The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Iron Maiden CD?

Instant win.

[Des]

Is that a coppers hat?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

She really is adorable!

 

Norm, your attitude to technology isn't at all unreasonable. Problem is, if the photo/audio/spredsheet/alarm clock/whatever quality on a phone is decent enough for most people (which it is and more-or-less has been for a few years now), the unique device approach will only work if you want high-end stuff, because the run-of-the-mill products will become less and less popular and eventually get phased out.

[ashmicro]

Just to clarify, the hat on my niece is from The Police Service Northern Ireland, or PSNI, THE finest police force in the world. And yes, it is mine.

[scaryoldcortina]

Why didn't they call it "Northern Ireland Police Service" then?

[ashmicro]

Well, the Royal Ulster Cnstabulary was fucked up in an appeasement to Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness and Irish America. I could swing Tony Bastard Blair, and I'd love to punch his wife IN THE FACE. And then shoot her 4 times just to make sure she is dead. Fucking bitch.

 

I'd love Sara Palin to be the US boss woman. Or dig up Ronnie Reagan. Palin would get a severe shagging.

[DCLane]

Just to clarify, the hat on my niece is from The Police Service Northern Ireland, or PSNI, THE finest police force in the world. And yes, it is mine.

 

Erm ... having lived there as a student (1988-92), I couldn't comment honestly They do get their man though, even if it is the wrong one.

 

I can say the cells at both Coleraine and Antrim Road police stations are ... erm ... interesting.

[scaryoldcortina]

"leggit! it's the NIPS"

 

That's all I was thinking TBH.

[ashmicro]

What did you get nicked for? Section 5 Public Order? If you're gonna be a twat the peelers will nick you

[DCLane]

What did you get nicked for? Section 5 Public Order? If you're gonna be a twat the peelers will nick you

 

OK

 

Belfast was for protesting against student loans. It wasn't me that chucked the brick at the police, but we all got nicked.

 

Coleraine For being naked whilst tied upside down on a surfboard. Which was on top of a stolen van. That was being driven down Portstewart high street. Or so I was told - I don't remember a thing except that we'd won the all-Ireland universities table-tennis tournament and were celebrating on Portstewart Strand.

 

Just to note that I'm now a pillar of society; university lecturer, charity chairperson, etc.

[trigger]

Has the Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum closed down? I remember recently there was a few of their cars appear on ebay after the owner died and now the website appears to be under construction for a new wedding car hire business?.

 

I was thinking about popping in on the way to Cornwall in the morning but I don't think I'll bother now.

[ashmicro]

I'd shag Sarah Palin until her teeth fell out. I just love strong women, so much so that I asked a girl out (she accepted) just cos she looked like Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider, right down to the plaited hair. She turned out to be a bit brain dead, but the sex was amazing.

 

I now have a girl who never ceases to amaze me. She's incredibly clever (13 A's at GCSE and 5 A levels at A, double first in Law from Queens University), she never asks me for anything and she's a petrolhead. The fact that she's drop dead gorgeous doesn't hurt, either. Katie is really quiet, happy to just stay at home, just the two of us snuggled up on the sofa. And then I saw her in action, in court representing The Crown. She took a lying defendant apart, and then she made his solicitor look 2 inches tall. The defendant was found unanimously guilty, and sent down for 4 years. Fantastic! She is nothing short of amazing.

[cort16]

Oh for f*ck sake. I've been touching up my SD1 trying to find it's crumbly bits and found a right rot fest at the lip of the inner arch where it meets the outer arch.

Part of me said, "ah sod it you've welded enough on this thing no-one will see it. Just leave it, it'll be fine". The annoying bit of me said. "Now, now young man you must make this hulk of BL produced re-cycled melted down russian submarine completely rust free and do the job properly".

To fix it I had to chop out a pretty healthy outer arch. I fired up the grinder and got chopping only to find some bodging twat had welded a new outer arch over the crusty old one without first cutting out the grot. So although there's grot it's irrelvant grot. I'll take out anyway but I could have done that without mauling the side of the car.

 

So it now looks like this. I need to weld it back on for friggin nothing. Nice one.

 

 

In better news the other side, which was once a void of rust and fresh air is now looking much more arch like. Inner arch repaired, sills repaired and on, new wheel arch fabricated from a generic wheel arch repair kit. I think I looked at too many oldbus/tonybmw type threads on RR as I used to be a bit offended by the use of filler but the truth is unless you're properly shit hot you needs a bit of glen millar to make up the shape and it is all still new metal underneath after all.

[synx508]

Has the Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum closed down? I remember recently there was a few of their cars appear on ebay after the owner died and now the website appears to be under construction for a new wedding car hire business?.

 

I was thinking about popping in on the way to Cornwall in the morning but I don't think I'll bother now.

