View Full Version : Gripe of the day - What is yours?
Littlepeahead
14-02-17, 10:44 PM
They say all you need is love. I disagree. All you really need is cheese.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170214/cc31b37b9e52bbcd9b5c761d82875986.jpg
BanannaMan
16-02-17, 01:02 AM
I had a Rockstar Valentines Day!
Stayed in a place that was about 1K per night.
Living the life!!! Enjoying the fully adjustable bed and watching TV with lots of pretty young birds in and out my room,
and as soon as they were in the room they couldn't keep their hands off me!
The best girls though are the ones who kept bringing me narcotics and refreshments.
Hmmm, what was the name of that place??
All I can remember is a big H on the sign.
I'm thinking maybe it's a club like Studio 54 or something.
One of the girls that worked there told me there is already one in nearly every city around the world!
http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/961e5c5a16d54fd1ad3097e1d0a6ba53/a-hospital-road-sign-uk-cb63r0.jpg
Maybe I've just been looking at all this with the wrong attitude before. ;)
maviczap
16-02-17, 07:13 AM
Not again Bill :-(
garynortheast
16-02-17, 07:52 AM
Blimey Bill, not good news. Hope you're recovering ok. Keep us posted mister.
Geodude
16-02-17, 07:53 AM
Cheaper than a visit to the playboy mansion, i know your game Bill ;)
Hope you're okay
Sir Trev
16-02-17, 09:26 AM
Hope you're okay
This!!
carelesschucca
16-02-17, 11:21 AM
Ah Bill are you trying to use up your Obama Care quota before the orange shredded wheat monster gets rid of it...
Take it easy and Get Well Soon!
Littlepeahead
16-02-17, 06:10 PM
The half hour site visit meeting that takes three and a half hours. The line in an email that mentioned in passing establishing shots of Lord's when what they actually mean is 'we'd like to come in at 7am on Monday and stay filming for two days all over the ground with a crew of 35'.
Usually a shoot of that size takes weeks to set up. I've got half a day to now confirm everything and all the other urgent work has been put on hold so I'll need to write articles over the weekend. Grrrrr!
But at least I'm not having a week like Bill's. Get well soon buddy.
Red ones
16-02-17, 06:44 PM
People who send shirty emails late on a Thursday to the whole world blaming you for inaction on something all week.
If they got their heads out of their email and looked across the office just occasionally they'd see my desk empty.
I'm on holiday (but tutting at works emails over a beer)
Red Herring
16-02-17, 11:08 PM
Mods that pull a contentious thread just as it's getting started! I was getting all psyched up for a proper on line squabble and they've gone and withdrawn it, vanished without trace, not even an empty space..... Perhaps it's for the best.....
littleoldman2
17-02-17, 12:41 AM
Sorry to hear your troubles have returned Bill, hoping for all the best.
Tell us more then RH?.
Red Herring
17-02-17, 10:12 AM
Tell us more then RH?.
There was a thread started by someone with a link to a video of his riding.... I told him what I thought..... :smt058
Had over 90 views before it was pulled, I'm surprised only a couple of us took the bait!
There was a thread started by someone with a link to a video of his riding.... I told him what I thought..... :smt058
Had over 90 views before it was pulled, I'm surprised only a couple of us took the bait!
Was there a commentary on the video with some colourful language?
Red Herring
17-02-17, 11:10 AM
Was there a commentary on the video with some colourful language?
Only when he offered a view on other road users, but that wasn't nearly as bad as his riding....
Only when he offered a view on other road users, but that wasn't nearly as bad as his riding....
Same one then, only caught the first min or 2 then gave up
SV650rules
17-02-17, 04:33 PM
Same one then, only caught the first min or 2 then gave up
That guy was giving decent law abiding careful motorcyclists really bad PR, a complete delinquent on a bike. I was one of the posters that 'took the bait' - guy was a complete out-and-out nutter.
Fair one, didn't see any replies when I saw the vid, glad I didn't give it any longer than the first "c"
Red ones
17-02-17, 05:50 PM
You managed 30 seconds then!
Sir Trev
18-02-17, 04:14 PM
Oily gunge in the wrong place :(
Washed my car for the first time in months this morning only to find the front offside alloy was covered in an oily sludge. Once off the car I found it was coating the entire barrel and was just starting to ooze through the spokes to the front. None on the sidewalls that I could see, which was one comfort. Took me over half an hour with Gunk and an old paintbrush to get it all off. Seems to be all over the lower shock mount and the back of the hub so possibly the drive shaft seal has failed. Other side just had usual brake debris on the back of the spokes and barrel thankfully.
Time for open wallet surgery it seems. Bugger. :smt087
Red Herring
18-02-17, 08:44 PM
An oily sludge? Unless you've developed a very soft brake it's most likely to be the outer cv gaiter.
Sir Trev
18-02-17, 10:40 PM
Brakes are fine - the reservoir is still full and none of the finish on the wheel barrel was affected so pretty sure it's not brake fluid.
