The grumpy thread

[Spiny Norman]

Q - What kind of brainless cunt tries to cross a 5 lane wide motorway?

A - The sort of brainless cunt I saw doing just that very thing this afternoon on the M8.

What the hell causes these people to believe they can take on 5 lanes of traffic doing 60-80mph?

[purplebargeken]

Arsewit tourists stopping dead in their tracks whilst I am building up momentum with the aid of the walking stick and they plonk themselves right in front of me whilst they yabber in their fuckwit language taking pictures of ordinary London shite.

 

Mind you. On  the tube today the only two folk who stood up to offer me their seats were both of Eastern European origin. Thanks gents.

[dugong]

Also, the east side of the Pennines had a beautiful, sunny not a cloud in the sky day. Back over on this side it's friggin miserable, cloudy, damp and cold.

 

That's because you were in the correct side of the Pennines and crossed back over. You have only yourself to blame. NORH.

[vulgalour]

So I'm pretty worried about my housing situation after I discovered second-hand tonight that my parents want me out by June.  Why couldn't they tell me this in person, and how in the hell am I going to manage it?  I've been unable to find alternative employment (that makes me any better off than presently, at any rate) or an affordable property to rent while I'm trying my best to keep the parents happy and pay various bills that grown-ups have.

 

Maybe I would have been better to have just abandoned everything when things went tits up at Bolsover and chose to live in a box.  I'm not sure I could cope with my parents' mind-games again, it was bad enough the last time I lived here fifteen years ago, I'm too old for that shit now.

[chaseracer]

Time to remind them who'll be choosing their care home...?

 

[KruJoe]

Take it easy Angyl, don't stress too much over what you've heard second hand.

It sounds very much more blunt like that, than what actually may be the case. It maybe that the conversation went something like this...

"How's Angyl getting on?"

Parent: "Yes, really well, he seems happier, his artwork is selling, and he's just finished paying his debts. Hopefully he'll be starting to save a bit now."

"How is he with living back with you?"

Parent: "He's ok short term, but I think he's like his own space, rather than feeling he's under our feet all the time, if he's lucky enough to find the right place at the right price, he might be making a move by the middle of the year."

 

I know little of your history Angyl, and obviously I don't know your folks, but it's easy to imagine how the wrong end of the stick could be grasped, especially as you are two steps of interpretation away from the horse's mouth.

When the circumstances are right and the atmosphere is good (eg the three of you in the car on the way home from a Sunday lunch/shopping trip - no eye contact required in the car, and no-one can run away,) approach the subject gently, give them your situation, your hopes and feelings from your point of view, and ask them how they feel, and what advice they may have.

 

If I've got it wrong, tell me to FRO, but I do hope that helps. Good luck, buddy.

[Station]

I worked on the Lancia today, about 30 seconds of which I was using the grinder with safety goggles on.

 

I've just been down to a&e with a scratchy eye with a black spec just visible on the iris. Now I have to go to a bigger hospital to see the eye doctor to remove the shard of rusty Lancia embedded in my left eye.

 

I had the same - from an angle grinder. The bloke just put some yellow fluid in my eye, then scraped it out wit a knife. It didn't hurt, but the pain relief was immense.

[vulgalour]

Thanks, Joe, I hope that it is me getting worked up over nothing.  I've slept on it, but I'm still worried, I know how publicly pleasant my parents can be but also how privately vindictive they can get.  I have a possible get-out but it puts me in the wrong direction and I really don't want to live in Maidstone, it'll put me backwards when it comes to trying to save up as everything is that much more expensive down south.

 

This is not a happy place to be and this is now going to be eating away at me even more than it already was.  There's a good chance my parents told the person they did purely to get me to move out sooner, it's the sort of thing they do.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Just got a phone call from my dad to say his car's broken down. Golf 1.4 TSI. Loss of power, "workshop" light on dash. From the vague description it sounds like it's gone into limp home mode. Hopefully it's a knackered sensor and not one of the multitude of horrible things the internet says can go wrong with a TSI engine. 

 

It's been abandoned at a VW dealer. The dealer who contacted him a couple of weeks ago to schedule a cam belt change on his chain driven engine. 

 

Place your bets now!

 

Resolution here: VW dealer sees fault code on computer, something to do with the throttle pedal. Car examined but no fault found. No charge, diagnostic fee waived because car has FSH from them. 

 

Makes it really difficult for me to keep acting all smug. 

[fordperv]

I've hacked my finger open and am currently sat in a walk in centre waiting to be seen

[Angrydicky]

Yep, another one here who managed to get angle grinder sparks in his eye (despite wearing goggles). For the first day or so it was simply irritating, like there was a bit of dirt in there that wouldn't come out. Looking in the mirror I could make out a tiny dot on the eyeball. Then on the third day I woke up to a terrible pain whenever I looked at a light. Had to go to the hospital, where a doctor dug out the shards of metal with a hypodermic needle. It's pretty much painless thankfully, but very unpleasant, and not an experience I wish to repeat.

[cms206]

How can I insure a 1997 Volvo 940 2.3 turbo for £200 but I can't insure a 1990 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.4?

WHO WILL DELIVER THE CARPET SAMPLES IF NOT ME?

[Pillock]

Makes it really difficult for me to keep acting all smug.

Don't let that stop you; this is the Internet

[fotorabia]

The Jack Russel X..Jafa [Just Another Fucken Aucklander] whom i adopted..and then subsequently left behind with Nicky back in NZ just had to be put down due to cancer.So..im a wee bit gutted..Rest in Peace wee fella..

 

[trigger]

Sorry to hear that mate, RIP to the little fella.

