The grumpy thread

[New POD]

12 hours ago, High Jetter said:

And she's getting married in June, in a fancy barn with no accommodation nearby 200 odd miles from us 

Take a tent. 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, New POD said:

Take a tent. 

I have only spent one night under canvas in my 65 years on this planet - and swore at the time never to repeat such stupidity. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

Ahh bollocks. Me dickhead.
Rusty pipe, simples - cut, flare end, join to new bit  

Grumpy now  

No, not because idiot me forgot to put the union on the pipe before flaring (been there, done that, own multiple T shirts)
It's worse than that Jim - I've only cut the steel pipe on the car too short to get the flaring tool on it with the union in place.
Bollox. Bollox. Bollox. Stupid me.

I think I'll just make a complete run in cunifer from the wheel arch right over to the ABS unit rather than arse around trying to flare the steel section someplace else in the engine bay. Bollox.

[LightBulbFun]

11 hours ago, Sunny Jim said:

On 08/01/2026 at 21:45, richardmorris said:

Lightbulbs, not the end of the world.

Sshh, don't let @LightBulbFun hear you say that!

[Remspoor]

On 10/01/2026 at 13:14, New POD said:

Take a tent. 

On 10/01/2026 at 16:08, High Jetter said:

I have only spent one night under canvas in my 65 years on this planet - and swore at the time never to repeat such stupidit

Where there is a problem  there is a solution.

[chaseracer]

27 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Where there is a problem  there is a solution.

'Patricia, Queen of the Dessert'...?

[dozeydustman]

Received some pretty devastating new today about a colleague and good friend of mine, and also a long time lurker on here by the name of ezefloat.

Diagnosed with heart failure Saturday, his daughter phoned me last night and he also now has a ruptured bowel. Too weak to operate on and make the repair or even give him a bag. He’s 54 so no age really.

I’m going to see him in hospital today and geared myself up as being the last time.

[hairnet]

top gear lambo special

now they cant say car programme cos they featured some weird shit (tractors robert lim (RIP) planes farting on cars etc)

but they start at the miura seeing as lamborghini started in the 40s (did they forget the 350gt wasnt exactly slow) or dugga dugga ftw

they coulda done a voiceover with some stills surely while hammond is creaming himself in a miura

pisses me off - like saying austin and starting in the 70s

[Wibble]

Since having my phone and email accounts hacked, it’s been a fucking nightmare.

Spent another half hour on the phone with Lebara this afternoon. With all the joys you can imagine of dealing with an Indian call centre.

Turns out the girl I spoke to before, didn’t do what she said and a replacement SIM wasn’t ordered. I’ve been assured this has now been done and my email address has been changed but I’m not convinced.

Ive also tried to change my email address with other organisations, such as LinkedIn and Indeed. They want to send me a one time passcode to my old email to gain access. Fat lot of good! Others want to send one to my phone, no help either!

It feels like I need to delete my entire existence and start again. I fucking hate all this bollocks, especially those with facial recognition tech, which now want me to log in by email and password, which I can’t. What was the point in the facial recognition security then? Which worked fine until now. My face hasn’t changed!

I know folks will say it’s all about security but it didn’t work and now seems impossible to put right.

[iainrcz]

Just got a bollocking off the Mrs because I called a sweatshirt a jumper. 

If you're interested there is a difference.

Well that's me fucking told.

[hairnet]

25 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

Just got a bollocking off the Mrs because I called a sweatshirt a jumper. 

If you're interested there is a difference.

Well that's me fucking told.

donate all your jumpers then when its -153 ask if she wants to borrow it

 

[iainrcz]

5 minutes ago, hairnet said:

donate all your jumpers then when its -153 ask if she wants to borrow it

 

She helps herself most of the time, the cheeky shit.

[hairnet]

15 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

She helps herself most of the time, the cheeky shit.

fingerprint scanner on wardrobe

[Mr Livered]

1 hour ago, iainrcz said:

Just got a bollocking off the Mrs because I called a sweatshirt a jumper. 

If you're interested there is a difference.

Well that's me fucking told.

What about jerseys and pullovers? I thought they were all different words for the same thing. I call them all jerseys anyway, but it's hard to see why it matters (unlike the terrible people who call their evening meal "tea", obviously there's no punishment severe enough for people like that).

