The grumpy thread

[Zelandeth]

I do sometimes wonder what I did to piss off which of the gods in a previous life.

Today's fun event was a lorry driver going up the A5 deciding to chuck a 2 litre bottle of piss out his window - which promptly exploded on contact with the tarmac, about 20 feet in front of my car.  In which I was travelling with both windows wide open because it's bloody hot.

Lovely.  I honestly don't know if I'll ever be able to feel that the interior is actually clean again.

Leaving them in the lay bys for someone else to clear up is bad enough, but chucking the bottle out the bloody window in busy traffic just ain't funny. 

Aside from anything else, I don't particularly want to find out which wins in a battle between a full two litre pop bottle and my radiator or windscreen, or a motorcyclists face.

[New POD]

1 hour ago, GMcD said:

I thought it was normal? It's been happening round here forever. 

It's easy to steal by people who scan as they go.

Put one you are stealing under the potatoes, scan a second and place it in clear view so that if there's a spot check, they can see it, or 

Just pretend that the scanner clearly isn't working properly in the unlikely event that someone does an audit. 

[New POD]

11 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

It’s to stop all the parasite landlords stealing the meat 😂

It's okay we can afford our own livestock, and have an arrangement with a local butcher. 

 

[SH1TE]

6 minutes ago, New POD said:

It's easy to steal by people who scan as they go.

Put one you are stealing under the potatoes, scan a second and place it in clear view so that if there's a spot check, they can see it, or 

Just pretend that the scanner clearly isn't working properly in the unlikely event that someone does an audit. 

Local asda got robbed thousands as veg used as substitute for expensive items. 

Something like £2500 in thefts over several weeks. 

Tesco easier as they run out with a trolley full and security do feck all

[Yoss]

2 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

If anyone is wondering why I prefer cats, this is why.

But cats aren't pets,  they just live where there is food. Three of my mums cats, including the current one, belonged to neighbours before they moved in with her. This is because  she always made a fuss of them when she was out and then they would follow her home, then she would feed them,  then they would stay. To be fair she told the neighbours each time where their cat was and each time they didn't mind because they're just cats. 

[eddyramrod]

As someone who has lived with both: a dog has a master, a cat has staff.

[hairnet]

watching car years on itv 4 and no wonder didnt watch it the first time

first year 66 yeah they talk about jensen ff and stuff

second one is 77 aston martin v8 vantage fair enough (alex riley bell end was dressed as bandit which was ok but theyve not talked about that yet)

but immediately they start talking about how they used it in living daylights ffs 10 years later

wtf

even they mentioned the fact AM were going broke and couldnt give them cars

bwhich was bollox cos gauntlett didnt happen till the 80s

*cookies griped *have headache now #mynerdisnothappy

[Dyslexic Viking]

53 minutes ago, Yoss said:

But cats aren't pets,  they just live where there is food. Three of my mums cats, including the current one, belonged to neighbours before they moved in with her. This is because  she always made a fuss of them when she was out and then they would follow her home, then she would feed them,  then they would stay. To be fair she told the neighbours each time where their cat was and each time they didn't mind because they're just cats. 

I find it strange that I have such a different perception of cats. The one I have now is very loving and clearly likes me a lot and is not food motivated either.

[Lacquer Peel]

1 hour ago, twosmoke300 said:

It’s to stop all the parasite landlords stealing the meat 😂

Maybe there would be more money to go around if much of our money wasn't going to rent seekers and profiteers. 

[Ghosty]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Today's fun event was a lorry driver going up the A5 deciding to chuck a 2 litre bottle of piss out his window

Don't suppose you have a dashcam? That's very very illegal.

[twosmoke300]

8 minutes ago, Lacquer Peel said:

Maybe there would be more money to go around if much of our money wasn't going to rent seekers and profiteers. 

How dare some one put effort in and be profitable / successful.

 

[Lacquer Peel]

3 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

How dare some one put effort in and be profitable / successful.

 

Right place/right time. 

 

[twosmoke300]

Bullshit ! 

So you are saying that building a business is all luck ?

 

[reb]

3 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

So you are saying that building a business is all luck ?

 

It's not luck as such.

It's being in a position to invest time and money into something that may very well fail.

Most people don't have enough of either to try.

[Yoss]

48 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I find it strange that I have such a different perception of cats. The one I have now is very loving and clearly likes me a lot and is not food motivated either.

