The grumpy thread

[Guest]

I'd advise anyone to get a pug, they're tough little things with all the annoying features of a small dog removed.

I would advise against a 307 or 308. They're the exact opposite of what you've described.

[Tayne]

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[Lankytim]

Iv'e spotted a dead B reg Maestro 1.3HL parked up next so someones garage. Its been there atleast 3 years to my knowledge so its pretty safe to assume it will never see the road again. It looks to have a mint bootlid too- Just what I need for my new Maestro purchase!

 

Im putting this in the grump section because im going to ask about it today and the owner is bound to tell me to sling my hook when I ask if its for sale, because he's going to restore it "one day"

 

I bet I see the local scrap man taking it away in a few weeks time too!

[r.welfare]

Broken dishwashers, tax returns, and Avensis pollen filters. In that order.

[dollywobbler]

We stopped using our dishwasher after realising that it was actually rubbish. Tax returns - oh yeah, I've got to do those again...

[Station]

You should've 'cleaned' your dishwasher with Calgone, as, allegedly, the advert says, your dishwasher pipes get clogged up with food and stuff!

[Cavcraft]

Small, white, fluffy 'cute' looking things. The sort of thing vile 'celebrities' keep under their arm, usually dressed in stupid fucking dog clothes.

 

Another o/t grump is the way people cross pedigree breeds with other dogs and then still charge £250+ for them.

What happened to getting a mongrel for fuck all?

Tell her it will have to be balanced with the purchase or moar shitez....

Actually....

 

I had to get rid of two of my shitemobiles to raise the funds

Now no matter of 'persauding' to get a proper dog (alsation) is working, it's one of those bloody Bichon Frise things and nowt else apparantly.

 

Found one for sale about an hour away, seller says it's pedigree but we'll have to KC register it ourselves. Doesn't sound too clever to me tbh, anyone any gen on this please?

I've asked on the grumpy thread so as not to clog up shite talk on the general board by the way.

[Albert Ross]

Autoshite. Now with added dog shite.

[Angrydicky]

Another o/t grump is the way people cross pedigree breeds with other dogs and then still charge £250+ for them.

What happened to getting a mongrel for fuck all?

Making money out of breeding dogs is a ghastly business altogether. My dog was near death due to her previous owners using her as a puppy factory.

Try an animal rescue centre or the RSPCA.

Agree completely. Our dog was a rescue dog, she's about seven years old and a little anklebiter of some sort, we're not actually sure what breed she is but it doesn't matter. She's great, but not very sociable with other animals.

[boobydoo]

To the wedding guests who attend at St Nicholas's Church, Norton, Letchworth...thanks for chucking your fag ends by my fence and your fag packets in my garden. The confetti every week I can accept cos its bio-degradable although it hangs around for ages..but I've really got nothing better to do on a Sunday than pick up dog ends. No, really!

[Pillock]

 

I had to get rid of two of my shitemobiles to raise the funds

Now no matter of 'persauding' to get a proper dog (alsation) is working, it's one of those bloody Bichon Frise things and nowt else apparantly.

 

Found one for sale about an hour away, seller says it's pedigree but we'll have to KC register it ourselves. Doesn't sound too clever to me tbh, anyone any gen on this please?

I've asked on the grumpy thread so as not to clog up shite talk on the general board by the way.

Our (well, mine and my ex's) westie had KC parents and is technically pedigree but we never bothered registering her - for a pet, it adds nothing. Only of value if you're going to breed them at some point for profit which I'm dead set against.

 

One dog we got from a really good "breeder" (one litter every two years, and the mum is their family pet and looked very well loved), and we saw her with mum in a lovely house, all groovy. The other was in a fleapit horrible smelly house, last pup, no mum around and was clearly far younger than the 12 weeks claimed. We bought him anyway just to try and do the right thing.

[M'coli]

 

Found one for sale about an hour away, seller says it's pedigree but we'll have to KC register it ourselves. Doesn't sound too clever to me tbh, anyone any gen on this please?

I'd smell a rat if I heard that!

 

Find out from the vendor what the names of the sire and the dame are, check with kennel club that they're both registered, and ask the owner why the buyer needs to register the offspring themselves.

 

Word-of-mouth is good, as you get to hear of pups from dogs owned by families and the like, i.e. not puppy farmed.

 

Buy "The Dog Listener" and make the missus read it - a pet dog should not be the leader of the "pack"!

 

Try to get her interested in other "non-shedders" - labradoodles and there's a type of non-shedding terrier - that are half the price or less.

 

Also, try the dog's trust and other re-homing charities to see what they've got.

[pogweasel]

If you CAN get a dog through RSPCA/Dog's Trust/Wood Green, then DO.

 

They will already have sorted the wheat from the chaff and you'll get a proper dog with a lovely temparement even if it's not a KC thoroughbred.

