The grumpy thread

[phil_lihp]

Sorry for your loss, a family member passed away due to the same thing at that same hospice a few years back; if there's any comfort to be drawn from it, they really are a wonderful lot up there and there's probably no better place for someone who needs that level of care.

[trigger]

Sorry for your loss too Richard, Cancer is a bastard.

[Cavcraft]

So sorry to hear that, Richard. Sympathies to you and your family.

[Guest]

Richard,

 

As awful as this will read, at least she went in the right way, in the right place and with the right people around her. I have heard nothing but good things about North Devon Hospice. Their reputation goes the distance.

 

The very best to your family at this time.

 

Jon.

[Lord Sterling]

Richard, I'm very sorry to hear of your loss, I cannot imagine the pain you are feeling now. I only wish you the best and hope that you will find the strength to get through this terrible time.

[Mr Lobster]

Richard, Sorry to hear that. Condolences to you and yours.

[warren t claim]

Condolences to you and your family.

[eddyramrod]

My condolences too Richard. I know there isn't anything I can say that will help really, but whatever moral support I can be, I will, of course. And I'm sure I'm not the only one here.

[ashmicro]

My Condolences Richard.

[retrogeezer]

Sorry to hear your sad news Richard/Phil, sincere condolences to you both and your families.

[Doctormop]

Sincere condolences also Richard,

My family lost our Mum 5 years ago last October and still think of her/miss her every day, she had been ill for some time but nothing can ever prepare you for the moment you have to say goodbye.

Speaking personally I have found it diffcult to cope, not as difficult as it seemed at the time she went and not a day goes by that I don't miss her, all I can say is the memories grow more comforting as time passes and you do find your own way through it, I look back on the 34 years that I had a wonderful (if not perfect) Mum and think myself lucky to have known her.

Sorry for rambling on.

[M'coli]

Condolences from me too, Richard.

[Wilko220]

Nothing meaningful I can really add to the many comments already made, except to also add my deepest sympathies and condolences for your loss. My thoughts are with you.

[dollywobbler]

Nothing meaningful I can really add to the many comments already made, except to also add my deepest sympathies and condolences for your loss. My thoughts are with you.

 

Sums it up nicely, so I shall add my 'ditto.' Never nice.

[richardthestag]

Cheers to all of you. Your thoughts and words mean everything to me and my lot.

 

Life goes on now, back to the bitching please

[skattrd]

Sorry for your loss Richard.

 

Todays grump, BT. I've managed to wangle it so I'm working from home today so I'm here for BT, well they've been and gone. Apparently theres a line fault between me and the exchange - well, duh! That'll be why I logged a call telling them that and my home phone is dead and internet is crap.

Physical line faults are dealt with by another part of BT so no idea when this will be fixed. On the plus side, at least the issue should be with the right people now.

[beko1987]

I've been battling with getting the bottom door pin out the Puma. etc......

 

erm, I've got a thought.... I'm not 100% sure because I've never taken a door off a Puma, but on pretty much every other ford the door hinge bolts to the car through the A post. There are nuts inside the pillar, and what looks like weld holding the hinge to the car is in fact sealant. This is why the bottom pin looks impossible to get at - you are meant to unbolt the door complete with hinge and turn it over to drive that one out.

 

When I took my door off the puma to swap it I looked at those 'welds', and then spent an hour hammering the shit out of the pins until they came loose and popped the door off! Got them in the garage still, should possibly pick them up off the floor though.

[Spiny Norman]

The smile may be wiped off my face tomorrow when it goes in for its MOT...

 

Well fucksticks, it failed on corrosion on one of the front spring hangers.

Common fault on these old Mercs, and not hideously expensive to fix in the grand scheme of things. It'll cost a couple of hundred quid all in, which considering I've had it a year and the only expenditure so far has been stuff like a puncture repair and a couple of light bulbs, I shouldn't grumble.

 

But this is the grumpy thread, so ARSINGCUNTBUGGERY!

[cort16]

I don't think the hinges are bolted on. I had a good rummage around last night (and I checked the hinges) and couldn't find any bolts.

My replacement door is complete shit and not really much better than the one I hacked to lumps to get off. I spent an hour or so putting it back together last night and the threaded hole in the window seems to have stripped itself for no good reason now. To be fair if I'd bought a proper long metal punch it probably would have came out without me having to cut the door in half. Ach well.

[TimothyClaypole]

Is a 7" crack in my van windscreen an MOT failure point/feature - in the top right corner just extending into the swept area?

 

 

If it is I'll be burning the thing, tax is due this month, mot next month and I all I wanted to do was sell it, arse.

 

(It's not insured so no Autoshite windscreens claims etc).

 

Can see myself adding it to the Astra's policy and keeping it a few more months...

[freebird]

Sorry for your loss Richard.

