The grumpy thread

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Every establishment with a trade counter needs to have a massive sign hanging over the door which says either "Trade and Public Welcome!" or "Strictly trade only, all others go away".

 

This would avoid the need for a sign reading "We're kind of open to the public in that we will sell you goods, but it's clearly something we don't do very often. We have an unpublished minimum order and you'll have to clarify that when you say 'one' you mean one item and not one pallet. The checkout procedure will come to a grinding halt when you cannot provide a VAT number, but we will eventually issue you with a poster sized dot matrix printed receipt in triplicate (the pink one is yours). The whole transaction will be very awkward and we really should have turned you away when you wandered in off the street and asked if you could buy stuff here".

[vulgalour]

Grump Lite: free Princess bonnet that I drove all the way to Brooklands for was not provided because the punter's roofrack had broken rather unconveniently. I would have picked it up, but an extra 140 mile round trip to do that was not an option. The BX exhaust backbox that Mike was supposed to bring for me when he came down this weekend did not materialise because he was a derp and left it at home, I'll wait until the end of the month rather than make a special 300 mile round trip for that, thank you very much. And people wonder why I don't like people.

[Ben_L]

Grump Lite: free Princess bonnet that I drove all the way to Brooklands for was not provided because the punter's roofrack had broken rather unconveniently. I would have picked it up, but an extra 140 mile round trip to do that was not an option. The BX exhaust backbox that Mike was supposed to bring for me when he came down this weekend did not materialise because he was a derp and left it at home, I'll wait until the end of the month rather than make a special 300 mile round trip for that, thank you very much. And people wonder why I don't like people.

 

On a lighter note, if ever you're down Cambridgeshire way, I know of someone who's got a F/G plate BX DTR and an unknown spec BX breaking... If ever you need spares, shiter's discount is available... The more you take, the cheaper it gets!!!!!!

[vulgalour]

PM'd...

[The Moog]

.it will be 10 days minimum where by the midday reaches 37C..and even at night...its about 30....im slightly grumpy with it..each breath resembles the humidity....room temp is like body temp.

 

Pah heatwave .. it is like that all day everyday here. With it getting hotter! April & May are supposed to be unbearable with temps getting over 40 and then power cut outs. We are off to do 3 months of marine research in Indonesia to avoid it!

 

Last week we had no power for 4 days, at night it was 32 and during day close to 40 in sun 35 in shade. Ended up checking into a hotel with their own generator as couldn't cope otherwise...

[Rod/b]

20 year old lad who lives in the house opposite dropped dead from a heart attack yesterday. Way too young.

[richardthestag]

Fucking hell. It's my 43rd birthday. My body has long outlasted what I expected of it back in 1988. I honestly was expecting to be dead by now.

 

Happy birthday.

[HillmanImp]

20 year old lad who lives in the house opposite dropped dead from a heart attack yesterday. Way too young.

 

A mate had a heart attack at 24 a few months ago. From what I know he did not do sniff either (I know of about a dozen people who do that who have had heart attacks, its indoscrimiate on age). The cause of his was simply stress from work. Mental.

 

Bad news.

[HillmanImp]

Fucking hell. It's my 43rd birthday. My body has long outlasted what I expected of it back in 1988. I honestly was expecting to be dead by now.

 

Aye, I see birthdays not so much of a celebration of my birth but more that I have made it another year. With the way I was acting in my youth its pretty surprising I seem to be in reasonable fettle too (touch wood). I suspect though its because I have pickled myself.

 

Happy, still alive day.

[M'coli]

Grump Lite:... And people wonder why I don't like people.

I know how you feel - I've been waiting on a seller on another forum to get back to me about a car I was hoping to buy, but after a bit of prodding it turns out he'd traded it in at the weekend. Not amused.

[TimothyClaypole]

Broke another "Thermos" flask today, not too bad it lasted around 7 hours.

 

Have got through about 1 a month in the past 12 months.

 

I'd buy a metal one but I can taste the metal like I had been licking a Nissan Hut.

