The grumpy thread

[greengartside]

Was told today that I still won't be able to do my FLT licence, despite repeated asking over three years - one guy at work asks once and he gets to do it! Where's the fucking sense in that? Also Gold Radio is to stop broadcasting in three weeks on AM! Why?!?!? This day has been SHIT.

 

 

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[hairnet]

My driveway appears to be a cat toilet.

Not for the first time have I traipsed horrible stinking cat shit through the house.

Think it's time to buy a supa-soaker shotgun.

[Cavcraft]

Was told today that I still won't be able to do my FLT licence, despite repeated asking over three years - one guy at work asks once and he gets to do it! Where's the fucking sense in that? Also Gold Radio is to stop broadcasting in three weeks on AM! Why?!?!? This day has been SHIT.

 

 

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I did mine at work and have used one maybe 3 times since. Not one of those occasions did I actually need to use one, but I just did anyway. The refresher should be a scream, I can barely remember how to get one started.

[tooSavvy]

They had six twin packs of local potted shrimps on the shelf yesterday with a sell by date of 29/2/14...

 

The reply was that as they had the sell by date of 29th Feb, which does not exist this year...

 

Hmm.... given the date is probably computer generated it would seem easier to end all BB/EB as only evva 28-02... shit off the 1/4 of the century, like??

 

LoLzz  

 

TS

[Mr Lobster]

First world problem and all but whatever - my laptop has broken. Took it to computer repair people who reckon they need to blank it and reinstall stuff. Not the end of the world as they can transfer all my files and pictures and that back on to it but more of a pain as I'll lose a load of emails and websites I had bookmarked. All can be recovered or found I suppose but even so it's pissing me right off.

 

In the meantime I'm using mrs_L's laptop which is fucking useless largely to running Windows 8 which is the most hated piece of toss I gave ever had the misfortune to encounter.

 

Woe is me etc.

[saucedoctor]

If it's running well enough to back up pics, or they're using a caddy, backing up bookmarks is piss easy In IE, it's File>Import & Export>Export to a file>Favourites>think of a filename>job jobbed. If they can't get to your data that way, the folder is in C:\Users\<your username>\, and just copy the Favourites folder, and all the contents.

 

Email backup is easy too - either backup your Outlook Data File, or, depending on your email provider, they'll probably all be online anyway.

 

My advice is to go to another computer shop if they don't know how to do the above.

[mat_the_cat]

I'm quite prepared to pay more money for a better item, but often that option isn't even available - cheap rubbish or nothing.

 

Or possibly even worse, you end up with a choice between cheap rubbish and expensive rubbish - often the same part but someone's made a massive mark up so you think it must be better because of the price!

[panhard65]

Or possibly even worse, you end up with a choice between cheap rubbish and expensive rubbish - often the same part but someone's made a massive mark up so you think it must be better because of the price!

That is so true

[jakebullet]

"Odus fell down".

 

FUCK YOU ODUS!

[cms206]

In A&E at a large Glasgow Hospital. SWMBO has a suspected broken foot. Mother in law arrives, SWMBO asks me to go out and get her as we are at the X-ray department. Cleared with nurse. Knobend on the desk in A&E now won't let either of us in the controlled entry doors, saying that she didn't see me come out through them and MiL wasn't here when SWMBO went in. Grrrrr.

[overrun]

Trailing caliper on Mondog. Same one that was suspected of having a sticking handbrake cam, at the MOT.

I removed them both and cleaned up and both were working fine.

 

It seems my tampering has huffed it. Will have to sort that.

 

Also and this one did piss me off, inside, I was investigating a brake light issue on a neighbours car, earlier and when I stuck my head inside to check/test the switch and I got a gob full of rancid fart.

[oman5]

It's stopped raining long enough to attempt changing the glow plugs on the volvo 940 td. 

I got the first four done, the back two are buried behind the injector pump and it looks like you need 9 inch long fingers with 4 sets of knuckles on each to get to them. 

Bollocks.

 

I have also just noticed that it doesn't have an engine fan- as in someone's robbed it at some time. It just gets better.

[beko1987]

Drove half an hour to look at a house. Had a garage and small drive, ace! Had to detour because the junction we had to get off the m40 was shut (were going to go the back way but thought fuck it, mway is faster). I got a bollocking for that. Then the fucking house is tiny and full of mold so I got the blame for that. My missus can be a cunt at times.

[beko1987]

In A&E at a large Glasgow Hospital. SWMBO has a suspected broken foot. Mother in law arrives, SWMBO asks me to go out and get her as we are at the X-ray department. Cleared with nurse. Knobend on the desk in A&E now won't let either of us in the controlled entry doors, saying that she didn't see me come out through them and MiL wasn't here when SWMBO went in. Grrrrr.

Stoke Mandeville can be like that. I find a mild scene usually works, coupled with the missus making a scene out back too. Just wait for someone to come out, run in, tell the receptionist to gtf and be with your missus!

[wuvvum]

Had to detour because the junction we had to get off the m40 was shut (were going to go the back way but thought fuck it, mway is faster). I got a bollocking for that. Then the fucking house is tiny and full of mold so I got the blame for that. My missus is female.

EFA.