SV650rules
19-02-17, 09:07 AM
Wipe it all clean and then go for a drive to see if anything obvious, shock absorber leaking ?
Sir Trev
19-02-17, 11:35 AM
The CV gaiter is only couple of inches away from the track rod adjuster nut that the muppets at
Kwik Fit heated with a torch a couple of months ago when tweaking my tracking. What's the betting they weren't very careful about what else got hot and/or melted. If the workshop finds evidence of it I will be having (probably wasted) words with their area manager.
Trying to negotiate the new one way system in the centre of Norwich and then trying to find a parking spot near where I needed to be. The last time I tried the one way system, I ended up paying a fine for driving down a road that no longer allowed access to cars. Every few years NCC change the city centre one way system and every time the traffic flow is worse than before.
Littlepeahead
22-02-17, 10:02 PM
Watching the Brits. I now feel old. And I've got that Little Mix song in my head.
Which follows on from another gripe, which is Nick Cave playing the O2. I just won't go there for gigs, it's soulless.
daktulos
22-02-17, 10:11 PM
Fake news :-(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39051213
Red Herring
23-02-17, 10:02 AM
Fake news :-(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39051213
Because you and me would have just sat there in our drivers seat whilst some prima donna set about ripping our wing mirror off with her bare hands...... :)
I don't regard anything I see in or on the media as "news" or believe anything until I've got to the actual facts, it's simply entertainment.
I don't regard anything I see in or on the media as "news" or believe anything until I've got to the actual facts, it's simply entertainment.
I'm the same. As bad as it is, it then gets 20 times worse if someone is talking about what they saw or read on the news. I think the media get away with it because less than 10% actually sinks in, and only half of that is actually what was reported, which might still be a load of old cobblers anyway.
Especially bad are "science" articles - because "NEW PROVEN FACT" is more interesting than "recent study suggests..."
Regular arguments over this in my house. Winds me up. :smt120
Sir Trev
23-02-17, 10:30 AM
Oily gunge in the wrong place :(
Washed my car for the first time in months this morning only to find the front offside alloy was covered in an oily sludge. Once off the car I found it was coating the entire barrel and was just starting to ooze through the spokes to the front. None on the sidewalls that I could see, which was one comfort. Took me over half an hour with Gunk and an old paintbrush to get it all off. Seems to be all over the lower shock mount and the back of the hub so possibly the drive shaft seal has failed. Other side just had usual brake debris on the back of the spokes and barrel thankfully.
Time for open wallet surgery it seems. Bugger. :smt087
Well that was expensive... Got my car back late yesterday with a new CV gaiter which has hopefully done the trick. Will keep an eye on it obviously. The workshop said there was a tear and no signs of melting so there is no way I can prove that Kwik Fit caused the damage. At least I had the car back in time for an 8am interview this morning.
Wolfendenr
23-02-17, 02:06 PM
Wind. Just about survived my 30 mile ride home across the fens, nearly got blown off the road a couple of times. Had to have a break half way to give my arms a rest.
Parcel farce couldn't deliver a parcel so they dump the parcel at the local post office. When you go online to get them to redeliver at no point does it say they wont redeliver once the parcel has been left at the post office so spend the time waiting in. It wouldn't have been so bad except it cost £35 for the privilege of wasting a day and carting parcel back home. I now know why they provide a special delivery
Wind. Just about survived my 30 mile ride home across the fens, nearly got blown off the road a couple of times. Had to have a break half way to give my arms a rest.
Was a bit hairy* this morning around London. Mostly calm but very wet, but then there was the odd huge gust waiting around a corner to leap out at you when you least expect it. Got blown into the path of oncoming traffic - fortunately they were awake.
*hairier than usual
maviczap
23-02-17, 04:01 PM
Wind. Just about survived my 30 mile ride home across the fens, nearly got blown off the road a couple of times. Had to have a break half way to give my arms a rest.
TBF this wind was forecast, so not the best day to be riding across the flatlands of the Fens :)
Sir Trev
23-02-17, 06:24 PM
It wasn't very pleasant in the car either. Had to wait until the sudden delluge stopped before scuttling in for my interview this morning. Blue skies when I went to leave but the debris on the road was terrible.
Wolfendenr
24-02-17, 12:45 AM
TBF this wind was forecast, so not the best day to be riding across the flatlands of the Fens :)
Sadly didn't have a choice. Usually I'd be coming home at 6 so it would have been dark and windy with more traffic.
maviczap
25-02-17, 09:05 PM
My wife told me her latest pair of glasses are going to cost £500!
Red ones
25-02-17, 10:14 PM
Bloody hell. You could stay in a hotel for two nights for that!!
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Red Herring
25-02-17, 10:30 PM
My wife has a fairly complicated prescription and she gets two pairs for less than that. Mind you she's not that fussy, after all she married me.....
