The grumpy thread

[Angrydicky]

Got tailgated in my Austin A35 yesterday, by a new X6 in resale white, who then proceeded to overtake on a blind sweeping corner into the face of oncoming traffic. The gap wasn't there and he nearly caused a major accident - I had to brake to let the twat back in as did the lady in the Punto coming the other way.

[mercrocker]

It's a good job X6s are such sharp-handling vehicles and always driven by focused, professional and highly skilled drivers then....

[Mr A Lawrence]

or big bellends whichever way you look at it  

[rainagain]

So I finished work at midnight today and drove home, mulling over the fact that at the end of the month I'll be back to being a temp on a 0-hour contract. Apparently I interviewed very well for the full time position and there are no complaints about my work ethic etc but I bombed the arithmetic test... The weather is forecast to be nice tomorrow, this means that work will be like a sauna.

 

On the way home half of the M8's off-ramps were inexplicably closed for roadworks and the resultant diversion added 10mins to my commute home. Despite the roadworks the average Glaswegian street still looks like it's been shipped in from North Korea.

 

As I pulled onto my street I drove past all three of my unusable cars, parked at various intervals in differing levels of disassembly and legality. The SORN'd Dolomite waiting for it's MOT exemption, the Acclaim with it's rusty holes, the Civic sitting on axle stands with it's rear brakes partially removed. At least the parts to fix it have been shipped, not that I've managed to free the calipers from the car as the handbrake cable brackets might as well be welded on.

 

Having parked my only functioning car, the borrowed Rover that isn't even mine, I unlock the mortice and open the door to my flat, having destroyed the Yale lock on Sunday after locking myself out and having to break back in. I observe the piles of tools and car parts, and car part boxes lining the hallway, I enter the living room and switch on the light only for the bulb to instantly blow.

 

I sit here at my PC, with it's graphics card that crashes whenever I try to play games, in the dark and type this post. Can't be arsed, yo.

Does your CV include any mechanical experience? My work are looking for a mech shift tech for a 12 month contract possibly leading to full time. If so drop me a pm

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Got tailgated in my Austin A35 yesterday, by a new X6 in resale white, who then proceeded to overtake on a blind sweeping corner into the face of oncoming traffic. The gap wasn't there and he nearly caused a major accident - I had to brake to let the twat back in as did the lady in the Punto coming the other way.

 

Urgh.  Had a similar experience on the A20 the other day.  Guy in a resale black Jeep Renegade overtook and I was the oncoming car.  Had to brake swiftly and gave him a piece of my mind.

 

Just because you have an X6 or a Renegade does not mean you have a fast car.  Some of them are actually quite slow...

[dozeydustman]

I've got to go to Ikea today.

 

That's Sunday ruined

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I've got to go to Ikea today.

 

That's Sunday ruined

 

I feel for you.  I had to go yesterday.

 

What is it about Ikea that fills us with dread?

[Parky]

Sorted out the ebay issue mentioned on previous page. Basically the guy who dicked me around changed his name and when checking my feedback list I had a purchase I hadn’t left feedback for. Without thinking i left positive feedback for a transaction that didn’t complete and that has set him off. He is an oddball.

 

Today sees the end of the auction for Parky Jr’s laptop. Despite an accurate description complete with a photo of the machines full spec sheet, the highest bidder has today messaged me to ask if it has a 256gb SSD drive (it doesn’t have an SSD listed in the spec). Because if it doesn’t have one, he doesn’t want to buy it.

 

Rather like stating your car has a cloth interior, taking a picture of a cloth interior, and then having the buyer refuse to complete because he doesn’t want a cloth interior....

 

I might ignore him, it has 28 watchers with 12 hours to go and is currently around £150 less than they usually sell for so I might take a gamble. It is Sunday and I can’t be bothered dealing with idiots today.

[Paul Dupart]

I feel for you.  I had to go yesterday.

 

What is it about Ikea that fills us with dread?

 

 

I think we (blokes) all need to go to Ikea occasionally.  'Cos when we're having a shit day, we can always think 'well at least I'm not in Ikea' and then we realise that it's not such a shit day after all.

[cpjitservices]

Had to sit an exam to recertify my Cisco quals on Friday, £240 bastid quid! When I did them the first time round they were £180. Hoping I can claim that on expenses..

