The grumpy thread

[High Jetter]

56 minutes ago, IronStar said:

Thanks for the input guys! @Wibble @Zelandeth @CGSB

Some context needed I think

I park in a shared garage that’s not even in the building I live in. 

I can’t exactly rip apart the car and leave it there. Even if I did get the carpet and insulation out and pushed the car back in, I have nowhere to go with it. I live in a smalish flat with no proper place to put XXm2 of carpet and insulation to dry.

Professional option I could get is take it to a detailing place and ask them to run drying octopus machine for a while after they finish the (overdue) interior wash. 

Otherwise it has to wait until spring/summer, and me getting access to someone’s house with a yard where I can dump it for a day or two and leave it to air dry

Anything I can do given these very limited options?

Is that on a lift? Natural emissions are warming 😀

[IronStar]

8 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Is that on a lift? Natural emissions are warming 😀

It is. It’s a Belgrade’s speciality - stack maximum amount of cars/people on a given plot, for a lowest investment you can possibly get away with, and sell it as it’s made of gold.

A single platform is that very garage is around 25k€. ROI doesn’t really exist as it’s being rented at 90€/month, but heyho. Oh, garage itself is leaking. Badly. 😄

[High Jetter]

15 minutes ago, IronStar said:

It is. It’s a Belgrade’s speciality - stack maximum amount of cars/people on a given plot, for a lowest investment you can possibly get away with, and sell it as it’s made of gold.

A single platform is that very garage is around 25k€. ROI doesn’t really exist as it’s being rented at 90€/month, but heyho. Oh, garage itself is leaking. Badly. 😄

Makes sense, if reliable. Would love to see the workings

[IronStar]

11 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Makes sense, if reliable. Would love to see the workings

It’s Wohr Combilift

https://woehr.de/en/combilifts.html

the garage also has a few of parklifts

https://woehr.de/en/parklifts.html

[High Jetter]

OK  Doubt I'll ever afford it tho

[Wibble]

Back in the early 90s, my good friend and then colleague , wanted to be able to drive to London, where he was born and his parent’s in law resided. He was 15 years older than me but very far away from a confident driver and only recently passed his test and had bought a brand new Peugeot 309 Style a couple of years before. He had only been doing local driving but wanted to be able to go further afield, spurred on by his wife I think.

I agreed to go to London with him, to give him practice and we ended up in a car park like this, where you drive in and the car was raised and stacked away. I thought it was amazing at the time.

I drove home though, his driving was scary and he burnt out clutches several times before I got him into an automatic. He’s now in a black Yeti automatic, avoid!

[EyesWeldedShut]

6 hours ago, Wibble said:

London

They stuck a new one in when they redeveloped/invented "Rathbone Square" out of the old Royal Mail sorting offices just north of Oxford Street in Rathbone Place around 2010-2015. The old sorting office had been a new build on WW2 bomb site land and they included a new stop on the Paddington Rail Station > Mount Pleasant sorting office.

The fancy Rathbone Square stacker then broke down a few years back and there was much angst. Googlefoo this morning shows that it took 28 months to get the cars out  

I have a memory seeing of a small stacker system in the W1 area back in the 1980s - maybe integral to the Bryanston Street NCP but could have been anywhere in the W1 area North of Oxford Street. My Googlefoo is failing to help (especially as the poxy AI is failing to differentiate between Greek Street, London, W1 and Greek Street, Leeds )  

[comfortablynumb]

See also: methods of getting people's pride and joy out of Luton airport carpark after the fire 😭

[Lord Sterling]

What, the fuck is going on with people today?

Seriously. 

So far this week, I've had not one, but two incidents of road rage turned on me. One dickhead offered me a fight. Although he didn't sound like he actually wanted one when he asked me to get out of my car. I really wanted to get out and face this guy, but I had a vision of being arrested and going through the system just because I had to please my ego. 

On both occasions, its been when I've been using the S-Type. 

People are fucked. Its a wonder I've turned into an introvert. I just cannot be arsed with these dickheads anymore.

[Zelandeth]

Thank you, Evri for dumping £75 worth of dog food on the doorstep at 6AM today and buggering off without so much as ringing the doorbell.

Thank you also to whoever helped themselves to it between then and me seeing the delivery email when I got up.  May you both have an utterly miserable year filled with tiny but annoying accidents.

[Heidel_Kakao]

@Zelandeth Porch pirates are pathetic! Some delivery people are terrible too, I saw on the BBC that a delivery guy stole someone's cat the other day which is just insane.

[mercedade]

38 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Thank you, Evri for dumping £75 worth of dog food on the doorstep at 6AM today and buggering off without so much as ringing the doorbell.

Thank you also to whoever helped themselves to it between then and me seeing the delivery email when I got up.  May you both have an utterly miserable year filled with tiny but annoying accidents.

The seller's gonna be pretty narked about that, having to send you another package (unless you've given them permission to dump+run)

[reb]

Yesterday I was hideously tired all day, to the point I got basically fuck all done. Thought it was just the usual cycle of fatigue that runs on a two or three week period.

Went to bed pretty early (for me), but slept like shit. Woke up at 8am, but fell asleep again before i was able to drag myself out of bed. Woke up again at 10:30 with a pounding headache and my entire face full of mucus.

That'll be that influenza then, I suppose.

That's going to the office today fucked then. I have stuff I can do from home, but it's a lot of thinking and writing and I'm not sure I can do it at all effectively.

[artdjones]

5 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

The fancy Rathbone Square stacker then broke down a few years back and there was much angst. Googlefoo this morning shows that it took 28 months to get the cars out  

I think one tradesman in particular suffered, because he'd leased a new van the week before, then couldn't use it for two years.

