The grumpy thread

[chatsharris]

moments before I have to rely on anyone wiping my arse I am so fucking out of here.

 

who owns all the houses? I only have one

I said the same, as soon as stuff starts failing and I get slower, I want my missus to put me down. I'm thinking about age 30.

 

Old people hold all the houses apparently. Filling them with odd cat ornaments and the faint smell of wee/death.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

"We live in a decaying age. Our youth spend their time in taverns and are

disrespectful to their elders."

 

-Anonymous graffiti, circa 1800 B.C, found in an internal passageway of a pyramid.

Actually that could have been me, circa 1989.

 

Ancient graffiti?

 

[Supernaut]

Lass at work has just bought a 3-year-old Kuga.  She mentioned that she'd tried an Echo-Sport and thought it was shite.  I did wonder about the pronunciation, but didn't question it - glad I didn't now as I'd've looked a right twat.

At least you didn't go out and buy a Kuga or an EcoSport / Echo-Sport / whatever-the-fuck-bollocks name it has. Then you'd look even more of a twat!

[Christine]

Halfords Polar sea blue paint isn't...By a nautical mile  7 bloody quid .Should i take it back?

 

[Guest Hooli]

That is impressively wrong!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

Halfords Polar sea blue paint isn't...By a nautical mile  7 bloody quid .Should i take it back?

 

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That is impressively wrong!

 

Go two-tone?

[Slartibartfast]

moments before I have to rely on anyone wiping my arse I am so fucking out of here.

 

Literally every person I have ever met says this, and yet our care homes are still full to overflowing.

 

I have a bit of a different perspective on the yoof of today, I had my kids pretty young, and they're at the age now where I'm still young enough to remember what fun was like (and I still listen to radio 1) and they're in their teens. We share music with each other. We rap along to eminem in the car while I'm dropping them off at college. We have a shared obsession with Jason Derulo. We watch a lot of the same TV shows, and understand the same pop culture references.

 

As far as I'm concerned the vast majority of today's youth just want to get on with their lives, and they're far more socially, politically and ethically aware than any of my peers ever were at their age.

[alcyonecorporation]

This would be baby boomers, yes?

 

I get grumpy when old people blame young people for everything. There's a lot of it on this forum at the moment.

Yeah, there is.

 

Folk in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

[Datsuncog]

Halfords Polar sea blue paint isn't...By a nautical mile  7 bloody quid .Should i take it back?

 

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Was it made up for you on the minimix machine, or a premix aerosol off the shelf? Either way, you should take it back.

 

If minimix, then blokey's likely been a bit approximate with the amounts (some colour mixes involve 0.1g of black or whatever, and it's a bugger to get half a drop into the mixing cup) or hasn't stirred it properly and has left a critical amount of one colour still sloshed round the edges of the cup.

 

Polite but firm should get you an apology, a full refund, plus a re-made can of the proper stuff, with other sundries (wet and dry, masking tape, laquer) thrown in as a sweetener - and possibly a gift card if you're really aggrieved. If a can like that had left my parts desk and buggered up a customer's car I'd have every sympathy with them - it's much more than just a faulty part.

 

If a premix can, you might get more resistance along the lines of "well that's the manufacturer's colour, sir", together with a vague suggestion that there's been previous paintwork carried out on your car with a not-quite-match. Stick to your guns and insist on a replacement minimix can instead - as long as you're certain that there hasn't been previous paintwork carried out.

 

If you can bring the bumper in and slap it on the desk, that should get their attention.

[alcyonecorporation]

Oh look, ANOTHER zero rated eBay bidder has won the auction on a book I was selling.

It's the same book that other wanker zero bidder won and flounced on.

 

Same MO. Different name, no address/gibberish details, zero communication. Registered on the day they bid for the book. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS?

 

Second chance offered it to the next bidder. Don't care, can't be arsed. Other bidders paid up immediately and have addresses which don't resemble alphabet soup vomit.

[Talbot]

Southern Electric:

 

"Your current monthly payment is £110. As of April 2018, it will be £386 per month."

 

Dafuq? No it bloody won't be!

[SierraMikeHotel]

Southern Electric:

 

"Your current monthly payment is £110. As of April 2018, it will be £386 per month."

 

Dafuq? No it bloody won't be!

My answer to this is always Ovo. I always check at renewal time and always end up sticking with them.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS?...

Everyone's got to start somewhere, even fraudsters.