 

They’ve also either made it a hell of a lot harder, or I’m not as smart as I was 3 years ago. Passed tho and that’s all that matters, good to go now until 2021.

Well done mate, did you have to do the labs in the exam? When I did my CCNA/CCNP many years ago we actually had to build a cab full of equipment, configure it all etc, then an examiner would break it, and you had to fix it and he wouldn't tell you what he did to break it.  I just scraped through both, both expired now but I'm not going to recertify!

[rainagain]

I really belly-laughed at that.

 

It reminds me of when I worked in an Iceland store at the back of a Littlewoods as a pre-uni summer job many years ago. We had to endure Littlewoods CD on permanent loop, and I blame it for my unhealthy hatred of all things Tina Turner and Whitney Houston.

At least I cheered myself up with predicting what the oldies would ask me. The tills were on the edge of the boundary between us and Littlewoods, and it was an open-plan setup. If you had a blue rinse, were slightly muddled and buying your practical Littlewoods pants, it made perfect sense* to walk from the plush carpet onto the supermarket lino, approach the grumpy, long-haired teen sat on the Iceland till, and then start questioning his logic when he explained that it wouldn’t become possible to buy pants because they weren’t a frozen food item sold by a shop called Iceland.

The oldies also used to ask me for items with the word ‘wafer’ in the title.

You name it: wafer-thin ham, ice-cream wafers or even rinky dink Pink Panther wafers. If it were a repeat customer asking me, I could start the conversation with a, “I know, you need wafers,” before they asked. It made it all the more funny because wafers is difficult to say when one has ill-fitting false teeth.

The shared floor space reminds me of working in Halfords with an AA garage next door but with a shared entrance. We would open before the garage did. Garage customers would wander in, see no one at the AA desk and therefore decide to give me abuse the garage not being open or how much they were charging them. I had to repress the urge to just say DILLIGAF to them on so many occasions.

[Snipes]

Going back to radio stations for a moment, when I was working at a garage they all insisted we listen to Xfm. They hammered Artic Monkeys so hard I literally grew to hate them. It's taken 5 years for me to recover.

 

Also people calling Steve Wright's show asking why he didn't play that Muppets noma-nom song that he plays literally everyday.

[rainagain]

Going back to radio stations for a moment, when I was working at a garage they all insisted we listen to Xfm. They hammered Artic Monkeys so hard I literally grew to hate them. It's taken 5 years for me to recover.

 

Also people calling Steve Wright's show asking why he didn't play that Muppets noma-nom song that he plays literally everyday.

I worked in a factory years ago that always had Heart playing, and always playing the same five songs every hour.

 

I recently fitted a double din touch screen stereo to my car, the radio reception is terrible. To be honest I don’t miss it, I just load up the sd card with music or Bluetooth stream from my phone. No adverts, no waffling crap.

[Guest Hooli]

What is it about Ikea that fills us with dread?

 

No idea I've never been in one & fully intend to never do so.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

The only radio stations I can stand are Radio 4, 3 and 5Live.  I've put 2 on on the way to work every so often, hear Chris Evans and immediately turn it off.

 

Radio 4 is a national treasure that has been my companion on many very long, overnight journeys.  You know it's going to be bad when you hear the national anthem, then the World Service jingle, go right through the World Service and then hear Today kicking in.

 

For a while I knew a lot more about the Greek debt situation than any (at the time) 21 year old had any right to.  Just because I heard about it every sodding morning.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Who cooks the dinner in your house? It's now all been left to me it would seem even though she gets 3 weekdays off.. no time, too busy being busy, too much to do... In a nutshell starting a thousand things and completing none of them 100%...  Trying to convince me that shes just as tied up as me with my 13 hour days and yet here I am preparing a Sunday munch up for people who'd be just as happy eating a fucking sandwich. What's gone wrong? I've stopped my breakfasts on a Sunday now because the other Sunday I was in the kitchen for pretty much the whole fucking day- COOKING. 

 

She must feel the same way when I devote one day a month to making necessary repairs to one of the motors... Because I'm enjoying myself obvs. Women are all fucking mental.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I think we (blokes) all need to go to Ikea occasionally. 'Cos when we're having a shit day, we can always think 'well at least I'm not in Ikea' and then we realise that it's not such a shit day after all.

