The grumpy thread

[gordonbennet]

^^^, the banks do seem to have out of the ordinary purchases in their sights, well done them.

 

The thieving low life scum who tried to use you card should have their testicles removed with a blow torch, i wouldn't have the foggiest idea how to register nor use someone else's card let alone the inclination, if those bastard actually did a creative job and put that cunning to work they'd make £millions legit.

[alf892]

I reckon I had a lucky escape......if they had gone for more normal stuff they could have got away with it.

 

Still......just going to have a few beers now and think of creative and painful ways to repay scum like this for their actions.........I'm sure some applied thought by the police could track some low life like this.

 

I quite understand why the police don't get involved.....after all what are they really going to charge them with.....and what would they get anyway.

 

Far better to chalk it up as another life lesson.........thing is I really like to think the best of people so shit like this is disappointing.

[purplebargeken]

Fecking dremel type thing died today. Fuse swap. No joy. Bastarding thing, it's only about 6 years old. 

[Pillock]

Common trick, Mrs_P found a iTunes payment for £1.20 on her card but doesn't have an iTunes account so queried it. Seems that it's a standard way of working out whether a card is still "live" or not before banging through a big purchase with an actual delivery address - the initial payment will probably have been sent to a false address so it doesn't trace back if it failed.

 

Given the scum will want to collect their two grand booty at some point, it will have an actual delivery address so the police could investigate if they wanted. If.

[Alan_Green]

My van (plus others) broken into in the Croydon Ikea car park on Tues night. Bag taken. Laptop, docs and secondary wallet gone. Cops say they were after power tools and it happens constantly to vans there and in Homebase.

 

3 days later a call from a plant nursery down the road. "We've found your bag in a hedge". Docs present and laptop working fine (after 3 days in the rain)  but backup wallet with driving licence and spare cards gone.

 

Driving licence took 5 minutes to renew online. They'll use the photo from my last passport, apparently. £20 fee. Discovered the paper counterpart in now redundant.

[M'coli]

As someone who cuts (often his own) hair, that does sound like you got what you asked for to be honest.

 

Usually, I cut a short back 'n' sides for people who usually have a number 1/2 all over and they always seem to like it.

Do you get paid for this?

[beko1987]

Doing a car boot tomorrow, which isnt a grump, but the last one we did we took the xm and had a massive pitch, and loads of room.

 

The meriva is half loaded and you already cant see out the rear view w mirror... Stupid car, looks massive but theres fuck all actual space...

[wuvvum]

My right shoulder is fucked.  I have no idea what's wrong with it - it started playing up a few months back, it's been getting steadily worse and now seems to be semi-seized, with any attempt to make any kind of unusual movement causing me fucking agony.  It's at the stage at the moment that I would struggle to drive a car without PAS (apart from the Innocenti which weighs barely more than I do).  I'm going to have to go against everything I stand for and go and see a quack, as it's starting to get properly debilitating.

[Tetleysmooth]

I'm currently having the night from hell. Was given three stores tonight. Shoreditch, Covent Garden and Waterloo Road. Just spent three effing hours at Shoreditch cause they had no room for the stock. Missed the 22.00 curfew at Covent Garden so it's going back to the depot along with Waterloo. Currently on break in Shoreditch. Oh, and the truck's playing up too. Keep getting 'clutch failed' coming up on my dashboard and the truck drops into neutral. Not good in Central London. Poxy night.

[wuvvum]

Is the truck an Iveco, perchance?

[Lord Sterling]

Do you get paid for this?

No, but I do always get offered money/a drink etc... so I don't not get 'paid'. It's just usually for (a very small number of) mates, I'd be lucky to cut 2 peoples hair a year.

[Tetleysmooth]

Is the truck an Iveco, perchance?

 

Nope. Merc Axxor.

I'm home now, thank the good lord.

Failed a few times during the run back to Thurrock, but managed to coax it back in manual shift mode.

Dumped it over the workshop.

[purplebargeken]

Next door has two wives, he alternates between them.

 

This morning at 06.30hrs he is merrily banging on the front door of wife no2, calling her name, etc. 

 

She obviously has the hump over something and is not letting him in. He has woken myself and Mrs. PBK up. I look out the window and see that her windows are wide open and she can obviously hear dickhead shouting.

 

After 20 minutes of this stupid fucking shite I bang on the wall and shout open the bloody door and let him in you assholes.

 

Silence reigns. Shame we are now wide awake. Cats think that the day has started and are now clamoring for food and to be let out.

 

Hello Sunday fucking morning.

 

I

 

hate

 

London

[HH-R]

I hate living here too, used to like it until bloke upstairs moved in. He woke me up last night (who takes their dogs for a walk after midnight?) and has woken me up this morning doing the same. I don't know how someone can make so much noise walking down some stairs. His kids are incapable of doing it without hitting the metal banister as hard as they can too.

[jakebullet]

I am shitting for England. I'm sure the olympic selection committee was round earlier, but I was on the bog.

[fordperv]

I have washed my car for the first time since going to fordfair, upon washing the scuttle I noticed that 2 of the 3 screw caps are missing, they were there when I washed it before so I am presuming the only place it could of happened is at fordfair as my car doesn't get left anywhere. Who steals screw caps that are literally pence from ford, i have spares which are now on but that's not the point why do people think it's ok to take something that's not theirs.

