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1 hour ago, Sir Snipes said:

If I had a potentially fatal allergy I wouldn't be eating out. Seriously why would you take that chance?

It’s quite easy to eat out if you have allergies - Ask for the allergies book. Most of the allergen ingredients are found in sauces, glazes and dressings. The restaurant will make sure an allergy sufferer’s meal is cooked in isolation from other dishes.

I tend to stick to a mixed grill or steak with a jacket potato and some fresh veg. Relatively healthy, tasty and (for me at least) allergy free.

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Has anyone noticed how UK road users appear to be adopting the French principle of Priorité à droite - although obviously from the left.

At lower, town speeds, folk approaching a junction on your left will simply pull out expecting you to slow just enough to let them out. I used to swear about it, but realise that I've gradually  accepted it as the new norm.

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1 hour ago, dozeydustman said:

It’s quite easy to eat out if you have allergies - Ask for the allergies book. Most of the allergen ingredients are found in sauces, glazes and dressings. The restaurant will make sure an allergy sufferer’s meal is cooked in isolation from other dishes.

I tend to stick to a mixed grill or steak with a jacket potato and some fresh veg. Relatively healthy, tasty and (for me at least) allergy free.

Until one day they don't and then you're dead cos a bit of seaseme found it's way into your artichoke baguette. 

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6 hours ago, Sir Snipes said:

If I had a potentially fatal allergy I wouldn't be eating out. Seriously why would you take that chance?

EXACTLY

A young girl in Blackburn died after eating nuts in a takeaway dish , why on earth you'd take that chance if your life was at stake I have no idea, somebody is in prison now

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-48300528

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When this drove in I thought "Nice, R8 V10, not something you see every day."

This abruptly changed to "Typical sodding Audi driver!" when she very deliberately parked it taking up four spaces.

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Really wish I'd been in the Invacar as I'd had totally gone and parked in the space by her driver's door and buggered off to the cafe for an hour...

Congrats lady, you went from looking quite cool to looking a total idiot in precisely ten seconds.

Yes I get that it's a wide, expensive car with big doors...there are no end of totally empty rows at both ends of the car park, but no...you felt this was appropriate.

Hope she gets four penalty charge notices...one for each space she's parked not fully within...

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6 hours ago, barefoot said:

Has anyone noticed how UK road users appear to be adopting the French principle of Priorité à droite - although obviously from the left.

At lower, town speeds, folk approaching a junction on your left will simply pull out expecting you to slow just enough to let them out. I used to swear about it, but realise that I've gradually  accepted it as the new norm.

Yes. Thought this was just me, but seems increasingly common for drivers to charge towards a give way, presumably hoping that oncoming traffic will shit themselves and wave them out.

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30 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

When this drove in I thought "Nice, R8 V10, not something you see every day."

This abruptly changed to "Typical sodding Audi driver!" when she very deliberately parked it taking up four spaces.

 

 

If that B&Q is anything like ours some considerate* fellow customer will ram a large trolley into the door soon enough.

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7 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

 

I tend to stick to a mixed grill or steak with a jacket potato and some fresh veg. Relatively healthy, tasty and (for me at least) allergy free.

I have no allergies that I'm aware of food wise, but that's my sort of meal.

 

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4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

When this drove in I thought "Nice, R8 V10, not something you see every day."

This abruptly changed to "Typical sodding Audi driver!" when she very deliberately parked it taking up four spaces.

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Really wish I'd been in the Invacar as I'd had totally gone and parked in the space by her driver's door and buggered off to the cafe for an hour...

Congrats lady, you went from looking quite cool to looking a total idiot in precisely ten seconds.

Yes I get that it's a wide, expensive car with big doors...there are no end of totally empty rows at both ends of the car park, but no...you felt this was appropriate.

Hope she gets four penalty charge notices...one for each space she's parked not fully within...

not exactly a lack of spaces though......why get tweaked about it?

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4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Really wish I'd been in the Invacar

only on autoshite can someone driving their Jaaag say "wish id been in the Invacar" :mrgreen:

(laugh is at the thought of Invacar based shenanigans/your thoughts, not the awful parking!)

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FFS when can’t I buy any pasta for the kids dinner next week - probably because every paranoid tosspot in the area is stock piling it ‘just in case’. Currently the only shortages are being caused by selfishness..... aaaarregghhhhh!! 

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On 3/11/2020 at 11:09 AM, dozeydustman said:

Nope. Same litter as since I met the wife. Some of the cat's other behaviour has been odd over the last few months, so I do think it's the start of Feline dementia/Alzheimer's.

Weird behaviour includes rejecting food if me or stepdaughter has put it down (other cat noms it up fine); excessive grooming (regularly brushed and flea treated and no skin issues), a lot of puking (not just hairballs), sleeping all day unless the wife is at home, whom gets harassment and constant miaowing from the moment she gets up until bedtime.

She's done it again since this morning, and giving that "I don't give a fuck" look that cats do when they know they're being naughty.

Get her to the vets, mate - odd behaviour like this can be the cat trying to tell you something's up.

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11 minutes ago, clayts450 said:

Get her to the vets, mate - odd behaviour like this can be the cat trying to tell you something's up.

As stated previously she has been to the vets and apparently all is well. She’s just an arsehole.

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4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

When this drove in I thought "Nice, R8 V10, not something you see every day."

This abruptly changed to "Typical sodding Audi driver!" when she very deliberately parked it taking up four spaces.

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Deserves an appearance on YPLAC

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So you have a bunch of keys.

This contains a key for the following :

Home garage keys, Unit keys, Work keys and a load of misc' padlock and other stuff ... Yep I've lost the lot.

Starting to think I'm going mad. As looked at the place I can see myself putting them - NOPE, even turned my house upside down.

