The grumpy thread

[captain_70s]

I tried again, it was fucking miserable this time too.

 

Why does it look so... Uncooked?

[320touring]

It is not catastrophic. The left rear caliper has been dragging slightly for a while and has now gripped up hard and boiled the brake fluid to the point where the pedal just goes to the floor.

 

It's got so hot that it has blackened my +5bhp red caliper paint.

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Least the disc is in one piece:) and as you say, it's a pretty location to stop!

[Datsuncog]

Why does it look so... Uncooked?

Something something cooking times at lower altitude... something something southern latitudes... something midge quotient... something proximity to Lahndon? (Delete as applicable)

 

Lorne sausage served in Northern Ireland (both catering and home-cooked) has always tasted pretty gr8 to me. Could be some sort of geographical quirk?

 

I usually grill rather than fry, but that's probably going to upset the purists!

[clayts450]

My failing miserable body. My back's been playing up all week, no doubt helped* by my feeble car maintenance efforts and the lugging around of a 30kg SGS trolley jack. Now at the point where it hurts to stand up for any length of time exceeding 10 seconds, and walking is a pastime best indulged in the style of a very very old man bent double and yelping and groaning every five seconds.

 

My grump therefore is my failure to get to the BL day at Gaydon today due to fucked back

 

Hopefully Trigger will get us some nice photees.

[Richard]

I tried again, it was fucking miserable this time too.

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Bleurgh.

I think this is the breakfast that's turned me off fried breakgasts being my default "weekend breakfast". It'll do me good because I'm getting to be a fat knacker.

I don't think that's the same as our square sausage. Ours is never that colour however little it has been cooked.

[Kiltox]

That looks like a poor English imitation of square sausage - like Heck “fair and square” which is just the filling of some fancy £4 sausage squeezed into a square shape. Not the same thing.

[cort16]

That’s definetly not the right kind of flat sausage out ones are almost red before being cooked .

[Louise2cv]

People in supermarkets, mainly Lidl and Aldi, who travel in packs, that get in the massive queue at the checkout and then send out their team to do the shopping from the conveyor belt.

 

This drives me insane. Go round the supermarket and then get in the queue assholes.

[clayts450]

^ This and the two baskets for the price of one 'doing the old dear next door a favour/keeping work and personal spend separate'.

 

You queue behind the latter as they only have six items. But then they do that thing of loading two items on, then putting the divider down on the belt, then loading the next four on. And because they're dicking around with two different pots of money there's invariably much purse-fumbling accompanying each sale.

[clayts450]

An infuriating post script to my grin on Friday where I drove off with some stuff on my car roof, and successfully went back to reclaim the strewn goods.

 

What I didn't realise that as well as the cat's medication I'd also stuck my bank card and the receipt on there too. 

 

Something posssessed me to check my wallet before taking the PTSD to the filling station and on finding no card realisation dawned on me. Cue £5 of diesel in the tank and hotfooted it back to the vets (luckily closed but accessible).

 

Only found my receipt blowing around, no sign of the card.

 

Rung bank - 5 to 7 days for a replacement to reach me FFS.

 

Thankfully, zero balance credit card located and in use, but no cash monies lying around (although I can go to my branch conveniently located in the centre of Nottingham with photo ID and get cash over the counter).

 

Initially funny, now not so.

[Pillock]

Do you have a phone that does Google or Android Pay?

Some banks will even let you do an emergency withdrawal with a code they give you over the phone.

[clayts450]

Do you have a phone that does Google or Android Pay?

Some banks will even let you do an emergency withdrawal with a code they give you over the phone.

 

No, as I say I have a credit card which can tide me over for now. The lack of real cash shouldn't be too much bother for a few days.

 

Seems TSB don't do the code at the ATM thing like my old bank used to (NatWest).

 

The old adage I adhere to is 'always have a fiver in your pocket' - I do but it's all in loose change !

[Timewaster]

I don't get it.

 

For at least a decade we have been preached at, taxed over and generally beaten up about our CO2 output.

 

And now they tell us there is a bloody shortage?!

 

Yes, I know it's not as simple as that but FFS.

[PhilA]

Again, breakfast occurs. (Or rather, is in the process of being to occur).

 

No square sausages at all.

 

 

The grump is I gotta cook it then clean up afterwards. Everybody else is wholly content sitting in front of the TV and waiting for it...

 

Phil

 

Edit

Ended up ok

[myglaren]

People in supermarkets, mainly Lidl and Aldi, who travel in packs, that get in the massive queue at the checkout and then send out their team to do the shopping from the conveyor belt.

 

This drives me insane. Go round the supermarket and then get in the queue assholes.

 

 

^ This and the two baskets for the price of one 'doing the old dear next door a favour/keeping work and personal spend separate'.

 

You queue behind the latter as they only have six items. But then they do that thing of loading two items on, then putting the divider down on the belt, then loading the next four on. And because they're dicking around with two different pots of money there's invariably much purse-fumbling accompanying each sale.

Never encountered either of these and I do >90% of my shopping in Aldi & Lidl.

I have mentioned previously that the customers in the Lidl that I use most are predominantly Eastern European and a nicer and more considerate crowd you couldn't imagine.

[MarvinsMom]

i got fuckin' mugged yesterday.

 

in broad daylight, in the middle of Redcar.

 

this is the bastard responsible*

 

i'd just bought a Cornbeef slice (or cornbeef and patato flan/pie thing depending on which you prefer) from a local "boulangerie" and had managed one bite from said savoury treat, when i felt something on one of my shoulders,

 

next thing, i see my dinner disappearing up in to the air, right in front of my own bloody eyes!!

