Grumpy Old Man
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"Quality" German engineering. A bloody misnomer if there ever was one.
(1) Three year-old NEFF dishwasher has just given up the ghost with a stuffed circulation pump (bearings are knackered). Used about 4 times a week. Last dishwasher was a 15 year-old Hotpoint which was still going strong when we moved house.
(2) Bosch garden shredder - two years old. £500 as I needed a decent one and you can replace the cutting plate when it's got no more adjustment left. Read the manual and it's a case of taking out a screw, removing the cutting plate and popping a new one in. Victor thinks "this is good, glad I spent the extra money". The screw holding said cutting plate has been driven in at an angle, obviously stripped the thread and looks like it will be hard to drill/easy-out.
World class engineering and Quality control, my arse.
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@victor-meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
"Quality" German engineering. A bloody misnomer if there ever was one.
That's a completely absurd and very english thing to claim. Give it up.
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@tim said in Grumpy Old Man:
@victor-meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
"Quality" German engineering. A bloody misnomer if there ever was one.
That's a completely absurd and very english thing to claim. Give it up.
Personal experience from a GOM, mate.
Oh, and the Sony TV I bought 3 years ago is equally rubbish.
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@tim said in Grumpy Old Man:
@victor-meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
"Quality" German engineering. A bloody misnomer if there ever was one.
That's a completely absurd and very english thing to claim. Give it up.
Why are you so bloody bossy!? He can think what he wants. He can be English if he wants to be too.
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@r-l This is a discussion forum and an opinion like that will get pushback. This isn't anyone's personal blog.
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@r-l said in Grumpy Old Man:
@bones not sure I get it if that's a joke...
So it's just the sound of the word flaccid and you don't know it's meaning?
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@tim discussion is expected, your tone is pretty personal a lot of the time, lately anyway.. I could quote a few things you've said "don't post that shit" being one of them, it's just rude.
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@r-l What is personal about it? If someone wants to make an absurd generalisation about German engineers, I'll point out that it's jingoistic.
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@r-l Don't forget that this forum is part of the old internet. It's not a place about being nice to everyone.
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@tim you don't think saying something along the lines of "slipknot fans being too sad to be school shooters" (in response to a slipknot song) is rude or an absurd generalisation?
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@r-l I don't care if it's rude. It was funny.
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@tim most of us aren't rude
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@r-l Good for you. This place isn't going to change.
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@tim shame, being able to block a mod would be a good change as I don't have any interest in reading your posts when I see them crop up mid discussion, usually being rude.
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@tim said in Grumpy Old Man:
@r-l This is a discussion forum and an opinion like that will get pushback. This isn't anyone's personal blog.
Mate. you've completely lost me.
I've had two really expensive pieces of kit, bought on the basis of being quality-engineered in Germany, which have broken in the last 10 days way ahead of their expected shelf-life. Feeling more than grumpy about it, I expressed my feelings as befits a posting in the Grumpy Old Man thread.
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@r-l Everyone will really miss your posts in the sports forum.
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@victor-meldrew You're completely entitled to post whatever.
I'm also going to see an old man post and call it as bullshit:
"Quality" German engineering. A bloody misnomer if there ever was one.
As a professor of engineering that is ridiculous to me.
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@tim said in Grumpy Old Man:
As a professor of engineering that is ridiculous to me.
With all due respect, as someone who's spent 20 years on shop floors improving manufacturing and business processes for multiple companies in the EU & US, the idea that German engineering/manufacturing is any better or worse than other countries is equally ridiculous to me (as any car reliability survey will show).
I'm going to leave it here, as I thought this thread is a bit of fun and not meant to be taken that seriously.
