The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

You thought selling cars was a faff, i get the odd one when selling refurbed dysons but try selling childrens clothes om facebook, dont fucking bother!

 

Anyone want any 6mths to 2 years girls clothes? Will post...

[scaryoldcortina]

Just got some sad news from my dad - a woman I went to school with (and had a massive crush on when we were about 14) has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour which is likely to kill her within a year. FFS, she's only 44!

[Timewaster]

You thought selling cars was a faff, i get the odd one when selling refurbed dysons but try selling childrens clothes om facebook, dont fucking bother!

Anyone want any 6mths to 2 years girls clothes? Will post...

Sort into big bundles according to size. Sell them cheap at a baby sale.

 

Or just bin them. It's the only choice.

[meshking]

Sort into big bundles according to size. Sell them cheap at a baby sale.

 

Or just bin them. It's the only choice.

We found that nearly new, such as nct sales, were quite painful and only brand new with tags sold. You used to be able to sell bundles by weight but I think the market dropped. But absolutely don't put a damp items in the pile before you head to the weigh shop, if you can find one.

[chaseracer]

Two raffles yesterday and I won neither of them.

 

This site just isn't what it used to be guys.

 

He has no pride, this man.  Ah no, hang on...

 

[dave21478]

Went to the zoo yesterday. Fuck zoos. More on that in a minute.

Dotted around the place are wee snack shops to buy overpriced tins of juice and Cornettos. They all had cheapo plastic garden tables and chairs set outside to sit at. Some woman was changing her babies shitty nappy on one of them and just left the manky nappy and pile of shitty wet wipes on the table. Fuck that woman in particular. You should be allowed to throw people like that into the lions cage.

 

The zoo itself? I dunno, man. I appreciate that many do good conservation work, but I am not sure I agree with them on principal. This one though? its brand new...only opened a couple of years ago and is advertised far and wide and people reckon its excellent. 100+ hectares of animals, they claim. Well, they must be pretty fucking small hectares because we walked round the whole fucking place taking our sweet time about it and saw everything in well under two hours.

It started out badly at 75 euros entry for 4 adults and one kid. It got worse when we were left waiting in scorching midday sun and 30+ degrees temperatures to wait for the road-train thing. All aboard the ricketiest train, to find it like a fucking greenhouse as the originally open sides have been sheeted over with perspex. We chugged slowly down the valley on a broken, bumpy track through a part of the zoo you cant walk through and is probably where they get their "100+ hectares" bullshit from. It contained a sorry selection of camels, alpaca, the occasional sheep or goat and some weird deer things. Couldnt really tell for sure though as the perspex was so fucking dusty and covered in greasy handprints you could barely see through it.

Arrival at the zoo proper and you are given the worst map ever printed and left to wander round the enclosures. At two years old they had struck a surprising balance of "unfinished" vs "run-down." Broken hand rails, rutted tracks, piles of construction equipment and general buildingsite tat.

 

To their credit the animals were in apparently good condition, but the enclosures were a hell of a lot smaller than I expected for a custom built state of the art blah blah blah....

 

Also - nineteen euros for a round of ice creams and a bottle of water.

[beko1987]

Sort into big bundles according to size. Sell them cheap at a baby sale.

 

Or just bin them. It's the only choice.

A few of swmbos friends have come out of the woodwork and want a rummage. This will happen whilst im at work! So its turned into a grin!

[xtriple]

I hate zoos with a passion. When my wife used to take the girls, I always refused to go. I took my son to  Paignton zoo when he was about 5 and I left the place nearly in tears.

 

The bear rocking backwards and forwards as captivity had driven it insane was truly a sight to see. Not in a good way

[fred]

I hate zoos with a passion. When my wife used to take the girls, I always refused to go. I took my son to  Paignton zoo when he was about 5 and I left the place nearly in tears.

 

The bear rocking backwards and forwards as captivity had driven it insane was truly a sight to see. Not in a good way

No not a great lover of Zoos - went to Dudley Zoo years ago, and a Polar bear was doing the same. I was but a kid but knew he was mentally fucked up being stuck in a concrete box with a pool

[vulgalour]

Just got some sad news from my dad - a woman I went to school with (and had a massive crush on when we were about 14) has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour which is likely to kill her within a year. FFS, she's only 44!

That's miserable news.

