The grumpy thread

[mercrocker]

I never fail to be impressed by the pedigree of folk one here!   Legends (well to us).

[mrbenn]

Apparently, I have failed in life because I only have 40-odd friends on Facebook. Also, because I drive a Focus.

 

Always nice to know.

[Cavcraft]

Apparently, I have failed in life because I only have 40-odd friends on Facebook because I drive a Focus.

 

Always nice to know.

 

See, take one word out and it all makes sense.

[mrbenn]

[anonymous user]

To be fair regarding the above, any friends I have, Facebook or otherwise, are bound to be a bit odd

[SierraMikeHotel]

That is shit. Sorry to hear she's not doing so well. Maybe she needs more quotes to fix ZX exhausts to re-focus her mind / cause confusion / cause amusement (or brief panic).. or something.

 

Mental health issues can indeed all just get in the sea.

 

Haha, best double-take of evah!

 

She has a Vauxhall Agila now, which really is shite.  I've just googled it to make sure I was giving the right model, and the first auto-suggestion is "Vauxhall Agila problems."

[AlabamaShrimp]

I think I can speak for quite a few people with I say,

 

fuck Facebook, it's a bag of wank.

[Cavcraft]

My excuse on Facebook is that it's cooler to have few friends and be friends with people who have also few friends.

[somewhatfoolish]

Ah, have you tried The Satanic Verses? I made the mistake of reading the lot and to this day I still don't know what it was trying to say. Biggest waste of time since "How To Learn French" was translated into French.

I ploughed through it a few years ago; it was alright, it passed the time but I couldn't see what the fuss was about and having read a bit of Midnight's Children that's just his style, wordy and slightly pompous. As for the pitchfork and torch mob, they're just morons goaded into stupidity by malevolent old men. The shocking bit looking back is people like the Archbishop of Canterbury condemning him for writing a book, rather than the malevolent old men for attempting to have someone killed for writing a book. Any idea that is so weak it is vulnerable to mockery deserves to have irreverent things written about it in books.

[Supernaut]

My excuse on Facebook is that it's cooler to have few friends and be friends with people who have also few friends.

Exclusivity, innit.

[DodgeRover]

Lpg is still 57.7p a litre at Morrisons.

65.7 here and no supply

[omegod]

Got an Omega breaker with a matched set of near new Michelins, didn't have the locking key so thought it's be a great idea to hammer a socket over a locker, yeah would have been wise to check if it has a spinning collar which it surely fucking did, just had to destroy a perfectly good alloy wheel with a drill to get the fucker off .... grumpier bit...the PO just posted me the bastard key despite saying he had no idea where it was 

[MarvinsMom]

Ah, have you tried The Satanic Verses? I made the mistake of reading the lot and to this day I still don't know what it was trying to say. Biggest waste of time since "How To Learn French" was translated into French.

no, but i did read his follow-up novel, "Oi Buddha, You Fat Bastard" and i really liked it......

[alcyonecorporation]

Getting hacked off with two insurance companies that should know better.

 

Finding cover for the C15 has been an utter nightmare. Found a broker for a terrible insurer (albeit at an affordable price).

 

Take out cover. Insurance company 1, despite never mentioning on the call (which cost a bleeding fortune due to a calculated move to hide its 0333 number) decides it needs a mirrored copy of my NCD from my car policy otherwise my policy will be cancelled.

 

Ring up insurance company 2 (car insurance firm) and argue with the staff for 45 minutes trying to get them to release a copy of the NCD. Company 2 claims it is impossible because it's in use. IC 2 offers an official email to send to IC 1. Explain this won't be good enough but get ignored. IC2 flat out refuse to release a copy of my NCD.

 

Submit cack email record of NCD to IC1. Ring up to confirm. IC1 say the email's fine. Hear nothing back.

 

On Tuesday IC1 send a letter to say my insurance will be cancelled because it cannot prove my mirrored NCD exists while helping itself to the first installment of the premium.

 

I ring IC1 up and go mental. Staff member repeats that IC1 need a PDF of my NCD to mirror it and that it is possible to get one (and nothing else will do).

I go even more mental and request a termination amount for the policy. Staff member gets flustered and offers to speak to IC2 on my behalf and will call back.

Explain several times that I argued and argued and argued and argued with IC2 for 45 minutes and it flat out refused to provide a PDF of my NCD.

 

Have heard nothing back since.

