The grumpy thread

[Kiltox]

I live on a private, non adopted road.  I pay for its maintenance shared with three other houses. 

I don’t own the road, but I have written permission from the landowner to park on it

If you could kindly fuck off from parking there it would be greatly appreciated, everyone else. 

Kthx. 

[myglaren]

1 hour ago, Kiltox said:

I live on a private, non adopted road.  I pay for its maintenance shared with three other houses. 

I don’t own the road, but I have written permission from the landowner to park on it

If you could kindly fuck off from parking there it would be greatly appreciated, everyone else. 

Kthx. 

Not up to date with the legalities but perhaps you could put up a sign indicating that it was a private road.

To save buying a clamp, just remove their wheel bolts.

 

Have to say here that there are lots of cars in my street but there are never any squabbles about parking spaces, even though there are three people who like to take up more than their fair share of the spaces.

[Kiltox]

There are signs, people ignore them. Currently in discussion with the land owner (developer) to actually instruct an enforcement company as much as I detest them. 

[barefoot]

The bloke next door to me owns the street, despite the fact that he doesn't live in it any more, he just drives down to park outside his fat partner's house.

If anyone parks close to his spot, he'll park with bumpers almost touching, and if anyone parks opposite he'll park leaving just enough room to get through. He spent a couple of years parking within about a millimetre of my dropped kerb, so I taught myself the ability to be able to fly down the close at a singularly inappropriate speed for reverse and swing into my drive with alarming alacrity. He has recently bought himself an E type and doesn't seem to piss about in quite the same way any more.

[clayts450]

I'm actually very lucky living at the end of a cul de sac, and also at the end of a row of houses. So there's two spaces outside my house as my front garden is bigger than everyone else's.

Only three of the five neighbours on the end bit of the cul de sac have cars (1 each), plus there's room for visitors, so 5 spaces free, two of which are taken up by my other cars. There's always room to park. In fact my neighbours often ask when I'm buying another car to fill another space or two.

No silliness here at all, all very civilised.

 

[iainrcz]

One night in Aberdeen and the car is lathered in bod shite.
Going to be a sad cunt and try and wash it off, it eats paint like buggery.

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[MorrisItalSLX]

All this is reminding me of my Grandfather. Whenever we visited he would move his car out of the driveway and park it in front of the house, he then made us park in the driveway for duration of our stay. He would sometimes move his car into the street days in advance to ensure he got the space in front of the house.

[barefoot]

"I ACCEPT"

 

Every time I click on a new fucking web page...

Who's fucking bright idea was that, & what exactly does it protect me from?

Can I adjust something on my mac so I no longer have to do it?

[Amishtat]

I used to live in a cul de sac and would get home from work at about 7am. One morning someone had parked a Civic in the space I usually used on the bend but no big deal, there was a space a few yards past my house. Just about to go to bed about 9 or so, I glanced out of the front window to see the owner of the Civic engaged in heated debate with the dustcart driver who'd essentially just ripped both o/s doorskins off... 

[dozeydustman]

35 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

I used to live in a cul de sac and would get home from work at about 7am. One morning someone had parked a Civic in the space I usually used on the bend but no big deal, there was a space a few yards past my house. Just about to go to bed about 9 or so, I glanced out of the front window to see the owner of the Civic engaged in heated debate with the dustcart driver who'd essentially just ripped both o/s doorskins off... 

Don't blame me!

[dozeydustman]

Three Grumps today

1) My new tachograph driver's card has packed up. It's 6 weeks old.

2) Every single member of the world's blowfly population appears to have descended upon my house today. Given the place a thorough tidy, hoover, clean etc. Cooked no problem. Mrs D feeds the cats, they all come back. Ergo cat food works better than one of those blue-purple bulbs behind an electrified mesh if you need to attract flies.

3) The humidity is unbearable, it's not even that hot today. I'm glad I don't live in Florida.

4) Despite covering my new veg raised bed with holly clippings, poking cocktail sticks into the soil, uneven chicken wire and a liberal sprinkle of a mix of garlic, pepper, chilli powder and cayenne, a cat (either one of the neighbours or one of the wife's) has still managed to park its breakfast right in the middle.

[dozeydustman]

5) Apparently I can't count either today ⬆︎

[Fumbler]

It's hot and sticky and I hate it. I don't even want to underseal my Micra right now because of it, let alone do anything else. I will do the seams, but the rest is reserved for when I get some real creepy Dynax S-50. For now, I hate the weather and I blame France.

[gm]

online training for work - there's two hours of my life I'll never get back

[mitsisigma01]

Live in a terrace of 4 houses, other 3 houses have 4 cats between them, 8 cat shits within 4 metres of my front door..... Where the fk are the responsible cat owners.... Fkin nowhere. It fkin stinks.... Yep like shit. 

Dirty bastards

[Parky]

Son and his friends put together a list of the girls int he school, ranked A to F.  Pretty much as every child has done since time began.  