 

"Dogs" is an interesting subject for me...

 

It all starts when Mrs_Pog & I set up home together back in the dim & distant... our first christmas together she wrote me a christmas wish list, with as basically

1. a dog

2. a dog

3. a dog

4. a dog

(etc. with illustrations)

 

At the time it wasn't a 'go' situation as we lived in a riverside flat, with a pet-embargo....

 

Roll on a few years and we are still talking about it, and now we have our own house with a decent garden well it sounds OK. EXCEPT... if you have children under 14, you can't adopt a dog, I guess they are covering their arses in case said mutt eats a childs face off...

 

So we had to look at buying a dog...

Now she wanted a small dog. I DID NOT WANT a gay dog, basically anything that would be cripplingly embarrassing to be seen walking. Plus as I work outdoors & often alone a proper trainable 'companion' dog would be ideal.

So we had a look about, I really fancied a border collie, smart, obedient, trustworthy etc.

Except most for sale were in wales, i.e. 5 hours away. Hardly seems fair to drag a tiny pup halfway across the land on it's first trip away from it's mother. Then we chanced upon a seller on e-pupz in Northampton selling BC pups fpr £150... went up & had a look and they all looked healthy but we made the cardinal mistake here - the lass said they got them in some deal or other, and the parents were not present... we are now almost certain the bloated worn-out blind bitch roaming the place was the mother...

 

Anyway, after about 18 months with our pup we started to notice something wrong, he wasn't chasing his toys at toytime as he had. A trip to the vets diagnosed Progressive Retinal Atrophe a genetic condition that leads to a build up of scar tissue on the retina. Our Ralf is now 100% blind. Maybe we should have checked more. Maybe we should have fetched a better pedigree dog from wales. Still I could not bear to have hime put down, the vetinary said as he is a BC and therefore pretty smart, he could adapt and by dammit he has, knows his way about the house, garden and every street in a mile around, puts up with no end of prodding and poking by small children and guards them loyally, he's quite happy to sit by the baby's cot all night doing 'guard duty'.

 

For the last couple of years we have also had a very naughty but delightfully loveable Jack Russell, but that's another story and you are probably bored of this by now.

 

So I guess whatever you end up with, and by whatever means, please do make the best of it, because they really are worth it.

[scaryoldcortina]

A good dog is a friend for life.

 

Our first dog (wife driven, I didn't get pets as a kid) was a free to a good home "alsatian cross" puppy out of a free ad in the paper. Mrs S was a bit cross when it didn't grow into an alsatian (imagine a slightly leggy manchester terrier) but Bran was a faithful companion to me for 16 years before her heart gave out.

 

Second dog came about because we needed a companion for Bran, as she was growing up believing she was a cat (no, really) and also because we passed an RSPCA rescue centre one day and "popped in for a look". Enter Beth, half labrador, half rhodesian ridgeback, all MAD. She was about 2 years old, badly underweight and had been puppy farmed almost to death. The day we saw her, she was 2 days away from being put to sleep. Anyway, a week later after a home check and £60 paid we had a new dog. She's now about 17, and showing her age a bit, but another completely loyal brilliant dog (except the open the door go for a walk without me bit).

 

The no kids under 14 rule must be new - my youngest was only a year when we got Beth.

[Pillock]

All I'd say on the dogs charities is that they know what they're talking about. They "offered" us a terrier, said it was a bit snappy but just needed work. We went down to look (Nottingham to Norwich), he was a lovely dog but whilst out on a test walk (I kid you not, they want you to take the dogs out a few times before going any further with it) he went mental at another dog.

 

We'd already got a westie at this point and couldn't be sure he'd fit in.... the charity felt the same way so it was a no go. We ended up with another puppy (and another £250 down....) so we could make some attempt to "shape" behaviour.

 

Incidentally our westie came from wales, and we dragged it halfway across the country overnight. Is wales a big dog breeding country?

[eddyramrod]

Remakes. On our Greece-based channels we get remakes of Battlestar Galactica (why??????) and The Prisoner. Now The Prisoner, ok, that was just loony, but it had McGoohan, who'd already been Danger Man, exciting music and Portmeirion. The new one is American, of course, starring Jim Cavawhatsit, and the music is... well, best forgotten. BG was probably best left where it was, but the new series... how PC can you make something?????? And I don't mean Practical Classics! Starbuck (Face from the A-Team) is now a girly! FTW!!!!! As is the boss, I think (I haven't been watching closely) when in the original, we got the immortal Lorne Greene (Bonanza, etc).

 

We also get the US Life On Mars, which actually looks pretty good (saved, I suspect, by Gretchen Mol and Harvey Keitel), and Dollhouse, which looks like a very paranoid take on Joe 90, and I haven't seen any acknowledgement to the great Gerry yet...

