The grumpy thread

[New POD]

1 minute ago, Metal Guru said:

It latter not later. 

Its latter. 

[Metal Guru]

2 minutes ago, New POD said:

Its latter. 

It’s latter!

[chadders]

8 hours ago, New POD said:

As I'm awake and coughing my lungs up, might I be allowed to be a pedant. 

It's a Pharmacist.  Not a chemist. 

The difference is significant. 

Daughter is the former, and son formerly was the later (and now is a chartered financial auditor), and have both previously pulled me up on this common error. 

So why was it 'Boots the Chemist' then?

[New POD]

29 minutes ago, chadders said:

So why was it 'Boots the Chemist' then?

Because...don't know...but.....he didn't sell boots....😁

[myglaren]

He was a pharmacist that had booted the chemist out.

 

Apothecary sounds better though, eye of newt and all that.

[vulgalour]

They couldn't afford the Oxford Comma.

While we're at it:

Chock full, not chalk full

Have, not of

Bought, not brought

Needs replacing, not need replaced (no, Scotland, sit down.  Not now.)

[Billy - Medhurst]

SillY Cow in in a Kia drove into the back of me at the traffic lights tonight. Damaged the rear bumper - I was stationary and had been for a while. Wanted to bung me a tenner to keep it off insurance as she has had a recent claim. Jog on love - that bumpers knackered now.

[High Jetter]

A tenner???????

[New POD]

9 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

A tenner???????

The price of a can of fix it 

[auntiemaryscanary]

My mum has been suffering with shortness of breath, a cough and weight loss. The GP started investigations v end of Nov and the hospital continued that through December and with invasive stuff last week.

She got the diagnosis yesterday. Mesothelioma - lung cancer from asbestos. Beyond the devestation for her and us as a family we can't think of anywhere she's been to be exposed to asbestos. Ultimately we'll never know where the asbestos came from.

The NHS and GP has been absolutely top notch.

It's all v v sh*t.

[New POD]

9 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

A tenner???????

The price of a can of fix it 

[RoverFolkUs]

5 minutes ago, New POD said:

The price of a can of fix it 

You can say that again

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

You can say that again

It's the can can.

[New POD]

8 hours ago, auntiemaryscanary said:

My mum has been suffering with shortness of breath, a cough and weight loss. The GP started investigations v end of Nov and the hospital continued that through December and with invasive stuff last week.

She got the diagnosis yesterday. Mesothelioma - lung cancer from asbestos. Beyond the devestation for her and us as a family we can't think of anywhere she's been to be exposed to asbestos. Ultimately we'll never know where the asbestos came from.

The NHS and GP has been absolutely top notch.

It's all v v sh*t.

Sitting next to someone on a bus, who has been working on a construction site all day. 

Putting drawing pins onto walls of school buildings. 

It's all pretty shit.  Even one stray fibre could be enough. (Although the greater the exposure the more likely) 

[Remspoor]

On 11/01/2024 at 00:07, Wilko220 said:

I suppose there’s a chance that Rimming Bros will snap it up and put the price of each item up by a million per cent or something 

Shame you cut of some  of my comment. But still here video which suggests that all part supplies are getting greedy.

 

 

[myglaren]

6 hours ago, New POD said:

Sitting next to someone on a bus, who has been working on a construction site all day. 

Putting drawing pins onto walls of school buildings. 

It's all pretty shit.  Even one stray fibre could be enough. (Although the greater the exposure the more likely) 

Steve McQueen allegedly got it from just walking through naval dockyards.

My dad smoked and also dragged it out of locomotive boilers and repacked then with it.

Died at 92  but not from that, completely unaffected.

My youngest grandson's other granddad got it working in a factory environment, he was an electrician fitting and servicing electric roller shutters.  It had been decades before it was detected.  Half million pounds compensation.

[sierraman]

18 hours ago, Billy - Medhurst said:

SillY Cow in in a Kia drove into the back of me at the traffic lights tonight. Damaged the rear bumper - I was stationary and had been for a while. Wanted to bung me a tenner to keep it off insurance as she has had a recent claim. Jog on love - that bumpers knackered now.