 

(Not even supposed to take a flask in anyway but i'm buggered if I'm drinking out of the shite water cooler/germ dispensers that are all we are supposed to have).

[Bobthebeard]

Broke another "Thermos" flask today, not too bad it lasted around 7 hours.

 

Have got through about 1 a month in the past 12 months.

 

I'd buy a metal one but I can taste the metal like I had been licking a Nissan Hut.

 

(Not even supposed to take a flask in anyway but i'm buggered if I'm drinking out of the shite water cooler/germ dispensers that are all we are supposed to have).

 

I have a cheapo metal one, coffee tastes fine TBH. Tea does taste slightly metallic but not that bad really. Keeps warm for ages*

[Lord Sterling]

Fucking job 'market'

 

Always making stupid decisions and setting barriers higher and higher, i.e. if you don't have xx amount of experience within the last x months, we won't bother to even look at you. And they wonder why so many people are out of work? That said, I'll be damned if I'm gonna let these shyster, up thier own arse companies push me onto the dole.

 

Just had a call from my garage man, not only does it need a cat and flexi but now also a downpipe as it fell apart, where the fucknwas the parked prior to my ownership? In a field? Its gonna cost mor now, more money than I actually have. Fragger is calling I think.

[Bobthebeard]

Fucking job 'market'

 

Always making stupid decisions and setting barriers higher and higher, i.e. if you don't have xx amount of experience within the last x months, we won't bother to even look at you. And they wonder why so many people are out of work

 

I feel your pain. Been there, not got the job. It is a sign of the times and is not personal. It's just how it is today. Beating yourself up about it only hurts yourself, the world doesn't care! Be prepared to be happy in yourself, knowing that you are a nice guy! Fuck em. Not your problem that the country is in a mess. Enjoy what you have, whatever that is. Ignore pressure from relatives/friends/pompous twats/etc. You are what you are mate.

[retrogeezer]

[vulgalour]

Dog barking since 4am, right outside my bedroom door. He doesn't want feeding, or letting out, or company... he just wants to bark. Continuously. Every morning I'm faced with cat shit, piss and/or vomit, no matter what I do to try and prevent it, which puts me off my food for the day and sets my OCD off badly. This happened last time I was asked to house sit but I thought it would be a one off. Apparently, it's the norm for these stupid animals when it's just me in the house.

 

I'm getting fed up of the repeated snide and sometimes pointed remarks from the neighbour we share the driveway with about my cars. I'm no longer allowed to park either of my cars on his side of the drive - loads of space, out of sight and it's space he doesn't use - even though it was fine when I first moved in. This means that more often than not the BX is parked on the street and that in turn leads to complaints and snide remarks from the other neighbours. Woe betide me trying to do ANY work, even if it's just checking oil and water levels like a normal person, because that apparently is against Council rules and could get my cars towed and impounded which obviously is bullshit, but I could do without it everytime I want to perform even the slightest task.

 

Moving back here was always a last resort for me, I've been here two months and it feels like forever. Financially I'm marginally better off (and it is marginal) but my stress levels are very quickly approaching what they were because of just how much of a daily battle my OCD has become thanks to the lack of control over my environment and the pressures from the vocal and malicious elements of the local community. I'm fed up of having to say "I should be grateful I have a roof over my head" and "At least I'm not living on the streets". Just because someone gives me shelter does not mean I should be eternally grateful. Just because I have two cars does not mean I'm secretly rich and should sell one so I'm a bit more solvent for a week or two. I have virtually no social life, I no longer enjoy a drink even occasionally, I don't smoke and my only escape is car forums. I feel like I'm back in the same place I was last year when everything was going to shit and my Mum's crazy mood swings and guilt tripping plus Dad's complete apathy and laziness are just adding to the frustration.

 

I've got to get out of this place if it's the last thing I ever do!

