The grumpy thread

4,643 · Wednesday at 10:20

On 04/08/2025 at 19:52, Floatylight said:

Firmly in the realms of HFM!!!!

If the steel tube part is in good nick you could get away with a compression fitting and make a hydraulic hose to suit unfortunately due to the bends this probably wouldn’t be possible, Sometimes we would carefully grind off the old hose ferrules then swage a new hyd hose onto the old fittings although according to the BFPA you can’t do that

4,643 · Wednesday at 10:24

On 04/08/2025 at 10:13, Metal Guru said:

Same with kids. The worse people are with them, the more they have.

His logic irritates me, like when he spent £1500 to get his car through its MOT then immediately traded it in to Cazoo for £2500 off his new car -which he needed a new car as his old one (15 plate) was making him feel sad

3,072 · Wednesday at 12:43

Lent the V70 out and the seat has been adjusted every which way possible, that's not the grump as you're allowed to move it to suit, but no matter how much i adjust the seat, i just can't seem to get comfortable.

The ML has awesome seats (lumbar support moves all over, even the side squabs adjust) - But again I can't seem to find a sweet spot.

I'm blaming getting old and a crap back, but I don't recall having these issues with the L322 or L320.

33,803 · Wednesday at 12:55

Mrs_Pin is on taxi duty this morning and my son's pal felt unwell so she was taking him home. He said he was OK but on the way, on the outside lane overtaking a lorry, on a bend, my son's pal who was in the front, projectile vomited without warning. Poor lad and all but at 12 I'd hoped he'd know to put his head down but instead he kept his head up and sprayed watery sick everywhere, 180 degrees.

Up the inside of the windscreen, dashboard, door, seat, carpet, even my wifes coffee in the cupholder. He vomited with such velocity that the sick forced its way into the CLOSED glovebox, flooded it and absolutely drowned my (not especially cheap) code reader, which was the point at which my sympathy ran out. The watery sick is sloshing around inside it.

My wife recently treated herself to a Longchamp bag with her birthday money (that I'd saved up to give her) and she didn't realise that he'd sat on it without knowing, so it too was now slathered in spew.

The car is stinking. My poor wife, just trying g to do a good deed.

£150 for a new code reader

£200 for a new bag

I'll need to get the car interior properly deep cleaned by a valeting person, that will probably be about £70.

Sorry the lad wasnt well (migraine) and I feel bad for how I feel but I'm royally pissed right now.

13,160 · Wednesday at 13:58

57 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Mrs_Pin is on taxi duty this morning and my son's pal felt unwell so she was taking him home. He said he was OK but on the way, on the outside lane overtaking a lorry, on a bend, my son's pal who was in the front, projectile vomited without warning. Poor lad and all but at 12 I'd hoped he'd know to put his head down but instead he kept his head up and sprayed watery sick everywhere, 180 degrees.

Up the inside of the windscreen, dashboard, door, seat, carpet, even my wifes coffee in the cupholder. He vomited with such velocity that the sick forced its way into the CLOSED glovebox, flooded it and absolutely drowned my (not especially cheap) code reader, which was the point at which my sympathy ran out. The watery sick is sloshing around inside it.

My wife recently treated herself to a Longchamp bag with her birthday money (that I'd saved up to give her) and she didn't realise that he'd sat on it without knowing, so it too was now slathered in spew.

The car is stinking. My poor wife, just trying g to do a good deed.

£150 for a new code reader

£200 for a new bag

I'll need to get the car interior properly deep cleaned by a valeting person, that will probably be about £70.

Sorry the lad wasnt well (migraine) and I feel bad for how I feel but I'm royally pissed right now.

No good deed goes unpunished.

It's difficult for kids who are shy to speak up, thereby drawing attention to themselves. I remember being about ten, in bed at my aunt's, and doing a comprehensive brown vomit all over my pillow and that end of the bed. Instead of doing the sensible thing, and knocking my aunt's door (because of shyness), I just turned myself 180 degrees in the bed , and went to sleep, leaving her to face a pile of congealed puke in the morning.

