The grumpy thread

[dozeydustman]

35 minutes ago, hairnet said:

medical sucks generally not just yours

not the people just the medical

so tax is due on bike and im like right ok ive seen the reminder somewhere

looking for it and can i fuck find it

so fuck it dug out the v5 and used that

and the reason you didnt have a reminder

is - IT CAME IN THE POST THIS MORNING DERP

its been a weird 3 weeks

 

To be fair, the life of Hairnet sounds weird most of the time….

[ProgRocker]

This morning I left to go work, walked to my car to find a nail in the top of the offside rear tyre.

Utter bastards! 

It's a good job that I live about a 25 minute walk from work and that it isn't raining. Small mercies, eh? 

More than likely one of the feral neighbourhood scrotes. I wouldn't entirely rule out someone at my workplace doing it yesterday sadly...although I guess the tyre would have already deflated by the time I left. 

It's screwed things up a bit because I am due to collect my shopping at Tesco's tomorrow morning. I can put the spare on when I get home from work but I am worried that I could get another nail put in to any of the others overnight. 

Also I will need the car next week as it's booked in for a service and MOT. 

I really need to move from this shit hole. 

Of course what I should do is what most of you shiters do and have a spare car! 

[wuvvum]

It used to be a reasonably quiet part of the city when I moved there 20 years ago, but it's gone a long way downhill since then sadly.

[ProgRocker]

7 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

It used to be a reasonably quiet part of the city when I moved there 20 years ago, but it's gone a long way downhill since then sadly.

I might be overreacting. Just been chatting to a work colleague. I could have just run over the screw. One of the industrial units I work next too are quite messy. Maybe one of their screws in the detritus got embedded in the tyre? 

Still, I think I need to move house. And treat myself to a spare car. 

[barefoot]

3 minutes ago, ProgRocker said:

Still, I think I need to move house. And treat myself to a spare car. 

Using the money you save from NOT moving house, you can treat yourself to TWO spare cars.

[New POD]

On 10/03/2022 at 11:55, Zelandeth said:

I would like to apologise for the inconvenience I obviously caused the cyclists who just saw it fit to make me fold myself into the brambles hanging over the redway so they could stay three abreast and continue their conversation.

I'll endeavour to make myself and the dog fully two dimensional next time.

I'm sure dropping into single file (or even bearing slightly to the left) would have absolutely killed you.

Can I send you the bill for the sweater I just wrecked picking myself and the dog out of the brambles?

P.s. I am also a cyclist which is why such nonsense hacks me off so much, it's you bloody idiots that make everyone else hate us!

Never move out of the way. Just shout. Slow down The dog is wild. 

[chadders]

31 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

It used to be a reasonably quiet part of the city when I moved there 20 years ago, but it's gone a long way downhill since then sadly.

So which bit of Norwich is this?

[Zelandeth]

3 minutes ago, New POD said:

Never move out of the way. Just shout. Slow down The dog is wild. 

I've been hit by the bastards twice in the last year even having tried to get out of the way, plus the one who cycled into the back of me.  Fine if they hit me, I get a couple of bruises.  If they hit the dog though it could be a lot worse.  So I'll stick to trying to stay the heck out of the way I think.

There seem to be a select bunch who think the MK Redways (for those who don't know the area - a network of off-street shared footways/cycleways spanning the whole town, meaning there are no footways adjacent to most of the main roads) are strictly for cyclists and that they absolutely own them. 

Then of course there's also the perpetual misuse of them by people on mopeds and motorbikes which is always fun.  Nothing for waking you up like having one tear past you at speed on a path that's about two metres wide.

I just need to get moved out of this hellhole.

[LightBulbFun]

5 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

I've been hit by the bastards twice in the last year even having tried to get out of the way, plus the one who cycled into the back of me.  Fine if they hit me, I get a couple of bruises.  If they hit the dog though it could be a lot worse.  So I'll stick to trying to stay the heck out of the way I think.

There seem to be a select bunch who think the MK Redways (for those who don't know the area - a network of off-street shared footways/cycleways spanning the whole town, meaning there are no footways adjacent to most of the main roads) are strictly for cyclists and that they absolutely own them. 

Then of course there's also the perpetual misuse of them by people on mopeds and motorbikes which is always fun.  Nothing for waking you up like having one tear past you at speed on a path that's about two metres wide.

I just need to get moved out of this hellhole.

what you need is a modern electric Citroen Ami and a rear facing camera

so we can watch all of these idiots smash into and bounce off the back of you  

 

either that or equip the C5 with that "tomb stone" from death race LOL

[AnnoyingPentium]

Fabia has crashed...  no not in the way you're thinking. Went to put the electric window on my side up and the whole bloody thing had a spasm and my dash went like a Christmas Tree.

Oh plus my bloody washer jet ain't working at the back, it's come off at the pump and sheared the connecting bits off... again.

[Remspoor]

OK which one of you shitters is giving us a bad name?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10602337/Millionaire-owner-Britains-best-man-cave-blocks-street-cars-amid-legal-battle.html

The size of the so called man cave.

Some of the cars

[Wack]

Running old cars is only affordable if you do the work yourself 

Smart car parked up for a few months because the crank sensor was on the blink , thought I'd get it fixed , only the alternator seized 

Sent to to the garage , new alternator, new crank sensor & a service £587 , I supplied the sensor & the oil 

Fuck me 

[New POD]

21 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

I've been hit by the bastards twice in the last year even having tried to get out of the way, plus the one who cycled into the back of me.  Fine if they hit me, I get a couple of bruises.  If they hit the dog though it could be a lot worse.  So I'll stick to trying to stay the heck out of the way I think.

