The grumpy thread

[Zelandeth]

Bloody gritters out in force this afternoon to the extent you'd think they were forecasting weather akin to the best from the east from a while back (which we saw one gritter in the run up to, and it was nearly a month in before our road, next door to a school, was cleared).

Have I missed something on the forecast?  It's meant to just dip below freezing again to tonight, but it did that the last couple and we've seen nothing of them...yet today they're everywhere! 

[anonymous user]

As my boss is in charge of gritting where I work, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. He follows the philosophy "If in doubt send them out" 

Unfortunately most council tax payers do not understand, or accept, that it is the major routes that get priority, with minor routes and side streets down the list. But God help you if you haven't done a school route, or by a surgery, or an old people's home, or a hospital, or outside a Councillor's mother's house, or a journalist's house, or a journalist's mother's house, etc. Basically you can't win

[MikeR]

Toddling to work along the country lanes this morning and some SUV decided I was too slow and went zooming past ....from past expieriance ..

He will find any ice first .

[myglaren]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Bloody gritters out in force this afternoon to the extent you'd think they were forecasting weather akin to the best from the east from a while back (which we saw one gritter in the run up to, and it was nearly a month in before our road, next door to a school, was cleared).

Have I missed something on the forecast?  It's meant to just dip below freezing again to tonight, but it did that the last couple and we've seen nothing of them...yet today they're everywhere! 

I don't actively seek weather predictions but read that it was expected to be -6℃.  Also high pressure that will bugger the TV and radio reception and  your ears too.

[New POD]

23 minutes ago, MikeR said:

Toddling to work along the country lanes this morning and some SUV decided I was too slow and went zooming past ....from past expieriance ..

He will find any ice first .

Theres usually a white van in a ditch

 

 

[sierraman]

For FUCK SAKE!!!!

Come home from work and someone’s stoved the back of the car in. 

[Parky]

Looks like just the bumper, is there anything more structural we can’t see?  Massive pisser though either way

[sierraman]

Boot floor looks straight, boots fine. Tail lamp is fucked but I’ve managed to source one. At least the car that hit it has left a number so can’t say fairer than that. I’ve rang him, it hadn’t damaged his, I’ll go back and say call it a couple of hundred and we’ll forget about it. 

[LeahStornes]

1 minute ago, sierraman said:

Boot floor looks straight, boots fine. Tail lamp is fucked but I’ve managed to source one. At least the car that hit it has left a number so can’t say fairer than that. I’ve rang him, it hadn’t damaged his, I’ll go back and say call it a couple of hundred and we’ll forget about it. 

Hopefully that's all there is to it... My Y reg Sierra got f'ed over like this and insurers preferred to write it off

[Timewaster]

6 hours ago, paulplom said:

Wanker

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What's the issue? If that is used on a farm or right out in the sticks it could look like that in no time at all in the current ground conditions. 

What we call locally "slub". 

[High Jetter]

Well, for one it's illegal - the number plate is obscured, also lights to a lesser extent. Two, if the arse is like that, I'll bet at least the rear side windows are glooped over.

[LeahStornes]

20 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

What's the issue? If that is used on a farm or right out in the sticks it could look like that in no time at all in the current ground conditions. 

What we call locally "slub". 

Every farm vehicle around here looks like that these days but at least they clean the reg plate. 

[sierraman]

In true shite style it’s already stripped down waiting for a bumper to arrive Weds. Autoshite Accident Management. 

[Garythesnail]

You don't hang about.

(I thought all MKII Mondeo rear bumpers were held together with Gaffa Tape)

[Spurious]

Jesus there really is some gobshites on Facebook. Typical thread about reclaiming abandoned motors (this one turned out to be taxed/mot/insured). Apparently the DVLA owns all the cars in the through a loophole and we're all just caretakers? What the fuck ?

