The grumpy thread

[Rocket88]

Lorries have been haring up and down our lane, delivering stone to the property up the hill from us..................now our water supply has been cut...............not a co-incidence, I think.............

[Angrydicky]

It's official. The site of Shitefest Cymru is now completely ruined. Our usual music session at the hotel tonight. Barman was surly as f&ck. Wouldn't even say goodnight, and starting to hint that it might be a good idea for us to leave at 10pm. Not the first time either. Might very well be the last time though. Why on earth would I want to put money behind the bar when some of it goes to that useless muppet?

 

That place used to be the heart of the community. It's feeling pretty desolate here right now. Thankfully, a pub a short drive away has been more welcoming. 

Shame, the people that used to run it were top folks and the fella even came out in his Jeep (with various tow ropes) to try and retrieve Mike's Spitfire when he crashed it. No winch so he attempted to use a handy telegraph pole as a snatch block!!! It didn't work because the ropes kept breaking, but full marks for effort. 

[Cavcraft]

You think that's bad?

 

A mate of mine entered a Viagra eating competition and it was going really well,

 

 

Up until he was beaten off by some stiff opposition.

 

Hard to know what you're complaining about, tbh. I swallowed a Viagra then knocked all the others on the floor. Spent a full 30 minutes on all fives looking for them.

[mercrocker]

I can't even take them.   Had a pill phobia since childhood and can't get tablets down. 

 

 

 

 

I'd just end up with a stiff neck.....

[richardmorris]

Fucksticks. IMG_20190321_104548.jpg

Keep it elevated - higher than your heart if possible.

 

 

That is lie down with your leg on a cushion or two. Not sit up with your leg round your neck!

[strangeangel]

but WTF is all the flashing people out of a side road/driveway straight  into the path of cyclists, motorcyclists, lorries et al.

 

This. A pox upon all Knights of the Road.

[ruffgeezer]

I can't even take them. Had a pill phobia since childhood and can't get tablets down.

 

 

 

 

I'd just end up with a stiff neck.....

 

I had a Viagra suppository once, all I got was a hard stool.

[sierraman]

"Wats ur lowest price mate"

 

On a car that's already a fucking steal.

 

Fuck off.

Why do people ask this? It ought to be some sort of law that you have your hands placed in a 10 tonne press if you are found asking or texting or whatever an absolutely fucking stupid question like ‘What’s UR lowest price?’

[LightBulbFun]

 

 

(Applicable meme is applicable)

[fairkens]

I had a Viagra suppository once, all I got was a hard stool.

I went to the chemist for some viagra, asked him if you could get it over the counter

 

He said he could if he took two

[Mrcento]

Why do people ask this? It ought to be some sort of law that you have your hands placed in a 10 tonne press if you are found asking or texting or whatever an absolutely fucking stupid question like ‘What’s UR lowest price?’

 

I've started replying with a price way higher than the asking price

 

"yeh but ur only asking £450 on the ad"

 

"Exactly, "Only". Ask a daft question, you'll get a daft answer".

 

Anyone that comes straight out with a "Lowest price, mate" question isn't a serious buyer anyway IMO. Even if they showed up, they'd likely just start trying to re-haggle the already haggled price that wasn't for haggling.

[sierraman]

Maybe I’m a bit old fashioned. Car is 10 miles away so I’ll go and look at it, say it’s £800, bid him £700 and settle at £750 or whatever. Turn up and be polite, have actual money on me to pay for it, not be picking up on every minor scratch it has. Not rabbiting on chatting shit etc.

 

Strangely that’s not the done thing anymore. You turn up in a pack of four, conducting some sort of lost episode of Wheeler Dealers. But prior to all this you try finalising the price before you’ve even arrived. Thus providing a platform later for some aggressive bidding when you’ve found a scratch on a £300 car.

[Mrcento]

Maybe I’m a bit old fashioned. Car is 10 miles away so I’ll go and look at it, say it’s £800, bid him £700 and settle at £750 or whatever. Turn up and be polite, have actual money on me to pay for it, not be picking up on every minor scratch it has. Not rabbiting on chatting shit etc.