I know, sorry I was generalising, not all cats are the same just as not all dogs are,  or people for that matter. When I was a kid we had a Siamese cat who thought he was a dog. This was probably because we got him as a kitten when we already had two dogs in the house. Even when we got more cats he would sleep with the dogs. He even came on walks with us. 

My mum is a general animal lover,  we've had all sorts including 13 tortoises! We had two but they bred even though they said you couldn't breed tortoises in this country. My mum made an incubator out of an old fish tank to put the eggs in and it worked. I think the most things we had at the same time was four cats,  two dogs,  two ducks and some fish. 

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, GMcD said:

I thought it was normal? It's been happening round here forever. 

Someone’s got to get the meat for the pub draw ! ( see rough pubs thread).

[SH1TE]

One dead hamster, 

two children going at each other hammer and tongs 

Youngest thrown up crying as thinks they may have killed it (heart attack at a guess as 2 yrs old) moved cage round. 

All this occurs as I walk through door with dog. 

FFS to much drama 

[Dobloseven]

Was in the Range store a couple of weeks ago. Wanted a cheap footpump for a holiday bottle rocket project. Took one to the till, no price apparent, but 2 security tags. Turns out it's £4.99.Says to the till lady that it seem a bit excessive for such a low price. She tells me that a lot of people are also stealing pet food. Reckons they got dogs etc. during the lockdown and now can't afford to feed them. 

[Dobloseven]

9 minutes ago, SH1TE said:

One dead hamster, 

two children going at each other hammer and tongs 

Youngest thrown up crying as thinks they may have killed it (heart attack at a guess as 2 yrs old) moved cage round. 

All this occurs as I walk through door with dog. 

FFS to much drama 

All good practice for the misery and suffering of later life. 2 isn't a bad innings for a hamster. When Max Bygraves hamster died, he boiled it in a saucepan with lots of sugar, poured it into a jar, planted some bulbs in it and in the spring he had "Tulips from Hamster jam." Sorry.. 

[chaseracer]

Dickhead plasterer flounced off the job this morning, taking misplaced offence at my surprise* that he was refusing to honour commitments previously made after full disclosure of the potential complexities.  I should have known it was going to end badly when he introduced himself as 'the scrap man come to take away the old car, mate' - ie. the Dyane.  Yeah, fucking hilarious, pal.  

#FirstWorldProblems, I know - but you really needed to be there to appreciate the levels of TERMINAL TWAT.  Conversely, the builder who recommended him (and subbed the job to him) is a completely sound bloke.

And breathe. Thanks for listening... 🙂

[twosmoke300]

9 minutes ago, Nyphur said:

It's not a business though is it. You aren't providing a service which a rational person can choose whether or not they consume.

It's having 2x, 3x, 4x etc of a finite resource as you need, at the expense of someone else who has none of that resource so is forced to pay you for it at an inflated rate.

Fuck land barons.

Said person doesn’t have to rent THAT house from THAT person .

Same as you don’t have to buy that car from that dealer .

Ita very much a business . Huge amounts of invested capital and risk involved too . 
 

 

[Dobloseven]

8 minutes ago, Nyphur said:

It's not a business though is it. You aren't providing a service which a rational person can choose whether or not they consume.

It's having 2x, 3x, 4x etc of a finite resource as you need, at the expense of someone else who has none of that resource so is forced to pay you for it at an inflated rate.

Fuck land barons.

To say tenants rent solely because they can't afford to buy is a bit simplistic. I do a lot of my work in rental properties and it's surprising who does rent. Premiership footballers, doctors, academics to name but a few. Often needing somewhere short term for a work contract. Businesses will rent for employees from abroad. Tenants often own a home or even homes they rent out themselves. Did a job once in a house rented by a fellow who had built up a business transporting expensive cars in covered transporters. He'd got a car collection including a new Mustang he'd had modified and painted in his company livery, a Sunbeam Lotus, a very smart new VW Combi, to name but 3.Must admit the rental market seems a bit crazy at the moment though. Left the keys to a house we own with an agent I do a lot of work with to see what rent it could achieve  and what needed doing first and was quite shocked with the figures he came up with. 

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, Ghosty said:

Don't suppose you have a dashcam? That's very very illegal.

Yes...sadly not in the car I was driving at the time!

I really do need to get one fitted in the Caddy given it's the car...van...whatever it is...I keep oscillating between whether I call it a car or van, that I do by far the most miles in.

