The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Why?

 

Happily cycling along on a main road, keeping a decent speed, not wobbling around or holding anyone up - so why do certain individuals feel the need to hurl verbal abuse at me? I mean WTF? Luckily I can shout louder than them and swear more creatively and quickly too.

 

I had this the other week with a black cab full of Chester race going wankers. The traffic was rammed going into town and as I cycled gently by one of the gobshites shouted 'get a fucking car'

 

Still on the grumpy but and still on the nags, the race course are clamping down on trouble related incidents by banning people bring their own ale into the grounds. Given that 102.9% of the trouble associated with the place is caused later at night from the usual shiny suited wankers, one can't help drawing the conclusion that it's sod all to do with families in cars with a bottle of wine, but the loss of revenue.

[Alan_Green]

The saddest part was he was described as 'never bothered anyone'. Just a lion that did no harm to anyone and then got hunted from the back of a Hilux, slaughtered, skinned, his head removed.............

 

Cecil "never bothered anyone"?  Well I saw an expose on the Zebra channel that claimed he was a bully who had starred in several snuff movies.  But those wildlife parks are absolutely barbaric. Why don't they build fences to keep the species apart and end the bloodshed?  And is it safe to have a dentist in America who likes beheading dumb animals? 

 

(Small print - The guy is a prat but lions aren't on the WWF endangered list. Cecil was 13 so at the end of his life. Trophy hunting can benefit conservation, but probably didn't this time. I'm allergic to cats, so biased.)

 

[Station]

Re: person harrasssing me over Scirocco bumper.

It went for £1.20. He has attempted to ring me 13 times. I swear someone on here is having jokes with me. But if not...

 

I stated on the auction 'Collection Only'. Bidder wins auction. Winner assumes 'collection only' means, collection by a courier. Winner seems to think I'm going to stay in all day, somehow print a courier label out on a printer I don't even have, and package it appropriately. If I wanted to do that, I'd put 'I can courier'. All this for £1.20. I knew I should've chucked it in the fucking River Mersey.

[purplebargeken]

Knowing the Mersey it'd bounce back and kill you.

 

Just tell him to FRO.

[purplebargeken]

Cecil. Was he a relative of Clarence? 

[nebuchenezer]

So,

 

Operation stack is in full force due to the actions of a certain group or groups of people in France. What does this mean? The M20 and all roads around are pretty fucked at the moment. 

 

But I commute by train......except, as a result of this weeks earlier cow train interface my train journey stops at Ashford (on the closed bit of the M20) and continues to Canterbury by bus which, of course is affected by the traffic hence my evening commute has been hellishly long for the last 3 days.

 

All of that I can put up with utilising my British inner stoicism.

 

But last night, on the bus, I had the  the utter pleasure of spending an hour and a half in the company of a bruderhof family - 7 of them, 6 kids and a baby dropper mother sat all around me looking like extras from a 16th century peasant convention and babbling shouting to each other in a completely uninteligable combination of bastardised dutch/german/english/fanagalo etc.

 

I have been awake for 15 hours now please just STFU 

[oldcars]

Well its been a pants day zx wise...

 

On the way home from work, on the m40, I go to idly flick a few drops of rain off...

 

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Ah, thats amusing. Wasnt raining, so carried on to the next junction and pulled over. Its snapped half the clip off on one side. Meh, got another one in the shed, I put the blade in the car and carry on. 3 miles down the road, it starts proper raining. Ffs. Almost blind, I pull into a layby, pinch the rear wiper blade and fit it to the front. Its comically small, but I can get home. Rear wiper decided it dod t want to work again the kther day, only now I can hear the motor turning but not the blade.

 

Anyhoo, get a message that a dyson I sold last week is making an odd noise. I get a new clutch and some tools ready, and head on out to fix it. Get in the car, turn it on, bangbangbangbangbang wtf...

 

The exhaust t has been getting blowier recently, I pop me head under...

 

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Cunt, its finally failed. Must have gone when I parked up, thank fuck it didnt go on the way home... Shitz what do I do now. I messaged the person saying I may be delayed or not there at all, and raid the shed. Some garden wire and dyson cable later...