[Mally]

Halfords Polar sea blue paint isn't...By a nautical mile  7 bloody quid .Should i take it back?

 

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Ah, but your colour has aged sir. It will blend in eventually*.

[John F]

This would be baby boomers, yes?

 

I get grumpy when old people blame young people for everything. There's a lot of it on this forum at the moment.

 

I blame the older generations for pretty much all of the problems we have nowadays. Including electric parking brakes.

[Captain Furious]

Getting fed up of my soon-to-be-ex moron friends on facebook sharing all these bollocks posts about Ant McPartlin.  Don't get me wrong, I actually quite like the guy and I hope he does have a speedy recovery, the grump is with social media and their breathtaking collective hypocrisy.  Any one else gets done for drink driving and they're crying out for the electric chair, this guy does it and its #pray4ant

[alcyonecorporation]

Everyone's got to start somewhere, even fraudsters.

But where's the scam in being a moron? What do they gain from it?

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

I blame the older generations for pretty much all of the problems we have nowadays. Including electric parking brakes.

 

I blame the older generations for all of the problems we have nowadays and all of the younger generations for all of the problems we're going to have in the future. Just my luck, at 40... I'M STUCK IN THE BLOODY MIDDLE!

[John F]

Captain Furious, on 22 Mar 2018 - 12:57 PM, said:

Getting fed up of my soon-to-be-ex moron friends on facebook sharing all these bollocks posts about Ant McPartlin.  Don't get me wrong, I actually quite like the guy and I hope he does have a speedy recovery, the grump is with social media and their breathtaking collective hypocrisy.  Any one else gets done for drink driving and they're crying out for the electric chair, this guy does it and its #pray4ant

 

I haven't had to tolerate any such vacuous guff since I shit-canned Farcebook about 6 years ago.

 

I haven't missed it at all, nor have I suffered any social disadvantage by 'only' knowing my friends in the real world.

 

Farcebook is a social leech that manipulates the tiny minds of its addicts to make itself seem important and useful... it's not.

[John F]

I blame the older generations for all of the problems we have nowadays and all of the younger generations for all of the problems we're going to have in the future. Just my luck, at 40... I'M STUCK IN THE BLOODY MIDDLE!

 

I actually meant all generations since the Plantagenets.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

They'll do.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

But where's the scam in being a moron? What do they gain from it?

 

Being a better moron?

[alcyonecorporation]

Being a better moron?

Well, on this occasion it's cost them. Second chance offered it to the next bidder (who bid a whole £1 less) and he paid for it within ten minutes.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Well, on this occasion it's cost them. ...

 

If I were being cynical, I'd say they're not particularly bothered about it anyway. For them it's the dubious thrill of shilling or sabotaging the bidding.

[cort16]

Halfords Polar sea blue paint isn't...By a nautical mile 7 bloody quid .Should i take it back?

 

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Did you check the recommended primer colour this has caught me out more than once ?

[Christine]

It's straight on top of existing Vauxhall Polar sea blue.. code 13L

 

Never mind , it is a perfect  match for grandads Astra which is   Spectral blue mica    code 24L

[Mally]

I blame the older generations for all of the problems we have nowadays and all of the younger generations for all of the problems we're going to have in the future. Just my luck, at 40... I'M STUCK IN THE BLOODY MIDDLE!

 

I'm stuck at the wrong end.

[richardthestag]

Are UKMail the new Yodel for generally fucking people around with delivery slots? I have had emails telling me to wait by my door for the last 48 hours and slots have been missed. Now they are gonna try again tomorrow.

 

Makes Parcelfarce and indeed yodel seem good.

 

This is not the first time for shit service from UKMail over promising and undelivering

 

I blame the yoof of today

 

^ that was a joke BTW 

[Slartibartfast]

Locally we have a very reliable and friendly Yodel lady, which lead to the following joke:

 

Knock knock?

Who's there?

Yodel lady?

[AlabamaShrimp]

Today I'd like to know why other drivers get in an instant shit if any dares do something they take as a criticism of their driving.

 

I'm sat in thr Frontera, indicator on to turn right into a car park.

Bloke 35-45 in some kind of BMW coming towards me. He's some distance off but swerving in the road due to him rubbernecking two traffic wardens on the other side of the road.

I lift my right hand. Partly to steer as he's getting close and partly to say "oh dipshit your looking sideway swerving in the road.

 

Said bloke instantly looses it and starts sticking his finger up. Now I may be wrong but that is just a tiny bit of an overreaction...