Cavalier will definitely be getting one, probably plus a tracker.

[Split_Pin]

36 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Dickhead plasterer flounced off the job this morning, taking misplaced offence at my surprise* that he was refusing to honour commitments previously made after full disclosure of the potential complexities.  I should have known it was going to end badly when he introduced himself as 'the scrap man come to take away the old car, mate' - ie. the Dyane.  Yeah, fucking hilarious, pal.  

#FirstWorldProblems, I know - but you really needed to be there to appreciate the levels of TERMINAL TWAT.  Conversely, the builder who recommended him (and subbed the job to him) is a completely sound bloke.

And breathe. Thanks for listening... 🙂

Classic tradesman who's covering up the fact that they are either incapable or more likely, too flipping lazy.

 

[RoverFolkUs]

To explain the security tags in the supermarket: 

The reason the meat or energy drinks or cans of deodorant is quite simple.. It may seem random but in reality it isn't.

Supermarkets collect a lot of data about shopping habits and shoppers (Tesco, Iceland + CO-OP are only offering deals to loyalty card holders nowadays. It's much easier to collect data about shopping habits that way) 

So when a specific line gets disproportionally stolen compared to other lines it will be security tagged. 

Recently I saw a store manager being accused of racism when one line of hair dye, which happened to be dark, was security tagged but the same brand in a different colour was not. The only reason for this is because the dark hair dye was flagged as a high risk item due to having a considerable number of products recently stolen. It could well be the lighter ones were simply out of stock when the incident occurred so they were not affected by the theft and subsequently were not flagged. 

It is not tagged under staff or manager discretion. Their theft management algorithm tells them which products to security tag. 

The cans of energy drink as above is a prime example. A shop near a school is more prone to have cans of drink and other petty items stolen than a shop that isn't near a school. That's just one example 

[RoverFolkUs]

43 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Dickhead plasterer flounced off the job this morning, taking misplaced offence at my surprise* that he was refusing to honour commitments previously made after full disclosure of the potential complexities.  I should have known it was going to end badly when he introduced himself as 'the scrap man come to take away the old car, mate' - ie. the Dyane.  Yeah, fucking hilarious, pal.  

#FirstWorldProblems, I know - but you really needed to be there to appreciate the levels of TERMINAL TWAT.  Conversely, the builder who recommended him (and subbed the job to him) is a completely sound bloke.

And breathe. Thanks for listening... 🙂

Translation: 

"Ah bugger, this isn't as easy as it looked. I have no idea what to do as I only do the easy jobs = easy money. Sod that"

In similar vein to a garage refusing to investigate a running fault on a modern diesel but happily lap up a job for something like discs and pads...

[RoverFolkUs]

^ bugger, sort of cross posted split pin there!

 

[High Jetter]

8 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

To explain the security tags in the supermarket: 

The reason the meat or energy drinks or cans of deodorant is quite simple.. It may seem random but in reality it isn't.

Supermarkets collect a lot of data about shopping habits and shoppers (Tesco, Iceland + CO-OP are only offering deals to loyalty card holders nowadays. It's much easier to collect data about shopping habits that way) 

So when a specific line gets disproportionally stolen compared to other lines it will be security tagged. 

Recently I saw a store manager being accused of racism when one line of hair dye, which happened to be dark, was security tagged but the same brand in a different colour was not. The only reason for this is because the dark hair dye was flagged as a high risk item due to having a considerable number of products recently stolen. It could well be the lighter ones were simply out of stock when the incident occurred so they were not affected by the theft and subsequently were not flagged. 

It is not tagged under staff or manager discretion. Their theft management algorithm tells them which products to security tag. 

The cans of energy drink as above is a prime example. A shop near a school is more prone to have cans of drink and other petty items stolen than a shop that isn't near a school. That's just one example 

Sure, but non-booze wine? OK, it's a poor area, but really?

[Ghosty]

An Asda near me was security tagging Hot Wheels recently...

[SH1TE]

P30lite battery failed and unbeknownst to me partner says there's someone on the phone. 

Hello yes what the fuck do you want- "police operator 999" look at phone and letter A on screen and appears rapid pressing on power button has dialed 999.

"My apologies the phone malfunctioning"

To make matters worse  it wouldn't stop so pulled out glued in battery. 

About as much  excitement as I need in one day!