The grumpy thread

[warch]

Bastarding interview for the replacement for my head of department has made me grumpy all week. I have been invited to interview but I am certain my boss is going to pick someone young, female and attractive in preference to someone like me with vastly more experience.  

I don't care what sex, sexuality, colour or creed people are as it's completely irrelevant to their competence to do the job, but I find something a bit sinister about a white middle aged man who prefers to employ young women and passes this off as redressing the balance and gender equality. In reality it makes him look more like their sugar daddy.

[somewhatfoolish]

2 hours ago, warch said:

Bastarding interview for the replacement for my head of department has made me grumpy all week. I have been invited to interview but I am certain my boss is going to pick someone young, female and attractive in preference to someone like me with vastly more experience.  

I don't care what sex, sexuality, colour or creed people are as it's completely irrelevant to their competence to do the job, but I find something a bit sinister about a white middle aged man who prefers to employ young women and passes this off as redressing the balance and gender equality. In reality it makes him look more like their sugar daddy.

Got proof? Employment tribunal and payout £££, especially if you've been there a while. Sex discrimination is against the law.

[PhilA]

I want a Citroen SM but they're too expensive.

[chaseracer]

2 hours ago, PhilA said:

I want a Citroen SM but they're too expensive.

Blame Burt Reynolds for thinning out the US numbers fairly early on... 😉

[Parky]

8 hours ago, warch said:

Bastarding interview for the replacement for my head of department has made me grumpy all week. I have been invited to interview but I am certain my boss is going to pick someone young, female and attractive in preference to someone like me with vastly more experience.  

I don't care what sex, sexuality, colour or creed people are as it's completely irrelevant to their competence to do the job, but I find something a bit sinister about a white middle aged man who prefers to employ young women and passes this off as redressing the balance and gender equality. In reality it makes him look more like their sugar daddy.

I’m having this nonsense at the moment.  It seems having spent two years doing mortgages about 15 years ago and having a wealth of banking and finance experience, it’s not recent enough,  

Nothing has changed in that time.  You want a house?  Do you have a deposit?  Can you afford it?  Then fine.  Are you called Claude the repeat Fraudster who never repays money he borrows?  Maybe try the Bank next door....

[sierraman]

4 hours ago, Parky said:

I’m having this nonsense at the moment.  It seems having spent two years doing mortgages about 15 years ago and having a wealth of banking and finance experience, it’s not recent enough,  

Nothing has changed in that time.  You want a house?  Do you have a deposit?  Can you afford it?  Then fine.  Are you called Claude the repeat Fraudster who never repays money he borrows?  Maybe try the Bank next door....

Retail banking is fucked anyway, people have the gumption these days to search online for things. Nobody goes into a bank these days even a fossil like me doesn’t. You need to specialise in something like equity release or whatever. 

[barefoot]

Grump - People who give their cars names.

Get a fucking dog or something.

[sierraman]

16 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Grump - People who give their cars names.

Get a fucking dog or something.

Don’t give things names that you might have to cut their lives short if they become a nuisance or you need to eat them. It colours your judgement. Before you know it you are spunking £800 refreshing Barry the Zafiras suspension when what you rationally should do is shoot it in the side of the head. But then I’m not a terribly sentimental person about these things. 

[Craig the Princess]

41 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Grump - People who give their cars names.

Get a fucking dog or something.

How do you tell your 7 of the same model if car apart of you don't name them? 🤦

[Wilko220]

22 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Barry the Zafira

😆 Made me spit my tea out!

[barefoot]

21 minutes ago, Craig the Princess said:

How do you tell your 7 of the same model if car apart of you don't name them? 🤦

Number plates?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

38 minutes ago, Craig the Princess said:

How do you tell your 7 of the same model if car apart of you don't name them? 🤦

'Fucked, Still Fucked, More Fucked, Less Fucked, OK, Shit the Bed, Fucking Fucked...'

[Remspoor]

20 hours ago, loserone said:

It's probably a response to attitudes towards electric vehicles like yours.  

Wait a minute... Where did I say I hate EVs? I just hate the attitude in  that they think they  drive the vehicle for free.  It is not free just that the facilities (at the moment) are not charged for.  I said that  will end, when EVs become popular. The whole article is egotistical, including the tee shit.

[sierraman]

44 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Wait a minute... Where did I say I hate EVs? I just hate the attitude in  that they think they  drive the vehicle for free.  It is not free just that the facilities (at the moment) are not charged for.  I said that  will end, when EVs become popular. The whole article is egotistical, including the tee shit.

It is ok to dislike them, in fact the other day I saw an electric Porsche, as it silently whooshed away I just thought ‘what’s the point...’ the whole point of a Porsche to me was the sound of the flat engine starting up and purring away, this electric device just felt like exactly that. A device. A washing machine or a Morphy Richards toaster.

I know we’ll all end up in them one day in much the same way we’ll all end up dribbling and incontinent. I just can’t really get very excited by the prospect of having one. Maybe that would change in the future if they brought out retro styled old cars but with an electric motor like the Renault 5 concept as opposed anodyne crap that Elon Musk thinks everyone wants. 

[Jazoli]

2 minutes ago, sierraman said:

It is ok to dislike them, in fact the other day I saw an electric Porsche, as it silently whooshed away I just thought ‘what’s the point...’ the whole point of a Porsche to me was the sound of the flat engine starting up and purring away, this electric device just felt like exactly that. A device. A washing machine or a Morphy Richards toaster.

