The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

The XM bleeped low coolant at me...

Campbell beat me to it with the "check hoses" advice! Back in the dim & distant, my 2.0 petrol bleeped a similar warning shortly before the bottom hose let go...

 

You are all (hopefully) correct! Had a look just now, and the clip for the little pipe coming from above the thermostat wasn't on (I'd forgotten to put it back) so I imagine it's leaked out under pressure. Clip back on, 1ltr of water in and I'll see what happens! It's all bone dry now after sitting in the sun all morning. Bottle of water in the boot just in case.

 

The coolant is a bit slimey again though, the expansion tank has a thin smear of grey mayo on the walls, and under the cap. Do they all do this sir? Temp sits bang on* target, oil is fine (and was when I drained it), so I'm confident it's not OMGHGF

 

*tested by sitting in the sun with the engine on and the blowers on cold for an hour yesterday whilst waiting for someone.

[beko1987]

Miss_155 is in hospital for a hysterectomy this morning.I know it's a routine operation,but I'm still worried about her

 

1.All the best, 155. She will be fine.

 

2.Tar for the PC refurbishment tips MrDuke - so long as the Dell holds out long enough to get this coursework, I'll worry about it shitting itself after everything's handed in. It might give me a break from the bollocks-snaps-on-a-King-Edward-look-a-fucked-Corsa Facebook group, eh?

 

..........On the subject of that Facebook group, can I take back what I said and just suggest it's complete and outright bollocks? Yes!

 

3. I'm not using Photobucket in the future, either. Why they've chosen to make it into a half-arsed social networking site is utterly beyond me. Yes, you can still make the photos [NICE PICS M8] work by taking out the two lines of extra shite PB chooses to insert in the BBCode, but it's tedious. Much more straightforward on IMGUR to be honest.

 

+1 155!

 

Have you tried cleaning it up?

 

CCleaner works wonders, a good defragment etc.

 

Depending on how old it is though something like this would plod along with XP pretty well. Just supply your own peripherals http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-D230-Desktop-P4-2-6-GHz-1GB-RAM-2x-40GB-HDD-DVD-RW-/111062100154?pt=UK_Computing_DesktopPCs&hash=item19dbd128ba

[Geep]

On ebay, Why can't I select car parts and then make then model as before? They keep messing about with it, leave it alone!

[KruJoe]

3. ... Photobucket ... the two lines of extra shite PB chooses to insert in the BBCode...

This links back to your album the way Flickr does. I don't like it either - it's distracting for viewers. So I worked out how to disable it:

 

From viewing your album, go to a picture page and click the "Image Links" tab on the right, where you'd find your codes etc. Click on "Update Link Options" and uncheck the box for "link back to albums". No more Flickr-style guff then!

 

The other issue I've noticed is that now, the default upload size is the biggest setting, that's why many autoshiters' recent pictures hang off the side of the screen for normal people with a mere 14 inches.

This is only solved by the account holder going to "Customise Upload Options" and selecting 800x600 upload size BEFORE THEY UPLOAD.

 

I was very 'anti' PB's changes, but once I've set it like I want it, it's good to use. Apart from now not having a "View All" button to see the whole album on one screen. But they've assured me they are working on it. I'll believe that when I see it.

Oh, and I seem to be rapidly running out of storage all of a sudden. But that's probably just me.

[Spiny Norman]

3. I'm not using Photobucket in the future, either........Much more straightforward on IMGUR to be honest.

 

IMGUR is so much better than any other image hosts for quickly uploading pics onto websites.

No registration (although you can if you want), no fannying about, easy drag & drop or regular uploading and a forum friendly 'large thumbnail' button to resize your pic into a 640x480 size for a website.

 

I wonder how long it'll be before they decide to 'add to your user experience' and fuck it up?

[messerschmitt owner]

The XM bleeped low coolant at me...

Campbell beat me to it with the "check hoses" advice! Back in the dim & distant, my 2.0 petrol bleeped a similar warning shortly before the bottom hose let go...

