The grumpy thread

[Volksy]

Add people who go 'A Sap' rather tha ASAP, in fact what's wrong with Soon...

[wuvvum]

Fugging Economy 7 heating. It starts chucking out heat at about 6.30am, which means that when I get up at 7 the house is sort of vaguely warmish. Which is good - nothing worse than having to get out of a warm bed and go wandering round a freezing house. However, there is then no way of turning the heating off, so it's merrily heating the house all day while I'm at work, then it starts to peter out late afternoon and by the time I get home at about 6.30 it's more or less died. This means that when it's as cold as it is tonight, I then have to either put the storage heaters on boost or use a plug-in halogen heater in whichever room I'm in, which kind of negates the supposed cost advantages of having E7 heating. Mind you, the houses in my street that do have central heating are all oil-fired, and they have to fork out 500 quid-odd at the start of every winter to have their oil tank filled. There's no mains gas here as apparently we're too close to Bacton gas terminal, although why that should make a difference I'm not sure.

[OwdChina]

Oh don't remind me of those idiots, the moron in charge of engineering at my last UK company was like that."The general consensus of opinion"....... means he knows best."Linear velocity measuring device"........tacho you fuckwit."We need to brainstorm this"........he has no idea how to do it."Experts"..........salesmen.The list goes on and on, did my head in for 2 years that prick, wouldn't put his name to anything and wouldn't make a decision, but was there 7 days a week because the place couldn't tick without him. Yeah right.The grapevine tells me he was given his cards last year and the place is making a profit again. Funny that.

[Richard]

It's not often I'm involved in decision making at work but it has been known. I've discovered that you have to be careful about making flippant and ridiculous comments because they get mistaken for ideas and implemented.

[Guest]

I think the weakest workplace threat you can possibly make is a snotty comment on a Post-It note. If I'm left one, I make a point of confronting the person who did it. Think you can get your moan across to me and avoid a confrontation? No chance - I'm going to bring the confrontation to you. Now you've got someone standing over you whilst you're sat down at your desk, someone who seems to be on the brink of losing touch with reality, someone who might just go too far and brain you with a stapler. That double underline doesn't seem so clever now, does it? And to think - you used your special red pen, now temptingly within his reach. Imagine that, stabbed with your own special red pen. The red pen that you thought would bring your problem to a neat conclusion being used to bring his problem to a neat conclusion - the irony!

[Cavcraft]

I think the weakest workplace threat you can possibly make is a snotty comment on a Post-It note. If I'm left one, I make a point of confronting the person who did it. Think you can get your moan across to me and avoid a confrontation? No chance - I'm going to bring the confrontation to you. Now you've got someone standing over you whilst you're sat down at your desk, someone who seems to be on the brink of losing touch with reality, someone who might just go too far and brain you with a stapler. That double underline doesn't seem so clever now, does it? And to think - you used your special red pen, now temptingly within his reach. Imagine that, stabbed with your own special red pen. The red pen that you thought would bring your problem to a neat conclusion being used to bring his problem to a neat conclusion - the irony!

 

 

 

What is it with myopic old bints and tailgating? Hey, it's foggy, I'm on a badly lit dangerous road, it's dark and it's raining.

Probably not such a good idea to drive 0.000002mm from my rear bumper at 40mph them hey?

[dollywobbler]

Fugging Economy 7 heating. It starts chucking out heat at about 6.30am, which means that when I get up at 7 the house is sort of vaguely warmish. Which is good - nothing worse than having to get out of a warm bed and go wandering round a freezing house. However, there is then no way of turning the heating off, so it's merrily heating the house all day while I'm at work, then it starts to peter out late afternoon and by the time I get home at about 6.30 it's more or less died. This means that when it's as cold as it is tonight, I then have to either put the storage heaters on boost or use a plug-in halogen heater in whichever room I'm in, which kind of negates the supposed cost advantages of having E7 heating. Mind you, the houses in my street that do have central heating are all oil-fired, and they have to fork out 500 quid-odd at the start of every winter to have their oil tank filled. There's no mains gas here as apparently we're too close to Bacton gas terminal, although why that should make a difference I'm not sure.

Can't you just turn all the heaters down before you leave the house so they'll hopefully still have some heat left when you get back? I've only experimented with this system very briefly when I shared a house for a few months, but I think it worked.Hirst - thanks for the red pen humour.

