The grumpy thread

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I'll take 'Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now!' and raise you 'We Built This City'.  If there were an award for the worst song ever, it's that.  Fucking hell.

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Swapped the tyres around on the Xantia in the hope this would have some impact on the odd pulling to the right under power issue.

 

Not made the slightest difference. Balls.

Also found a split CV boot. Yaaaaay! 

Going to be another expensive month isn't it.

Cv boot could * be related to the odd pulling if there is no longer any grease in the joint.

[dozeydustman]

6 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I'll take 'Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now!' and raise you 'We Built This City'.  If there were an award for the worst song ever, it's that.  Fucking hell.

 As father in law will be coming over for dinner tomorrow, Mrs d will be hoovering and dusting etc as she does every friday, I expect she'll be blasting out her own barrage of shit - Mika. That'll do nicely

[GrumpiusMaximus]

2 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

 As father in law will be coming over for dinner tomorrow, Mrs d will be hoovering and dusting etc as she does every friday, I expect she'll be blasting out her own barrage of shit - Mika. That'll do nicely

If you need to know, apparently Mika is doing some gigs around this way in November.  I only found this out through some people at work that are big fans...

Of course, we all know that the only acceptable hoovering song is this:

 

[Parky]

7 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I'll take 'Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now!' and raise you 'We Built This City'.  If there were an award for the worst song ever, it's that.  Fucking hell.

Ah yeah, fuck that shit.  Throw “China in your hand” in the mix and the District Line will be subject to severe delays and cancellations after i’ve decided to use a tube train as an amusing hat

[dozeydustman]

13 minutes ago, Parky said:

I find “Nothing’s gonna stop us now” by Starship makes me want to hang myself.  Why not try it on your neighbours to see if you can make their garden resemble a quiet afternoon round David Koresh’s place?

 

11 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I'll take 'Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now!' and raise you 'We Built This City'.  If there were an award for the worst song ever, it's that.  Fucking hell.

 

1 minute ago, Parky said:

Ah yeah, fuck that shit.  Throw “China in your hand” in the mix and the District Line will be subject to severe delays and cancellations after i’ve decided to use a tube train as an amusing hat

I need to introduce you to Chichester's local independent radio station Spirit FM. Same 13 songs all day every day. Playlist changed by one song monthly, which is normally Africa, Roseanna and Hold the line by Toto in a 3-monthly rotation.

[somewhatfoolish]

37 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I'll take 'Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now!' and raise you 'We Built This City'.  If there were an award for the worst song ever, it's that.  Fucking hell.

Grace Slick though. I think I can forgive her.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Nope.  'White Rabbit' might be one of the greatest songs of the 60s but Starship makes me want to rip my own ears off.

[stonedagain]

Jimmy Osmond singing long haired lover from Liverpool?

[Supernaut]

4 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

May I recommend you reply in kind with this set of ditties from my personal collection?

 

...and I thought I was odd for being into Huoratron.

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I'll take 'Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now!' and raise you 'We Built This City'.  If there were an award for the worst song ever, it's that.  Fucking hell.

No votes for "My Sharona"?

[5speedracer]

I'll take 'Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now!' and raise you 'We Built This City'.  If there were an award for the worst song ever, it's that.  Fucking hell.

I raise you Joe Dolce "Shaddap you face". I win!

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[GrumpiusMaximus]

4 hours ago, 5speedracer said:

I raise you Joe Dolce "Shaddap you face". I win!

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Introduced this one to someone at work that was being irritating recently.  

[GrumpiusMaximus]

7 hours ago, Supernaut said:

...and I thought I was odd for being into Huoratron.

 

I'll have a look at that...

Went to see Merzbow live about three years ago in London.  It was brilliant.

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

Ignorance is bliss so it seems.

I'm sat here outside school on a wall waiting to pick kids up from school. For 15 bloody minutes some tall skinny airbrushed mum is sitting in her big diesel car windows all closed with air con and engine running. Goes without saying she is illegally parked right outside school gates . It is a bloody perfect day 20 degrees c sunny, slight breeze and the peace and quiet  ruined by diesel clatter and smell.

How ignorant can you be ?

 

[EssDeeWon]

1 hour ago, Sir Chocolate Teapot said:

Ignorance is bliss so it seems.

I'm sat here outside school on a wall waiting to pick kids up from school. For 15 bloody minutes some tall skinny airbrushed mum is sitting in her big diesel car windows all closed with air con and engine running. Goes without saying she is illegally parked right outside school gates . It is a bloody perfect day 20 degrees c sunny, slight breeze and the peace and quiet  ruined by diesel clatter and smell.

How ignorant can you be ?

 

I thought all the mummies and their kids were outside Westminster this afternoon protesting against that very thing.  Bless em.

[Cavcraft]

Pretty much every time I pick my missus up, a couple of black cab drivers park just in the way enough to be a sodding nuisance, but not quite enough to entirely block people off.  Each time this happens I park with my exhaust as close as possible to them (they're either in their cars with the windows open, or stood next to each other talking) and gently start revving my car up, a little bit more every time. It works better when they're in their cars as the veg oil smoke is fucking horrible and they quickly close their windows or go. Today, one was visibly coughing his bollocks off outside his car. let's see if they're still there tomorrow.  