 

I suspect if I go back to IC2 and demand my NCD PDF in the guise of a complaint it'll be magically released without issue; I've always had this issue with IC2 and always seem to get the bone idle first line staff member who either isn't properly trained or can't be arsed in the first instance. I only stay with IC2 because it is the cheapest firm (and is actually a really big name).

 

If nothing has occurred by tomorrow evening having spent nearly two hours on the phone between both firms, I'm ringing both up and billing them for my time.

If I have to, I will then use my extremely wanky sort-of-nuke-last-resort if it means I get a result.

[taxi paul]

I feel your pain. Got renewal for jap bus today.circa £600.00 with admiral. Got a quote from direct line to include business use. Came in at £775.00. So ring admiral to pay for the year only to be told that qoute is without business use. They then inform me that they can't offer me business use on any policy ,because car has eight seats. So will have to now get back on the phone and see what prices I can get.

[alcyonecorporation]

Liked in empathy, fam.

[dome]

65.7 here and no supply

I struggled in the west of Scotland a few weeks ago but filled up in Kirkcaldy at 52.7 the other night.

 

Believe me, it's the only reason to go to Kirkcaldy...

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Halogen g9 bulbs... 2nd one blew up tonight, like... Proper blew up. Further inspection revealed that the filament sags over time and use when fitted in an angled holder until it touches the glass bulb casing and then it's switched on and... BOOM! Glass everywhere, damage fitting, cracked shade. Luckily these are the non exploding ones coz it says so on the boxes!

Bollocks... 

 

All now replaced with LED bulbs at great cost but there's no price on safety. I'm more pissed off that your average DIY center gets away with selling a light fitting, and not a cheap one either (retail) that includes these cheapo, poorly designed halogen bulbs. Fuck em, fuck halogen bulbs. I've a good mind to compose a stern email illustrating my disappointment.

[New POD]

Got an Omega breaker with a matched set of near new Michelins, didn't have the locking key so thought it's be a great idea to hammer a socket over a locker, yeah would have been wise to check if it has a spinning collar which it surely fucking did, just had to destroy a perfectly good alloy wheel with a drill to get the fucker off .... grumpier bit...the PO just posted me the bastard key despite saying he had no idea where it was 

 

what size ? 235/45/17 ? if they are available I might, just might be interested if the price is right - I have a spare set of alloys so we can just swap them and pay for tyres

 

PM me.

[forddeliveryboy]

Got an Omega breaker with a matched set of near new Michelins, didn't have the locking key so thought it's be a great idea to hammer a socket over a locker, yeah would have been wise to check if it has a spinning collar which it surely fucking did, just had to destroy a perfectly good alloy wheel with a drill to get the fucker off .... grumpier bit...the PO just posted me the bastard key despite saying he had no idea where it was

Interested if 15" or 16".

[Zelandeth]

Decided to grab dinner out at Five Guys this evening. Food isn't the source of the complaints. The bloody nonsense going on in the soft drink industry just now is...

 

They have the Coke Freestyle machines there, which means I can stick raspberry flavouring in my Coke. This silly detail makes me happy.

 

Except now I can't. The flavour options are now *only* available on the low/no sugar options. Reason? Because they have been told they need to incentivise people to not take the sugary drinks. By the government.

 

Same reason that I can no longer drink Irn-Bru, which has been my favourite soft drink as long as I can remember. The legislation passed not long ago has resulted in a plethora of drinks now sticking artificial sweeteners in and cutting the sugar content.

 

This is a problem for me. I cannot tolerate aspartame - it gives me migraines. Took me four before I realised that was why the last couple of bottles of Lucozade tasted odd. Really fun walking back from the train station with progressively worse and worse tunnel vision...now some stuff is using other sweeteners like steviol - which doesn't give me migraines - but I'm the one in a tiny number apparently who can taste it. I don't mean I can taste that it's different, I mean it tastes to me like someone's poured half a bottle of vinegar in with the supposedly sweet drink, and that aftertaste lingers for *hours.*

 

 

This used to be simple enough...avoid the "diet" or "zero" labels and I was safe...now I have to read every bloody ingredients label, and the choices I have are dwindling by the day.

 

I'm just bloody glad I didn't get my usual lunch a couple of months back, or I'd have had a migraine coming on halfway down the M6.

 

Fine...give us sugar free options...even stick the sugary version out at a higher price as an incentive...but don't diddle with the recipe and add those bloody chemicals silently without telling us...