Drivers in Kington Herefordshire (my home town) who don't either indicate or modulate their speed at junctions, mainly because they are going slow enough to negotiate them. I'm reversing my opinion on a retest after a certain age.
Red ones
25-02-17, 11:37 PM
That brought back a memory of my dad doing just that.
We were in the car one day and he forgot he had to turn left until it was almost too late, but that didn't stop him yanking on the wheel and throwing the car at full speed sharp left without any warning.
The amusing thing is that ever since then our family has called that type of manouvre after the place he did it. It's a Wormelow Tump.
I apologise to you on his behalf.
Wormelow is just down the road from me! My great uncles lived at St. Weonards until last year.
maviczap
26-02-17, 07:48 AM
Bloody hell. You could stay in a hotel for two nights for that!!
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Including extra entertainment too :D
My wife has a fairly complicated prescription and she gets two pairs for less than that. Mind you she's not that fussy, after all she married me.....
Don't put yourself down RH :-)
She had a previous pair that cost £400, then she decided they weren't right!
Me I do with +1 reading glasses costing no more than £3!
Red ones
26-02-17, 08:37 AM
I bought a pair for £150 two years ago then seven days later squashed then with a box full of paperwork. So it was practically£300 for a pair!
Blapper
26-02-17, 12:26 PM
My wife told me her latest pair of glasses are going to cost £500!
Try Boots mate. Seriously. No more getting ripped off for me.
The Specs Factory for me. One eye long sighted, the other short sighted. Varifocals and photochromic coating. 2 new frames including one set with standard lenses. All for around £200.
maviczap
27-02-17, 06:05 PM
The BBC news main story being the mistake at the Oscars!
They have lost the plot when it comes to reporting the news, they are in LA LA Land.
SV650rules
27-02-17, 06:50 PM
Who is interested in Oscars anyway, far too political and politically correct for its own good. Who wants to hear the whining of the loony left luvvies because their darling Hillary didn't win white house, she could get best actress Oscar though.
Teejayexc
27-02-17, 06:50 PM
The BBC news main story being the mistake at the Oscars!
They have lost the plot when it comes to reporting the news, they are in LA LA Land.
I commented exactly the same thing to Mrs TJ.
Historical abuse of kids took second billing! I despair!
maviczap
27-02-17, 06:58 PM
I commented exactly the same thing to Mrs TJ.
Historical abuse of kids took second billing! I despair!
Exactly and they were British kids too, that's a home news story. The Oscars story should have been relegated to the comedy item, no more important than that :mad:
SV650rules
01-03-17, 08:18 AM
Here is the travel ban that the liberal Oscar attending Luvvies in USA are not talking about.
Why are these luvvies not protesting in Tripoli and Aden etc. because they would be probably be killed as soon as they got out of the airport, in most Islamic countries women are not allowed to do heaps of things that women in the west take for granted, like driving, traveling on their own, having their own bank account, in other words they don't really have any kind of freedom from the rule of men. Meryl Streep and company should spend time in these countries helping their poor downtrodden sisters instead of taking cheap shots at Trump all the time from behind their La La land silk lined, air conditioned barricade.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/libya-travel-ban-women-unaccompanied-general-hafter-other-ban-a7600706.html
21QUEST
01-03-17, 08:27 PM
Here is the travel ban that the liberal Oscar attending Luvvies in USA are not talking about.
Why are these luvvies not protesting in Tripoli and Aden etc. because they would be probably be killed as soon as they got out of the airport, in most Islamic countries women are not allowed to do heaps of things that women in the west take for granted, like driving, traveling on their own, having their own bank account, in other words they don't really have any kind of freedom from the rule of men. Meryl Streep and company should spend time in these countries helping their poor downtrodden sisters instead of taking cheap shots at Trump all the time from behind their La La land silk lined, air conditioned barricade.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/libya-travel-ban-women-unaccompanied-general-hafter-other-ban-a7600706.html
Two wrongs obviously make a right in your space.
Did you even read the contents of the link you posted or where you in too much of a rush to endear folks with your seemingly sexist utterings?
You do of course have my apologies if you've caught the wrong end of the stick.
Couple of extracts for you.
The ban has prompted resentment and criticism online. Libyan human rights activists called the ban a gross violation of fundamental rights, in direct contravention of Libya’s interim constitutional declaration, and made without authorisation, mandate or jurisdiction.
After days of women protesting in the streets of Benghazi, the governor issued another decree cancelling the previous announcement, only to enforce a wider ban on all women and men between the age of 18 to 45.
BanannaMan
01-03-17, 11:22 PM
Meryl Streep and company should spend time in these countries helping their poor downtrodden sisters instead of taking cheap shots at Trump all the time from behind their La La land silk lined, air conditioned barricade.
Being an American who lives in the US, I have to say, no I do not give
a rats a$$ what celebrities think of Trump.
But I do value their opinion than yours.
Who cares what you think of Trump? You don't live here.
