The grumpy thread

[paulplom]

We were out for a walk yesterday. Every time we heard them we had to stop, step back and try and guess where they were going to appear from. They were using the footpaths and cycle tracks rather than the roads. Quite frightening.

[paulplom]

I'm really getting bored as fuck now. We as a family spent most of our time out doors, markets, going for sitty down food, sight seeing, exploring, walking etc. We only really used the house for sleeping and watching the telly at night.

I'm usually bored stiff after a long weekend off work. I seem to have a problem with relaxing. Usually the first time I sit down all day, is teatime or when I go for a pint after work. I'm starting to get really worried how we're going to pass the time as this pans out.

[Cheggers]

Double grump. Firstly, last night I endured the travesty of a TV show called In for a Penny...utter rubbish.

My second is that one of the "challenges" to win cash was to reverse your own car into a supermarket parking space (with no adjacent cars) with no wheels touching or over the lines. Since when was that

A. Saturday night entertainment?
B. Considered a challenge?
C. Seemingly impossible to a proportion of drivers?

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[beko1987]

21 minutes ago, paulplom said:

I'm really getting bored as fuck now. We as a family spent most of our time out doors, markets, going for sitty down food, sight seeing, exploring, walking etc. We only really used the house for sleeping and watching the telly at night.

I'm usually bored stiff after a long weekend off work. I seem to have a problem with relaxing. Usually the first time I sit down all day, is teatime or when I go for a pint after work. I'm starting to get really worried how we're going to pass the time as this pans out.

I had weds, Thurs and Fri off last week to help mum try to move. 

Usually, the day before I'm mega excited about not having to go to work the next day. Not this time, it just felt nothing. Turned the work pc off, turned around and I was still at home. 

Its Sunday today, I'm wondering if I'll get the feeling of 'ugh, work' later or be excited to be able to do something that isn't nothing or pottering or bloody hoovers! 

[Cavcraft]

Hard to know what you're moaning about, tbh. We've paid £2.99 a month to the Cats Protection League for nearly a year, missed two payments and they came round and broke Tiddles' legs.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

12 hours ago, GBJ said:

The fact that you have been posting for  ten years does not mean that any of your posts are right. You just over react to everything without thinking.

I admire* your sweeping statement/opinion.

 

[HillmanImp]

2 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Hard to know what you're moaning about, tbh. We've paid £2.99 a month to the Cats Protection League for nearly a year, missed two payments and they came round and broke Tiddles' legs.

You think thats bad, I was paying an amount to the Donkey Protection League for a full year before I found out I had to decare myself as a donor to the Tory party. 

[meggersdog]

All this staying inside and I can hear something knocking in the wind.Seems to be in the loft so outside to fetch the ladder. Crawling about in the loft and where's that light coming from, oh it's gone.There it is again..Oh the lead flashing on the chimney has come adrift and is flapping up and down in the wind.. Not really a job for me as I don't like heights. Not the best time to spend when no money is coming in. Still could be worse,eh.

[Supernaut]

4 hours ago, Cheggers said:

Double grump. Firstly, last night I endured the travesty of a TV show called In for a Penny...utter rubbish.

My second is that one of the "challenges" to win cash was to reverse your own car into a supermarket parking space (with no adjacent cars) with no wheels touching or over the lines. Since when was that

A. Saturday night entertainment?
B. Considered a challenge?
C. Seemingly impossible to a proportion of drivers?

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Jesus wept.

How much do I get for doing the challenge* in a full-size van?

 

*what I do almost every time I drive the thing

 

 

I actually went out for a drive to the shops earlier. I took the most direct* route, of course.

I didn't see any shit driving, but I saw a 17 reg BMW 1 series perched very precariously on top of a drystone dyke. It was situated just after a slight bend which also dips. They must have been going one hell of a speed to end up perched there. It had a police aware sticker slapped across the rear window, but fuck knows how long it'll be there as it's not in anybody's way and some cars take long enough to get recovered without a global pandemic happening, it seems.

I'll admit I burst out laughing when I saw it.

[DoctorRetro]

3 hours ago, meggersdog said:

All this staying inside and I can hear something knocking in the wind.Seems to be in the loft so outside to fetch the ladder. Crawling about in the loft and where's that light coming from, oh it's gone.There it is again..Oh the lead flashing on the chimney has come adrift and is flapping up and down in the wind.. Not really a job for me as I don't like heights. Not the best time to spend when no money is coming in. Still could be worse,eh.

And yet people have been critical of a certain roofing company that 'a friend' works for, as they are still open. 

[DoctorRetro]

My grump today is more of a sad. 

