The grumpy thread

[LightBulbFun]

3 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Sorry...should have been clearer...3/8" BSF.

 

is there a specific length your looking for or?

Iv just done a quick search with the term "3/8 BSF high tensile bolts", and I seem to be pulling up actual listings, I think so im happy to have a search for you  

[beko1987]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Additional grump:

eBay and Amazon.

Why is the *entire first page* of search results "sponsored results" which have absolutely nothing to do with my search terms?!?

Trying to look for 3/8" high tensile bolts on eBay just now, and it's making me want to tear my own face off.

Same with trying to find NOS older vacuum spares. 14000 pages of utter shit to sift through. Of course if you tick 'hoover' as the brand it shows the compatible with, which is no help

[Bren]

Did my kickboxing tonight - first time since September. Lost my big toe nail.

[Fumbler]

Still ill with whatever I've got. Productivity is 0. I'm going to be marred in work now. How comforting.

[Parky]

Insurance company still fucking me about over the Mini.  But in other news the medical team said that for any personal injury claim to be assessed I have to see their physio (even though I wasn’t physically injured). Saw him tonight and sure enough, lots of Muscular damage to my neck consistent with a car accident requiring several weeks of therapy at their expense.  
 

Oh good....

[Wack]

On 11/24/2019 at 9:49 PM, robinmasters said:

Anyway, I came here to rant, not reply.

LORRIES. Fucking lorries. Get off the fucking roads. I live near the Chunnel (adopts Peter Kay voice 'Remember when the channel tunnel was called the Chunnel? Ey? D'you remember that?'), so there's a lot of lorries on the local motorway. 

We don't shop in town centres anymore. The shops that remain in town centres don't need an artic to deliver their stock, because they're only little. Put freight back on the railways, and make retailers build their massive out of town shopping centres next to railway lines-and make them pay for the freight terminal to unload the trains. 

The big haulage companies and supermarkets  replace their tractor units and trailers regularly , every 2-3 years at 150k each  , they spend millions on fuel , jobs , warehousing, all taxed which the government likes

Despite what they say it's all BS,  they want us driving and spending 

Traffic is bad because despite us having the lowest unemployment for decades nobody actually seems to be working , if they were they wouldn't be driving about all day 

[anonymous user]

5 hours ago, Kiltox said:

Been on hold to Yorkshire Bank for 45 mins now and the queue I’m currently in has a wait between the “your call is important to us” shit so short that it keeps seeming like someone is going to ACTUALLY FUCKING ANSWER MY CALL

Somewhere recently I saw a small cartoon with a chap holding his phone listening to the message "Your call is important to us, please stay on the line until your call is no longer important to you"

[xtriple]

I am SO indecisive. It is driving me mad. Can't make a decision to save my life, just vacilating constantly (which is not as much fun as it sounds for you dirty minded bastards!) without ever getting to a point where a decision is made. I know it's part of my 'illness' but really! I used to decide to do something and it was all done and forgotten about faster than I currently spend thinking/worrying about it.

My current indecision I hear you ask?

Do I get my car serviced? Do I throw it at Pete down the road who is good, cheap and local or do I do it myself?

For:

Pete will do it without any need for mucky hands on my part and the only pain will be paying and even that will be mega cheap.

Against:

Er, just the above really.

DIY, for:

Use the oil I want to use, know it's been done.

Against: not a chance in hell that I'm getting underneath, taking off undertrays and getting filthy so will have to invest in a 'Pela' pump which is extra cost. Where to store the dirty oil until I have now empty oil cans from the stuff I put back into the engine. An unexpected 'pro'to that is I've wanted to try a Pela pump thing for ages and apparently, it is a really efficient way of changing oil and gets MORE out than the 'proper' way.

Decisions decisions...

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

If i was In the land of screwfix/toolstation no probs.

Here in italy will be fun translating wood grenade !.  I'm looking forward to a visit from the local police for searching online for grenades !

[wuvvum]

17 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

I've no problem with there being a toll...

I have.  The Dartford Crossing toll was supposed to be in place just for long enough to recover the cost of construction, after which it was supposed to become free.  Instead it was sold off to Johnny Foreigner and has become, as you say, a licence to print money.

[wuvvum]

18 hours ago, Jazoli said:

Try living in the lake district, it rains all year round

To be fair though, if it didn't, it would just be "the district", which would be a bit boring.

[mrbenn]

7 hours ago, xtriple said:

Do I get my car serviced? Do I throw it at Pete down the road who is good, cheap and local or do I do it myself?

No contest, get Pete on the case! Balls to messing around in this pissing damp weather!

[stonedagain]

On 11/23/2019 at 8:38 PM, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

Gorilla Glue a dozen dildos to the wheelie bin during the night.  Leave a note "for you to fuck yourself with".

 

 

Just shop her to your local cuntcil, they can issue fines for leaving the bin out on the wrong day.

[DVee8]

On 11/24/2019 at 10:32 PM, loserone said:

We just spent a week around Dalbeattie.  Why the fuck would you take out a railway line which goes to a busy port? Half the vehicles on the A75 are lorries to or from Ireland.

We have just spent a long weekend near Dalbeattie

[loserone]

I know

[Parky]

10 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I have.  The Dartford Crossing toll was supposed to be in place just for long enough to recover the cost of construction, after which it was supposed to become free.  Instead it was sold off to Johnny Foreigner and has become, as you say, a licence to print money.