I know we’ll all end up in them one day in much the same way we’ll all end up dribbling and incontinent. I just can’t really get very excited by the prospect of having one. Maybe that would change in the future if they brought out retro styled old cars but with an electric motor like the Renault 5 concept as opposed anodyne crap that Elon Musk thinks everyone wants. 

Have you actually been in any electric car? You might find your attitude changes dramatically as some of them are hugely impressive, I was blown away the first time I went in one and that was a relatively humble Vauxhall Ampera, I'd love a Taycan or Tesla.

[artdjones]

53 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Wait a minute... Where did I say I hate EVs? I just hate the attitude in  that they think they  drive the vehicle for free.  It is not free just that the facilities (at the moment) are not charged for.  I said that  will end, when EVs become popular. The whole article is egotistical, including the tee shit.

Didn't you get the memo? The only correct attitude towards EVs is unquestioning adulation for them and all who drive them. This idea of finding out about things for yourself and then making your mind up is so last century.

[sierraman]

Just now, Jazoli said:

Have you actually been in any electric car? You might find your attitude changes dramatically as some of them are hugely impressive, I was blown away the first time I went in one and that was a relatively humble Vauxhall Ampera, I'd love a Taycan or Tesla.

Yes, I’ve been in a Leaf. I fell asleep. 

[Jazoli]

And here's the 

Just now, sierraman said:

Yes, I’ve been in a Leaf. I fell asleep. 

Hahaha a leaf is far removed from a Taycan as a Fiesta is to a GT40.

[Cavcraft]

Not sure there's an unquestioning adulation for electric vehicles and all who drive them, in fact they're a bit like vegans and Christians if anything in that they're a target for the haters.

[sierraman]

54 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Not sure there's an unquestioning adulation for electric vehicles and all who drive them, in fact they're a bit like vegans and Christians if anything in that they're a target for the haters.

Electricasceptic. I think I’ve coined a new word there. 

[PhilA]

16 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Electricasceptic. I think I’ve coined a new word there. 

First coined by the Milk Marketing Board.

[mitsisigma01]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Maybe that would change in the future if they brought out retro styled old cars but with an electric motor like the Renault 5 concept as opposed anodyne crap that Elon Musk thinks everyone wants.

Vintage Voltage was on Quest TV, converting old cars to electric.... Some better than others but all at a fkin high price 

[strangeangel]

1 hour ago, Jazoli said:

Have you actually been in any electric car? 

 

 

I have! It was shit and then it caught fire.

 

 

[sierraman]

9 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Vintage Voltage was on Quest TV, converting old cars to electric.... Some better than others but all at a fkin high price 

I’m not a fan of that. What sort of philistine would take the V12 out of an E-type and fit an electric motor? I suppose it’s a bit like doing the outside of Blenheim Palace with insulation and render to make the electricity bills a bit cheaper. 

[New POD]

1 hour ago, Jazoli said:

And here's the 

Hahaha a leaf is far removed from a Taycan as a Fiesta is to a GT40.

It doesn't matter what car you drive. It's how you drive it that counts. 

[Cavcraft]

52 minutes ago, strangeangel said:

 

I have! It was shit and then it caught fire.

 

 

 

That's because you left it plugged in.

[captain_70s]

Woke up this morning with a fucked back.

No idea what I did, presumably I slept funny or something. Attempted to go to work and managed 2 hours before I had to go home. Not even 30 and I'm already infirm, fucksake.

[vulgalour]

On 2/11/2021 at 5:07 PM, vulgalour said:

I've manage do to Do Something to my shoulder and it means I can't do any of my artwork.

Well, it's still not right but I can at least do a couple of hours of Something and I even managed to have a little drive in the Maestro.  Definitely on the mend so I'm going to try light duties this week and see how we go.  Looking at importance scales on this month's content means I'll likely have to put paid commissions on hold, will definitely have to close for new commissions, and prioritise subscription content to ensure that hits the deadlines at the end of this month.  I lose a couple of days this month because it's February too, so that adds an extra little layer of arse to the whole endeavour.

Happily, my customers (both new and old this year) have pretty much told me I'm not allowed to work on their pieces until I'm healed up, which is incredibly lovely of them and while some were disappointed that they're on the waiting list instead of the new commissions list they have been very understanding of the situation and the fact I can't give them a definite deadline at the moment.  This is more than can be said for the one artist I commissioned last year who has never given me an update unless I chase them for it and whose initial deadline of November last year has morphed into a deadline of "er.... sorry?" which is far less professional than I was expecting.  I really hope my gut feeling that this is going to end in disappointment doesn't come to pass.  I really do have the worst luck commissioning other artists, I seem to be able to pick the most disorganised and feckless of the lot.

[Jazoli]

Stick a jerrycan in the back and run it from full to empty and keep track of the miles till it actually runs out, hell I get 350 miles out of the 50L in my old 2.0 golf.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, captain_70s said:

Woke up this morning with a fucked back.

No idea what I did, presumably I slept funny or something. Attempted to go to work and managed 2 hours before I had to go home. Not even 30 and I'm already infirm, fucksake.

That's shit. Had it myself, in my 40's. Rested, on floor next to our bed. Then had staff go sick so had to go out on van, lifting 20Kg bags. Fixed it for me, but you may have different problem.