The grumpy thread

[AlsoMike]

Go Compare. Piss off.

Too right. They keep putting out new Go Compare adverts every 5 minutes as well, so you aren't ready to mute the tv when that funking awful singing twunt suddenly appears. Bastards.

[warren t claim]

I miss the old fashioned insurance broker, not the Swinton type, but the sort where someone would work your quote out on a piece of paper whilst you paced up and down the shop smoking and wondering whether a 3.4 XJ6 was a sensible auction purchase for a 19 year old with a few points on his licence.

[brammy777]

The prick in the Mercedes who nearly ran me over when I was three quarters of the way across the road, he actually sped up! And people beeping in traffic ques in London, Im sure the lights will hear your horn and feel sorry for you and change. Idiots.

[AXrescuer]

Should of, should have. End of, or, end have.

[dollywobbler]

Go Compare. Piss off.

Too right. They keep putting out new Go Compare adverts every 5 minutes as well, so you aren't ready to mute the tv when that funking awful singing twunt suddenly appears. Bastards.

I now mute the entire advert break. This is good as I now also don't have to put up with Davina McConk in the hair care adverts.

[brammy777]

Dont even get me started on Davina, perhaps she should have just never ever started presenting Dont Try This at Home (remember that?!?), think of the amount of headaches we all would have been spared.

[warren t claim]

I'm surprised she survived her relationship with Stan Collymore.

[M'coli]

Go Compare. Piss off.

Too right. They keep putting out new Go Compare adverts every 5 minutes as well, so you aren't ready to mute the tv when that funking awful singing twunt suddenly appears. Bastards.

I now mute the entire advert break. This is good as I now also don't have to put up with Davina McConk in the hair care adverts.

We recently aquired one of thse new-fangled hard-disc recorders, and these allow you to skip the adverts altogether. Brilliant piece of kit.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I now mute the entire advert break. This is good as I now also don't have to put up with Davina McConk in the hair care adverts.

I've always done this - just seems like common sense. Yet everyone I know prefers to leave the ads blaring, and shout their conversation over the top. Madness.

[Richard]

Quite often I turn the TV off at the advert break and don't turn it back on again.

[Hudsonpie]

We buy any car .com.......we buy any car.com.......from fifty quid to a hundred grand.....we buy any car .com...........FUCK OFF.....and die

[peter9000uk]

A good mate of mine works for a charity for terminally ill kids and their families and they were given by Harrods 3 of those Alexander meerkat toys to auction off before Christmas. Well some low life won one Christmas eve for £255 and has refused to pay as he reckons he can get one for £80 this week. FFS mate it's for a worthy charity, pay up!A couple of big lads we know have offered to go round and deliver it personally but my mate doesn't want to get the charity in trouble.E-bay as usual are as useful as a chocolate fireguard and side with the bidderBoils my piss.

[seth]

Now that /\ is out of order.

 

TV Ads. If you have to insert the name of the "celebrity" endorsing your products in the bottom corner of the screen when they first appear then surely they're not the right person you should be using because:

 

A) People like me don't give a stuff who the pretty girl with the hair/odour is.

 

Your target audience/customers ought to know who she is anyway without captions.

[Richard]

Maybe it's to make the target customers think they are part of the L'Oréal "gang" because they know who it is and they think the caption is there for other people who aren't "worth it".

[mattblack]

Advertising TV's on...erm TV.'Look at the picture quality of the new 92.56" Satsuma LCDC3P0XR3i...''Er, yeah, looks great on our 10 year old hand-me-down CRT job...don't think I'll bother, ta...'

[Milford Cubicle]

Bugger off winter, eh, why don't you?

 

 

[trigger]

You wanta move on down south me old mucka, lovely and warm here.

 

[Rusty Pelican]

We buy any car .com.......we buy any car.com.......from fifty quid to a hundred grand.....we buy any car .com...........FUCK OFF.....and die

Started singing this as soon as i read it , your right ..............fuck off .........

[Milford Cubicle]

BLoody hell, +4C, that'd feel like the tropics compared to here.

[whitevanman]

Met office says high off -2 for me...BBC says high of +3( from met office source)??? so 2 entirely different forecasts mind I'm not suprised....thermometer said -9 first thing but its risen to +3, so I'm off to work on the cars

[Guest]

I'll spare you the 5-day forecast, but there's no snow scheduled here! Excellent, now it can all go away and die.

[whitevanman]

we are forecast for more snow and freezing for the rest of the week

[Mash]

I bloody hate winter, me. It's damp and cold and dark and I've been tripping over the cables and hoses on the pressure washer this afternoon and getting even more damp and cold.And I want a bigger house with more land - all I seem to be doing is moving clutter from one place to another at present. I tell you, I'm only 2 Tesco bags away from being Mr. Trebus.

[Cavcraft]

-2 in Chester this morning but didn't really feel cold. Heater in Toyota=blast furnace in no time.Back to ranting three bleeding sets of roadworks on the M6 South and trying to keep to 50mph ain't that clever when some twat in a foreign registered lorry is right up your rear end. Couldn't even utter any lol-age at the fucking big queue going north either as I was going back that way half an hour later

[whitevanman]

HURRRRRRUMPH....finished masking the tea earlier (vegetarian Shepperds pie) and a pot of soup......all well and good you say.................................I even washed the dishes, so I just went through to dry them of and I've discovered the soap and water thats left on them is frozen quick check of thermometer....Yup -3 in the Kitchen, no wonder I feel slightly on the cold side

[Timewaster]

-3 in the Kitchen, no wonder I feel slightly on the cold side

Do you live in a caravan or something?!

[whitevanman]

-3 in the Kitchen, no wonder I feel slightly on the cold side

Do you live in a caravan or something?!

more Something...a small cottage in the country, has double glazing but its always bloody cold in here, heating doesn't come on until 8.30pm........you can just make out the corner of the house in my sig, part of the reason its cold is the wind, nothing blocks it, no trees or owt, hence the wind just keeps the stone very, very cold

[Timewaster]

a small cottage in the country

Sounds absolutely idylic. In JULY!

[Hudsonpie]

(Unless a big shed with living accommodation becomes available, then I'll wind myself up more if I can't buy it.) A friend of mine lives in a big shack with a sort of flat above for living, no central heating and a tepid shower, but he has enough room downstairs for all his cars and motorcross gear. Fifty sovs a week plus a tenner for leccy, I rent a small poxy house as me and my missus cant afford to buy. Not allowed any un taxed vehicles or general shite. If I get reported for an untaxed vehicle, the wife gets in trouble as she works for the DVLA, aaaaand it goes down on her personal record.....fucking shit....certainly curtailed my previous vehicular shennanigans. Although my neighbour dosent mind the occasional stripped Scooby scatted on her lawn......

[pogweasel]

Cottages are well shit. When we lived in one I swear there was absolutely nothing to block out the wind between Siberia and us, it was fricking freezing. The place still had the original 'sash' type windows, which didn't close very well and no proper central heating. Brrr. The worst part was the bathroom, which was literally a brick outhouse plonked on the end of the kitchen, it was single-skin brick with a timber roof and a leaky window so retained absolutley no heat. Going for a poo or having a shower in the winter was a scary prospect as you had a real danger of frostbite on exposed extremities. Sure, we had lovely views and it was very "quaint" but it was no fun to live in.