 

Majorly peeved that raspberry Coke is no more for me. Added to the list of Irn-Bru, Tango, Fanta, Vinyl, Sprite, 7-Up (Cherry variant of which used to be a favourite), Dr. Pepper and Lucozade. Basically my choices now are plain Coke or plain Pepsi.

 

...or increasingly yet another cup of bloody coffee these days.

 

Or Mountain Dew. Though at £1 a can from our local overseas food place, that gets expensive. Haven't actually looked to see whether the UK version is still safe for me actually...

[Ghosty]

Sitting at a red light in the cycle box at work on my bike tonight and a fucking bus pulls up alongside me, altogether too close.

Both set off as the light changed and I had to bang on the side of the bus to warn the driver he was too close. He didn't move.

Next red light he stops in the cycle box again (that's 6 points on a licence in 300 yards). Shouted at him 'green boxes are for bikes, stay back' and he drove off through a red light.

 

Fuck First, they seem to hate cyclists at every level of their company (mandatory cycle reservations are supposed to be coming in on TransPennine Express, who can't even provide proper bike storage on their trains).

[mk2_craig]

FirstBus is a shite company. Fortunately their financial performance in recent years has been such that I reckon they'll be doing a Toys R Us before much longer.

[Sir Snipes]

Monday we noticed big wet patches on the ceiling of our spare bed room. Contacted our landlord, the neighbours upstairs and their landlord. Nothing done and now the wet patches are making their way down the walls and water is pushing through and dripping into big wet patches on our floor.

[Ghosty]

^My aunt's had that problem, she had to have dehumidifiers all over the place for months afterwards. It's really not fun.

[Timewaster]

I'm the one in a tiny number apparently who can taste it. I don't mean I can taste that it's different, I mean it tastes to me like someone's poured half a bottle of vinegar in with the supposedly sweet drink, and that aftertaste lingers for *hours.

 

Fine...give us sugar free options...even stick the sugary version out at a higher price as an incentive...but don't diddle with the recipe and add those bloody chemicals silently without telling us...

 

This 100%

 

All my favourite drinks now taste like shite and while thankfully I don't get migraines they give me the shits. Badly.

 

Nevermind sugar being the new enemy.

It's stealth substitute is poisonous!

 

You wouldn't put paint instead of milk in someone's tea and not tell them, just because milk is a bit fatty.

 

Unless you were a Russian agent perhaps.

[RoadworkUK]

Fine...give us sugar free options...even stick the sugary version out at a higher price as an incentive...but don't diddle with the recipe and add those bloody chemicals silently without telling us...

 

 

M8, I feel you, bro.

 

I'm pretty much down to Coke (not Pepsi as it tastes like rotting vegetables) and Schweppes Ginger Ale. IRN-BRU, as you mention, is a former favourite, but the carcinogenic sweetener of doom has killed that, too.

 

And when Tizer fell victim to aspartame, Barr had the temerity to emblazon the bottle with "Now with added zing!" as opposed to "Now shite and undrinkable".

 

Really, really annoys me that this kind of meddling is inevitable these days re government-imposed sugar levels. It's all because people have no self control. Sure, there's bound to be addicts who simply can't stop chain-drinking IRN-BRU at breakfast, lunch, teatime and every opportunity in between, and these people must be treated with the delicate touch they deserve*, but those of us who can control their intake are doomed to drink absolute shit for ever more.

[fraser.innes.3]

Sitting at a red light in the cycle box at work on my bike tonight and a fucking bus pulls up alongside me, altogether too close.

Both set off as the light changed and I had to bang on the side of the bus to warn the driver he was too close. He didn't move.

Next red light he stops in the cycle box again (that's 6 points on a licence in 300 yards). Shouted at him 'green boxes are for bikes, stay back' and he drove off through a red light.

 

Fuck First, they seem to hate cyclists at every level of their company (mandatory cycle reservations are supposed to be coming in on TransPennine Express, who can't even provide proper bike storage on their trains).

The stupid law says that drivers are allowed to stop in the cyclists box, but not allowed to stop outside the box, then creep into the box. Fuckin daft law!

 

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[Sir Snipes]

^My aunt's had that problem, she had to have dehumidifiers all over the place for months afterwards. It's really not fun.

We were already looking to move out even before this latest issue.

[HH-R]

Artificial sweeteners give me unreal headaches too. They will turn out to be terrible for you/carcinogenic etc in a few years time no doubt.