Problem is one of the group shared it and the Parents of the girls at the lower end of the scale have lodged a formal complaint so they are all now in trouble.  Why is this an issue?  One of the girls at the lower end of the scale is from an ethnic minority and an accusation of racism has been made.  To the extent that 30 kids surrounded my son and his friends earlier and it could have got well nasty.  

Fucking kids.  For a smart lad he has appalling judgement sometimes.  If you had a door marked DANGER KEEP OUT SHARKS AND LASERS AND SHIT” and scribbled “oh and free sweets” in crayon underneath, he would go piling in.  

Mrs P is off the school tomorrow - be interesting to hear their version of events

[beko1987]

Jesus we do that in the office... Allan from IT came up the other day (we get on well with Allan) and afterwards remarked how bloody amazing colleague x is. 

We have her down as number 3.. Looks stunning some days, looks alright on others. But has a difficult personality. So you would, but you'd give her a burner phone number. 

[twosmoke300]

Burner phone number not much use if you work with them !! 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, Fumbler said:

...., I hate the weather and I blame France.

To be fair, I don't think the French are too happy about the weather they're getting. These are the kind of temperatures you used to find more often in the Middle East.

[Fumbler]

1 minute ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

To be fair, I don't think the French are too happy about the weather they're getting. These are the kind of temperatures you used to find more often in the Middle East.

I'm sure they're not. Instead I think they'll be blaming Morocco.

[EssDeeWon]

Fuck me Parky we were doing that at school, in fact we used to rate them and tell them their lucky number, I remember getting grief over giving someone a 5 once, most were 7 or 8's and many a year later still doing it in the office at work in London with some work mates, this time of year 8's and 9's everywhere and occasionally a 10.  They probably rate us wankers as about 2 in return, but playing the race card has ruined it for your son and his mates.  Snow flake stuff in 2019.

[dozeydustman]

1 hour ago, Parky said:

Son and his friends put together a list of the girls int he school, ranked A to F.  Pretty much as every child has done since time began.  

Problem is one of the group shared it and the Parents of the girls at the lower end of the scale have lodged a formal complaint so they are all now in trouble.  Why is this an issue?  One of the girls at the lower end of the scale is from an ethnic minority and an accusation of racism has been made.  To the extent that 30 kids surrounded my son and his friends earlier and it could have got well nasty.  

Fucking kids.  For a smart lad he has appalling judgement sometimes.  If you had a door marked DANGER KEEP OUT SHARKS AND LASERS AND SHIT” and scribbled “oh and free sweets” in crayon underneath, he would go piling in.  

Mrs P is off the school tomorrow - be interesting to hear their version of events

How many of the higher rated girls are from non-caucasian backgrounds, or of mixed ethnicity, it begs to ask. There are attractive and unattractive girls from the many divers ethnicities this world has, and one of Parky Jr's mates may well have ranked this young lady an A. It's kids being kids. It's what they do.

FFS in this day and age we shouldn't be looking at skin colour as an issue any more; whether it's caucasians having a go at non caucasians or non caucasians putting in a complaint of racism/segregation despite no racial slur actually being said or implied. Boils my piss that both racism still exists and people claim racism when nothing offensive has been said or implied. 

[chodweaver]

I don't think this sort of situation is helped by the recent meejah focus on preference for whiteys as expressed in dating apps, by all ethnicities. White privilege appears to be alive and well, however much we think society has progressed.

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[Parky]

It’s going to come down to body image isn’t it?  How someone with a low view of themselves is now in a massive down phase because of the list.

The girl who complained apparently used to like my son but he wasn’t interested.  He didn’t give her the ranking she had but she assumed it was him so as they say, hell hath no fury, etc. 

Mrs P had a list.  So did I.  So do lots of folk.  We have one at work too, bet your bottom dollar the girls have one as well.  

[stripped fred]

Social media is the issue, too easy to share. Back in the day the list would have stayed on a screwed up piece of paper in the bottom of someone's school bag.

[The Moog]

Taptalk update has swapped the quote and like buttons around - grrrr

[5speedracer]

It's hot and sticky and I hate it. I don't even want to underseal my Micra right now because of it, let alone do anything else. I will do the seams, but the rest is reserved for when I get some real creepy Dynax S-50. For now, I hate the weather and I blame France.

It is a bit cool for late June I thought.

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[Fumbler]

It is today, which is a nice breather for the Saturday highs of 30, or at least for us down here in the south east.

[captain_70s]

Seems about right for Aberdeenshire. I remember one year living near Gardenstown when the summer temperature peaked at 15c. We had a BBQ.

[Aston Martin]

I stayed at Hopwood Cervixes last night, i'm up at 4am. I'll have a piddle and a coffee and head off.

 

Wait, why are there 17 trillion people getting off this bus??? Ugh, Glastonbury cunts.

I barge passed a few of them and visit the bathroom, I head to WHSmith for a Costa. Both machines out of action. Starbucks is open and there's several years of wankers in wellies queuing. Alas, no coffee for me until 10am.

 

The only solace I can take, is that these fucks have a 12 hour coach journey and they have to sleep in a tent.