There seem to be a select bunch who think the MK Redways (for those who don't know the area - a network of off-street shared footways/cycleways spanning the whole town, meaning there are no footways adjacent to most of the main roads) are strictly for cyclists and that they absolutely own them. 

Then of course there's also the perpetual misuse of them by people on mopeds and motorbikes which is always fun.  Nothing for waking you up like having one tear past you at speed on a path that's about two metres wide.

I just need to get moved out of this hellhole.

You need to buy a walking stick. 

[mitsisigma01]

Through their spokes 😬

[AnnoyingPentium]

2 hours ago, New POD said:

You need to buy a walking stick. 

Clothesline them with it, aye?

[GMcD]

18 hours ago, Remspoor said:

OK which one of you shitters is giving us a bad name?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10602337/Millionaire-owner-Britains-best-man-cave-blocks-street-cars-amid-legal-battle.html

The size of the so called man cave.

Some of the cars

No wonder he didn't go for planning. Looks like B&Q is in his back yard.😂. 

Nice collection though.  

We've all had thoughts of winding up dick neighbours by parking a howling (but MOT/taxed) van outside their front door ..this geezer is just doing it with a Bentley instead of a battered old smiley 😂😂. 

[Timewaster]

2 minutes ago, Gerrymcd said:

No wonder he didn't go for planning. Looks like B&Q is in his back yard.😂. 

Nice collection though.  

We've all had thoughts of winding up dick neighbours by parking a howling (but MOT/taxed) van outside their front door ..this geezer is just doing it with a Bentley instead of a battered old smiley 😂😂. 

With no discernable vehicle access, I wonder how he built it in the first place. 

Part of me thinks good on him, but you wouldn't want that at the end of your garden would you? No wonder the neighbours hate him. 

 

[Spurious]

1 hour ago, Timewaster said:

Part of me thinks good on him, but you wouldn't want that at the end of your garden would you? No wonder the neighbours hate him. 

I can just imagine how much damage an annoyed neighbour could do when they find an old bottle of nitro moors in the shed… 

[MikeR]

saw a poster today in Liverpoool ...

Levelling .. a new hospital in Liverpool .....

would  this be the one thats needed finishing and its faults fixed  for some years ????

[Soundwave]

I appear to have developed shingles over the last couple of days. And bugger me, I was NOT prepared for how much it would hurt. Started on the inside of my thigh, spread to the small of my back and appears to be getting dangerously close to my gentleman's area. Not only sore but it's making me feel like shit overall as well, feeling sick and listless.

Not a whole lot I can do either, 111 say I can to to the GP on Monday for an antiviral prescription or just ride it out, and there isn't a huge difference between the two.

[cort1977]

Get them to give you some good painkillers though.

My missus had shingles years ago and got some kind of codeine ones. I took two of them by mistake when I had a hangover and was high as the proverbial kite.

[hairnet]

Who nicked.my.radiator

Edited March 13, 2022 by hairnet
edit for lolz yes that is half a jazz engine m9 (fo real)

[HillmanImp]

Christ, the ice cream van has started his 7 month drive round our village today. I will have the distant sound of Yakety Sax gradually getting louder for hours, before he reaches his crescendo outside the house, then it'll slowly doooooo do do dodo do dur do dodo do doooo de le le le le leeh! away again. 

Fucking torture. 

[Lankytim]

Despite advice on AS telling me to wire the tow bar on my Fusion with a generic kit I went and bought a genuine new old stock ford wiring kit. It was cheap enough and after sending the vendor my VIN I was told that it was the correct kit for the car. Predictably, I've fitted it and it won't work. There's a single wire and plug on the Fusion's loom that appears to be missing that the kit needs to plug in to and when I tried to plug a 20a fuse into the fuse board under the dash there was no wiring on the other side of the slot for the fuse to actually plug in to. 

The single wire from the wiring kit is for the indicator tell-tale on the dashboard and the 20a fuse would presumably provide a live feed. Why these items are missing on my car I have no idea. but I'll have to work around it I guess!

 

[mat_the_cat]

Almost witnessed a smash today

 

 

[richardmorris]

22 minutes ago, mat_the_cat said:

Almost witnessed a smash today

 

 

Happens all the time round here.

[Billy - Medhurst]

Been to look at a car this afternoon. "Maintained regardless of cost" "Well looked after - Needs nothing"  "Really nice condition".

Surprised I did not buy it - Well mate the 3 bold tyres / Smashed rear arch ( Pictured in the advert not to show it ) / Bumper flapping about on 50% of the clips it needs and random shredded wires hanging underneath

should be a clue!

Bugger!

[sheffcortinacentre]

Picky picky picky!

[Billy - Medhurst]

11 minutes ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Picky picky picky!

LOL - There was a bit more wrong.

[RoverFolkUs]

59 minutes ago, Billy - Medhurst said:

Been to look at a car this afternoon. "Maintained regardless of cost" "Well looked after - Needs nothing"  "Really nice condition".

Surprised I did not buy it - Well mate the 3 bold tyres / Smashed rear arch ( Pictured in the advert not to show it ) / Bumper flapping about on 50% of the clips it needs and random shredded wires hanging underneath

should be a clue!

Bugger!

I expect the advert will soon be relisted with the phrase "re-advertised due to timewasters" as a bonus little stab at you for them!