The grumpy thread

[AlabamaShrimp]

I’d call 101 to be honest. It’s dangerous and unlit.

It's nothing to do with the police you need to call highways at the council.

[mercrocker]

Are there any phone numbers on that skip?   Failing that a pile of burning pallets in it will make it nice and visible.

[beko1987]

Go buy a 50p road legal car and crash into it. That'll learn em

[Parky]

Get Sheefag to fill it with Argos catalogues?

[strangeangel]

Are there any phone numbers on that skip? Failing that a pile of burning pallets in it will make it nice and visible.

No, there are no markings on it anywhere.

[mercrocker]

Pallets it is then.....Really, these things should be numbered/plated like semi-trailers are.   No point reporting it to anybody if its unmarked.

[DodgeRover]

Want a bet it's full of asbestos or old tyres, abandoned unlit where it's likely to cause an accident I would say it's definitely a police matter, wether or not 101 will answer is any bodies guess.

[Kiltox]

Go borrow a Maxus and crash into it. That'll learn em

[Sheefag]

Free skips don't come along everyday. I'd be clearing the garden and chucking all me rubbish in and encouraging the neighbours to do the same.

When life gives you lemons etc.

[beko1987]

So it turns out my car won't start if it's in gear, as I found out when I stalled negotiating a massive pile of frozen snow in our road... Very clever, and makes sense now, but my sphincter tightened as I pushed the start button and nothing happened...Was the same feeling I had in the XM, where, after taking amy and the kids to Peterborough not long after I had it, it wouldn't start either... 10 minutes of panic/deep concentrated fault finding before I realised it wasn't fully in P...

[somewhatfoolish]

and finally the new frock for work has a zip up the back, which i can, just about, really just about manage to fasten on my own.

 

just. so great for getting into and out of on my own, when i'm away from home during the week. when at work, which is what i bought it for!!

 

if my shoulders were double jointed then it would be fine.

 

bloody marvelous...... what man thought that was a good idea???

 

FFS, i should have stayed in bed this morning.

A metal coat hanger, as well as being the essential ICE accessory of the 1970s, if mangled appropriately will double as a puller-of-awkwardly-placed-zippers.

[sierraman]

Free skips don't come along everyday. I'd be clearing the garden and chucking all me rubbish in and encouraging the neighbours to do the same.

When life gives you lemons etc.

Chuck lumps concrete in. It’s usually dearer and they’ll charge extra or tell you to take it out.

[Sheefag]

Get yours and all the neighbours hoses out. Fill with water. Portable Ice Rink.

[DodgeRover]

Chuck lumps concrete in. It’s usually dearer and they’ll charge extra or tell you to take it out.

Really? It's cheaper to get rid of a skip of builders rubble than household rubbish round here!

In fact I can get a grab wagon to take a full load of rubble for about the same price as a big skip of general waste.

 

Tyres, plasterboard, fridges and asbestos are all big no no's though - as are fires in the skip.

 

Honestly I would say that's going to have been filled already before being dumped....

[richardmorris]

It's nothing to do with the police you need to call highways at the council.

 

Rubbish, its a hazard isn't it? What do you want to do wait until someone crashes into it?

 

from the surrey police website...

 

Because the local highways authority deals with these issues, the police only need to be involved if there is a significant risk to others OR there has been a collision AND someone is injured - in this case call 999.

 

An unlit container in the road certainly presents a significant risk.

[oldcars]

Get yours and all the neighbours hoses out. Fill with water. Portable Ice Rink.

Decorate with tinsel, charge £5 a go. Festive* Santa land 

[Sheefag]

Tyres, plasterboard, fridges and asbestos are all big no no's though - as are fires in the skip.

 

Fill with above and set on fire.

 

Sing carols around it with neighbours whilst imbibing quantities of Buckfast, for added Christmas community spirit.

[sierraman]

Really? It's cheaper to get rid of a skip of builders rubble than household rubbish round here!

In fact I can get a grab wagon to take a full load of rubble for about the same price as a big skip of general waste.

