The grumpy thread

[richardthestag]

Dump the stuff up against her front door, add some of yours for good effect.

 

Few years back I might have been blocked into my drive by some mouth breathers dropping off kids for school, as I watched the parent scoofed a load a maccy d wrappers etc and other such crap out onto the verge outside my house and then drove off. Curiosity may have gotten the better of me and I might have followed at a discrete distance until the perp arrived at home. Several nights later on bin night imagine my amusement at finding the perps wheels bin emptied all over their immaculately presented front garden and a soiled nappy presented shit side down on the perps windscreen.

 

Now that is victor meldrew, I mean they honestly to this day have no idea why, probably!

[DSdriver]

Ask her if she wants to go halves on the cost of the skip.

[Spiny Norman]

I'd certainly be having a word with the old bag, if for no other reason than once some folk have sussed out they can get away with something, they'll just keep doing it.

A firm but civil word now might prevent things from getting to the stage where you want to petrol bomb the old whoor's house in three months time?

[Albert Ross]

Perhaps go three stages further. Report her for fly tipping, making certain there is evidence with her name and address in the case.... then show the Council the pics you have......

[Cavcraft]

Definately go and lob it all back in her garden with interest, nothing more than the lazy selfish old bint deserves.

 

Minor grump today was Captain Cockwand in one of those Mitsubishi Animal Warlord Extreme cock extention pick-up things. I know you got annoyed because I stopped you jumping the queue at the petrol station and I appreciate you had a trophy blonde bird to try and impress, but if you sit there and watch two empty pump spaces in front of me but cannot actually be arsed to pull round and use one then it's your fault.

When I then pull up to the first pump, as my missus is inside paying and it's that busy I can't stop anywhere else, it's not really going to do you any favours by honking your horn as you chose to ignore the two empty spaces behind me and want to use the very fucking one I'm stopped by. I expect you were too fucking lazy to have to walk another twelve feet when you'd fuelled up.

Was your bird impressed when you mumbled something out of the window and then got it back with interest, only you seemed to pipe down then? If you can't take it, don't give it, you fat baldy gobshite.

[Ross_K]

I hate those Mitsubishi Animal things. The stereotypical pikey cunt who owns it was probably taking a break from stealing the lead off your local church.

[Negative Creep]

Lost a long standing and much loved companion today. My faithful Xbox 360 finally decided to destroy its tray opening mechanism. It was about 4 years old, which isn't bad seeing as the early models are as reliable as a Laguna with a corroded earth strap

[richardthestag]

Minor grump today was Captain Cockwand in one of those Mitsubishi Animal Warlord Extreme cock extention pick-up things. I know you got annoyed because I stopped you jumping the queue at the petrol station and I appreciate you had a trophy blonde bird to try and impress, but if you sit there and watch two empty pump spaces in front of me but cannot actually be arsed to pull round and use one then it's your fault.

When I then pull up to the first pump, as my missus is inside paying and it's that busy I can't stop anywhere else, it's not really going to do you any favours by honking your horn as you chose to ignore the two empty spaces behind me and want to use the very fucking one I'm stopped by. I expect you were too fucking lazy to have to walk another twelve feet when you'd fuelled up.

Was your bird impressed when you mumbled something out of the window and then got it back with interest, only you seemed to pipe down then? If you can't take it, don't give it, you fat baldy gobshite.

 

I'd loved to have been a fly on the wall for that one ^^

 

Forecourt shenanigans are one of the few motoring experiences that still boil my piss. LPG pumps specifically. The whole fucking forecourt is empty so why does the dozy pratt driving his girlfiends Bini stop at the LPG lane to brim his car with Dizzle before nipping into the shop and browsing every single page on the magazine rack?

 

I pulled in behind one of these pillocks last week and when I politely asked him to perhaps use another pump so I could get to the LPG told me all boldly to fuck off. So I did, drove round his car, and reversed up to his front bumper and found that the LPG hose would just reach. When he eventually came back from the shop with double shot skinny flat white to flee and a copy of the pissboiler, desperately trying not to make eye contact he must have realised that he was now boxed in and would have to wait for me. Oh the sweet irony

 

Fucking made my day i'll tell ye.

