The grumpy thread

[Wack]

On 12/9/2022 at 12:51 PM, Zelandeth said:

This.  I'm from Aberdeenshire originally and I'd take autumn and winter there over down here any day.  Yes it's cold, but generally it's cold and clear unless it's actually doing something.

You don't get the weeks and weeks and weeks of just being damp and generally miserable.

I'd take cold in winter over the summer down here any day.  Cold you can add more layers to deal with, when it's 25+C there's absolutely nothing you can do about it unless you're a multi millionaire and can afford an air conditioned garage.

It's certainly changeable in Aberdeenshire, I was going to Aberdeen towing a 3.5t trailer in the winter, full going, empty coming back, got to Stonehaven and it was blowing a blizzard with the wind drifting it 

I thought that's me getting back home stuffed, came back about 90 minutes later, sun was out and no snow anywhere 

[MikeR]

Just in Liverpool central train station on the way home , the town is rammed full , football , train strikes and Xmas have totalled any idea for coming in next week ...

[hairnet]

so the important pills you were given you disappeared for 24 hours

old git went to shop and was asked to buy some more (but not strong enuff not her fault)

only went and found the originals (and im not bothered about buying more)

its just the bellendery this last coupla days

annoyed

 

 

[Dobloseven]

On 12/9/2022 at 1:25 PM, jakebullet said:

The entire street's cars are frozen solid. Mine & Hazel's have shite written on them. Nobody else's car.  I'm sure it's just a coincidence* that we both have problems with cunt next door. Hazel is targeted because she wants to park her car on her own drive, and CND have to walk an extra few feet if they leave her drive clear so they block her in regularly.

Come on, turn that frown upside-down. If someone draws a penis on your car, be thankful they didn't draw a car on your penis!

[New POD]

On 09/12/2022 at 15:42, MikeR said:

another frosty day , another day the trains dont run properly  , you would think after 40 years ( in my memory ) they could sort things out .

my grandad used to travel to be in work for 6 am using the  trains many years ago , now they cant even open the station doors at that time ...

you would think it would be cheaper to scrap the local trains and just leave the replacement bus service running  instead ...

Not long ago, I was doing 2 weeks of jury service, so walked the mile to my local Miseryrail station, to get the train to Liverpool. Could barely stand up on the pavements. 

Got to the station and found all trains were delayed.  Very delayed. 

Went back home and got my wife to phone up, to say I might be late, and couldn't open the doors of my car due to the ice. So went in the MX5. Obviously everyone else was driving in too, so instead of arriving at 9 I arrived at 11. 

Not a problem, because most of the other jurors (100 ish) and most of the judges and barristers, had had similar problems.  Ice on the points at Sandhills (ironic name for a place with no sandhills - It's more bomb crater) 

Apparently the trains came back into service at about 2pm that day.

Still most of the time Miseryrail us actually a decent service.  

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Maybe half an inch of snow in Dover.  Not really a problem apart from all of the dickheads that don’t realise that you also need to clear the snow off your roof as well as your windscreen.

Saw one twat with only half their windscreen cleared.

I know Dover isn’t known for it’s learned, highly educated and considerate population but I swear the collective IQ has dropped 20 points in the last few years…

[jakebullet]

Looks like there's a cunt problem at Mrs's flats now. Last week a parked yaris with the screen smashed n number plates missing. Today an ignis 2 spaces away has the same damage.

[chaseracer]

I have been ill for a week now, I can't source the part to mend the Blingo, it's too bloody cold up here to work on it anyway, and now it's snowing.

Thank you for listening to a slightly grumpy old man.  Normal service will be resumed shortly, I hope.

[hairnet]

25 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

 a slightly grumpy old man.  Normal service 

surprise

[Dan29]

5 hours ago, Dobloseven said:

be thankful they didn't draw a car on your penis!

Well I, for one, would welcome someone doing this. Maybe a stretch limo.

[Talbot]

55 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

I can't source the part to mend the Blingo,

What part is needed?

[hairnet]

the part where you throw your credit card at the dealer for a new one

JOKE DAVE

[High Jetter]

It's snowing on the 'Sunshine Coast'

[Dobloseven]

2 hours ago, Dan29 said:

Well I, for one, would welcome someone doing this. Maybe a stretch limo.

