The grumpy thread

[maxpower]

Oh dear

 

Thick twats.

 

everyone should be bunging best offers 10p on this buggr, keep the sella to busy to light his next tab

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEWS-WORLD-THANK- ... 27bc871694

 

i might put my copy on the bay under the title "free to a good home"

 

for a final edition it was a fuckin rip-off i would have been better keeping my £1

[M'coli]

Oh dear

 

Thick twats.

 

everyone should be bunging best offers 10p on this buggr, keep the sella to busy to light his next tab

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEWS-WORLD-THANK- ... 27bc871694

 

i might put my copy on the bay under the title "free to a good home"

 

for a final edition it was a fuckin rip-off i would have been better keeping my £1

I wouldn't insult an cat's arse by placing it under its litter tray!

[tonedepear]

Fucking bikes are a load of old fucking wank. R W Thompson hang your head in shame, the pneumatic tyre is a shite invention, designed purely to fail.

 

I'm going to bed now and not coming out. Got called out by work from 1am-5am this morning, up about half 9 anyway cos I'd been planning a nice ride on the Monsal Trail, got to Bakewell but hadn't taken any money and needed to pay to park, so ended up touring round Bakewell in awful traffic (it's always bad) for an hour or so to get money, bought some kendal mint cake to get change, then tracked back through all the traffic again and ended up starting ride about 12. Had to leave the path to go round a group of idiot duke of edinburgh hikers who were 5 abreast and taking up the whole thing (despite dinging my newly installed bell), 100 yards later back wheel went all slidey, and a few yards after that I realised it was going down. Stopped, tried pumping it up, then tried special aerosol can with magic goo in which is supposed to "repair and re-inflate" punctured bike tyres. It didn't do that, but it did separate the valve from the tube, so at least I knew where I stood and it saved me the bother of trying to pump it up again. Walked it back (somehow it was nearly 6 miles back but 5 going out?). Ate Kendal Mint Cake in the car. Queued home.

 

Things I learned:

 

1. Road wheels are for roads

2. Cycle shoes are NOT made for walking 5 miles whilst pushing your bike

3. People you overtook going the other way are not sympathetic as they pass you pushing your bike back the other way.

4. Those aerosol quick-fix bike tyre fixing cans from decathlon don't work.

Edit: These: http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/sealant-17248997/

 

Ah well.

[Station]

Waiting to hear about a job since Friday. No reply back after initial enquiry! I hate it!

[Guest]

1. Up selling in supermarkets \ the post office \ WHSmiths. Either management want some more money for their Christmas piss up or it's getting more overt and aggressive. I bet the poor sods behind the counters are targeted on it as well, and if they don't push the impulse crap on people mercilessly they fail their one of their KPIs. Personally I'd have thought this sort of tactic loses more customers than it gains - because people know if they go in for a drink \ paper \ scale Spongebob model they're just going to get mithered - but hey, 49/50 people saying 'no' or 'fuck off' probably looks great on some wanky Excel spreadsheet with animated GIFs.

 

2. Parking at the local Co - Op. There is parking adjacent. There is parking down the road. But no, fuck it, bump your enormous (*insert unfortunate penis joke or name of pointless German \ Korean SUV here*) up on the kerb instead so that dearest Tarquin can get to the sweets counter 10 seconds quicker. Never mind that it makes getting out of the actual car park horrendously difficult, or that it blocks cars getting in and out, who cares! You're better than everyone else and that's all that matters. I felt sorry for the drivers of the vehicles that actually need to bump up on the kerb to do their job - i.e. the Post Office van and the stock delivery because there's no other access road available to load \ unload. How the truck driver refrained from lamping that mouthy twat in the X5 who had to park in the car park with a face like a smacked arse I've no idea. He fucking got a move on when he tried to park in front of the lorry anyway and got a blast of the horn.

 

3. Money problems due to the unfortunate shit that will probably occur tomorrow.

3a: Pedantic little wankers taking delight in a tiny mistake you made in your listing.http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pfsw&action=display&thread=107714 See the last reply before mine.

