The grumpy thread

[loserone]

I just woke up thinking it must be half six

 

With a nose bleed. I never get nose bleeds.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Digestives in the tin with ginger nuts.... Now that does piss me off!

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

I just woke up thinking it must be half six

 

With a nose bleed. I never get nose bleeds.

 

 

I think nose bleeds just happen now and then when you get older. I never had them but every other month now, I'll get one. Like falling asleep and waking up a half hour later thinking that it's tomorrow... Common old age shite.

[alcyonecorporation]

Borrowed a PS4 with Detroit: Become Human on it.

 

It's a sort of interactive film with a proper 3D engine and there are hundreds of different endings based on the choices you make.

 

I won't spoil it for anyone who has it, but suffice to say I'm fucking terrible at it and the protagonists keep dying. I'm not even doing it on purpose like a lot of YouTubers do. It's really quite engrossing and a rather emotional; one of the dead ends (intentional pun) has already had me in tears.

[bub2006]

Thank you folks for allowing me to vent here. I only know some of you personally but it feels like home here and it helps me through dark and rough times. House move stress,car failure stress,little shite teenager stress and wife being really ill all culminating to a head. She had a CT scan yesterday after being sat waiting for 6 hours in waiting room ( gotta love a medical emergency) CT scan came back ok for a bleed but did show some dark patches. They believe it's a really severe migraine. Derby city hospital were on black alert which meant no free beds yesterday. They wanted to admit her and carry out a lumbar puncture but obviously they couldn't. They have said to monitor over weekend and return on Monday if situation doesn't get better. I'm just hoping I don't have a bad day anytime soon else we are all fucked here. I'm struggling enough as it is but I try to keep going.

[brandersnatch]

Good thoughts heading your way Bub. Hope it all sorts itself out.

 

 

One’s too many, ten’s not enough!

[yellowperil]

Liked just to show empathy.

 

All the best to your Wife.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Just remembered I forgot to pay the bloody Dart Charge when I went to the South East gathering the weekend before last. That’ll be a demand letter any day now.

 

Arse...

 

 

First time that happened to me they sent me a 'warning' letter and waived it.

 

Second time, not so much...

[Datsuncog]

I wouldn’t waste my time raising the very valid points you mention with them. For some reason scrapyards will cut their nose off to spite their face with things sometimes.

Years and years back, I was down at Bobby Shaw's yard in Bangor getting replacement driver's door glass for my Mk2 Fiesta, after some scrote had fired a ball-bearing through it with a catapult (which was an unfortunately common occurrence at the time).

 

Fella in front of me in the yard 'office' (Portakabin) was engaged in a bit of argy-bargy over a Capri rear side window he'd just removed, with what I can only assume was the yard's Customer Relations Manager, along the following lines...

 

"Look, when I rang I was told it'd be a tenner, and when I spoke to your colleague in here earlier he told me it'd be a tenner for the glass too."

 

"Twenty on that, though."

 

"But I was told twice it'd be a tenner."

 

"Well you were told wrong then, weren'tcha? Glass like that is twenty."

 

"I've only a tenner on me, cos that's what I was told it'd cost."

 

"Autobank over at Bloomfields, y'know."

 

"I'm not paying twenty pounds when I was told it'd be ten quid. That's not on."

 

"Alright then, don't."

 

And, at that, blokey behind the counter picked up the Capri glass and frisbee'd it over our heads, out through the open Portakabin door. All three of us watched it smash into several thousand pieces onto the oilstained hardcore, and while the Capri guy stood open-mouthed, the counter guy turned to me with a big shit-eating grin.

 

"Yes mate? Door glass for a Fiesta? Tenner'll do you."

 

 

I've no idea what had been said before I'd wandered in, but it seemed to me a rum old way to run a business.

 

 

 

EDIT: I've just remembered that back in 2002, when the above incident occurred, scrap prices were so much on their arse that I seriously doubt the yard had paid anything at all for that Capri, or any of their other breakers - and quite possibly the luckless former owner even had to pay the yard to take it in.

 

Around that time, another friend had to stump up £110 to get a recycling yard to take in her MOT failure Nova (rampant boot floor corrosion) - and that was with us delivering it over to them too. Weird.

 

EDIT EDIT: best thoughts to Bub and his good lady wife, too - here's hoping it all settles very soon with no further complications.

[fairkens]

Thought i'd treat the mondeo to some new boots for winter. Ordered online through the garages own web page earlier this week.

 

On arrival they have no record of the order and don't have the right size in stock.

 

Eta they were michelin cross climate + less than £60 each - barg

[M'coli]

Fingers crossed for you and yours here too, Bub.

[Cavcraft]

Going to need a couple of tyres for the ML soon. Local part worn place quoting £40-£45 each, cheapest new about £80 a throw

[captain_70s]

I've no idea what had been said before I'd wandered in, but it seemed to me a rum old way to run a business.

Every breaker yard I've been to has been the same. You turn up, they eye you up and figure out how much they can charge you and if you don't fancy it you can fuck off.

 

Bonus points to the chap who offered me £60 for the Civic, provided I delivered it... Sold it on eBay for £400.

[Pillock]

Going to need a couple of tyres for the ML soon. Local part worn place quoting £40-£45 each, cheapest new about £80 a throw

#thuglife

[dozeydustman]

Digestives in the tin with ginger nuts.... Now that does piss me off!

 

 

Nothing wrong with ginger-infused digestives

[AMC Rebel]

Sorry to hear your news Bub.

 

My Ma was in Derby City recently but thank fully is now home and getting better, so that's one bed no longer blocked. 

[oldcars]

Only time over the next few weekends to do a bit outside. Its just started pissing down again. Stuff you weather, i'm cleaning the car anyway in a bit and sorting the garden out.

