The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

We're back on. Then some workmen turned up and started doing some work outside on the railway, using a generator to run their angle grinder. If they'd turned up earlier, I could have asked if I could use their genny to power our fridge!

[cms206]

Went to the bloody quack today and it turns out to be a big mistake of course.

Diagnosed with TIA, so off to the fucking hospital tomorrow. Yeah, and banned from driving, too, ffs.

 

Never go to the doctor's! All they ever do is make you ill.

Poor show Doctors, poor show. Sorry to hear that fella

[fordperv]

picked my dogs ashes up from the vets today and the company who did the engraved plaque managed to cock it up by putting tyson and teddy, hold the hell on the instruction was to put tyson (ted), a small thing i know but it really peed me off as they rinsed me of £120 thats with a discount for individual cremation and urn (which i must say is gorgeous) then cock up something simple, im happier now though as a phone chat to the company that did it sorted it and they couldn't be more apologetic, they are sending a replacement out today.

[michael1703]

Its a "Can't be arsed to do anything week" again

 

Too cold and damp to care

[Station]

inconsiderate people who park like a cunt in carparks, i saw this one earlier, 

 

 

come on is it really that hard to park a picasso

 

I always park the car right up against the door.

[wuvvum]

 

Another former spot of mine (and i think a ex_Wuvvum car) going to met it's maker.

 

1977 Alfa Romeo Alfasud 1200 in Ipswich by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

 

 

 

Well the buyer's big plans to restore it to its former glory obviously came to nowt then.

 

Why would you weigh in a Sud though?  Even in that condition it would have made a few quid on the Bay.

[trigger]

That's what people said on the Whip Street FB page, totally bazaar, mind you I don't know if it has been sold on since I took this photo as I haven't seen it outside the house for a long while?.

[Cavcraft]

Works related courses. I was losing the will to live a full five minutes into an 7.5 hour bore fest today, and it didn't get any fucking better. I suppose the only good bit was that the geezer who runs that part of work is the same bloke I undertook in some style this morning on the way in and he was doing a different course.  

[TimothyClaypole]

Ebay, no idea what they've improved but I can't delete any watched items or click on the More Actions button etc.  

 

Must have spent the £90.00 they molested me for last month on crack rather than programmers.

[beko1987]

Daughter is being sick, so that's any potential valentines action gone... Will probably find myself in the garage later reassembling a dyson though so silver lining etc

[cort16]

 

Will probably find myself in the garage later reassembling a dyson

 

Is this a euphemism?

 

 

*Edit  Spell Failurz

[Jim Bell]

 

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[fordperv]

Well my grump from yesterday has turned into a grin, they were good to their word in 're doing the name plaque and posting it out yesterday, I have just received it from my not so smiley postie, which to be honest has shocked me at the speed of putting right the mistake. Fair play to them

[RedSparrow]

Daughter is being sick, so that's any potential valentines action gone...

 

Errmm...

[beko1987]

That does sound wrong upon reflection, action with my missus for clarification...

[dugong]

Production company are now claiming they have money to pay the wages they weren't going to pay me.

 

Yeah, right. Bluff called. How convenient.

[The Moog]

Had my application for a business loan turned down. Was pretty much promised it by the people. no explaination at all. Wouldn't be surprise if funding has been pulled or similar. Puts the cherry on a shit week.

[hairnet]

some italian bellend has bid on my auction even tho it says in the lsiting no overseas bidders

 

funnily enuff have sold stuff to italy (that type of stuff) and it went fine

 

but no this time i feel a 20 quid postage cost coming on

[RedSparrow]

That does sound wrong upon reflection, action with my missus for clarification...

 

Sorry, it was a cheap joke!

[Asimo]

Went to the bloody quack today and it turns out to be a big mistake of course.

Diagnosed with TIA, so off to the fucking hospital tomorrow. Yeah, and banned from driving, too, ffs.

 

Never go to the doctor's! All they ever do is make you ill.

Sorry to read that.

The sooner medicine gets a fault-code reader for humans, the better.

Get well soon!

[Ghosty]

I'm suspicious there's a new, even twattier eBay snipebot around.

I've recently seen a few auctions go down to the last minute with 0 bids, then a '1 bid' to appear, shortly followed by '2 bids' but with no price change.

Then today I tried to bid on an IBM Model M keyboard that was actually on the right side of the Pacific, £40 no bids, only for it to go to the last 30 seconds, and four other people to appear out of nowhere and start bidding.

At 1:50pm. 

It ended up going to £57 (+£10 postage), so I've decided I'm just gonna import one from America, as it's actually cheaper than over here if you shop around, and US ones often have about 20 extra buttons, GR9 for mapping up media keys!

[phil_lihp]

http://pckeyboard.com/page/UKBD/UNI044A

 

Probably works out cheaper, plus its USB and isn't full of 30 year old biscuit crumbs.

[skattrd]

Bollocks, I've just googled those IBM keyboards and I binned a load of them a few months ago ... I just thought they were old crap keyboards that were of no use to anyone, I think they were AT connection as well, and no-ones used that for years, hence me chucking them.

[Ghosty]

A new Unicomp would be £87 - the shipping is only $10 less than the keyboard. Cheapest on US eBay I found was £46 for keyboard, post and US customs.

 

AT connection ones are annoying as you have to find a suitable cable or adapter from them, but DIN and PS/2 ones are okay.

[phil_lihp]

Ah, didn't look at shipping.  Bad luck skattrd, they're worth a pretty penny even when broken!  Still, that's mostly because in the UK at least they don't make them any more and most people threw them away.  I'd like one in the office but as it's open plan I think it would be about 2 hours before someone beat me with it, they're very loud.

[skattrd]

I am quite annoyed about those keyboards, I reckon I must have chucked at least 6 of them, if not more. .... This is what happens when you decide to throw away old crap that has been sitting around for ages unused, you bin it then find it's worth a few quid. That's it I'm going to become a hoarder.

[Lord Sterling]

^^^^ The problem is with luck like that, once you start hoarding, everything you hoard will always be worthless.

[fordperv]

http://pckeyboard.com/page/UKBD/UNI044A

 

Probably works out cheaper, plus its USB and isn't full of 30 year old biscuit crumbs.

 

i glimpsed at the website name and thought it said pikey board, made me giggle a bit

[purplebargeken]

Stop effing RAINING!!!!!!! Enough already.

[beko1987]

Sod the rain, fuck off wind!