The grumpy thread

[Remspoor]

9 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Don't be so paranoid it's all perfectly secure.

You do you and leave me to do me.

[barefoot]

9 hours ago, jakebullet said:

... the bingo noise is coming from a speaker outside the complex. There is no actual bingo happening, they're just playing a tape of bingo.

Where is this site? I have to go.

[comfortablynumb]

10 hours ago, jakebullet said:

they're just playing a tape of bingo.

Bingo's greatest hits? 🤣

[Metal Guru]

Stayed at a Travelodge in North London over the weekend. On the ground floor was a Dominoes, so obviously some people took pizza to their rooms.

Next room to ours , just chucked their empty boxes into the corridor. Some people are just complete pigs who shouldn’t be allowed out in society.

Dread to think what their house is like.

[fairkens]

Just seen they're going stop making Old Jamaica ginger beer. Maybe if they hadn't ruined it with sweeteners people wouldn't have stopped buying it. Surely they must know that?

[comfortablynumb]

1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

Dread to think what their house is like.

Probably the tidiest house on the street.

All the rubbish is outside.....

Used to have scum like that when I lived in WGC, kids were chucked out into the street at about 18 months( yeah seriously) and their houses were spotless, latest flat screen TV, every sky channel etc.

Nothing in the fridge or cupboards tho.

[cobblers]

1 hour ago, fairkens said:

Just seen they're going stop making Old Jamaica ginger beer. Maybe if they hadn't ruined it with sweeteners people wouldn't have stopped buying it. Surely they must know that?

It's such a shame that so many tasty drinks have been ruined with the sugar tax. They could either put up the price by 50% or make the drink taste fucking awful, and almost everyone decided too make their drink taste awful.

And it's not the sweeteners themselves that ruin it - Pepsi Max is my favourite drink and I go through gallons of the stuff

[MorrisItalSLX]

4 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

Bingo's greatest hits? 🤣

“There was a farmer had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.”

[fairkens]

50 minutes ago, cobblers said:

It's such a shame that so many tasty drinks have been ruined with the sugar tax. They could either put up the price by 50% or make the drink taste fucking awful, and almost everyone decided too make their drink taste awful.

And it's not the sweeteners themselves that ruin it - Pepsi Max is my favourite drink and I go through gallons of the stuff

Agreed. Think irn bru took the right approach. All I can taste is bitter sweeteners.

Ironically it's the posh soft drinks that are full sugar now

[andy18s]

2 hours ago, cobblers said:

 

And it's not the sweeteners themselves that ruin it - Pepsi Max is my favourite drink and I go through gallons of the stuff

Used to work with a guy who would go through 2 5litre bottles of Tizer in a 12 hrs shift. 

Tizer Ted as he got known as would always have a bright red face and neck,but claimed it was a coincidence..

[andy18s]

Just had a reminder that my passport runs out end of the year,so gone online to see what needs doing.

Forms all filled in,photo taken and accepted so just need to send a copy of my Bg residency card.

And pay £120 plus another £40 to have DHL send it over..

No more diecasts for me for a while then I guess.

[myglaren]

Can you not get it from the British Consul?

When we were married (in England) and I was living in Sweden, she got a BVP then went to the consul in Gothenburg and had it made up to a full passport, it was dead easy.

This was 1873 so a while back but I vividly remember the consular secretary, a proper schoolmarm called Zoila Hawthorn.  Perfect as she was fairly prickly.

[captain_70s]

1 minute ago, myglaren said:

This was 1873 so a while back 

Just a bit...

[comfortablynumb]

Beat me to it 😁

[myglaren]

Only a century out, no-one will notice.

[comfortablynumb]

That's a lot of wedding anniversaries to forget 😁

[andy18s]

17 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Can you not get it from the British Consul?

When we were married (in England) and I was living in Sweden, she got a BVP then went to the consul in Gothenburg and had it made up to a full passport, it was dead easy.

This was 1873 so a while back but I vividly remember the consular secretary, a proper schoolmarm called Zoila Hawthorn.  Perfect as she was fairly prickly.