 

You are all (hopefully) correct! Had a look just now, and the clip for the little pipe coming from above the thermostat wasn't on (I'd forgotten to put it back) so I imagine it's leaked out under pressure. Clip back on, 1ltr of water in and I'll see what happens! It's all bone dry now after sitting in the sun all morning. Bottle of water in the boot just in case.

 

The coolant is a bit slimey again though, the expansion tank has a thin smear of grey mayo on the walls, and under the cap. Do they all do this sir? Temp sits bang on* target, oil is fine (and was when I drained it), so I'm confident it's not OMGHGF

 

*tested by sitting in the sun with the engine on and the blowers on cold for an hour yesterday whilst waiting for someone.

Sam

 

You may need two or three flushes to clear the engine and rad of crap. That car has always sat on the 90 and didn't use water on my watch.

 

I'd check a pipe. Chances are it is forcing water out under pressure when it's running and none when stationary and engine off.

[Guest]

'I've got no problem against you personally, but the problem is......'

 

Ah yes, the sure-fire sign of building resentment. That's easily the worst day at work I've had in the year I've worked there. What a horrible, tense, corrosive environment. Emotional blackmail hasn't helped.....

 

....Luckily I kept my mouth clean and was brought back into the fold with a gallon of coffee and the best issue of C&SC I've read in ages - that, and blasting some DrugMoney at a loud enough to rattle the joists. Oh, and seeing my Amazon come back together was also a massive pick-me-up.

 

Actually achieving something in a job I like has never been so stressful.

 

Oh wait, that'll be because I've never liked any job I've been in before and subsequently achieved nowt.

[Cavcraft]

Work is mostly toss for most of us. There can't be many people who get up and get really excited at the prospect of another day doing whatever it is they do. The trick is to try and make the best of a bad situation and dream of winning the lottery and then going back to buy the place, planting drugs in your boss's coat pocket and watching him/her getting carted off by the coppers, as you empty his/her locker and piss all over their personal belongings.

[TimothyClaypole]

The boss at my work could have you scrubbed off the face of the Earth so no lottery win would help.

 

On the otherhand I'd take the money just to poke at the freaks and idiots who work there thinking they are something special and pay off certain people then leave the place in a mess of it's own making without them there to take all the shit while the untouchables ride around on the "gravy" train whereby the less you do the better off you are.

 

Can't lift? No problem even though part of your job is unloading lorries and vans, carrying parcels and stacking pallets. We'll take someone off their work to do yours.

 

Made a mistake more than once? No problem, we'll give that work to someone else on top of their work and leave you with even less to do.

[freebird]

Work is mostly toss for most of us. There can't be many people who get up and get really excited at the prospect of another day doing whatever it is they do. The trick is to try and make the best of a bad situation and dream of winning the lottery and then going back to buy the place, planting drugs in your boss's coat pocket and watching him/her getting carted off by the coppers, as you empty his/her locker and piss all over their personal belongings.

How very true!

Am I the only one that spends the working day mentally purchasing property with enough garage space to keep a fleet of supercars/chod/vans/trucks with my lottery winnings?

Thought not.

Oh yeah, one thing I have promised myself and that is, when i win big, i will be buying my van off the fleet and mounting the bastard on a pole out the back of my big,big,big house to remind me that I no longer have to work for those fuckweasels ever again.

[Caffiend]

I remind myself frequently that I'm lucky to be working and be able to pay my bills when so many people aren't/can't. It doesn't help that much, but it helps some. In the meantime, I live for weekends and try to 'zone out' at work so I don't end up going postal.

[beko1987]

I remind myself frequently that I'm lucky to be working and be able to pay my bills when so many people aren't/can't. It doesn't help that much, but it helps some. In the meantime, I live for weekends and try to 'zone out' at work so I don't end up going postal.

 

I browse autoshite more at work than at home! Still doesn't help to pay the bills. (Hoover is going well too btw!)

[Station]

How the funk am I going to buy one of thesewhen bellends keep trying to inflate the price from 1500 to 8 GRAND!

And now gumtree'ers are looking on ebay and say their 2k car is cheap, because 'they go for four times that on ebay.

The white car has been on there for THREE YEARS, while the other one can just DO ONE.

