The grumpy thread

[MrDuke]

  On 01/05/2015 at 21:22, Cavcraft said:

It seems it's almost unthinkable that a bloke doesn't like boxing. I have no idea who's fighting, I care even less who wins, but some people I know can't get their heads round that.

 

Almost as bad as not liking football. Admitting to it will provoke a similar reaction to admitting that you have carnal knowledge of domestic animals.

[TimothyClaypole]

Try the "triple" of not having a tv licence. 

[Danblez]

  On 01/05/2015 at 23:12, MrDuke said:

Almost as bad as not liking football. Admitting to it will provoke a similar reaction to admitting that you have carnal knowledge of domestic animals.

I feel your pain, try admitting it when you work in Liverpool, they look at me like I am the devil incarnate.

[AlabamaShrimp]

So turns out my new job might not be permanent as told. Passed the test they wanted me to do but then got told I'd be rung in the week if they needed me.

 

Not sure what to do now it's a big drive to and from there everyday. Been rung by some other bloke two times this week asking if I want to work for him, he's closer but it's only a big shed in his garden,i will get to work on my own though.....

[Station]

Became a road rage victim earlier on. A Man in Nissan patrol slams brakes on because I was tail gating. Got out of his car, and started threatening me. Gave back just as good, he threatened to run me over. Told him I'm phoning the police. Got back in his car.

I followed him, he got out of his car and became really apologetic. Told him to go fuck himself and get back in his car. Police were round the corner and I got them to pull over and I assume they went after him. His face was a picture. I'm not going to be threatened by anyone and I'm not going to back down from road ragers , especially a knuckle dragging mouth breather in a ONE LIFE LIVE IT 4x4. And one that backs down once I threaten with police. Be a man, you big wet lump.

[Pillock]

  On 30/04/2015 at 22:14, FPB7 said:

Fuck. I need to go on a long long walk.

Or find a closer pie shop.

[Inspector Morose]

Cheeky bastard.

[greengartside]

Bit of a long grump so please bear with me...

 

...any surveyors/land boundary experts on here? I've got a dilemma that I need to sort.

 

Currently planning to buy MA and FATHA GG's house, council-owned since the 80's. It's a semi-detatched and the next door neighbours have bought theirs from Council.

 

FATHA GG was not very well when we moved into the house and so couldn't look after a part of our back garden as it was too much work (garden had some old lean-to's and was in a bad way), so neighbour pipes up and asks if he can rent the land off dad, to which he says yes and it's all cleared by the Council etc.

 

A few months later, some official-looking people in suits are measuring up the garden - dad is confused but doesn't think anything of it. Next thing he knows is that neighbour pops his head over the fence and says 'that bit of land at the back? Well I've bought it, so don't come down there again', or words to that effect. Dad obviously is displeased about this and refuses to speak to neighbour again. He is still rather ill at this point and so just wanted an easy life and didn't want the hassle.

 

Now as I'm planning to move in then I'd like to know exactly what the truth of this land ownership really is.

 

I cannot see any logicial explaination as to why he has 'bought' this land - surely dad would have to have been consulted and then had to sign papers saying he was happy for the Council to sell the land to him? Dad received nothing, just what neighbour verbally said to him.

 

I've checked on the Council website as it has a pdf file of the plots of land boundaries for the whole village and surprise surprise, the drawing clearly shows the land still belongs to us (it was updated in 2013 so fairly recent)

 

I don't know what to do next, I don't want to go to neighbour and start shouting the odds at him because he may well own the land legit. Just think it's odd because 1) he just verbally said he owns the land, 2) no written confirmation of land movement of ownership and 3) land is still showing to us as being ours.

 

Any advice welcome, ta.

[andy18s]

Stick a fence upon the council's defined boundary, then let him Prove he is the landowner

[AlabamaShrimp]

What he said ^^

[Richard]

Can't you go to the council and ask? You're entitled to know what you're paying rent for.

[MrDuke]

  On 02/05/2015 at 09:02, Station said:

Became a road rage victim earlier on...

 

Tailgating + verbal abuse + refusal to accept an apology does not a victim make. Well done for showing him how a Real Man acts, though.

[Station]

What a twot! Start lowering yourself to his snidy level by marking your territory.

[Station]

  On 02/05/2015 at 12:45, MrDuke said:

Tailgating + verbal abuse + refusal to accept an apology does not a victim make. Well done for showing him how a Real Man acts, though.

It boils down to verbal abuse, if someone threatened to kill someone on a train, they'd be arrested. Why is different for road users? I wasn't tail gating as such, I was too close though, I'll admit that, and it's a problem, but it was for seconds from a red light. I think he'd just seen red and had maybe a bad morning. I'm not accepting an excuse (he didn't apologise) after he threatened to kill me and run me over. There was no excuse for his actions.

The police went round to his, I hope he's ashamed of himself.

[greengartside]

  On 02/05/2015 at 12:35, Richard said:

Can't you go to the council and ask? You're entitled to know what you're paying rent for.