 

[sierraman]

Repairing bangers roadside in minus temperatures in January beats watching the idiot box. Apart from possibly that documentary the other day on the Jonestown Massacre. 

[sierraman]

1 minute ago, Spurious said:

Jesus there really is some gobshites on Facebook. Typical thread about reclaiming abandoned motors (this one turned out to be taxed/mot/insured). Apparently the DVLA owns all the cars in the through a loophole and we're all just caretakers? What the fuck ?

 

If you didn’t know otherwise you could be forgiven for thinking you were reading a copy of Viz. 

[Spurious]

1 minute ago, sierraman said:

If you didn’t know otherwise you could be forgiven for thinking you were reading a copy of Viz. 

The lines are blurred between reality and satire certainly. 

However these people share the road with us. He's probably a Freeman of the land type character. 

 

 

[Timewaster]

53 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Well, for one it's illegal - the number plate is obscured, also lights to a lesser extent. Two, if the arse is like that, I'll bet at least the rear side windows are glooped over.

Obscured side windows? You mean, like a van? 

And a dirty number plate. 

 

Fair enough. Hang them. 

Crime of the century. 

 

[New POD]

8 hours ago, Lankytim said:

House move DRAMA...

Our buyer HAS to move in by the end of this week, which after much juggling with holidays and getting a storage unit we can do, New house will be ready for mid February unless the likely happens and things go wrong. Fingers crossed. From Friday we'll be living with the wife's parents. 

 

To add to it all I had a call from a work college spoke to me yesterday. I work nights driving a shunter unit, moving trailers around a yard to be loaded and apparently they're getting rid of the warehouse night shift, so no pickers, no loaders, no office staff. Theyve all been put on consultation which is the first step to being made redundant. My transpirt managers says there's no word on how this will effect the drivers and shunters but if there's no loaded trailers to move and no office staff to tell me what to do I think it's pretty obvious.  Worse case scanario I lose my job while the family are in temporary accommodation and I wont be able to get a mortgage as I don't have a job/have a temp job/have a job that doesn't pay enough, but of course, they "haven't announced anything" 

FFS.  

We had a sale delayed because the company who the buyer worked for was in consultation, and whilst he was never actually at risk, he couldn't take out the mortgage protection insurance whilst it was going on.

At a risk of saying "I told you so" i think i did say "Don't sell one with out buying the other" based on my experience of having to live with parents for 2 weeks that became 7 months. 

It's shit and I wish you all the luck in the world. Don't let it get you down. 

[New POD]

41 minutes ago, Spurious said:

The lines are blurred between reality and satire certainly. 

However these people share the road with us. He's probably a Freeman of the land type character. 

 

 

I think they get confused.

Fact is the V5 says the V5 is not proof of ownership

Fact is that if you buy a private reg number the reg never actually belongs to you and if you abuse it, the DVLA can take it back.

Put too and to (sic) twogever and make 3.2 

And if you are a bit stupid get it completely arse about face. 

You can forgive the stupid for holding opinions so strongly they believe them to be fact.

 

[Lankytim]

28 minutes ago, New POD said:

We had a sale delayed because the company who the buyer worked for was in consultation, and whilst he was never actually at risk, he couldn't take out the mortgage protection insurance whilst it was going on.

At a risk of saying "I told you so" i think i did say "Don't sell one with out buying the other" based on my experience of having to live with parents for 2 weeks that became 7 months. 

It's shit and I wish you all the luck in the world. Don't let it get you down. 

 

Absolutely, and it's a calculated risk that could bite us on the backside. ATM i'm not in consultation (yet) and we've had a mortgage offer in place for a while, but it runs out in mid Feb but we should be able to extend it. 

Then house we're buying needs the local authority search to come back, which should be a week tomorrow and then it's good to go. 

[SiC]

You're not the only one in this boat. We got an offer accepted on a house at the weekend (yay), but our buyer wants to exchange at the end of the month and complete mid February (boo). That gives us 4 weeks from now to get all the Conveyancing, mortgage changed, survey and everything else done. Almost certainly going to end up with friends and family. 

