The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

Yesterday I had two second breakfasts, 

 

I don't wish to be pedantic, but I reckon the second second breakfast was in fact "third breakfast"

[chaseracer]

Compulsive eating

 

I'm not hungry but I'm 2/3rds through a big box of liquorice all sorts. I eat until I'm almost sick, I can't have one of anything.

 

Yesterday I had two second breakfasts, a massive quiche for lunch and a snack and lots of fruit and then had fish and chips for tea and then had a second bag of chips and ate half another portion of haddock and had a snack when I got home.

 

Then there was a punnet of strawberries that had been opened, so I ate pretty much the whole punnet

 

Wtf is wrong with me?

Have you been on the Nostromo recently?

 

 

 

[chaseracer]

I don't wish to be pedantic...

 

Yeeeeeeeeeeesss you do!

 

[Pillock]

You're right, I love it. I wish for nothing more in life!

[Skizzer]

The eu thread has made me sad ! So much bickering !

 

This (and I only glanced at it and ran away, as I usually do with the open forum).

 

Seems to me that quite a lot of the threads on here at the moment fall into four rather tiresome categories:

A. Everybody is a crap driver apart from me.

B. Let's you and me do a lot of shouty name-calling.

C. You've never heard of me but I'm treating this as a free version of Exchange & Mart and starting a new thread for every item I'm flogging (ok there's not much of this, but it's still irritating).

D. This might be an interesting thread or it might not, but I'm going to be make the title as obscure as possible so you'll never know.  SEE, MADE YOU CLICK!!  Got you there, aren't I clever.

 

There are of course many glorious contributions too, but I don't have a lot of time to be on here at the moment and it's quite tedious searching for them.  I freely acknowledge I'm not helping much as I haven't bought any cars for weeks and haven't done much fixing or spotting either, because work.

 

Maybe we could have one of those category sticker things for 'thread about my old car'?

[vulgalour]

Michael's problem started when he swallowed that fly, I don't know why he swallowed that fly.  Perhaps he'll die.

[chaseracer]

I don't spend much time in 'the other place', but it's useful in that it keeps the tedious shit off the main pages.  There is some gold there too, though - if you look.

[Skizzer]

^ Very much agree on both counts.

 

Maybe I'm just tired. Carry on.

[chaseracer]

Stay strong, Brother Skizzer - you are a shite saviour, a disciple of Chod... 

[beko1987]

So after messing about with the sky to get fibre, but downgrade the TV so the cost doesnt change, all hell breaks loose this morning when half of the TV channels stop working. I said not to worry, we can stream from the sky kids app, but no, that stops working if you don't have the package we used to have. I could sense a big argument coming, so fuck it, online, upgrade, £7 more than we paid before, so fuck all point doing anything really.

 

Fuck it, I'll just pay the bills and shut up, it's easier. Thank fuck she's going out in a bit, I fancy smashing something up with a hammer

[HH-R]

The fortnightly moans about the quality of content on here are incredibly tedious.

 

We never get anywhere with it because by and large there aren't rules about what you can post, there's just each member's own arbitrary standards of what they deem is or isn't shit. There's usually a kick off, a few people will flounce off, then everyone else is left uneasy about what they're posting to avoid the "you're posting shit" moan but it happens anyway like a fucking broken record.

[michael1703]

Today's grump is that I haven't got anything classic to use on the road and I think the next 5 weeks are the best of the year.

 

All the long evenings are perfect for jumping in something old and bimbling along to the pub/forest/beach and having a nice relaxing evening.

 

I need to get my shit together and fix some stuff sharpish

[Junkman]

They send me to India for two weeks.

Can't stand Indian food. I hope they have Austrian takeaways there.

[messerschmitt owner]

Seriously fed up with the broadband speed at our new house - it is shit slow. Apparently we've been told that we've only got Sky and BT to choose from that cover the area. We went with Sky and it's absolutely crap...

 

 

 

don't be so grumpy - our braodband speed is at least 2mb/s behind you and we have 'faster' broadband in our village. Until we did, we were on 1.2mb/s.

[chaseracer]

The fortnightly moans about the quality of content on here are incredibly tedious.

 

Ignore them.  I do.

[chaseracer]

They send me to India for two weeks.

Can't stand Indian food. I hope they have refrigerated bog roll there.

 

EFA.

 

[danthecapriman]

The school around the corner from my house are having their summer fayre today. Ok, fine. I can put up with all the noise coming from them for one day but what does piss me off is all the selfish cunts that have decided to double park all the way down my road (which is a busy road and bus route). One bus has already struggled to get through and I'd planned to take the Mercury out today. Now that's going to be very awkward to get out of my driveway because of them.

If it's not the school blocking the street it's the tossers at the church over the road, if it's not them it's the staff/patients at the health centre down the road!

When ever they do this it means the Transit and Mercury can't get off the drive. Bastards!

[chaseracer]

It is bloody frustrating.

 

Take photos, then complain like buggery - in writing - to the school/church/health centre, local rag AND your ward councillor.  This is how things get changed.

[messerschmitt owner]

and if that fails, move somewhere you don't have this issue!

[Junkman]

If they are parking in a way that obstructs you to leave or enter your driveway, call the police.

[danthecapriman]

and if that fails, move somewhere you don't have this issue!

It's not that easy unfortunately. When we moved here there was no problem but over the last couple of years it's got worse. The health centre was only built a couple of years ago, and it's huge with very little parking. What makes things worse is the council put double yellows down that end of the road, but they stop at our house so now everyone just parks down our end of the road. And they've built OAP flats opposite in the last few years (very little private parking) so the wardens, nurses etc all compete for the parking aswell.

It's so bad today that my road is solid with double parked vehicles, and so are all the surrounding streets and dead end roads. Everyone who lives here is getting well pissed off!

 

Still, I got the Mercury out in the end. It was very tight but it got out. Thank the yanks for their incredibly light power steering!

Getting in again was tight too but at least I got to have an hours driving out of it today. All adds up, as I want to keep piling the miles on it to get it run in after the engine rebuild. Sitting around unused isn't doing it any good.

[Timewaster]

You need to aquire a couple of police cones....

[danthecapriman]

You need to aquire a couple of police cones....

Hmmm, good idea that!

There's a load of them in our store room at work too...

[Timewaster]

Don't know what your local feds are like but ours can't be bothered with parking restrictions and if you ask them at the station they just hand out a few cones.

[danthecapriman]

Don't know what your local feds are like but ours can't be bothered with parking restrictions and if you ask them at the station they just hand out a few cones.

Much the same I think.

Trouble is, the parking while it's a right pain in the arse and inconsiderate, it's not technically illegal. It's been so bad before now I've watched a double decker get stuck! I ended up going out and guided him through between the cars, and it was close! It could be dangerous if a fire engine needed to get through at speed and it's very possible as the road is a main road into a housing estate.

[Station]

Can I disable mobile view on here? It keeps going back to it.

[Station]

My internet speed test. Jealous?

 

[Tamworthbay]

They send me to India for two weeks.

Can't stand Indian food. I hope they have Austrian takeaways there.

my mate is there at the moment, a couple of days ago it was 46 degrees outside and 52 in the factory. I love the heat but that is pushing it even for me.

[vulgalour]

I'm having one of those weekends.  Burst tyre on the Rover, welder not welding, trigger on the chainsaw broken, hedge loppers broken, household fuse blown... I think I'll just stay indoors for a bit and try not to touch anything.

[twosmoke300]

my mate is there at the moment, a couple of days ago it was 46 degrees outside and 52 in the factory. I love the heat but that is pushing it even for me.

I would actually burst into flames in that sort of heat . Or top myself !