The grumpy thread

[dave21478]

At the vets with the dog because he's eaten a load of chocolate that our lasses mate posted for her birthday.

Same woman did the same thing last year. Ffs

 

 

soon.

[Junkman]

I envy your little grumps.

 

I got a new computer.

 

Nuff sed?

[Eddie Honda]

Had to chase a knacker member of the traveller community away who was nosing round my back yard at 2pm today.

 

No, nothing for sale round here, and no I don't know who owns the van at the entrance to the estate (yeah right, shit excuse for being here). And no I don't have any scrap metal going.

 

If I catch anyone round the back of house they better have a fucking good reason to be there else they're getting the hoe handle up their hole. I'm in the house, I've got a front door and I've got a fucking doorbell too.

[Supernaut]

Holy fuck, this winds me up like little else....it takes every ounce of self control I have to stop myself slapping it out of their hands....A couple of times in the supermarket I have been bumped into or otherwise fucked about by some piss stain with their phone horizontally in front of their chin and on speakerphone and I have been right in front of them literally winding up to slap the fucking device clear over into the pastry aisle when reality breaks in and I think "best not."

I have a friend who is a big fat scary goth type (and also works for the Met Police) who loves to tell the story of the time he actually did something similar.

Basically, some hipster twat was looking down at his phone rather than where he was going, so my mate just walked straight into him, watched the phone smash on the ground, then said "you dropped your phone, mate" and walked off.

[John F]

I've just heard the first fucking ice cream van of the year.

 

These CUNTS infest the area where I live, you can hear their nasty, tinny tunes getting closer & closer over the course of about 30 mins, then they spend the next 30 mins or so gradually fading away. And then the next one turns up.

 

This will continue on a daily basis from now until October.

 

In my head, I have tortured ice cream van drivers to death on many occasions.

[timolloyd]

At a low point with Mrs L's XC90. Bought it because high up for loading the baby, had a V70 before which I really liked, but no Isofix. Trouble is, the XC90 has presented it's 3rd big bill in 12 months/11k miles. I don't expect it to be cheap to run, but now wondering if it's a wrong 'un and whether to cut my losses

[LostnotFound]

I'm just catching up... £350k for a three bed terraced house?!

 

Fuck me sideways.

 

I've just paid £165k for a four bed semi in a quiet cul-de-sac with a four car drive and a garage big enough for a Volvo.

 

Plus it's seven minutes drive to work, the train station is about a four minute walk from the front door, Aldi is a ten minute walk and Morrisons is less than five minutes away.

 

£350k. Shit me.

 

 

 

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But how far is the walk to the nearest Waitrose? Not all of us want to live in a third world country. (runs away and hides).

 

On a more serious note, we both come from Hertfordshire and our family and friends are all around here, I really object to the decimation of the green belt in the search of a quick buck when there are plenty of cheap houses up north there really is no need for it, when it gets too expensive down here for people to live so companies can't find anyone they'll have to relocate. Pandering to London harms those of us in the South East as well as the rest of the country.

 

 

 

Oh and pickled eggs beat pickled onions, but if you are going pickled onions only one brand will do.

 

[Vin]

Oh yeah....Garner's are nice but Barry Norman onions are ACE.

[richardmorris]

My step-grandfather ( married my late grandmother in 1976 ) died this afternoon. I’ve just heard. He was in hospital but seemed better. Went in his sleep. He’s my last grandparent. I’m more upset that we haven’t spoken since he’s been in- we have emailed and I did FaceTime him a week ago but haven’t been able to get through since- 85 and deaf as a post.

 

It’s a bit of a shock really as we didn’t think he was particularly bad and the nurses kept saying he was fine.

 

Anyway, for the purposes of the site, he was a big Talbot fan - had a thing about buying European cars of the year!

Had motorbikes in his youth and a v8 ford and was a stoker on the flying Scotsman.

 

I’m 200 miles away so can’t do anything really, his son just lives up the road though. Will give him a ring later.

[cms206]

 

 

But how far is the walk to the nearest Waitrose? Not all of us want to live in a third world country. (runs away and hides).

15 minute drive, 6.9 miles.

 

I did have to check though...

 

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[Jim Bell]

At the vets with the dog because he's eaten a load of chocolate that our lasses mate posted for her birthday.

Same woman did the same thing last year. Ffs

 

Stupid buer.  Hope the longnose is ok man.

[LostnotFound]

15 minute drive, 6.9 miles.

 

I did have to check though...