They do and so they have a right to an opinion and a right to protest.
Your opinion of a US President is meaningless BS.
FYI Every American President has taken lots of criticism in the press.
Trump is just the first one to be a crybaby about it because he's too prideful and ignorant to rise above it.
So bugger off.
All you know is what you've heard in the press.
If Trump can't take the heat, he should not have taken the job.
garynortheast
02-03-17, 07:47 AM
Well said Bill.
I hope you're back from hospital and feeling better again, by the way.
SV650rules
02-03-17, 09:30 AM
@BanannaMan - Just wish we had someone in UK during last 40 years like Trump who would have had the guts to protect us from worst excesses of EU, instead we had Tony B lair who was hell bent on loss of our national sovereignty and closer integration, even wanted to take us into Eurozone !!! - what an idiot - and the Yanks seemed to like him, not as if we gave a stuff what the Yanks thought of him because we thought he was a sleazy S.O.a.B. with his team of spin-doctors paid for by taxpayers.
The whole world takes an interest because they are affected by what Trump does because USA is still leader of the free world, but the democrats seem pretty un-selective in what they choose to criticise when they indulge in their 'manufactured indignation' (ie they criticise everything, no wonder Trump may be a bit paranoid). A lot of press here in UK thought that being so reliant celebrity endorsements probably cost Hillary the Presidency as it turned a lot of people off, and generally I think people in rest of the world may well be better informed about USA politics than the people of USA are about the rest of the world (they sometimes seem to be vaguely aware of the existence of other countries), which may account for some of the strange foreign policy decisions USA makes.
And BTW Bill, if you believe in free speech it is pretty rude to tell people to bugger off because their personal opinion does not exactly coincide with yours - I don't know what bugger means in USA, but I know what it means here in the home of the English language.
@21Quest how on earth can you think I am sexist when I complain about lack of womens rights in Muslim countries ? It is one thing for locals to demonstrate in Libya, but not much noise from Democrats in USA - in contrast to the cacophony they made against Trumps EO. We get lots of people marching in UK about various things in foreign countries and our police have to put up with their behaviour, and the taxpayer foots the bill for security. I would have more respect if these people went to demonstrate in the countries they want to influence rather than from the safety of London, where their antics have absolutely zero affect on the countries they are criticising.
It also says in the article that Libya is home to many Islamic terrorist groups, which is why Trump tried to make sure people from there are thoroughly vetted before being allowed into USA, and the list of 7 countries that republicans used was actually put together by Obama administration, but Obama did not implement the ban, why ? only he can answer that, maybe he did not have the best interests and security of America in his agenda.
DarrenSV650S
02-03-17, 10:33 AM
All you know is what you've heard in the press.
Where do you get your info from?
If Mr Trump wore a Marines uniform,with a big row of medals and ribbons and fought in Iraq and Other places to defend the USA he would be a hero,but because we is a multi billionaire and wears a suit,wants to make America great and defend the USA he's ridiculed ??????????????
timwilky
02-03-17, 11:03 AM
My gripe today is the secondary school allocation process. My granddaughter has not been offered a place at any of her choices. Instead they want her to go to a catholic school 11 miles by bus (2 changes and 1.5 mile walk) She isn't even catholic. The school policy requires a baptised christian as a last resort for any available spaces. She fails there as well.
The joke is there are 4 secondary schools 5 miles away at the town where she would need to change bus. But no space for her.
SV650rules
02-03-17, 11:41 AM
My gripe today is the secondary school allocation process. My granddaughter has not been offered a place at any of her choices. Instead they want her to go to a catholic school 11 miles by bus (2 changes and 1.5 mile walk) She isn't even catholic. The school policy requires a baptised christian as a last resort for any available spaces. She fails there as well.
The joke is there are 4 secondary schools 5 miles away at the town where she would need to change bus. But no space for her.
School and healthcare provisions have not kept up with birthrate in our overcrowded country (largest population density in Europe). Needs a lot of investment and where is money gonna come from?
Could do what B Liar and Brown did with their PFI schemes, get private funding to build hospitals and schools and then make NHS and local authorities pay back way more than the buildings are worth in rent for the next 30 years, and then after 30 years (when the buildings need a total upgrade) hand them over to taxpayer, a nice little earner for the mates of the Labour sleazbags and financial consultants. B Liar got the credit for getting new infrastructure built, and for people who did not understand the sleight of hand financing he was their hero, leaving the bills for successive governments ( meaning UK Taxpayers) to pick up in the future. PFI repayments (rents) are a big drain on NHS and local authority finance - thanks a bunch Teflon Tony, using taxpayers money in a scandalous way to get re-elected.
Conservatives under John Major dreamed up the PFI scheme but never did much with it, then it was Labour under B Liar that took to it like ducks to water and the UK taxpayer got fleeced once again. The ongoing costs of PFI (financial hangover) are making it more difficult to find the money to build new schools and hospitals today.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/jul/05/pfi-cost-300bn
BanannaMan
02-03-17, 11:06 PM
Where do you get your info from?