[Lord Sterling]

Cheers for the kind words Bob. I'm not gonna let the b*stards beat me anyway, focus right now is to find any job that pays money, as money is what I need right now, the couple of Rover I have taken on board are gonna need money for recovery, and the KV6s exhaust. Thankfully I have a sort of 'slate' with my garage man to which he adds whatever I owe. I still owe him a few hundred quid for putting the G-reg Sterling back on the road for me.

 

Thermos? Don't they do those metal ones with a sort of plastic interior so it tastes more like tea with melted plastic than metal?

 

Just because I have two cars does not mean I'm secretly rich and should sell one so I'm a bit more solvent for a week or two. I have virtually no social life, I no longer enjoy a drink even occasionally, I don't smoke and my only escape is car forums. I feel like I'm back in the same place I was last year when everything was going to shit and my Mum's crazy mood swings and guilt tripping plus Dad's complete apathy and laziness are just adding to the frustration.

 

I've got to get out of this place if it's the last thing I ever do!

 

I know almost EXACTLY how you feel mate, I am suffering the same frustrations and having to put up with the same mood swings and snidey commets from certain close members of my own family. I am trying to find work to get myself out of here but having 5 cars doesnt help (though I'll be reviewing this comment when one of them comes in handy)

 

I don't know what to suggest. Maybe have a car that works and gets you to and from, finding a more stable job that brings in some cash, saving up cash and get out of there. This is my plan at least, I just want to get away from everyone right now.

[retrogeezer]

Dog anti-bark collar:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-HUMANE-DO ... 4cf995197a

[John F]

Dog anti-bark collar:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-HUMANE-DO ... 4cf995197a

 

 

Unfortunately, the sort of dog owner that doesn't care care whether or not their bloody pet's barking is affecting the lives of other people isn't likely to buy this item.

[Lankytim]

There may be some work available where I work in Sandbach. Warehousing mostly. PM me if interested.

[retrogeezer]

Dog anti-bark collar:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-HUMANE-DO ... 4cf995197a

 

 

Unfortunately, the sort of dog owner that doesn't care care whether or not their bloody pet's barking is affecting the lives of other people isn't likely to buy this item.

 

From VA's post it appeared to be the dog was actually in the same house?? Outside his bedroom door?

[Negative Creep]

Dog anti-bark collar:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-HUMANE-DO ... 4cf995197a

 

 

Unfortunately, the sort of dog owner that doesn't care care whether or not their bloody pet's barking is affecting the lives of other people isn't likely to buy this item.

 

 

Why bother actually training a dog when you can spend the rest of its life ineffectually shouting at it whenever it does wrong?

[Lord Sterling]

There may be some work available where I work in Sandbach. Warehousing mostly. PM me if interested.

 

Thank for the offer Tim, I think 60 miles is a bit of a long commute, especially in a KV6. Some of the agencies I called today seem quite promising, there is work out there, its just finding it. My grump was more that I was looking for something more office based. I know that 6/7 years ago I could walk into an agency and choose what field I wanted to work in, nowadays, office type jobs are more for the elite where some industrial/most warehouse type work is still (just about) for anyone. I have skills and can speak a couple of languages (don't have no quals in them though) but the last time I worked in an office was around 5/6 years ago.

 

Not saying that office jobs are great, they are not, I just want to get away from warehouse/industrial work if I can.

[John F]

Dog anti-bark collar:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-HUMANE-DO ... 4cf995197a

 

 

Unfortunately, the sort of dog owner that doesn't care care whether or not their bloody pet's barking is affecting the lives of other people isn't likely to buy this item.

 

From VA's post it appeared to be the dog was actually in the same house?? Outside his bedroom door?

 

Ah right, hadn't read it...

 

I thought you were annoyed that there was such a thing as an anti-barking collar.