[SiC]

My welding cart is doing a Nissan Nivara

(Just without the rust)

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

I actually want it to rain today. Ive been searching for the last 2 leaks into the 635. I found the third last week, the boot seal and today I've found the others. But it's stopped raining. Need it to rain again so that I can check that my fixes have er... Fixed them!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Lady Grumpius has decided Christmas is about to start.  She's downstairs, covered in tinsel, playing horrible Christmas music out of her phone (which I hate, it does my ears in) so I'm spending about twice as long as strictly necessary to hoover upstairs.  Right now, I'm on my laptop with the hoover running, to pretend that I'm still hoovering so that she leaves me alone and I don't have to hear fucking Slade or Wizzard or whichever fucking shitty song she's playing...

 

I fucking HATE Christmas.

 

I hope, however, that Lady Bub feels better in time for Christmas.  As much as a ballache it is.

[dozeydustman]

Lady Grumpius has decided Christmas is about to start.  She's downstairs, covered in tinsel, playing horrible Christmas music out of her phone (which I hate, it does my ears in) so I'm spending about twice as long as strictly necessary to hoover upstairs.  Right now, I'm on my laptop with the hoover running, to pretend that I'm still hoovering so that she leaves me alone and I don't have to hear fucking Slade or Wizzard or whichever fucking shitty song she's playing...

 

I fucking HATE Christmas.

 

 

Mrs D and stepdaughter have spent this afternoon decorating the house. It's too wet and miserable outside for me to find a Yule log. I don't even have a fireplace in which to burn it unless I throw it on the BBQ....

 

Main grump for me today is 3rd weekend on the go rugby has been cancelled. And the not smoking any more has seriously increased my appetite to the point of driving me mad. Thankfully I bought 3kg of egremont russet apples the other day so I'm not eating shit.

[chaseracer]

My welding cart is doing a Nissan Nivara

(Just without the rust)

 

My Dyane did that in 1998!

[Guest Hooli]

My welding cart is doing a Nissan Nivara

(Just without the rust)

 

Looks quality*

 

Time to weld some angle iron along the sides to reinforce it? I'm surprised there are no bars to triangulate the joint rather than leave like it is as it'll obviously do what yours has done in no time.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Mrs D and stepdaughter have spent this afternoon decorating the house. It's too wet and miserable outside for me to find a Yule log. I don't even have a fireplace in which to burn it unless I throw it on the BBQ....

 

Main grump for me today is 3rd weekend on the go rugby has been cancelled. And the not smoking any more has seriously increased my appetite to the point of driving me mad. Thankfully I bought 3kg of egremont russet apples the other day so I'm not eating shit.

Sorry about the Rugby mate, I know you were looking forward to it. Any reason?

[dozeydustman]

Sorry about the Rugby mate, I know you were looking forward to it. Any reason?

 

 

2 weeks ago Chichester 3s cancelled as oppo pulled out.

last week Old G's vets had 27 players and said they didn't need 28, save my diesel (even though I was in Gravesend at the time)

today Chi 3s opposition pulled out again.

[LightBulbFun]

as others said I Hope Mrs Bub makes a swift recovery

 

CT (and MRI) scans are fun*, at least on my last CT scan they had a screen for me to watch a movie from their small section I chose Pirates of the Caribbean

 

so i can* say "I saw a donkeys arse get thwacked with a orange hot sword during a CT scan!"  (in my many MRI scans they offered some air based headphones to play music through which where about as use as a chocolate teapot once things started...)

[purplebargeken]

Since getting moved to London after the death of my mum in 1993, the move away from London has been a failry upfront topic in the house. It was we'll move when PBK son has finished school, then 6th form, then university, then he'll need to get his own place. 

 

When we go away we look in estate agents windows and so on. Most recent time was a weekend in Broadstairs, Mrs PBK says it'd be nice to move there, she's mentioned a bungalow previously because of my back issues. Now, due to the recent spate of stabbings and shootings, I mention moving. She now states that we won't be moving as I am retiring soon and she always felt pressured by me.

 

Fuck off.

 

So what, your comments about moving out of London were bollocks? No answer to that....... silence.

 

Well that's just fucking amazingly fucking great. Thanks for that.

[richardmorris]

No I had that not quite 3 years ago, had the xantia at the time... May dig the letter out but it won't be 3 years ago.

Meh, one of those things

Oh well. As you say, just drive slowly.

My late grandfather got a ticket last year for 35mph. His first, he said in 70 years of driving- no one else knew, he didn’t tell his son or my parents. He was offered a course but paid the ticket as it was quite a way for him to go to attend. Car and insurance was motability so no comeback- and he died a few months later anyway.

[LightBulbFun]

Since getting moved to London after the death of my mum in 1993, the move away from London has been a failry upfront topic in the house. It was we'll move when PBK son has finished school, then 6th form, then university, then he'll need to get his own place. 

 

When we go away we look in estate agents windows and so on. Most recent time was a weekend in Broadstairs, Mrs PBK says it'd be nice to move there, she's mentioned a bungalow previously because of my back issues. Now, due to the recent spate of stabbings and shootings, I mention moving. She now states that we won't be moving as I am retiring soon and she always felt pressured by me.

 

Fuck off.

 

So what, your comments about moving out of London were bollocks? No answer to that....... silence.

 

Well that's just fucking amazingly fucking great. Thanks for that.

 

Liked out of sympathy because im stuck in a sort of similar situation complete with a knackered back....

 

out of sheer curiosity if you dont mind me asking, whats your wifes excuse for wanting to stay where you live?

[panhard65]

Who was complaining about christmas perfume ads ? What is not to like I just saw one with some bird getting out the back of a 4 door Citroen SM