[FredTransit]

Our gas meter died yesterday. Called Transco (who own the meter) and they came around 7pm, of course it was pitch black by then. He took one look at the creeper adorned meter cupboard, and said it was a job for daylight. One hard stare later he was hacking his way to the meter whilst I held a torch......

[mnde]

I think the weakest workplace threat you can possibly make is a snotty comment on a Post-It note. If I'm left one, I make a point of confronting the person who did it. Think you can get your moan across to me and avoid a confrontation? No chance - I'm going to bring the confrontation to you. Now you've got someone standing over you whilst you're sat down at your desk, someone who seems to be on the brink of losing touch with reality, someone who might just go too far and brain you with a stapler. That double underline doesn't seem so clever now, does it? And to think - you used your special red pen, now temptingly within his reach. Imagine that, stabbed with your own special red pen. The red pen that you thought would bring your problem to a neat conclusion being used to bring his problem to a neat conclusion - the irony!

I just read that and in my mind David Mitchell was talking. Sounds like one of those voiceovers of Mark's thoughts on Peepshow.

[mnde]

Sorry, back to grumping...I've agreed to sing again in a Nativity play, as I've done for the past few years. Tonight is the dress rehearsal. It's in a barn. On a country estate in the middle of nowhere. Along several single track lanes and up a stony/muddy hill. It's been snowing, perhaps more later. I'm driving the GSA.Why do I do this?!Mark.

[Cavcraft]

Sorry, back to grumping...

 

I've agreed to sing again in a Nativity play, as I've done for the past few years. Tonight is the dress rehearsal. It's in a barn. On a country estate in the middle of nowhere. Along several single track lanes and up a stony/muddy hill. It's been snowing, perhaps more later. I'm driving the GSA.

 

Why do I do this?!

 

Mark.

The make up?

[Cavcraft]

'Low cost new homes'.What a crock of crap. They're NOT fucking 'low cost' at all, they're actually the same bleeding price as other new homes but they only want to sell you a 50% share then there's rent on top and service charges etc.Fair to assume it's some cop out to build houses on green belt or something?

[pompei]

When I was first told I was going to have to work from home, I was dreading it - convert part of the house to an office, phone, fax, computer etc etc taking up space and no-one to talk to. Then it happened and it's a vast improvement. Can get on undisturbed (except by Mrs P who wants me to empty the bins/change the infant/nip out to the shop/hoover the stairs etc but that's why God invented door locks. Truth to tell, I don't miss the office bollocks at all and if I want to mess about and waste some time then I can catch up in the evening. And no irritating idiots leaving post-it notes I know that's no consolation for those folk who have to work in a work place. Sorry

[mnde]

Sorry, back to grumping...

 

I've agreed to sing again in a Nativity play, as I've done for the past few years. Tonight is the dress rehearsal. It's in a barn. On a country estate in the middle of nowhere. Along several single track lanes and up a stony/muddy hill. It's been snowing, perhaps more later. I'm driving the GSA.

 

Why do I do this?!

 

Mark.

The make up?

Nah, no make up. Just a robe and a headdress... over as many layers as poss cos it's fookin freezing! The play starts in the open air...

 

Oh and, I H8 the housing market full stop.

 

On a similar note, a development of new houses has been approved, after appeal (the proposal was initially turned down), on the area of green land in Old Woking round the corner from where I live.

 

(across the centre of this map)

 

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 5&t=h&z=17

 

despite a vigourous campaign by local residents. I can't believe they're going to cram new houses on this thin strip of green land which children play on and residents park their cars on. Where are all the cars going to go and what the hell's going to happen while the whole lot is a building site? I bet the residents are positively ecstatic.

 

Mark.

[Mr H Sceptre]

No such problems with Autoshite Head Office:

 

[Richard]

'Low cost new homes'.What a crock of crap. They're NOT fucking 'low cost' at all, they're actually the same bleeding price as other new homes but they only want to sell you a 50% share then there's rent on top and service charges etc.Fair to assume it's some cop out to build houses on green belt or something?

As I understand it all new developments over a certain number of houses are obliged to include some "low-cost" housing.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

No such problems with Autoshite Head Office:

That's the Autoshite server? But it's got a rev counter - surely that space should be occupied by an oversize fuel/temp gauge.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

'Low cost new homes'.What a crock of crap. They're NOT fucking 'low cost' at all, they're actually the same bleeding price as other new homes but they only want to sell you a 50% share then there's rent on top and service charges etc.Fair to assume it's some cop out to build houses on green belt or something?