This weather, a Smart Fortwo? 

[hairnet]

5 hours ago, Dobloseven said:

This weather, a Smart Fortwo? 

peel

[Pieman]

Smart ForTwo or Peel ForeSkin?

[jakebullet]

CND have written on Hazel's fiat "Wifey cume on BMW".

Anyone speak roadman chav? WTF is that shit supposed to even mean?

[Pieman]

They want you to buy a BMW and film a porno using it?

[Ghosty]

Why is the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament bothering you? Are you hoarding ICBMs?

[RoverFolkUs]

4 hours ago, jakebullet said:

CND have written on Hazel's fiat "Wifey cume on BMW".

Anyone speak roadman chav? WTF is that shit supposed to even mean?

I think you're accelerating down a slippery slope with them if shit like that is starting to happen

[jakebullet]

9 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

I think you're accelerating down a slippery slope with them if shit like that is starting to happen

There is no valid reason for them to be upping the cunt stakes. Hazel actively avoids them as she's afraid. It's chav bullying.

[Zelandeth]

Fscking fuel pump cut off didn't.

Jacket, hands, watch, sweater, trousers and shoes all absolutely drenched in diesel.

Yay!

Today is being one of *those* days.

[EyesWeldedShut]

This and all the other lazy journalism on the BBC news website is really starting to piss me off - it's like they've entered into a tabloid journalism race to the bottom with the likes of Fox. WTF has weather warnings got to do with strikes?
For a laugh - look up a BBC news article  15 years old or so - small pictures, big words, content. Now look at today's offerings? Banality.
 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Fscking fuel pump cut off didn't.

Jacket, hands, watch, sweater, trousers and shoes all absolutely drenched in diesel.

Yay!

Today is being one of *those* days.

I spilled a load down myself last week changing a fuel filter.  It took four washes, two at 60C and one with a load of stain-removing spray to make the clothes acceptable again.

What a ballache.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

This and all the other lazy journalism on the BBC news website is really starting to piss me off - it's like they've entered into a tabloid journalism race to the bottom with the likes of Fox. WTF has weather warnings got to do with strikes?
For a laugh - look up a BBC news article  15 years old or so - small pictures, big words, content. Now look at today's offerings? Banality.
 

“Record low temperature!” from many sources. Turns out it’s the coldest day of the year FFS, nearly 10C higher than the real all time low in Braemar.

[Stanky]

3 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

This and all the other lazy journalism on the BBC news website is really starting to piss me off - it's like they've entered into a tabloid journalism race to the bottom with the likes of Fox. WTF has weather warnings got to do with strikes?
For a laugh - look up a BBC news article  15 years old or so - small pictures, big words, content. Now look at today's offerings? Banality.
 

Fuck it off and read the news from Reuters, it's a lot more impartial and a vastly higher quality than the BBC.

It pains me to say it, but BBC news content is now basically the quality you get from radio 1 newsbeat. Fuck it off and your life will become immeasurably better. 

[Richard_FM]

4 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

This and all the other lazy journalism on the BBC news website is really starting to piss me off - it's like they've entered into a tabloid journalism race to the bottom with the likes of Fox. WTF has weather warnings got to do with strikes?
For a laugh - look up a BBC news article  15 years old or so - small pictures, big words, content. Now look at today's offerings? Banality.
 

It's what happens when the licence fee is frozen for years while the Tories are threatening them with privatisation!

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, Richard_FM said:

It's what happens when the licence fee is frozen for years while the Tories are threatening them with privatisation!

No it’s what happens when the BBC pays pays talentless twats like Gary Lineker, Graham Norton , Stacy Solomon and Rylan ( to name a few) ,millions a year instead of spending it on making decent programmes or high quality journalism.

[cobblers]

22 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

No it’s what happens when the BBC pays pays talentless twats like Gary Lineker, Graham Norton , Stacy Solomon and Rylan ( to name a few) ,millions a year instead of spending it on making decent programmes or high quality journalism.

I think it's both. The BBC shouldn't have to try to compete directly with commercial stations, because, at it's core it is a different organisation.

Tripe like strictly come dancing would get made by some commercial channel anyway, but decent quality factual and news programming is impossible to produce commercially.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I have maintained for many years that Radio 4 and the World Service are worth the cost of the licence fee alone.