 

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Reinforced up the centre section to take the weight off the end

 

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Still blows, but it didnt catch fire on the 36 mile round trip ive just done. Tbh, I checked it several times and the cable hasnt even started to melt so it must not get thst hot.

 

Ruffgeezer, please tell me how you want paying, the backbox has a tad more urgency now... Will get a centre section ordered tomorrow...

 

The rear beam is a structual part of the exhaust for the time being. Wont cause any issues will it? Not going to cane it anywhere until its fixed...

You can't get better than a Beko fitter. he's the one to trust

[scaryoldcortina]

Two grumps today -

 

First, I hate when customers of mine do stupid random stuff without even bothering to check with me. So you put your 55 plate citroen C3 in PART EXCHANGE (ffs) against a 51 plate 306 with a million dents and a kenked back axle because "someone" said the HG might have failed? WELL FUCKING DONE YOU MORON.

 

Second, TV licencing, the garage doesn't have a TV licence for a bloody good reason. Stop sending pointless threats. My defence in court would be "what television?"

 

OK, the first one annoyed me more. I hate changing pug axles, and I bet there is more wrong with it than just that. Short MoT as well *JOY*

[Alan_Green]

Should be called Operation Stuck.

 

Or Operation Stash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sYQrn018AE 

[meggersdog]

So not content with hawking their wares on the industrial site where I work gentlemen with Irish accents are now flagging motorists down.Just the other day on a country road not far from some roadworks a car coming the other way flags me down.Thinking there might have been an accident at the roadworks I stop."ah,would yer loike to buy a diesel generator" says other motorist.NO."what about a chainsaw" with that I drove off.Today it's a big silver van driving slowly through the villages flashing lights at anyone driving the other way.Ha,even pointed to a side road for me to pull into.I shook my head and drove on.

[EssDeeWon]

So not content with hawking their wares on the industrial site where I work gentlemen with Irish accents are now flagging motorists down.Just the other day on a country road not far from some roadworks a car coming the other way flags me down.Thinking there might have been an accident at the roadworks I stop."ah,would yer loike to buy a diesel generator" says other motorist.NO."what about a chainsaw" with that I drove off.Today it's a big silver van driving slowly through the villages flashing lights at anyone driving the other way.Ha,even pointed to a side road for me to pull into.I shook my head and drove on.

 

Had this the other week. Me and my GF were walking along minding our own business when a dirty Toyota Avensis stops dead on a main road and some pikey looking blokes are trying to get our attention (completely not interested in all the traffic lined up behind them) so we just ignored them. Couldn't make out a word they were saying but two stocky workmen looking types, slicked hair and wearing vests.

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[Skizzer]

I'm not defending hunting (I couldn't care either way, to be honest) but the faux-outrage shown by people who didn't even know that lion existed irks me.

 

Not a dig at anyone on here, more at the massive media storm that's doing the rounds. As others have indicated, shame that rape, murder, theft, child abuse etc etc don't generate such an outcry.

 

Fair point, and I'm the first to say that the mainstream media are a shower of irrelevant shits.  

 

But I think rape, murder, theft, child abuse etc would generate plenty of outcry if some cunt repeatedly posted photos of himself on Facebook grinning proudly over his beheaded victims, and got away scot free to carry on being smug, ignorant and rich.

[anonymous user]

Chequerplate, why?

[michael1703]

So not content with hawking their wares on the industrial site where I work gentlemen with Irish accents are now flagging motorists down.Just the other day on a country road not far from some roadworks a car coming the other way flags me down.Thinking there might have been an accident at the roadworks I stop."ah,would yer loike to buy a diesel generator" says other motorist.NO."what about a chainsaw" with that I drove off.Today it's a big silver van driving slowly through the villages flashing lights at anyone driving the other way.Ha,even pointed to a side road for me to pull into.I shook my head and drove on.

I get them at work, they're always selling nielsen tools out of brand new double cab pickups.

 

This guy had 1mm cutting discs and flap discs.

I pay about 87p for decent discs so I felt a barter session coming on, I got him down to 40p a disc and then got a load of flap discs thrown in and got the lot for £40, I then broke the bombshell I didn't have any cash, so he took a cheque

[richardmorris]

Did he give you a receipt?