[wuvvum]

Dropped the gutless shiteheap of a Peugeot van back at the hire place this morning.  As per hire company policy, I filled the tank back up just before dropping it off.  £67.50!    That's the most I've ever spent on fuel in one go.  Also, I've done some sums and that works out to an average of 38.7mpg, on a long and not particularly fast motorway run (admittedly with some traffic jams on the way).  That's really not good for a modern vehicle of that size and performance - my old Ducato would have done 35 on a similar trip, and that's nearly as big as my house.  I suppose it just serves as further proof that the small engine / big vehicle thing really doesn't work when it comes to real-world fuel economy.

[Cavcraft]

To the almightily disgusting fat, pizza faced blob and her equally disgusting fat, pizza faced under-age looking daughter with the baby in Tesco earlier: I spent 35 minutes being followed by you and your fugly baby screaming it's head off whilst you roundly ignored it. That's why my missus was ushering me out of the shop before I completely lost the plot with you, you sausage fingered fucking wankers.

[Ratdat]

Dropped the gutless shiteheap of a Peugeot van back at the hire place this morning.  As per hire company policy, I filled the tank back up just before dropping it off.  £67.50!    That's the most I've ever spent on fuel in one go.  Also, I've done some sums and that works out to an average of 38.7mpg, on a long and not particularly fast motorway run (admittedly with some traffic jams on the way).  That's really not good for a modern vehicle of that size and performance - my old Ducato would have done 35 on a similar trip, and that's nearly as big as my house.  I suppose it just serves as further proof that the small engine / big vehicle thing really doesn't work when it comes to real-world fuel economy.

 That's pretty shite. My old 20 year old Vanette managed 35mpg easily and that was a 1.5 petrol. And was not particularly slow either.

[tooSavvy]

Hmm... MPGs

 

since my Speed Awareness Course my, err, style has moderated a tad... no ragging/howlinng + deffo no Cruise Missile attack 

 

my company should give me a raise.. I reckon my MPG must have improved by about 40% !!

 

 

TS

[Angrydicky]

The fleet of 61 plate Iveco vans at work are equipped with MPG meters. The average across the fleet was 22mpg, and even driving like a grandad like I do, I never saw more than 25 out of them. Around town they would usually show around 18-19, and most of the other drivers thrash them. Modern vans are rubbish.

[beko1987]

Fucking city link taking a week to deliver a 24h parcel, and break it in the process. Sorry Moog!

[Spiny Norman]

To the twat in the old Megane who turned right across me this afternoon.
You might think you had enough time, and frankly I'll pit the front of my Volvo against the side of your Renault anyday, but the kid in the back looked pretty alarmed as he saw a ton and a half of Sweden's finest bearing down on him.

I hate people driving like bellends with kids in the car.
 

[jmsguzzi]

Just seen that those little Geordie twats Ant and Dec are going to destroy a Capri S in one of there brilliant* entertainment* shows.

[155V6]

Just seen that those little Geordie twats Ant and Dec are going to destroy a Capri S in one of there brilliant* entertainment* shows.

Hasn't the Capri already been in the eBay thread though?,but you're right about them being twats anyway 

[Cavcraft]

Iveco vans rubbish.

 

 

That's all it took, just three little words.

[mercrocker]

Haven't Pant and Dic fucked off to  spend their pension yet?   Obviously not, dire little cunts.

[wuvvum]

I've broken the gears on the Citroën again.  Did it the same way as last time - by missing fourth gear and getting the gearstick stuck between fourth and reverse.  Pulled over and managed to unstick it using brute force and ignorance - but I've bent the linkage again.  Not as badly as last time as I can still just about get all the gears, but it's going to need fettling again.  Also, the gearbox rattle appears to have got slightly worse, although that might just be me being paranoid.

 

I think I've also killed my freezer, by leaving the door ajar for 26 hours.  Some people just shouldn't be allowed nice things...

[nacho man]

Brothers yaris got a advisory for discs and pads, he came up so he asked if I could do them, yeah no worries,

 

40 mins in easie, peasie last slider bolt going in, snap!!! Bollocks!!!

 

The head snapped of, so went to get my stud removers, leant them my mate, shit, so started drilling, bro says there is a bloke breaking a yaris on ebay close by, rings him up and he has the carrier, boom, drives down, different size, oh crap.

 

Goes back finishes drilling and tapping and it all works but all that palaver turns a hours job max into four hours work.

 

There goes my sunday.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I think I've also killed my freezer, by leaving the door ajar for 26 hours.  Some people just shouldn't be allowed nice things...

 

I did that, although only about 16 hours. Freezer was making a terrible racket presumably because it was working flat out. Shut the door and it recovered, the food at the back was okay, but the stuff at the front had gone a bit soft. 

 

A few months later the same freezer was unplugged to it could be moved, and it was accidentally not plugged back in. All the food again *facepalm* 

 

What's worse is that in between those events I accidentally unplugged my sister's freezer (I thought it was the washing machine) and ruined all the food in it

[andy18s]

To the almightily disgusting fat, pizza faced blob and her equally disgusting fat, pizza faced under-age looking daughter with the baby in Tesco earlier: I spent 35 minutes being followed by you and your fugly baby screaming it's head off whilst you roundly ignored it. That's why my missus was ushering me out of the shop before I completely lost the plot with you, you sausage fingered fucking wankers.

Missus is laffing her tits off after reading that......nice 1 !