Ten pounds? Are these people for real 😂

[sierraman]

On 10/01/2024 at 12:36, Wilko220 said:

Bad news today for Rootes owners

 

 

Didn’t even know they were still open? Weren’t they something to do with that place in Coulsdon that did Rootes/Talbot parts, had a load of dilapidated sheds full of Talbot bits that went up in flames?

[New POD]

4 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Ten pounds? Are these people for real 😂

Wouldn't cover the stamp for the whiplash claims. 

[sierraman]

1 minute ago, New POD said:

Wouldn't cover the stamp for the whiplash claims. 

Probably same people that post on Facebook asking if anyone local can fit some brake pads for £15. Seem to think everyone else works to the low bar they set themselves. 

[matt79]

18 hours ago, Billy - Medhurst said:

SillY Cow in in a Kia drove into the back of me at the traffic lights tonight. Damaged the rear bumper - I was stationary and had been for a while. Wanted to bung me a tenner to keep it off insurance as she has had a recent claim. Jog on love - that bumpers knackered now.

Could've taken her tenner & then reported her to the police for leaving the scene of an accident?

[andy18s]

3 hours ago, myglaren said:

Steve McQueen allegedly got it from just walking through naval dockyards.

My dad smoked and also dragged it out of locomotive boilers and repacked then with it.

Died at 92  but not from that, completely unaffected.

My youngest grandson's other granddad got it working in a factory environment, he was an electrician fitting and servicing electric roller shutters.  It had been decades before it was detected.  Half million pounds compensation.

My step-dad was a young man working as a labourer involved with removing asbestos sheet roofing at Shotton Steel Works.

Started getting lung infections/pleurisy in his early 40's,which turned into Asbestosis.

He got a big compensation payout but died within a year,the last 2 months spent in a hospice where he literally withered away..

 

[ETCHY]

Not so much grumpy, as sad.
Our little Robin Mikey has gone missing. Been two weeks now. She came several times a day every day for over a year. & often wouldn't eat her dried mealworms or suet unless we fed her by hand & often would just sit with  us outside & warble not wanting food.
We miss our gentle little friend.
Bloody daft a 53 year old bloke being sad over not seeing a Robin, but I am.
 

 

[rattlecan]

1 hour ago, ETCHY said:

Not so much grumpy, as sad.
Our little Robin Mikey has gone missing. Been two weeks now. She came several times a day every day for over a year. & often wouldn't eat her dried mealworms or suet unless we fed her by hand & often would just sit with  us outside & warble not wanting food.
We miss our gentle little friend.
Bloody daft a 53 year old bloke being sad over not seeing a Robin, but I am.
 

 

If he’s got any sense he’s fucked off to Spain for the winter 😀

[High Jetter]

That is a point, he/she may return sometime.

[Billy - Medhurst]

6 hours ago, sierraman said:

Ten pounds? Are these people for real 😂

£289 for a bumper in colour if I wanted to do it myself so shes only £279 short lol.

[omegod]

4 hours ago, ETCHY said:

Not so much grumpy, as sad.
Our little Robin Mikey has gone missing. Been two weeks now. She came several times a day every day for over a year. & often wouldn't eat her dried mealworms or suet unless we fed her by hand & often would just sit with  us outside & warble not wanting food.
We miss our gentle little friend.
Bloody daft a 53 year old bloke being sad over not seeing a Robin, but I am.
 

 

I got quite attached to a blackbird couple during the lockdown periods, named them Tobias and Eloise   , still see similar birds eating seedballs but no idea if they are the same ones 

[AnthonyG]

Great names, I particularly like Tobias.

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

Great names, I particularly like Tobias.

We have Russell ( Crow), Josef (Starling), George (sea gull), and Ant &Dec ( couple of tits) in our garden.

We drew the line at Vaginal Infection though.

[Pieman]

On 11/01/2024 at 09:28, chadders said:

So why was it 'Boots the Chemist' then?

I've been told that they're expanding their range to sell sex toys and BDSM equipment.

They will be rebranded as Kinky Boots.