The grumpy thread

[Negative Creep]

With my continuing smashed window saga, the mother has agreed to pay my £75 excess. Bad news is that it won't be fixed until Friday since apparently the glass that did arrive was scratched. Rather annoyed about this since I only have a sheet covering the window, have to get in and out the passenger side, can't go above 30mph and am in constant fear of it being nicked

[Inspector Morose]

Oh dear.  Sideboard/Tupperware swap not going well?

Not exactly a swap more of an addition. Due to my unique car storage facilities my Rovers insurer won't touch it with a barge pole. Nor will the majority of other classic insurers for some unexplainable reason. My insurer for the BX won't touch it due to the postcode even though it is exactly the same details on the BXs policy but they're happy with that.

 

Admiral is the cheapest on a normal policy and quoted 400 but wouldn't let me go any further on line saying I'll get an added bonus as the car is considered a classic. Yup, they want an extra 500 on top.

 

I hate my postcode. But I'm not giving up yet.

[chaseracer]

Park it outside Julian's house.  An Edgbaston postcode should swing it... 

[anonymous user]

I love Harissa. I make my own, don't you know? When I'm not laying on of hands with the K-series, that is

I assume that you wash your hands in between or are K seal and oil in the ingredients?

[Pillock]

I'm at the Cinema. I don't mind the cinema, however the "film" starts at 5pm - it's now 5.01 and we have adverts. I wonder when then film (that I've paid to see) starts and the adverts (which line Cineworlds pockets) end.

[HH-R]

Probably about half past... then you'll have 15 mins of trailers to sit through...

[scaryoldcortina]

^ See also recent DVDs with unskippable trailers before the main menu appears.

[Pillock]

28 minutes.

[Richard]

Invoice Cineworld for half an hour an NMW. Personally I would invoice them from the time I left the house to the time I got home but I'm not a big cinema fan.

[Pillock]

They tricked me with a "short". It wasn't the film. That made it 38 minutes.

[michael1703]

I'm at the Cinema. I don't mind the cinema, however the "film" starts at 5pm - it's now 5.01 and we have adverts. I wonder when then film (that I've paid to see) starts and the adverts (which line Cineworlds pockets) end.

We went to see the last bond film,think it was due to start at 7pm,we get there at 6.45 and people are seated while there are adverts being played,then there was endless adverts featuring daniel Craig in adverts for alcohol,watches,computers,phones, you name it,the blue eyed bond endorsed it.

 

It was almost 8oclock before the film started, I was tired and bored and wanted to go home by that point

[Pillock]

I just don't get it. I've paid to see that, it was £30 for a family of four. I reckon there's 600 seats, so let's say it's half full which makes 75 families, or £2250. They show it 6 times per day, £13k or so. I'd like to know how much a film costs to buy in so they have to sell advert space to make cash.

[Station]

Just thought about films I've been to see in my life:

 

Temple of Doom 1986

Last Crusade 1989

Batman 2 1993

Mars Attacks 1997

Terminator Salvation 2011

 

Do they still have intermission with that BA BAAA BA BAAA B B B BAAA music? Haha

[chaseracer]

If AS did kino ads...

 

http://cinematreasures.org/video/old-cinema-intermission-ads-from-the-70s-80s

[anonymous user]

Do they still have intermission with that BA BAAA BA BAAA B B B BAAA music? Haha

I have not been to a cinema for years, but that tune is called Asteroid, accompanying the Pearl and Dean adverts, which showed things like a photograph of an (empty) Indian Restaurant, only 300 yards from the cinema.

[chaseracer]

...the Pearl and Dean adverts, which showed things like a photograph of an (empty) Indian Restaurant, only 300 yards from the cinema.

 

Plus, in 1980s Malvern, "gentlemen's outfitters" FL Cox & Son, the catastrophically unfashionable apparel modelled by people I went to school with who had a Saturday job there.  The piss was mightily ripped if they happened to be present...

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Holy shit, it's still there... http://www.coxofmalvern.co.uk/

[cobblers]

Actually paying to watch films is a fucking mugs game, it's ridiculous really because I'd rather not just steal it off the internet but when the options are:

Going to watch it at the Cinema, driving 8 miles, parking the car on a well ropey carpark then paying £7 to watch half an hour of adverts and have the film spoiled by cunts making a row all over the place

Buy the film on DVD for £20 off the internet, wait a couple of days for it to arrive, dig the DVD player out of the cupboard then watch a load of adverts before I can actually see the film in medium ish definition. I don't have a blue ray player so no hope of proper HD stuff

 

Or just download the blue ray rip for nowt off the internet in about half an hour then watch it in 100% mega top quality in my own living room.

[michael1703]

And then the missus has ammunition to trot out the line

 

"We never go out"

 

We're out all the time but she makes out she is chained to a sink

[fred]

Aye the Pearl and Dean music is still there - last time I went was to watch Titanic - bloody thing sunk in the end, just like I thought it would, thought Hollywood would have made Lenny Cappo di monte do a heroic thing and save the ship, but the useless bugger died

[Alan_Green]

Can't wait for the release of Titanic 2.

[wuvvum]

^ I actually saw that on the telly.  It was thunderously shit.

[Alan_Green]

Titanic 2 exists? Impossible. Next you'll be telling me cats don't taste of chicken.

[Jerzy Woking]

My nan and grandads names were Pearl and Dean. We used to call them Granma and Granpa pa pa pa papa pa pa pa papa pa pa.

[Inspector Morose]

You are Milton Jones AICMFP

[jakebullet]

I miss proper cinema. Where the poor old lady would flog you a warm carton of orange juice, n you never got to have a cornetto that was fucking massive compared to the normal ones in shops.

[M'coli]

We're a bit spoiled, we've got a proper small-town picture house that we can walk (or drive) to, pay about £6 then another £2 for a bag of sweets, just enough adverts and then whatever they're showing that night.

[dave21478]

The nearest cinema to me is about the size of my living room and has two rows of double seats that look suspiciously like they have been removed from an old coach.

[dave21478]

I bought a 1/4" drive socket set to keep in the car. Guaranteed for life, apparently.

The ratchet broke first time I used it. No excessive force, just a "plink" noise and it freewheels. I took it back to the shop.

Ratchets are not part of the guarantee. Why? Because FUCK YOU, thats why.

"But I only..."

"No."

I buy a single replacement ratchet. Same brand, same model.

IT DOESNT FIT IN THE MOTHERFUCKING PLASTIC CASE. The handle is about half an inch too long.

I take it all back to the shop.

"eh, shame. Not changing it though."

 

 

No, its not the end of the world, but the smallest things are getting right on my nips these days.

[stillOrange]

That Halfords?

[purplebargeken]

Cut 1/2" of bastard too long ratchet, it'll fit then and will void what laughingly passes for a warranty anyway just 'cos does.