[Station]

Went to the dentist this morning. Sat in the reclining chair, she looked in and said 'You have a nasty ulcer there', then re-reclined the chair and told me where to get some 'Corasyl' (or whatever it's called), and then had the pleasure of paying 17.50 for 30 seconds of her fucking pointless, non-helpful-at-all time. The ulcer was a small cut from when I bit my cheek about four days before. In hindsight, I think it's best I avoided this amateur before I let her free with a drill in my mouth eh? I explained the pain was in my tooth, not in my f*cking cheek, for f*ck's sake. Fucking useless.

I've now got to book into a new dentist in L.Spa and hoepfully avoid another 'Buy some mouthwash, because I can't be arsed drilling today' twat.

[willswitchengage]

Dentists etc

 

Our nextdoor neighbour is a retired dentist and he has two Rolls-Royces (one nineties, one thirties (daily)), a Merc G-wagen, an Audi A4 and Golf TDI (daily). Their greenhouse is near the size of our home house itself, I think he's remunerated himself quite well throughout his life.

[Lord Sterling]

Scrapyards.

 

I love scrapyards, I love trawling through the once loved and cherished motors now awaiting thier fate and picking useful bits from them, but sometimes, the prices can be a little fanatical.

 

Today I went to a scrappy in Hall Green, arrived there around near 11 o'clock to find the place was shut, it is advertised that it opens on a Sunday from 10am to 1pm, whilst chatting to a mk1 Ford Escort owner and a Polish chap who came all the way from Barry Island to pick bits of a (sixth gen) Honda Civic who turns out to also own a 1974 BMW 323. The owner eventually turns up and opens the place, so I set to work releasing door cards, not easy when your 4 cars high. I didnt get the bonnet as again being 4 cars high and the fact that the bonnet wouldnt open didnt help.

 

After collecting the door cards, grille from a Rover the bloke wanted £40 for lot! plus £40 for the bonnet. Does that sound alot or am I just a tight fisted git?

 

I really want to change the bonnet and certainly the door cards as they look very manky. Its the only car with the right coloured bonnet and correct door cards thats conveniently nearby.

 

I havent bought the parts yet, doesnt help if you dont know how much cash you've got to take along.

[Lankytim]

You broke the golden rule of breakers.. always find out hoe much they want BEFORE you remove the parts... otherwise they bump the price up knowing you have already gone to the trouble of digging the bits out and are less likely to walk away.

 

Oh, and second rule is to wear oily overalls so you look "trade".

[wackywacerwill]

The window washer bottle has been leaking on the Leon, not a major drama but a fair bit annoying since it's beeps at you when the level gets low. I've just been topping it up as and when as well, I don't drive it so it doesn't bother me Thought I'd have a proper look today after giving it a wash and polish and guess where it's leaking? Yes of course, it's from the sensor that makes it beep, bah.

[Lord Sterling]

You broke the golden rule of breakers.. always find out hoe much they want BEFORE you remove the parts... otherwise they bump the price up knowing you have already gone to the trouble of digging the bits out and are less likely to walk away.

 

Oh, and second rule is to wear oily overalls so you look "trade".

 

Cheers, I did think of asking him 'how much' when he opened the gates but I did get a little too eager and forgot. Other places I had spoken to when i worked at the garage recognised me hence why I mostly seem to get cheap bits.

[AnthonyG]

I hate those Mitsubishi Animal things. The stereotypical pikey cunt who owns it was probably taking a break from stealing the lead off your local church.

 

These do seem to be the shaven-headed steroid-abusing mong's weapon of choice at the moment. I parked near a brand new Hilux double cab recently , the amount of tacky plastic chrome on it (all factory or dealer fit) was ridiculous. It also had a little badge on the back which claimed it was 'Invincible', which I guess was some sort of specification or trim level .