As I understand it all new developments over a certain number of houses are obliged to include some "low-cost" housing.

'Turdbox Meadows - An exciting development of 100 homes, of which 30% will be affordable'

[Mr H Sceptre]

No such problems with Autoshite Head Office:

That's the Autoshite server? But it's got a rev counter - surely that space should be occupied by an oversize fuel/temp gauge.

No no, the server is in a separate outside annex -

 

[Richard]

'Turdbox Meadows - An exciting development of 100 homes, of which 30% will be affordable'

Yes, that sort of thing.

[retrogeezer]

Nice XR2!

[Albert Ross]

Mini roundabouts......4 roads feeding in, so 2 vehicles opposite each other, both going straight across, need not indicate to go straight on. Well. I was approaching such an "obstacle" today, with a "Smart" car coming in the opposite direction. Neither of us were indicating, as I knew I was going straight on. The other "driver" didn't indicate either, however, he was turning right, across my bows, and my vehicle weighs 2 tons. he decided at the last second that I WAS still going across, so we both stopped, window to window, him furious that I should be in his space.......I pointed out to him that if he were to let me know his intentions, then I would have been equipped with the foresight required to negotiate the junction without impeding his route in any way. Bollocks did I, I called him an arrogant little cunt and to fuck off in his "prick-mobile", before I squashed him like a fly under my wheels. He never heard most of my speech, as he rattled off behind me, leaving me to get on my way. If I ever see the wretched heap again, I shall modify it's perimeter.Why do these people argue with Land Rovers? Do they not realise that they ARE my crumple zone?

[j-j]

LandRover drivers! God, don't get me started.... all the same the lot of them - think they own the road! Bunch of redneck kuntsticks each and every one - driving 4x4s in urban mini roundabout zones! I mean honestly! send them back to their own countryOnly kidding haha

[Albert Ross]

Mines a 4x2, I have to press my knob in and turn my front nuts to get my shaft to turn.

[j-j]

Just so long as you don't pull your knob off! - that just wouldn't do.Well, I know it has been said a squillion times now but I am still absolutely aghast at the amount of twonks texting and talking on handsets at the wheel. I am SURE it's on the increase!?! wtf is going on? do I need to get my guns out?Stop the planet, I'm getting off

[gearoil]

People who park in the space for the air/water machine at the local BP Garage, then go inside to do their shopping. Usually middle-aged mums in Kia Sorentos.

Hmm.. Yes.However its been quite attractive yet dizzy bints in Clio's, etc parking at the pumps the last couple of times for me. How anyone can be so oblivious to the four cars lined up behind waiting to fuel up...

[Father Ted]

Housing, dont talk to me about housing - fugging Wainhomes are building a shit load of homes on the garden of another property with its obligatory "value" bungalow surrounded by 5 bedroom "luxo" detached stuff on a plot of land the size of a postage stamp starting at £390K.This in itself doesnt bother me, if people want to waste their money buying this stuff thats up to thm, but i get heaved off at the wife wanting to buy one when we already have a (older) house which is bigger and has more land including parking for 4 cars and a caravan. And there is no fecking way in gods earth I can or woud want to pay that much money, but she has these wacky ideas about how much ours is worth and how much we can borow and then moving miles away from the bus route, spar shop, schools, pubs, carry outs, takeaways and library.

[Cavcraft]

To be fair to my battleaxe, sorry, wife, she wants to move closer to her work. This suits me fine as I won't have to pick her up every sodding morning then listen to ten minutes of inane rambling and technical medical terminology which means absolutely naff all to me.

[Negative Creep]

No such problems with Autoshite Head Office:

That's the Autoshite server? But it's got a rev counter - surely that space should be occupied by an oversize fuel/temp gauge.

Has the AS server been expanded to include these new fangled mobile phones? Reason I ask is that when trying to browse the site on mine, it sometimes only loads half the page

[Mr H Sceptre]

No such problems with Autoshite Head Office:

That's the Autoshite server? But it's got a rev counter - surely that space should be occupied by an oversize fuel/temp gauge.

Has the AS server been expanded to include these new fangled mobile phones? Reason I ask is that when trying to browse the site on mine, it sometimes only loads half the page

Shouldn't be any problems on that score. Maybe the fuck-off great Alsatian we've got chained up round the back has pissed in the server again.......