The grumpy thread

[Talbot]

28 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Then the spineless bastards capitulated and agreed planning permission to build a supermarket,

"jobs for the local community"

.. also, brown paper bag with £50k in cash in it, ironically passed under the table in another pub.

Cunts the lot of them.

[sierraman]

7 minutes ago, Talbot said:

"jobs for the local community"

.. also, brown paper bag with £50k in cash in it, ironically passed under the table in another pub.

Cunts the lot of them.

I can’t imagine for a minute things like that go off in local councils...

[chadders]

Tesco built a large supermarket locally a few years ago.

They kept on being refused but carried on appealing. I understand that in the end the council apparently ran out of money and resources to fight it so gave in.

Maybe brown paper bags were involved but the council put up quite a fight first.

[Split_Pin]

13 minutes ago, Talbot said:

"jobs for the local community"

.. also, brown paper bag with £50k in cash in it, ironically passed under the table in another pub.

Cunts the lot of them.

"Green space" is another favourite of Glasgow City Council. I recently discovered that improving the environment is not their motivation, its something to do with money. A bit like buildings that are created and never occupied.

Also, I've nothing against students, I went to Glasgow Caley myself and got my Honours (2-2 but, still) but there are far too many new buildings going up in Glasgow that are solely for the purpose of housing them.

[sierraman]

22 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

"Green space" is another favourite of Glasgow City Council. I recently discovered that improving the environment is not their motivation, its something to do with money. A bit like buildings that are created and never occupied.

Also, I've nothing against students, I went to Glasgow Caley myself and got my Honours (2-2 but, still) but there are far too many new buildings going up in Glasgow that are solely for the purpose of housing them.

Meanwhile in the parallel universe in South Yorkshire I scored a 2-2 on my degree as well 😂

[omegod]

Mackerel, Salmon or sardines in the workplace should be a sackable offence 

F*cking stinks 

[Weird Car]

3 minutes ago, omegod said:

Mackerel, Salmon or sardines in the workplace should be a sackable offence 

F*cking stinks 

I used to work with a guy who had mackerel on toast for lunch every day, he’d warm them up in the microwave so whenever anyone would open the microwave to use it they’d be hit with the stench of mackerel.

[Split_Pin]

47 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Meanwhile in the parallel universe in South Yorkshire I scored a 2-2 on my degree as well 😂

We need to get a list going 😅

[omegod]

8 minutes ago, Weird Car said:

I used to work with a guy who had mackerel on toast for lunch every day, he’d warm them up in the microwave so whenever anyone would open the microwave to use it they’d be hit with the stench of mackerel.

Yeah some fucker has just done this with Katsu Mackerel, looked like he'd eaten it once already then shat it onto toast 

[cobblers]

I asked for a multipack of seabrooks. 

Ended up with this rubbish

Since when are Seabrook turning garbage like this out? Oh how the mighty have fallen! Wouldn't even feed these to the bloody dog.

If someone tells me Longley farm have sold out too, I'm going to go mad

[fairkens]

On 8/7/2023 at 10:25 AM, Dick Longbridge said:

@fairkens - which part is funny?

Back on topic, apparently the access road was blocked for the fire service to access due to 'flytipping'. 

The whole thing smells fishier than Mel B's character on Bo Selecta - it'll be interesting to see what happens next. I was reading about The Claremont in Eastbourne burning down recently - will it be rebuilt in the style of the original? Place your bets.

Who remembers the fire at the Royal Clarence in Exeter seven years ago? Grade 2 listed and from what I remember,  the then owners took the hefty insurance payout, sold the ruined shell and ran. 

The system's broken, isn't it? 

Fat fingers, now corrected.

I really liked that pub

[Noel Tidybeard]

mayor of brum has said they ought to be made to rebuild the pub!

 

Mayor Andy Street said he had asked South Staffordshire Council to ensure the pub was rebuilt "and any attempt to change its use blocked".

"We will not let the Crooked House be consigned to history," he said.

"We believe that great pubs have immense cultural and historical value here in the West Midlands and we should be taking steps to protect and preserve their heritage."

[DavieW]

Wife has booked an eye test for me - 8.40 on Saturday morning 🤬 I didn't know 8.40 on a Saturday existed. 

[Datsuncog]

7 hours ago, cobblers said:

Since when are Seabrook turning garbage like this out?

Oh how the mighty have fallen! Wouldn't even feed these to the bloody dog.

They've had those out for a couple of years now. In the spirit of gastronomic curiosity, I picked up a pack a while back from Home Bargains.

Probably my second biggest regret of 2021, subordinate only to telling everyone just how sound and unrusty my Subaru was shortly before it literally collapsed due to rampant tinworm.

[somewhatfoolish]

14 hours ago, cobblers said:

I asked for a multipack of seabrooks. 

Ended up with this rubbish

Since when are Seabrook turning garbage like this out? Oh how the mighty have fallen! Wouldn't even feed these to the bloody dog.

If someone tells me Longley farm have sold out too, I'm going to go mad

They still make all the normal flavour crinkle cut crisps; I was binging on prawn cocktail and salt'n'vinegar the other week.

[MorrisItalSLX]

21 hours ago, omegod said:

Mackerel, Salmon or sardines in the workplace should be a sackable offence 

F*cking stinks 

Lady at work microwaves tinned salmon and tuna and puts it on toast.

The whinging from myself and my colleagues has been getting less and less subtle over the passing months.

Yesterday it reached the peak of “For fucks sake, Julie, people are trying to eat”.

