The grumpy thread

[purplebargeken]

That really could have been so much worse. Thankfully it wasn't.

 

Must be bloody horrible for all concerned.

[vulgalour]

xtriple:  sell one, see how you feel.  Sounds like the Bentley is the real keeper and easy to live with, if expensive, so sell that one last if you really have to.

 

MM:  ouch.  It is surprisingly easy to lose sight of a motorbike, no matter how careful you are, especially as everything gets busier and more cluttered.

[purplebargeken]

Friend of mine at work took her newish Pug 2008 for it's MOT. Passed fine but had a nail in the tyre next day. She took it to P*o T**e who informed her that she needed two new tyres on the front and new disks and pads at the front. They charged her just over £500 for that little lot. I was fuming.

[robinmasters]

...we have mostly killed the lexus..think the rider has bust a leg, but his missus, on the pillion was ok...was all our fault

Liked for the use of the Family Guy picture only.

[oldcars]

First ton of salt down already, gets earlier and longer  each year. I need to win the lottery. Get a big garage and put the nice stuff away for the winter and run a banger. Hate using the 75 in the salt but needs must.

[Guest Hooli]

I wish the council would use their salt budgets on providing the services they are meant to provide.

[oldcars]

I wish the council would use their salt budgets on providing the services they are meant to provide.

I agree. I know roads need salted but its 5 deg here and dry. There must be something they can use that's as good as salt but not so corrosive.

[Guest Hooli]

The roads don't need salting nearly as much as they get done in this country, let people crash until they learn to drive & then the roads will be safer all year.

[Louise2cv]

"needs salted".

 

I still struggle with this form that crops up on here and in eBay ads (needs fixed, wants washed).

 

Even if exposed to it through local dialect I can't understand how it sound natural or correct? Isn't it as grating as could of, would of, should of?

[Guest Hooli]

You mean that's deliberate? I thought it was a typo/autocorrect thing.

[Louise2cv]

I'm not 100% sure in that case, but we have discussed it before and apparently it is in common usage up north (not sure how North but I think one of our Scottish members argued it formed part of his dialect and therefore was typed quite naturally).

 

I just can't get to grips with it.

[dollywobbler]

"needs salted".

 

I still struggle with this form that crops up on here and in eBay ads (needs fixed, wants washed).

 

Even if exposed to it through local dialect I can't understand how it sound natural or correct? Isn't it as grating as could of, would of, should of?

 

I just regard it as a delightfully quirky Scotishism.

 

Moving earlier, sorry to hear about the Lexus smash. That is the downside of a long bonnet. Hope Mr Rider recovers.

[AMC Rebel]

I remember my Dad once burst in on me masturbating. I still remember it to this day. He said “Don’t do that son, it’ll send you blind”

 

I said “Dad, I’m over here”.

Can I carry on just till I need glasses?

[holbeck]

today we have mostly killed the lexus.

 

Sorry to hear that mm. Hope the biker isn't too serious

 

 

Sometimes life just hands you a shit sandwich.

[scaryoldcortina]

I'm not 100% sure in that case, but we have discussed it before and apparently it is in common usage up north (not sure how North but I think one of our Scottish members argued it formed part of his dialect and therefore was typed quite naturally).

 

I just can't get to grips with it.

 It is a dialect thing - North east england and southern scotland mostly,  sounds odd at first but you get used to the mangled tenses eventually. Looks worse written down, I'll give you that.

[Louise2cv]

I suppose it's what you're used to, like when I went to sparky college in Rotherham and the tea lady said she'd "mash the tea... while ten minutes"

 

What the... what?

[cobblers]

I'm from Rotherham and I've never heard it said like that before, maybe she was just a bit thick and couldn't talk properly.

[5speedracer]

Nobody wrote "needs salting".

 

We had "need (to be) salted" and "need salting".

 

Whether either or both are said in Rotherham I am unable to confirm.

 

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[vulgalour]

I've not heard someone say they're going to "mash the tea" for ages.  Ah, childhood.

[fordperv]

I've not heard someone say they're going to "mash the tea" for ages. Ah, childhood.

I get asked this by a lady at work bless her

[Ghosty]

Tyreleader have fucked something up.

After trying to ring me while my phone was broken last week I got an email from them saying the garage address where I’d had some tyres sent didn’t exist, and the order was cancelled and I’d be refunded.

No refund yet and it’s been 10 days.

[Cavcraft]

"needs salted".

 

I still struggle with this form that crops up on here and in eBay ads (needs fixed, wants washed).

 

Even if exposed to it through local dialect I can't understand how it sound natural or correct? Isn't it as grating as could of, would of, should of?

+1.

