The grumpy thread

[Captain Furious]

Amen to that, brother

[paulplom]

Lost my bloody Oakley sunglasses. Y'know when you don't see something for a while then you realise so? Absolutely no idea where they could have gotten to. I fookin loved those things, they were the one really silly indulgent thing I have and now they're fucking gone. Seriously pissed off.

I found some Oakley crankcase in a jag xk8 I bought off a mate. They were in the cubby hole under the left armrest. He's never asked for them back in 3 years. Maybe they were from the previous owner.

[Cavcraft]

I travelled for nearly 3 hours managing to avoid the Shit that is the m6, and walked in with my lame rose plant and shit card, and pretty much had it thrown back in my face.

Wife had cooked a 3 course meal, and decided that I have had enough chances to make it right and Valentine's day is the day that I should have put some extra effort in.

We didn't get past the first course. She packed a bag and went to stay at her sister's house. (MikeR's wife)

I have to agree with her. I put absolutely no effort in.

I drove her 240 miles each way at the weekend, to have a weekend away. Before that I was doing silly hours at work, but managed to spend an afternoon in a city to try and buy her a Birthday present for Monday. I saw some Valentine's gifts but I was in birthday present mode.

I didn't come home on Monday night because I was told to come home Tuesday for my birthday. I was led to believe that everything was fine on Wednesday.

 

For fucks sake.

 

My attempt to save our marriage by being nice and positive has not worked. It can't have helped that her mum phoned 10 minutes before I arrived home and fucked up her plans for tomorrow.

But no I take All the blame.

 

Sorry, chief, but the packing her bags bit has done you a favour. Don't initialise any contact with her and ignore her for a few days or a week at least. Hate to say it about someone else's relationship, and it's always sad when it's over, but it sounds very much like it's for the best. 

[New POD]

Sorry, chief, but the packing her bags bit has done you a favour. Don't initialise any contact with her and ignore her for a few days or a week at least. Hate to say it about someone else's relationship, and it's always sad when it's over, but it sounds very much like it's for the best.

Oh, I hear you. She came back about midnight saying she couldn't sleep at her sister's and telling me to remove myself from "her" bed so she could sleep in "her" room.

I slept in a spare room.

I say slept but I woke up a lot.

After her Dads hospital appointment, I'm hoping she'll be more reasonable.

But unlikely.

[BorniteIdentity]

You, my pedigree chum, are in the most toxic of "relationships". It's abusive, it's damaging, and it's not on. There are no excuses. Actually, by apologising for her behaviour, you're probably confusing other men who might be in a similar situation and reading your plight. Please, don't normalise this shit.

 

Nope, I don't know all the facts. I'm not there. But I've read enough to know what's going on here and - because we've all got a bit of distance from it - can see the red lights and the alarms are loud and clear.

 

Good luck, and apologies for being so blunt.

[cort16]

i thought I'd take the Z4 out for the first time today. A few miles in I thought it's a nice morning I'll put the floppy top down. Of course it got totally stuck as it's not opened for 6 months and now wouldn't go back up so was stuck 3/4 down.

I had to come home (of course I have a meeting at 9.15 I'll now need to call into) and found when I put the KIA out on the street I'd left the front window open. Good job I came back really.

The roof has gone back up manually thankfully I'm hoping it just needs lubed and nothing has broken,

[Captain Furious]

Turns out the missus had a terrible nights sleep and woke up feeling ill, so naturally I went round before work to take her temperature, ifyaknowwhadimean

 

As this was hungry work I stopped at a snack van on the way to work, only for some cunt to arrive 20 seconds before me with an order for the whole fucking county. So currently waiting here trying to resist the urge to throttle him by the neck until he stops breathing

[Sheefag]

You are Keith Lard AICMFP

I just googled that & still no idea, is it a TV reference?

Phoenix Nights. Genuinely funny and - if you’ve ever worked in social clubs - painfully accurate.

 

You shouldn't laugh but...

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1320371/10000-damages-for-fire-officer-who-was-put-out-by-Channel-4.html

[John F]

New POD, on 15 Feb 2019 - 07:21 AM, said:

Oh, I hear you. She came back about midnight saying she couldn't sleep at her sister's and telling me to remove myself from "her" bed so she could sleep in "her" room.

I slept in a spare room.

I say slept but I woke up a lot.

After her Dads hospital appointment, I'm hoping she'll be more reasonable.

But unlikely.

 

She sounds horrific.

 

What are you actually getting out of this relationship? Apart from "treated like shit", obviously.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....What When are you actually getting out of this relationship? ...

 

FTFY

[oldcars]

Heard on the radio this morning, primary school kids and others being encouraged to stay off school today because of climate change? Really, how will this help them learn and get a job? Total joke   

[DodgeRover]

Bloody tax credits, I owe them money and they are still paying me, rung them up to say stop paying and put it towards the repayment and they can't do that...

Setting up a direct debit to send it to the repayments section after it hits our account now.

Why is nothing simple?

[HillmanImp]

Heard on the radio this morning, primary school kids and others being encouraged to stay off school today because of climate change? Really, how will this help them learn and get a job? Total joke   

 

They are protesting as there might not be much of a world left for them to get a job in once 90% of it is under 12ft of water. 

[Guest Hooli]

Maybe if they got an education they'd learn the climate goes in cycles & the probability errors in climate models is higher than the changes they claim to predict.

 

We as a species are doing massive damage to the planet, we should concentrate on preventing & fixing that rather than this myth which just exists to raise taxes.

[Captain Furious]

Might as well indoctrinate teach them early on that the way to get what you want in this world is to stamp your feet and throw a hissy fit until you get it.

[DodgeRover]

Loads of oppprtunities of surfers and swimming instructors though!