 

Tyres, plasterboard, fridges and asbestos are all big no no's though - as are fires in the skip.

 

Honestly I would say that's going to have been filled already before being dumped....

The one near us charges more if it’s full of hardcore and concrete etc. Don’t know why as general waste costs more to sort through. I’m guessing it’s to do with weight and how they dispose of it. Classed as heavy waste.

[Anthony]

Slack ba**ard co-workers milking the current weather as an excuse not to come into work.

 

Considering I work in a group of nine, the fact that yesterday just three of us made it in and today five is frankly pitiful.

 

The most annoying thing is that despite some of it being very easily provable as a crock of lies (e.g. "the busses weren't running") management will do nothing at all about it.

[beko1987]

I nearly sacked work off today, the m40 had a crash just before my junction, I even pulled over to check Google maps. Then I remembered I had to pack parcels at my mums for posting so carried on

[fordperv]

When they have it Lidl’s concentrated screen wash 5l for £4.99 is excellent, good for -30 I think. Their premix is ok, but not a patch on the other.

I use the 5L pre mix Halfords purple stuff for £4-5 (can't quite remember price) i cant fault it, never had frozen washer jets with it either and it smells delicious

[DVee8]

I use the 5L pre mix Halfords purple stuff for £4-5 (can't quite remember price) i cant fault it, never had frozen washer jets with it either and it smells delicious

Same here,except I bought 5,5ltr bottles/containers that were damaged for £1.00 each last Christmas.

[Bren]

We used to have a list of excuses on the wall for not turning in.

It had gems such as "the sheds on fire" and "i've shit myself."

[anonymous user]

We used to have a list of excuses on the wall for not turning in.

It had gems such as "the sheds on fire" and "i've shit myself."

Reminds me of my old boss's excuse list,that we kept to explain his absence to important people (like his wife). "He's on a course this afternoon" being used frequently when he'd gone to play golf.

[strangeangel]

Well, that gargantuan skip has gone, replaced by a much smaller yellow one flanked by reflective cones. BIG UP THE HIGHWAYS MASSIVE.

[Sheefag]

Fill this one with shite as well. All the absolute worst stuff you've wanted to get rid of for years. Put an advert on Facebook/Gumtree and invite others.

[320touring]

Glasgow airport looks odd tonight..

 

 

Flight got diverted due to iced runway at Glasgow , then we had a fun* 1h30 sitting on the plane until a bus arrives to take us to the terminal.

 

No refreshments were offered, cabin crew invisible, but captain did inform us occasionally.

 

Their solution was to offer a coach in rush hour traffic.

 

I am now on a tram going east to get a train west.

 

Laughable.

[Kiltox]

Liked for opening line not the rest

[320touring]

Liked for opening line not the rest

In the grand scheme of things it's insignificant, esp as I'm warm and dry, and awaiting a train to the bustling metropolis* of Croy.

 

The thing that annoys me is it was obvious that there was no contingency plan at all

 

Not like it ever rains then freezes on winter in Scotland, or that flights get diverted.

 

They also managed to send out 2 refuelling trucks, the second coming after we had been told that the time to fuel and fly to Glasgow was too long.

 

Then the bus turned up to get us, and had to go away again to pick up a 2nd member of staff for escorting us onto the bus (fair enough, but maybe get them on the way to the plane?)

[loserone]

Get yours and all the neighbours hoses out. Fill with water. Portable Ice Rink.

 

 

Free skips don't come along everyday. I'd be clearing the garden and chucking all me rubbish in and encouraging the neighbours to do the same.

When life gives you lemons etc.

 

 

Fill with above and set on fire.

 

Sing carols around it with neighbours whilst imbibing quantities of Buckfast, for added Christmas community spirit.

 

 

Fill this one with shite as well. All the absolute worst stuff you've wanted to get rid of for years. Put an advert on Facebook/Gumtree and invite others.

 

I reckon you're a grade A cunt, sheefag.

 

I trust you'll understand that's intended to be nothing but a complement.