 

What is/was 'Animal' anyway? Did Mitsubishi UK think it up or is a clothing brand or something? (for most of the late 90s I thought Quiksilver was a Peugeot invented name for 106/206 GTilookalikes with 1.1 engines )

[AnthonyG]

Scrapyards.

 

After collecting the door cards, grille from a Rover the bloke wanted £40 for lot! plus £40 for the bonnet. Does that sound alot or am I just a tight fisted git?

 

 

Seems a little high for a 800, a car not exactly common anymore yet nowhere near old enough to be a 'classic'. Bonnet price seems fairer than the door cards and grille (surely on the 800 Mk2 the grille is part of the bonnet anyway?).

 

You'll just have to decide whether the colour and condition makes that £80 worth it - scrappys rarely lower their prices, unless you can get a scruffier/more aggressive looking mate to 'buy' the same parts!

[retrogeezer]

Lost a long standing and much loved companion today. My faithful Xbox 360 finally decided to destroy its tray opening mechanism. It was about 4 years old, which isn't bad seeing as the early models are as reliable as a Laguna with a corroded earth strap

 

I've got a dead elite console here (no hard drive or anything - console only). It has one red light on and says E74 error. The dvd draw works fine, any good to you for say £20 plus post?

[vulgalour]

Not allowed to drive pending a neurologist referral; doctor's orders. I could be off the road for a few weeks, or a few months, I just don't know. All that happened is that I had a seizure in the kitchen and that was probably caused by the medication I'm now no longer on (it is a rare side effect) but because I had fits a decade ago, the cause of which was never actually found, I've been told I'm not allowed to drive until they've run some tests in case I kill someone by spazzing out at the wheel. Not terribly impressed by this because I'm not sure what it'll mean for things like insurance and possible restricted license :/

 

This meant that the Waddington show that I attended in the Princess had my boyfriend doing the driving there and back and the car behaved faultlessly for him, until I had to sit in the driver's seat for registration at which point the radiator fan bearing started to make the most horrendous noise and the car stalled. Soon as we swapped back, the Princess was good as gold for him.

[wackywacerwill]

/\ /\ /\ Perhaps not such a bad thing then hey. Let ya man drive and sitting all cosy being chauffeured around in a fault free Princess can't be such a bad thing surely?

[vulgalour]

It's very true, there are good sides to this... but right now it's a grump

[Cavcraft]

I don't know, I still recall the last chauffeur driven princess.

 

 

 

*Sorry.

[Station]

A priest killed himself when he had a seizure near me a couple of years ago, his car bounced off three walls over 200 yards before landing on it's roof. Probably a good idea.

[Ross_K]

I parked near a brand new Hilux double cab recently , the amount of tacky plastic chrome on it (all factory or dealer fit) was ridiculous. It also had a little badge on the back which claimed it was 'Invincible', which I guess was some sort of specification or trim level .

 

Yeah all that crap goes on at the factory. "Invincible" sounds like a model that would go down well with the Taliban. Maybe they could do a "Death to the infidel" model next.

 

What is/was 'Animal' anyway? Did Mitsubishi UK think it up or is a clothing brand or something? (for most of the late 90s I thought Quiksilver was a Peugeot invented name for 106/206 GTilookalikes with 1.1 engines )

 

They make surf gear. Mitsubishi must have thought they could attract the surf crowd - little did they know most surfers haven't got two bob to rub together... And the ones that do buy VW Split screens.

[vulgalour]

You're a bad man, Billy. A funny man, but a bad man all the same.

[M'coli]

Ah, yes, the old "Dodi went into Halfords to get a coil for a 1981 Princess" jokes!

[Lord Sterling]

Scrapyards.

 

After collecting the door cards, grille from a Rover the bloke wanted £40 for lot! plus £40 for the bonnet. Does that sound alot or am I just a tight fisted git?

 

 

Seems a little high for a 800, a car not exactly common anymore yet nowhere near old enough to be a 'classic'. Bonnet price seems fairer than the door cards and grille (surely on the 800 Mk2 the grille is part of the bonnet anyway?).

