The grumpy thread

[anonymous user]

Just fed up with life, as soon as I make an offer on a house, someone immediately offers more, they can have it then. I'm not desperate to move, just fancy downsizing so that I'm forced to get rid of some of my crap.

[Jerzy Woking]

I heard on the radio today that Sheffield has the highest number of trees to number of population in the WHOLE of Europe. Really? That's not been my experience of Sheffield.

And parking wardens. Many years ago City Of London police employed the wardens. Their job was to keep traffic moving, and I recall that they issued very few tickets. As soon as Wardens are employed outside of the police, their main intent seems to be generating money, and bollocks to keeping the traffic flowing.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

51 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

....as soon as I make an offer on a house, someone immediately offers more, they can have it then....

Probably a shill offer connected to the estate agents. 

45 minutes ago, Jerzy Woking said:

I heard on the radio today that Sheffield has the highest number of trees to number of population in the WHOLE of Europe. Really? That's not been my experience of Sheffield....

Was it not Sheffield City Council that got into trouble a year or so ago for planning to cut down quite a lot of inner city trees?

[barefoot]

Two funerals in two days; no-one close, just a couple of acquaintances, but here's a couple of observations.

Just because someone in your family can string together a series of rhyming couplets, it doesn't make them a poet and although, "She was my favourite Nan & I loved the way she cooked with Spam' may have been factually correct, I'm guessing that words like that don't exactly ease one's shuffle from this mortal coil. Similarly, pall bearers. To watch a team of six experienced blokes heft the coffin onto their shoulders and walk effortlessly without using their hands and perfectly in step, is a pleasure to behold. When they stick a short arsed woman amongst them or worse still, let some relatives have a go, it turns rapidly into an unbalanced, top heavy farce.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 minute ago, barefoot said:

...., pall bearers. To watch a team of six experienced blokes heft the coffin onto their shoulders and walk effortlessly without using their hands and perfectly in step, is a pleasure to behold. When they stick a short arsed woman amongst them or worse still, let some relatives have a go, it turns rapidly into an unbalanced, top heavy farce.

I seem to remember a sitcom called In Loving Memory...

[High Jetter]

8 hours ago, Bobthebeard said:

I got a parking ticket for being in a no stopping/loading area slapped on the windscreen.

It's utter madness, as unless blind the attendant would have been able to see what you were doing. I'm sure he was sticking to the letter of his rule-book, but I'd certainly appeal for your own sake and to try and get some balance back into the area - if enough appeals are successful, the council will eventually take notice. The appeals tribunal process seems to be quite supportive when attendants have been blatantly stupid. Otherwise yes, park on double yellows and wheel the pushchair to the car (I know, not ideal, used to be a PH and Hackney driver myself years ago)

[New POD]

5 hours ago, Lankytim said:

We're selling our home and are in the middle of a chain. The elderly woman selling the house we're buying has been fucking about for months, taking weeks to respond to solicitors letters, refusing reasonable requests and generally being an awkward pain the the backside and very much doing everything on her terms. The buyers of our house have been patiently waiting but inevitably today their good will has run out and they are insisting we either complete by the end of the month or lose them as buyers.  The lady we're buying from isn't willing to move out and stay with her son for a few weeks until her bungalow is ready to move in to so to avoid losing our buyer and the whole chain collapsing we as a family of 4 are having to move in with the in laws for a while.  This isn't ideal and shes the kind of woman who could decide to stay put or the purchase of the bungalow she wants to move into could fall through, leaving us properly up shit creek. It's all a massive myther we could do without. 

Don't do it. 

The woman will change her mind. You'll be living with in laws for 12 months. 

Let the chain fail, and tell your vendor you ain't buying. Because she's delayed so long etc. 

Thank you to Mr and Mrs Merrel and Mr and Mrs Parks of Cross Hills near Skipton you fucking twats 

 

To clarify.

Mr and Mrs Parks, didn't need to move.  We were moving 130 miles for work. 

They had found an old cottage nearby.

We had a buyer.  In Birmingham. They had a buyer around the corner from us. They wanted a bigger house. No real need to move

 

The Parks, delayed because of some issue on a 300 year old flying fucking freehold. 

Our buyers buyer told them they'd find something else. If they didn't move. 

Our buyer told us they'd pull.out. 