 

Strangely that’s not the done thing anymore. You turn up in a pack of four, conducting some sort of lost episode of Wheeler Dealers. But prior to all this you try finalising the price before you’ve even arrived. Thus providing a platform later for some aggressive bidding when you’ve found a scratch on a £300 car.

 

When i sold my Ignis sport, it was pretty much like that. It was taking up my lock up and i needed it away to get the space for something else, £350.

 

A boy from Aberdeen messaged me basically saying he already had one and wanted it for parts for his, £300, he'd have it collected, cash in hand, no worries. To which i agreed.

 

Collection day arrived, his dad comes down with a low loader... "£150 yeah?"... "No, £300 was agreed", "Nah mate, he's no paying that, it's £150", "It's not going anywhere for £150 buddy, or £200, or £250, It's £300 and if i'm not getting £300, you've wasted a trip to Dundee"

 

What followed was basically an argument, I let him take it for £280 in the end but some of the parts that were going with it mysteriously fell off it in between backing it out the lockup and going on the truck and stayed in the garage, so he ended up with a worse deal than if he'd just paid the £300.

[DodgyBastard]

When i sold my Ignis sport, it was pretty much like that. It was taking up my lock up and i needed it away to get the space for something else, £350.

 

A boy from Aberdeen messaged me basically saying he already had one and wanted it for parts for his, £300, he'd have it collected, cash in hand, no worries. To which i agreed.

 

Collection day arrived, his dad comes down with a low loader... "£150 yeah?"... "No, £300 was agreed", "Nah mate, he's no paying that, it's £150", "It's not going anywhere for £150 buddy, or £200, or £250, It's £300 and if i'm not getting £300, you've wasted a trip to Dundee"

 

What followed was basically an argument, I let him take it for £280 in the end but some of the parts that were going with it mysteriously fell off it in between backing it out the lockup and going on the truck and stayed in the garage, so he ended up with a worse deal than if he'd just paid the £300.

When I was selling a mazda 323 for £150 recently I still had loads of people asking what's the lowest I'd take until someone I'd bought a set of wheels from the previous week said they would have it for the £150 and would collect it later the next day.

When I turned up at my unit to do the deal they were already there poking at the car, there was the buyer plus 5 of his mates with two of them in a recovery truck.

I had thought it would be a straight forward transaction like when I had went to buy his wheels, I turned up, gave him the full asking price, took the wheels and fucked off, instead I got him and his mates poking at my cars, opening bonnets and the buyer comes out with "what's the lowest you'd take?"

Fuck off and die!

 

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[New POD]

Tell me whats the most you'd pay?

 

Well for that you can have the shell. the engine, and the steering wheel. But not the gearbox, brakes, or wheels.

[DodgyBastard]

Maybe I’m a bit old fashioned. Car is 10 miles away so I’ll go and look at it, say it’s £800, bid him £700 and settle at £750 or whatever. Turn up and be polite, have actual money on me to pay for it, not be picking up on every minor scratch it has. Not rabbiting on chatting shit etc.

 

Strangely that’s not the done thing anymore. You turn up in a pack of four, conducting some sort of lost episode of Wheeler Dealers. But prior to all this you try finalising the price before you’ve even arrived. Thus providing a platform later for some aggressive bidding when you’ve found a scratch on a £300 car.

I'm the same, if I'm selling a car and someone arranges to come and see it without any of this best price/lowest offer nonsense beforehand, they turn up on time and are polite I am more likely to sell it at a lower price if they make a bid.

I find its the same when buying a car, you know that the seller has probably had loads of "best price m8" messages and will probably be incredibly frustrated with the whole ordeal so when you turn up, assess the car and make an offer you're more likely to get somewhere rather than being told to fuck right off.

 

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[strangeangel]

Strangely that’s not the done thing anymore. You turn up in a pack of four, conducting some sort of lost episode of Wheeler Dealers. But prior to all this you try finalising the price before you’ve even arrived. Thus providing a platform later for some aggressive bidding when you’ve found a scratch on a £300 car.

