The grumpy thread

[garethj]

Are you still single Hirst?

What are you trying to say?

[Pillock]

Solara? Fuck that. Who ever heard of "Double the Solara, Double the Pussy"??

[M'coli]

Missing a last-second snipe on an Imp R17 cam ont' eBay because I had forgotten to sign in. What an utter twat.

[dollywobbler]

Thanks Hirst. You made me laugh through my ears. It hurt but was worth it.

[seth]

I'm wondering if those that are married/with partners are roffling at Hirsts post and those who are currently single are thinking "Hmm, might be worth a go"

[pogweasel]

OR...

I'm wondering if those that are married/with partners are thinking "Hmm, might be worth a go" and those who are currently single are roffling at Hirsts post"

[CreepingJesus]

^I'm rofl'ing somewhat. Altho', I may pass on the falconer's glove trick to my 13 year old lad, who reckons he needs help with the girls. He's come to entirely the wrong person asking me...

Actually, I was rofl'ing about lunchtime, reading this on my phone, at work. Got some funny looks, 'cos we were watching Scrapheap Challenge at the time. And Dick Strawbridge isn't that funny.

I would have a grump about work, 'cos it was utterly abysmal, but you lot cheered me up somewhat.

Instead, I'm grumping on BP petrol stations. Well, two in particular: one near-ish me, and one in Grangemouth. They both do this thing, where once you've put the nozzle back in the holster and walked into the shop, the pump tacks a penny onto your purchase. SCAM-OLA! Time after time, and for comparison, almost never happens at the two Shell and one Tesco stations I usually use. Fuck off BP, yer scamming bastids.

[Cavcraft]

BP did fuck off from Grangemouth, there seems to be something in the air with 'big name' companies offloading British refineries

 

I've noticed that old penny trick a few times before though no recently locally. Perhaps pay cash (if possible) everytime with the exact money and hopefully the cheeky bastards will work out how much they're losing and give it a swerve in future.

[M'coli]

In mind of this penny extra scam, I've bugun putting in 1p short of a round number...it still comes out as 1p over, the shower.

[myglaren]

In mind of this penny extra scam, I've bugun putting in 1p short of a round number...it still comes out as 1p over, the shower.

 

They are generally the most expensive filling stations to start with.

Be interesting to hear what the Weights & Measures mob have to say about it although I'm sure BP will weasel their way out of it somehow.

[autofive]

local bp station also used to do this, so i started to argue at the till that i didnt have the penny and they accepted that.

 

worked for me

[Claypole]

Refuse to pay the penny, I have before, then report them to Trading Standards anyway.

 

One I only use when I have to has a saucer by the till with pennies in it so guess they try it on when they can.

[Station]

The ones (Shell, Sainsburys) near me always ask for 10 quid (for example) when it's 10.01. The local Shell even has a tray with 1p's in if you go over.

I worked with someone whose job it was to check the pumps, and it means the pump is mechanism is over the threshold of 'becoming knackered'. If you're 10.009 and you put it in the holster, the vibration will knock it over onto 10.01, and as the machines are so uber-calibrated (for the sake of the consumer), the petrol station is actually causing an offence (lol).

 

Basically, the machine is needs to be checked/recalibrated and repaired by law.

[trigger]

Back to plentymorefish, My work mate was going on about that site a few weeks back, He reckons his mate started using it and met up with some fat women on there and was shagging her within an hour of meeting her, My mate told me to sign up and try and find this girl put all i got was pages of spam emails but the naughty pond section makes for interesting viewing.

 

Apparently this bloke has now met another girl from the site who enjoys fists being put up her bottom, Classy.

[CreepingJesus]

Funnily enough, I only ever stick a fiver in (I've been asked 'is that all?' by staff, to which the reply is 'well, it'll get me to where the petrol's cheaper...') at these places, so cash is what they get. Normally, the staff don't make a big deal out of it (how generous of them); but credit/debit card transactions don't give them a choice, as the info's uploaded from meter -> payment console, without being able to be changed. So if they pop a penny on every transaction, and harvest half of them; that's a bob or two over the course of a year. And apparently perfectly legit.

[nerd mode] I did study the BSI master documents for pez stations, during research for a project once. Once was enough, mind you; but the penny up scenario shouldn't be possible. Simply 'cos if there's any leakback in the pump, the meter unit shouldn't be reading up. If anything it should be reading down. [/nerd mode] Methinks Weights + Measures need to have a gander...

Fight the powah!

[warren t claim]

Back to plentymorefish, My work mate was going on about that site a few weeks back, He reckons his mate started using it and met up with some fat women on there and was shagging her within an hour of meeting her, My mate told me to sign up and try and find this girl put all i got was pages of spam emails but the naughty pond section makes for interesting viewing.

 

Apparently this bloke has now met another girl from the site who enjoys fists being put up her bottom, Classy.