 

4. Stuff not selling. Bollocks.

[Cavcraft]

Hey Toned, if you really want to grump about Bakewell try going for a drink there one day. Never known anywhere like it, what a bunch of miserable swines the landlords are round there.

 

Back to cyclists for once I'm going to defend the lycra mechants: locally there's a walk/cycleway that's really nice. Take the dog for a walk (on his lead I might add) there frequently and the Spandex Spanglers always ring their bells well in advance so we can move out of the way in plenty of time.

Joe Bloggs and his fat sweaty wife in their tracksuits almost always fail to do this then get all irate because you don't have eyes in the back of your head.

[tonedepear]

Hey Toned, if you really want to grump about Bakewell try going for a drink there one day. Never known anywhere like it, what a bunch of miserable swines the landlords are round there.

 

Oh aye, it's a nightmare on many levels. The little tearooms aren't much better, although there is a really good model shop.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I felt the need to go out on my bike today to make up for spending something like eight hours playing Theme Hospital yesterday.

[Station]

I recently downloaded a game called Men Of War - Assault Squad and I've been playing it for the past three days for about 7 hours per day. I've never done that many times before and my eyes/arse are killing me.

It's a quality game btw.

 

 

[tonedepear]

That looks a bit swish. Was it free?

 

Only game I really put hours in on is Football Manager. And when I say hours, I mean weeks.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I don't usually get so tied up in games, but I love a good strategy game. If my entire life were presented as a pie chart, TTDLX/OpenTTD would be a sizeable segment.

 

(Saying that, I've almost certainly done more miles on the streets of Liberty City and San Andreas than those of the UK)

[Lord Sterling]

I've recently been given a free CD of SsangYong Racing Revolution. I've yet to try it out though.

 

I remember the days of playing games 10+ hours, thankfully those days are gone now.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I had to buy a copy of Doomsday Racers when I found it in the pound shop (even though I didn't have a PC to play it on) because, well, just look:

 

[Guest]

Good old Phoenix Games, makers of such wonderful games as:

 

Probably not available in Bradford.

[tonedepear]

[TimothyClaypole]

All the games malarky reminds me of the 1000+ hours I wasted playing Battlefield 2.

 

It kindly kept a record of your playing time for you.

[eddyramrod]

Governmental incompetence.

 

Yeah, I know, that's normal wherever you are in the world. Here in Cyprus, who decided to store a load of confiscated gunpowder on a hot, dry island, next to a major power station, within range of a brushfire? 12 people dead this morning from the explosion (which seems to have been "waiting to happen"). Massive power cuts, and likely more to come, along with water shortages as a desalination plant was affected too. And we've got a heatwave.

 

C'mon, politicians, what were you thinking of? Don't you live on the same island? Have you never seen the firefighting helicopters flying over your house on the way to that huge cloud you can see beyond your fence? Don't your people's lives matter to you?

[Cheggers]

3a: Pedantic little wankers taking delight in a tiny mistake you made in your listing.http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pfsw&action=display&thread=107714 See the last reply before mine.

 

 

It wasn't the most tactful thing for him to point out, but you did jump down his throat a bit...lighten up fella, he can't help being daft.

[Station]

All the games malarky reminds me of the 1000+ hours I wasted playing Battlefield 2.

 

It kindly kept a record of your playing time for you.

 

Ahem

 

I still play that. What a waste!

[warren t claim]

Auto Trader.

 

Why do they persist in letting people knowingly list cars with the wrong price only to say Actual price £xxxx in the advert text.

 

Also if I'm searching from min to £1000 I want to be buying the car outright, NOT paying that a month for a New Audi. I don't want lease deals to come up on my search. Ever.

 

I want to go back to buying Auto Trader/Mart for 15p at my newsagent on a Thursday. Life was easier then.