[Negative Creep]

I've hacked my finger open and am currently sat in a walk in centre waiting to be seen

 

 

On the bright side, at least it wasn't one needed for typing

[Station]

The Jack Russel X..Jafa [Just Another Fucken Aucklander] whom i adopted..and then subsequently left behind with Nicky back in NZ just had to be put down due to cancer.So..im a wee bit gutted..Rest in Peace wee fella..

 

My mate's dog, which she has had since she was a 2 month old puppy, had a massive operation on Saturday. She was in a bad way - she had a uterus infection, there was blood and alsorts literally dripping out of her before she went in, but the operation went well, and she is back home now. I know how you feel.

 

She was totally miserable and could no longer walk:

 

 

Two days later, she is still asleep now I'm told, full of medication:

 

[beko1987]

Can't get our heating working. No matter what's on and what knobs we twiddle the boiler does nothing. Swanky new boiler and CH controller too so I imagine its our stupidity.

 

 

Aaah all modernchsystemz r shit

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I have got an absolute MUTHAFUCKLOAD of car magazines I want to get rid of. I decided to list one boxl of them on eBay as an experiment to see if they would sell or not. After about 1.5 hours arsing about i had listed 5 mags, the sum total value of which I had rated myself at £7.30. Brilliant.

[Barry Cade]

The Golf of doom has been towed home with a bit of yellow rope , a wife and a Toyota Starlet. Being a Wreckoveery driver had it's perks, but I'm now back to the Autoshite way. I'm now summoning up the energy to go and kick the F^%$ out of it. Due to the Geneva convention there are certain things I cannot do but I'm gonna take revenge like it's 1945.

[MrDuke]

Yep, another one here who managed to get angle grinder sparks in his eye (despite wearing goggles). For the first day or so it was simply irritating, like there was a bit of dirt in there that wouldn't come out. Looking in the mirror I could make out a tiny dot on the eyeball. Then on the third day I woke up to a terrible pain whenever I looked at a light. Had to go to the hospital, where a doctor dug out the shards of metal with a hypodermic needle. It's pretty much painless thankfully, but very unpleasant, and not an experience I wish to repeat.

 

 

Just out of interest, how does this happen? Do the shards literally smash through the goggle lens and straight into your eye, or do they hit your cheeks and ricochet through the tiny gap at the edge of the goggle frame?

I've done some short bursts of cutting before (*cough*springs*cough*) without incident, but I'm going to be doing rather a lot of grinding while tarting up my box trailer, and I'm wondering whether to spend an obscene amount of money on pro face-gear, or just stick with my cheapo goggles and hope for the best.

[Richard]

If you are grinding an area that doesn't require your face to be near the grinder I think you'll be fine.

[Angrydicky]

Just out of interest, how does this happen? Do the shards literally smash through the goggle lens and straight into your eye, or do they hit your cheeks and ricochet through the tiny gap at the edge of the goggle frame?

 

The latter I think, especially if the elastic is tired and not making a good seal on your face. 

[Cavcraft]

Rust in the eye isn't nice, I discovered this once as I lay under my old 609D recovery truck hitting the exhaust bracket. The resultant trip to A&E and the (thoroughly deserved) lecture was painful, compounded by the fact we always wear safety glasses and often goggles at work. I had neither on that day.

[Ratdat]

Just out of interest, how does this happen? Do the shards literally smash through the goggle lens and straight into your eye, or do they hit your cheeks and ricochet through the tiny gap at the edge of the goggle frame?

I've done some short bursts of cutting before (*cough*springs*cough*) without incident, but I'm going to be doing rather a lot of grinding while tarting up my box trailer, and I'm wondering whether to spend an obscene amount of money on pro face-gear, or just stick with my cheapo goggles and hope for the best.

 

I have some Bolle safety glasses which have a seal around them a bit like swimming goggles. It's very unlikely that any sparks, rust etc would get past them. They are about £8 or £9 which is not much to spend to save your eyes. I also tend to use a full faceshield when grinding if possible as stopping any sparks from hitting your face at all makes the task a bit less unpleasant. 

 

Seriously... don't gamble with your eyesight. Wear some eye protection. It's very cheap to buy even top quality gear.

[fordperv]

Fotorabia RIP the little fella, just remember he's in no pain now

[The Moog]

Trying to sort out our house part 18748392.

Landlord has been cheapskate with everything. Then when there are issues complains. Love the house. It is big and lovely.

 

Since moving in had loads of niggles including the boiler which is costing megabucks to run. Only way to get it cheaper is to change the meter so we can get a better tariff. To do that i need a certificate to say the electrics are safe.

 

To save grief i decided to pay for it myself. 80 quid lighter and the sparky says all the sockets are screwed, whole 5 bed house is on one ring, the circuit breakers wont work because they are so far out of range and about 4 other things. Landlord still manages to make it sound like my fault.

 

We are managed by the landlord rather than agency. Partly to save money but partly i think they would expect all these things to be checked before getting renters .

 

Arsesticks we really are going to have to move.

[Bren]

Fotorabia RIP the little fella, just remember he's in no pain now

Likewise, RIP - the pain of losing a pet, especially when it's a companion, is immense. I still think of my beloved King Charles (Toby) every day.

 

Just shelled out £240 to have my vectra serviced and have a rear o/ s spring fitted. It will need a couple of tyres shortly, decent ones are about £90 a corner.

 

Was given an advisory one about the cambelt, independent that did the service said its due at 60k, apparently vauxhall say 100 k - I ' ll get it done in next 10 k as car has just hit 65k.

 

You never have any money with a motor.

[Keymaster]

Mrs kgb has split a tyre on a kerb after being forced off the road by a bus.

 

Thanks for that, HTL driver.

[dugong]

Mrs kgb has split a tyre on a kerb after being forced off the road by a bus.

 

Thanks for that, HTL driver.

Did she get the registration?