Try living next door to it over the Christmas period as Lakeside and Bluewater shoppers decide to use your town as a short cut.  Add in the occasional shunt or breakdown and the place gridlocks making going out or getting home impossible,  

I hate the crossing

[High Jetter]

38 minutes ago, DVee8 said:

We have just spent a long weekend near Dalbeattie

Were you only there an hour, in actual real time?

[DVee8]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Were you only there an hour, in actual real time?

We stayed here..https://barendholidaylodges.uk/

Wednesday to Monday

[loserone]

Oh, I have a grump!

I missed my chance to take a photo of a sign.

 

It said Straiton was left.  Bloody Scots.

[purplebargeken]

Started Gabapentin today.

Headache all day, could be the Gabapentin (hmm, doubtful), or not taking high strength co-codamol (more likely).

Potentially 25 more years of pain to look forward to. Think I'll keep hold of the co-codamol somewhere.

[New POD]

Sunday.  Orders a rug off eBay. 

Pays 5.99 for next day delivery (Tuesday) 

Arrange for in laws to be in all day (They rarely go out) 

The tracking says DPD. Didn't arrive. Seller struggles with English. 

Eventually it turns out that it was sent TNT and it failed to be loaded on Today's truck from Romford, to the North.  In laws have to go out tomorrow for 2 hours to optician.  Wife has now had to cancel stuff so she can be at her mother's to oversee the delivery.

Just what we were trying to avoid. 

Grrr. 

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, purplebargeken said:

Started Gabapentin today.

Headache all day, could be the Gabapentin (hmm, doubtful), or not taking high strength co-codamol (more likely).

Potentially 25 more years of pain to look forward to. Think I'll keep hold of the co-codamol somewhere.

Are funny cigarettes not the thing for chronic pain? Or do you get random piss tests at your work?

[New POD]

1 hour ago, purplebargeken said:

Started Gabapentin today.

Headache all day, could be the Gabapentin (hmm, doubtful), or not taking high strength co-codamol (more likely).

Potentially 25 more years of pain to look forward to. Think I'll keep hold of the co-codamol somewhere.

Gabapetin is very addictive. If you ever need to come off it seek the advice of a good pharmacist.  Took my wife 6 weeks to ween herself off after being on it for 8 weeks. 

[Zelandeth]

20 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I have.  The Dartford Crossing toll was supposed to be in place just for long enough to recover the cost of construction, after which it was supposed to become free.  Instead it was sold off to Johnny Foreigner and has become, as you say, a licence to print money.

Fair enough...to be fair I've zip in the way of knowledge of the area...London in general is one of those places I generally try to avoid if possible!

My grump right now is that I've just woken up to discover some bloody insect has been eating me while I've been asleep.  Covered in itchy bites.

Better not be sodding bedbugs, I've had the joy of trying to get rid of them before in one of the flats I stayed in ten years or so back.

[barefoot]

14 hours ago, stonedagain said:

Just shop her to your local cuntcil, they can issue fines for leaving the bin out on the wrong day.

They can, but they don't. I asked a passing council bloke with a clipboard about it and he said that the adverse publicity made them avoid doing it. My wheelie bin has been 'out' since they delivered the bloody thing 20 odd years ago. I've far too many cars on my narrow drive & if they think I'm shuffling them all about for the sake of bin day etc.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

13 hours ago, Parky said:

Try living next door to it over the Christmas period as Lakeside and Bluewater shoppers decide to use your town as a short cut.  Add in the occasional shunt or breakdown and the place gridlocks making going out or getting home impossible,  

I hate the crossing

I used to live in Gravesend and was doing a long-term teaching placement in South Thamesmead, which involved using the last turn of the M25 before the Dartford Toll.  That was unbearable at the best of times - and it wasn't Christmas and it was before the traffic really smacked it down.  The whole thing is a fucking disaster.

And the joke is that going Northbound, since they got rid of the toll booths the traffic has got worse.  Instead of having fine control over the lanes and letting cars through one-by-one dynamically based on flow and keeping it going, they shut down multiple lanes at a time and back all the traffic up.  They've lost the control they had over the traffic precisely because of losing the booths.  It's fucking stupid.

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 11/26/2019 at 12:59 AM, xtriple said:

I am SO indecisive. It is driving me mad. Can't make a decision to save my life, just vacilating constantly (which is not as much fun as it sounds for you dirty minded bastards!) without ever getting to a point where a decision is made. I know it's part of my 'illness' but really! I used to decide to do something and it was all done and forgotten about faster than I currently spend thinking/worrying about it.

My current indecision I hear you ask?

Do I get my car serviced? Do I throw it at Pete down the road who is good, cheap and local or do I do it myself?

For:

Pete will do it without any need for mucky hands on my part and the only pain will be paying and even that will be mega cheap.

Against:

Er, just the above really.

DIY, for:

Use the oil I want to use, know it's been done.

Against: not a chance in hell that I'm getting underneath, taking off undertrays and getting filthy so will have to invest in a 'Pela' pump which is extra cost. Where to store the dirty oil until I have now empty oil cans from the stuff I put back into the engine. An unexpected 'pro'to that is I've wanted to try a Pela pump thing for ages and apparently, it is a really efficient way of changing oil and gets MORE out than the 'proper' way.

Decisions decisions...

now then stop being all Mavis- get Pete to do it but give him the oil you want fitting

[barefoot]

I've not scene this before;

Perhaps it's time I moved the Rover on - Talk about preying on folk's insecurities!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

7 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

...London in general is one of those places I generally try to avoid if possible!....

I try to avoid it, yet I live in it!!

[purplebargeken]

^^ Yep, same here.