 

I'll be going to the council anyway to ask about owning the house so I will mention it when I'm there. From the sounds of it, seems to be looking good for us...

[dugong]

  On 02/05/2015 at 13:04, Station said:

It boils down to verbal abuse, if someone threatened to kill someone on a train, they'd be arrested. Why is different for road users? I wasn't tail gating as such, I was too close though, I'll admit that, and it's a problem, but it was for seconds from a red light. I think he'd just seen red and had maybe a bad morning. I'm not accepting an excuse (he didn't apologise) after he threatened to kill me and run me over. There was no excuse for his actions.

The police went round to his, I hope he's ashamed of himself.

Er....pass. 

 

Do you want me to bring an Enkei up north for you to try on the Nippa? Your phone's off and your PM box is full, mate.

[Timewaster]

  On 02/05/2015 at 12:10, andy18s said:

Stick a fence upon the council's defined boundary, then let him Prove he is the landowner

Personally I'd weedkiller up to the boundary. But then I can be a small petty man.

[Station]

My old phone is broken and I have a brand new phone now, unfortunately it's an 073 number which is unrecognised by any networks so it doesn't work (in hindsight a possible mistake by Vodafone doing that). Did I tell you I was meant to be at my mates in London at 10am. I can't because I've been back and forth from Vodafone and Carphone Warehouse since 9am and it's still not sorted and I need a phone working for this weekend especially. I should've stuck to my 15 year old Nokia 5310.

[dugong]

Admiral Insurance. 

[EssDeeWon]

  On 02/05/2015 at 13:10, greengartside said:

I'll be going to the council anyway to ask about owning the house so I will mention it when I'm there. From the sounds of it, seems to be looking good for us...

 

Sorry to be pessimistic (I don't want to be) but I don't think it does look good from what I have read.

 

Your dad handed over use of the land to the neighbour, so if the council want to sell this plot to the neighbour then they can, after all it is their land, they can sell it to whoever they want, effectively.

 

However, it is strange that the boundaries plan show this still part of your dads garden, but the paperwork proving the neighbour purchased that land from the council will be the gospel at the end of the day, not the boundary planner.

[greengartside]

Righto, thanks for that. I will ask the council when I go and see them and get it confirmed either way.

[doobietoo]

Why did 3 of the 4 diesel injectors I am taking off the rover slide out sweet as you like and the 4th wont budge for love or money I hate sods law....

[EssDeeWon]

  On 02/05/2015 at 17:16, greengartside said:

Righto, thanks for that. I will ask the council when I go and see them and get it confirmed either way.

 

Unless..........the neighbour was bluffing and never purchased so much as a blade of grass! He could of just got the council round to measure up the plot then tell your dad he has bought it.

[hairnet]

  On 01/05/2015 at 21:22, Cavcraft said:

It seems it's almost unthinkable that a bloke doesn't like boxing. I have no idea who's fighting, I care even less who wins, but some people I know can't get their heads round that.

last time i watched boxing it was rocky 4 or the olympics

 

[greengartside]

  On 02/05/2015 at 17:38, EssDeeWon said:

Unless..........the neighbour was bluffing and never purchased so much as a blade of grass! He could of just got the council round to measure up the plot then tell your dad he has bought it.

This sounds about right to be honest. It's not as though he's using the land either. If I did manage to reclaim the land then I shall be posting up some HOT SHERPA SLIDEY DOOR ACTION as there is our old van sat there that's been idle for 30 years.

[Cavcraft]

My computer is having an epic spazz fit recently, as do others (in my house) running off my wifi thing. Here, eBay and many other internet pages/forums etc can often take an absolute age to load up and my missus can't access her fave online bingo site. 

 

I've done a test and download speed is 49.73mb/s and the upload speed is 10.16mb/s, does that mean anything? I'm using the perennially hateful and f*ck*ng awful Windows 8 by the way.

[jakebullet]

Ma recently made everyone suffer by watching that poldark thing on the haunted fish tank. I may have remarked "thank fuck that's over" a little* too loudly, as she's dusted off the vhs of the original series.

 

WHY? It's exactly the same, but with more bad wigs and shonky doctor who reject sets. Not like it's going to have a better plot is it?

[HH-R]

Those speeds are excellent. It may be worth switching your wireless router off/on again, though if it's working at those speeds there should be no bother web browsing.

[EssDeeWon]

  On 02/05/2015 at 21:13, HH-R said:

Those speeds are excellent. It may be worth switching your wireless router off/on again, though if it's working at those speeds there should be no bother web browsing.

 

^That was what I thought.

 

In the 21st century 99.93% of device issues are resolved by switching off and on again.

[gordonbennet]

  On 02/05/2015 at 21:16, EssDeeWon said:

^That was what I thought.

 

In the 21st century 99.93% of device issues are resolved by switching off and on again.

 

How does that work when steer and brake by wire become common place?      Hello tree.