1. Personal experience. I know how the people really feel because I live here.
If I read (or watched) some articles on BBC news about BREXIT do you think I would accurately know how the people in the UK really feel about it???
2. I have a memory.
And I remember the much harder time the press and the republicans gave Obama when he first took office and the mass campaign claiming he was not born in the US and could not be president.
If Trump had to face such serious accusations he would have a meltdown.
Every US president goes through this. Just like every US President has been made fun of on Saturday Night Live (an often political comedy show).
The only president ever to complain so far is Trump. (he wants the show off the air)
BanannaMan
02-03-17, 11:21 PM
If Mr Trump wore a Marines uniform,with a big row of medals and ribbons and fought in Iraq and Other places to defend the USA he would be a hero,but because we is a multi billionaire and wears a suit,wants to make America great and defend the USA he's ridiculed ??????????????
Yes, no other US president has ever been ridiculed ever.
You must seen that BS on Fox (aka FAUX ) News.
BTW the war medals would only make him popular with the Republican Party, which he already is.
Just proves that it is true, if you keep repeating the same lie long enough people will believe.
Why is every one picking on Donald Trump?
BanannaMan
02-03-17, 11:33 PM
The whole world takes an interest because they are affected by what Trump does because USA is still leader of the free world,
Great then you would welcome US and European opinions to your government on BREXIT since it affects the rest of the free world?
SV650rules
03-03-17, 10:19 AM
Great then you would welcome US and European opinions to your government on BREXIT since it affects the rest of the free world?
Well whether we wanted them or not we got them, and are still getting them. When Obama came over and read out the infamous 'back of the queue' script Cameron had written for him he probably switched over quite a few million 'don't knows' to Brexit, and the same thing happened when EU Junckers and his cronies threatened us as well. Don't know if Brexit will have a big effect on free world, except that UK can now be part of the 'free world' and not shackled to a failing EU (it was gonna fail soon anyway so can't blame UK for that). At least Trump put us back to the 'front of the queue' as befits Americas closest friend and staunchest ally in the world. Gotta say Obama got things wrong more times than he got them right, especially on foreign and trade policies and unlimited immigration. He wanted USA to step back from the world and seemed to be happy for China to take over the USA position. He also packed the justice system with democrat judges. Don't know all this hoo-ha about Trump being friendly the Russians, some people think Obama was actually working for the Kremlin.
If you believe the Remainiacs (those would probably be Democrats in USA) UK does not have any standing in the world outside the 'protection' of the EU, and they expect us all to be going to hell in a wheelbarrow because we dared to vote Brexit, we will be a poor lost country with nobody to love us. The whole of Europe is jumping to the right as a result of what they have seen the happen to their countries under democrats and left wingers - Trump will soon have many friendly governments in Europe who agree with him on many issues, the Democrats are like king Canute fighting the tide - but guess what they are gonna get wet feet.
Democracy is having a hard time at the moment - I know this is from the Daily mail and I will get abuse, but I recognise the truth of this new movement.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4258522/A-poisonous-conviction-taking-root-Left.html
As for the democrats opposing Trump and apparently wanting to loose a flood of unchecked 'country choosing economic asylum seekers' into USA - do you really want to end up like Europe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4269576/KATIE-HOPKINS-reports-Scandi-lib-paradise-Sweden.html
Again from Daily mail but others are reporting the same things, only yesterday a Muslim kid was killed by a grenade in Somali gang violence.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/yuusuf-warsame-british-schoolboy-killed-after-grenade-thrown-through-flat-window-during-sweden-visit-a7204481.html
Who would have dreamed 10 years ago of this kind of thing happening in Sweden. We are worried about USA ending up like Europe, at the moment you still have time to put a brake on immigration from Northern Africa / Middle East, please don't think 'it can't happen here' because that is exactly what the Swedes thought (or their government at any rate, because voices talking about unchecked immigration were drowned out by being labelled racists by the virtue signalling lefties).
You will never get a balanced view on anything from any one source, you need to look at as many sources as possible and allow for their biases - political and other. The BBC used to be trusted, but that was in the days before you needed to show your liberal democrat party membership card at your job interview.
All I'm saying Bill,is that you can't please all the people all the time,No President is ever going to get an easy ride,it's same here with the Brexit campaign !!!
Littlepeahead
03-03-17, 01:36 PM
My dad is dying. His heart is failing, he has pneumonia and another infection on top. He may not make it through the weekend according to the doc.
He and I haven't always had the easiest relationship. He left my mum 27 years ago to live with a gold digger and she walked out on him last year when his health failed, leaving an £80,000 joint debt that she managed to get into his name only. I don't even know yet if the debt agency will expect my mum's house to be sold after his death to pay this debt as they are still legally married and the house is in joint names.
So while you lot are all bickering over Trump and Brexit I'm worrying about things that directly affect me.
