The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.

[T42]

The rot set in when the braided cloth-covered cord connecting receiver to base was replaced by those spiral things.

[De Sisti]

Microwave just packed up. Bloody thing's only 16 years old.

Commiserations.  All the modern ones will be shit in comparison.

2nd hand Toshiba microwave that I bought from a (divoricing) friend in 1994 is still working fine.

[T42]

Tell me about it.  Our old one's door shut with a satisfying muted clunk, like the door of an up-market car; the new one clangs and shoogles a bit like that of a Renault 18 with 200,000 km on it.

[Polar Bear]

Microwave just packed up. Bloody thing's only 16 years old.

Commiserations.  All the modern ones will be shit in comparison.

2nd hand Toshiba microwave that I bought from a (divoricing) friend in 1994 is still working fine.

Our gas cooker died last October and we bought an old Whirlpool microwave (late eighties we believe) from the BBC shop to tide us over whilst building works were completed.  We then passed it on to a friend as generally we Don't use a microwave. 

It is still going strong.   It was made in Sweden apparently.

[Mr Larrington]

[...] a Renault 18 with 200,000 km on it.

I find it difficult to believe that such a thing has ever existed.

[ian]

We're having a party when our pram-wheeled Ford Ka hits 10,000 miles. It has just passed 9k. That took about a decade though. Maybe we'll drive it to Norway rather than Crystal Palace to get a Christmas tree this year.

[T42]

[...] a Renault 18 with 200,000 km on it.

I find it difficult to believe that such a thing has ever existed.

I did have to strain my imagination to think of it. A colleague had one that sounded like a can of old nails in a tumble dryer with only 20,000  on the clock.

[Kim]

The travellers inhabiting the Bournbrook Walkway down by the bypass, not content with filling the undergrowth with assorted rubbish, have now turned the path (formerly hardpack) into a mudbath.  I'll have to go up the hill and through the hospital until Spring.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

I tripped over my yoga mat, fell, and cracked my shin really hard on a metal box and it fucking HURTS.

[Andrij]

Looking forward to a long day on the bike come Saturday.

[ checks forecast ]

Bugger. 

Oh, look - another crappe Saturday. 

[mrcharly-YHT]

Saturday I will spend mending a pontoon (email arrived "upstream pontoon arm has broken off and dropped in river") and working, yet again. Might manage a jog but won't have time for a bike ride. Joy

'pontoon arm' is 5m of steel weighing about 90kg, I doubt it has broken off. Suspect someone has been fiddling about, we had a break in on the boat a couple of weeks ago, I fitted padlocks. If it has broken off, I'll have to somehow temp bolt it in place then weld it. Deep joy

[Cudzoziemiec]

Looking forward to a long day on the bike come Saturday.

[ checks forecast ]

Bugger. 

Oh, look - another crappe Saturday. 

Oh foo. Yesterday the forecast for Saturday still looked good. Fingers crossed for Sunday.

[fimm]

Dear nice hotel, if you are going to have signs about don't change your towels if you don't have to, and we will only change your towels if you leave them on the floor, how about not changing all the towels that have been used but have also been left on the towel rail every single day?

[hellymedic]

Then there's getting the spirit level under the worktop and seeing it.
Also, the rear feet can't be adjusted with the machine in place and, with some machines, the feet don't lock so they rotate as the machine is pushed in.

As Giraffe will attest, the 1cm steel ball bearing is a handy, portable level surface indicator.

[hellymedic]

Dear nice hotel, if you are going to have signs about don't change your towels if you don't have to, and we will only change your towels if you leave them on the floor, how about not changing all the towels that have been used but have also been left on the towel rail every single day?

+1

Giraffe & I used the 'Do Not Disturb' flag on our door as we really didn't want our room disarranged to others' specifications.
We were twice left bags of fresh, clean towels by the door.

Never needed them.

[andrewc]

There has been no heat in my office all day.    I'm wearing a warm shirt, a wool waistcoat & have just added the holey cardigan that lives on the back of my chair 

[T42]

Holey cardigans, Batman, I'm frozen!

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

I tripped over my yoga mat, fell, and cracked my shin really hard on a metal box and it fucking HURTS.

It still fucking hurts.

[Polar Bear]

I feel your pain.

I recently smacked my shin on the ironmongery behind a crash rail on a bridge crossing the away down a country later.   It hurt so much it was all I could do to stay conscious fighting the nausea.  The blood oozed.  The pain stayed for a week and I have a scar for my troubles.   

[Mrs Pingu]

Shins stay hurty for aaages as far as I can work out.

[mcshroom]

My dishwasher has started leaking

[Mr Larrington]

My left foot has seized up again.  While I was asleep.  Do feets go into spasm the way backs do?

[T42]

Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad persuade to start a company in France.

I have just received an email from the Tax Office threatening me with fines if I do not submit a declaration of turnover for 1st Jan - 30th June 2017.  We closed our company at the end of September last year, liquidated at the end of December and wound up all the legal claptrap with the Chamber of Commerce by the end of March.

"Yes," says the bloke at the Tax Orifice, "but you still need to submit a declaration of turnover for the first six months of this year."

[andrewc]

Still no heating in this office.  They’ve got the hot water back on.


Don’t get me started on the toilets, they seem to take forever to refill the cisterns so half the time people can’t flush 

[T42]

Back in the 70s I mentioned to our boss that the Office & Factory Act (or whatever it was called) stated that employers could not oblige office staff to work at temperatures below 60°F.  His reply was "yes, and in that case we're not obliged to pay you". Ah...