Not having a good month ?

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30 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

She’s just an arsehole.

Agreed.

Sorry, been off site for a few days so missed that post re the vets

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5 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

When this drove in I thought "Nice, R8 V10, not something you see every day."

This abruptly changed to "Typical sodding Audi driver!" when she very deliberately parked it taking up four spaces.

IMG_20200312_161209.thumb.jpg.16163166f8a5e4c0c6e79666ed471601.jpg

Really wish I'd been in the Invacar as I'd had totally gone and parked in the space by her driver's door and buggered off to the cafe for an hour...

Congrats lady, you went from looking quite cool to looking a total idiot in precisely ten seconds.

Yes I get that it's a wide, expensive car with big doors...there are no end of totally empty rows at both ends of the car park, but no...you felt this was appropriate.

Hope she gets four penalty charge notices...one for each space she's parked not fully within...

Why does it really you so much, the car park has hundreds of empty spaces 

This is shit parking , she couldn't find a space so chose the pedestrian entrance 

 

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Did a delivery into that there London yesterday. The shippers blind-sided me at pick up (was there to take a tiny wee box to Soho) and said 'can you pick up some shelving from the loading bay and take it onto Ilford after Soho'. Nae bother, says I, stick a few more quid on the job.

Into Soho from Notts was a breeze - the new 20 limit in the CC/ULEZ area makes it a very pleasant drive, if truth be told. Anyway, dropped off at Soho, rung shipper to confirm ETA for Ilford. Advised them 'Easter'.

Two fucking hours to do 9 miles. Two HOURS.

Tipped at Ilford. Drove 126 miles home. Two HOURS 15 minutes.

Fuck London.

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Fucking memory.  

I've done drop links before, but forgot how I managed to get them off last time (for the uninitiated, the threaded part spins when you try to take the nut off, and the allen key hole in it is invariably rusted to fuck and unusable).  Spent at least half the day pissing about with heat, angle grinder, drill etc etc trying to get the first one off, about a quarter of the day walking to the tool shop to buy a nut splitter, then an eight of the day actually changing the things.  

Oh, and my ageing brain also allowed me to carefully don some protective goggles when using the angle grinder, but completely forget about gloves, whilst working in an enclosed small space trying to cut through something with a different material halfway through it.  

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8 hours ago, clayts450 said:

Did a delivery into that there London yesterday. The shippers blind-sided me at pick up (was there to take a tiny wee box to Soho) and said 'can you pick up some shelving from the loading bay and take it onto Ilford after Soho'. Nae bother, says I, stick a few more quid on the job.

Into Soho from Notts was a breeze - the new 20 limit in the CC/ULEZ area makes it a very pleasant drive, if truth be told. Anyway, dropped off at Soho, rung shipper to confirm ETA for Ilford. Advised them 'Easter'.

Two fucking hours to do 9 miles. Two HOURS.

Tipped at Ilford. Drove 126 miles home. Two HOURS 15 minutes.

Fuck London.

I did what you're doing in 2014 for 9 months , I hated going to London 

Final straw was when I picked up some IT equipment , the guy gave me an A4 sheet with a phone number on , ring him the second you get there 

Only is was the email from the courier co I was subbing for I read it after the delivery , they were charging over double what they were giving me so I fucked them off there and then 

Dont miss driving in london one bit 

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Major grump for me this morning. Was just about to leave for the airport for the first offshore trip in 4 years when the phone rang informing me that Norway has introduced a compulsory 14 day isolation for anyone arriving outwith the Nordic region. My boat sails on Sunday. Trip cancelled, so another month and probably more without money. Time to start selling the chod.

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I went to Chase Farm Hospital 2 weeks ago, parked in the pay as you see the Dr parking area, dutifully bought a ticket for a couple of hours just in case. A parking fine plops onto the mat today with a 60 quid demand for not paying. Fuck off.  Of course I paid by cash, binned the ticket when the Rover toddled off to its new home. I phoned explaining this and the pleasant girl said for me to appeal and they can check the machine for the details. FFS

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I edit a magazine that reports on VW's & VW shows, Volksworld, Dubs Of Ages and Bus Stop Over have all cancelled today, according to social media. Looks like I'll be making stuff up!

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1 hour ago, barefoot said:

I edit a magazine that reports on VW's & VW shows, Volksworld, Dubs Of Ages and Bus Stop Over have all cancelled today, according to social media. Looks like I'll be making stuff up!

How would you like to do a week with Dan my lodger. See how a real mechanic makes his money Servicing shite? I'm sure he'd let you rent one of his 4 poster lifts to do your own research? 

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3 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Major grump for me this morning. Was just about to leave for the airport for the first offshore trip in 4 years when the phone rang informing me that Norway has introduced a compulsory 14 day isolation for anyone arriving outwith the Nordic region. My boat sails on Sunday. Trip cancelled, so another month and probably more without money. Time to start selling the chod.

Would you take this as a joke:

One random please.

In all seriousness if there's going to be a world economic melt down we are all going to be selling something

 

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Supposed to be on a plane to the Ukraine right now but instead am at home.  Haven’t got over my tonsillitis as quickly as I would have liked and as my temperature is up I will almost certainly get picked up by the Ukrainian medical testing at the airport and probably refused entry.

Coupled with border closures last night it’s too risky getting trapped there so my Chernobyl trip bites the dust.  Of course because I have elected not to go because of travel difficulties and Coronavirus it is classed as a personal choice so the travel insurance doesn’t cover any of it.  A country closing most of its borders isn’t classed as adequate enough excuse so bang goes my birthday present.....
 

in 2010 Mrs P was stuck in the US for three weeks because of the Iceland Volcano.  She had friends to stay with, but I have no contacts in Kiev so have no choice but to pull it.  Not repeating that

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