The grumpy thread

[Lukas]

Austria is becoming more and more uncomfortable and shitty. 

 

Yesterday, we had our big election for a new president, watched by more than 100 different media-houses from outside the country. 

 

You can read it here:

 

http://www.thelocal.at/20160523/left-winger-van-der-bellen-wins-austrian-presidential-election-beating-far-right

 

Now that our President will be the "left winger" like they say, the other half of the people that voted for the right winger are very angry. 

Many of them wont accept the poll, they talk about electoral fraud and that they wont accept the President. Many of them, mostly on

Facebook, say that "maybe the winner may die" or something like that. 

 

It seems like Austria is going in a completely wrong direction. People are agitating, many people are very angry because of the politics. 

I fear there may be a big bang coming in Austria. I hope I am not right, but somehow it feels like that. 

 

I am not feeling comfortable anymore in Austria. 

 

So there may be two things that can be done by me:

 

Quit Facebook, so that I dont have to see and read all that shit that gets posted there all day anymore.

Or quit Austria and emigrate somewhere else. But I own a house and all that and I would not want to give this up. 

 

I am really feeling uncomfortable because we have a 9 month old boy and I am not feeling good when I think about whats going on in this

rich and peaceful country now. How much hate and anger is in the air and in the head of many people. How will the future for our little boy

be? And will he have a good future in Austria or will we have to emigrate?  

 

[Eddie Honda]

Quit Facebook isn't a maybe, it's a must. Sack it off. It's a load of old bollocks.

[dugong]

Quit Facebook isn't a maybe, it's a must. Sack it off. It's a load of old bollocks.

I can't. It's ideal for buying hardpoint saws from (at 3am).

[rainagain]

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.

 

Sounds like my local feds, I live on a new build estate where the residents' car park is behind the houses, i.e your front door faces the access road. A lot of the residents now rather than using their car park and having to god forbid either use their back door or even worse walk to the front door insist on just dumping their car on the relatively narrow access road. One A-hole actually parks directly on the junction, I have to drive up from the bottom of the T in the attached pic and I have no clue what is coming down the road thanks to the parking. I have twice contacted the local Police, so far they have confirmed that the person parked on the junction is indeed obstructing the junction and the pavement but they weren't in when they called(!) so they couldn't speak to them and the second time I was told that the highway code about not parking like a twat was not the law, which I know technically it is true, but you are supposed to follow it. I've given up now, I do feel sorry for the people with prams that have to push them onto the road to get passed the car parked on the junction. 

 

From the code:

Rule 243 

DO NOT stop or park: 

-opposite or within 10 metres (32 feet) of a junction, except in an authorised parking space 

 

Rule 244 

You MUST NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement in London, and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it. Parking on the pavement can obstruct and seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs or with visual impairments and people with prams or pushchairs. 

[Craig the Princess]

Does that mean the residents' car park is empty for filling with shite?

 

Trying to find a bright side.

[rainagain]

Does that mean the residents' car park is empty for filling with shite?

 

Trying to find a bright side.

 

I suppose it's a good thing for me as the S80s quite big and it fills up the small spaces, as I don't mind walking I normally park in the top corner and have plenty of spaces to myself.

 

I'm still not sure on the law on storing non taxed cars in private but public accessible car parks so I've not kept any shite there.

[Captain Furious]

Building society queues! For the love of Jesus, 30 minutes now and the same cunts are at the checkouts who were here when I came in! Should be separate queues for people who just want to draw money, and people who want to re-arrange their entire finances and impart their life story

 

Rage is building strongly...

[Captain Furious]

Unbelievable, now one checkout has become free but the cashier has got up to assist the one of the other ones who are now both sat looking puzzled as at the computer

 

I just want some fucking money!

[beko1987]

I hate going to the bank for this very reason! I hope hell is over for you soon

[rainagain]

Only bettered when they have a member of staff milling around asking if they can help whilst you stand in the huge queue, "yes by getting behind a desk and serving people!"

[jakebullet]

Rather similar to train ticket offices then. I always turn up 10 minutes early to find the ticket machine is broken, and the staffed office has one cashier who has a 'customer' who wants to know how much a train ticket is from Llandudno to Penzance via Edinburgh for 3 disabled pensioners on the 23rd of July 2025. And how much is it in 2029? The queue stretches round the building and the old giffer then sods off without buying anything just as the train everyone is queueing for rolls in.

[purplebargeken]

I see you have visited Edmonton Green then.

