The grumpy thread

[Lankytim]

I think it's just in such a low category status and price wise it's only capable of attracting the feckless and plain stupid. I may just end up stashing it somewhere and occasionally sitting in it or something. Or just crush it.

[Bobthebeard]

I think it's just in such a low category status and price wise it's only capable of attracting the feckless and plain stupid. I may just end up stashing it somewhere and occasionally sitting in it or something. Or just crush it.

This will be no help whatsoever, but just reminded me that I once bought a Renault 4 van when I was 17. The engine was seized solid but I had dreams of fixing it.

I just sat in it a lot. Never repaired it as I was 17 with no tools, no idea and no driving licence.

Happy days.*

Can't remember what happened to it.

[phil_lihp]

It does seem to be open season for muppets on eBay lately, I've been using it since 2001 and it's only in the last couple of years they've really come out of the woodwork.  Latest one being a fool who bought two old camera lenses from me in seperate auctions and ignored the UK only postage.  Being something of a fool myself, I charged him extra and sent it to France as requested.  One non-existant address, one permanently closed address, 20+ emails back and forth and a chat with the courier over a month later the parcel remains with the couriers and I've given up.  I've told him to call them and deal with it himself.  

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Manchester car park, 2 days after the Tory party conference: we're so obviously not in it together...

 

[pic]

Come the revolution Manchester Central NCP car park will be repurposed as the People's Vegetable Market and it will be decorated with the heads of any Bourgeoisie who could afford to park in it. 

[wuvvum]

Wat, can't you set your eBay settings to block bidders who have a registered address outside of the UK?  I always do that when I sell cars now (unless I've got something particularly unusual that I think might interest overseas buyers) - selling stuff overseas is more trouble than it's worth.

[wuvvum]

Another thing - why is the past participle of the verb "to text" "text" and not "texted"?  I know that "to text" is a made-up verb and therefore the past tense can be whatever the fuck it wants, but it still makes no sense to me.

 

Even more annoying is the creeping replacement (mainly among young people, but sadly I've heard some of my generation doing it too) of "to say" with "to be like".  It's a moronic Americanism which makes no grammatical sense whatsoever and I have no idea why it's become so widely used.

 

I'm tired.  I'm going to bed.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I keep hearing (on the internet, I don't speak to people in real life) Americans using the phrase 'on accident' instead of 'by accident'. "I put my foot through the screen door on accident". I guess as the opposite of 'on purpose' it makes sense but it always sounds dumb and doesn't flow well. 

 

On the whole I don't mind Americanisms when they creep into British English. It's hard to be upset about a handful of words originating from the US when they're using more than half a million which our ancestors made up. 

[purplebargeken]

Felling down, moody and just not my usual self. Nagging feeling it is car related but not sure why. Meh!

[Cavcraft]

And those who still insist on saying 'needs restore' etc.

[chaseracer]

And those who still insist on saying 'needs restore' etc.

Unless they're Scottish, where this construction appears to be the accepted dialectic norm...

[Pillock]

Isn't that just dialect differences?

Like South Yorkshire folk saying "while five o'clock" instead of "until 5 o'clock". Always confuses me.

[saucedoctor]

Ballymena yins. "I'm starved." Now, most English-speaking natives would take that to mean that the stating person was hungry. No. In Ballymena, "I'm starved" means "I am cold"

 

Sheep-shagging weirdos.

 

We have some other people here who don't even speak English. My dear friend, who owns my local breakers' yard, is one such person. While I was up there a couple of years ago, he was warning me that the road ahead may be hazardous, "Mine yon rid Andy bai she's wile guttery. Aff the pipe, yer bat'll be wide"

 

[Spiny Norman]

Scots calling fizzy pop 'juice'. Extremely confusing. 

 

What's REALLY confusing is when Weegies call all varieties of fizzy pop 'ginger'.

[M'coli]

Except for when it's called "scoosh"!

[M'coli]

Aye, true, but also:  if you shook up a schoolmate's can of ginger when they wurnae lookin', it would scoosh all over the guy opposite them when they opened it!

[Cavcraft]

I though Scoo(i)sh was how Glaswegians described what nationality they were. 

[TimothyClaypole]

The washing powder advert where the yoof is messing with the exhaust on a Punto I think - "I'm changing the exhaust out"...

[Junkman]

£1.75 (one Pound and seventy-five Pence) for a small styrofoam cup filled with some lukewarm feline diarrhea passed off as coffee at the Staffordshire County Fair today. I'm telling you, this Staffordshire is already way too far south for my taste.

[RichardMoss]

Impossible task of the day - describe steel wool to a bloke from Bangladesh who has English as a second language. Still, his grasp of my language was better than my grasp of his

[Albert Ross]

Something minor that's been boiling my piss for a few years..... It's a marketing thing, designed to save time (and therefore money) but.... TV or radio advert goes like this. "Buy this revolting green and orange 3 piece lounge suite for just 9-9-5"  No mention of the word "Pounds",  It's devaluing the currency. Surely it would be better to actually say "Nine hundred and ninety five pounds" to make certain the price was clearly communicated? Ah well.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Impossible task of the day - describe steel wool to a bloke from Bangladesh who has English as a second language. Still, his grasp of my language was better than my grasp of his

 

Virgin Brillo

[overrun]

"I could care less." Stupid Americans.

 

Well if you could care less, then clearly you hardly care. So why get so worked up?

 

"It's a big ask."

[Spiny Norman]

Something minor that's been boiling my piss for a few years..... It's a marketing thing, designed to save time (and therefore money) but.... TV or radio advert goes like this. "Buy this revolting green and orange 3 piece lounge suite for just 9-9-5"  No mention of the word "Pounds",  It's devaluing the currency. Surely it would be better to actually say "Nine hundred and ninety five pounds" to make certain the price was clearly communicated? Ah well.

 

See if they'll take Rupees.....

[RedSparrow]

"I could care less." Stupid Americans.

 

Well if you could care less, then clearly you hardly care. So why get so worked up?

 

"It's a big ask."

 

[ShiteRider]

Fucking technology, laptop is playing up wso i'm useing my phone. Checked my email and managed to trash the last months mail. No probs thought i, i'll shove them back over, fat fingers here emptied the trash instead which seems to be impossible to retrieve from yahoo. So there goes my car insurance docs and the appointment time for tomorrows VIC check.

[Cavcraft]

'Talent' show entrants:

 

NO-NE FUCKING CARES ABOUT WHAT A HARD LIFE YOU'VE HAD LIVING WITH YOUR 5 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER AND NOT BEING ABLE TO SMOKE ENOUGH WEED TO GET BY.  Please, please PLEASE stop making a twat of yourself on telly, have you no shame?

Actually, you've already proved you haven't.

[RedSparrow]

I hate that. They put the sad music on and it goes all 'well my grandad died when he was 82 and I broke my wrist once...'.

Also I used to feel bad for the people who get mocked on these shows but then I realised they volunteered for it!

[chaseracer]

'Popular television' is now the opiate of the masses.

[Cavcraft]

I hate that. They put the sad music on and it goes all 'well my grandad died when he was 82 and I broke my wrist once...'.

Also I used to feel bad for the people who get mocked on these shows but then I realised they volunteered for it!

 

And why is nearly always angry looking young Cockney birds with stupid accents? You took drugs and you were a slag, people ain't going to vote for you because you have more tears than talent.

[Partridge]

I don't really watch TV. Haven't done since 2010 or so. I'm blissfully unaware of the horrors of Britains Got Degenerates. I watch 80's Top Gear clips and Touring Car races on YouTube instead of telly.