 

cheeky fuckin' thing.... next its on a roof top opposite laughing* at me, and celibrating its brass neck and enjoying its ill gotten stolen gaines.

[Captain Furious]

Looks like the same cunt that had my cheese burger away on Brighton Pier a few years ago.

 

Cant have anything these days..etc

[captain_70s]

Hot day + vinyl seats = moistened shirts:

 

 

I overheated, the car overheated, my camera overheated. Fuck this warm weather shit.

 

Also YouTube won't accept the videos I filmed for reasons known only to itself.

[Lacquer Peel]

I don't get it.

 

For at least a decade we have been preached at, taxed over and generally beaten up about our CO2 output.

 

And now they tell us there is a bloody shortage?!

 

Yes, I know it's not as simple as that but FFS.

I think you're confused.

[anonymous user]

Never encountered either of these and I do >90% of my shopping in Aldi & Lidl.

I have mentioned previously that the customers in the Lidl that I use most are predominantly Eastern European and a nicer and more considerate crowd you couldn't imagine.

The thing that winds me up when grocery shopping is invasion of space, I have issues with this in any situation, but hate having someone literally breathing down my neck, also being gently* shoved in the back of my legs by a trolley and the latest where the person behind me does not wait for me to get all my stuff on the conveyor before they start unloading theirs. I hate shopping, but tried doing it online and it was worse with the stuff missing, which meant me going to the supermarket anyway.

[Louise2cv]

Never encountered either of these and I do >90% of my shopping in Aldi & Lidl.

I have mentioned previously that the customers in the Lidl that I use most are predominantly Eastern European and a nicer and more considerate crowd you couldn't imagine.

Yeah, I mentioned it to my sis who is a Lidl regular and she hadn't noticed it in her store (Midlands).

 

It's definitely a regular thing at Aldi and Lidl up here though.

[Cavcraft]

The thing that winds me up when grocery shopping is invasion of space, I have issues with this in any situation, but hate having someone literally breathing down my neck, also being gently* shoved in the back of my legs by a trolley and the latest where the person behind me does not wait for me to get all my stuff on the conveyor before they start unloading theirs. I hate shopping, but tried doing it online and it was worse with the stuff missing, which meant me going to the supermarket anyway.

 

People who nudge into you from behind REALLY piss me off. As a rule, I find reversing into them with elbows back usually does the trick, or a death stare copied off my missus.

[clayts450]

and the latest where the person behind me does not wait for me to get all my stuff on the conveyor before they start unloading theirs. 

 

^Whereas I'm in the polar opposite camp.

 

Get yer shit off the conveyer belt and let me at it whilst I stand here waiting for you to carefully place your items one by one into your chosen receptacle and/or fart about with money shit. This irks me particularly in Wilkos, where the checkouts iz smoll and I usually have about eleventy billion things (often cat and bird food) which I have to unload.

 

I pack as I go and race the cashier to the end usually having my card ready to swipe whilst placing the last item in the bag with the other hand. Well-oiled machine me.

 

Do you shop in Wilkos in Bulwell by any chance ? I fear I may have to challenge you to a conveyor belt duel, Sire.

[clayts450]

^ PS I hate shopping too - the least time I spend in shops the better. Very much a 10 minute supermarket sweeper, me.

[Guest Hooli]

The ones that annoy me most in shops are the arse wipes who leave their trolley blocking the aisle while they browse the shelves. These days their trolley tends to move on it's own* to the far side of the shop. Another bloody annoying one is kids in trollies, not in the kiddie seat but in the actual trolley, oi ya scruffy fuck nuggets those are for people to put food in ffs!

[Guest Hooli]

Oh & at the other end of the food production chain some farmers...

 

Out cycling today & some twat had quite obviously driven into a hedge with his tractor to push the bramble bushes completely across the bridleway in the trees to the side of his field. It hadn't done his fence much good either. Then at the top of the hill the bridleway goes across the field, except farmer giles hadn't left a gap in his planting so diagonally across a bloody large field I had to carry my bike at shoulder height & force a way through.

 

FFS.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Oh & at the other end of the food production chain some farmers...

 

Out cycling today & some twat had quite obviously driven into a hedge with his tractor to push the bramble bushes completely across the bridleway in the trees to the side of his field. It hadn't done his fence much good either. Then at the top of the hill the bridleway goes across the field, except farmer giles hadn't left a gap in his planting so diagonally across a bloody large field I had to carry my bike at shoulder height & force a way through.

 

FFS.

 

 

It's his responsibility to provide adequate access to the path, as I understand it.  You probably know this already but you can report him for it...

[Guest Hooli]

It's his responsibility to provide adequate access to the path, as I understand it.  You probably know this already but you can report him for it...

 

Indeed I was thinking of doing just that.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Hot day + vinyl seats = moistened shirts:

 

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I overheated, the car overheated, my camera overheated. Fuck this warm weather shit.

 

Also YouTube won't accept the videos I filmed for reasons known only to itself.

 

Reminds me of my first 'big' journey.  Two weeks after I'd passed my test, I drove from Gravesend to Hereford to see my Grandparents.

 

The journey there was epic given that I didn't want to use motorways but nevertheless I made it safely.

 

Bear in mind that I'm 6'2" and a bit overweight - even when I was 18 and the fact that I drove a base Ford Ka.  On the way back, I ended up on the M25.  In a four-hour traffic jam.  In temperatures exceeding 32C.

 

I've never known anything quite like it.

[richardmorris]

Do they? that's never happened to me & I keep my friends list well below 20.

I have no friends ( surprise!) but don’t have this. Nor do I have many adverts.