The grumpy thread

[anonymous user]

Just done some major pull damage to my left calf muscle. In many years of cycling, football and orienteering I never felt a muscle ache that made my hearing go funny. Now sat up with an ice pack and have fingers crossed that I can use a clutch on Tuesday. scouring ebay for a cheap automatic

EFA

[Pillock]

Friday, two weeks ago. Focus broke down. Did a manual regen and refilled FAP tank, £150.

 

Week after, Focus broke down. Diagnosed EGR valve and a pressure pipe which is only available as an assembly with a sensor on. £618.

 

Driving it away from dealership, Focus broke down. They've done another manual regen and I did my unhappy face until they waived the £96 pointing out that's what they did the first time. Hilariously, the guy told my I could do it myself for driving at 80mph in 4th for 10 miles - which is both illegal and COMPLETELY FUNKING IMPOSSIBLE in a car stuck in limp mode.

 

I'm picking it up tomorrow but they've already warned me that the DPF is probably imminent and that's £1400 for the part. I shall be seeking out someone who can remove said piece of shit and flog it (at a massive loss) forthwith.

 

In other news, anyone want to buy a Ford Focus? Runs fine*.

[Bobthebeard]

Not sure if this is a grump or a grin, but here goes....

Mrs Beard had arranged that we meet up with some friends in a local restaurant for lunch. I was a bit meh about it but went along as one does....

Restaurant was noisy, full of squealing children, loud music etc. Could hardly hear the conversation. Anyhow, after about an hour of this I was seized with a massive desire to run away so mumbled some excuses about feeling ill and left. Mrs Beard and friends stayed of course...

Came home, pottered about in the garden in the sunshine, took dog for a beach run then perused autoshite...

Much better. Mrs Beard, however not pleased..

Suspect that I am weird!

[cms206]

Not sure if this is a grump or a grin, but here goes....

Mrs Beard had arranged that we meet up with some friends in a local restaurant for lunch. I was a bit meh about it but went along as one does....

Restaurant was noisy, full of squealing children, loud music etc. Could hardly hear the conversation. Anyhow, after about an hour of this I was seized with a massive desire to run away so mumbled some excuses about feeling ill and left. Mrs Beard and friends stayed of course...

Came home, pottered about in the garden in the sunshine, took dog for a beach run then perused autoshite...

Much better. Mrs Beard, however not pleased..

Suspect that I am weird!

SWMBO and the in-laws are getting used to me just getting up and leaving; did it near Tiverton last year on holiday, brother-in-law raved about a pub carvery in the middle of bastard nowhere so him, MiL and SWMBO all trekked up from Exeter. It was stowed out and people were eating off their laps. I walked in, sat down, looked around, couldn't hear what they were saying and couldn't see for flies everywhere.

 

Completely lost my appetite, got up and walked back out. They eventually ate there after tryimg to get me to go back in or go somewhere else. Never ate til the next day. Did it at my birthday too in fact at a pub along the road. Hate doing it but can't deal with it at all.

[Bobthebeard]

SWMBO and the in-laws are getting used to me just getting up and leaving; did it near Tiverton last year on holiday, brother-in-law raved about a pub carvery in the middle of bastard nowhere so him, MiL and SWMBO all trekked up from Exeter. It was stowed out and people were eating off their laps. I walked in, sat down, looked around, couldn't hear what they were saying and couldn't see for flies everywhere.

Completely lost my appetite, got up and walked back out. They eventually ate there after tryimg to get me to go back in or go somewhere else. Never ate til the next day. Did it at my birthday too in fact at a pub along the road. Hate doing it but can't deal with it at all.

Am glad to be not alone!

[rml2345]

^ That. I do it quite a lot in busy places particularly and don't see why it's an issue really. Used to do it at work as the canteen was always stowed out and I couldn't be arsed with it all. A wee quiet corner where I can be found if needed is much better.

[Parky]

^ That. I do it quite a lot in busy places particularly and don't see why it's an issue really. Used to do it at work as the canteen was always stowed out and I couldn't be arsed with it all. A wee quiet corner where I can be found if needed is much better.

I do this, I hate busy places and queues and am known to walk out and thoroughly piss off the family. I have missed birthday celebrations because friends arranged stuff in busy places and I have sneaked out as early as I can. Seems odd to have people call the next day saying what a great night it was - i wasn't bloody there! I would rather just have an evening of contemplation on birthdays.

[Cheggers]

I do this, I hate busy places and queues and am known to walk out and thoroughly piss off the family. I have missed birthday celebrations because friends arranged stuff in busy places and I have sneaked out as early as I can. Seems odd to have people call the next day saying what a great night it was - i wasn't bloody there! I would rather just have an evening of contemplation on birthdays.