[cobblers]

2 hours ago, Heidel_Kakao said:

@Zelandeth Porch pirates are pathetic! Some delivery people are terrible too, I saw on the BBC that a delivery guy stole someone's cat the other day which is just insane.

I wonder if he needed something to feed it?

[artdjones]

2 hours ago, Heidel_Kakao said:

@Zelandeth Porch pirates are pathetic! Some delivery people are terrible too, I saw on the BBC that a delivery guy stole someone's cat the other day which is just insane.

Royal Mail used to be pretty selective about who got a postman's job. Now there are four or five minimum wage delivery drivers down every road on a daily basis instead of that one well vetted postman, the standards of deliverymen aren't likely to be very high.

[Zelandeth]

2 hours ago, mercedade said:

The seller's gonna be pretty narked about that, having to send you another package (unless you've given them permission to dump+run)

Evri have recorded it as "handed to customer" so we're basically out of luck. 

Seller is a major retailer so unsurprisingly don't give a toss as as far as they're concerned, it's been delivered.  Which it was...just by a twat who couldn't use two brain cells to place the package two feet to the left where it would be completely hidden from view from the road.

[vtec-e]

24 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Evri have recorded it as "handed to customer" so we're basically out of luck.

Ask Evri for proof ? They should have a picture to back up their claim.

[hairnet]

his scanner thing will show how long or not he was at your door to not give it to you

75 quid worth of food aint gonna be light is it - take it up with evri

6am is taking the piss also not a surprise youre not answering the door

[Pieman]

Same thing happened with a pack of T-shirts I'd bought which were delivered at lunchtime today.  Lucky that a) I got a text it had been delivered and b) I was at home, because the bloke threw it on the doorstep and literally ran back to his van without even knocking the door.  I bet if I hadn't been at home the chavs next door would have had that away (or perhaps not, as that would have involved getting off their lazy arses to walk the ten or so steps to our front door - half the time they can't even be arsed to answer the door for their own fucking deliveries.)

[comfortablynumb]

They never knock here, I rely on the dogs telling me when a driver has arrived.

Delivery for swombo from DPD this morning was marked as signed for by her, quite impressive considering she was 30 miles away at the time...🤷

[cobblers]

consumer rights blah blah, the parcel is not your responsibility until it's handed to you or a person at your address.

Stuff left unattended is left at the risk of the shipper.  

Their customer services people /AI bots will be taught to say "No mate, it's marked as delivered, your problem now" but that's not how it works in the eyes of the law.

If you paid by credit card, get onto them and do a chargeback.

If you paid by debit card, threaten the seller with escalating it to the small claims court via MCOL.

It's all a ballache that you shouldn't have to put up with, but 97.8% of modern life is a ballache that we shouldn't have to put up with. 

 

[Spiny Norman]

5 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Thank you, Evri for dumping £75 worth of dog food on the doorstep at 6AM today and buggering off without so much as ringing the doorbell.

Thank you also to whoever helped themselves to it between then and me seeing the delivery email when I got up.  May you both have an utterly miserable year filled with tiny but annoying accidents.

Exactly the same thing happened to me on Saturday. Books I'd bought on eBay dumped at the front entrance to the building on the street because the lazy fuck couldn't be arsed ringing the buzzer and waiting for an answer then lugging a heavy parcel up some stairs. 
Because he posted a photo of them delivered to a 'safe' place eBay won't give me a refund. 

[artdjones]

10 minutes ago, Spiny Norman said:

Exactly the same thing happened to me on Saturday. Books I'd bought on eBay dumped at the front entrance to the building on the street because the lazy fuck couldn't be arsed ringing the buzzer and waiting for an answer then lugging a heavy parcel up some stairs. 
Because he posted a photo of them delivered to a 'safe' place eBay won't give me a refund. 

Everyone loves lower delivery prices. No-one likes the result.

Especially as having loads of extra delivery companies, all with their own fixed costs, means that we don't even get lower delivery prices.

Thanks, EU Postal Services Directive.

[Sunny Jim]

I'm sure a man of your talents got knock up something similar @Zelandeth

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

4 hours ago, artdjones said:

I think one tradesman in particular suffered, because he'd leased a new van the week before, then couldn't use it for two years.

He's featured on the Beeb website - they're still trying to get full compensation out of the garage owners/lift manufacturers/anybody but are being passed from pillar to post.
 

My mind boggles - imagine coming back to your car and being told "there's a small delay" - and waiting,waiting, waiting.
I'd be going apoplectic after 28 hours (days would be zombiefied) let alone 28 months - you'd just not think of it as a possibility 

[hairnet]

51 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Everyone loves lower delivery prices. No-one likes the result.

Especially as having loads of extra delivery companies, all with their own fixed costs, means that we don't even get lower delivery prices.

Thanks, EU Postal Services Directive.

nope dont mind paying more if its done properly or getting a choice of who delivers it

[FakeConcern]

I went out for a ride this morning and this had appeared at the side of the road

This afternoon while we were trimming the hedge in our front garden we found a black plastic bag of dog shit stuffed into our hedge.

What's wrong with these people?

 

[Jazoli]

21 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

I went out for a ride this morning and this had appeared at the side of the road

This afternoon while we were trimming the hedge in our front garden we found a black plastic bag of dog shit stuffed into our hedge.

What's wrong with these people?

 

Utter pikey scumbag wankers.

[myglaren]

There seems to be a bit of an epidemic lately

Hundreds of illegal waste tips operating in England - including 11 'super sites'