 

Think of how marvellous for the planet the reduction in population would be if that was to occur - odd they aren't trumpeting that. Waterworld was a documentary wasn't it?

 

It's all liberal media spin, bollocks and hype, think our way or you must be a fascist/ brexiter/ football hooligan. Keep the people divided so they don't see through it vote us all out.

 

This is why I don't have a TV and find myself turning the radio off fairly frequently.

[SierraMikeHotel]

Hooli's off in his alternative universe again... Do you also believe that smoking is good for you, and that the moon is made of cheese?

[Guest Hooli]

 Waterworld was a documentary wasn't it?

 

I've seen quotes claiming that's not earth according to the makers.

[Guest Hooli]

Hooli's off in his alternative universe again... Do you also believe that smoking is good for you, and that the moon is made of cheese?

 

No just reality, as proven by science.

[HillmanImp]

Christ. For the last time you lot, the Flat Earth Society on Facebook is not the best place to get your scientific information from.

[bub2006]

Lent sister my picasso last night as she was going to take daughter out today and her car is no more. Rang me up earlier to say car won't start. I've had no issues at all with it,she borrows it and it's dead! Had a look at it and it's pissing diesel out of the leak off pipe. I managed to get it started and back home. Oh joy!

[Parky]

Well whether it causes climate change or not, pumping loads of co2 into the atmosphere is not a sustainable long term plan. Because even if it is proven that carbon emissions are not causing climate change, we still have the thorny issue of the earth warming up changing the balance of ecosystems which doesn’t usually end well...

 

So. If it’s our fault or not we really need to start thinking whether we like Norfolk enough to try and defend it while we still can. And what sort of Olives we want to grow in scotland during the winter months

[BorniteIdentity]

I don't really know enough about Climate Change to make any valuable contribution at all.

 

What I do know is that there is a certain irony about encouraging change and action, whilst also running a Ford Sierra on full choke all the time.

 

I'm staying quiet.

[Supernaut]

I have a 24 year old straight 6 with a lazy 4 speed auto, which I use as a daily driver.

 

But at least it's green.

[DodgeRover]

I've seen quotes claiming that's not earth according to the makers.

Yep it's not supposed to be "our" Earth as the geography/ physics are all wrong. There just isn't enough water ice at the poles to submerge everything till dry land becomes a myth - unless we crash land a load of icy comets in a failed asteroid redirect mission.

 

I bet someone was wetting themselves how many references they could get in though! The Exxon Valdez was renamed a couple of times after the spillage, so can't be the ship bearing its name in the movie etc

[Captain Furious]

I've just bought a new car (details to follow on kollecshun) and one of the selling points was £30 tax.  However the Gubbermint seems to have decided that people were being too green and all these environmentally friendly cars were not profitable enough, so they scrapped the incentives for people to buy green cars and just turned VED into a tax on the rich.  If I were buying a post-2017 model I might as well have had a V8.

 

(providing I could find a cheap enough V8 to escape the 'luxury' tax of course)

[Sheefag]

They could always compromise and protest on a Saturday...

[3VOM]

Bloody tax credits, I owe them money and they are still paying me, rung them up to say stop paying and put it towards the repayment and they can't do that...

Setting up a direct debit to send it to the repayments section after it hits our account now.

Why is nothing simple?

They can't take all of it back as a repayment of an overpayment. If they did, they'd leave some families with nothing or next to nothing for the next year. System gets worse if it repeats year after year, but I'll give you a theoretical example:

Year one family gets 8000 WFTC.

Year two family expects to get 8400 WFTC but Tax Office say should get 3000 less as first year was wrong.

Now, if they say you should be on 5400 (8400-3000) they might be able to get by. But if you take back the 3000 overpayment, they are screwed big time (2400 for this year when had 8000 previous year). To avoid this they only reclaim say 400.

Year three arrives and same thing happens. They get say 5500 but they still owe 2600 in overpayments. Can't take 2600 off without leaving them with "not a lot". But you also can't take more than 500 off without making them worse off than the previous year. On top of this, they can't deduct overpayments from the award and collect repayments by direct debit.

[New POD]

They can't take all of it back as a repayment of an overpayment. If they did, they'd leave some families with nothing or next to nothing for the next year. System gets worse if it repeats year after year, but I'll give you a theoretical example:

Year one family gets 8000 WFTC.

Year two family expects to get 8400 WFTC but Tax Office say should get 3000 less as first year was wrong.

Now, if they say you should be on 5400 (8400-3000) they might be able to get by. But if you take back the 3000 overpayment, they are screwed big time (2400 for this year when had 8000 previous year). To avoid this they only reclaim say 400.

Year three arrives and same thing happens. They get say 5500 but they still owe 2600 in overpayments. Can't take 2600 off without leaving them with "not a lot". But you also can't take more than 500 off without making them worse off than the previous year. On top of this, they can't deduct overpayments from the award and collect repayments by direct debit.

A few years ago a mistake was made and I was over paid by 3.5k. I argued that the fault lay in the way they described something, and they argued that had I read the 36 page guide, I'd know what they meant.

I was allowed to pay back over 3 years. Which meant zero tax credits for 2 years and me paying them 65 quid a month for the last year.

[beko1987]

Lent sister my picasso last night as she was going to take daughter out today and her car is no more. Rang me up earlier to say car won't start. I've had no issues at all with it,she borrows it and it's dead! Had a look at it and it's pissing diesel out of the leak off pipe. I managed to get it started and back home. Oh joy!

I drove the xantia home from work once with a broken leak off pipe. Had to go the proper bum shit back way as the m40 had been closed for many hours too... Every junction I nearly passed out with the smell, I imagine many bikers across the 5 villages I went through hated me for weeks afterwards! Must have wasted no end of fuel too!

 

Luckily the kit came the next day so I changed them all!