Grumpy old buggers thread

[4bee]

Not as regular as 40yrs ago

Well, look at it this way Paul. What is the life span of a Disney Dwarf?
40 Years ago they would have been in short pants (well they would have, it stands to reason, they are Dwarfes) so by my reckoning they'd be old codgers now so I reckon it'd be their Last Gasp.

Maybe Grumpy was older than we think so may have had his last gasp already. That'd be why he is perpetually ****ed off.

Simples.

An afterthought. With such short legs one ponders whether in fact they could get their legs over & my thinking now is they would all be ****ing Grumpy.

Just as I thought, a bunch of ****ing Puffs.

[jonesfam]

I still get my leg over quite regularly.
I've just forgotten what to do with it once it's over.
Jonesfam

[scarry]

I've just forgotten what to do with it once it's over.
Jonesfam

I just fall asleep

[4bee]

I still get my leg over quite regularly.
I've just forgotten what to do with it once it's over.
Jonesfam

Stick with it, I'm sure it will come back to you.

[DiscoMick]

Here's something to make us all grumpy. Hoons are dying on beaches, which may have to be closed to everyone.

Fears Fraser Island, Cooloola Coast beaches could close to 4WDs due to visitor hooning and fatalities
Fears Fraser Island, Cooloola Coast beaches could close to 4WDs due to visitor hooning and fatalities - ABC News

[4bee]

Here's something to make us all grumpy. Hoons are dying on beaches, which may have to be closed to everyone.

Fears Fraser Island, Cooloola Coast beaches could close to 4WDs due to visitor hooning and fatalities
Fears Fraser Island, Cooloola Coast beaches could close to 4WDs due to visitor hooning and fatalities - ABC News

May be an opening to establish a "Beginner's Driving School/Academy" (call it what you wish) for everyone whose tyre touches the Beach. Charge $200 for it which should sort some of them out. A Half Day or Full Day course for the same price.

When the morons realise they lose a day camping & it's better to get a Certificate, they will see the possible errors of their ways.


A Certificate of Competency could be issued, break the Drivers Code of Behavior & they are on the next ferry out & no returns.


Job done. Seems like Madame Palliasse & her crew could be the obvious gang to control this behaviour.

I bet she wouldn't be as tough as she has been recently. Oh hang on, it is all about money isn't it?

[4bee]

I just fall asleep

......or lay back & have a cigarette? You know like they do in the fillums.

[ramblingboy42]

Madame Palliasse ......???? who is this?

[1950landy]

This really peas me off, These company's that sell stuff as Stainless Steel but use low grade SS.

My wife has a shower chair as she feels very un steady in the shower . We bought this chair just over a year ago ( out or warranty now) & it was quite expensive. It is suppose to be Stainless Steel which it is but is a low grade SS & the fact that it is not fully welded it fills up with water. The other night when she went to sit on it one of the legs collapsed because one of the spring loaded pins to adjust the height rusted. This is a medical add & should be made from medical grade or high grade SS. I have spent the morning drilling out all the pins & fitting 8mm bolts with lock nuts . This will do until I can find a better chair to replace it . May have to look at what hospitals use.
Another example are out lighting & fan under our pergola , We tell the lighting places we have a salt water pool so we want SS lighting & fan suitable for that averment only to have to replacement them every 3 years because they use low grade SS & the screws are not SS or brass. Our last fan fell down because the tube between the support bracket & the fan rusted from the in side out.

[4bee]

This really peas me off, These company's that sell stuff as Stainless Steel but use low grade SS.

My wife has a shower chair as she feels very un steady in the shower . We bought this chair just over a year ago ( out or warranty now) & it was quite expensive. It is suppose to be Stainless Steel which it is but is a low grade SS & the fact that it is not fully welded it fills up with water. The other night when she went to sit on it one of the legs collapsed because one of the spring loaded pins to adjust the height rusted. This is a medical add & should be made from medical grade or high grade SS. I have spent the morning drilling out all the pins & fitting 8mm bolts with lock nuts . This will do until I can find a better chair to replace it . May have to look at what hospitals use.
Another example are out lighting & fan under our pergola , We tell the lighting places we have a salt water pool so we want SS lighting & fan suitable for that averment only to have to replacement them every 3 years because they use low grade SS & the screws are not SS or brass. Our last fan fell down because the tube between the support bracket & the fan rusted from the in side out.

I guess you need to know the grade of SS that you want & specify this to them on your order. No if, buts or maybes. This applies to other Pool Side Fittings as well as a Chair.


I'm afraid it is the old "You gets what yers pays for" unless it is advertised for that application but isn't, then that would be a different Consumer issue.

May have to look at what hospitals use.

Good idea. You may need to visit a proper Special Equipment Outlet rather than a Bunnings or a Mitre 10

One surely doesn't need a supposedly adequate chair in a bathroom that goes tits up/collapses onto a hard floor.

Not what you need at all.