SV650rules
03-03-17, 02:04 PM
LPH, sorry for your problems, you come across as a very nice caring person and no one should find themselves in such a bad situation as you find yourself in, can't even begin to imagine how you feel. Personally I am an orphan as both my parents are dead, but life goes on, and like it or not Brexit and USA affect our lives both today and for foreseeable future, so it is worth spending a few minutes talking about it and trying to learn more.
maviczap
03-03-17, 03:12 PM
Never easy to deal with LPH, just been to visit my mum who's in early stage Alzheimers. Its not going to get any easier with her, although we've manage to clear her small debt on her credit card. The house has one of those equity release mortgages on it, so that may also go to the mortgage company in the end :-(
Just to lighten the mood, my mum made me laugh, when we were discussing jet lag, as my sister is in Japan at the mo. My mum has only been to Australia in her trips, but then today she said she'd been to India, which I questioned?
Yes, I just had a quick weekend away there! I had to laugh :-) Alzheimers & dementia aren't nice, but sometimes she says things like this
shiftin_gear98
03-03-17, 04:26 PM
Sorry to hear your news LPH. Fingers crossed for the best possible outcome.
shiftin_gear98
03-03-17, 04:32 PM
Jobsworths and over opinionated mutards. Gent at the Shell garage told me not to fill up whilst seated, for my own safety. I told him I'd fill up my bike how I liked, and did he want paying.
SV650rules
03-03-17, 04:46 PM
Jobsworths and over opinionated mutards. Gent at the Shell garage told me not to fill up whilst seated, for my own safety. I told him I'd fill up my bike how I liked, and did he want paying.
He did have a point, you could have ended up with crutch and legs soaked in petrol - one spark or casual cigarette end or even just hot exhaust and whoomf - cremated before your time. Petrol fire is really a controlled explosion, and very destructive and unforgiving.
BanannaMan
03-03-17, 05:36 PM
Sorry to hear LPH.
Wishing the best for you and your family.
Teejayexc
03-03-17, 06:13 PM
He did have a point, you could have ended up with crutch and legs soaked in petrol - one spark or casual cigarette end or even just hot exhaust and whoomf - cremated before your time. Petrol fire is really a controlled explosion, and very destructive and unforgiving.
Jobsworths and over opinionated mutards. Gent at the Shell garage told me not to fill up whilst seated, for my own safety. I told him I'd fill up my bike how I liked, and did he want paying.
What were you saying ....
:smt069
Red ones
03-03-17, 07:06 PM
Sorry to hear LPH.
andrewsmith
03-03-17, 07:11 PM
Sorry to hear that LPH
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Littlepeahead
03-03-17, 08:31 PM
Thanks all. Just been up to the hospital again, he was actually a lot better tonight but the reality is that his heart is wearing out, so short term, in days, he's fighting but mid term it's grim.
Sir Trev
03-03-17, 09:18 PM
Sorry to hear this Clare.
Geodude
03-03-17, 09:28 PM
Sorry to hear that Lph not a nice thing to cope with at all. I spent a week staying in the icu unit with the MiL in the hope she'd pull through but she didnt, miss her alot :(
Red Herring
03-03-17, 11:23 PM
Sorry to hear of your troubles Clare, hope it works out as painlessly as possible.
Northern Biker
03-03-17, 11:54 PM
Sorry to hear that LPH.
My thoughts are with you and your family.
My wife recently lost her dad to COPD, she had a similar relationship with him as you do with your dad, so I sympathise with you as I know it's a sad, difficult and confusing time.
Remember to look after yourselves too [emoji6]
Littlepeahead
04-03-17, 09:23 AM
After being called in yesterday and told to expect the worst today they have rung to say he's got out of bed and is sitting in his chair. So while I know he probably won't ever return home, at least at present he seems to be battling on.
There are people with dementia in his ward who don't even recognise their families. Dad on the other hand is sharp as ever brain wise, it's the body that is failing. I don't know which is worse.
Red Herring
04-03-17, 09:59 AM
I think it very much depends on the individual and how it impacts on them and those around them. Dementia can be incredibly frustrating for friends and family but sometimes the "sufferer" seem to be quite happy in their own little world so who is to say that is "bad", in fact sometimes it seems quite an attractive position to be in! On the flip side being fully switched on but physically incapable can be immensely frustrating to the individual, especially if they see no way of it improving, and those are the individuals who are campaigning for the right to end it.
When I have conversations such as this I always remember Bill who I met back to the early 90's when I was a relatively new police officer. Bill was in his 80's and lived in a local care home from where he would regularly go walkabouts, quite often in the middle of the night. Bill was what we might call a proper gentleman who had served somewhere in Africa during WW2 and he was never hard to find because he would simply find a complete stranger and engage them in amusing tales about his life, and this would ultimately result in us receiving a "concern" call from them. I remember one night finding him in the street during the early hours and because it was relatively quiet he ended up spending a few hours "on patrol" before being delivered back to the home in time for breakfast. Bill was physically 100% but he couldn't tell you where he lived, what he had done the day before, and never seemed to have any recollection of our previous encounters. He was like that young lady in 50 first dates..... He was also one of the most engaging people I've ever had the pleasure of talking to.