[twosmoke300]

Chequerplate, why?

I'm guessing that is aimed at landrovers with half an acre of the tacky , cover up all the shit , Dakar wannabe shit screwed in place with secondhand odd woodscrews !

Why indeed

[vulgalour]

I've been taking out a full length keying on a C-Max that belongs to Mike's brother.  Proper mates rates and whatnot which I have no issue with and I underestimated the scale of the job.  It needs bits of the sills and arches doing too, but it's all stuff I'm capable of.  The car is due to be collected tomorrow and it was agreed it could come back again as I'd likely not get it all done this week.

 

Anyway, long story short is that I'd actually managed to elimate the keying, which is no mean feat on a metallic grey car as far as I'm concerned, and had put the final coat of lacquer on so I could polish it all and have the most horrible bit of repair all done ready for him tomorrow.  But the lacquer reacted with something and I've spent the whole day undoing much of the previous day's work.  I'm exhausted.  Today I started my regular job at about 10am and I finished at the garage at 9pm and it's not the first time I've done that this week.  I hate when a job goes wrong like that, it harms my sense of professional pride because now I have to hand the car back unfinished when it was going to be handed back perfect.

 

Oh well.  Just one of those things I suppose.  I'll feel better for a sleep I imagine.

[purplebargeken]

Have a good kip mate, sounds like you deserve it.

[anonymous user]

I'm guessing that is aimed at landrovers with half an acre of the tacky , cover up all the shit , Dakar wannabe shit screwed in place with secondhand odd woodscrews !

Why indeed

Correct, I am looking at Land Rovers, I'm finding it very hard to find any that aren't plastered in it, if it's not on the outside it's on the inside, or both.

[twosmoke300]

That's why I was so glad to find the one I bought of brookjm/ essexman .

[Taff]

Fair point, and I'm the first to say that the mainstream media are a shower of irrelevant shits.

 

But I think rape, murder, theft, child abuse etc would generate plenty of outcry if some cunt repeatedly posted photos of himself on Facebook grinning proudly over his beheaded victims, and got away scot free to carry on being smug, ignorant and rich.

He hasn't committed any crimes, mate. He got duff advice from his guides and He's guilty of poor judgement, maybe, but nothing illegal. Certainly being smug & rich aren't against the law.

Selling licenses for culling animals such as this raises a lot of much needed income when done properly & happens often. The alternative was letting the animal die naturally and not raising any income. Either way the animal is just as dead, but when a license is sold, revenue is generated which can be used in the region (although probably not in this case).

I'm in no way condoning what he did but I think the whole over-reaction is amusing.

Certainly no reason for the way some Internet mongs have responded to him, threatening him & his family.

[Skizzer]

I strongly disagree with most of that, but this isn't the place for it.

[fred]

Well spent 3 hours on my knees weeding the back garden, fuck me Ive seized up....and the front driveway is 3 times as big - and is Triffid filled....may get a drill on a stick with a flap wheel and try that tomorrow, my ole knees are just nay up to the job anymore

[beko1987]

Hormonal pregnant women, specifically the one sat on the other sofa in my house.

[robinmasters]

Should be called Operation Stuck.

 

Or Operation Stash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sYQrn018AE

 

I wasn't grumpy, but the unwelcome news that this 'hilarious' person still exists has made me so. 'Internet prankster'? Unemployed, attention-seeking fucking dickhead.

[mercrocker]

Perhaps seeing this prick will turn back Cameron's swarming mass....

[purplebargeken]

Must wear glasses as soon as I wake up:

 

Well spent 3 hours on my knees weeding the back garden

 

I read this as 'Well spent 3 hours on my knees weeing in the back garden'.

 

I thought that you must have a bladder the size of a Xantia and weren't able to pee very far.

 

I blame it on my painkillers

[Bucketeer]

No more Roadkill until September.

[Lankytim]

Why is everyone so down on Discoboy? Just a bit of fun, innit.

[Cavcraft]

Exactly, he's bought a bit of a laugh to what must be a shit place to be.