The grumpy thread

[carburettor]

6 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

Cut the duty? I reckon hell freezing over is more likely to be honest; this is a nice little money spinner for the government. Though I do wonder how much public pressure would be required to lower fuel duty?

Demonstrating, the yellow jerseys as in France? Yes it would be great but that is what needs to happen, however there are far too many middle class Daily Fail readers who will moan like fuck on Twitter and assume they are fighting the cause, whilst actually doing nothing really.

[Fumbler]

3 minutes ago, carburettor said:

Demonstrating, the yellow jerseys as in France? Yes it would be great but that is what needs to happen, however there are far too many middle class Daily Fail readers who will moan like fuck on Twitter and assume they are fighting the cause, whilst actually doing nothing really.

Er right. I don't think I'll be seeing any demonstrations (let alone any yellow jacket action) demanding to cut fuel duty any time soon. Besides, anyone could very easily spin the rising fuel costs as an incentive to buy an electric car.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Here, the petrol price is almost 20 kr (1.66 pounds) per liter..

[sheffcortinacentre]

The cash cow motorist has got to take up the slack as usual & as said to much trouble while the rest are I'm alright jack.

[artdjones]

19 hours ago, iainrcz said:

Turns out landing flat on your arse hurts.

Especially if you do it from 10ft up as I once found out.

[BorniteIdentity]

14 hours ago, Spurious said:

Oh no.

 

They need to really do something about fuel in the short term. Oil's creeping up again and it'll be hitting us in the pumps again.  They need to cut the duty on it.

Effectively, they have. It’s been frozen since 2011 so - in real terms - you’re making a good saving. £100 then is about £129 in today’s money; God only knows what fuel duty would be if it had kept up with inflation etc. 

There’s no way they’ll delete the VAT either: if they wont do it on heating fuel, there’s no chance on road fuel. 

[iainrcz]

11 hours ago, artdjones said:

Especially if you do it from 10ft up as I once found out.

Oof, thankfully I was only stood up. Took the wind out of my sails a bit.

 

[reb]

I've started using a radio alarm clock app on my phone again, I used to use it with Absolute Radio, but now that just elicits silence. So I switched it to Planet Rock, which worked fine for a couple of days, but this morning there was a message saying "this service will no longer be available in a few days, you can still listen on the website" which is just brilliant.

I don't know what station to try next, maybe 6 Music?

[Metal Guru]

16 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Road trip?

Two to avoid. The Esso and Shell stations in Penrith. £1.65 for v power ,  price fixing ( I mean matching ) in place.

Only seen dearer on the motorways.

[Spurious]

46 minutes ago, reb said:

I've started using a radio alarm clock app on my phone again, I used to use it with Absolute Radio, but now that just elicits silence. So I switched it to Planet Rock, which worked fine for a couple of days, but this morning there was a message saying "this service will no longer be available in a few days, you can still listen on the website" which is just brilliant.

I don't know what station to try next, maybe 6 Music?

TuneIn? Used to have a wide range of stations to listen to. Probably has all those you listed above. 

[reb]

1 minute ago, Spurious said:

TuneIn? Used to have a wide range of stations to listen to. Probably has all those you listed above. 

Does it provide an alarm functionality though? That's the most important part. The message came from Planet Rock itself, I'm pretty sure the actual app will continue to function with a different station, I just don't know which will suit me.

If I can't find something that works I'll search out my DAB clock radio.

[jamescarruthers]

1 hour ago, reb said:

I've started using a radio alarm clock app on my phone again, I used to use it with Absolute Radio, but now that just elicits silence. So I switched it to Planet Rock, which worked fine for a couple of days, but this morning there was a message saying "this service will no longer be available in a few days, you can still listen on the website" which is just brilliant.

I don't know what station to try next, maybe 6 Music?

6Music is just outstanding, give it a go! This accompanies so much of my life. I find Mary Ann Hobbs choices not to my own but other than that I think it’s the best station I’ve ever heard. I do go back to Radio 2 for Jo Whiley sometimes but that’s about it. 
 

Specifically alarm clock radio then you’ll be listening to Lauren Laverne and she has a pretty good range of tunes. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

51 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Two to avoid. The Esso and Shell stations in Penrith. £1.65 for v power ,  price fixing ( I mean matching ) in place.

Only seen dearer on the motorways.

Cheers. There's one at the back of Cumnock (follow the road from Douglas into the back of Muirkirk if coming from the north) where the petrol was £1.32 for E10 95, now £1.35 the last time I checked.