[vulgalour]

My plan and yours seem much alike, Sterling, and sadly an offer of a job with a 100 mile daily commute is not the solution for me, I reckon I'd be more stressed and probably worse off. I was supposed to be hitting the agencies and whatnot today to get something part time, say 2-3 days a week, just for some flexibility and extra cash and to get me out of the house while I set up a few things to enable moving. Had a brief talk with Mum on the phone, when she gets back from her Dad's we're having a proper talk, something we've not done for a number of years. Stupid thing with the dog is that he's always well behaved when my parents are here, as are the cats, but as soon as it's just me in the house they just go all stupid with the bodily waste and the barking, makes it feel more personal than perhaps it is. Certainly a 'humane anti-bark collar' is not the solution, the nearest thing I can do is put the dog on the phone to my Mum (yes really) to at least settle him down a bit and hope we don't have a repeat performance. For the cats I'm thinking wine corks and sellotape.

[Guest]

Mo - you seem to have been dealt a shit hand at the present time - hope things improve.

 

Several things going off at the moment. Let me list the ways:

 

1. FATHA_WATANABE going in for a possible stent because of a previous diagnosis that reckons he's got an ectopic heartbeat.

 

2. Cannot get the right starter for the 460. GSF and Halfords have both pissed me around - both the motors they've supplied haven't been strong enough to turn the engine over. Andy is getting narky about it being in the way. No comment lest I fill the board with expletives. Not my fucking fault the suppliers are useless I'm afraid.

 

3. Having until the 19th to get my film finished and none of my portable storage devices are working properly. After having FOUR USB sticks corrupt my rushes to the point of no return (including a brand new Toshiba and a month old Intenso Rainbow Line that operated perfectly last night), wasting about the same amount of time trying to persuade said devices to function, I lost it:

 

 

After picking up the shards of PCB and plastic from across the room, I finally got a back up stick to copy the rushes. I feel a lot better now.

The University cameras are so shit they don't even have a focus ring or aperture adjustment. For once a tutor understands this and will be marking accordingly. I borrowed a mate's 600D and filmed with that instead. Uni are making it as hard as possible for us to complete this work. We're supposed to have access to a 1000TB LAN storage area called the MAM. Except that it doesn't work, other than in one room. Furthermore, our course is deemed to be the sick man of the entire school, so we're not allowed access to it even if it did work properly. We have to use portable hard-drives. We complained. We got the classic 'Well, it won't be like this for students next year.' Cheers. That's of fuck-all consequence to us then, eh? Can you really not understand why we think you're a joke? Is it any wonder on the NSS form, I concluded it with 'Were this course a car, I'd have returned it via the showroom window and demanded my money back'?

 

4. Mum's 13 month old A1 has cracked its second replacement windscreen. Some high quality VAG workmanship there. Audi are not being helpful. Me, I reckon the shell's twisted.

[John F]

Should really be in the "grins" thread, but since we're hearing about dogs being put on the phone to mothers in here...

 

[sporty-shite]

Fucking utter clueless messer on swapz (yes, I know....) who offered me quite a tidy pushbike and some cash for a private number I have.

 

All looked to be going swimmingly, until he started asking a few silly questions.

 

"What condition is the plate in?" Hmmm.

 

"Will I be able to use it straight away?" Aahhh.

 

Then, after I tell him everything he needs to do to assign it, he comes back to me and says, "It's too complicated, and I've been on forums and they say I might never own the plate, and I'd rather buy off a dealer so it will be legal and safe"

 

Fucking cheeky cunt. Arsing me around, then coming back with a load of tosh, and implying I'm having him over. Although I think I'm more pissed that I thought I'd have a few quid coming in, and now I'll have that plate stuck up my arse forever.

 

BASTARDS.

[Cavcraft]

There are some pretty good ways to get people back on there, Chris

 

There myriad knobwarblers on there, but if you assume everybody on there is a complete dickhead, and are prepared to bide your time, then you can get some ace deals.

[sporty-shite]

There are some pretty good ways to get people back on there, Chris

 

There myriad knobwarblers on there, but if you assume everybody on there is a complete dickhead, and are prepared to bide your time, then you can get some ace deals.

 

These were my exact thoughts, Billy. It's the only place that I've had any interest in that plate, so I'll let it run.

 

In the meantime, I may have to watch out for pushbikes on there, and act accordingly