[SambaS]

Mmmmmm Starion! So many cars so little time

[Rocket88]

I've just bought a Mk 3 Supra [turbo] in as good condition as that ..............for less than 25% of the money he's asking

[trigger]

I'm finding myself getting more and more ticked off with some of these facebook groups and their users, there's one today, Old school Fords never die, which has been posting photos of crashed police cars and dogs biting policemen, I'm not interested in this shit especially all the twatish anti police school boy comments, I had a grumble about it and soon got the immature comments thrown back at me which was what I expected from a group like that.

 

On the plus side my new feed page has now cleared up nicely since I left the group.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Here is what you get in return for a 2500-word research proposal for a PhD Scholarship, after two months of it being considered by the leading academic institution that is Hull Uni:

 

"I am sorry to inform you that you were unfortunately not chosen for a scholarship award. This is no reflection on your application, we received many excellent applications and the standard set by applicants this year was very high."

 

I wish a slow and painful death on them. Alright, you don't want to pay me for being a student- no problem with that. But HOW ABOUT ACTUALLY TELLING ME WHETHER MY APPLICATION WAS ANY GOOD?? That'd be too much to ask, right? And, to add insult to injury, they have the temerity of suggesting that "If you would like your application to be considered for a place on the programme without a scholarship, please notify me by 9 May 2013. We hope to welcome you to the Business school in September."

 

Yes, I'm getting ready to spend five grand a year on doing my own research so that you can sit around and play Solitaire for months on end.

[Cavcraft]

See, no offence like, but this is just another reason why I don't really get university. It seems to me that people complaining their marks should have been better or that they should have got in at a certain university are surely missing the point: someone has looked at your work and/or application and decided it wasn't good enough.

It's a bit like some bleeding 'talent show' on the telly sometimes where people aren't good enough but because they think they are, or family and friends have told them so, they rail bitterly about not getting through. Not having a go at anyone in particular by the way, and I've put in for loads of jobs and didn't get them because I wasn't good enough, that's life.

[Keymaster]

Tree Surgeons

 

4 weeks ago quote a frankly astoundlingly cheap price to hack my trees down to size. Haggled anyway, agreed a cash price and a date for the work.

 

2 weeks later they call 2 mins before they are due to arrive. Cant make it due to a man falling off his bike or somesuch. Fair do's, shit happens. Rearranged to come back today instead.

 

This morning they arrive. Have a brew, have a mooch & then announce its too cheap, the lad who quoted has fucked up and told them it was a straightforward hedge trim, when it is clearly not. They havent brought the right kit & to be honest their time would be better spent making some money somewhere else & coming back another time. They say they will honour the quoted price anyway & the lad will get a shoeing. So we rearrange for the 15th.

 

I hope they are coming back but am worried* that they wont bother if they they arent making a bean on the job & Ill have to fork out double or worse still have to do the bastard things myself.

 

JUST CUT MY FUCKING TREES DOWN!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*properly shitting it

[cort16]

I spent most of my time an university/college drinking and getting really really fucking good at Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo. A lot of the time I was doing both at the same time.

I can't remember anything I learned at college but I am still really good Mario Kart, which has served me a lot better in later life than any of the systems analysis bollocks they where trying to teach me at the time.

[Lacquer Peel]

Tree Surgeons

 

4 weeks ago quote a frankly astoundlingly cheap price to hack my trees down to size. Haggled anyway, agreed a cash price and a date for the work.

 

2 weeks later they call 2 mins before they are due to arrive. Cant make it due to a man falling off his bike or somesuch. Fair do's, shit happens. Rearranged to come back today instead.

 

This morning they arrive. Have a brew, have a mooch & then announce its too cheap, the lad who quoted has fucked up and told them it was a straightforward hedge trim, when it is clearly not. They havent brought the right kit & to be honest their time would be better spent making some money somewhere else & coming back another time. They say they will honour the quoted price anyway & the lad will get a shoeing. So we rearrange for the 15th.

 

I hope they are coming back but am worried* that they wont bother if they they arent making a bean on the job & Ill have to fork out double or worse still have to do the bastard things myself.

 

JUST CUT MY FUCKING TREES DOWN!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*properly shitting it

 

They sound a bit incompetent - 'hacking' trees isn't something a decent tree surgeon would do in the first place.

