that's basically full of masochistic apologists is hilarious and admirable but it's also put me off them for life!

I've been spannering my wife's Binis since around 2011 when we bought a 10 year old R50.  14 years later?
We now only have a single R55 left (the one with the welded on, broken starter motor) - bought that in 2018 so is a proper Trigger's Broom car.
I think they were built with an intended  lifespan of 4 years/80,000 miles - after that it's a lottery what sort you get - Fun Bini > Fun Sponge Bini > Bastard Bini > Bridged Bini.
 

[comfortablynumb]

My sister has one 

It's broken.....🤦

[SunnySouth]

9 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

My sister has one 

It's broken.....🤦

‘They all do that Sir…’ 👀

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

I now remember why I dislike fixing drum brakes. I have not got the knack of how to get these buggers under tension together again.

This is even before the fight to change the brake cylinders and then the bloody spring retaining clips thingies using  unsuitable pliers. 

[hairnet]

walliams

unpleasant creepy smug bastard - and thats probably before he was famous

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg59q1xgv8o

[myglaren]

28 minutes ago, CGSB said:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKvCfTRIxsv/

What a dopey cunt. Hopefully the video leads to his downfall.

Lifetime ban at least.

[High Jetter]

Google streetview isn't working for me on my PC - anyone else having problems?

[myglaren]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Google streetview isn't working for me on my PC - anyone else having problems?

Mine too it seems.  Been trying to post a YouTube clip but there is a problem with YT too.

 

Streetview was OK earlier though.

[High Jetter]

56 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Streetview was OK earlier though.

Yep, I'd used it 10 - 15 minutes before with no problems

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

anyone else having problems?

Yes but my physicists says they are a lot less these days.

[High Jetter]

24 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Yes but my physicists says they are a lot less these days.

Can you believe them tho? 🤣

[Remspoor]

35 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Can you believe them tho? 🤣

The ones on this forum, yes.

[grogee]

Washed my clothes, hung them outside. It immediately started raining, so I chucked them in the tumble dryer in disgust. 

Then when I retrieved the dried clothes, I found my wallet. 

Every single card is warped... 

[myglaren]

Done that a few times but with cash, usually a couple of hundred quid in notes, all ruined by the dye in the wallet.

At least the BOE changed them with no charge.

I was shopping once and realised at the checkout but there was around ninety five quid in coins in the ashtray that paid for the shopping.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

Washed my clothes, hung them outside. It immediately started raining, so I chucked them in the tumble dryer in disgust. 

Then when I retrieved the dried clothes, I found my wallet. 

Every single card is warped... 

Heat does that to plastic, when pressure is applied.

[reb]

20 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Heat does that to plastic, when pressure is applied.

Good to know, captain