[Timewaster]

I have washed my car for the first time since going to fordfair, upon washing the scuttle I noticed that 2 of the 3 screw caps are missing, they were there when I washed it before so I am presuming the only place it could of happened is at fordfair as my car doesn't get left anywhere. Who steals screw caps that are literally pence from ford, i have spares which are now on but that's not the point why do people think it's ok to take something that's not theirs.

It seems to be a Ford thing.

Years ago I used to frequent Passion Ford (other gobshite sites are available) every show there were people complaining of thefts and vandalism.

Never heard of it at other one make shows.

[gordonbennet]

Yep, the low lifes never fail to amaze the cheapness of stuff they will steal.

 

I keep a pack of those Lidls wet wipes in me top locker in the lorry, had about 1/3rd a pack left so roughly 55 pence worth? yep someone lifted them...if they spilled something and used them to clean it up and just scribbled me a note on the empty pack i wouldn't give a bugger but how low do you have to stoop to filch a third of a pack of lidls wet wipes, fuck me...probably the same brain donor mentality as turds who steal screws.

[danthecapriman]

It seems to be a Ford thing.

Years ago I used to frequent Passion Ford (other gobshite sites are available) every show there were people complaining of thefts and vandalism.

Never heard of it at other one make shows.

Ages ago I had my Capri at a small meet up and some complete cunt stole all four of the little rubber block/spacer things that cushion the bonnet when closed. They just push in through little holes on the wings so easy to have away quickly. But why? They are dead cheap on ebay and there's loads of them around. Pretty sad that a so called fellow enthusiast will resort to such behaviour.

 

 

Oh, and my grump of the day is that I've burnt the top of my head with welding splatter from repairing the rear door on my Transit. The burning hair stank at the time too.

[Noel Tidybeard]

I have washed my car for the first time since going to fordfair, upon washing the scuttle I noticed that 2 of the 3 screw caps are missing, they were there when I washed it before so I am presuming the only place it could of happened is at fordfair as my car doesn't get left anywhere. Who steals screw caps that are literally pence from ford, i have spares which are now on but that's not the point why do people think it's ok to take something that's not theirs.

because fordfair

[fred]

Ford Fair - its Ford - full of Chavs who cant afford old Fords so steal bits to own little bits of classic Fords - then put em on Ebay thinking a Capri bumper stop will get them £££££££

Fecking dildo's

[Tetleysmooth]

Someone nicked the towball cover off of Mrs Tet's Pajero a while back.

So yeah, they'll pinch anything.

[purplebargeken]

Hmm, we have cleaning frenzy this morning. Deep joy.

[dollywobbler]

To be fair, we've had some nasty thefts at Citroen meets too. Someone had a load of rare interior parts stolen, from their locked car, at an International Citroen meet in Yorkshire a few years ago. Clearly some hateful arsehole who is in Citroen circles. Wankers exist in many areas.

[danthecapriman]

The most blatant theft I've had was on my old Volvo 740.

Someone bought me a set of those nice polished up metal tyre valve caps. Not something I'd usually bother with, but they did look nice with the original Volvo alloys and centre caps.

I fitted them and then parked the car off the drive on the street outside my house, to get another car out.

Literally within the space of me parking the Volvo, getting the keys for the other car and moving that then putting the Volvo back on the drive some little tosser had stolen the two valve caps on one side!

Unbelievable!

Probably some inbred kid wanting them for a bike, but you never seem to catch them doing it.

[MarvinsMom]

I had a pair of cheap plastic valve covers pinched off of the Metro over night from SWMBO's house.

 

they had union jacks on and had been free off of some magazine, and had once been silver. been such a kwaliti item the silver had gone a dark grey, but they were there just to add some interest to the reasonable shabby alloy wheel and. again to buy they cost literally pennies,

 

but some lowlife still pinched them...

 

in other news the friggin' dyson has decided that it doesn't want to spin the brush bar anymore.

 

I think its going to need a new brush bar as there are groves worn in either end of the metal rod which goes down the middle and maybe a new drive belt to the clutch.

 

and to get the damn thing to bits I'm going to have to buy a T15 torqs screwdriver as there is no way on earth that I can get the current bits and a small socket and extension bar into the tiny hole and deep enough to get at the last screw holding the cover plate on.

 

a lovely job for next weekend....

[hairnet]

think a fork seal went

 

norfolks fault

[cobblers]

Got to work this morning to find that we'd had a weekend visit from the Travelling Council Tax Avoidance Roadshow. Luckily they were gone by the time we got here this morning, but over two nights they had left about 50+ bags of rubbish strewn about the place, about ten human turds round the back of the building, kicked half the downpipes off the side of the building and left a great big pile of sick or something on the grass next to where I park my motor, and they emptied two of our biffa bins out in the floor and nicked them.

 

It's a miracle they hadn't been into the place really, cos there's thousands of pounds of test equipment (and more fittingly about 2k in scrap silver and another few hundred in batteries)

 

Dirty selfish bastards.

[Timewaster]

Now now Cobblers. That is not what happened at all.

 

As soon as the locals see travellers, they come and dump loads of rubbish and shit everywhere just to give the travellers a bad name. They are jealous of their freedom.

 

Any one who doesn't believe me or says I am wrong is a Rashalist.

[MrDuke]

Yeah Cobblers, u r spouting ETHNIC HATRED u nazi scum.