I do exactly the same thing! We should meet up, I know a really good place...oh no...maybe not

 

 

 

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[saucedoctor]

I'm the same. I can't deal with large or even large-ish groups of people. My folks arranged for a bunch of our extended family to come to theirs for my 40th birthday last year, despite my protestations. While it was nice to see all my cousins etc, 30 odd people in a 1400 sq ft house was very trying. I was glad to get home to my own gaff!

 

At least they didn't all come - there's about 250 of them!

[MrDuke]

My family are fully aware of my inabilities to cope with noisy, rammed places (or even quietish, moderately busy places) so there's never any bad feeling when I walk out, or just refuse to go in at all. In fact, they tend to get worried about me on the rare occasions that I do stay in such places appearing to enjoy myself, as it's throroughly unlike me.

It's a bit odd really, considering how much I used to genuinely LOVE going to raucous packed-out bars, clubs and gig venues when I was younger. Something went slightly awry when I hit my late twenties, obviously.

[twosmoke300]

Im sooo at home on here its scary.

[purplebargeken]

Likewise. 

[purplebargeken]

Just chased off two dickhead kids aged about 10. There is a neighbours cat that seems to have decided that it likes to greet me each and every time I leave the house or work on the car outside. It's a lovely cat, very friendly and affectionate, she's a real sweetheart.

 

These two little bastards were tormenting her and one threw a stick at her whilst she was in our front. I was out of the house like a shot, I said that if I saw them do anything like that again I would rip their fucking heads off. They went away for a while and then cycled slowly past the house but never did anything. Little fuckwits psychopaths. 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I don't have a fear or weakness for busy places! i just don't like em.

[Skizzer]

I don't think that's weird. Wanting to be in a carvery chock full of yowling kids and shouting, pissed adults is weird. Luckily my missus feels the same way.

 

And I don't do birthdays. If you never want me to speak to you again, just take me to a 'fun' chain restaurant and tell them I want the sparklers-and-singing dessert treatment. Just try it. See what happens to YOUR F***CKING LEGS.

[MrDuke]

Just chased off two dickhead kids aged about 10. There is a neighbours cat that seems to have decided that it likes to greet me each and every time I leave the house or work on the car outside. It's a lovely cat, very friendly and affectionate, she's a real sweetheart.

 

These two little bastards were tormenting her and one threw a stick at her whilst she was in our front. I was out of the house like a shot, I said that if I saw them do anything like that again I would rip their fucking heads off. They went away for a while and then cycled slowly past the house but never did anything. Little fuckwits psychopaths. 

 

 

Next time you see them, throw some sticks at them. Nice, long 2x4 sticks, with large nails that you stupidly forgot* to remove first.

[beko1987]

Half of the Thames valley constabulary fucking hared round the ring road our house is next to and fucked off towards town...

 

Its hot so the windows are open

 

I now have this...

 

 

Thanks for that, dickheads...

[purplebargeken]

I need no real provocation to be brutally honest. The entire area is filled with dickheads who drive like twats, shout and scream at each other in the street, throw whatever knackered household furniture out onto the pavement so that the council will remove it, lob carrier bags full of half eaten food shite onto the pavement and walk away, drive up and down the fucking road with their twatmusic blaring out at 3am, and if they meet another car half-way down, they will try and squeeze past, making a narrow road into a four car supertwat highway or threaten to knife you in the heart if you don't move.

 

If anyone decided to nuke London, I would happily paint the biggest fuck off target right smack, bang in the middle of this place. I really bloody would. Never have I hated a place and its populace so thoroughly and completely as I do Edmonton. If we do not move when I retire in 4 1/2 years I will simply snap. You may hear about it in the news. 

[Lord Sterling]

I need no real provocation to be brutally honest. The entire area is filled with dickheads who drive like twats, shout and scream at each other in the street, throw whatever knackered household furniture out onto the pavement so that the council will remove it, lob carrier bags full of half eaten food shite onto the pavement and walk away, drive up and down the fucking road with their twatmusic blaring out at 3am, and if they meet another car half-way down, they will try and squeeze past, making a narrow road into a four car supertwat highway or threaten to knife you in the heart if you don't move.

Sounds like the area I used to live in back in Birmingham. It's had it's ups and downs, for a fair chunk the area was pretty quiet and problem free, but in Summer last year I really finally had my eyes opened. Some arsehole of a problem family was moved into the privately tented house a couple of doors up, some of the kids became of age and started acting like complete dickheads, families started clashing and screaming at each other at the slightest of provocation (usually caused by thier kids not getting along) like an episode of Jeremy Kyle. Seemingly the hot summer brought out the worst in the natives, now even Ma_Sterling wants to move away.