[RobT]

I'll join in with the insurance grumps. Been looking at replacing the 75 with an HH-R, so a smaller car with similar giffer tendencies. Elephant want another £103 to swap it over. WTF? Their cancellation admin fee is £40 or something so I may just do that and sod off back to pre-96 land where classic insurance is a lot more straightforward, and cheaper. Shame really as the car in question is a T-series 420 being sold locally.

[tooSavvy]

..But absolutely don't put a damp items in the pile before you head to the weigh shop, if you can find one.

We have a 'weigh in' shop, just down Wallsend high street.

 

Hmmm.. A factor in my car insurance premium rating, I wonder?

 

TS

[Aston Martin]

I forgot to tell you about part of my medical. I was honest and for the first time declared that I need glasses for driving. I brought my glasses and prescription... Pointless, I assumed he'd ask me to read the usual chart at a distance. I assumed wrong, because I was honest I had to go to specsavers for a stamp.

 

My prescription was from December 22nd, "that's over 6 months, we'll have to do checks and the stamp is £10."

 

20 minutes later, I do some weird pupil squiggly line, clicker test. I try and pay and the card machine uses the phone line, all the phones are being used, so it won't go through. 5 minutes later. I'm all sorted.

 

 

I don't know who organised this racket, but I'd like to get in on it.

[UltraWomble]

TBH There is so much I am grumpy with right now I wish that I could fuck right off and live in the middle of nowhere with no one else for miles around.

 

Trouble is unless I move to deepest Wales I cant afford to do that.

[chaseracer]

I don't know who organised this racket, but I'd like to get in on it.

Everything's a feckin racket, and most people are sheep.

 

[Station]

There's power though as the clock is working. I went to try it again and nothing happened. As in no lights on the dash and no noises. The clock went off and reset.

 

Will take the battery off and charge it though I don't know why as it was fine this morning.

 

If nothing then I'll have to get an auto electrician in

Power to accessories is on a different circuit to dashboard and alternator and starter. The battery bulb goes straight to the alt.

[purplebargeken]

 

 

TBH There is so much I am grumpy with right now I wish that I could fuck right off and live in the middle of nowhere with no one else for miles around.

 

I hear you brother, do I fucking hear you.

 

Falling Down is where I am about a gnat's bollock hair from.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Power to accessories is on a different circuit to dashboard and alternator and starter. The battery bulb goes straight to the alt.

Too it off and within about 5 minutes the charger was showing a green light. Water in one of the cells was lowish so topped it up and the car started ok

 

So it's a buggered battery. As far as I know, they don't make square pins one anymore

[Sloth in a bowl]

Too it off and within about 5 minutes the charger was showing a green light. Water in one of the cells was lowish so topped it up and the car started ok

 

So it's a buggered battery. As far as I know, they don't make square pins one anymore

 

 

There's a part for that at http://www.eurocarparts.com/battery-terminal cheap to.

[cort16]

I decided to take the wing off my Cortina to make welding up the floor a bit easier.

 

Oldcarcrap by cort16, on Flickr

 

Hmm, I don't believe I ordered the crispy fried A - pillar. Balls.

 

Oldcarcrap by cort16, on Flickr

 

So I'll be taking the door off tomorrow then? I hope to fuck the door mountings are okay. 

[beko1987]

Lick its headlights, thatll show it...

[dollywobbler]

I have man flu. There, that's a proper feeble grump.

[twosmoke300]

Would you like a lemsip and a cuddle ?

[twosmoke300]

 

 

Or some of these perhaps?

[skattrd]

If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it in dictionary... Somewhere between shit and syphilis.

[dollywobbler]

Would you like a lemsip and a cuddle ?

 

My sister-in-law made me a Lemsip last night. I actually asked her if she'd put the powder in as it just tasted like hot water to me...

 

I would like a cuddle, but Mrs DW is doing a jigsaw and keeping her distance instead. Leaving me free to peruse Ebay...

[beko1987]

I had to man up and work through my cold, since sneezing all my sinal fluid out though ive been fine!

[purplebargeken]

I get one cold a year, always at fecking christmas. 100% guaranteed. 

[EssDeeWon]

I get one cold a year, always at fecking christmas. 100% guaranteed. 

 

Same here, every year. I am always dog rough in that bit between christmas and new year.

[twosmoke300]

 

 

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