23,494 · Wednesday at 21:29

8 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Mrs_Pin is on taxi duty this morning and my son's pal felt unwell so she was taking him home. He said he was OK but on the way, on the outside lane overtaking a lorry, on a bend, my son's pal who was in the front, projectile vomited without warning. Poor lad and all but at 12 I'd hoped he'd know to put his head down but instead he kept his head up and sprayed watery sick everywhere, 180 degrees.

Up the inside of the windscreen, dashboard, door, seat, carpet, even my wifes coffee in the cupholder. He vomited with such velocity that the sick forced its way into the CLOSED glovebox, flooded it and absolutely drowned my (not especially cheap) code reader, which was the point at which my sympathy ran out. The watery sick is sloshing around inside it.

My wife recently treated herself to a Longchamp bag with her birthday money (that I'd saved up to give her) and she didn't realise that he'd sat on it without knowing, so it too was now slathered in spew.

The car is stinking. My poor wife, just trying g to do a good deed.

£150 for a new code reader

£200 for a new bag

I'll need to get the car interior properly deep cleaned by a valeting person, that will probably be about £70.

Sorry the lad wasnt well (migraine) and I feel bad for how I feel but I'm royally pissed right now.

Maybe visit the lads house showing concern about his health7well being. Stating the wife had never seen that mush vomit before and it went everywhere, the smell is lingering etc etc. Maybe the parents twig and offer to pay something to wards a clean.

33,803 · Thursday at 00:32

We are all good friends and his mum was shocked to see the carnage inside when he was dropped off (and still being sick) and we did ask how he was throughout the day. As I said earlier I felt bad for feeling annoyed as its nobody's fault. My wife was stressed out with it all so I ordered us all a pizza for tea 🙂

20,347 · Thursday at 04:12

I think its the sort of thing you mention at his 18th Birthday party. In a speech.

7,970 · Thursday at 09:11

My main computer is still fucked.

It switches on, doesn't beep for post and doesn't turn the screens on.

So far I've-

*Substituted the gfx card

* Removed and swapped out the ram

* Replaced the PSU

* Fitted a replacement mobo (thanks @reb)

* Fitted a brand new CPU and fan

* Ran the bastard up with nothing but the gfx card inserted.

The only change in behaviour is that on the old mobo, you could here a rhythmic dip in the fans - this doesn't occur with the new board.

Fucking hell, I even tried pulling the case switch plugs off once I'd powered it up in case they were sticking. I can only imagine either both the gfx cards are cunted or, as I had to try my original CPU as the one on Reb's board fell off in the post and didn't enjoy the subsequent trip, fitting my old cpu has in turn cunted the new mobo.

I fucking hate computers.

9,036 · Thursday at 09:37

Leave it for a few days to see if there's any weird capacitance left in it.

7,970 · Thursday at 11:55

To be honest at this point I'm ready to kick the cunt down the stairs.

4,643 · Thursday at 22:41

The Monzo advert with the woman with her arm up a cow, what the actual fuck

5,535 · Thursday at 23:17

Alot of adverts these days don't seem to make sense.

6,529 · Thursday at 23:30

The ad that annoys me at the moment is the bank one (I'm not even sure which bank it is) with the children pretending to be adults and acting like them. Just seems really creepy.

15,157 · Friday at 01:40

2 hours ago, Pieman said:

The ad that annoys me at the moment is the bank one (I'm not even sure which bank it is) with the children pretending to be adults and acting like them. Just seems really creepy.

I think the latest one is quite clever. The little girl looking at the house and the woman getting a mortgage, are so similar, they look like the same person at different ages.

25,888 · Friday at 10:45

The Andrex ad with the kid going for a shite is awful.

Same with the Malteeser ad with Gerald being introduced to an uninterested family.

4,643 · Friday at 11:37

50 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

The Andrex ad with the kid going for a shite is awful.

Same with the Malteeser ad with Gerald being introduced to an uninterested family.

Gerald seems creepy as fuck as he slowly chews on those Maltese's, I can imagine it’s difficult for the family to stomach knowing he’s banging their Nan/mother

13,160 · Friday at 11:38

50 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

The Andrex ad with the kid going for a shite is awful.

Same with the Malteeser ad with Gerald being introduced to an uninterested family.

Most of the good ideas for ads were thought up years ago. All the "creatives" can usually do now is think up a bad idea and pretend it's good, or keep on repetitively using the old ideas to the point of boredom.

