The grumpy thread

[Tadhg Tiogar]

5 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Agreed, but when did you last use one? I use my local PO every week ..

Ealing PO every day. The staff try to get everyone to use the self-service machines so that they only have to keep one window open. Trouble is,  the machines need human intervention to complete the payment stage of the process....

[paulplom]

10 hours ago, Bren said:

Filler in my downstairs toilet needed replacing. What a fucking palaver. Hands like Donald Trump's and the ability to be upside down like batman are a pre requisite.

Should've got a man in.

[New POD]

Fucking Royal fucking mail.

I ordered something off a retailer and somehow the delivery address got mixed up with the billing address.

So it Has 

Correct: 

97 High Street

Incorrect;

Liverpool

Correct:

ST14 7JJ 

It was sent on 48 hour tracked.

3.5 weeks on going to Warrington. Wigan, Formby, Southport, Liverpool. Chester. Manchester. It's gone to a different North West sorting office every other day.

I've rang them and emailed them and apparently they will eventially give up and either return it to sender or to Belfast where they will open it and see if it has the senders address.

What they won't fucking do us send it to ST14 7JJ where they will see they are standing on the high street and ironically be delivering to the Old post office. 

They said they won't deliver unless the whole address is fucking right. 

 

 

[Kiltox]

That’s mental, I thought the postcode and a number was really all you needed 

[MikeR]

is it me , or do people have a good look to see if you have a dash cam before cutting in , being a twat or kicking off  ?

[High Jetter]

Do you think they even care that you'd do anything (or just give a shit anyway)? Mine's tucked up half behind the rear-view mirror so wouldn't be easy to spot like that. 

[Jazoli]

3 hours ago, MikeR said:

is it me , or do people have a good look to see if you have a dash cam before cutting in , being a twat or kicking off  ?

I'm very wary of dash cams when out on my bike, I don't pull half as many wheelies whilst overtaking as I used to.

[Kiltox]

3 hours ago, MikeR said:

is it me , or do people have a good look to see if you have a dash cam before cutting in , being a twat or kicking off  ?

It’s you. Nobody gives a fuck about dash cams, IMO

[MikeR]

must be the bent rear offside wing that makes them think twice ?

[New POD]

4 minutes ago, MikeR said:

must be the bent rear offside wing that makes them think twice ?

It's the AS sticker and the giffer spec fluorescent dayglow stripes all over your dented and dirty focus. Plus you look like a bouncer.  

[Bucketeer]

Ah. Okay. So close but yet so far. I guess I live here now.

At least it's only a seven mile walk to the nearest shop, and it's due to stop raining long enough for the ground to dry out sometime in May.

[MikeR]

that should get your daily 10K steps in ......

[MikeR]

3 minutes ago, New POD said:

It's the AS sticker and the giffer spec fluorescent dayglow stripes all over your dented and dirty focus. Plus you look like a bouncer.  

its only dirty because the BP garage has shut its wash bays !!!

[New POD]

Says the man with his own hose pipe. 

[Jerzy Woking]

5 minutes ago, Bucketeer said:

Ah. Okay. So close but yet so far. I guess I live here now.

At least it's only a seven mile walk to the nearest shop, and it's due to stop raining long enough for the ground to dry out sometime in May.

Looks like a car park entry structure laying on the ground in front of you. 

 

[Mally]

Have you no mats?

Don't use the sleeping bag though.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

MOAR eggsellent parking skilz

[Wack]

Picked up a few things in the food hall at M&S , Christmas radio times is out , just a bit shocked when I beeped it , £4.95 ? 

It got un-beeped and put back on the shelf 

[clayts450]

Pissing absolute stairrods on the evening commute, I'm about the only person observing the recommended 4 second gap, constantly have someone right up the 620's arse all the way home. And if this isn't bad enough you then have two lanes with a gazillion exploding stars coming towards you, usually at least four per car (dipped and foglights). All other commuters can get in the sea - and there was a bloody big one on the A610....

[HillmanImp]

Just spent AGES making Imp jr a hat for his Christmas meal at school tomorrow:

Little git didn't help at all. Just kept whinging and hassling me for snacks before his tea.

Then when I'd finished, he said he didn't like it and threw it on the floor.

Only showing it on here on the off chance that someone might appreciate the effort that went into it.

If anyone wants a child they're welcome to him. He might be a bit dirty after sleeping in the shed

[The Moog]

With hat skills like that, can you adopt me?

[Mally]

Yes there's something wrong here.

Can make paper hats and mend a Porsche, but takes his bike for the shop to mend?

[EssDeeWon]

2 hours ago, Wack said:

Picked up a few things in the food hall at M&S , Christmas radio times is out , just a bit shocked when I beeped it , £4.95 ? 

It got un-beeped and put back on the shelf 

We get given them free at work. PM me your address mate I’ll have one on its way to you tomorrow.  

[HillmanImp]

1 hour ago, Mally said:

Yes there's something wrong here.

Can make paper hats and mend a Porsche, but takes his bike for the shop to mend?

Ha, I have mended the bike myself over the 16yrs that I've owned it, replacing this, replacing that along the way. 

I'm about to start riding trails again after quite a while so I thought it was a good time to get someone to put it together properly and sort out all the bits I did wrong so there was less chance of me killing myself, as there's a fairly good chance I'm going to muller myself more than once as I'm out of practice (and fairly heavier) compared to the last time I rode.

Plus I bet there's people that build rockets that can't get the gears quite right on their bike. Its a friggin dark art man. 

[Snipes]

Yeah screw getting a triple chain ring to shift cleanly without rubbing. I spent hours on mine before switching to a single crank. It may simply have been knackered though...

[HillmanImp]

I took Imp Jrs 'constructive criticism' on board last night and took the hat to bits and put on a slightly more flexible rim so that it would fit on his head a bit better. 

Just been sent a photo and I think he's happy with it. 

[paulplom]

Rather clean after being in the shed all night.

[Kiltox]

14 hours ago, Wack said:

Picked up a few things in the food hall at M&S , Christmas radio times is out , just a bit shocked when I beeped it , £4.95 ? 

It got un-beeped and put back on the shelf 

Magazines are expensive these days I find - either they cost a lot more to produce or the reader numbers have dropped so much they’re upping the price to compensate 

[Lacquer Peel]

19 hours ago, Bucketeer said:

Ah. Okay. So close but yet so far. I guess I live here now.

At least it's only a seven mile walk to the nearest shop, and it's due to stop raining long enough for the ground to dry out sometime in May.

Lower your tyre pressures, if that doesn't work, find stones, jack up the van if it's safe to do so and lay the stones under the wheels and make a short path to gather some momentum. I have been in this situation a few times. 

[Cavcraft]

There can't be many 'next times' left, but it really isn't that far away before the snotty, biscuit arsed doctor's receptionist asks me what's wrong and I tell her about my unfeasibly large knob and offer to send her pictures.