Also annoyingly our fixed rate mortgage deal ends on the 29th Feb. If we complete before then we have a £1800 charge - even though we'll have paid that months mortgage payment. May just have to take it on the chin as we want zero risk of loosing our buyer. Especially as it's our fifth so far on this house.  

[wuvvum]

6 hours ago, sierraman said:

For FUCK SAKE!!!!

Come home from work and someone’s stoved the back of the car in. 

Not necessarily.  It's a Mk2 Mondeo, so that might just have been from someone sneezing as they walked past.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

12 hours ago, New POD said:

..... You can forgive the stupid for holding opinions so strongly they believe them to be fact.

That summarises antisocial media quite nicely. 

[richardmorris]

Got woken at 4am by the smoke detector battery alarm sounding. Had to wait until it got light to find the neighbours stepladder to get to it ( kitchen ceiling is 12ft!  Then I put some fat balls out for the little birds, but the feeder is overrun with crows. Until the parakeets came anyway!

Now I’m at home waiting for someone to do an asbestos check. 

[Datsuncog]

Autoglass repair, Autoglass replace?

Autoglass avoid, Autoglass misplace...

Booked the afternoon off work on Friday and then spent four hours waiting for their repair tech to come and fix a stone chip on the Forester's windscreen, at the agreed time and location.

Nobody showed. No update. No messages. Insurance excess paid for in advance, naturally.

Despite their slew of 'Rate us!!!' messages and emails regarding the initial booking process and 'customer experience' of their website, they've been curiously silent ever since.

No response from their customer service team yet, bar an automated acknowledgement of receiving my complaint about the no-show.

At what point do I start naming and shaming on soshul meejah?

[myglaren]

Up before dawn to be ready for an appointment with the optician and then the bank.

Awkward as son wanted the car for a doctors appointment before mine and then again for work at ten am.

Wondered why my reminder hadn't kicked in.  Wrong day, it's tomorrow.

Son came for car then texted me later to say his appointment cancelled as doctor never showed up.

Re-booked for tomorrow.  One car between two isn't usually a problem, fair to say, but sometimes...

[New POD]

13 hours ago, SiC said:

You're not the only one in this boat. We got an offer accepted on a house at the weekend (yay), but our buyer wants to exchange at the end of the month and complete mid February (boo). That gives us 4 weeks from now to get all the Conveyancing, mortgage changed, survey and everything else done. Almost certainly going to end up with friends and family. 

Also annoyingly our fixed rate mortgage deal ends on the 29th Feb. If we complete before then we have a £1800 charge - even though we'll have paid that months mortgage payment. May just have to take it on the chin as we want zero risk of loosing our buyer. Especially as it's our fifth so far on this house.  

Say yes, absolutely, no problem. Tell.your solicitor. No fucking way. Take your time. Make it 1st March. 

To be fair, there's not s chance in hell that timescale would ever be achievable with any of the solicitors I've ever used. 

[DoctorRetro]

2 things are bugging me at the moment. 

1. Remember I got offered a new position within the company I work for back end of November? Well, I still have not been given a date for the change, anything in writing, or indeed the increased salary. And now I'm being dragged into a big transformation project in my current department, even though I'm likely to be moving departments in the next month. And I know it will happen as I have interviewed my replacement, offered her the job and she has taken it. Oh, but we have to find a replacement for her current role! And the merry go round starts again. I'm not making sense am I? Anyone know of an Inventory /Procurement role coming up somewhere? 

2. People who park up on a road with lots of parked cars at night / early morning and leave their lights on. So when you are driving along, or coming around the corner, you stop / pause thinking there is a car coming, then nothing. Only to discover Dick Head sitting in his car chatting on the phone with his engine running and lights ablaze. Fucking have some courtesy eh? Cunts.