Sorry I love going to Ikea. Cheap food is always good and there's always lots of nice things to look at

[cpjitservices]

Weve just got a massive TV unit from Ikea, i dont mind Ikdea the meaballs are nice.

[chaseracer]

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

 

[semiobscurereference]

Definitely not Swedish.

[/semiobscurereference]

[HillmanImp]

Just went to do some work on the GT6. First things first, wheres my jack?

 

Oh, there it is under the Imp.

 

 

Will it come out? No, the Imps tyres are flat and the car is resting on the jack.

 

To answer any possible suggestions:

 

Can I pump up the tyres? No, my footpump is borked.

 

Can you jack it up, the jack is meant to go under the car after all? I would then need something to hold the Imp up whilst I got the jack out. I need my axle stands for the GT6.

 

Can't you jack it up and put some wood or something under the wheels to keep it up when you take the jack out? I can't actually get the jack handle under to jack it up anyhow as that's the bit the car is resting on.

 

Have you got another jack? Not one that will fit under there.

 

Mrs Imp is at the gym, won't be back for a couple of hours and Imp Jr is asleep upstairs after going mountain balance biking this morning so my option is to try and pump up the Imps tyre with my bike pump.....

 

Me, later today:

 

[madrat]

I like ikea, Mrs Madrat hates it

[Captain Furious]

Well done mate, did you have to do the labs in the exam? When I did my CCNA/CCNP many years ago we actually had to build a cab full of equipment, configure it all etc, then an examiner would break it, and you had to fix it and he wouldn't tell you what he did to break it.  I just scraped through both, both expired now but I'm not going to recertify!

Yeah they have lab questions still, it’s simulations built into the exam though. To be honest I prefer those questions. Even if you don’t know how to do it, the CLI in IOS is so flippin ace that you can take an educated run at it. Last time I recertified I took the design (ARCH) exam which renews everything, it’s actually a pretty good system, you can certify in a different track and it renews everything else at the same level or below.

 

I had let it get to within a month before everything expired so I was starting to sweat it a bit. To get back to where I am currently from scratch would be 6 exams and I just don’t have the cash or inclination for that!

 

This time my head hasn’t really been in it for learning new tricks so I just took the CCNP Switch exam again. Work life is mainly consumed by office 365 and exchange online at the moment, which is ok, but Cisco is my main interest.

[Timewaster]

Best idea for IKEA is to drive a galaxy.

 

I need to take the seats out to fit the furniture in, so I can't take the kids.

 

Shopping list, strictly adhered to. Afternoon out on my Todd. Meatballs scoffed. No bloody candles.

 

Not too bad.

 

A trip with the whole family? Nightmare.

 

Kids hide in wardrobes, minds changed repeatedly, round 3 times to get the things we missed while searching for kids. Etc etc etc

[dave21478]

I quite enjoy Ikea as I like meatballs and watching other peoples relationships fall apart as they have nuclear-sized fallouts over dinner plates or coffee tables.

[cobblers]

Yeah, I don't mind Ikea either. I try and go on my own cos the mrs is a nightmare (she's bored and grumpy all the way round til you get to the shitty plants and candles bit) but if you know what you're after, it's generally not too bad. It's also absolutely riddled with milfs.

[SiC]

The only way to do IKEA is after 7:30pm on a weekday. Helps to have one on your doorstep mind.

[Pillock]

Love IKEA. Love pissing around, hiding things in cupboards and watching couples row. Just chill out on a sofa and watch WW3 erupt over a choice of fabric.

 

Also, milfs.

 

Also, in the Nottingham one the cafe overlooks the carpark so you can scoff meatballs whilst watching someone try to get a 7ft high bookcase in a Fiat 500.

[richardmorris]

Got tailgated in my Austin A35 yesterday, by a new X6 in resale white, who then proceeded to overtake on a blind sweeping corner into the face of oncoming traffic. The gap wasn't there and he nearly caused a major accident - I had to brake to let the twat back in as did the lady in the Punto coming the other way.

Daily occurance round here in Surrey if you’re in a 2cv or on a bicycle. Morons the lot of them.

[richardmorris]

I seem to go to ikea ( Brent Cross) when ive moved house and need something quick and cheap. The sense of dread is being fed like a rat through a maze. I learned to ignore this years ago and just take a shortcut into the marketplace and warehouse.

 

There’s nothing wrong with ikea stuff, just the shopping experience.