[hairnet]

Grumble grumble mystery appt

Watching motorway patrol maybe parky might be on ut 😛 @Parky

 

[Parky]

53 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Grumble grumble mystery appt

Watching motorway patrol maybe parky might be on ut 😛 @Parky

 

I’ll be the farmer with 4 tons of soil in a trailer made for 500kgs, the Maori lads in the lowered Corolla that’s just been green stickered and a $350 fine issued to, or the confused German tourist who just stacked his Toyota Hiace into the back of a Cop Commodore because he was watching porn on his phone.  One of those anyway!

unbelievably they don’t pull you over for having a shit looking car

[High Jetter]

On 1/29/2022 at 12:02 AM, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Thankyou very much sir! 👍👍👍😎😎😎

Have we had an update on this yet? Did she resist you or succomb to your charms?

[Floatylight]

Not really grumpy but HFM...

 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

26 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Have we had an update on this yet? Did she resist you or succomb to your charms?

The date went really, really well ! We'll be meeting up again! 😎😎😎👍👍👍

[Fumbler]

36 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

The date went really, really well ! We'll be meeting up again! 😎😎😎👍👍👍

It was the cravate that did it! Congrats on your successes.

[Leyland Worldmaster]

1 hour ago, Fumbler said:

It was the cravate that did it! Congrats on your successes.

Thankyou all very much for your kind words and wishes! You guys calmed my nerves on the way to my first date in years! 👍 👍 👍 😎😎

Anyway, I must apologise for the deviation from grumpiness. To make ammends, I'll say the excessive loudness of a Train Manager was grating on the journey to work today! 😤😤😤

[Bren]

Still suffering after covid. Not finished a meal for over a month. Knackered all the time - just want to sleep. No energy.

Starting to wonder if / when things will get better?

[chaseracer]

Yes mate, but it takes a while.  GWS.

[carburettor]

On 1/30/2022 at 6:27 PM, Fumbler said:

Er right. I don't think I'll be seeing any demonstrations (let alone any yellow jacket action) demanding to cut fuel duty any time soon. Besides, anyone could very easily spin the rising fuel costs as an incentive to buy an electric car.

Couldn’t agree more 😁

[Saabnut]

Grumpy here! Now 48 hours since my power went off when several thousand trees in the area came down in Storm Corrie or whatever they called it. This followed Storm Malik or whatever 48 hours before it from a different direction. A 6 mile journey yesterday took 19 miles and 4 roads before I found one not blocked by trees.

Last night was in front of the multi-fuel stove reading by candlelight. Today was spent getting a generator I was given 15 years ago working. As I am posting this, obviously I was successful  

Quote

 

 

[carburettor]

34 minutes ago, Saabnut said:

Grumpy here! Now 48 hours since my power went off when several thousand trees in the area came down in Storm Corrie or whatever they called it. This followed Storm Malik or whatever 48 hours before it from a different direction. A 6 mile journey yesterday took 19 miles and 4 roads before I found one not blocked by trees.

Last night was in front of the multi-fuel stove reading by candlelight. Today was spent getting a generator I was given 15 years ago working. As I am posting this, obviously I was successful  

 

Cometh the hour cometh the man!

 

[artdjones]

How could anyone do this?

This is what it should look like.

[wuvvum]

Why would you do that, more to the point?  '70s Maseratis are starting to be worth serious coin now.

[grogee]

On 1/31/2022 at 10:09 AM, reb said:

I've started using a radio alarm clock app on my phone again, I used to use it with Absolute Radio, but now that just elicits silence. So I switched it to Planet Rock, which worked fine for a couple of days, but this morning there was a message saying "this service will no longer be available in a few days, you can still listen on the website" which is just brilliant.

I don't know what station to try next, maybe 6 Music?

Those are my go-to stations as well. 6music is alllllrrrriiigghht but I'm beginning to get really fed up with it. Not keen on Lauren Laverne's show in the morning, or Craig Charles in the afternoon (Shaun Keaveney was much better).

It's pretty good evening and night time though. I just wish they wouldn't give us the dumbed down BBC newsbeat shit every hour. 

I've taken to cherry picking from BBC Radio 1 Dance programmes lately, pretty sure it's online/iPlayer only. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

I'll just stick to West Sound. Even if it has become yet another faceless Bauer-dependent station. Tunes are good. Otherwise it's BBC R2 on a Saturday for the pick of the pops with that Canadian fucker that took ower fae Tony Blackburn.

[mitsisigma01]

3 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Last night was in front of the multi-fuel stove reading by candlelight. Today was spent getting a generator I was given 15 years ago working. As I am posting this, obviously I was successful

 

10 hours ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

The date went really, really well ! We'll be meeting up again! 😎😎😎👍👍👍

Same response ...

2 hours ago, carburettor said:

Cometh the hour cometh the man!

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