Of course none of this would happen these days. Bill would have a lock on his door, an electronic tag round his ankle, and various risk assessments would be in place before he would be allowed to use the toilet. And we call that progress.....
maviczap
04-03-17, 12:59 PM
From my limited experince so far, I would prefer not to have to deal with dementia, its incredidly hard in listening to the same things time afterr time, especially when you remember how sharp your parents minds were. My mums lost track of time, doesn't know what date its, despite big clocks with dates in the display. She thought it was coming up to Christmas the other week. That's hard to deal with and its only early stage dementia, its going to get worse.
She's had to have a clock to remind her to take her pills, its quite clever. I was scolling through the different text alerts this special clock can do, which showed me what other folk must be dealing with.
At least she's cheerful in her own little world, my grandmother was exactly the same. When my wife was in hospital the other week, she could her the noise from the demantia patients on the floor above, quite disruptive and violent, so at least my mums not like that.
Red Herring
04-03-17, 01:15 PM
I'm really hoping some things really are inherited..... My grandfather was in his late 70's and as fit as a fiddle, complained of feeling a little unwell one day and said he was going for a nap. My grandmother took him up a cup of tea five minutes later and found him dead.
She herself didn't quite make the hundred but was still driving around delivering meals on wheels to the elderly (most of whom were younger than her) well into her 80's.
My father spent yesterday up to his knees in mud under a twenty odd ton yacht that he was pulling out of the water (he has a boatyard), and he'll be 80 this year.......
maviczap
04-03-17, 01:40 PM
I don't know how its going to work for me, the females on my mums side have had dementia, but I'm the eldest male. I never knew my grandfathers, as one died quite young & my grandmother remarried.
But my Dads mum was still sharp in her 80's, as was my dad.
So as the eldest male in the family, I don't know whats in store for me. I'd just like to go to sleep and shift off this mortal coil nicely.
My wifes gran had dementia. When we first got together she would recognise me. Then she forgot who my wife was and then her husband of 50 years. Not good.
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BanannaMan
05-03-17, 10:13 PM
Had to run the bike in the shed today to keep the battery from going flat.
Usually I ride year round but the weather has been so bad on the weekends it's been early January since Ive been able to ride.
Too cold and too windy this weekend and forecast for next weekend is rain mixed with snow.
We've had plenty of mild weather but none on the weekends.
:(
Red Herring
05-03-17, 10:19 PM
Honda! Just how complicated can a routine valve check be.... try the VFR800 VTEC! Camshafts out minimum of twice just to check them, let alone if you actually have to make any adjustments......
timwilky
06-03-17, 11:05 AM
Sorry to read of your problems LPH.
Back in the sixties my dad left mum for our baby sitter, 14 years older than me, 18 years younger than my dad. About 1978 he secretly married her.
He was a wealthy man who believed life is what you make of it and we as his children got no help, whilst he lived in the big house, swimming pool, acres of gardens and the fields beyond. Plus the villa in the Canaries.
Unfortunately he developed kidney cancer. The day before it was to come out, he had a heart attack. We never knew he had one upto that point. The upshot being that he could not have the cancer op for 6 months by which time it had spread and he was terminal.
His wife wanted him at home, but also help from us. Despite my wife and bothers wife being nurses. We were told. He is your dad. So the fun of having to bath your dad. clean up his ****, put his d1ck in a bottle for him to pee etc. I was living at his house through this.
He died 3 times and suddenly breathed again, but finally he did go. he had apologised for how he had been and wished he could have done things better. But then I get to read the will as I am an executor.
3 days before he died he had changed it from split equally between his 5 kids. To everything to the babysitter :- £2.5m. She promised that she would leave anything left to us as they have no kids. But we have to be nice to her.
10 years have gone by. She is currently on her annual 3 months in New Zealand, taken her sister and tribe on holiday to Australia. (It is a shame she works hard and they have no money). Last year she took them to Bali whilst visiting them. But she is now moaning she has no money (cash, not assets) and that the 50 grand she lent to her nephew is being refused repayment. Him saying take it out of my inheritance. Cheeky fecker it is from my dads money that is supposed to be coming my way, if she has not spent it first.
Try to talk to your dad whilst you can. I certainly got a better understanding of mine during those days. So much so that despite being unhappy about the will. I defended it. We kids are all grown up and independent. His duty was to look after the woman who had been at his side for 42 years.
Littlepeahead
06-03-17, 04:23 PM
Sorry to read of your problems LPH.
Back in the sixties my dad left mum for our baby sitter, 14 years older than me, 18 years younger than my dad. About 1978 he secretly married her.