 

As shit as my job is here working with some right miserable bastards, at least I'm not still in that part of Birmingham.

[Cavcraft]

I'm not really arsed about busy places, either. Gone from never missing a day in the canteen and having a three course meal, to grabbing a butty and playing darts with my oppo at work. Much more fun in quieter surroundings. 

[purplebargeken]

It used to be a bit more reasonable round here, then as the older householders died the houses were sold off to 'developers' and rented out to any fuckwits. The Polish gypo's next door have scarpered after illegally rigging up the electricity in such a way it was a fire waiting to happen. The place is being gutted now and fixed up, but who knows what the next lot will be like. Maybe the landlord will be a bit more sensible now. I won't hold my breath. The road really is like Little Romania', well not just the road, the area. There is also a high Turkish population which is okay and means we get good fresh bread and a surfeit of Kebab houses but there are 3 'social clubs' on the main road and our road is convenient for parking. It's just the couldn't care less attitude that does my head in. I am just really tired of it all. 

 

I would move tomorrow but Ben has just got his first teaching job about 5 miles away and Mrs. PBK isn't ready to move out of London just yet. 4 1/2 years and counting every bastard day.

[Lankytim]

That's basically what happens. People get old and die, the local factory closes so people move away, the result is lots of cheap vacant houses that are bought up by buy-to-let landlords who couldn't care less the kind of tenants they put in the houses so you end up with people who have been kicked out of the last 10 rented houses they were given and have been dumped in a house in your area. This continues until all the nice people are bullied away and all your left with is drug dealing scum who haven't done an honest days work in their lives who are intent on destroying the neighbourhood. Soon you find smashed up properties littering the area, sofas/mattresses dumped in the street and a 10000000% increase in burglaries, muggings and antisocial behaviour.  But lets face it, if the landlords are making a few quid who gives a fuck?

[plasticvandan]

Had a problem when the house next door to where I grew up was sold to polish property letters,who let it out to a bunch of noisy druggies. I got them evicted eventually,but my solution to them releasing noise and smoke was to do the same,autoshite style!! (1927 Petter m type 2 stroke stationary engine in case your wondering,and the fuel had been in for some years,and hadn't been run for 2 years,so was even smokier than normal

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_sH5Oq-Oa04

[Bren]

Just gone to give the busa a blast - a whirring noise but little else.

 

Battery has gone thanks to the useless data tool alarm that was still going off after i had removed the battery.

 

10.9 volts wont start anything.

[hairnet]

I need no real provocation to be brutally honest. The entire area is filled with dickheads who drive like twats, shout and scream at each other in the street, throw whatever knackered household furniture out onto the pavement so that the council will remove it, lob carrier bags full of half eaten food shite onto the pavement and walk away, drive up and down the fucking road with their twatmusic blaring out at 3am, and if they meet another car half-way down, they will try and squeeze past, making a narrow road into a four car supertwat highway or threaten to knife you in the heart if you don't move.

 

If anyone decided to nuke London, I would happily paint the biggest fuck off target right smack, bang in the middle of this place. I really bloody would. Never have I hated a place and its populace so thoroughly and completely as I do Edmonton. If we do not move when I retire in 4 1/2 years I will simply snap. You may hear about it in the news. 

friend got so pissed off with headcasemonton he moved to brecon

 

only goes back to visit faaaaaammmllllyyyyyyyy

[hairnet]

taking some cups and plates downstairs i stood on the gripper on the stair (we haz no carpet we iz northern etc) jumped 2 foot inthe air and the half empty mug went up in the air tea up the wall and down the bannister

 

didnt drop the mug tho

 

foot hurts like fuck now tho

 

[holbeck]

taking some cups and plates downstairs i stood on the gripper on the stair (we haz no carpet we iz northern etc) jumped 2 foot inthe air and the half empty mug went up in the air tea up the wall and down the bannister

 

didnt drop the mug tho

 

foot hurts like fuck now tho

I recently stepped on a plug that had been left trailing on it's flex halfway down the stairs. I found out that the brains self defence reaction is to step on the plug, not to fall down. I now have three deep wounds on the sole of my foot (no sympathy from the missus either!)

[twosmoke300]

There is little more painful than standing on a 13a plug .

 

Lego men take a close 2nd mind

[chaseracer]

Taking a kick to the man-veg might just have the edge there.

[Louise2cv]

at my second homebirth the midwife very calmly told me that the gas and air was locked in the van and nobody knew where the key was.  

 

Just saying...