The grumpy thread

[DavieW]

Yesterday rush hour, a cyclist rode along the pavement to avoid the stationary traffic making pedestrians move out of his way. 

Later on when the traffic started moving freely, there he is on the road holding up the traffic alongside an empty pavement. 

Can't have it all ways prick. 

[sheffcortinacentre]

Yes they can.

[cobblers]

My lovely wife gets a nice dinner ready for me after work most days. A hearty stew, banging chicken pie, nice mediterranean chicken salad, tuna  melt, cottage pie etc. 

Last night "Ayeup love, I'm hanging a load of posh shirts (that I never want to wear) up to dry on the radiator in the kitchen so just in case you decide to cook owt smelly, take them off first please"

"when do I cook anything smelly?"

"good point!"

 

On my way home from work today, I stopped at the end of the drive, 100+ yards away from our house to have a chat with the old lass that lives over the road. 

"Someone, somewhere is cooking a curry and it smells lovely!" she says. 

She was right. 

 

 

[Saabnut]

I am currently house sitting for a friend in Perth, about 70 miles from home. Arrived yesterday. Today I had a phone call to say my friend and neighbour of 35 years returned from dropping pigs off at the mart, went into his house to make tea and collapsed and died in his lobby to be found by his daughter yesterday evening. FFS.

RIP Dave.

[Inspector Morose]

2 minutes ago, Saabnut said:

I am currently house sitting for a friend in Perth, about 70 miles from home. Arrived yesterday. Today I had a phone call to say my friend and neighbour of 35 years returned from dropping pigs off at the mart, went into his house to make tea and collapsed and died in his lobby to be found by his daughter yesterday evening. FFS.

RIP Dave.

Shit, that’s awful news. 

[comfortablynumb]

Agree, awful news , and worse that his daughter had to be the one to find him

However, please try to take some comfort in the facts that he was obviously capable of living a good life right up to the last, and hopefully it was quick.🙏                                                Condolences @Saabnut

Edited September 27, 2024 by comfortablynumb
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[Marina door handles]

Bad spelling makes me properly stressed, cheers Twinings......

[macgyver]

This went up opposite us recently...

'Fish and Chip - Pie - Saveloy - Sausages - Burger's - Chicken'.

[comfortablynumb]

Couldn't get Iron Maiden tickets 😕

[Volksy]

Just been out to get my phone charger out of the car, and found that a guy spray painting a fence near it has blathered it in overspray. 

Who the fuq spray paints a fence next to parked cars without masking everything off. 

Good job I went out, as there was no way he was gonna own up to it of his own accord. 

He's currently washing it, but if its still bad he's be footing the bill for a full cut and polish...

 

[Yoss]

2 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

Couldn't get Iron Maiden tickets 😕

I saw them once, in 1984 on the Powerslave tour, at Southampton Gaumont. Great to see they are still touring. 

[reb]

One of the smoke alarms in the vacant flat upstairs has been chirping for about a week. They've been doing viewings so the letting agent definitely knows about it.

It's driving me mad.

If I gave less of a shit about the law I'd be up with my lockpicks and taking the fucking thing down. 

[comfortablynumb]

1 minute ago, Yoss said:

I saw them once, in 1984 on the Powerslave tour, at Southampton Gaumont. Great to see they are still touring. 

Would have been the fourth time for me, they are brilliant live aren't they, just disappointed, I can't afford £300 a ticket, all the cheaper ones went in the blink of an eye

[Yoss]

36 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Would have been the fourth time for me, they are brilliant live aren't they, just disappointed, I can't afford £300 a ticket, all the cheaper ones went in the blink of an eye

Indeed. Bruce is an all round top bloke for many reasons. I love the fact that he carried a Thomas Cook European rail timetable with him on their European Tours in the days when the the European rail network was more interesting than it is now. There's a bit in his autobiography where they had just played somewhere in the south of France and the next night they were playing Venice. Bored with the aftershow party he consulted his timetable and found there was a sleeper train leaving for Venice within the hour so he threw a bag together and left everyone to it. I'd love to be able to be that spontaneous and get some classic French and Italian locos in the book at the same time. 

Earler this year we saw the tribute band High On Maiden at a local venue here in Southampton. I was sceptical but Mrs Yoss talked me in to it. They were excellent, far better than I was expecting. The singer looks nothing like Bruce but he hit all the notes somehow and the band were really tight. They did the whole of Powerslave including Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Made my night. 

[comfortablynumb]

I really enjoyed Bruce's book. I love the way when one of the airlines went bust they threw as many people as they could get into Eddforce 1 and flew them home. What I wouldn't have given to be on that flight!

I can't believe he's around 10 years older than me, but twice as agile.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, reb said:

One of the smoke alarms in the vacant flat upstairs has been chirping for about a week. They've been doing viewings so the letting agent definitely knows about it.

It's driving me mad.

If I gave less of a shit about the law I'd be up with my lockpicks and taking the fucking thing down. 

Badger the agents about it, telling them if they don't fix it PDQ you'll be on to the freeholder. Or ask him/her if you can gain access to sort it yourself?