He was a wealthy man who believed life is what you make of it and we as his children got no help, whilst he lived in the big house, swimming pool, acres of gardens and the fields beyond. Plus the villa in the Canaries.
Unfortunately he developed kidney cancer. The day before it was to come out, he had a heart attack. We never knew he had one upto that point. The upshot being that he could not have the cancer op for 6 months by which time it had spread and he was terminal.
His wife wanted him at home, but also help from us. Despite my wife and bothers wife being nurses. We were told. He is your dad. So the fun of having to bath your dad. clean up his ****, put his d1ck in a bottle for him to pee etc. I was living at his house through this.
He died 3 times and suddenly breathed again, but finally he did go. he had apologised for how he had been and wished he could have done things better. But then I get to read the will as I am an executor.
3 days before he died he had changed it from split equally between his 5 kids. To everything to the babysitter :- £2.5m. She promised that she would leave anything left to us as they have no kids. But we have to be nice to her.
10 years have gone by. She is currently on her annual 3 months in New Zealand, taken her sister and tribe on holiday to Australia. (It is a shame she works hard and they have no money). Last year she took them to Bali whilst visiting them. But she is now moaning she has no money (cash, not assets) and that the 50 grand she lent to her nephew is being refused repayment. Him saying take it out of my inheritance. Cheeky fecker it is from my dads money that is supposed to be coming my way, if she has not spent it first.
Try to talk to your dad whilst you can. I certainly got a better understanding of mine during those days. So much so that despite being unhappy about the will. I defended it. We kids are all grown up and independent. His duty was to look after the woman who had been at his side for 42 years.
I don't disagree except my dad never made any settlement with my mum after he left. Instead he remortgaged the family home to fund the lifestyle with his new woman so she could have the holidays and cars and clothes my mum never had. Dad nursed her through cancer too. A few years later she is gone, now with a younger man who left his wife and kids for her. But the huge debts remain, and the fallout is all still to come. I spent years trying to get my mum to divorce him but she always said that if she did that he'd stop paying the mortgage. What I just couldn't get through to her was that as it was interest only it made no difference as at some point the bank will call in that loan. In the meantime he could run up more debts using the house as security.
Even now my mum will not make a will herself, and I've told her that if she goes first, and she's not well either, then dad gets everything of hers which in turn goes to pay off his debts. Financially I never had help from my parents, I have worked, I can pay my own way. But it's all very frustrating have to sort out their mess.
garynortheast
07-03-17, 08:54 PM
I've had a bit of an altercation with a ladder and a steep bank. Deep Heat, paracetamol, and red wine have been administered.
Red ones
07-03-17, 09:07 PM
How easy can they make it to delete your entire work email history for the last 12 years?
80,000 mails deleted in seconds.
Oops.
Then, if the deletion takes seconds why does restoring from a backup take hours?
How easy can they make it to delete your entire work email history for the last 12 years?
80,000 mails deleted in seconds.
Oops.
Then, if the deletion takes seconds why does restoring from a backup take hours?
33 emails a day? slacker.
Red ones
07-03-17, 09:35 PM
I got most back from a backup by the looks of it, only lost the latest 25,000 or so.
I bet no one will even notice that I can't find anything. For some reason there is one folder in my archive that doesn't seem to have backed up, so I have loads of stuff up to August 2014 then nothing.
Hey ho. There is at least beer in the shed.
BanannaMan
07-03-17, 10:30 PM
I've had a bit of an altercation with a ladder and a steep bank. Deep Heat, paracetamol, and red wine have been administered.
Glad to hear you are OK(ish).
Hope you are better soon.
Could have been much worse.
SV650rules
07-03-17, 10:32 PM
Reason it takes seconds to delete and hours to restore is because when you delete a file the data is not erased, the file gets a tag attached to tell the system that the space is available to be overwritten if it is required, this happens very quickly, but when you restore a backup it actually has to transfer the data from backup media to wherever the emails or files are stored, literally bit-by-bit, and ironically the backup is pretty much sure to be overwriting the files that were deleted so quickly.
Don't you just love computers.
Red ones
07-03-17, 10:43 PM
Fortunately my rashness in clicking delete only affected an archive folder which by definition is stuff for which I don't really have further need, only as a security blanket or to impress others with how good my memory is.
As clearing my folders is the last thing I do when I finish each day the risk to my inbox is minimal. I operate to inbox zero everyday.
Littlepeahead
07-03-17, 10:48 PM
We have Mimecast so nothing is ever really gone.
I just noticed that the parking light on the bike was on and had been since I parked up 24 hours ago. Now I have to half dismantle the bike to get at the battery to recharge it. Bummer.
garynortheast
08-03-17, 10:31 AM
Glad to hear you are OK(ish).
Hope you are better soon.
Could have been much worse.
Thanks Bill. Nothing too serious, sprained wrist and pulled shoulder. Managed a four mile run this morning so I think I'll survive!
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