 

When they make these remakes, WHYYYYYYYYYY do they ALWAYS throw away the stirring music everyone remembers and replace it with some whiney orchestral shit? Even the Addams Family (1992)... come on Hollywood, wake up! People love this stuff as a package!

[Guest]

Here is the original Addams Family music just in case anyone had forgotten it:

[eddyramrod]

Don't start me! I had a very happy few minutes the other night after someone linked to the music from The Sweeney or Minder (can't remember which); I listened to both, plus Z-Cars, The Professionals, The Saint, The Avengers... music from when the TV companies cared!

[scaryoldcortina]

Here is the original Addams Family music just in case anyone had forgotten it:

Oh, it's ok, I hadn't forgotten. I have had stuff thrown at me (by mrs s) in the last 10 mins because I've been playing it on the mandolin (she also threatened to burn said mandolin if I didn't stop)

[Albert Ross]

Why do you try to make music from a vegetable slicer?

[Cavcraft]

If you CAN get a dog through RSPCA/Dog's Trust/Wood Green, then DO.

 

They will already have sorted the wheat from the chaff and you'll get a proper dog with a lovely temparement even if it's not a KC thoroughbred.

 

"Dogs" is an interesting subject for me...

 

It all starts when Mrs_Pog & I set up home together back in the dim & distant... our first christmas together she wrote me a christmas wish list, with as basically

1. a dog

2. a dog

3. a dog

4. a dog

(etc. with illustrations)

 

At the time it wasn't a 'go' situation as we lived in a riverside flat, with a pet-embargo....

 

Roll on a few years and we are still talking about it, and now we have our own house with a decent garden well it sounds OK. EXCEPT... if you have children under 14, you can't adopt a dog, I guess they are covering their arses in case said mutt eats a childs face off...

 

So we had to look at buying a dog...

Now she wanted a small dog. I DID NOT WANT a gay dog, basically anything that would be cripplingly embarrassing to be seen walking. Plus as I work outdoors & often alone a proper trainable 'companion' dog would be ideal.

So we had a look about, I really fancied a border collie, smart, obedient, trustworthy etc.

Except most for sale were in wales, i.e. 5 hours away. Hardly seems fair to drag a tiny pup halfway across the land on it's first trip away from it's mother. Then we chanced upon a seller on e-pupz in Northampton selling BC pups fpr £150... went up & had a look and they all looked healthy but we made the cardinal mistake here - the lass said they got them in some deal or other, and the parents were not present... we are now almost certain the bloated worn-out blind bitch roaming the place was the mother...

 

Anyway, after about 18 months with our pup we started to notice something wrong, he wasn't chasing his toys at toytime as he had. A trip to the vets diagnosed Progressive Retinal Atrophe a genetic condition that leads to a build up of scar tissue on the retina. Our Ralf is now 100% blind. Maybe we should have checked more. Maybe we should have fetched a better pedigree dog from wales. Still I could not bear to have hime put down, the vetinary said as he is a BC and therefore pretty smart, he could adapt and by dammit he has, knows his way about the house, garden and every street in a mile around, puts up with no end of prodding and poking by small children and guards them loyally, he's quite happy to sit by the baby's cot all night doing 'guard duty'.

 

For the last couple of years we have also had a very naughty but delightfully loveable Jack Russell, but that's another story and you are probably bored of this by now.

So I guess whatever you end up with, and by whatever means, please do make the best of it, because they really are worth it.

No, far from it, thanks for the response.

I've tried rescue dog suggestions but even I baulked at that as I'd be worried if it had been mistreated then went all crazy yo on my kids.

Full lollage at the 'gay dog' suggestion, that's what I'd hoped to avoid to be honest. However I have our cats and the fishtank to look after so I'm happy if she is. If women are ever actually happy that is.

[cobblers]

MOTHERS CAR.

 

It's a y plate ka, pretty rough - Rusty, not been serviced for about 4 years, you know the score.

 

Failed its last MOT on welding (3 feet along both sills) and a bottom arm, so I welded it up at the side of the road. Never welded before so one side started shit and got better towards the back. the other side started OK and stayed about that as I got to the other end. Of course she "needed it fixed soon because shes stressed out etc etc" so It cost me welding wire, gas, underseal and some bottom arms, along with a day not working (I'm self employed, lost about £60)

 

Then she tells me it feels wandery, I take it for a run round the block and it TERRIFIES me. all of a sudden it'll take half a turn on the steering wheel to make it go straight.

I tell her I'll give her a lift to work all week, and fix it at the weekend.

She again goes mad, "OH I NEED THE CAR IM SO STRESSED OUT CANT BE STUCK IN THE HOUSE!"

£70 and half a day off work later it's fixed.

 

I get a call off her friday night. "The car won't go in gear" so I assume it's clutch hydraulics and tell her to pump the clutch and it'll go in.

