Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1627937 times)

Kim · « **Reply #15650 on:** 26 December, 2022, 04:06:41 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 26 December, 2022, 12:32:57 pm

Installed Windscribe VPN on my fondleslab so's I could pretend to be French. Got their welcome e-mail, containing a “random fact”

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All swans in England belong to the queen.

Wrong. Doubly wrong, in fact. I shall unsubscribe immediately. FUMMIN'

They can still break your arm, thobut.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #15651 on:** 26 December, 2022, 10:30:12 pm »

Broken side table and red wine all over the carpet. At 10pm on Boxing Day. Swears bad enough to make Jacinda blush ensue.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #15652 on:** 26 December, 2022, 10:31:22 pm »

Someone else's red wine, hopefully.

Kim · « **Reply #15653 on:** 26 December, 2022, 10:42:46 pm »

Was it a sawn (TBAGO)?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #15654 on:** 26 December, 2022, 10:50:39 pm »

Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.)'s red wine. The table was collateral damage – it had already been b0rked and (badly) mended so when Professor Larrington moved it the leg fell off. Natch all the decent table-mending screws are back at Larrington Towers.

No sawns involved, though a saw might be when I try mending the table tomorrow.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #15655 on:** 26 December, 2022, 11:07:55 pm »

Ah well, no sense in crying over spilt wine. Clean carpets are over rated.

Pingu · « **Reply #15656 on:** 26 December, 2022, 11:08:20 pm »

Didn't somebody post something about repairing a table a while ago?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #15657 on:** 26 December, 2022, 11:20:54 pm »

Same Mr Larrington, different table…

Pingu · « **Reply #15658 on:** 26 December, 2022, 11:35:00 pm »

Phew!

Kim · « **Reply #15659 on:** 27 December, 2022, 12:05:47 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 26 December, 2022, 11:20:54 pm

Same Mr Larrington, different table…

Is this like Postman Piers and his uncanny ability to kill chairs?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #15660 on:** 27 December, 2022, 12:47:50 am »

Quote from: Kim on 27 December, 2022, 12:05:47 am

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 26 December, 2022, 11:20:54 pm
Same Mr Larrington, different table…

Is this like Postman Piers and his uncanny ability to kill chairs?

Very likely. Once upon a time there was a nest of three tables inherited from Professor Larrington's godmother, of which one is twice b0rked and another is a pile of matchwood in the motor-house. The other repaired one was a wedding present to Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.) in 1958 and is now tucked into a corner under the stairs where it can’t be sat on.

Kim · « **Reply #15661 on:** 27 December, 2022, 12:57:14 am »

To be fair, I have a similar effect on rugs. It's just that they runkle rather than wobble-snapping, so I tend not to get in quite so much trouble over it.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #15662 on:** 27 December, 2022, 10:57:26 am »

Most of the rugs in Fort Larrington have been removed to the garage as a trip hazard but the one in front of the fireplace is definitely ambulatory.

Beardy · « **Reply #15663 on:** 27 December, 2022, 12:19:58 pm »

The former Ms Beardy the elder is leaving the family home today, days earlier than she originally advised. This unit is not a happy unit at this change of plans.

T42 · « **Reply #15664 on:** 28 December, 2022, 11:06:05 am »

It'll soon be two years since our dogs died but they still managed to lighten our bank account by 300€ today. The electric chair had gathered a clump of hair that had taken that long to trip a thingummy in the drive mechanism that threw the gadget into panic mode and cut the juice. The Stannahman took about 10 minutes to clear it, then half an hour drinking coffee and showing me pictures of the house he's restoring in Brittany.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #15665 on:** 28 December, 2022, 07:20:25 pm »

Lid of the kettle has decided to go on strike and needs to be prised open with a knife. Bah!

hatler · « **Reply #15666 on:** 29 December, 2022, 07:08:26 pm »

Bah. Left our box of home-mixed muesli at the in-laws.

Beardy · « **Reply #15667 on:** 29 December, 2022, 08:35:14 pm »

Boots the chemist refused¹ to prepare my repeat prescription this afternoon based on ‘it only came in this morning’² and ‘you aren’t due until the 10th’³ (January). So I’m going to have to go in the morning if I want the medication before I go away.

1. Refused is maybe a bit strong. They were reluctant, and I was reluctant to make a fuss because the pharmacist is a friend.

2. Well, the doctors surgery acknowledged they’d met my request early yesterday morning so it’s been in the system nearly two working days.

3. Well, that would have been too late because I’ll run out at the end of next week. And as I’ve already told you I’m going away tomorrow, any time after then will also be too late.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #15668 on:** 30 December, 2022, 12:41:22 am »

I have been steadily developing cold symptoms since Christmas. This might well end up buggering my New Year plans.

Bah

(Sneezes)

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #15669 on:** 30 December, 2022, 12:44:46 am »

^ well at least it's not that shit flu that I and loads of others have had.

My grumble is that, foolishly, I drank too much coffee today. The last one being at 4.30pm. Which means I won't sleep until probably 2am.

ElyDave · « **Reply #15670 on:** 30 December, 2022, 03:59:50 pm »

My Stac Zero Halcyon has been getting increasingly erratic in its connection to ~~reality~~ bluetooth recently, and has expressed a relucance to move one of its arms such that today I could coax no more than 120W out of it. Having "repaired" it once and as it's now out of both warranty and manufacture, I've reluctantly splashed out on a new Tacx Neo 2SE

rafletcher · « **Reply #15671 on:** 30 December, 2022, 04:18:57 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 30 December, 2022, 12:41:22 am

I have been steadily developing cold symptoms since Christmas. This might well end up buggering my New Year plans.

Bah

(Sneezes)

I had my cold on the weekend of the 5th, and (just like when I was a kid, and had my adenoids removed to prevent just this…) I still have sniffles and sneezes. It’s getting really boring. Especially as I gave the cold to my wife a week later, who was totally over it in 4 days. Bah indeed

Kim · « **Reply #15672 on:** 30 December, 2022, 08:25:36 pm »

For the last few days I've had a nonspecific sore throat and a mild unproductive cough that doesn't seem to respond to my inhalers (peak flow is normal), and no other symptoms. LFT is negative for covid and barakta seems unaffected. Presumably I've managed to acquire some sort of lurgy from either the orthopaedic hospital or - more likely by sheer weight of numbers - the Sainsbury's pre-Christmas scrum.

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #15673 on:** 30 December, 2022, 08:36:34 pm »

I know almost nobody who hasn't been ill in recent weeks.

hellymedic · « **Reply #15674 on:** 30 December, 2022, 10:48:13 pm »

I'm mostlty an anti-social hermit, who has been lurgy-free since Covid in January.l