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

[hellymedic]

I understand BT & EE are in talks to form a merger of their businesses.
I would have one telco fewer about which to grumble.
Where's the fun in that?

[Vince]

Never mind the quantity, consider the quality of your future grumbles.

[Cudzoziemiec]

People really ring their Landlord to change a lightbulb?!

If it's perilously high above a communal stairwell, or something...

... or something, like, um, being a lightbulb.

The landlord - or agent - will most probably then put the job in the hands of their favoured local handyman service. Surprising how many owner-occupiers will do the same, or who feel that installing a wireless doorbell requires a professional's touch.

Fair enough if you're an owner-occupier, but if you're renting, it sounds a good way to piss off your landlord.

[Vince]

Indeed. the 25 pound blob of glue, where the tenant complained the toilet roll holder had broken. The glue was free, but I had to pay the call out fee.

[clarion]

Mum, the book you asked me to get you for Christmas isn't just hard to find - it doesn't actually exist!

(This was a genuine request not a wind up)

Oh excellent!

Somewhere in the corner of the long weight shop, between the tartan paint and the buckets for the steam.

[Mr Larrington]

People really ring their Landlord to change a lightbulb?!

If it's perilously high above a communal stairwell, or something...

... or something, like, um, being a lightbulb.

The landlord - or agent - will most probably then put the job in the hands of their favoured local handyman service. Surprising how many owner-occupiers will do the same, or who feel that installing a wireless doorbell requires a professional's touch.

Fair enough if you're an owner-occupier, but if you're renting, it sounds a good way to piss off your landlord.

It's an even better way to piss off your not-landlord   I've had this clown in Hackney, a leaking ceiling in either Watford or Eastbourne, a collapsed garden wall in Telford and a window frame in Bog knows where.  The last one ("Number nine Church Road" or similar) left a series of increasingly peevish messages over the course of about ten days.  If you do not know the name of your landlord consider taking up Audax and moving to a bus shelter.

[mcshroom]

Mum, the book you asked me to get you for Christmas isn't just hard to find - it doesn't actually exist!

(This was a genuine request not a wind up)

Oh excellent!

Somewhere in the corner of the long weight shop, between the tartan paint and the buckets for the steam.

When I'd managed to explain it didn't exist, she was pretty dissapointed

[Cudzoziemiec]

People really ring their Landlord to change a lightbulb?!

If it's perilously high above a communal stairwell, or something...

... or something, like, um, being a lightbulb.

The landlord - or agent - will most probably then put the job in the hands of their favoured local handyman service. Surprising how many owner-occupiers will do the same, or who feel that installing a wireless doorbell requires a professional's touch.

Fair enough if you're an owner-occupier, but if you're renting, it sounds a good way to piss off your landlord.

It's an even better way to piss off your not-landlord   I've had this clown in Hackney, a leaking ceiling in either Watford or Eastbourne, a collapsed garden wall in Telford and a window frame in Bog knows where.  The last one ("Number nine Church Road" or similar) left a series of increasingly peevish messages over the course of about ten days.  If you do not know the name of your landlord consider taking up Audax and moving to a bus shelter.

[iddu]

Mum, the book you asked me to get you for Christmas isn't just hard to find - it doesn't actually exist!

(This was a genuine request not a wind up)

For small values of exist. http://www.indyprops.com/pp-rb.htm. As close to original as ever likely to be.

[Mr Larrington]

Mum, the book you asked me to get you for Christmas isn't just hard to find - it doesn't actually exist!

(This was a genuine request not a wind up)

Get her this instead.  My grate frend Uncle Marvo says it's a cracking read.

[CAMRAMan]

Sister: Sorry, but you couldn't park your car on our drive tonight for your xmas do at a nearby pub. It's a cul-de-sac and space is very much at a premium. I've been driving in and out all evening on various taxi duties, so to have to move your car would have been a right PITA. Furthermore, you live <5 mins walk from a station that would take you to Warwick in about 20 mins and the station is 2 mins from your venue. Furthermore parking near the venue is also at a premium, so it really would make sense to let the train take the strain, especially as you will be with your other half.

[Vernon]

I understand BT & EE are in talks to form a merger of their businesses.

BEET? Run by vegetables!

[Ruthie]

Arse.  My coffee grinder died


It ground one last load of beans beautifully.  The next lot of beans - nothing.  Will not grind.  It has ground to a halt.

In a kind of binary way, it has died, because it totally worked, then it totally didn't.

 

[mrcharly-YHT]

sounds like a fix it up challenge. Better bring it to Malham

[Ruthie]

Oh, what a good idea!

[barakta]

Will tell kim to pack portable soldering iron

[jsabine]

Will tell kim to pack portable soldering iron

The gentle art of delegation is not dead.

[Canardly]

and bring a fuse......

[mrcharly-YHT]

multimeter, random wire, heatshrink, solder . . . anything i've missed? I can always pack it on Sat night before heading over.

[woollypigs]

multimeter, random wire, heatshrink, solder . . . anything i've missed? I can always pack it on Sat night before heading over.

Hammer, if can't fix it - use a bigger hammer

[Clare]

Number 8 wire, cable ties and Gaffer tape.

[Vince]

Coffee beans for testing, filter so the ground beans don't get wasted.

I was going to add replacement switch and motor, but I would be disappointed if the assembled peeps couldn't contrive these from an old beer can and piece of soap.

[Polar Bear]

Will tell kim to pack portable soldering iron

That reminds me ...   

[mcshroom]

Coffee beans for testing, filter so the ground beans don't get wasted.

Are we ok with a Cafetiere, or do we need the full filter?

[Gattopardo]

Espresso or nothing else.