The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Well said Mrs, you tell them love.

 

 

[Angrydicky]

I can imagine how annoying that must be Caffiend. A female friend of mine was grumping about exactly that recently, she's a representative of a car club and all the correspondence she receives addresses her as 'Mrs'. She's only 20, and has a boyfriend but is most definitely not married.

[garethj]

I'm sure that everyone's total lack of surprise will be, well, unsurprising, when I say it's a wunch of bankers that are holding everything up.

That is a surprise, when I've done the house-buying pain in the arse it's been solicitors that have been the problem.

 

"Hello, have you had the survey results back yet?"

"Survey, errr, no.  Do we need that?"

 

It's like they're all going through the house buying process for the first time

[Richard]

It's like they're all going through the house buying process for the first time

 

They might well be. Apparently conveyancing is a shitty job so there's every chance the newbie would be landed with it. See also bus drivers/school runs.

 

Everybody involved in the business of moving house seems to see it as their duty to piss you about, buyers, sellers, solicitors, utility companies, tradesmen etc all do their bit to make it a little more stressful. If family members think the stress levels aren't quite high enough they will chip in too.

[DVee8]

Just had to tax the modern daily

[Cavcraft]

My mum and dad have just sold their house (in Lincoln) and, aside from the usual stupid offers, it went very quickly. The buyers completed almost on the spot and moved in the day they got the keys.

[Captain Slow]

Split hose on the 9000 50 miles from home. Water rations bought...

[Station]

I hate this type of bollocks:

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/10452668/Snapchats-Evan-Spiegel-Deleting-should-be-the-default.html

 

I've never heard of Snapchat - but apparently the guy who created it is worth $3 billion. He's 23 and he still lives with his parents.

I read Facebook was valued at something ridiculous like $200 billion before it was floated which means each user is worth $300 or something. What a load of shit, and one of the reasons why I hate this generation and all the things that are associated with it. My nephew got a Samsung Galaxy tablet thing - he's six ffs.

[Cavcraft]

Somewhat ironically yesterday on a local FaceAche page someone was asking what netbook or tablet was best for a four year old.

[Station]

I think ecstasy would be a safer tablet than opening a 4 year old to the grim realities of the internet.

[Mr Lobster]

I do let my almost 4 year old on the internet although only on Cbeebies and thats it - giving any child unlimited internet access would be crackers. He's bloody impressive on the ipad though, picks it up very quickly. I don't mind a bit of very limited use especially as they seem to use ipads in schools a lot - we've been looking around schools recently and the amount of technology in use was mindblowing!

[overrun]

Just had to tax the modern daily

 

Need to do exactly the same. Was gonna today, but CBA.

 

CVH timing belt kit and water pump prices have pissed me off, today.

[ShiteRider]

Fuck me when i was at primary school we had one 'state of the art' Acorn A3000. 

My bosses daughter is 18, and despite being a clever girl and going to a very good school, her handwriting and grammar are atrocious. Whenever i see her she's got an ipod plugged in her ears and is playing on her phone, how fucking hard is it to just read a good book instead.

[chaseracer]

Not hard at all. And many kids do.

 

But when exactly was this golden age when ALL kids read 'improving' books, exclusively? People used to complain about kids reading comics. There's just a wider choice of media these days.

[Pillock]

When I was at school, I had the internet at home before they had it in classrooms. Made homework a piece of piss.

 

The company who made Candy Crush Saga make $600,000 a day. I can't begrudge them that as long as they're laughing at the daft twats spending money on it.

[Cavcraft]

How many people of any age read books any more? I bet the majority don't now, no matter what age.

[Pillock]

I read books. On my electronic book reading device.

[overrun]

Just realised the MoT expires on the daily on 04 Jan.

 

Last time it had an advisory on a corroded brake pipe and a rear caliper. Bastard.

[MrDuke]

Not hard at all. And many kids do.

 

But when exactly was this golden age when ALL kids read 'improving' books, exclusively? People used to complain about kids reading comics. There's just a wider choice of media these days.

 

 

Exactly. And even if books were the only form of text-based media, less than 0.1% of them would actually be of any literary value, and an even smaller number would make good reading.

 

 

We might begrudge people writing software and making a huge amount of money from it, but it takes a lot of knowledge and skill to do it effectively. The fact that most people don't understand the technology involved doesn't make the achievements any less valid.

[Jim Bell]

Just realised the MoT expires on the daily on 04 Jan.

 

Last time it had an advisory on a corroded brake pipe and a rear caliper. Bastard.

 

Rear calipers. Theyre arseholes.

[vulgalour]

I still handwrite letters with a fountain pen.  It's the way I learned to do things.  More and more people tell me that my handwriting is illegible (they don't use that word, they say "What's this say?" because they're cretinous) so I have to resort to using a biro to print words out so they can understand it.  Even then some of them struggle so I haul out the typewriter I've got and use that as passive-aggressively as anyone under the age of 50 can.

 

Of course, most of my correspondence is done electronically these days so it's an issue I face less and less but I'm genuinely surprised that I'm considered to have had a public school education and been to university** just because I can, and like to, use a fountain pen and because I know quite a few words with more than three syllables.

 

The most appalling young people being annoying moment I've yet experienced is when I was asked, by a teenager, what I was sticking in the door of my car.  It's a key, you Luddite, it works the lock.  Worst of all, I'm only 32, I shouldn't be this grumpy at my age, nor using expression such as 'at my age'.

 

**GCSEs only, local secondary school, dropped out of A levels due to arrogant teenage boredom.

[Albert Ross]

When I was 4 I was eating dirt and bogies. Come to think of it.....

[vulgalour]

I think that's a Doncaster thing.

[overrun]

Rear calipers. Theyre arseholes.

It already has receipts for a new pair a few years ago. Checked advisories, doesn't mention the caliper.

Just both front to back brake pipes.

 

Will see if I can clean them up if they aren't too bad, and copper slip them.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

There's only toffee pennies and those long ones left in the Quality Street, Christmas is over. 

[Bobthebeard]

After last nights gale I found a soggy bit of wind blown paper plastered onto the rear screen of one of my cars. An invoice from 1994 for 'Removal of diseased Elm tree' from an address in London, to a Mr Hanson.

WTF? I live in Lancashire!

Where has that been since 1994?

Am certainly not paying it! Mr Hanson can FRO!

[oman5]

There's only toffee pennies and those long ones left in the Quality Street, Christmas is over. 

Toffee pennies are great fun. I give them to the dog.

[Bobthebeard]

Grumpy note to self.

Never, never ever offer to have 'Christmas Day at ours, and I will cook'

 

Cooking Christmas dinner for a family comprising of:

 

Vegetarians

Vegans

Raging carnivores

Nut allergic

Religious zealots

Alcoholics

Teetotallers

Miserable bastard

Mrs Miserable bastard

Materialistic screamy kids

Etc......

Was a feckin nightmare. Never again!

[overrun]

There's only toffee pennies and those long ones left in the Quality Street, Christmas is over.

 

Two of the best ones!

[Bobthebeard]

Toffee pennies are great fun. I give them to the dog.

Me too!

 

Edit.

Before any of you post along the lines of 'Horny stove turned on by a bitch wearing antlers'

the stove appears to have a penis in this photo. It hasn't! It has just got wood...