[Tenmil Socket]

12 minutes ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

Lady at work microwaves tinned salmon and tuna and puts it on toast.

The whinging from myself and my colleagues has been getting less and less subtle over the passing months.

Yesterday it reached the peak of “For fucks sake, Julie, people are trying to eat”.

Also Fisherman’s/Mariners pie microwave meals. 
Where I work the air circulation is sort of connected with ceiling vents between rooms/offices so it fills the entire floor with tench stench from the kitchen!

[wuvvum]

It seems my domestic appliances are quitting en masse.  After the shenanigans with the lawn mower at the weekend, the hoover died last night and this morning the fridge freezer has packed up.  Fantastic.  

To be fair, I bought the fridge freezer secondhand about 8 years ago and the hoover is one I was given when I moved here back in 2008 so I've probably had my money's worth, but could have done without the expense at the moment.

[beko1987]

What hoover is it? (if you can be arsed to fix it, the world may be your lobster sub £30 on your local marketplace) 

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

Lady at work microwaves tinned salmon and tuna and puts it on toast.

The whinging from myself and my colleagues has been getting less and less subtle over the passing months.

Yesterday it reached the peak of “For fucks sake, Julie, people are trying to eat”.

I used to have to sit beside a woman called Morna  who had terrible BO and she made sandwiches for lunch every day that were filled with 'just a mixture' according to her. Whatever it was, it also smelled of human BO and intensified the dreadful cheg. 

Flanked on the other side was Frances, a human dustbin who dipped quavers in her cup of tea. She also necked cans of fizzy juice like they were just thimblefuls while also proclaiming "Ah shouldnae huv this", due to being diabetic. 

[stephen01]

It wasnt pulled down it was demolished, without consent, theres videos on facebollox and thousands of pictures. 

I visited yesterday with my family, heartbreaking. 

[High Jetter]

There is a dedicated thread on this debacle, here:

 

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I used to have to sit beside a woman called Morna  who had terrible BO and she made sandwiches for lunch every day that were filled with 'just a mixture' according to her. Whatever it was, it also smelled of human BO and intensified the dreadful cheg. 

Flanked on the other side was Frances, a human dustbin who dipped quavers in her cup of tea. She also necked cans of fizzy juice like they were just thimblefuls while also proclaiming "Ah shouldnae huv this", due to being diabetic. 

See, it's exactly this kind of thing which makes (mostly) working from home the one good thing left about my job...

Even if my current desk neighbour does give off a slight whiff of fish every now and again.

[Zelandeth]

Well that's an hour of my life I won't get back.

Fun fact: Things held in place by snap rings come apart a hell of a lot more easily after you've discovered the existence of said snap ring.

Other fun fact: If you can't see any way for the thing you're trying to get apart to be held together, look closer.  You're obviously missing something, it's not been held together by willpower for the last 30 years.  Idiot.

Also, don't punch anti-roll bars.  They're harder than your knuckles and it hurts.

Edit: Okay, I'm done for the day.  Just knocked a can of WD40 off the shelf in the garage and the millisecond it hit the floor it bloody exploded.  I kid you not, it is now dripping off the ceiling and running down the walls.  That's a problem for tomorrow me to deal with.

[sierraman]

4 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Also Fisherman’s/Mariners pie microwave meals. 
Where I work the air circulation is sort of connected with ceiling vents between rooms/offices so it fills the entire floor with tench stench from the kitchen!

I worked with this guy that used to warm up this sort of tinned chilli and cheese mix that used to make the joint smell like actual sick. Then he’d eat it making this noise like a farmyard animal. 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Just knocked a can of WD40 off the shelf in the garage and the millisecond it hit the floor it bloody exploded.  I kid you not, it is now dripping off the ceiling and running down the walls.  That's a problem for tomorrow me to deal with.

That will be a nice* aroma in the morning!

[barefoot]

Taps. When I was a lad,  these were repaired using a rubber washer and a modicum of skill. Now my plumber asks if I want him to replace the fucker that he installed 2 years ago. 

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Edit: Okay, I'm done for the day.  Just knocked a can of WD40 off the shelf in the garage and the millisecond it hit the floor it bloody exploded.  I kid you not, it is now dripping off the ceiling and running down the walls.  That's a problem for tomorrow me to deal with.

well I am sure Dave of many numbers would have gotten a good laugh out of it  

On 27/02/2018 at 13:12, dave21478 said:

Brilliant... late in for lunch I fired up an off-brand pot noodle and while carrying it to the lounge successfully spilled it all over myself, burned the piss out of my hand, soaked my phone with the juice, soaked a load of expense receipts I was also carrying and it hit the hall floor and just fucking exploded....it was literally dripping from the ceiling in my newly decorated hallway. The obvious and considered reaction was to throw an immediate, massive paddy and boot the fucker down the hall while screaming, which has made the whole scenario about 18 times worse.

 

[wuvvum]

5 hours ago, beko1987 said:

What hoover is it?

It's a TurboPower 2 (model # U2090).

I think I might go (more) retro and buy a Hoover Junior for the house and a Constellation for the stairs and the car.

[hairnet]

On 8/8/2023 at 3:54 PM, cobblers said:

I asked for a multipack of seabrooks. 

Ended up with this rubbish

 

Since when are Seabrook turning garbage like this out? Oh how the mighty have fallen! Wouldn't even feed these to the bloody dog.

 

something is only loaded if its got real cheese and whatever on it ffs 

like that doritos that taste like BK wtf is that about