The grumpy thread

[adw1977]

What am I supposed to do with that?

 

Put it in the for sale thread?

[Supernaut]

Actually, I can imagine Davenumbers somehow integrating it into a gate-opening mechanism or re-purposing it to repair a lawnmower / angle grinder / insert tool or implement of your choice here.

[Slartibartfast]

Put it in the for sale thread?

Just not its own thread.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Why not make two threads. One for the part and the other for a slightly used to useful giant empty cardboard box

[tooSavvy]

Captain Furious, on 15 Feb 2018 - 3:46 PM, said:

 

If that was Rimmer Bro's a box that size would just contain one bolt and a million billion packing peanuts.

 

Ahhh... We used to get 'refurb' CRT sent out from stores and a lucky[un]dip of >>

 

A . foam in a silver bag (expands to form shape of item in box) YaY

 

B . a zillion foam Pnuts GaHH

 

 

B would result in a large drift of poly, and the poor guy has to shovel it back in (with a sheet of A4) around the duff return.

 

FF..FF..SS.. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

TS

[Kiltox]

As a follow up to my alternator woes, here is the bill.

 

I got £60 back for the old alternator and a 10% discount for being a "silver advantage member" (I don't recall ever signing up for that, I think the guy arranging the work was helping me out there). Not sure what the £60 labelled "alternator assy" is - belt & fittings maybe?

 

Anyway it's done now. Better than I was originally quoted over the phone and I'm fairly happy all told.

You didn’t get anything back - the £60 they’ve added on will be the “deposit” for the old alternator and then they give you it back for returning it

 

I’m guessing it’s an internal accounting thing but if you buy an alternator from say Euro it’ll have a £x surcharge on which fhey refund when you take your old one in

[Cavcraft]

Some horrible little toe rag near me has passed away. That’s not the grumpy bit, there are extremely few people I’d truly wish death on, it’s just that I never got to him the shoeing I promised him and that he so thoroughly deserved.

[John F]

Would the graveyard be on the way home from your next "work night out", Billy? And you with a full bladder, an' all...

[Bren]

Would the graveyard be on the way home from your next "work night out", Billy? And you with a full bladder, an' all...

...or colon...

[M'coli]

The Berlingo Wolverine, available in distinctive blue and yellow paintwork and with big metal spikes that come out the bumpers when you get road rage.

Hmmm, there's a certain ring to a Holden Thylacine...

[Supernaut]

Some horrible little toe rag near me has passed away. That’s not the grumpy bit, there are extremely few people I’d truly wish death on, it’s just that I never got to him the shoeing I promised him and that he so thoroughly deserved.

Let me guess... crashed a stolen motorbike?

 

 

 

Get a few of them round here, then the parents come out of the woodwork with all the "HE WAS A ICKLE ANGEL AND WUD NEVAR DO ANYTHING RONG" etc. etc.

 

It's at the point where Police Scotland have a no-pursuit policy when it comes to stolen motorbikes.

[chaseracer]

If that was Amazon a box that size would just contain one oil filter gasket.

 

EFA.

[artdjones]

The Berlingo Wolverine, available in distinctive blue and yellow paintwork and with big metal spikes that come out the bumpers when you get road rage.

Or the Peugeot Bipper Homicidal Maniac.

[sierraman]

Let me guess... crashed a stolen motorbike?

 

 

Get a few of them round here, then the parents come out of the woodwork with all the "HE WAS A ICKLE ANGEL AND WUD NEVAR DO ANYTHING RONG" etc. etc.

 

It's at the point where Police Scotland have a no-pursuit policy when it comes to stolen motorbikes.

Same round me. Everybody knows they are cunts, fact they've bought the farm doesn't change my thoughts about them.

[DeeJay]

Some horrible little toe rag near me has passed away. That’s not the grumpy bit, there are extremely few people I’d truly wish death on, it’s just that I never got to him the shoeing I promised him and that he so thoroughly deserved.

His father will be the next of kin, give him the hiding for fathering a prick.

[timolloyd]

London cyclists

 

I will end up punching one of the cunts quite soon - red lights/pavements/highway code mean nothing to them

 

I'm a fairly easygoing person but actively wanting to to see one of them run over is a bit worrying

Not all London cyclists. In the same way I don't think every driver in London is a cunt. Good and bad examples of each - it helps to make a point of noticing the good examples you see, in my experience

[eddyramrod]

His father will be the next of kin, give him the hiding for fathering a prick.

You're assuming anybody knows who the "father" was...

