The grumpy thread

[cobblers]

Spent about £700 on new front tyres and new none cheapo shit suspension for my daily ibiza cupra megaturbo because It's been good to me and not wanted anything for months. The tyres that were on had "some" tread left but I thought I'd upgrade from Kumhos to Pirellis to match the rears.

 

Driving to work today I get some megavibrations from the rear, turns out one of the back tyres is falling apart. While inspecting the tyre (Pirelli Pzero with loads of tread but was manufactured in 2003, 2 years before the car!) I noticed that one of the rear calipers must be binding and it has fucked the pads and rear disk too. 

Great stuff.

[Skizzer]

Whoever sold you a 12 year old tyre, claiming it was new, probably* owes you some money back.

 

Edit: re-reading, looks like the tyre in question wasn't one of the new ones.

[sporty-shite]

Grappling round on the floor in the rain, changing the leaky fuel tank on the Celica. Bad enough? Then my trusty 3/8" ratchet broke. Fucker.

[jakebullet]

Squeaky fart songs on the radio.

Why the sudden fashion to pay an elderly snake charmer to eat a big plate of beans and fart down his instrument?

 

Like this steaming pile:

http://youtu.be/YBHQbu5rbdQ

[STUNO]

Asked you brits to send some heat here when you were all complaining about having too much. In the time honoured routine of internet requests you got it wrong. I asked for warm, you sent more cold, Thanks. Max forecast temp for this town tomorrow is 5 C. And it's already bloody cold and many roads in the central North island closed by snow. The good bit is that salt is never used on the roads, only grit.

[Bobthebeard]

Insurance companies not updating the MID. Despite renewing the insurance ten days ago the MID still shows the Honda Accord as uninsured. Guess who got pulled over in an ANPR check? Phone call to insurers got the thumbs up and I was on my way again blameless. When I got home I rang the insurance company. They replied " Sorry sir, it can take up to 14 days to appear on the database".

 

Rubbish. They are supposed to do it within 7 days apparently. The other two cars appeared on MID within hours (different insurance company).

[Bren]

Good to see Gideon justifying his budget on the basis that we don't want to end up like Greece.

 

I Listened to a professor on qustion time prior to the election - he stated that we would end up like Greece eventually because our economy is borked. No manufacturing and too much reliance on service and banking.

 

If it does happen it will be because wages are wank - not enough paying a reasonable amount of tax and too many companies and wealthy individuals exploiting loopholes.

 

£9 an hour wage by 2020 for over 25's?

 

Do us a favour Gideon and get folding those bastard towels because you will never be a chancellor as long as you have a hole in your arse.

[Lacquer Peel]

[panhard65]

Good to see Gideon justifying his budget on the basis that we don't want to end up like Greece.

 

I Listened to a professor on qustion time prior to the election - he stated that we would end up like Greece eventually because our economy is borked. No manufacturing and too much reliance on service and banking.

 

If it does happen it will be because wages are wank - not enough paying a reasonable amount of tax and too many companies and wealthy individuals exploiting loopholes.

 

£9 an hour wage by 2020 for over 25's?

 

Do us a favour Gideon and get folding those bastard towels because you will never be a chancellor as long as you have a hole in your arse.

I suppose at least he can't fuck things up any worse than good old Gordon did though.

[purplebargeken]

Stupid cow and her kids nearly got hit by me on the pushbike. They didn't even look when crossing and were oblivious until my brakes squeaked. North London zombies. 

[saucedoctor]

Similar thing this morning. A great porker with earphones in just stepped onto a zebra crossing. Looked neither to the left or the right. Nearly got collected by me, and then a second later by an ancient Avensis taxi. Stupid fat bastard.

[nacho man]

 

eBay grump alert

 

Why is it so hard lately.

 

Looks at that address what the hell is going off.

 

I sold a old film camera a while back. and that was sent to some distribution centre and then off to the USA, even though I put UK shipping on both these items.

[fred]

Well after about a month since being here, I is now fit enough to appear again.

 

what was I thought man flu, was pnemonia after seeing my Dr stare at me and phone an ambulance as I sat in his office gasping for breath

put me in an induced coma for a week. And proceeding (They said - I was dead!) suck all the crap out my lungs and generally pump me so full of drugs

I had a week of the most fucked up dreams and I couldnt wake up. Fucking horrific.

Pulled me out of the coma over a day or so, and spent 3 days covered in tubes and rather looking like more computer than grumpy bugger.

Oh and when you see actors jump out of bed after a coma. Thats bollocks, I lost a quarter of body muscle mainly legs and arms in a week.

Onto the wards after that for a week or so,

took me 3 days just to stand up unaided for 5 seconds. 2 weeks later after physio I could walk enough for the powers that be let me home.

that was about 5 days ago, still having to excersise the arms and legs to get back up to pressure.

So chaps - I hope to god you never catch pnemonia - fucking awful illness, drowning in your own phlegm ....

So straight to the Dr's with just a sniff of a cold for me from now on ....

 

And thanks to the Heartlands staff, pulled me back from the mortal coil. Amazing guys and girls ..

And your dinners where bloody awesome, Pink custard and chocolate sponge! classic!!!!!

[twosmoke300]

So basically 2 man up pills twice a day , tube of germolene and a cuddle !

