The grumpy thread

[seth]

Oh fucking absolute joy........not only have I got to sort the bloody bog seat finally....my missus wants the WHOLE bathroom decorated......

You should have bought her a paintbrush for cristmas

[Rusty Pelican]

Oh fucking absolute joy........not only have I got to sort the bloody bog seat finally....my missus wants the WHOLE bathroom decorated......

Probably my fault , sorry

[Guest greenvanman]

a new seat in Home Bargains is about £7.00!! Could have saved yourself 2 hours of grief!

Yep , but not in Silver which is what weve got and she wants , Silvers taken over the world , first cars , now Bog seats FFS .

 

I ask you, who amongst us wants to see that first thing in the morning?

[pompei]

NTL/Virgin, why oh why can't you waterproof your equipment? We've ust had a week of unusable telephone due to "corroded contacts in the box outside"

[Cavcraft]

(Some) dog owners. Tell you what, why don't you take your yapping/whining/barking SHIT MACHINE to the papershop every fucking morning at 06.00, tie it up outside then spend the next fifteen minutes paying your paper bill, talking about the price of stamps and read half the Daily Mail whilst you're in there?I mean it's not like your stupid fucking dog is waking half the neighbour hood up is it? Twat.

[Mike D]

More rain here too, FECK OFF!!!! I hate winter in general though, roll on the sun

[Guest]

I'm mega chuffed that there's rain for once, C U L8R SNOW!Drove the Charmant up a great big hill this morning. Yesterday it was wheelspinning on patches of ice - today it was straight up, no messing! Nice one rain!

[FredTransit]

I'm mega chuffed that there's rain for once, C U L8R SNOW!Drove the Charmant up a great big hill this morning. Yesterday it was wheelspinning on patches of ice - today it was straight up, no messing! Nice one rain!

Take it to the 'what makes you smile' thread, you are supposed to be grumpy here...

[Guest]

To counteract with some grumpiness, does anyone else feel like their skills are wasted in their job?I've spent the last couple of days composing some template letters for my work and I'm quite proud of them. Loads of my favourite words and phrases, all the boys are there - moreover, on that basis, furthermore, consequence, whereabouts, etc.Sadly, most of them will end up in the bin or result in someone going mental on the end of the phone to me. Seems like there's no room for flowery prose in the world of hassling people for money. Could have just put "You no pay??" and a load of sad faces and received exactly the same outcome.I wonder whether people who spend ages producing detailed Clipart get a bit wound-up when they see it stretched out and badly-photocopied on some lousy invitations for a birthday party. Or whether someone who put hours of life into creating a smart-looking Font typeface goes mental when they see it being used to advertise a downmarket takeaway. Or if the blokes who made the Mitsubishi Pajero/Shogun MK2 despair when they heard that their smart design is being enjoyed by some fairly unpleasant people.

[55bloke]

To counteract with some grumpiness, does anyone else feel like their skills are wasted in their job?

Hell yes!!

[shite_meister]

Other shopper's lack of spatial awareness, why not simply walk into me when you're shopping? or better still why not keep jabbing the corner of the box to the pile of shit you're waiting to pay for into my back three fucking times? next time I won't turn around and wait for an apology I'll simply punch your yellow teeth out. Have kids? then why keep a hold of them when you can let them run into my leg or make me trip over the little fuckers? Last week some retard on her own thought it a good idea to use two shopping trollies on her own but better still we all had to wait for the twat whilst she pissed off into the realms of the shop to aquire some more shit then pay for £100 worth of shopping in Co-Op stamps AND dispute how many fucking stamps she had. FUCK OFF.I hate shopping, I hate going into town, I hate having to walk around fucking retards who either have no manners or think the world is their own private fucking playground. I hate the twats who think its ok to walk into me-I DON'T FUCKING KNOW YOU SO STOP INVADING MY SPACE FUCKERS!

[brammy777]

My phone camera is producing some shonky images lately, as if the focus has gone. Bloody annoying.

[Lankytim]

Just come back from having my legs bashed by trolleys/ experiencing someones B.O problem in Morrisions. Nowadays I dont leave the house unless the wife buys me a full Morrisons breakfast as compensation first(Substitute fried bread for toast, fried tomato for hash brown) I can also sit overlooking the disabled parking bays and tut at people parking up who obviously arnt disabled. Bliss.

[Andrew353w]

I've spent the last couple of days composing some template letters for my work and I'm quite proud of them. Loads of my favourite words and phrases, all the boys are there - moreover, on that basis, furthermore, consequence, whereabouts, etc.

My sympathies entirely! I once had a "staff appraisal" which said, inter alia (that's Latin for "amongst other things") "Andrew must appreciate the need to use plain English when drafting reports". And all because I used "vicissitudes", "ululation", "frotage" and "lacunae" in one statement. Some management just don't appreciate the beauty of the English language....

[Cavcraft]

Other shopper's lack of spatial awareness, why not simply walk into me when you're shopping? or better still why not keep jabbing the corner of the box to the pile of shit you're waiting to pay for into my back three fucking times? next time I won't turn around and wait for an apology I'll simply punch your yellow teeth out. Have kids? then why keep a hold of them when you can let them run into my leg or make me trip over the little fuckers? Last week some retard on her own thought it a good idea to use two shopping trollies on her own but better still we all had to wait for the twat whilst she pissed off into the realms of the shop to aquire some more shit then pay for £100 worth of shopping in Co-Op stamps AND dispute how many fucking stamps she had. FUCK OFF.I hate shopping, I hate going into town, I hate having to walk around fucking retards who either have no manners or think the world is their own private fucking playground. I hate the twats who think its ok to walk into me-I DON'T FUCKING KNOW YOU SO STOP INVADING MY SPACE FUCKERS!