 

Todays grump, BT. I've managed to wangle it so I'm working from home today so I'm here for BT, well they've been and gone. Apparently theres a line fault between me and the exchange - well, duh! That'll be why I logged a call telling them that and my home phone is dead and internet is crap.

Physical line faults are dealt with by another part of BT so no idea when this will be fixed. On the plus side, at least the issue should be with the right people now.

Openreach do the faults. If where you are is anything as bad as where my work patch is ( im working in East Anglia) best you sit tight.

Im going out on faults that have been sitting around awaiting issue to an Engineer for FIVE fuggin weeks!!!

We are stupid busy in my patch.

[Cavcraft]

Cock Warbler in Audi, A83, about 1.5 hours ago:

 

I know it's obviously difficul for you, what with all that wanking effecting your eyesight, but if there's a queue of slower moving traffic in the left hand lane and a queue of moving a bit faster traffic in the right hand lane and you're right up my arse end and I have probably 40 cars in front of me, what do you expect me to do? Move over just so you gain one space? How about you do as my finger suggested next time? Thanks.

[Guest]

Missed out on a Marantz streamer on eBay because of esnipe. Set the bid amount, no problem at all, check on thale auction this morning- it's gone for less than my maximum bid, but I haven't won it. Get a message when I log in - 'We have not bid on this item because you have changed your eBay password'. Thanks guys, why the fuck did you let me place the snipe the first time without hindrance? Why didn't you fucking tell me before I'd been effectively excluded from the auction? I had to change my account password after some scamming fuck hacked it on New Year's Day and started bidding on stuff in my name. I changed my password later that morning, and ensnipe let me place a bid on the old password without flagging anything up.

 

Not impressed esnipe. Not fucking impressed. With you or eBay.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Condolences from me, too.

[michael1703]

The endless "All men are shit" portrayal by the media and advertising is wearing a bit thin

 

Theres been about 15 years of it now and I cant listen to the radio without some advert saying all men are shit, do it yourself etc

 

The latest being the Halfords replace your bulbs/wipers bollocks

[dollywobbler]

The endless "All men are shit" portrayal by the media and advertising is wearing a bit thin

 

Theres been about 15 years of it now and I cant listen to the radio without some advert saying all men are shit, do it yourself etc

 

The latest being the Halfords replace your bulbs/wipers bollocks

 

Does do my head in too. Mind you, the old mindset of 'women are shit' still sticks at the same time. People find it very hard to reconcile the fact that my wife is the one who does the housework - as in the DIY. I help out a bit, but she's the one with the time to do it and far more skills than me. She gets pissed off when people need a hand lifting something and ask me instead of her. I'd say we're pretty even on strength, though I've not tried arm-wrestling her. Maybe we'll do that later to decide who's going to do the washing up.

[fotorabia]

My Condolences Richard.

 

From me too Richard..may all the positive powers be with u mate..

[Bobthebeard]

 

Does do my head in too. Mind you, the old mindset of 'women are shit' still sticks at the same time. People find it very hard to reconcile the fact that my wife is the one who does the housework - as in the DIY. I help out a bit, but she's the one with the time to do it and far more skills than me. She gets pissed off when people need a hand lifting something and ask me instead of her. I'd say we're pretty even on strength, though I've not tried arm-wrestling her. Maybe we'll do that later to decide who's going to do the washing up.

 

Actually my wife IS hopeless at DIY tasks. So much so that I dread her trying to be 'useful' at anything other than housework. In the last few months she has stood on a garden rake hitting herself in the face, sprained her ankle using a leaf blower, tripped over a six inch wall whilst moving the bin, hurt her arm whilst opening a paint tin, nearly poisoned the fish by spraying algae cleaner round the pond, hit her head on the car hatch whilst cleaning the boot, trapped a finger in the car door at the jet wash.... the list goes on... The house is spotless, but any other jobs are mine by necessity. I have made her promise that she doesn't do ANY more DIY stuff! Stick to what we do best I say!

[cms206]

Not been a great week; got whiplash 'cos some dittery old bastard stalled trying to pull out of a side street a whole 35 feet in front of my bus and left me with nowhere to go yesterday afternoon. Dentist this morning, need three fillings. Came home, tidying up and found an old iPod. "Huzzah!" thinks I, "I'll transfer all the stuff onto my new iPod the missus got me for Christmas!".

 

 

Except I can't. Cos the iPod I've found, with a mostly cracking selection of 2000 tracks... is registered to my mate. So I can't get the sodding tracks off it.

 

Trivial bullshit but it's fucked me right off.

[ashmicro]

Xilisoft iPod Magic. Torrent link:

 

http://kat.ph/xilisoft-ipod-magic-plati ... 58525.html

 

This works, I use it myself, it doesn't matter who the shite piece of Apple hardware is "registered" to. Get the tunes off the iPod, on to your pc nd thence to the new device.