[eddyramrod]

Another grump, more personal this time: my Granada drank all its brake fluid recently, so it's been in my friendly garage for diagnosis and treatment. New rubbers in the rear wheel cylinders, ok, that's done, but now the rear flexi hoses are condemned. If we can't get them here it'll be a week or two and some rampant ebay searching... Isn't there always something when you're using a car that's been laid up for years!

[autofive]

Governmental incompetence.

 

Yeah, I know, that's normal wherever you are in the world. Here in Cyprus, who decided to store a load of confiscated gunpowder on a hot, dry island, next to a major power station, within range of a brushfire? 12 people dead this morning from the explosion (which seems to have been "waiting to happen"). Massive power cuts, and likely more to come, along with water shortages as a desalination plant was affected too. And we've got a heatwave.

 

C'mon, politicians, what were you thinking of? Don't you live on the same island? Have you never seen the firefighting helicopters flying over your house on the way to that huge cloud you can see beyond your fence? Don't your people's lives matter to you?

 

conspiracy or cock-up?

 

I note that bbc news is stating that english-language broadcasts to the middle east have been cut off by the explosion damage

 

mmmmm, conspiracy then

[Guest]

3a: Pedantic little wankers taking delight in a tiny mistake you made in your listing.http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pfsw&action=display&thread=107714 See the last reply before mine.

 

 

It wasn't the most tactful thing for him to point out, but you did jump down his throat a bit...lighten up fella, he can't help being daft.

 

I apologised to him via PM afterwards. I am more than a bit tense at the moment. Things are not looking good and I didn't need some silly little nimrod taking the piss.

[DCLane]

Been waiting in all day for a collection from Yodel (Home Delivery Network re-branded).

 

Did they turn up? No chance.

 

Phoned and all they could say was "they were supposed to collect. I don't know why they haven't".

 

The same lazy git delivered to the wrong house twice before.

[Angrydicky]

All the games malarky reminds me of the 1000+ hours I wasted playing Battlefield 2.

 

It kindly kept a record of your playing time for you.

 

Haha, brilliant! My favourite was the original Descent on the Windows 95, does anyone remember that one? I was addicted and spent most of my childhood playing it

 

[TimothyClaypole]

All the games malarky reminds me of the 1000+ hours I wasted playing Battlefield 2.

 

It kindly kept a record of your playing time for you.

 

Ahem

 

I still play that. What a waste!

 

Last Battle 9/06/2007, 3:37 am

 

Times

 

Total 1092:17:44

 

Doesn't seem like 4 years.

 

* Goes off to waste another 1000 hours on BF BC2.

[wuvvum]

Hurrying back from the dentist this morning in the Innocenti (my first dentist visit since October 1997 - I needed a filling in one of my incisors but the general verdict was "pretty good for somebody who hasn't been to a dentist in 14 years"), I was pulling out of a junction onto the A149 when I heard a clunk from the nearside front wheel. Didn't think anything of it, but once I got up to about 50 it became obvious that something was amiss. Pulled over and another wheel stud had snapped, leaving the wheel held on by just two. I suppose it's my fault for driving it on three studs for months on end, but it's still annoying. Instead of heading straight in to work I had to nurse it home, getting gradually slower and slower as the noises from the front end got more and more worrying - by the time I pulled into my road the wheel was getting distinctly wobbly and I was down to 15mph. I now have the fun job of dismantling the hub to get the studs out and then trying to work out what the chuffing hell they're from so I can buy some more.

[eddyramrod]

Innocenti? I'd be looking at either Fiat or BMC of the same age...

[wuvvum]

Innocenti? I'd be looking at either Fiat or BMC of the same age...

Aye, but on a late one like mine Daihatsu is also a possibility...

[autofive]

Been waiting in all day for a collection from Yodel (Home Delivery Network re-branded).

 

Did they turn up? No chance.

 

Phoned and all they could say was "they were supposed to collect. I don't know why they haven't".

 

The same lazy git delivered to the wrong house twice before.

 

they are totally useless, 3 times failing to collect

i wont use them anymore, i only used them because they were the cheapest, and now i know why - because they are shite, and email / telephone staff bullshit customers about delivery dates.