 

I think it's possible, someone commented on one of my pictures of the museum with the hint that he'd just bought a car like the one in the picture and there can't be many of these about:

 

FSO Polonez by synx508, on Flickr

[Lord Sterling]

Absolutely amazing. Tried to log on to internet banking today, fucking site locked me out after 3 attempts, I had to re-register and now had a 3-5 day wait for my new password to come through by Royal-fail. Why all this? because my fucking CAPS LOCK was on. I promptly gauged the key out and threw it somewhere.

 

Ebayer Sellers - I made a purchase on ebay off this guy in Belgium, no problem there, he asks me to pay the winning amount + P+P which comes to 51 Euros, I promptly do so, but a couple of hours later I get 'refund' email from paypal, the seller has refunded me my money because I have to pay 53.08 Euros due to Paypal's charges. Now because the money has been refunded as so, its gonna take at least a couple of days before it registers in my account. I dont know why the guy just didnt ask me to send him the extra 2.08 Euros to cover the charges, would have been a whole lot more easier Now that I've been locked out of my own internet banking site it might be a little longer

 

Next.............

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Moneybookers is 49732942797 times better than gaypal.

[Cavcraft]

To be honest I'd complain anyhow. If the seller has asked you to pay Paypal's charges, eBay will take a dim view of this because it's against their rules.

[dollywobbler]

I'd shag Sarah Palin until her teeth fell out.

 

I'd smack her in the face until her teeth fell out. (Figure of speech - I wouldn't actually hit anyone, male or female) Not sure she's that powerful - she's not the hottest at public speaking and some of her opinions are outright dim-witted. I find her as arousing as the idea of George W Bush in a mankini. That's not at all just in case you were wondering...

 

Clever girls really float my boat. Victoria Coren, Dr Alice Roberts, the Wife. Paris Hilton? I think not.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Agreed. After one relationship with a GR9-looking-but-less-than-clever girl, I think I lack the mental strength to endure another experience like that.

[Cavcraft]

Many moons back I was knocking off a really (academically) intelligent bird but she was as thick as shit about 'real life' things to the point of embarrassment. She did have smashing tits though.

[Pete-M]

She did have smashing tits though.

 

You should have kept one .....

 

[/Hirst mode]

[Cavcraft]

I did, but it broke after I smashed a socket over it.

[ashmicro]

I went out with a girl called Joanne who was the image of Tasmin Outhwaite from EastEnders. Really good looking, nice company, but as dumb as a ten-pound bag of dick hair. We were in the local Tesco, and there was one of those backlit advert things and it said "Conquer Varicose Veins". She asked me "So, are conquer varicose veins worse than normal varicose veins, then?"

 

She's really sweet, and we are still good friends. She's now seeing an old Army mate of mine, and he's good to her.

 

Claim to fame (ish): I once snogged Andrea Corr at a wedding in Dundalk. Her cousin was getting married to a mate of mine. In her defence, she was wasted.

[retrogeezer]

I once snogged Andrea Corr at a wedding in Dundalk.

 

you lucky bastard!!

[ashmicro]

It must have been a subconcious thing, but my current (and last) girl looks a bit like Andrea Corr. And Andrea licked my nose. So there.

[Amazo]

I once snogged Andrea Corr at a wedding in Dundalk.

And you're putting this in the Grumpy thread?

[warren t claim]

I once snogged Andrea Corr at a wedding in Dundalk.

 

you lucky bastard!!

 

I hope you also got at least fingers and tops as well!

[scaryoldcortina]

Hey, can we get back tto being grumpy for a second?

 

I notice the hounds are sniffing around a new member deciding where best to bite... I'd just like to say this is NT_LOL and it would probably best to just ignore him. He can't help it, or he's a troll - baiting him will only upset all the sensitive types again.

[Guest]

Aaaaand the topic of previous employment rears its head again. I've been given a P46 to fill in at new work. PANIC.

 

I might have told my new job that I haven't worked for a while to avoid discussions of RESIGNATION_UNPLEASANTNESS. However, this is going to bum me for tax purposes, I suspect. If I put that I haven't worked, will the IR take me up the arse and tell my new place? Or if I fib again and say I had some temp work in the last tax year and can't find the P45, will this come back and bite me?

 

Basically, I need to put something down without my new place finding out that I resigned from my last job. So what do I do?

 

And yes, I know I'm a dick, it's just the previous HORRID SITUATION was 2 weeks fresh in my mind at the time.

[myglaren]

Absolutely amazing. Tried to log on to internet banking today, fucking site locked me out after 3 attempts, I had to re-register and now had a 3-5 day wait for my new password to come through by Royal-fail. Why all this? because my fucking CAPS LOCK was on. I promptly gauged the key out and threw it somewhere.

The first thing I do with any new keybroad is to chuck the capslock key away.