The grumpy thread

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

If i was In the land of screwfix/toolstation no probs.

Here in italy will be fun translating wood grenade !.  I'm looking forward to a visit from the local police for searching online for grenades !

[wuvvum]

17 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

I've no problem with there being a toll...

I have.  The Dartford Crossing toll was supposed to be in place just for long enough to recover the cost of construction, after which it was supposed to become free.  Instead it was sold off to Johnny Foreigner and has become, as you say, a licence to print money.

[wuvvum]

18 hours ago, Jazoli said:

Try living in the lake district, it rains all year round

To be fair though, if it didn't, it would just be "the district", which would be a bit boring.

[mrbenn]

7 hours ago, xtriple said:

Do I get my car serviced? Do I throw it at Pete down the road who is good, cheap and local or do I do it myself?

No contest, get Pete on the case! Balls to messing around in this pissing damp weather!

[stonedagain]

On 11/23/2019 at 8:38 PM, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

Gorilla Glue a dozen dildos to the wheelie bin during the night.  Leave a note "for you to fuck yourself with".

 

 

Just shop her to your local cuntcil, they can issue fines for leaving the bin out on the wrong day.

[DVee8]

On 11/24/2019 at 10:32 PM, loserone said:

We just spent a week around Dalbeattie.  Why the fuck would you take out a railway line which goes to a busy port? Half the vehicles on the A75 are lorries to or from Ireland.

We have just spent a long weekend near Dalbeattie

[loserone]

I know

[Parky]

10 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I have.  The Dartford Crossing toll was supposed to be in place just for long enough to recover the cost of construction, after which it was supposed to become free.  Instead it was sold off to Johnny Foreigner and has become, as you say, a licence to print money.

Try living next door to it over the Christmas period as Lakeside and Bluewater shoppers decide to use your town as a short cut.  Add in the occasional shunt or breakdown and the place gridlocks making going out or getting home impossible,  

I hate the crossing

[High Jetter]

38 minutes ago, DVee8 said:

We have just spent a long weekend near Dalbeattie

Were you only there an hour, in actual real time?

[DVee8]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Were you only there an hour, in actual real time?

We stayed here..https://barendholidaylodges.uk/

Wednesday to Monday

[loserone]

Oh, I have a grump!

I missed my chance to take a photo of a sign.

 

It said Straiton was left.  Bloody Scots.

[purplebargeken]

Started Gabapentin today.

Headache all day, could be the Gabapentin (hmm, doubtful), or not taking high strength co-codamol (more likely).

Potentially 25 more years of pain to look forward to. Think I'll keep hold of the co-codamol somewhere.

[New POD]

Sunday.  Orders a rug off eBay. 

Pays 5.99 for next day delivery (Tuesday) 

Arrange for in laws to be in all day (They rarely go out) 

The tracking says DPD. Didn't arrive. Seller struggles with English. 

Eventually it turns out that it was sent TNT and it failed to be loaded on Today's truck from Romford, to the North.  In laws have to go out tomorrow for 2 hours to optician.  Wife has now had to cancel stuff so she can be at her mother's to oversee the delivery.

Just what we were trying to avoid. 

Grrr. 

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, purplebargeken said:

Started Gabapentin today.

Headache all day, could be the Gabapentin (hmm, doubtful), or not taking high strength co-codamol (more likely).

Potentially 25 more years of pain to look forward to. Think I'll keep hold of the co-codamol somewhere.

Are funny cigarettes not the thing for chronic pain? Or do you get random piss tests at your work?

[New POD]

1 hour ago, purplebargeken said:

Started Gabapentin today.

Headache all day, could be the Gabapentin (hmm, doubtful), or not taking high strength co-codamol (more likely).

Potentially 25 more years of pain to look forward to. Think I'll keep hold of the co-codamol somewhere.

Gabapetin is very addictive. If you ever need to come off it seek the advice of a good pharmacist.  Took my wife 6 weeks to ween herself off after being on it for 8 weeks. 

[Zelandeth]

20 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I have.  The Dartford Crossing toll was supposed to be in place just for long enough to recover the cost of construction, after which it was supposed to become free.  Instead it was sold off to Johnny Foreigner and has become, as you say, a licence to print money.

Fair enough...to be fair I've zip in the way of knowledge of the area...London in general is one of those places I generally try to avoid if possible!

My grump right now is that I've just woken up to discover some bloody insect has been eating me while I've been asleep.  Covered in itchy bites.