[chaseracer]

20 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Of course, we all know that the only acceptable hoovering song is this:

 

Beg to differ...

?

[DoctorRetro]

How about 'Sing it back' by Moloko for irritating? 

Or better still that ridiculous 'Bad Guy' track from Billie Eilish

I think I'm getting old. All new music sounds like crap to me. I do like a bit of Grime though. Bugzy Malone, Skepta, Stormzy etc. 

[Tamworthbay]

Think I have broke the end of my finger, bloody oil filter housing on a Dacia stepway was tighter than a Tories’ wallet Velcro

[High Jetter]

Some years ago our local FM station played Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi several times a day, every day. Bugged me so much I phoned up to complain. Have hated it ever since.

[barefoot]

The trip 'O meter thing in the Rover has been gradually creeping up throughout this tankful, peaking at 35.3 mpg. Imagine my disappoint when I refilled the tank and proper maths resulted in a slightly crappy 24 mpg. I appreciate that I've a blocked breather that will be sorted on Monday, but what is the point of such optimism from the car's computer.

[Parky]

The early days of Heart FM saw “Unbreak my heart” by Toni Braxton played many many times a day.  I associate this with doing my kitchen in my Billericay house just before my then fiancée fucked off with my best mate.  So happy memories of that.

Nightshifts at Sainsbury’s over Christmas 1992 were horrendous.  That was “Sleeping Satellite” by Tamsin Archer. Shit time.

”Easy Lover” by Phil Collins and Phil Bailey reminds me of when my depression first started.

They can all get in the sea

[GrumpiusMaximus]

2 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Some years ago our local FM station played Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi several times a day, every day. Bugged me so much I phoned up to complain. Have hated it ever since.

That is all.

[Lord Sterling]

Adele - Her first song (which I really cannot be arsed to remember) was played over and over a few years ago, in fact, it was once played twice over on a radio station (probably because the DJ needed to go to the toilet or something)

In the various places I worked at, if there was a radio and songs got repeated 3 or 4 times a day, it got switched over to another station.

[stonedagain]

9 hours ago, EssDeeWon said:

I thought all the mummies and their kids were outside Westminster this afternoon protesting against that very thing.  Bless em.

I hope the parents of those brainwashed kids get fined for keeping them off school! 

[dozeydustman]

All this radio playing the same stuff bollocks is why I tend to listen to much better stuff. Normally Absolute or Radio 4 (or the gearbox in the car I'm driving - A-series allegro or PSA suitcase for the win here)

[myglaren]

48 minutes ago, Parky said:

The early days of Heart FM saw “Unbreak my heart” by Toni Braxton played many many times a day.  I associate this with doing my kitchen in my Billericay house just before my then fiancée fucked off with my best mate.  So happy memories of that.

Nightshifts at Sainsbury’s over Christmas 1992 were horrendous.  That was “Sleeping Satellite” by Tamsin Archer. Shit time.

”Easy Lover” by Phil Collins and Phil Bailey reminds me of when my depression first started.

They can all get in the sea

When I started at my last job, they had stereos in every unit, turned up to full volume so it swamped the noise of the machines and clipping badly.

Tuned to Metro Radio, same shit repeated every 90 minutes and featuring Britney Spear's "Toxic".  And toxic it all was too.

Until they found that they may have to pay for public performances licenses.  All in the skip in very short order.

There was a hidden Pioneer one that I was supposed to bin ,but kept it hidden, meaning to spirit it away one day.  That day never came.

[Brodders]

1 hour ago, Parky said:

The early days of Heart FM saw “Unbreak my heart” by Toni Braxton played many many times a day.  I associate this with doing my kitchen in my Billericay house just before my then fiancée fucked off with my best mate.  So happy memories of that.

Nightshifts at Sainsbury’s over Christmas 1992 were horrendous.  That was “Sleeping Satellite” by Tamsin Archer. Shit time.

”Easy Lover” by Phil Collins and Phil Bailey reminds me of when my depression first started.

They can all get in the sea

There was a point in 2006 where "Put Your Records On" by Corinne Bailey Rae was played non-stop by every radio station in London.

Even now I can recall a journey where that fucking song was played 4 or 5 times in less than 3 hours, with each repeat being more painful than the last.

I still hate it, but thankfully it doesn't much airtime anymore (although my mum did buy me a copy of Corinne Bailey Rae's album as a joke when Woolworths closed down, which to this day has never been played). 

[dozeydustman]

FFS this evening I've had a major breakthrough with stepmiss_dustman as part of being a stepdad (massive hug, first time in 6 years of being there for her she tells me she loves me), and Mrs_d has gone all introvert, stupid and emotional for no other reason apart from if we do have a baby despite our fertility issues it will be autistic or have downs or cerebral palsy because of our age, and if we go adoption we'll probably be lumbered with some 10 year old problem child for which one of us will need to stop working.

FFS woman! It's rare of me to come up with such an outburst of "FFS woman". I've had such a lovely evening so far, why on earth would the wife want anyone let alone me to end it with something like that??

Sofa is beckoning methinks