/\Best post in this entire thread. The only time I actually don't mind shopping is a handful of times a year when I obtain weekend millionaire status and take my daughter clothes shopping.

[Guest]

My sympathies entirely! I once had a "staff appraisal" which said, inter alia (that's Latin for "amongst other things") "Andrew must appreciate the need to use plain English when drafting reports". And all because I used "vicissitudes", "ululation", "frotage" and "lacunae" in one statement.

Superb! A former colleague was renowned for using loads of obscure terms including a few Latin ones. When he left, the new team had to rewrite large parts of a manual he produced because some of the dozy old women couldn't understand it and they wouldn't make the effort to be less thick.I can understand some goals of the Plain English campaign, but some of the words they consider unacceptable are quite something. How someone may misunderstand "additional" is beyond me.

[Pillock]

To counteract with some grumpiness, does anyone else feel like their skills are wasted in their job?

Yes.I started livening up my project proposal documents with a few snappy phrases, basically making them more enjoyable to read. "Engineers" became "Screwdriver twirlers", "physical ventilation blockages" were referred to as "dust bunnies". These were documents which went mostly to the top of a large company. Nobody even read the buggers.One of the last ones had a full-page of photos of two of us twatting around at a suppliers office, spinning on the chairs they were trying to sell us and leaping into any other shots we could. It was never mentioned, I swear nobody got that far.Finally, I rewrote a document as a screenplay. Even downloaded software to properly format it, produce a castlist as so on. It was a 100% work of art..... nothing. I might as well have photocopied the side of my face and emailed it off.

[Lankytim]

Im a bit miffed that I went into Halfords to buy their super duper Halfords Advanced Professional 150 piece Socket/Ratchet Set for the sale price of £100 odd and its gone back up to £200. Arses. Saved up for ages for it too.Anyone know when it will be half price again?

[CIH]

I was wasted in my last job on a call centre too. I would kill time pasting coropate snaps of high ranking suits into paint and "redifine" their roles ie; pirate, builder, knight of the realm etc. Right now I work in fast fit with a bunch of chancers and charlatans.

Im a bit miffed that I went into Halfords to buy their super duper Halfords Advanced Professional 150 piece Socket/Ratchet Set for the sale price of £100 odd and its gone back up to £200. Arses. Saved up for ages for it too.Anyone know when it will be half price again?

Halfords, next week, presumeably.

[Lankytim]

CIH, do you know that for sure, or are you just saying it as they seem to be on sale every alternate week?

 

 

 

SirTainlyBarkin, Ive fired off an email to Halfords but got an automated response telling me its not within their Q&A remit and I should consult their website.

 

I wouldnt say its what I really really want but it seems to tick most of the boxes, seems of pretty good quality and has a lifetime guarantee. Plus for the money it sounds excellent value. (100 quid that is, not so good at 200)

[Justin Case]

To counteract with some grumpiness, does anyone else feel like their skills are wasted in their job?

 

In my last but two job my skills were actually used and appreciated but my sense of irony strangely wasn't. The reaction to my pasting a copy of Bruegel's 'The Blind Leading the Blind ' over the organisation chart that followed one of the many restructurings meant that unfortunately I had to remain anonymous

[Cavcraft]

CIH, do you know that for sure, or are you just saying it as they seem to be on sale every alternate week?

 

 

 

SirTainlyBarkin, Ive fired off an email to Halfords but got an automated response telling me its not within their Q&A remit and I should consult their website.

 

I wouldnt say its what I really really want but it seems to tick most of the boxes, seems of pretty good quality and has a lifetime guarantee. Plus for the money it sounds excellent value. (100 quid that is, not so good at 200)

If you call them mate ask them if you can use your Trade Card as they used to give discounts on that.

 

If they do drop me a pm or text me or something

[Mr Lobster]

To counteract with some grumpiness, does anyone else feel like their skills are wasted in their job.

Hell yes. But then it does allow me plenty of time to plan my exit strategy and work towards full time self employment.

[brammy777]

I bloody hate it when customers blame you for papers being sold out, get it earlier then you lazy sods.

[Cavcraft]

Can't really say my skills are wasted at work at my 'skills' are not really related to what I do.Trained to do my job and can do it fairly easily but it's bloody boring most of the time and occasionally frustrating.

[sporty-shite]

To counteract with some grumpiness, does anyone else feel like their skills are wasted in their job.

No, not at all. But that's because I don't take any of my skills to work!

[M'coli]

To counteract with some grumpiness, does anyone else feel like their skills are wasted in their job.

Yes. Also, my management don't seem to understand my request for a wall planner for January, February and March next year ONLY, as this is when my department will be closed, but even then I won't know if I'll be found another job within the organisation or be put at risk of redundancy.

[Pillock]

Playstation 3.Got 'Burnout Paradise' cos it's on Platinum (budget range) now so £15. Just popped the disc in for some pre-bedtime gaming and it wants to download a 150MB date. Then a 76MB one. Then a 280MB one. Then a 130MB one. Then a 180MB one. Finally it wanted a 480MB one.... that's well over a gigabyte of update data.I know they've improved the game since it was released, would it have killed them to put a newer version on the Platinum disc?Wouldn't mind too much, I have speedy broadband, but their servers are so shit it's taken 45 minutes....

[brammy777]

Agreed, PS3s updates take the piss, I remember when I bought MGS4, it took around an hour before I could play it. Lame.But they did replace it very quickly when my first one broke, rang up on a Saturday, got a new one Tuesday.

[Cavcraft]

How much APR?

 

http://www.quickquid.co.uk/fee-schedule.html

 

Are people honestly that dim they'd take a loan out with this lot?