[Captain Furious]

There was of course the obligatory member of staff hanging around asking if they could be of assistance - the woman 2 behind me was kicking off at him because she had to be at the childminders by 1 or she will have to pay extra...just as that conversation was reaching boiling point the 3rd window became free again, I got my money, 3 minutes if that, and hightailed it out of there, slightly placated by the girl who eventually served me being extremely pretty.

[oldcars]

Went to the garage this afternoon to say 'Hello' to the dollop and see if it would start after two weeks of being idle. It started fine, but the bloody car was COVERED in snails and their delightful trails all over the flaming thing! There was something on the side of the front wing that looked... 'orrible. So, instead of letting it stay in there slumbering, she was dragged un-ceremoniously  out into the daylight and the Mazda got dumped in there. Brought it home and washed the poor old thing in a 'vigorous' manner.

 

She looks great now all leathered and shiny.

 

Oh, and some arsehole used the front of the Mazda as a parking aid AGAIN last night. Another new front number plate required and the plastic plinth behind as well for good measure. What's worse is: the alarm must have gone off (it did the multiple bleeps thing when I turned it off this morning) and I didn't sodding hear it.

 

Also went into an actual shop (as opposed to eBay or Amazon where I normally shop) 'cos I wanted a new kitchen knife - I only have one and I broke it last week doing something to the car. I came out £71 worse off after buying loads of stuff I didn't need (breadbin, new can opener, and....) amd a fancy block of wood with LOADS of sharp knives embedded in it - I feel like King Arthur now whenever I have to cut something!

 

The above reminded me why I don't go in shops: I am financially irresponsible and have no self control and I am prone to bouts of 'Magpie' shopping.

My Kia has a plinth thing to for the front plate. Someone broke it in a carpark 2 years ago and i'm still trying to get one. Hens teeth comes to mind.

[michael1703]

Jake bugg,

 

What the Fuck is that cunt singing about? I can't understand a word of it

[dollywobbler]

Only bettered when they have a member of staff milling around asking if they can help whilst you stand in the huge queue, "yes by getting behind a desk and serving people!"

 

I'm afraid this is a personal bug-bear of mine. "Do you want me to show you how to use the machine?" No I don't you patronising twat. I actually thought it might be nice to speak to a human and help justify their job! This happens pretty much every time I go to my bank. They've spent a shitload of money revamping the service desks, but don't actually want you anywhere near them!

[dave21478]

 

Austria is becoming more and more uncomfortable and shitty. 

 

Yesterday, we had our big election for a new president, watched by more than 100 different media-houses from outside the country. 

 

You can read it here:

 

http://www.thelocal.at/20160523/left-winger-van-der-bellen-wins-austrian-presidential-election-beating-far-right

 

Now that our President will be the "left winger" like they say, the other half of the people that voted for the right winger are very angry. 

Many of them wont accept the poll, they talk about electoral fraud and that they wont accept the President. Many of them, mostly on

Facebook, say that "maybe the winner may die" or something like that. 

 

It seems like Austria is going in a completely wrong direction. People are agitating, many people are very angry because of the politics. 

I fear there may be a big bang coming in Austria. I hope I am not right, but somehow it feels like that. 

 

I am not feeling comfortable anymore in Austria. 

 

So there may be two things that can be done by me:

 

Quit Facebook, so that I dont have to see and read all that shit that gets posted there all day anymore.

Or quit Austria and emigrate somewhere else. But I own a house and all that and I would not want to give this up. 

 

I am really feeling uncomfortable because we have a 9 month old boy and I am not feeling good when I think about whats going on in this

rich and peaceful country now. How much hate and anger is in the air and in the head of many people. How will the future for our little boy

be? And will he have a good future in Austria or will we have to emigrate?  

 

 

 

France is apparently pretty well fucked. Right wing, rising tensions, immigrants blah blah blah.

I am blissfully ignorant of all of this as I dont use wankbook, dont watch TV, dont read any papers or news sites and just live my boring little rural life in ignorance.

Yes, I am very uninformed about whats going on around me, but this makes life tolerable.

 

FFS, I learned about the current fuel shortages via a thread on here!

 

I dont have kids though. If I did, I would be gone from here before they got to school age.

[Lukas]

Now, the right wing-people spread on facebook that the winning left-wing-man should be assassinated.     

 

I mean, come on! That´s not a joke anymore! And they spread that with their real names! 

 

I dont know if people got more stupid now or if people were this kind of stupid since the beginning of man-kind and Facebook just helps them to spread their bullshit! 