 

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I don't think I could use one I had to drive to, I can't imagine the parking barrier in my local one would open for anything older than a 2007 plate to keep standards up.

 

My condolences Richard, as well as to all others that have lost people recently that I haven't been online to offer the same. 

[Zelandeth]

Trailer winch on ebay with phone number, arranged a price and collect tomorrow morning.

Three hours later got a txt, 'winch sold'.

 

Last time that happened to me I'd had extensive email correspondence with the seller - and drove 150 miles with a mate, us both having taken a day off work to pick a car up.

 

Got there, and the bugger had bloody sold it while we were en route.  We were Not Amused .  Got a bloody puncture on the way home as well.  Was seriously tempted to send the sodding idiot an invoice for the new tyre.

 

 

Today paid that parking ticket I got a few days back.  Still fizzing over that.  I did look into the suggestions folks had pointed me at, but it does appear that they had indeed dotted the Ts and crossed the Is correctly.  Won't be going near that retail park ever again.

[mercrocker]

Sorry for your news, Richard.   Post "liked" in sympathy, its a bit of a life marker losing your last grand-parent.   

[Des]

15 minute drive, 6.9 miles.

 

I did have to check though...

 

Oh my giddy aunt I cannot begin to imagine how you cope, how on earth do you manage for shallots and vanilla pods?

[richardmorris]

Thanks, I’m not fishing for sympathy, just I’ve no one else to speak to this evening. He has always been the hypochondriac that keeps on ticking. The one week he didn’t complain of anything.....

[Des]

I've just heard the first fucking ice cream van of the year.

 

These CUNTS infest the area where I live, you can hear their nasty, tinny tunes getting closer & closer over the course of about 30 mins, then they spend the next 30 mins or so gradually fading away. And then the next one turns up.

 

This will continue on a daily basis from now until October.

 

In my head, I have tortured ice cream van drivers to death on many occasions.

 

You know you only need to set one van alight, then enjoy the popcorn whilst observing endless retaliatory torchings, kneecappings, drive by shootings etc.

[Hertz]

It's time to move the BMW on. It's a fantastic car but I'm not in love with it. I stuck it on ebay earlier this week and have been inundated with the usual silly offers. One chap agreed to pay the full asking price (sent me a deposit) and was picking it up yesterday, cancelled due to the insurance going to be £2500. Why didn't you check that first you numpty? To be fair he apologised and told me to keep the deposit, which has paid for a meal out with the family tonight. Another chap sounded keen and said he would come this afternoon to definitely view and buy. Still waiting for him...

 

It's par for the course I know.

[SierraMikeHotel]

It's Friday, so the missus and I went out for dinner.  There's a Thai place a couple of doors down that we tried before and didn't think much of - not terrible, but there are two other Thai places in the town that are both better and cheaper.  It's had a total change to a Japanese/Pan-Asian menu this week so we thought we'd give it another try.

 

Starters were OK (sushi that was a bit better than supermarket stuff but still a bit bland) but the mains were just terrible.  Mine was a bad dish - stated on the menu as mixed seafood with spring onion tempura in a rice bowl with miso soup, but when it arrived it was more like fritto misto - lots of little bits of battered and deep-fried fish, over a shit-ton of sticky rice, with a dribble of miso.  Dry and stodgy.  No hint of vegetable.  If I'm being generous it might have been OK as a small starter.

 

Mrs H had udon noodles, which was incredibly poorly executed.  The broccoli in it wasn't fresh (it had gone yellow), the meat was overcooked and tough, the egg was so overcooked that it had developed that green skin around the yolk, the broth was salty and I do mean SALTY and the seaweed had a weird coating on it that looked like mould.

 

Not cheap, either. 

 

We live in a small town that's 12 minutes by train from a big town.  There aren't any other Japanese restaurants here, but literally every other restaurant and pub serves better food for less money - and if you can be bothered to go to Brighton there are half-a-dozen places serving better Japanese food for less money.

 

To be fair, they knocked a chunk off the bill and offered us a free dessert (declined) but it's still a piss-take.  I've worked in small businesses and you have to be really fucking good at what you do if you want customers to come back.  We're off the tourist trail here so you've got to really woo the locals.  Not good enough.  Not just us being fussy either, a number of other people complained or walked out after their starters.

[SierraMikeHotel]

It's time to move the BMW on. It's a fantastic car but I'm not in love with it. I stuck it on ebay earlier this week and have been inundated with the usual silly offers. One chap agreed to pay the full asking price (sent me a deposit) and was picking it up yesterday, cancelled due to the insurance going to be £2500. Why didn't you check that first you numpty? To be fair he apologised and told me to keep the deposit, which has paid for a meal out with the family tonight. Another chap sounded keen and said he would come this afternoon to definitely view and buy. Still waiting for him...

