The grumpy thread

[Mally]

Thanks, I'll wait until it hurts

 

[rainagain]

On 5/18/2020 at 7:49 PM, eddyramrod said:

I've just been over on Open Forum - I know, I really shouldn't, it boils my piss far too often - and seen someone use the "word" outwith in a post; not once but twice!  WTF is outwith?  It seems to have been used as a replacement for outside, in both cases.  What was wrong with outside?  Is that not a perfectly good well-established easily-understood English word?

Show me who invented outwith.  I'll show you a red stain on the wall where his head used to be.

It is in the dictionary:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/outwith

It appears to have originated in Middle English but then it fell out of favour apart from in Scotland and Ireland. 

[eddyramrod]

You're not cheering me up here...

 

[busmansholiday]

"Two time" really, really fucks me off. It's either "two times" (because it's plural) or "twice" you twats on TV....

[rainagain]

1 minute ago, eddyramrod said:

You're not cheering me up here...

 

Personally I think we should bring back old words. 
 

Overmorrow is a great word. It means the day after tomorrow. 
 

My favourite though is defenestration, I’ll let you look up the definition. I love the fact we actually have a word for this. 

[juular]

5 minutes ago, rainagain said:

It is in the dictionary:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/outwith

It appears to have originated in Middle English but then it fell out of favour apart from in Scotland and Ireland. 

I always thought it was an old Scottish thing. At work I hear it 10 times a day, I'm sure I've used it too but I don't think about it because it is so common here. I've known people from South of the border to ask what it means, which threw me a bit.

I suppose they just don't hear it much outwith Scotland. ??

[eddyramrod]

If it's a Scottish "thing" that will at least explain why I hear it all the time on the BBC, and especially when a politician is involved.

 

ETA: I didn't really need an explanation of it, what I really needed and still do, is total extermination of it!

[Tamworthbay]

I could be wrong but my understanding is that it’s used to refer to people more than things, so a person could be from out with Scotland, but a car would be made outside Scotland, if tat makes sense. Certainly how my old Glaswegian buddies seemed to use it, but they could just have been yanking my chain (again).

[chaseracer]

Where's CMS206, Professor of SCTSH Vernackular Fuckery at the University of Paisley, when you need him...? ?

[myglaren]

15 hours ago, rainagain said:

My favourite though is defenestration, I’ll let you look up the definition. I love the fact we actually have a word for this. 

One of my daughter's favourites, along with exsanguination.

To put our minds at ease, we can now purchase a USB dongle that will stop 5G infecting us with the coronavirus.

Magic Gadget

 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

13 minutes ago, myglaren said:

....we can now purchase a USB dongle that will stop 5G infecting us with the coronavirus.....

...and instead infect our computers with something else.

[brownnova]

Saw a brown Vauxhall Nova for breaking on a North Wales cars for sale site... why the grump? Because he had already stripped it and says it’s too far gone to sell whole... 

I will own another brown Nova one day... 

[New POD]

Just now, brownnova said:

Saw a brown Vauxhall Nova for breaking on a North Wales cars for sale site... why the grump? Because he had already stripped it and says it’s too far gone to sell whole... 

I will own another brown Nova one day... 

Buy a white one and smear horse poo on it ? 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

.... smear horse poo on it ? 

I'm sure I can supply some....

[twosmoke300]

Don’t leave yourself short of it mind - make sure you have some to put on corner apex’s to keep bikers on their toes ?

[Pat Earrings]

Fell out with the other half recently as I had apparently "not told her anything" about an impending purchase on here which she has managed to veto. However, whilst I am in the dog house I am planning on trying to reattempt at selling the idea of this purchase to her again and not fall out with her. FFS. 

[Lacquer Peel]

On 5/19/2020 at 5:54 PM, purplebargeken said:

I live in lovely Edmonton, the capitol of stupid shouty noisy people.

No such thing as quiet here sadly. This is one of the reasons I would like to fuck off somewhere a bit more French.

Err you might be replacing one loud set of people with another set of loud people. 

[juular]

9 hours ago, Lacquer Peel said:

Err you might be replacing one loud set of people with another set of loud people. 

Travelling around Europe I was always surprised how quiet French and German towns were, especially at night. Yes they converse loudly and shout across the street a lot - and Frenchies lean on their horns during the day, but comparatively it was peaceful. Coming back home was like an alternate universe. Everyone here has to be obnoxiously thick and loud. Pounding music in every single car, pounding music from flats and houses, hundreds of barking dogs, shouting arguments from half the places you walk past. 

I've lived in some right shitholes and then some much nicer places. What surprised me was how much worse the "nicer" places are for obnoxious noise pollution.

[paulplom]

Finally came to a head with my upstairs neighbours last night. They had wound her kids up till they were screaming in hysterics and begging them to stop what ever they were doing. Her, her dad, mother, brother, boyfriend etc were all there. Shouting shut the fuck up man you winging little cunts etc. Twins of 7 and a boy of 5. This went on for an hour before I finally snapped.
After screaming up at them to stop abusing their kids I rang the police. As I was on the phone to the call handler her brother stormed in through my front door. I grabbed him by the throat with one hand and marched him out trying to get his eyes to pop while I was trying to get my point across on the phone. The police turned up 10 minutes later and were great. The've passed it on to the relevant authorities and diffused the situation. They must have been upstairs over an hour. The police told me the boyfriend was still soberish (not long finished work) otherwise the kids would have been removed.
I've had death threats and stuff since but it's water off a ducks back to me. Won't be the first time I've been in jail..
I'm sitting here on the bog typing this and she's still shouting and swearing at them. Unbelievable.
I've got a proper starting pistol and ammo in the drawer in case they start again tonight. It should frighten them if nowt else.