 

SHe comes back and the clutch is making a horrible noise like someone's thrown a few pool balls into the bellhousing. I assume it's either spat a spring out or the main plate has fell off the cover.

 

I had plans this weekend (Clutch on my own car!) so offered her a lift to work, and I'd do it next weeekend. Again she stresses out and I feel guilty, get her a clutch and do the job, which was a ballache.

 

I get it done, bring it back to see my sisters KA on the drive. She'd left it here to lend to my mum on saturday morning for the week, til I could do her car. But it turns out my mum "doesn't like driving it because it feels different" so neglected to mention this to me.

 

My mums bloody great, but she's completely irrational when it comes to cars and it's costing me time off work, hours laid under her shitty KA and weekends where I could be fixing my own car. My sister has an identical KA (apart from the colour) that she never uses and will let my mum use whenever (she's on the insurance) which she won't drive because it feels funny. And of course she's skint so I can't take money off her for the bits, so I'm running my own expensive unreliable cars, and catching the bad end of of her Ka that from 2004 to 2009 had £19 spent on it.

[pogweasel]

Well, even before full on DOG BLINDAGE YO kicked in, 'Er Indoors decides that as Ralf the BC spends all his time trailing round after me (or chasing ducks about during the 'DuckGate' period of ridiculous Good Life emulation) she's still not "up" on the deal.

 

So she said, I want another dog. Or another baby*.

Well another dog is probably the lesser of two evils here, so we went on a jaunt to the most pikey house in north london (Pajero, horse brasses, check) and came away with a tiny and I do mean tiny Jack Russell pup.

Jack Russells are very different to collies. Takes forever to stop them pissing on the floor, they eat your shoes and bury all manner of random stuff in the garden. They chew the furniture, they chase any birds or cats that enter the garden, they eat snails and frogs even though it makes them sick and they ALWAYS have to pick a fight with any larger dog during walkies. It's embarrassing that a fully functioning small terrier CANNOT behave off the lead whilst a visually incapacitated dog only ever has a lead on at all as a token gesture.... Basically a total pain in the arse.

However he does provide companionship & a certain level of help to the blind BC, and he is absolutely brill with the kids, lets them dress him up and all sort of stupidity that would have the collie going off for a skulk under the table.

 

 

*Three months after getting the baby substitute dog she telle me she's up the stick...

[Guest]

Retro Rides : For Sale Section.

 

Why have I got a feeling the bloke who wants to buy my wheels is going to be a dickcheese mong?

[trigger]

I might text him lots of naked photos of myself.

[M'coli]

*Three months after getting the baby substitute dog she telle me she's up the stick...

That'll have been the "thank you for the puppy" shag then...

[Tayne]

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[Cavcraft]

Well, even before full on DOG BLINDAGE YO kicked in, 'Er Indoors decides that as Ralf the BC spends all his time trailing round after me (or chasing ducks about during the 'DuckGate' period of ridiculous Good Life emulation) she's still not "up" on the deal.

 

So she said, I want another dog. Or another baby*.

Well another dog is probably the lesser of two evils here, so we went on a jaunt to the most pikey house in north london (Pajero, horse brasses, check) and came away with a tiny and I do mean tiny Jack Russell pup.

Jack Russells are very different to collies. Takes forever to stop them pissing on the floor, they eat your shoes and bury all manner of random stuff in the garden. They chew the furniture, they chase any birds or cats that enter the garden, they eat snails and frogs even though it makes them sick and they ALWAYS have to pick a fight with any larger dog during walkies. It's embarrassing that a fully functioning small terrier CANNOT behave off the lead whilst a visually incapacitated dog only ever has a lead on at all as a token gesture.... Basically a total pain in the arse.

However he does provide companionship & a certain level of help to the blind BC, and he is absolutely brill with the kids, lets them dress him up and all sort of stupidity that would have the collie going off for a skulk under the table.

 

 

*Three months after getting the baby substitute dog she telle me she's up the stick...

Ah, this is probably going to go back o/t and keep up with the current topic.

I have something of an aversion to Jack Russells I'm afraid and I'm genuinely ashamed to say that my last encounter with a rather vicious one saw me launch it over a bus stop after it chased me whilst I was on my motorbike.

I have met a few friendly ones since though and can see the appeal but I don't think I can own one sorry.

[trigger]

Send him the ones in the christmas jumper, they'd be worse.

I don't think that would be very fair on the bloke, I mean, Nudity is one thing, But me in my xmas jumper is just really nasty.

[cobblers]

Retro Rides : For Sale Section.

 

Why have I got a feeling the bloke who wants to buy my wheels is going to be a dickcheese mong?

I saw that and genuinely felt for you. Although I was expecting more "if they were 4x100" posts!