The grumpy thread

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

....  I don't really understand the point of marriage...

....or indeed children 

[MikeR]

Or renewing vows ....

I am still here arnt I .......

[artdjones]

3 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I'd bet she hasn't, just biding her time.

Women never forget.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

22 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Women never forget.

...and they never forget what they forgave....

[Supernaut]

The only two weddings I've been properly involved in so far have been great.

The first was in a forest somewhere outside Fort William, on Halloween. Just the bride and groom, a few guests, and the registrar. We went back to the local youth hostel and got shitfaced, but not after driving through all the flash floods! It started chucking down with rain shortly after the ceremony, and after the half-hour drive back into town things had started flooding.

The second was just in 2017. A couple of my mates got married, so I was invited as the groom's guest / best man, and another mutual friend of ours was invited as the bride's friend / maid of honour. The couple paid for our plane tickets out to Calgary and they got married on the banks of Lake Louise. The only other people were the registrar and two photographers (and all the people watching from the foot path, it was in July!). I spent the rest of the afternoon batting off tourists due to me wandering around Lake Louise in a full kilt outfit and sporting a Scottish accent! We then spent a week driving around the Rockies and generally being idiots.

IF I ever find somebody, and get married, I'll be going for fun rather than bling.

[Jerzy Woking]

I got married in St Petersburg in the registry office which was situated in a beautiful building overlooking the river.

No expense expended. No dressing up, we took the underground and trolleybus to get there. No family there, i had no idea who the witnesses were that my wife found in the building. Sat down, signed a bit of paper, and hey presto, we were married.

Bus back to our apartment, where later a few of her friends popped round with beer, vodka and Moldovan champagne (which tasted like very heavily sugared cider).

Best wedding day of the three I have had.

[MarvinsMom]

Never, ever invite me to a wedding.

out  of those i have been to, cousin Catherine's lasted 3 months (though the groom turning up wearing a Barnsley FC football shirt didn't inspire confidence)

and then Kim's (an old school friend) that lasted i think 6 weeks, while cousin Dianne's marriage lasted the honeymoon, and our Erica's lasted precious little more before her husband ran off with the guy who had been "the best man"

i believe the technical term is "Jonah" 

 

[Supernaut]

"Oh, look" thinks I, "I can get 500mb fibre broadband from Vodafone for only £5 per month more than I'm paying Plusnet for 70mb"

I tried to place an order on Vodafone's website, and while entering payment details it won't accept a name for the account holder longer than 21 characters. Err... what? I've heard bad things about Vodafone's customer service in general, so maybe this is a good early warning sign to give them a swerve.

I only looked because they just finished installing fibre past my front garden a few weeks ago.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

8 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

... only looked because they just finished installing fibre past my front garden a few weeks ago.

The only fibre I like is All-Bran.

[MarvinsMom]

there are times when i kinda think i've missed out on marriage and kids.

especially now i'm hitting middle age and the few friends i have who did all that their kiddies are now going off to university and leaving home, it brings it home to me that i have sorta wasted my life.

but by not doing the family thing, which i am certain i would be shit at, cos, well, i'm too self centred, and it does also mean that i haven't properly grown up, as i have not ever needed to!

hence a house with some proper crappy interior decor, and that is full of old trains, toy cars and bits of old motor cars.....

[Tadhg Tiogar]

6 hours ago, cobblers said:

..... My mate paid .... £200 to rent some 4 foot high wooden letters that were quickly rearranged to spell "VOLE". ..

I'd have paid to see that!

[beko1987]

Went to the office for the day for the first time in probably 12 months... I'm knackered! Wasn't even a full day, a morning of meetings, pub lunch then we went home and I'm still exhausted... 

I used to do it 5 days a week too, seems mad now! (not the pub bit, or the finishing early bit...) 

[artdjones]

4 hours ago, Jerzy Woking said:

I got married in St Petersburg in the registry office which was situated in a beautiful building overlooking the river.

No expense expended. No dressing up, we took the underground and trolleybus to get there. No family there, i had no idea who the witnesses were that my wife found in the building. Sat down, signed a bit of paper, and hey presto, we were married.

Bus back to our apartment, where later a few of her friends popped round with beer, vodka and Moldovan champagne (which tasted like very heavily sugared cider).

Best wedding day of the three I have had.

The trolley bus would sell it to me.

[Jerzy Woking]

2 minutes ago, artdjones said:

The trolley bus would sell it to me.

They were a delight in winter. No heating, icicles hanging from the roof, and thick ice on the windows. I often got off not knowing where I was, as couldn't see my location through the ice.

Still took it in preference to the warm bus and metro.