You can but it means having to attend in person,which is a 600km round trip.

I know I'm paying for the convenience but it's still a fair whack to pay out. 

And then I'll have to renew my residency card as the passport number will be different....

[jakebullet]

You could not make it up files time!

Going to go out to pub for tea, and the mrs somehow drops her bra in the toilet. How? How could you do that?

Well I put it in the cupboard above, had a shower then forgot.

She then says she's not going out without a new bra. Man attempts to buy new bra from tescos limited range, trying for the right mix of style, control, aggression and damage.

Glad I'm going home Friday.

[sheffcortinacentre]

12 hours ago, Remspoor said:

You do you and leave me to do me.

Was being sarcastic.

[Remspoor]

If you live outside of the UK you can only apply for British passports on line. (maybe a few exceptions where you cannot)

The info is here

https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/filter/how-to-apply

[Remspoor]

1 minute ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Was being sarcastic.

Did not come across like that. maybe a 😁 or a 😉 may have given me a clue.

[sheffcortinacentre]

I don't trust any of that that stuff. It's the titanic syndrome the more secure they claim it is the more likely I think it is to be breached.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, jakebullet said:

You could not make it up files time!

Going to go out to pub for tea, and the mrs somehow drops her bra in the toilet. How? How could you do that?

Well I put it in the cupboard above, had a shower then forgot.

She then says she's not going out without a new bra. Man attempts to buy new bra from tescos limited range, trying for the right mix of style, control, aggression and damage.

Glad I'm going home Friday.

So she went to the loo in the pub, then put her bra in a cupboard, before taking a shower? In the pub? Cupboard rejects bra into toilet? 

[jakebullet]

5 hours ago, High Jetter said:

So she went to the loo in the pub, then put her bra in a cupboard, before taking a shower? In the pub? Cupboard rejects bra into toilet? 

Not quite. We're going out to pub.

She spots a seagull has shat on the caravan. OCD CONTAMINATE kicks in because she may have touched it from 8 foot away.

Path of least resistance is shower & change clothes, or OCD will have her checking clothes for imaginary shit all night, declaring car contaminated etc.

She then fucks up showering by "bra in toilet" which could be anything toilet / bra related. Chuff knows, first rule of OCD club is there are no rules.

She's then not leaving caravan without new bra. So 15 mile round trip to tesco for me to buy the perfect* item. Cos I'm an expert bra buyer when all the information I've got is a size.

[somewhatfoolish]

I'm disappointed that OCD doesn't extend to packing more than one set of grundies for a holiday.

[jakebullet]

Well you don't pack until 5 minutes to go so you can keep checking the weather in case there's a sudden hurricane. Then you drop some clothes on floor so contaminated, panic and put wrong things in case. Wouldn't surprise to find she's got 6 bobble hats.

[hairnet]

so applied for a job

they email me to say have this give us a ring

only got email last night

so replied to it saying im away wont be back till next week

rang them today (signal is garbage here)

oh we wanted someone to start today

ffs - shame

[Pieman]

14 hours ago, jakebullet said:

style, control, aggression and damage.

Now THAT takes me back!

[Zelandeth]

It's a truly special type of person who thinks it's fine to stick chewing gum on someone's car while in a supermarket car park.

Thought it was just bird crap for a second, but no.  It's a ball of chewed gum.  Lovely.

[New POD]

11 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Not quite. We're going out to pub.

She spots a seagull has shat on the caravan. OCD CONTAMINATE kicks in because she may have touched it from 8 foot away.

Path of least resistance is shower & change clothes, or OCD will have her checking clothes for imaginary shit all night, declaring car contaminated etc.

She then fucks up showering by "bra in toilet" which could be anything toilet / bra related. Chuff knows, first rule of OCD club is there are no rules.

She's then not leaving caravan without new bra. So 15 mile round trip to tesco for me to buy the perfect* item. Cos I'm an expert bra buyer when all the information I've got is a size.

I feel your pain. There is no logic.