Our seller assured us that the flying free hold would be sorted in 2 weeks or so.

We choose to put our life in storage. 

We moved into my parents spare room with a toddler. 

After 6 weeks we gave Mr and Mrs Parks an ultimatum.   They pulled out.  Too.much stress.

We offered on the identical.house that backed on, after discussing that it needed to.be a quick.sale. Mr and Mrs Merrel agreed they.move in to parents.

8 weeks later they denied that. And when we gave them a 4 week.ultimatum they pulled out.  

In total we were with my parents in Solihul for 6 months whilst I worked in Keighley.

Trust no one. Don't be pushed into rushing.

 

[clayts450]

[adenoids]I think you'll find your so-called traffic warden/parking attendants are now referred to as Civil Enforcement Officers[/adenoids]

So just like CEOs in big business, they're cunts an' all.

[paulplom]

The twat upstairs put her washing machine on. Not really a grump in itself but it hit the spin cycle at 6 fucking 05 AM! She really is a thick, selfish cunt.

[Roobarb]

damn nose hair was freezing up as I walked across the car park and into work this morning. 

Why couldn’t the company have been based in California???

[New POD]

6 hours ago, paulplom said:

The twat upstairs put her washing machine on. Not really a grump in itself but it hit the spin cycle at 6 fucking 05 AM! She really is a thick, selfish cunt.

Hi, I'm the guy from downstairs. 

I'm not sure you realised this, but your washing machine is really noisy at 6 o'clock in the morning. 

Perhaps you could run it at a different time? Please. 

Now I'm not saying that the direct approach always works, but it's worth a try? 

Sometimes people don't know. But once they do they change. Others do know and deliberately do it. 

 

[SRi05]

3 minutes ago, New POD said:

Hi, I'm the guy from downstairs. 

I'm not sure you realised this, but your washing machine is really noisy at 6 o'clock in the morning. 

Perhaps you could run it at a different time? Please. 

Now I'm not saying that the direct approach always works, but it's worth a try? 

Sometimes people don't know. But once they do they change. Others do know and deliberately do it. 

 

Broom >>>>> Ceiling

[face]

9 minutes ago, New POD said:

Hi, I'm the guy from downstairs. 

I'm not sure you realised this, but your washing machine is really noisy at 6 o'clock in the morning. 

Perhaps you could run it at a different time? Please. 

Now I'm not saying that the direct approach always works, but it's worth a try? 

Sometimes people don't know. But once they do they change. Others do know and deliberately do it. 

 

Piss >>>>> Letterbox

[paulplom]

She already knows. She's just being a cunt.

[SRi05]

4 minutes ago, paulplom said:

She already knows. She's just being a cunt.

Definitely piss through her letterbox then

[New POD]

2 minutes ago, paulplom said:

She already knows. She's just being a cunt.

In which case, I'd pretend that she doesn't know and knock on her door anyway.  At midnight. To tell her you are having to turn off her water supply.

Actually just turn it off. Don't tell her. Put it back on at 7 am.

[New POD]

20 hours ago, anonymous user said:

Just fed up with life, as soon as I make an offer on a house, someone immediately offers more, they can have it then. I'm not desperate to move, just fancy downsizing so that I'm forced to get rid of some of my crap.

Offer more. Keep offering more. Then change your mind a week later.  

[Rod/b]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

 

[Christine]

Why is there a tape measure on the bridge ? /\ /\

[Rod/b]

Its an advert, for the advertising company that owns that site. Nobody knows what it means. They’ve also got signs up that just say “Uptown top ranking” which nobody outside of a handful of sad 70s girl-reggae fans will even recognise, let alone know what the relevance is in respect of the billboard sites. It’s no wonder they have so many empty sites. 

[xtriple]

Just watched some utter throbber reverse his BMW into the front of my car. He seemed curiously disinterested at my rejoinder that he was a 'fucking useless cunt' and drove off! Bloody base spec 3 series (maybe a 5, not sure) with the tiniest exhaust pipe I've seen on a car in years. Perhaps his attitude was something to do with exhaust pipe envy (my car has TWO HUGE throbbers!    ). Anyway, not done any damage as far as I can see in the pouring rain and the number plate is still in one piece so maybe it's alright.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

10 minutes ago, xtriple said:

Just watched some utter throbber reverse his BMW into the front of my car. He seemed curiously disinterested at my rejoinder that he was a 'fucking useless cunt' and drove off! 