 

I think it’s just a stupid ‘new’ fad all this ‘needs restored’ and what not. I wonder if most people who type like this also put ‘alot’ a lot.

[BorniteIdentity]

0c/32f at 4 this morning.

 

I managed 50,000 miles out of the Michelin CrossClimate tyres over 2 years and have just replaced them like for like. Scrubbed in nicely over the weekend and performed well in the cold snap earlier. I do like good quality tyres. So no rant about salt here.

 

I would like to rant about my boss, who’s very keen to plaster the wall at work with motivational memes. I suggested ‘Eat well, keep fit, die anyway’ which got a laugh but didn’t make the final cut.

[Pillock]

Yorkshire is "while" instead of "until".

"I'll go down to the pub while eleven and stagger home"

 

MM... Hope you're ok, sounds like the biker will mend swiftly. One of them things, nobody's seriously injured and you're happy to accept it's your fault so hopefully won't drag on for anyone.

 

I nearly ran a bloke over in Nottingham last week. Pulled out a junction and didn't see him crossing the main road.

He was on a pedestrian crossing with green man/red lights.

It was a PCSO in full high vis.

Had my wife not yelped I'd have hit him. God knows where my eyes were pointing.... Scary really.

[anonymous user]

0c/32f at 4 this morning.

 

I managed 50,000 miles out of the Michelin CrossClimate tyres over 2 years and have just replaced them like for like. Scrubbed in nicely over the weekend and performed well in the cold snap earlier. I do like good quality tyres. So no rant about salt here.

 

I would like to rant about my boss, who’s very keen to plaster the wall at work with motivational memes. I suggested ‘Eat well, keep fit, die anyway’ which got a laugh but didn’t make the final cut.

My favourite is "We're not happy until you're not happy"

[Pillock]

 

 

I would like to rant about my boss, who’s very keen to plaster the wall at work with motivational memes. I suggested ‘Eat well, keep fit, die anyway’ which got a laugh but didn’t make the final cut.

 

https://despair.com/collections/demotivators

[RobT]

I'm irritated and need to vent.

 

I ordered some interior doors online from B&Q today.  Went through the process thinking a delivery slot will be offered at the end, but no.  So I phoned up and was told they are scheduled for delivery on Thursday, with no option to change.  It states on the web-site delivery is ‘up to’ 4 days, not ‘it will be in 4 days’ and to deal with it.  People have lives FFS.

 

Should have paid 30 quid more and gone to Wickes...

 

[eddyramrod]

 

I Should have done what eddyramrod did and gone to ebay...

 

EFA

[Lord Sterling]

It's Monday and already this week can FUCK OFF.

 

Today had a few short trips and finished early or so I thought.

 

My job tomorrow is from Long Marsden in Warwickshire. This means I get to go home but have to make my own way home from Banbury in Oxfordshire, then in the morning to Warwickshire. Thinking I'd be clever and save a bit of money, I thought I'd call up another colleague who was heading slightly further south to Kidlington then another job out heading towards Wolverhampton. Except when we arrived, his job in Kidlington had failed (vehicle was sold to another third-party). So it meant waiting around for an hour or so until the office could get their arse shifted into gear to confirm the job wasn't there and then decide where he was going after that. In thier infinate wisdom, they decided that he should make his own way home as I was supposed to have done earlier.

 

Fair enough, but upon trying to buy a discounted ticket through a train split-ticketting site, the site rejected my card, I then remembered that I've got bills coming out in a few days time and I'm already at the limit. Thinking 'FUCK this, I want to go home' I bought a ticket straight from the machine costing me £40 instead of the £16 it would have cost me splitting the ticket. It'll be another £10 to get home in a taxi as our wonderful busses stop plying their trade after 6pm.

 

Phoned up work and explained my circumstances, they said they'd help me get to my next job tomorrow. I cannot honestly see this week going well...

[Anthony]

My missus and her complete lack of understanding of traffic and how long it takes to get anywhere.

 

I told her it would take 2 hours to get to Heathrow yesterday evening given the weight of traffic heading back into London after half term. Apparently I didn't know what I was talking about as someone from work told her it'd take an hour so she could leave later. Unsurprisingly, it took 1h 57m, she missed her flight and my left ear is now a little deafer than it was.

 

Was meant to be picking her up again at 8.30pm tonight, which I only agreed to as the traffic would be quiet then. She phoned a short time ago to say she'd got on an earlier flight and that I now needed to pick her up at 6.30pm instead, when chances are traffic will still be a nightmare, which of course she had no consideration for nor thought to ask whether it was convenient to collect her that early given I'm at work. Inevitably I'll be late as there's no way I'll get there by the time I finish work, which will of course somehow be my fault.

 

I'm apparently "unreasonable" for suggesting that next time she should drive herself...