The grumpy thread

[HillmanImp]

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.

A puppy one bit me on the nose the other week and made a massive cut. Razor sharp teeth. Went out on a date with a lass who is a barrister the next night and looked like I had been in a fight. Brilliant. Not the best look for a posh bird.

[Station]

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!

At least you know that if people had the essential means to form a complete transaction for your wheels (ie. money), they 'would've had them'.

 

They're nice wheels though! If only I had the foresight to keep old Jap alloys back in the day, and not instruct my dad to take them to the tip to bury with garden waste.

[Claypole]

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!

I thought BSG was ok.

Not perfect and some bits were a bit rough but they managed to get this in:

 

 

Hard to explain but I get goosebumps when I hear this now.

[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?

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

It's alright. I'm having no end of shit 'twixt work and Uni at the moment. Neither is worthy of exposition here.

The whims of a grunting mong are but piffling trifle. He gets one chance, and if he dicks me about I'll luzz them back in the shed until something with a suitable stud pattern comes along.

 

I'm the sort of annoyed that isn't covered by shouting and swearing. It's the sort of malaise £300 wouldn't sort.

[myglaren]

I too liked BSG and having not seen the original series had nothing to moan about other than Richard Murdoch snatching the last series from my screen.

 

Happens with every series I decide to watch, including 24 and The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Don't watch the telly apart from that sort of shite - it hasn't been on for three weeks

[Tayne]

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[Lord Sterling]

GRRRR! Bloody 'ell I dont know whats wrong with me today

 

I feel restless, went to bed at 4am and woke up at 8am, that doesnt usually happen. My mind is in hyperdrive and my body cant make up its mind whether its tired or active.

 

GAH!

Further to this worse was to come. Ended up being sick and spending the day in bed with a rumbling stomach, blasted headache + everywhere else ache.

 

I really dont know what I had done.

[AnthonyG]

Right, you just know that's NEVER going to happen. Can you even begin to imagine the gurning that bitch Smarmy Chappati from Liberty would give out?

 

Having said that, the Israelis say she's a terrorist, so maybe the Mossad will get her first.

She'd better watch out on a cruise or ferry trip then

[trigger]

Driving down the A14 at 8am this morning to see my works doctor so that i can go back to work tonight i saw my drivers door mirror surround on my Bora blow off and bounce up the carriageway, Bugger.

[CIH]

Insurance. After messing me about for 4 FUCKING MONTHS they've suddenly decided their valuation was £75 over and have knocked me down. I'm so sick to death of the whole thing I have no energy to fight it.

 

I have lost absolutly all faith in the money grabbing bastards.

[Station]

Wow, you have faith in insurance companies?!

[Lord Sterling]

Finally had some money come in today. So I take a walk up to the local square to use either one of 2 cash machines. First cash machine out of order, Crap, Ok take a walk to the next one. Its gone, replaced by a pane of glass. The bank has now turned into a consultancy place

 

Cue long walk to petrol station.

 

Insurance. Got a quote today on the Micra and was ready to purchase some Insurance for it, when all of a sudden said company wouldnt accept my new (cash) card from my new bank. Although they would accept it for the premium they needed a debit card for deposite. FUCK SAKE.

 

As I'm off abroad in a few days I just fucked it off.

 

Cue Micra sitting on my mates drive for the next few weeks. That'll do it alot of good BAH!

 

Oh and I got a job Interview letter come through today, 5 weeks after they randomnly phoned me up to say they would be inviting me. Problem is, the interview is a day AFTER I go abroad! GAH

[chaseracer]

Oh and I got a job Interview letter come through today, 5 weeks after they randomnly phoned me up to say they would be inviting me. Problem is, the interview is a day AFTER I go abroad! GAH

Phone 'em, tell 'em you're going on a planned holiday, and you'll be in for interview the day BEFORE you go. Initiative: they'll like that.

 

Best of luck

[scaryoldcortina]

Quitting. I'm not normally a quitter, I don't give up easily, but today I stopped smoking. No fagz at all since yesterday - I'm not stopping because of health or anything like that it's just the bloody expense of it, I might as well set fire to a fiver a day instead.