[hairnet]

jersey ffs

its a country

hipster

[iainrcz]

31 minutes ago, Mr Livered said:

 unlike the terrible people who call their evening meal "tea", obviously there's no punishment severe enough for people like that

Get out.

[sheffcortinacentre]

30 minutes ago, hairnet said:

jersey ffs

its a country

hipster

It's an island not a country GBJ IE part of Great Britain.

[Pieman]

7 hours ago, hairnet said:

top gear lambo special

now they cant say car programme cos they featured some weird shit (tractors robert lim (RIP) planes farting on cars etc)

but they start at the miura seeing as lamborghini started in the 40s (did they forget the 350gt wasnt exactly slow) or dugga dugga ftw

they coulda done a voiceover with some stills surely while hammond is creaming himself in a miura

pisses me off - like saying austin and starting in the 70s

That's weird, I've been binge watching some old Top Gear recently and I watched that one yesterday.  I guess the earlier Lambos weren't pornographic enough for the general public.

[chaseracer]

27 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

Get out.

You'll have had your tea? 

😁

[hairnet]

25 minutes ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

It's an island not a country GBJ IE part of Great Britain.

yeh but no but yeh but no but

[iainrcz]

17 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

You'll have had your tea? 

😁

I actually had tea with my tea 😂

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Mr Livered said:

What about jerseys and pullovers? I thought they were all different words for the same thing. I call them all jerseys anyway, but it's hard to see why it matters (unlike the terrible people who call their evening meal "tea", obviously there's no punishment severe enough for people like that).

Pullovers / Jumpers are woolies. Jerseys are made with the wool from Jersey sheep. Not Arran isles, tho, different.

[Heidel_Kakao]

 

[Spiny Norman]

I swear we are de-evolving as a species. 

After the tragedy of the kids in that bar in Switzerland standing filming the burning ceiling on their phones instead of running away, today there was a major leak of highly toxic gas in Cape Town, SA and there are videos of people just standing there recording the impending doom on their phones. 
I may not be the sharpest tool in the box but if I saw a brown cloud heading my my way I'd engage RUNLIKEFUCK mode, especially if it followed a 'boom' type of noise. 

[dozeydustman]

10 hours ago, Mr Livered said:

unlike the terrible people who call their evening meal "tea", obviously there's no punishment severe enough for people like that).

Originally mealtimes had a set pattern.

Breakfast, second breakfast/lunch, dinner, tea (high or low) and supper.

’breakfast’ - first meal breaking your overnight fast.

‘Lunch(eon)’ refers to a light meal served in the middle of the day, before this it was the precursor to ‘elevensies’.

‘Dinner’ means the main meal of the day, and was originally served any time between mid-day and 2 but as time went on became the main evening meal as more people worked in factories and industry, the cooking of the main meal was pushed back also.

‘High Tea’ was originally the evening meal, sat at the table meal (high) and often consisting hearty foods such as pies and stews served with a brew. It was the working class term for the evening meal if it was the main meal for the day so is synonymous with ‘dinner’ in that respect.

‘Low tea’ (afternoon tea) is the late afternoon light bite taken by posh people with tea, petit fours and cakes, taken on soft furnishings and a low (coffee) table.

Confusingly, modern high tea is often the finger foods of low tea but served at a dining table.

’Supper’ is a small warm evening meal, derived from the word soup, as often it was a broth and bread eaten as a night cap though for the rich it would often refer to a small plated meal.

Using ‘tea’ for the evening meal is correct if you are having a hot meal at a dining table and belies its working class origins. However taking sandwiches to work to eat at 12-1pm and calling them dinner is incorrect as they are not the main meal of the day.

The timings at which the meals were taken changed during the Georgian era, where dinner was still the main meal of the day, but shifted to later in the day, it being replaced at around noon by luncheon as people took a portable meal to work with them.

Posh households would often have breakfast on getting up and dressed, luncheon in the late morning, dinner early afternoon, (low) tea at 4 and supper before bedtime, which lasted until around WW1. By the time of WW2 most households had three meals a day and called them what they wanted!

[Metal Guru]

12 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Originally mealtimes had a set pattern.

Breakfast, second breakfast/lunch, dinner, tea (high or low) and supper.

’breakfast’ - first meal breaking your overnight fast.