[Kiltox]

Not all London cyclists. In the same way I don't think every driver in London is a cunt. Good and bad examples of each - it helps to make a point of noticing the good examples you see, in my experience

Every driver in London IS a cunt, including me if I ever drive there

[myglaren]

Sucks ass doesn't it. Ive been avoiding doing this for years, mainly cos our cunt bastard cat has clawed certain bits of the carpet and there's no freaking way anybody's getting it to go back again intact.

Took my stair carpet up three years ago to fix the squeaky floorboards/stairs and to shut up the banging of the central heating pipes.

One day I will fit a replacement carpet.

[STUNO]

Bugger, you would think that if there is only 1 car parked in the street that a ute driver going backwards down the street would be able to miss it (" I'm sorry, I didn't see it"). not the end of the world, at worst a replacement bumper.

 

[Roobarb]

Okay, so you can be 'bovered' to push the shopping trolley for an hour and a half around Walmart...

 

...while talking to your friend 'Chelsea' - who 'no he didn't, she didn't, like oh my god, I can't believe it...'

 

...and frankly, I hand it to you that you can do two things at once (because to look at you, I would have guessed you struggled to dress yourself this morning)...

 

...but then considering your high brow conversation - 'yeah, well I always thought she was easy...'

 

Why the b0ll0cks can't you work out how to push the bAstard trolley back to the 'trolley park'???

 

You know, the place where all the other bl00dy trolleys live - which is about 30seconds away from your car?

 

30 seconds after you pushed the bAstard thing for nearly two hours (I have to add, skillfully single handed, with head often tilted to one side - while chewing gum no less) while you moan about god knows what inane sh!t on the phone...

 

Instead you leave it to roll around, in the middle of the car park, free to romp down light inclines and as a nice little surprise for my return, come to rest down the side of MY F¥cKiNG CAR!!!

 

No prizes for guessing what happened to me today...

[Roobarb]

Bugger, you would think that if there is only 1 car parked in the street that a ute driver going backwards down the street would be able to miss it (" I'm sorry, I didn't see it"). not the end of the world, at worst a replacement bumper.

 

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Man - today I feel your pain.

[barmatt]

Wide awake because my idiotic fuckin neighbour doesn't understand that burning unseasoned wood and not having your chimney swept is a bad idea!! Got woken by the sound of a fire engine, lots of commotion etc and then an hour or so of them scraping the chimney stack to make sure it's out. That's the second chimney fire he's had in 4 years. Think I'm going to have to have a word with this retard before he kills the lot of us.

 

Thank god for our local volunteer fire crew or we'd have been toast years ago.

[bub2006]

Bastard. Broke my glasses. Shit cunt fuck cock Womble knock kneed fuckpig

[Jazoli]

Aye me too, bought 2 new pairs last month all singing and dancing with fancy coatings, one pair fell off as I was coming down a ladder and I stood on them, the second pair I dropped a trolley jack on them, thank god glasses direct have an offer on, currently using Poundland specials, headache central.

[95 quid Peugeot]

Goblin works garage.  Cnuts

I'm normally in bed by 9pm due to early starts... stayed up to watch one last night  as they were doing a Naughty Nissan Z , what a trio of dick splashes ,an hour of my already short remaining life wasted..

Oh and whilst i'm on ranting mode i feel sorry for the nice old man who's 2CV van they bought and then proceeded to slag off for the whole programme.

 

End of rant.....end of broadcast.

[The Moog]

Spent most of last night at hospital due to missus Moog having suspected heart attack (it wasn't)

 

But honestly the state of the hospital is scary.

 

Patients in trolleys line the corridors everywhere which cant be right. The staff do their best, but it is obvious that more money needs to go into the NHS urgently or we will lose something amazing.

 

That plus sod all sleep means grumpy Moog today.

[Coprolalia]

Moog- every day.

We've been shouting about it as a profession for a while, but until joe public go to A&E and have to wait 6 hours to be seen it's ignored.

 

Population average age is increasing. Older people need more medical help. Demand goes up. Money doesn't.

[Slartibartfast]

I observed the same thing when I took one of my kids into A&E recently (after being advised to do so by 111). They literally had a triage for the triage. There was a nurse station set up by the door handing out numbers. The nurse was absent, and remained absent for about 20 minutes while people queued for a number. Fortunately a passing cleaner saw I had a child with me and got me a number from the cart. The adults waiting weren't so lucky. This number gained you access to the queue for the window where the receptionists sit. I've never known it this bad.

[Captain Furious]

Goblin works garage.  Cnuts

 

 

I haven't seen this particular one, but a quick google search reveals it roughly fits the standard formula - guys restoring\customising old cars, token hot chick, whacky indervidewal styling, grumpy eccentric "money man" etc.  There seems to be a glut of these garage documentaries appearing and they're mostly absolute shite.  I strongly doubt any are as utterly dreadful as supercar megabuild though.