 

My grump is nicotine replacement therapy (ie patches). why the hell are they so expensive? Ok, a weeks worth of patches is half the cost of 20 fags a day but ffs, there isn't any duty on the patches! grr. Second prob is you need scissors to get the patch out of the pack! I went back into the chemists and asked them to open it for me. GR8 for your stress level...

[dollywobbler]

Quitting the baccy is tough - unless you really want to do it. I decided I was fed up with the expense, and was getting very little satisfaction from it. Almost didn't have to think about it, and apart from the odd occasion (like driving and when waiting) haven't missed it at all in 11 years. The sooner you can think of yourself as an ex-smoker, the easier it is!

 

The downside is realising how much smokers stink!

[eddyramrod]

What would posess anyone to start smoking in the first place?

[Cavcraft]

My grump is nicotine replacement therapy (ie patches). why the hell are they so expensive? ...

Ah you need to move to Wales, see your nice friendly GP and he will write you out a nice free prescription and you go and pick them up from the chemist, leaving you enough money to buy a pair of scissors.

 

A side-effect of the patches, apart from the itchy arm (if that's where you put them) is that you get the most lurid/vivid dreams (or is that just me)

Defo not just you. I've never experienced dreams like the ones I had 'on the patches'.

 

S.O.C: go and see your doctor and get them on prescription, works out loads cheaper.

They are priced (in shops) I believe deliberately expensive as they play on the 'how much you can save in the long run' card.

[Station]

What would posess anyone to start smoking in the first place?

Because it makes you look tough.

[scaryoldcortina]

Actually, I did ask our GP last week. Free patches IF I go on a "stop smoking" course and visit the nurse once a week for a CO check to make sure I'm not cheating, next available course is next week. Fuck that. I'll have the fine and the points instead (lol)

[warren t claim]

What would posess anyone to start smoking in the first place?

Because it makes you look tough.

And hot chicks will want to sex you.

[Guest]

Gives you something to do when you're pacing up and down whilst your wife is giving birth.

[Albert Ross]

Here's the scenario.

You are leaning, arms folded, and feet crossed, on a Pug 504 diesel in beige, Brown flared suit, long collared beige shirt(with abstracly jauntily angled penny farthing motifs), with high heeled zip boots, pilot style shades, porn star 'tache, and a freshly lit Gitanes balanced on your lip. You catch the eye of a scantily clad (in an Orange towelling zip-up short catsuit-hotpants affair style thing) She has long flowing blonde hair and huge tits. Knee length white boots complete the image. She reaches into her dainty bag and pulls out a pack of Sobranie cocktails, and you press your Gitanes into her Sobranie, lighting her eyes aswell. A match made in Paris.

 

Well. It 's a dream.

 

Substitute the Pug for a DS if you like... or maybe a 2CV (Ribbed for her pleasure) You get the picture anyhow.

 

But I digress.

[scaryoldcortina]

This isn't helping me stop! Hahaha.

 

But yeah, I can't remember exactly why I started smoking (as a teenager) but suspect strongly it had something to do with girls and looking cool. So no point now

[Alexg]

Substitute the Pug for a DS if you like... or maybe a 2CV (Ribbed for her pleasure) You get the picture anyhow.

 

But I digress.

now imagine it with a Yaris Verso...

[Albert Ross]

Now a Nissan Figaro, yes, but NOT a Yaris.

[Alexg]

The new 'We Buy Any Car . Com' adverts On TV and Radio are getting my goat. Argueably more annoying than the Twat dancing or the tart playing footy, what really ticks me off it that they are obviously successful

[Marshall]

The new 'We Buy Any Car . Com' adverts On TV and Radio are getting my goat. Argueably more annoying than the Twat dancing or the tart playing footy, what really ticks me off it that they are obviously successful

Agree. The worst one is the one on Dave with the woman singing in that annoying fake American accent (.....Sponsors motoring on Dave...) - that really annoys me!

[warren t claim]

Cars with single windscreen wipers.

 

I really don't know why I dislike this feature. It's just about acceptable on a Fiat Panda but I do wish my Merc came with a two. It just doesn't seem right on a large car.

[Tayne]

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[Station]

I went from anti-smoking from 0 - 16, and as soon as I went to college after leaving school I was smoking. I found it disgusting but everyone else did so I did as well, as a communal thing.