That seems to be the attitude of some now: don't engage with / pretend not to see the driver you collided with and you can drive away as if it never happened.

[ruffgeezer]

My Datsun is up for sale again with a lot of the repair work it needed, done.

Good to his word the owner contacted me to tell me, but I really can't afford it ?

[Garythesnail]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

That seems to be the attitude of some now: don't engage with / pretend not to see the driver you collided with and you can drive away as if it never happened.

I'd be more concerned that he's going to claim he was rear ended while he was stationary.

[SiC]

On 1/15/2020 at 5:22 PM, Lankytim said:

We're selling our home and are in the middle of a chain. The elderly woman selling the house we're buying has been fucking about for months, taking weeks to respond to solicitors letters, refusing reasonable requests and generally being an awkward pain the the backside and very much doing everything on her terms. The buyers of our house have been patiently waiting but inevitably today their good will has run out and they are insisting we either complete by the end of the month or lose them as buyers.  The lady we're buying from isn't willing to move out and stay with her son for a few weeks until her bungalow is ready to move in to so to avoid losing our buyer and the whole chain collapsing we as a family of 4 are having to move in with the in laws for a while.  This isn't ideal and shes the kind of woman who could decide to stay put or the purchase of the bungalow she wants to move into could fall through, leaving us properly up shit creek. It's all a massive myther we could do without. 

Count yourself lucky. Currently on 5 buyers and, after aborting from our second house purchase over Right of Way issues, on our 3rd attempted purchase. I'm dreading our conveyancing bill. 

2019 seemed a complete washout on the housing market.

[Wack]

Just been to the cinema , something new to add to the yes that's pissing me off list of crinkly wrappers, popcorn, mobile phone screens & talking 

Bastard smart watches, a bald guy kept rubbing the top of his head , only whever he moved his fucking wrist his watch lit up , which he then rubbed all over his noggin for 20 seconds every 5 fucking minutes right under my nose

Lucking the film (star wars) was total shit so I gave up and left , I had no idea who anyone was except carrie fisher and chewbacca who are both dead so it was just running , illuminated sword fights and laser guns 

 

[chodweaver]

4 hours ago, xtriple said:

Just watched some utter throbber reverse his BMW into the front of my car. He seemed curiously disinterested at my rejoinder that he was a 'fucking useless cunt' and drove off! Bloody base spec 3 series (maybe a 5, not sure) with the tiniest exhaust pipe I've seen on a car in years. Perhaps his attitude was something to do with exhaust pipe envy (my car has TWO HUGE throbbers!    ). Anyway, not done any damage as far as I can see in the pouring rain and the number plate is still in one piece so maybe it's alright.

Get a dashcam. A decent one that is capable of recording front and back and when the ignition is off. I hope I live long enough to have a dashcam 'implant' - it'll be fascinating to see how much more law abiding everyone* becomes once they're being recorded in every interaction with another person. Also, I'm looking forward* to finding out just how unreliably my own memory is...

[High Jetter]

Talking of cinemas, our 100 year old local, independant 3-screen one closed tonight due to lack of custom after the big chain multi-screen moved from out of town into the town centre, about 500yds away. (Not that I've been to a cinema in about 30 years, but that's not the point...)

[Wack]

18 minutes ago, chodweaver said:

Get a dashcam. A decent one that is capable of recording front and back and when the ignition is off. I hope I live long enough to have a dashcam 'implant' - it'll be fascinating to see how much more law abiding everyone* becomes once they're being recorded in every interaction with another person. Also, I'm looking forward* to finding out just how unreliably my own memory is...

I'm hoping I'll be well dead before we're all grassing each other up to the Gestapo 

[jakebullet]

I'm going to a gig* tomorrow. I've been excited all week. Made the mistake tonight of saying to the mrs. are you excited? Response: O. Followed by demanding she must have a seat.

Er, you've been there before. It's a flat roof working men's club dive. It's always full of sweaty 50's bald men bouncing around pissed out of their gourds thinking they're still 19 to tribute acts of dead people. Seated it isn't. Worse she's booked 2 more there that I can't even name a song for, but I suppose they will be fine standing 'cos she wants to go to those. Less than impressed when I said fine we'll stay in and watch another fucking dismal amazon prime film as per usual.