[omegod]

Newpod. the covid wedding shite is a pain, my brother got married at Briars Hall last weekend with a max 30 people and it upset him to have to cancel so many people, was still a lovely day but no fucker was dancing in the evening which was a bit awkward.  

My wedding was good but cost 14k, I spent half the day saying hello and the other half saying goodbye and I didn't even see the evening buffet which was a pisser as I'd specced fucking salt and pepper ribs 

[High Jetter]

I have Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Matrimony" running through my head now! "...when we turn up an hour late like two frozen peas..."

[155V6]

5 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

there are times when i kinda think i've missed out on marriage and kids.

especially now i'm hitting middle age and the few friends i have who did all that their kiddies are now going off to university and leaving home, it brings it home to me that i have sorta wasted my life.

but by not doing the family thing, which i am certain i would be shit at, cos, well, i'm too self centred, and it does also mean that i haven't properly grown up, as i have not ever needed to!

hence a house with some proper crappy interior decor, and that is full of old trains, toy cars and bits of old motor cars.....

You sound like a female version of me,except that Miss_155 has two grown-up sons,& you have a gorgeous cat 🙂

[155V6]

5 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I'd have paid to see that!

Miss_155 had some smaller letters like that in the window above the front door when her extension was built.They may have been rearranged to spell vole & velo quite a few times 😁

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, omegod said:

Newpod. the covid wedding shite is a pain, my brother got married at Briars Hall last weekend with a max 30 people and it upset him to have to cancel so many people, was still a lovely day but no fucker was dancing in the evening which was a bit awkward.  

My wedding was good but cost 14k, I spent half the day saying hello and the other half saying goodbye and I didn't even see the evening buffet which was a pisser as I'd specced fucking salt and pepper ribs 

This Covid thing is is shit.

Know someone who has just retired after 45 years in public service. No gatherings so say goodbye to all, so an envelope sent to most existing and previous collogues with a small drink and a note to say that it was a pleasure to have worked there.

It of a bummer to have to do that have a life long service.

[goosey]

Another night away, another evening meal   In contractor corner with site workers who can’t blow their fucking nose and constantly sniff snot back into their throats and talk with a mouthful of flem 🤢

[New POD]

Eventually got to speak to the builder.  He is like the cast of boys from.the black stuff.  I'm not interested in hearing his tale of woe about the current job he's on.  

I explained the problem (very) politely with not knowing if he's going to come when he said he would, and the problem.it causes with planning my work location. And I explained that we might be without electric for a few days from.the 27th and he's absolutely definately 100% going to start Monday.  But he really needs to get paid from.the job he's currently on, so he can buy supplies.  WTF???

I said, that  of course i'd be happy to come with him to the builders merchants and pay for a cutting disc and a few bags of sand and cement, once he arrived on Monday as he's now promising.  And take it off the final bill obviously.  I'm not sure if he lives in a caravan now. 

[MikeR]

I was the only man on the unit when this was found , armed with a glass and spoon , it went out the window ....

[dozeydustman]

9 minutes ago, MikeR said:

I was the only man on the unit when this was found , armed with a glass and spoon , it went out the window ....

That is a beauty. I hope it survived

[Stanky]

28 minutes ago, MikeR said:

I was the only man on the unit when this was found , armed with a glass and spoon , it went out the window ....

A gigantic moth that shits pound coins? and you LET IT GO?

😁😲😁

[richardmorris]

34 minutes ago, MikeR said:

I was the only man on the unit when this was found , armed with a glass and spoon , it went out the window ....

Looks like a giant hawk moth but Give me a minute and I’ll let you know the taxonomy

[MikeR]

49 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

That is a beauty. I hope it survived

yes it did ...

[anonymous user]

3 hours ago, MikeR said:

I was the only man on the unit when this was found , armed with a glass and spoon , it went out the window ....

Why was it armed with a glass and a spoon?

[Wack]

Unfortunately it doesn't end with an explosion and s JCB scraping up the remains 

Burnley,Blackburn,Bolton,Bradford, take your pick , it'll be one of those 

What a cunt 

 

[sierraman]

Day 2 of Isolation and I’m already going out of my mind. The wife can not get it in her head that I’ve got work to do, thinking I’m lined up for jobs round the house and banging and constantly shouting. It’s like doing a shift in Durham nick with the banging and yelling while I’m trying to get on with shit.

I don’t want to be in this house doing work any more than what she wants me to be here, given every chance I’d 100% rather be at work. 

[iainrcz]

Windows 10 decided to update itself yesterday, and now shit is broken.

Start menu, notification area. Win.

Just tried restoring to 3/6 and still borked.