The grumpy thread

[artdjones]

Drain covers weigh in nicely. Solid 100% metal. Hope the damage isn't too serious.

[loserone]

Fucking hell, you been in all night? Must be pretty serious.

 

Hope it's a swift recovery!

[sierraman]

3 minutes ago, loserone said:

Fucking hell, you been in all night? Must be pretty serious.

 

Hope it's a swift recovery!

No, I about made it home and this morning I was in a bad way so wife’s took me. 

[Bren]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

Laid up in A&E, fell down a grate last night. Some absolute wanker had nicked the drain covers and it was dark. 

Hope you are ok.

The bother at the England game. A pity getting pissed and making a twat of yourself can't be exported - the defecit would be wiped out.

[New POD]

5 hours ago, MikeR said:

Some people lead a charmed life,   just seen this on FB ......

How the FKuc do they end up in a scrape like this .... And walk away ...

 

There's no fucking way anyone could survive that. 

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, Bren said:

The bother at the England game. A pity getting pissed and making a twat of yourself can't be exported - the defecit would be wiped out.

It's embarrassing.  Booing the opponent country's national anthem is not exactly classy either.

[Spurious]

5 hours ago, artdjones said:

Drain covers weigh in nicely. Solid 100% metal. Hope the damage isn't too serious.

firstly, hope your not too bad @sierraman

Secondly, do scrap merchants not get suspicious when shit like this turns up? That or hacked off catalytic converters? Or do they just not give a fcuk and hand the cash over... 

[New POD]

I know they did, but how? 

There is no fucking way anyone cou lkd survive that. And yet they did. It doesn't work in my head. The 2 are totally incompatible facts. And yet one isn't a fact..

[New POD]

Is it left hand drive. There's just enough room for someone I suppose. They'd be dead in a RHD car. 

[artdjones]

4 minutes ago, Spurious said:

firstly, hope your not too bad @sierraman

Secondly, do scrap merchants not get suspicious when shit like this turns up? That or hacked off catalytic converters? Or do they just not give a fcuk and hand the cash over... 

It's not about suspicion. A lot of criminals become such because they are totally selfish and don't care about anyone outside their close associates. So they don't think what they're doing is wrong.

[Spurious]

21 minutes ago, New POD said:

I know they did, but how? 

There is no fucking way anyone cou lkd survive that. And yet they did. It doesn't work in my head. The 2 are totally incompatible facts. And yet one isn't a fact..

I've been to a few RTCs in which I've no idea how they managed to get away unscathed. 

A rollover down an embankment into a stout looking tree, probably a bit of speed involved. Car looked a mess when I turned up and I remember thinking ' they're going to be buggered whoever they are'. But no, the driver was standing on the verge and had crawled out of the car and was waiting with a bystander. No idea how he managed that... 

[Zelandeth]

Why the hell does there seem to be some immutable law of the universe which states that no matter how many sets of feeler gauges I buy, that I will never be able to find one?
 

There must be at *least* five sets in my garage.

 

[Wack]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Why the hell does there seem to be some immutable law of the universe which states that no matter how many sets of feeler gauges I buy, that I will never be able to find one?
 

There must be at *least* five sets in my garage.

 

I'm the same with tape measures , I must have enough to measure the M6 somewhere

[Fumbler]

Proper first near-miss today coming home from work.

We were sent home early (yay!) so I was winding my way back, only to have someone suicidal decide to overtake a cyclist opposite me... while I'm going downhill on the curve of a NSL S-bend. As soon as I see them, they lurch out into my side while I'm doing 45MPH, so I slammed on the anchors, the tyres locked up and I went spearing and screeching into the muddy verge. This was pretty good as I would have hit the twat head on if I tried to follow the bend round. How I recovered it I don't know, I was definitely skidding about for a few yards before the tyres caught traction again. I got out to check everything was well -it was, apart from the giant brown and muddy wing- and I made my way home once again. Pretty shaken to be honest.

[High Jetter]

Glad it wasn't worse. Just goes to show how important dashcams are - if you'd had a RTC it would have vindicated you in that instance.

[Fumbler]

15 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Glad it wasn't worse. Just goes to show how important dashcams are - if you'd had a RTC it would have vindicated you in that instance.

Indeed, I'm majorly pissed off that my dashcam shat its SD card a few weeks back.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

10 hours ago, Bren said:

...The bother at the England game. A pity getting pissed and making a twat of yourself can't be exported ...

It can and is, but the problem keeps on being reimported...

[somewhatfoolish]

4 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

It can and is, but the problem keeps on being reimported...

Soylent green.

[Bren]

In the process of resetting the SD1's ignition timing.

Engine needs to be turned over using the crank pulley. Remove under tray. And spoiler. And radiator. And fan shroud.

Just to get a socket on the pulley...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

17 hours ago, New POD said:

Is it left hand drive. There's just enough room for someone I suppose. They'd be dead in a RHD car. 

No, the early Prius was RHD only, I think.

[cort16]

We got a new Budgie for my Daughter and it will not SHUT THE FUCK UP.  Budgies don't have a nice song either like a Canary they squawk and chirp.

This one constantly cheeps maybe once every 3 seconds at volume for HOURS AND HOURS at end.

CHEEP
CHEEP
CHEEP
CHEEP
CHEEP
CHEEP

ALL WORK AND TOO MUCH BUDGIE MAKES CORT16 A PRETTY BOY. SQUAAAAAK

[High Jetter]

Drape a blanket over the cage? (Obviously not* totally cutting off the air supply) Question is, why did you buy a budgie if you want a quiet life? A gerbil might have been a better option.

[cort16]

5 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Drape a blanket over the cage? (Obviously not* totally cutting off the air supply) Question is, why did you buy a budgie if you want a quiet life? A gerbil might have been a better option.

It gets covered at night but it's not very nice on the budgie to be covered all day. We had another budgie before this and it was fine. It just chirped away now and again but this thing is like a smoke detector with failing batteries.

It's currently banished to the furthest point of the house but I can still hear it.

[somewhatfoolish]

Give it Radio 3 to listen to, it will fall asleep.

[cort16]

41 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Give it Radio 3 to listen to, it will fall asleep.

I have actually being playing it the greatest Chill out tunes of the 1990's on Amazon music but it still won't shut up.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Give it Radio 3 to listen to, it will fall asleep.

I was about to suggest playing Radio 4's Count Arthur Strong for much the same result. 

[Remspoor]

This has not made me grumpy more of WTF?

Veggie tea.

Carrot, Orange, Peach , Rooibos.

The larger lettering with white background  is Turmeric.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

.....The larger lettering with white background  is Turmeric.

They're putting turmeric in practically everything these days.

It does work well for horses, I will say that.

[jakebullet]

I'm fuming. Had a weekend away via airbnb, and got the email prompt to leave a review. They have very few reviews as new, so decided to focus on the positives and not mention the sofa is fucked, the bed leans more than the titanic, car is guaranteed to be covered in bird shit etc.

Submitted review, and got one back "Did not leave cottage as clean as other guests". Cheeky fuckers! If you want it cleaning a) leave cleaning supplies, b) don't charge a cleaning fee.

[Remspoor]

3 hours ago, jakebullet said:

don't charge a cleaning fee.

Would be my view too.  I would be tempted to now go back and leave a big pile of poo on the doorstep for them to clean.🤣

 

Should also add that I never have liked AirBnB because the first time I reserved place with them the owner wanted photo copies of both mine and the wife's passport. AirBnB backed them up and I refused due to privacy. Never sued them again. Writing a review on the guest is not a way to do  business either.

I only use  Booking.com  no fees for the guest great customer  service too. Both for the guest and for the business.