 

You'll just have to decide whether the colour and condition makes that £80 worth it - scrappys rarely lower their prices, unless you can get a scruffier/more aggressive looking mate to 'buy' the same parts!

 

Cheers mate, the bonnet is for the Micra, it'll cost about £40 to buy which also includes having it removed form the car, the bonnet would probably be a little less bent than the current one. The other £40 is for a couple of door cards for the Micra and some small bits and pieces from a Rover 800.

 

Now another grump, brought to you by Lord Sterling......

 

I'm currently 'temping' from an agency for a logistics company who are contracted at some warehouse. All of our trailers (wagons) are filthy, very dusty and dirty inside which means it can get quite dusty when placing a few heavy boxes down, fater a day in there I can find black dust particals in the inside of my nose, throat and parts of the face, basically when blowing my nose it come out black, it isnt nice.

 

I took it up on myself to try and clean out the trailer so I can at least breath whilst working in there, but today, the area manager decided that I was using too much water, I dont agree as its the only thing that really settles the dust and it doesnt damage the boxes as excess water is swept out before any boxes come near the trailer. Iwas told that the company used to have a worker who's sole job it was to clean the trailers but he eventually suffered lung problems.

 

I have spoken to the supervisor and a few occasions about this but they seem to be dithering on the issue, often making excuses or finding ways for me to not be in there so much, some of the other workers have brought this up before but again, nothing seems to be done about it. I am worried for my health in the future, but I am also on the verge of hopefully bagging myself a full-time contract. Could the excess dust be a health and safety issue?

[Negative Creep]

That replacement Xbox 360 I bought on Sunday? The piece of censored doesn't censored work properly, and will switch itself off at random, rebooting in 480p format. Having searched online this would indicate a power supply problem. So now I'll have to drive all the way back into town, walk to CEX, queue for about half hour whereupon I would put money on the censored thing working perfectly. I can't even ring ahead, since there are no local phone numbers and even their main helpline is hard to find on their site.

 

But before I can do any of that, I have to re transfer all my saved games back to the old 360. But of course it can't just be straightforward as I have to keep signing in and out of my profile and can't have both turned on at the same time, or transfer anything without signing in. It will also randomly stop you transferring saves to the Cloud since it will say you can't transfer between profiles. As you can imagine, I'm pretty damn annoyed

[CortinaDave]

Neighbours. they're a pest.

 

At my old flat I had a hyacinth bucket style social climbing neighbour who used to tut and shake her head as I arrived home because my car was too old for her liking.

 

My current upstairs neighbour likes to hang out of his front window all day and all night rambling utter nonsense and coughing his guts up, and treats me to either UB40's greatest hits, or Opera records at loud volume most nights,

 

Yesterday at my girlfriend's house I peered out the window to see her neighbour's dog doing a shite in her garden. Went outside and the owner was standing watching the dog, and when I pointed out it was a private garden said "for goodness sake I'll clean it up" Not the point!

 

I envy Dunc (whitevanman) and his cottage in the middle of nowhere, with no irritating twats nearby.

[AeroNautiCal]

Could the excess dust be a health and safety issue?

 

Absolutely!

 

You can retire from a job, but your health has to last you a lifetime...

[Negative Creep]

Neighbours. they're a pest.

 

At my old flat I had a hyacinth bucket style social climbing neighbour who used to tut and shake her head as I arrived home because my car was too old for her liking.

 

My current upstairs neighbour likes to hang out of his front window all day and all night rambling utter nonsense and coughing his guts up, and treats me to either UB40's greatest hits, or Opera records at loud volume most nights,

 

Yesterday at my girlfriend's house I peered out the window to see her neighbour's dog doing a shite in her garden. Went outside and the owner was standing watching the dog, and when I pointed out it was a private garden said "for goodness sake I'll clean it up" Not the point!

 

I envy Dunc (whitevanman) and his cottage in the middle of nowhere, with no irritating twats nearby.

 

 

My downstairs neighbour has been bringing his girlfriend round, so now most nights I get woken by the sound of them at it like rabbits.which when you're single is really the type of thing to cheer you up