‘Lunch(eon)’ refers to a light meal served in the middle of the day, before this it was the precursor to ‘elevensies’.

‘Dinner’ means the main meal of the day, and was originally served any time between mid-day and 2 but as time went on became the main evening meal as more people worked in factories and industry, the cooking of the main meal was pushed back also.

‘High Tea’ was originally the evening meal, sat at the table meal (high) and often consisting hearty foods such as pies and stews served with a brew. It was the working class term for the evening meal if it was the main meal for the day so is synonymous with ‘dinner’ in that respect.

‘Low tea’ (afternoon tea) is the late afternoon light bite taken by posh people with tea, petit fours and cakes, taken on soft furnishings and a low (coffee) table.

Confusingly, modern high tea is often the finger foods of low tea but served at a dining table.

’Supper’ is a small warm evening meal, derived from the word soup, as often it was a broth and bread eaten as a night cap though for the rich it would often refer to a small plated meal.

Using ‘tea’ for the evening meal is correct if you are having a hot meal at a dining table and belies its working class origins. However taking sandwiches to work to eat at 12-1pm and calling them dinner is incorrect as they are not the main meal of the day.

The timings at which the meals were taken changed during the Georgian era, where dinner was still the main meal of the day, but shifted to later in the day, it being replaced at around noon by luncheon as people took a portable meal to work with them.

Posh households would often have breakfast on getting up and dressed, luncheon in the late morning, dinner early afternoon, (low) tea at 4 and supper before bedtime, which lasted until around WW1. By the time of WW2 most households had three meals a day and called them what they wanted!

I remember one of the pseudo news programmes they had after the 6 o’clock news (Nationwide I think it was), interviewed people on the streets asking what they called their meal in the middle of the day. Various people said lunch or dinner, then they asked this old Irish guy, who replied “ two pints of Guinness !”

[cobblers]

6 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

I swear we are de-evolving as a species. 

After the tragedy of the kids in that bar in Switzerland standing filming the burning ceiling on their phones instead of running away, today there was a major leak of highly toxic gas in Cape Town, SA and there are videos of people just standing there recording the impending doom on their phones. 
I may not be the sharpest tool in the box but if I saw a brown cloud heading my my way I'd engage RUNLIKEFUCK mode, especially if it followed a 'boom' type of noise. 

 

I'd argue it's just survival of the fittest finding a new way to weed out the idiots. 

thousands of years ago there would be two or three fucking idiots in the tribe that thought tigers were cute, ideally they'd get eaten *before* they were able to pass on their defective genes. 

[artdjones]

10 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

It's an island not a country GBJ IE part of Great Britain.

Pedant mode:-

Great Britain is a geographical term, not a political one. Great Britain is the biggest island in the British Isles, which contains England, Scotland, and Wales. So Jersey isn't part of it.

Jersey is a self governing Crown Dependency, so not part of the UK, either. 

[Talbot]

38 minutes ago, cobblers said:

thousands of years ago there would be two or three fucking idiots in the tribe that thought tigers were cute, ideally they'd get eaten *before* they were able to pass on their defective genes. 

And now we have cats.  A slighty* safer version of having a tiger as a pet.

There will always be morons who manage to kill themselves in new and inventive ways.  What pisses me off greatly is that as a society we have decided that we have to protect these utter fucking idiots by having safety equipment, warnings, barriers, etc. etc.  I am a very firm believer in removing all of the stupidest safety warnings from everything and just letting things work themselves out.

My personal favourite/worst annoyance is the label on a hot tap that says "warning, hot water".  No shit, really?  a tap with a red dot on the top has hot water coming out of it?  I would never have guessed if it wasn't for the warning!  And they're everywhere.  A massive control panel in an enclosure on an industrial site, with "warning, 240v electricity" on it.  Noooooooooo!!! really?  I thought it was full of puppies and kittens! 

What really pisses me off is that if someone is indeed killed by their own stupidity, we then haver to increase our "safety" to further protect even more idiotic morons.  This has the double-whammy effect of making things even harder for people who do know what they are doing, while simultaneously ensuring that a more idiotic idiot is in the making.

It's exhausting.

[scdan4]

10 hours ago, Heidel_Kakao said:

 

Blimey it's been a while. Saw them live once or twice last millennium. 

And it's on the tube 

 

Soundtrack for the morning sorted. Oh Veronica 🤗