Heard that my grandmother has been diagnosed with cancer. I've no doubt she'd probably fight it off, as she's already beaten breast cancer once, but she's 80 now and it's not exactly a good time to be frequenting hospitals etc is it? ?

[ruffgeezer]

Another evening stolen by youngest's meltdown. Currently an hour in with frayed tempers.  She is a totally different person when her mood is like this and very hard to cope with.

[ruffgeezer]

Well that's any sort of relaxing out of the window, 2 hours and she still hasn't come back into herself. We've given up and gone to bed.

[MikeR]

When i got diagnosed i thought i will be good and cut back on the booze ready for the big day .get some exercise .slim down ...

Then the big day .. gave it a few weeks and got some cans in . Nats piss to flush the tubes .Took them to the caravan .. left some as I would be back ....

No . That idea got shafted .

Now i am down to 1 can . Not even had a bottle of plonk for 2 months ... And now there is talk of a alcohol sales ban  .  FFS 

Not only that . The wife is here to go tut tut remember your kidney every time i lift a can . Yeah i am giving it a send off !!! 

[Tamworthbay]

4 minutes ago, MikeR said:

When i got diagnosed i thought i will be good and cut back on the booze ready for the big day .get some exercise .slim down ...

Then the big day .. gave it a few weeks and got some cans in . Nats piss to flush the tubes .Took them to the caravan .. left some as I would be back ....

No . That idea got shafted .

Now i am down to 1 can . Not even had a bottle of plonk for 2 months ... And now there is talk of a alcohol sales ban  .  FFS 

Not only that . The wife is here to go tut tut remember your kidney every time i lift a can . Yeah i am giving it a send off !!! 

I think the booze sale ban thing was some dick spreading fake news.

[sierraman]

First world problems etc but the ALDI Table Saw I ordered is absolute dog shit. That’s getting sent back, I wasn’t expecting a DeWALT for £70 but it’s practically impossible to make accurate cuts with, the mitre fence wanders about all over the shop making trying to make an accurate cut extremely difficult. 

[New POD]

57 minutes ago, MikeR said:

When i got diagnosed i thought i will be good and cut back on the booze ready for the big day .get some exercise .slim down ...

Then the big day .. gave it a few weeks and got some cans in . Nats piss to flush the tubes .Took them to the caravan .. left some as I would be back ....

No . That idea got shafted .

Now i am down to 1 can . Not even had a bottle of plonk for 2 months ... And now there is talk of a alcohol sales ban  .  FFS 

Not only that . The wife is here to go tut tut remember your kidney every time i lift a can . Yeah i am giving it a send off !!! 

I left 7 bottles of red wine, 3 bottles of champagne, 4 bottles of gin, 2 bottles of white wine and 3 bottles of corona and 2 cans of ginger beer and 2 bottles of malt scotch in Uttoxeter.  

Hopefully my lodger will not get desperate. 

[mitsisigma01]

It was all going good, sweet n sour chicken, peppered beef, chilli prawns, noodles and spring rolls on a tray in the bath ??????

But, guess what, I had to phone downstairs..... she only forgot to bring the beer and cake up ☹️☹️☹️

And she poured the beer badly ???

Should I chop her in for another ?

No fkin way ???

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Hopefully my todger will not get desperate. 

Amen.

[HH-R]

Annoyed at myself for sitting on my arse today and yesterday when I have a list of things to do!

[Talbot]

Another grump about the standards of driving at the moment.  Yes, the roads are clearer than they've been since about 1958, and yes you can (and I'll admit I have been) drive quite a lot faster than you might do usually, but FFS there is a time and a place.  Doing 70-75 on a wide open NSL road when you should be doing 60 is one thing, but the tosser I almost had a head-on with because he was doing about 60 in a 30 limit, and had to drift over to my side of the road to make a bend can absolutely fuck off.

I've absolutely no doubt that my near-2-tonne Mercedes would have torn through his Bini, but I rather like my Merc and I'd rather not destroy it, even if it meant taking that cunt off the road.  Cue much swerving to avoid what would have been a 10%-20% crossover head-on (IE one of the worst types of head-on you can have.)

I'm surprised there aren't more SCamera vans out and about at the moment.  They work in isolation, so no problems there, and I'm sure the Government could do with the extra monies.

[mitsisigma01]

3 hours ago, Talbot said:

Another grump about the standards of driving at the moment.  Yes, the roads are clearer than they've been since about 1958, and yes you can (and I'll admit I have been) drive quite a lot faster than you might do usually, but FFS there is a time and a place.  Doing 70-75 on a wide open NSL road when you should be doing 60 is one thing, but the tosser I almost had a head-on with because he was doing about 60 in a 30 limit, and had to drift over to my side of the road to make a bend can absolutely fuck off.

