The grumpy thread

[Popsicle]

Local press are reporting an accident on the A50 island at Sudbury this morning.

Old car on its roof, no other details, what does the AS mind think it is?

[captain_70s]

Triumph Spitfire.

Looks nasty.

[comfortablynumb]

I'd agree.

Hopefully the occupant got out, neighbours son died in similar circumstances 🤞 

Edit- does look like the passenger door is open, so ..

 

Edited 19 hours ago by comfortablynumb
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[Popsicle]

I thought Spitfire, but I'm not very good identifying cars, particularly upside down ones.

Hopefully no deaths or injuries. No real details other than the road was closed for a few hours. It's all opened again now, so I would assume no fatalities?

It's a notorious island for accidents.

[artdjones]

4 hours ago, IronStar said:

Is there a reasonable explanation why my parcel is sitting in the middle of nowhere in Germany for 10 days straight, DHL?  
They got it there within 10 hours of receipt, and it’s now just sitting there with no tracking updates. It’s not even a tiny parcel, it’s a box of Eibach Pro Kit weighing 10 kilos, so it’s not like you can easily lose it. 
What the hell? 

Everything seems to have gone haywire in courier land for the last few weeks.I had an order coming on DHL that got picked, but not notified to DHL Poland for several days. Then it was notified and on tracking but not picked up for several more days. So something ordered on 21st April got to Ireland on the 10th May.

The whole point of internet commerce was cheaper prices with fast delivery. But it only works when there are cheap reliable courier services. Since Covid, couriers are much more expensive, also less reliable. So it's no point buying a lot of stuff from websites any more. Because you are paying 25-50% on top of the price of the goods for carriage, and delivery times are edging up to those quoted in small ads in magazines in the 60s and  70s. "Allow 28 days."

 

[Spiny Norman]

Something to do with the fact they've just got into bed with Evri perhaps?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwywd2wzxp2o

 

[Zelandeth]

Is it just that someone has just been sold my number or has anyone else had a massive increase in spam text messages today?  They started arriving at about 1am today and there's been at least a couple every hour since.  About 70% of them not even in English.  French and German being the only ones I could actually recognise.

[High Jetter]

1 minute ago, Zelandeth said:

Is it just that someone has just been sold my number or has anyone else had a massive increase in spam text messages today?  They started arriving at about 1am today and there's been at least a couple every hour since.  About 70% of them not even in English.  French and German being the only ones I could actually recognise.

I've not had any, I feel left out! 😀

[comfortablynumb]

Nah @High Jetter, its just that no-one wants to talk to you 

Joking!!! 😄 

[Zelandeth]

Pretty sure no one wants to talk to me either - they just want me to click on those *highly* legit looking links in the messages which definitely won't infect my phone with some horrible malware in an attempt to hack into a whole plethora of things.

[Datsuncog]

15 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Is it just that someone has just been sold my number or has anyone else had a massive increase in spam text messages today?  They started arriving at about 1am today and there's been at least a couple every hour since.  About 70% of them not even in English.  French and German being the only ones I could actually recognise.

I understand customer details were compromised in the recent M&S hack, so if you've ever bought anything from them online, chances are... 

[High Jetter]

1 minute ago, comfortablynumb said:

Nah @High Jetter, its just that no-one wants to talk to you 

Joking!!! 😄 

It feels like that today! Am awaiting 2 replies from suppliers, and was supposed to meet my freeholder's agent at one site at 2:30 - no show and no calls yet.

[comfortablynumb]

I don't want to talk to people most of the time 

But then, I'm an unsociable miserable bastard...

[myglaren]

47 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Is it just that someone has just been sold my number or has anyone else had a massive increase in spam text messages today?  They started arriving at about 1am today and there's been at least a couple every hour since.  About 70% of them not even in English.  French and German being the only ones I could actually recognise.

Nope.  I get one every couple of months, mostly someone masquerading as Scottish Power.

Never answer, just obliterate them.

Nobody wants to talk to me either, just the way I like it.

[horriblemercedes]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Is it just that someone has just been sold my number or has anyone else had a massive increase in spam text messages today?  They started arriving at about 1am today and there's been at least a couple every hour since.  About 70% of them not even in English.  French and German being the only ones I could actually recognise.

I had several yesterday and several again today. I used the report function on the phone and left it at that.

 

46 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

I understand customer details were compromised in the recent M&S hack, so if you've ever bought anything from them online, chances are... 

That could be it. I can't recall having bought anything from there, but it is possible that I did some years ago.

[myglaren]

4 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

That could be it. I can't recall having bought anything from there, but it is possible that I did some years ago.

I did about six months ago.

[paulplom]

Sub optimal.

Pleased I'm off to Blackpool tomorrow with the lads. One for my son to sort out.