 

IME the ones who try and negotiate the price down (I use this phrase loosely) by sending messages like '200' are the ones who invariably fail to show up.

 

This place aside, the world of sub-£500 motors is replete with some of the most monumental gene pool rejects you could ever hope not to meet, and I simply can't be arsed with it anymore.

[Cavcraft]

Usually the ones who travel the furthest are most likely to buy without pissing about. Those that decide 'no offers' doesn't apply to them are either going to pay the full price, or go home empty handed. It's only their own money they're wasting g.

[Spiny Norman]

When I sold mine a couple of weeks ago I got into a long drawn out email conversation with a guy about 2 miles away who turned out to be a total timewaster, on the morning he was meant to be coming to see it messaged me with the old "I've only managed to lift £xxx from the cash machine, that's all I've got" line, so I told him to FRO.

Next weekend a bloke came up from Ayr (about 40 miles), had a quick poke round and drove the thing away after a civilised bit of haggling which saw me get more for it than I was expecting.

No wonder so many old cars get scrapped when people simply aren't willing to stand in front of you and make a spirited bid on something.

[HillmanImp]

I had the opposite problem when trying to sell a false beard for 20 Shekels. Chap just game me the full whack and didn't even haggle. Bert couldn't believe it. I ended up chucking in a gourd that was worth at least 10 to make up for it.

 

One born every minute eh?

[Lord Sterling]

Work. Work is pissing me off. Office manager trying to accuse me of not doing certain set tasks yesterday when in fact they were not actually there yesterday.

[MikeR]

the local council fuck wits are chasing dog owners for fixed fines for walking on unsigned  "pitches" , play areas or  not using a lead ...

 

 

living next to the farmers fields and footpaths , the dog has spiced up your spuds and carrots today !!!

[Redfred]

Whats making me grumpy at the moment?

The shitey weather

Fuckwit boy racers in their fart boxes at stupid o’clock

Crappy mental health

And today my back went ping in spectacular fashion, it currently hurts to even breathe. Supposed to be going out for dinner tonight with some of my blokes friends but looking likely I won’t make it.

[Rocket88]

Why do people ask this? It ought to be some sort of law that you have your hands placed in a 10 tonne press if you are found asking or texting or whatever an absolutely fucking stupid question like ‘What’s UR lowest price?’

 

 

I wouldn't bother with hands.............

[Tenmil Socket]

You think that's bad?

 

A mate of mine entered a Viagra eating competition and it was going really well,

 

 

Up until he was beaten off by some stiff opposition.

 

I've heard the Viagra eye drops aren't any good. They just make you look hard...

[mercrocker]

^^^This was done at a previous work-place.   Caused a fuckton of shit, not least because said manager's wife found the text messages - at a time when he was already in hooky for playing away.   (almost) felt sorry for the cunt.

[Lord Sterling]

Work. Work is pissing me off. Office manager trying to accuse me of not doing certain set tasks yesterday when in fact they were not actually there yesterday.

So, because I decided to sit up and actually defend myself, it looks like my days at this job are numbered. I said as much to the owner who frankly is a bit of a half-wit. The manager is well protected, she can swan around and do as she likes, accuse people of what she wants. Yet you stand up for yourself and defend yourself, its as if you've physically chucked shit in thier face. I wonder why the fuck I bother sometimes.

[Lord Sterling]

Post said managers phone number on a dating website.

I don't have her phone number.

[omegod]

I swear if I was on an uninhabited island that happened to have a kitchen my wife would tun up and want to get into he fucking cupboard I was standing in front of, i'm trying to prepare dinner and she's hovering behind me fucking about every time I pick up something sharp or boiling hot.

 

I am a tad grumpy today apparently, tis true......I am   

[MikeR]

the wife went out , so I pulled the cooker out and cleaned all behind it , the cooker , the toaster , even the dogs bowls ..

 

.that's right , bowls  , even the dog misheard me

 

just got to wait and see if its noticed

 

 

had to point it out !!