[reb]

7 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Badger the agents about it, telling them if they don't fix it PDQ you'll be on to the freeholder. Or ask him/her if you can gain access to sort it yourself?

That would be the sensible course of action, yes.

Happily it seems the battery has completely died now, so it's gone quiet!

[Yoss]

44 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

I really enjoyed Bruce's book. I love the way when one of the airlines went bust they threw as many people as they could get into Eddforce 1 and flew them home. What I wouldn't have given to be on that flight!

I can't believe he's around 10 years older than me, but twice as agile.

He is exactly ten years older than me. We have the same birthday! 

[Volksy]

46 minutes ago, reb said:

That would be the sensible course of action, yes.

Happily it seems the battery has completely died now, so it's gone quiet!

That's not a bonus if you live in a flat. 

I deal with fire issues on a daily basis. 

[reb]

2 hours ago, Volksy said:

That's not a bonus if you live in a flat. 

I deal with fire issues on a daily basis. 

There's at least three smoke alarms up there, only one of them was chirping. I'm sure it'll be fine.

[High Jetter]

5 minutes ago, reb said:

There's at least three smoke alarms up there, only one of them was chirping. I'm sure it'll be fine.

Three? They must be worried. Just sayin...

[Barry Cade]

5 hours ago, reb said:

One of the smoke alarms in the vacant flat upstairs has been chirping for about a week. They've been doing viewings so the letting agent definitely knows about it.

It's driving me mad.

If I gave less of a shit about the law I'd be up with my lockpicks and taking the fucking thing down. 

Mine only ever seem to do that at 3am. Last time I ripped the fucker off the ceiling, getting a shower of plaster and a jolt of 240v. I didn't know they were mains too.  Improved my mood no end.

[High Jetter]

2 minutes ago, Barry Cade said:

Mine only ever seem to do that at 3am. Last time I ripped the fucker off the ceiling, getting a shower of plaster and a jolt of 240v. I didn't know they were mains too.  Improved my mood no end.

Yep, and the bastards aren't alone, if you have flats above or below.

[maxxo]

the smoke alarms at both my parents house and grandparents house are connected to the intruder alarm

never had to change a battery or had a momen't bother from them

that's the way i like them

and yes they do work

[High Jetter]

8 minutes ago, maxxo said:

the smoke alarms at both my parents house and grandparents house are connected to the intruder alarm

Why? Not saying it's bad

[Mrcento]

48 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Three? They must be worried. Just sayin...

That's just the regs in Scotland for flats these days, they all have to have at least 3 alarms all interconnected, usually 2 smoke alarms (1 mains powered with battery backup, 1 battery) and 1 heat alarm in the kitchen.

Been like that for about 5 years.

Mine are annoying for a different reason, 1 keeps losing sync, which causes the main one to freak out it hasn't got a response from 1 on the self test it does every 90 seconds or so and starts lighting up half the hallway like a disco brothel with a red flashing light.

[maxxo]

18 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Why? Not saying it's bad

parents house, no idea system is from 1993 but it works really well, makes a different sound etc and easy to shut them up as well

grandparents house i did it intentionally as they kept removing the batteries from them and i wanted to prevent it

i guess it's a hardwired system and it's a fair chunk more reliable than battery operated ones

[Popsicle]

Well todays been a bloody expensive day. £1350 to fix the cheap and cheerful Qashqai that we picked up last summer! Thats more than double what we paid for the fucking heap, then add the £2.5k+ that has been lavished on the turd over the past 14 months and we're over £4.5k into a 10 plate Qashqai. Oh joy.....

Personally I wanted to scrap the thing or offer it up on here cheap, but Mrs P and eldest daughter had other ideas.

To date its had:

Cambelt, tensioner, waterpump, AC regas (1st time), aircon compressor, AC regas (2nd time), coolant radiator, battery, tracking, four tyres, both front droplinks (1st time), wishbones, ball joints (1st time), NS & OS driveshaft, NSF caliper, front pads, front discs, wiper blades, rear pads, rear discs, crankshaft pulley, gearbox oil change, OSF caliper, wheel bearing, AC regas (3rd time) with some seals replaced, gearbox, clutch, flywheel, droplinks (2nd time), ball joints (2nd time), AC regas again (4th time) and 3 services.

Now I fully understand the implications of running an old car and some of the above is routine maintenance, but it really needs putting out of its (and my wallets) misery. We don't even need the car, everybody else has something else to be driving, there just seems to be some strange allure to keeping the thing going which nobody can explain to me and I really don't understand.

I also had my first dealings with Xenon headlights today, a headlight out on the newly purchased Elgrand, £32 for a D2R bulb and £66 for a second hand ballast that didn't work and having to remove the front bumper to find that out.

[Pieman]

Take it to Buxton and banger race it and tell the family it was pinched.

[Popsicle]

47 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Take it to Buxton and banger race it and tell the family it was pinched.

I'm sure it would breakdown in some new and extravagant way enroute and Buxtons only an hour away.