25,888 · Friday at 12:34

1 hour ago, goosey said:

Gerald seems creepy as fuck as he slowly chews on those Maltese's, I can imagine it’s difficult for the family to stomach knowing he’s banging their Nan/mother

More awkward than creepy.

Maybe Nan is a bit of a goer and poor Gerard is just another notch on her bed post!🤣

9,454 · Friday at 19:51

Continuing the fuckin' moan about the effin' hub on the poxy pony pantechnionette......

Moaned about the wrong hub sent. Got the correct size. Fitted it yesterday. All good except play on the roadwheel aka loose hub.
Spent all afternoon faffing around - nope. Came in, put a post on Ask a Shiter.
Child bride then said "why don't you swap the good 'un from the other side over and see what you get?"
Wheels off, calipers off, pads and carriers off <drum roll>

Yup - it's the new hub, loose out of the box. Now I'll have to argue it with the supplier. Happy Days.

13,160 · Friday at 20:07

9 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

The Andrex ad with the kid going for a shite is awful.

Same with the Malteeser ad with Gerald being introduced to an uninterested family.

Coincidentally, I saw both those for the first time today.

You're right, both awful. I really don't see how they promote the brands at all.

9,454 · Friday at 20:14

4 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Coincidentally, I saw both those for the first time today.

You're right, both awful. I really don't see how they promote the brands at all.

Now you all have me rushing to turn the TV on to see the delights* I have been missing.
The thought of a lady with her arm up a cow is just the thing to set me up for a happy weekend.......

20 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Alot of adverts these days don't seem to make sense.

I guess you (and I) are just not the target audience? All I seem to see around here are ambulance chasing solicitors and Bingo sites (Channel 4 catch up).

5,535 · Friday at 20:24

You forgot the starving kids, abused animals & coffin chasers.

13,160 · Friday at 20:32

Other channels seem to major on stairlifts, life insurance, and incontinence pants.

6,785 · Friday at 20:56

I don't know if it's an age thing but I'm increasingly finding if I don't watch stuff like a fucking hawk it disappears and is gone forever. Case in point are my spare camera batteries. Not in camera bag. Why? Absolutely no idea. Total flabbergast, and so astonished I have not the first clue where they might be.

9,454 · Friday at 21:09

Take the win, at least you can still find your camera bag 🥴

It is the bloody tools I keep losing

9,753 · Friday at 21:23

26 minutes ago, Snipes said:

I don't know if it's an age thing but I'm increasingly finding if I don't watch stuff like a fucking hawk it disappears and is gone forever. Case in point are my spare camera batteries. Not in camera bag. Why? Absolutely no idea. Total flabbergast, and so astonished I have not the first clue where they might be.

Camera batteries are another matter because they can be a bit spendy but nowadays I'm not averse to just buying a new 'thing' off eBay if it's only a few quid rather than waste hours of my free time trying to find something I know I own somewhere in the house.

15,698 · Friday at 21:56

1 hour ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Now you all have me rushing to turn the TV on to see the delights* I have been missing.
The thought of a lady with her arm up a cow is just the thing to set me up for a happy weekend.......

I guess you (and I) are just not the target audience? All I seem to see around here are ambulance chasing solicitors and Bingo sites (Channel 4 catch up).

Ads get FF here, we usually only watch what we've recorded.

9,454 · 2025-08-09T06:22:21Z

8 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Ads get FF here, we usually only watch what we've recorded.

This time of year we tend to not watch any TV - if we do then it'll be some Apple TV thing (courtesy of the sprog who has included us in some family deal). In the Winter t'missus likes to watch the property type of shite TV on Channel 4 (Phil & Kirsty & That Sort of Thing), I'll just dribble in a corner whilst that's on

I often think it's not just the adverts but also a lot of the TV programming itself? Dire.

13,277 · 2025-08-09T06:47:59Z

10 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Child bride then said "why don't you swap the good 'un from the other side over and see what you get?"

Yup - it's the new hub, loose out of the box. Now I'll have to argue it with the supplier. Happy Days.

Just sometimes, they know better than you do.

There's a lot of good thinking in her.

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