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[loserone]

1 minute ago, paulplom said:

I've got a proper starting pistol and ammo in the drawer in case they start again tonight. It should frighten them if nowt else

Just no.

 

Good work calling the police.   If children are being abused now, call them again.

[paulplom]

I will ring. Upstairs will get sick before I do.

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[rusty_vw_man]

I am trying to move house. We have finally got to the point of exchange. We had agreed everything required is in place, and tomorrow the solicitors will do their funky thing and exchange, then complete in 2 weeks time. 

Except now apparently everything is no longer in place, but no one can tell me whats not, and whats gone missing since earlier in the week when everything was in place. Apparently we are 90% certain of completion tomorrow, but no one can tell me what the last 10% is that would tip us over the line. 

I find it baffling - I was this vague at my job things would fall down and people would die. Why is the housing market and the buying and selling of houses so needlessly complicated and stressful, and more importantly why does no one seem to want to take any responsibility for making it happen!  

[loserone]

We're in a similar boat, finding it astounding that so many mistakes are made and the process takes so long, everything is blamed on working from home

[Jerzy Woking]

6 minutes ago, rusty_vw_man said:

I am trying to move house. We have finally got to the point of exchange. We had agreed everything required is in place, and tomorrow the solicitors will do their funky thing and exchange, then complete in 2 weeks time. 

Except now apparently everything is no longer in place, but no one can tell me whats not, and whats gone missing since earlier in the week when everything was in place. Apparently we are 90% certain of completion tomorrow, but no one can tell me what the last 10% is that would tip us over the line. 

I find it baffling - I was this vague at my job things would fall down and people would die. Why is the housing market and the buying and selling of houses so needlessly complicated and stressful, and more importantly why does no one seem to want to take any responsibility for making it happen!  

I'm in a similar position. Its unbelievable that things can't pick up where they left off. I've been told that I will "have to wait" as there is a backlog of sales to go through!!!

My house purchase in Spain went through with only a slight delay. Solicitors were all working from home and took sales files with them when their office closed. Even in near total lockdown they were able to proceed. 

[rusty_vw_man]

10 minutes ago, loserone said:

We're in a similar boat, finding it astounding that so many mistakes are made and the process takes so long, everything is blamed on working from home

Latest is that the conveyancing team are all on furlough. Great planning there. Could be worse I suppose, mate waved all his possession off in a moving van yesterday, only for it not to complete due to the solicitor loosing the contract. 24 hours later still sitting waiting for it to be resolved., in an empty flat with 2 kids - not stressful at all. 

8 minutes ago, Jerzy Woking said:

I'm in a similar position. Its unbelievable that things can't pick up where they left off. I've been told that I will "have to wait" as there is a backlog of sales to go through!!!

My house purchase in Spain went through with only a slight delay. Solicitors were all working from home and took sales files with them when their office closed. Even in near total lockdown they were able to proceed. 

I love the idea that because they are busy its you that has to wait - they would have been quick enough to take your money and business I'm sure.

Starting to wish I hadn't bothered trying to get a slightly bigger house we all fit in and just gave away a kid instead......

[beko1987]

23 minutes ago, rusty_vw_man said:

I am trying to move house. We have finally got to the point of exchange. We had agreed everything required is in place, and tomorrow the solicitors will do their funky thing and exchange, then complete in 2 weeks time. 

Except now apparently everything is no longer in place, but no one can tell me whats not, and whats gone missing since earlier in the week when everything was in place. Apparently we are 90% certain of completion tomorrow, but no one can tell me what the last 10% is that would tip us over the line. 

I find it baffling - I was this vague at my job things would fall down and people would die. Why is the housing market and the buying and selling of houses so needlessly complicated and stressful, and more importantly why does no one seem to want to take any responsibility for making it happen!  

Having been sat in my mums supposedly new back garden guarding 2 vans worth of unloaded stuff and had a call saying its all fallen through its got to come back (another near 250 mile round trip for both vans...) be fucking careful! 

This was at the beginning of covid. When they got another nod for it to be Monday I turned up, and we got rhe vans loaded by nothing left until my stepdad had it in an email we could go ahead. Weree a few false starts before that too. Was a fucking shit show! 

[anonymous user]

My niece is a property solicitor in London, currently working from her sister's flat in Cardiff, (long story involving her being kicked out of where she lived in London after she went down with Covid 19). Her biggest problem is sales falling through where people can't show where the money is coming from.

[loserone]

Our solicitor was complaining that there's very little work because the market has gone flat.  So why has it taken three months to go absolutely nowhere..?

[purplebargeken]

Err you might be replacing one loud set of people with another set of loud people.

In a way maybe but as also commented on, nightly time is a huge shitful quieter, but at least I will have some land and maybe a big fuck off barn to hide the bodies in.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, loserone said:

Our solicitor was complaining that there's very little work because the market has gone flat.  ...

Not in Wills and Probate it hasn't. Also quite a lot of work brewing in Family/Matrimonial/ Children.