 

Myself and Mrs_Claim set up a couple of blag accounts on there, TVDAPHNIE is one of them and we had a laugh at some of the men who replied. Most of which looked normal and didn't say they were looking for fun with unconvincing transvestites in their profiles.

 

Edit. Here he/she is...

 

[Guest]

Bloody hell, those are big eyebrows even for a man. Better luck next time.

[CreepingJesus]

^Has she got a sister?

[warren t claim]

And here's the pics of a few people who want to meet.

 

Note the strategically place lighter to give a perspective of size.

 

No this isn't Johnny Vegas!

 

Jimmy Hill meets Swampy.

 

Apparently this guy is looking for the right girl and settle down...... He must be short sighted......

[Guest]

I'm wondering if those that are married/with partners are roffling at Hirsts post and those who are currently single are thinking "Hmm, might be worth a go"

I reckon the ones who are married/with partners are only in that position because they did something very similar to what I suggested.

[Guest]

Headache. Aargh. GO AWAY, I HAVE TO EDIT THIS FILM.

[Pillock]

PoF.... just for scientific reasons, I went back on my account last night and reopened it. Two photos, neither of which are any good.

 

Bam, three normal sounding girls, all local. Doesn't seem difficult! Spent all night chatting to them. Point proven, none of them appear to be into fisting.

[Lord Sterling]

Just getting over one of those myterious 1-day illnesses that caught me out. Saturday night/Sunday morning was spent on the bog being sick and getting rid.... Sunday, I felt seriously drowsy and well out of it, I hardly ate and only drank. Today, thankfully I feel much better and a little more normal.

 

Finally manage to get the Rover 820e back from the garage after having a new p/s pipe fitted, only to find that on leaving the car stationary but running for about 30 mins sees engine overheat, the fans are not kicking in, the fuses seem Ok. Tomorrow an auto electrician will be having a look.

[seth]

Ebay grump: Old, massively incomplete tools selling for -to me- humongous amounts of money simply because they are collectable. You can guarantee the buyer is a collector who will stick it on a shelf and not someone who might actually want to make use of the item for what it was originally designed and made.

[dollywobbler]

Ebay grump: Old, massively incomplete tools selling for -to me- humongous amounts of money simply because they are collectable. You can guarantee the buyer is a collector who will stick it on a shelf and not someone who might actually want to make use of the item for what it was originally designed and made.

 

I noticed this recently. I was looking for cheap garden tools and discovered a whole world of vintage tools - not that most of the stuff looked even slightly vintage. Just knackered, missing bits and rusty and some of it not very old looking either!

[Guest]

Ebay grump: Old, massively incomplete tools selling for -to me- humongous amounts of money simply because they are collectable. You can guarantee the buyer is a collector who will stick it on a shelf and not someone who might actually want to make use of the item for what it was originally designed and made.

 

Conversely, I provoked shock and horror from the seller of whom I bought my Tamiya Cheetah off several months ago. He was aghast because I actually wanted to run it instead of sticking it on a shelf. I reckon he deliberately left parts off it during his tenure so that it had less chance of being run. I don't understand the whole RC 'shelf queen' mentality - there are far more detailed 1:10 and 1:12 models out there for similar money with the singular purpose of being a collector's model. Why buy an RC car with very approximate levels of detail, half build it and then whop it on a shelf?

 

Madness.

 

I don't have the money to complete the Cheetah at the moment, so it's sat on a shelf at the unit. The irony.

 

There was a sociologist called Arjun Appadurai who wrote at great length about the commodity phenomenon. I think Marx would have been baffled by the collecting mentality too, whatever form it took. Collecting tools does seem a bizarre fixation, especially when vast sums of money become involved.

[pogweasel]

Fucking cars.

 

Took my car to bits, now can't for the life of me see how I am gonna put it together again.

There's this little inflexible hydraulic pipe that is supposed to attach to the end of clutch master and secure with a split-pin type affair... except I can't get to it to even get the pipe all the way on, let alone get the pin in. I think I am gonna have to dismantle vast swathes of the rest of the car just to do this, I really haven't the time or patience for this shit. So tempted just to bin the fucker and be done with it.

Twatting twat cakes.

[Guest]

Fucking cars.

 

Took my car to bits, now can't for the life of me see how I am gonna put it together again.

There's this little inflexible hydraulic pipe that is supposed to attach to the end of clutch master and secure with a split-pin type affair... except I can't get to it to even get the pipe all the way on, let alone get the pin in. I think I am gonna have to dismantle vast swathes of the rest of the car just to do this, I really haven't the time or patience for this shit. So tempted just to bin the fucker and be done with it.

Twatting twat cakes.

 

Which car is this Pog?

[pogweasel]

This TWAT:

[seth]

Took my car to bits, now can't for the life of me see how I am gonna put it together again.

 

Reassembly is reversal of dismantling? How did you get to it to take it off?