[dollywobbler]

I really don't understand why all this right wing chunter is going on across Europe. If it was all people who are facing daily misery and failing to find work, due to a perceived influx of migrants, I could understand it, but it seems to be that an awful lot of the people whining about how this country has gone to the dogs are very, very comfortable in financial terms. Is it because they feel they have most to lose or something?

[dave21478]

I'm afraid this is a personal bug-bear of mine. "Do you want me to show you how to use the machine?" No I don't you patronising twat. I actually thought it might be nice to speak to a human and help justify their job! This happens pretty much every time I go to my bank. They've spent a shitload of money revamping the service desks, but don't actually want you anywhere near them!

The lack of common sense in customer "service" is stunning.

 

I was in McDonalds a few days back and it was getting busy. A pair of giffers were there treating their small grandkid and had no clue what they wanted or how it all worked, probably had never been in the place before. The burgersmith then spent ages trying to show a pair of 80+ old folks how to use the touch screen self-order point. Jesus fuck, woman....just take their bloody order and get things moving. Now isnt the time to try and educate pensioners about touchscreen technology.

 

I took a friend to the station yesterday morning. She had booked a ticket online with her telephone and supposedly had to go to a collection point with her phone to collect a paper ticket....seems kinda counter productive, but whatever.....No collection points in this station, so she had to queue up for ages while one woman slowly worked through the waiting travellers as two others stood around with their thumbs up their arses.

[dave21478]

I really don't understand why all this right wing chunter is going on across Europe. If it was all people who are facing daily misery and failing to find work, due to a perceived influx of migrants, I could understand it, but it seems to be that an awful lot of the people whining about how this country has gone to the dogs are very, very comfortable in financial terms. Is it because they feel they have most to lose or something?

 

 

Its a bit of both. My clients are wealthy...flat with a view of the Eiffer Tower, Chateau here in the south for the holidays....

I try to keep the conversation to stuff I know about like gardening, but itsometimes drifts to politics. They admit to voting for the National Front because too much tax income is being wasted on the feckless and the lazy, apparently, which also includes brown people.

 

On the other hand a lot of low income families are seing services and benefits being reduced while the costs of living spiral upwards. Apparently gfetting rid of the forrins will fix this.

 

This is getting way too political for the main board now though so I will finish by moaning that the shitlander is randomly losing  a header tanks worth of water every now and then. No obvious causes and no pattern to it. Its been fine for the last few days now.

[Lukas]

I really don't understand why all this right wing chunter is going on across Europe. If it was all people who are facing daily misery and failing to find work, due to a perceived influx of migrants, I could understand it, but it seems to be that an awful lot of the people whining about how this country has gone to the dogs are very, very comfortable in financial terms. Is it because they feel they have most to lose or something?

 

Austria is still a very rich country. Even "normal" workers have two cars, a flat or a house, can go on holiday twice a year and most of them can even affort a motorbike for the weekends. 

 

But many people here are in fear and anger that they might loose some of their wealth because of the immigrants that came to our country and because of all the people that are wainting in Turkey and Greece to come to Europe. 

 

I´ve talked to a friend of mine who is a mechanic and earny 1000€ per month. Not much, but he´s got a quiet job in a small little workshop. He told me he has to rent a flat for ~ 500€ and has to live from the rest the whole month. Of course he gets money for his daughter, but he has to turn every Euro twice before spending it. 

 

And then there are boulevard-newspapers that are righting about immigrant-families who can live in a flat for free and get almost the same money he works for from the state. Thats causing a lot of anger. And they hope the right-wing FPÖ will change that. Of course they wont, but people want to believe that. 

[panhard65]

Bloody bodgers that pretend to know what they are doing with classic cars are my moan for today. I bought an MG Midget a few weeks ago part restored and very cheap so I wasn't expecting much. First up the new brake pipes they had fitted were too short and the front to rear was rubbing on the propshaft as it wouldn't fit in the clips. Not really a problem and soon sorted. Then I pull the handbrake on a bit hard and find that they had welded round the outer cable mounting bracket and done nothing about the fact that the bracket wasn't attached to anything. Again only slightly grumpy about this. The final score was last week I finally manged to complete the front suspension rebuild and try it up the road, the brakes stuck on. The dimwit obviously couldn't be arsed to get new master cylinders (which are cheap and easily available). He decided to make whatever shit he had kicking around fit. This involved cutting all the mounting bolts off the pedal box and refitting a brake master cylinder with one 8mm bolt at the top and a 4mm bolt at the bottom. The clutch only had the bolt at the top. He also had to bodge the links that attach to the pedals which were welded together so badly that the brake pedal got stuck and jammed in the bore. So new pedal box and 2 new correct cylinders and it should work !! Does it buggery the twat had fitted a metal pipe for the clutch which is too big a bore so the new cylinder can't shift enough fluid to completly release the clutch. New plastic pipe now ordered which will hopefully be here before the mot on thursday.