Better not be sodding bedbugs, I've had the joy of trying to get rid of them before in one of the flats I stayed in ten years or so back.

[barefoot]

14 hours ago, stonedagain said:

Just shop her to your local cuntcil, they can issue fines for leaving the bin out on the wrong day.

They can, but they don't. I asked a passing council bloke with a clipboard about it and he said that the adverse publicity made them avoid doing it. My wheelie bin has been 'out' since they delivered the bloody thing 20 odd years ago. I've far too many cars on my narrow drive & if they think I'm shuffling them all about for the sake of bin day etc.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

13 hours ago, Parky said:

Try living next door to it over the Christmas period as Lakeside and Bluewater shoppers decide to use your town as a short cut.  Add in the occasional shunt or breakdown and the place gridlocks making going out or getting home impossible,  

I hate the crossing

I used to live in Gravesend and was doing a long-term teaching placement in South Thamesmead, which involved using the last turn of the M25 before the Dartford Toll.  That was unbearable at the best of times - and it wasn't Christmas and it was before the traffic really smacked it down.  The whole thing is a fucking disaster.

And the joke is that going Northbound, since they got rid of the toll booths the traffic has got worse.  Instead of having fine control over the lanes and letting cars through one-by-one dynamically based on flow and keeping it going, they shut down multiple lanes at a time and back all the traffic up.  They've lost the control they had over the traffic precisely because of losing the booths.  It's fucking stupid.

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 11/26/2019 at 12:59 AM, xtriple said:

I am SO indecisive. It is driving me mad. Can't make a decision to save my life, just vacilating constantly (which is not as much fun as it sounds for you dirty minded bastards!) without ever getting to a point where a decision is made. I know it's part of my 'illness' but really! I used to decide to do something and it was all done and forgotten about faster than I currently spend thinking/worrying about it.

My current indecision I hear you ask?

Do I get my car serviced? Do I throw it at Pete down the road who is good, cheap and local or do I do it myself?

For:

Pete will do it without any need for mucky hands on my part and the only pain will be paying and even that will be mega cheap.

Against:

Er, just the above really.

DIY, for:

Use the oil I want to use, know it's been done.

Against: not a chance in hell that I'm getting underneath, taking off undertrays and getting filthy so will have to invest in a 'Pela' pump which is extra cost. Where to store the dirty oil until I have now empty oil cans from the stuff I put back into the engine. An unexpected 'pro'to that is I've wanted to try a Pela pump thing for ages and apparently, it is a really efficient way of changing oil and gets MORE out than the 'proper' way.

Decisions decisions...

now then stop being all Mavis- get Pete to do it but give him the oil you want fitting

[barefoot]

I've not scene this before;

Perhaps it's time I moved the Rover on - Talk about preying on folk's insecurities!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

7 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

...London in general is one of those places I generally try to avoid if possible!....

I try to avoid it, yet I live in it!!

[purplebargeken]

^^ Yep, same here.

 

[Zelandeth]

You both have my sympathies.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

7 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

You both have my sympathies.

Condolences would be better.

[TataBobu]

I live outside London. In Bucharest.

[Mally]

3 hours ago, barefoot said:

I've not scene this before;

Perhaps it's time I moved the Rover on - Talk about preying on folk's insecurities!

It'll be fine* get it tested, mine passed.

[Parky]

“Sell your fucked car to us, we will list it at Cannock, and some poor sod from a beige forum can inherit all your abuse and lack of maintenance while you put a deposit down on a Corsa”

Catchy!

[eddyramrod]

Based on a lifetime of observation and reception, I have zero respect for humans.

I've just been watching Paul O'Grady- For The Love Of Dogs.  How can people treat dogs the way they do?

And now I'm watching Police Interceptors (on +1), which, strangely, is one of my favourite programmes.  How can people do the shit they do?

I genuinely can't understand why I watch these things!  All they do is confirm beyond any possible doubt my low opinion of people in general.  But somehow I find them compulsive.

 

TL;DR - "People" are just shit.

[Pieman]

Maybe some of my grumps from the last few days are better suited to the depression thread, but one does go here.

I get annoyed at the best of times by seeing people sharing endless boredom about their offspring on social media, but today it was taken to a new level when some woman I know through my work posted a pic of her crotchfruit sitting next to a printed card reading "Today I smiled for the first time!"

GET.  IN.  THE.  FUCKING.  SEA.

[eddyramrod]

Was the child 59 years old?