 

It's par for the course I know.

 

That is massively fucking stupid but he's behaved honourably and I'd be looking at the deposit as free money!

 

Agree with the grump though, cars on ebay is like sticking your head into a wasp's nest made of stupid.

[cobblers]

Stupid buer.  Hope the longnose is ok man.

Cheers, He's doing better than expected, a few hours at the vets and some vom injections and they reckon he'll be alright, but I've got to take him back first thing to know for sure. 

[Jim Bell]

Thats good news man. Fingers crossed. Can you get one of those little mesh baskets that catch stuff out thr back of your letterbox or summat just it case a similar situation occurs in the future?

[Pillock]

Or just ring your lasses mate and scream "stop trying to kill my dog you moron" at her. Cheaper than a wire basket.

[cobblers]

Or just ring your lasses mate and scream "stop trying to kill my dog you moron" at her. Cheaper than a wire basket.

In her defence, she did ring all the vets in the area to find out the one we were at to try to pay the bill.

 

Thats good news man. Fingers crossed. Can you get one of those little mesh baskets that catch stuff out thr back of your letterbox or summat just it case a similar situation occurs in the future?

We've got one of them on, but he managed to bray it off the door which is good going for a 10kg whippet vs 4 #8 woodscrews.

[The Moog]

Having booze in your garage is great.... Except when it is raining. Then whethersoons is appealing

[robinmasters]

The Paralympics. Yes, yes, well done on overcoming your disabilities etc, but it's still fucking sport. Take your running and jumping and that, and leave it on the sports channels.

 

I don't remember my interests ever taking over normal channels, the news, the papers, etc, not even once every four years. Take your sport and fuck off, don't inflict the boring shit on the rest of us.

[eddyramrod]

The Paralympics. Yes, yes, well done on overcoming your disabilities etc, but it's still fucking sport. Take your running and jumping and that, and leave it on the sports channels.

 

I don't remember my interests ever taking over normal channels, the news, the papers, etc, not even once every four years. Take your sport and fuck off, don't inflict the boring shit in the rest of us.

You are me AICMFP

[Cavcraft]

I've just heard the first fucking ice cream van of the year.

 

 

Crush his nuts.

[Sir Snipes]

It's Friday, so the missus and I went out for dinner. There's a Thai place a couple of doors down that we tried before and didn't think much of - not terrible, but there are two other Thai places in the town that are both better and cheaper. It's had a total change to a Japanese/Pan-Asian menu this week so we thought we'd give it another try.

 

Starters were OK (sushi that was a bit better than supermarket stuff but still a bit bland) but the mains were just terrible. Mine was a bad dish - stated on the menu as mixed seafood with spring onion tempura in a rice bowl with miso soup, but when it arrived it was more like fritto misto - lots of little bits of battered and deep-fried fish, over a shit-ton of sticky rice, with a dribble of miso. Dry and stodgy. No hint of vegetable. If I'm being generous it might have been OK as a small starter.

 

Mrs H had udon noodles, which was incredibly poorly executed. The broccoli in it wasn't fresh (it had gone yellow), the meat was overcooked and tough, the egg was so overcooked that it had developed that green skin around the yolk, the broth was salty and I do mean SALTY and the seaweed had a weird coating on it that looked like mould.

 

Not cheap, either.

 

We live in a small town that's 12 minutes by train from a big town. There aren't any other Japanese restaurants here, but literally every other restaurant and pub serves better food for less money - and if you can be bothered to go to Brighton there are half-a-dozen places serving better Japanese food for less money.

 

To be fair, they knocked a chunk off the bill and offered us a free dessert (declined) but it's still a piss-take. I've worked in small businesses and you have to be really fucking good at what you do if you want customers to come back. We're off the tourist trail here so you've got to really woo the locals. Not good enough. Not just us being fussy either, a number of other people complained or walked out after their starters.

You made two mistakes there; accepting shit food and then paying for shit food. Why didn’t you just walk out when you saw how bad it was?

[SierraMikeHotel]

You made two mistakes there; accepting shit food and then paying for shit food. Why didn’t you just walk out when you saw how bad it was?

 

Very tempting, and I think another couple did just that!  We did drink the beers and eat the starters so I guess it was fair to pay for those. Plus we didn't do the usual British thing of saying it was all fine - we gave some detailed feedback in a polite way