[nebuchenezer]

I really don't understand why all this right wing chunter is going on across Europe. If it was all people who are facing daily misery and failing to find work, due to a perceived influx of migrants, I could understand it, but it seems to be that an awful lot of the people whining about how this country has gone to the dogs are very, very comfortable in financial terms. Is it because they feel they have most to lose or something?

Nimbyist cunts mainly imo

 

Having spent the last 8 days at a greek island hotel populated by us 4 and a 30+ english wedding party from the saff east i am now ready to hapily commit murder on a biblical scale.

 

Thankfully today is the day the munter and tatood knob spunk 10K on a speshal beach betrothment so i can finally have some rebate from the noise and access the pool

[Junkman]

I fear there may be a big bang coming in Austria.

 

Don't start the revolution without me!

 

Or quit Austria and emigrate somewhere else. But I own a house and all that and I would not want to give this up.

There lies the fundamental issue. One can't change anything without changing everything, that's exactly why nothing ever changes.

 

I have left Austria ages ago never to return, unless there are some severe changes made. The main problem I have with that country, is that it is firmly based on corruption and neptotism. Although this isn't unknown in other countries, nowhere else it is so ingrained into each and every level of society and culture.

In Austria, you either belong to the correct party/freemasons lodge/whichever of the gazillion stupid leagues/assiciations/clubs they have there, or you are out.

Every time I see an Austrian newspaper, on the front page there is a photo of a group of moronically grinning retards belonging to some dumbfucked mob.

This cronyism has meanwhile reached such excessive levels, that legal processes aren't even considered anymore.

What that country really needs is a radical removal of all the sleaze.

 

Van Der Bellen, my arse. I don't give a flying monkey which of the countless corrupt gangs of inbreds he belongs to, but I refuse to be associated with him in any way.

One has to be ashamed to be Austrian.

[captain_70s]

 

 

Quit Facebook, so that I dont have to see and read all that shit that gets posted there all day anymore.

Or quit Austria and emigrate somewhere else. But I own a house and all that and I would not want to give this up. 

The bad news is that the right wing morons have always existed and always will but they seem to be shouting louder than ever and social media doesn't help. The good news is that you don't have to listen to them if you ditch Facebook like I did. I miss the shite car pictures but as a whole site is a total load of bollocks.

 

Europe is going to shit (and the UK is the same) because a government won't get voted in if they tell their populace they are fat and lazy and have ruined their countries, far easier to subtly blame immigrants, refugees etc. Tell the people what they want to hear...

[burraston2006]

Decided to mow the lawn this afternoon. I appreciate that the lawn is not a bowling green but when the fuck did Flymos stop hovering. I was sweating like the Pope in a nunnery by the time I finished and it still didn't cut properly/nicely. I'm going to have to invest in a proper mower!

[strangeangel]

The final score was last week I finally manged to complete the front suspension rebuild and try it up the road, the brakes stuck on. The dimwit obviously couldn't be arsed to get new master cylinders (which are cheap and easily available). He decided to make whatever shit he had kicking around fit. This involved cutting all the mounting bolts off the pedal box and refitting a brake master cylinder with one 8mm bolt at the top and a 4mm bolt at the bottom. The clutch only had the bolt at the top. He also had to bodge the links that attach to the pedals which were welded together so badly that the brake pedal got stuck and jammed in the bore. So new pedal box and 2 new correct cylinders and it should work !! Does it buggery the twat had fitted a metal pipe for the clutch which is too big a bore so the new cylinder can't shift enough fluid to completly release the clutch. New plastic pipe now ordered which will hopefully be here before the mot on thursday.

 

This is exactly the sort of thing I had to deal with week in, week out when I had an old Land Rover back in the day. Some people just shouldn't be allowed to have tools.

[michael1703]

My clients are wealthy...flat with a view of the Eiffer Tower, Chateau here in the south for the holidays....

I try to keep the conversation to stuff I know about like gardening, but itsometimes drifts to politics.

Dave at work

 

[HillmanImp]

FFS. I just decided to give the Jag an oil and filter change and the bloody oil filler cap is stuck on. WTF?

 

It only tightens. Won't undo.

 

A quick google suggests that it will work again when the car has cooled down as its something to do with the plastics but I mean, how difficult is it to make a filler cap that works? Someone paid £50k for this car.

 

I suppose this will stop me leaving it on the rocker cover.......