I've absolutely no doubt that my near-2-tonne Mercedes would have torn through his Bini, but I rather like my Merc and I'd rather not destroy it, even if it meant taking that cunt off the road.  Cue much swerving to avoid what would have been a 10%-20% crossover head-on (IE one of the worst types of head-on you can have.)

I'm surprised there aren't more SCamera vans out and about at the moment.  They work in isolation, so no problems there, and I'm sure the Government could do with the extra monies.

Isn't this a prime example of where dash cam footage can be used against fkwits doing this, even though a crash didn't happen? by supplying footage to the Polizei. 

I am currently thinking about getting a dash cam, preferably with front and rear cams and if possible cams that are activated by movement when car isn't running, my mate has had his car damaged 3 times by vandals and asswipes that can't manoeuvre or park without hitting something. Preferably on a small ish budget, does anyone have any recommendations please? 

[somewhatfoolish]

Techmoan on yootoob seems to get praised a lot for his dashcam reviews, worth a look?

[paulplom]

10 hours ago, MikeR said:

When i got diagnosed i thought i will be good and cut back on the booze ready for the big day .get some exercise .slim down ...

Then the big day .. gave it a few weeks and got some cans in . Nats piss to flush the tubes .Took them to the caravan .. left some as I would be back ....

No . That idea got shafted .

Now i am down to 1 can . Not even had a bottle of plonk for 2 months ... And now there is talk of a alcohol sales ban  .  FFS 

Not only that . The wife is here to go tut tut remember your kidney every time i lift a can . Yeah i am giving it a send off !!! 

Alcohol ban!? I've just felt someone walk over my grave. I think the suicide rate would go through the roof!

[captain_70s]

7 hours ago, Talbot said:

Another grump about the standards of driving at the moment.  Yes, the roads are clearer than they've been since about 1958, and yes you can (and I'll admit I have been) drive quite a lot faster than you might do usually, but FFS there is a time and a place.  Doing 70-75 on a wide open NSL road when you should be doing 60 is one thing, but the tosser I almost had a head-on with because he was doing about 60 in a 30 limit, and had to drift over to my side of the road to make a bend can absolutely fuck off.

I've absolutely no doubt that my near-2-tonne Mercedes would have torn through his Bini, but I rather like my Merc and I'd rather not destroy it, even if it meant taking that cunt off the road.  Cue much swerving to avoid what would have been a 10%-20% crossover head-on (IE one of the worst types of head-on you can have.)

I'm surprised there aren't more SCamera vans out and about at the moment.  They work in isolation, so no problems there, and I'm sure the Government could do with the extra monies.

On my commute I usually bomb along in the middle and right lanes passing everybody, since the travel ban I've been sitting in the left lane doing the same sort of speed but getting passed like I'm standing still. Also, when did red lights become optional? I've seen more reds blasted through in the last week than in my entire driving career up to that point...

[paulplom]

On 4/30/2009 at 9:00 AM, dollywobbler said:

Fuck hair products - what's all this Nivea crap trying to convince us that we need to smear suspicious cream all over our faces?!What men want? Bollocks. You just hope that telling us that it's what blokes want will make blokes want it. I think they've massively misunderstood the market. What men want is cars and girls, even though Prefab Sprout once tried to tell us via the medium of popular music that there's more to life. Rubbish.

I used to think that and now I'm wrinkly as fuck.

[Lord Sterling]

On 3/29/2020 at 8:41 AM, Cheggers said:

My second is that one of the "challenges" to win cash was to reverse your own car into a supermarket parking space (with no adjacent cars) with no wheels touching or over the lines. Since when was that

A. Saturday night entertainment?
B. Considered a challenge?
C. Seemingly impossible to a proportion of drivers?

You're kidding right? Is getting a car into a space really a "challenge" these days?

[bramz7]

Meant to have Omega scrapped today 

Omega battery dead. Forgot the bonnet release is knackered. 

Manage to destroy my hand attempting to get it open with a tyre lever.

Still not starting. Problem is it took a ton of cranking to get going anyway. 

Scrappy then goes to wrong address 20 miles away.

 

Now I've got eleven hours at work! 

[Lankytim]

Shame the Omega is getting cubed! 

[purplebargeken]

Cunt drivers round here are driving even more like cunts. Red light? No bother, just drive through it. can't be arsed indicating, don't worry about it. Speed limits? What the fuck are they, there's no other cars about anyway, fuck it. UTTER WANKERS.

Oh, for all the NHS clappers.

Thank you, it was appreciated.

Even the next door Bulgarians joined in. They had no fucking idea why they were clapping and cheering but they did it anyway. Bless 'em.