 

 

All joking aside I'm glad you are better , sounds a nasty ordeal

[stillOrange]

Oh shit!

 

Glad you're recovering

[Lord Sterling]

Yo welcome back Fred, glad you recovering. Here's to a continued progress for you and hope you'll be fitter and stronger than before.

[Parky]

Jeez Fred, that's bad! I had that 15 years ago but only need antibiotics and a week off (but I was 27 so much stronger, etc)

 

It must have been an epic strain. Thank god your doc didn't say you had a cold and sent you home with a box of Lemsip!

 

Other grump - Tube Strike. I respect the reasons but fucking up an entire city and costing millions? some folk think "yay, day off!" But I have shit to do and can't get in to do it.

[fred]

Cheers Chaps, probably would have been just a few pills, but me being a arse biscuit held back seeing the doc till the foo was in full pelt!

[michael1703]

The phrase

 

"To Be Honest"

 

Sick to death of this football manager speak idiocy that people use to start or end a sentence.

 

These annoying phrases come and go as fashions, I remember in the mid 90's, people used to start sentences with the word "basically"

 

GRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

[skattrd]

Glad you're ok Fred.

Which reminds me, I wonder how Volksy is doing, and has Hillman_Imp been around recently?

[trigger]

Glad to hear your getting better Fred.

[cort16]

Fuuuck that sounds brutal I'm glad you pulled it back .

[Volksy]

Glad you're ok Fred.

Which reminds me, I wonder how Volksy is doing, and has Hillman_Imp been around recently?

 

I'm on the mend, Still screwed together and lost a fair bit of weight since my jaw was wired together (it's released now, but still can't really eat anything solid or chew), but back at work and bimbling along. BIggest issue has been the depression that comes with times like this, but colleagues and friends have been pretty supportive. 

 

Fred, that sounds horrific, glad you're recovering. And welcome back. 

[Inspector Morose]

Just heard that another coach driver friend of mine has died from a heart attack at an early age. He wasn't unfit or even overweight.

Spent a great two weeks with him a few years back on a double man job to Sweden with the six wheel EOS including a tight moment when the fan bearings collapsed in the middle of nowhere . Best laugh had for a long time.

Not so long back he was second man on the ski coach that tragically overturned, killing a teacher. It changed him, not for the better.

Alan, sad you've gone mate, well before time.

[jakebullet]

Regular readers will know I'm mental and hate interacting with people. I'm also one of the organisers for a mentals group. When I agreed to do it it was on the understanding that I'd be the backroom boffin type, and the other organisers would do the talking.

 

Said group are having a day out tomorrow. It's one of the other organisers plans, and I'm going as a punter. Ha ha, wrong! She sends me a message, oh, BTW I'm going directly there by car, so you'll have to collect the rest of them and get the bus there.

 

Slight problem of a) I haven't a clue who the rest of them are, so stand there like a chump with a meetup sign and hope people approach me. I haven't a clue where there is. Going to be entertaining guessing when to stop the bus.

 

So I'm basically being the organiser that I hate doing without any of the information to er organise with. Plus there's 7 signed up to go, so on past performance maybe 1 or 2 will turn up. Or I can say chuff it and not go, then 15 will turn up and I'll be the bastard for ruining the day.

[cms206]

SWMBO and I have a new tumble dryer. Whilst we're waiting for her electrician cousin to rewire the sockets to a single feed for it I've been running it off a socket on the other side of our back door, via a metre long extension across the back door.

 

Just been to check the back door was locked and smelled electrical death. Tumble dryer has been on since about 8pm but seems fine. Look down and my 1-metre cable has been replaced by my 30-metre cable reel extension which is quite literally red hot and starting to melt 'cos she hadn't unfurled it at all because "it was in the way and I wanted the back door open for a breeze. :@

[vulgalour]

Close call there Fred.  What happened to Volksy's face?  I feel very out of the loop, so I'm hoping nobod else is seriously ill or dead without me noticing.

[Station]

Glad you're better Fred!!

How do they put you in an induced coma?

[skattrd]

Ebay grump, I ordered a load of bits to fit the replacement turbo to the boring and it's all here (most of it arrived on Tuesday) except 2 small silicone hoses and without them I can't finish the damn job ...  Reputable ebay seller I've used before etc. but this time they're being slow, arses. I wanted to finish the job today as I've got other shit to do tomorrow/Saturday.

 

Oh, and a slightly related grump,  Hermes, thanks for dumping the parcel in the middle of my garden, they didn't even make it the extra 20 feet to the door as I was in, I just noticed the parcel as I went out to the car

[Tetleysmooth]

Ebay grump, I ordered a load of bits to fit the replacement turbo to the boring and it's all here (most of it arrived on Tuesday) except 2 small silicone hoses and without them I can't finish the damn job ...  Reputable ebay seller I've used before etc. but this time they're being slow, arses. I wanted to finish the job today as I've got other shit to do tomorrow/Saturday.

 

Oh, and a slightly related grump,  Hermes, thanks for dumping the parcel in the middle of my garden, they didn't even make it the extra 20 feet to the door as I was in, I just noticed the parcel as I went out to the car

 

Oh blimey.

I've just bought a pair of Stone Creek workboots, and they are being delivered by Hermes.

Hope they don't turn out to be Shit Creek.