 

What is the spec of the job and where are you?

 

http://www.treesurgery.com/tree-owners/ ... ee-surgeon

[Danblez]

I spent most of my time an university/college drinking and getting really really fucking good at Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo. A lot of the time I was doing both at the same time.

I can't remember anything I learned at college but I am still really good Mario Kart, which has served me a lot better in later life than any of the systems analysis bollocks they where trying to teach me at the time.

 

Sounds very familiar. These valuable skills stay with you for life.

[Junkman]

I spent most of my time an university/college drinking and getting really really fucking good at Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo. A lot of the time I was doing both at the same time.

I can't remember anything I learned at college but I am still really good Mario Kart, which has served me a lot better in later life than any of the systems analysis bollocks they where trying to teach me at the time.

 

I spent most of my time at university/college drinking and fucking. A lot of the time I was doing both at the same time.

I can't remember anything I learned at university/college and I still suck at most things.

Since I dropped out of U, nobody has ever asked me whether I actually have an education.

[Keymaster]

They sound a bit incompetent - 'hacking' trees isn't something a decent tree surgeon would do in the first place.

 

What is the spec of the job and where are you?

 

http://www.treesurgery.com/tree-owners/ ... ee-surgeon

 

Thanks mate.

 

Theyve got all the right credentials, certificates & insurances, I wouldnt have let them through the front door to quote without.

 

"hack" was my turn of phrase not theirs, I know its a bit more technical than that but it would deffo be a hacking job if I was left to do it myself!!

 

Im in Liverpool & this is the job, I promised myself last time that "I wouldnt let it get that bad again." It has.

 

[trigger]

I can't see the problem myself, at least you can sunbath nude without getting eyed up by the horny housewifes.

[plasticvandan]

im detecting a distinct lack of sheddage in that photo,and i would just trim the top of those hedges flat and square,privacy like that usually costs many thousands

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

See, no offence like, but this is just another reason why I don't really get university. It seems to me that people complaining their marks should have been better or that they should have got in at a certain university are surely missing the point: someone has looked at your work and/or application and decided it wasn't good enough.

 

Yes, that's fair enough. But the whole point of university surely has to be building up some critical thinking- knowing you've failed is not much use unless WHY you have failed, in which case you can improve your skills, approach to research etc. They can reject me all day long- as long as they tell me what I need in order to be successful next time round.

 

It's a bit like some bleeding 'talent show' on the telly sometimes where people aren't good enough but because they think they are, or family and friends have told them so, they rail bitterly about not getting through. Not having a go at anyone in particular by the way, and I've put in for loads of jobs and didn't get them because I wasn't good enough, that's life.

 

That's completely reasonable when you're talking about jobs. But scholarships aren't jobs. They're totally different- they essentially focus on a single thing (research ability), and they're public money that comes from the taxpayer and/or the EU- so accountability is important.

[Keymaster]

I can't see the problem myself, at least you can sunbath nude without getting eyed up by the horny housewifes.

 

Cor!

 

im detecting a distinct lack of sheddage in that photo,and i would just trim the top of those hedges flat and square,privacy like that usually costs many thousands

 

Yeah that shed is tiny & shagged. I keep most of my crap in my lock up

 

I know what youre saying about just squaring it off. Im having about a 3rd taken off them as they are blocking too much sunlight in the evenings. They will still be 15ft tall but those housewives trigger is on about will finally see what theyre missing

[cobblers]

Welding other peoples cars up at the side of the road, without having it high enough up in the air to properly clean/prep/fit underneath wearing the mask/fit the torch under at a proper angle, all with cars flying past at many miles an hour threatening to knock the car off the axle stands onto my face. Snots of weld burning through all my clothing, landing in my ear etc etc and a 100% shit quality job overall. It'll do for the MOT and keep her on the road for another year, but overall I'm not proud and I'm burned all over the place.

[Minimad5]

A lad i know has recently got another finance deal, yay i hear you ask .... NO !

 

 

Fuckin' mong flies around at mach 10 and can't even navigate his "Baby" between two lines .... twat