The grumpy thread

[michael1703]

Cor.. Look at them thrupenny bits though

[TimothyClaypole]

Maybe this:

 

"I regret to inform everyone that the Cannon Hall Car Rally is CANCELLED. This has been necessary due to advice and resrictions imposed by BMBC's Events Safety Group who were unhappy with The Rotary Club of Barnsley staging of the event in the format that has existed for the past 15 years."

 

Council busybodies...

 

Same as RMBC - bet I don't get a refund because they aren't collecting the bin(s) this week.  

[Gerald]

You don't like bernese mountain dogs or spelling errors?

Bernese mountain dogs are ok, gently ambling round with a man on a trailer, slavering quietly, licking nuns and kittens.

It's the bermese bastids I don't like, forcing POWs to build railways through jungles on a cup of rice a day etc. etc. etc...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Japs (?) not burmese I know but...

[Gerald]

Maybe this:

 

"I regret to inform everyone that the Cannon Hall Car Rally is CANCELLED. This has been necessary due to advice and resrictions imposed by BMBC's Events Safety Group who were unhappy with The Rotary Club of Barnsley staging of the event in the format that has existed for the past 15 years."

 

Council busybodies...

 

Same as RMBC - bet I don't get a refund because they aren't collecting the bin(s) this week.

Is that reyt? o_O

They really are a shower of bastards, Barnsley Council... and don't get me started on Dave North... twice now he's had a full fat copper out (none of your chocolate bobbies for him - oh no, about my gaylander being securely supported on axle stands, steel wheel chocks and a trolley jack on the quiet road outside while it undergoes surgery between my two jobs... grumble grimble womble...)

 

On the plus side, our black bin was collected on time yesterday - the first time since St Roy of Miller introduced his new and imoroved system of not collecting bins on the reyt day in the new year. Fücking fat waste of space that he is. (I know him and his son and daughter.)

 

Best get in't shower now or else we'll be late for't Yorkshire show.

[Caffiend]

For the second time this week some fucker has banged on my front door at 6 am as if the house was burning down and I needed to evacuate and been not there by the time I made it to the front door. FFS.

[Cavcraft]

Set alarm for 05.45, open top window, hide behind net curtains, tip bucket of something over mystery door knocker.

[twosmoke300]

Set alarm for 5.15 , heat bucket full of oil to smoke point THEN "open top window, hide behind net curtains, tip bucket of something over mystery door knocker."

[NorfolkNWeigh]

You are Pandora Maxwell AICMFP

[cort16]

Yahoomail again. There's definitely someone high up at yahoo working as a double agent for gmail.

[The Moog]

Volunteer as treasurer for an organisation in spare time.

 

Loads of shit going on behind my back including telling people they can do my role. Especially as i have spent fucking ages sorting out all the shit left from last time.

 

Where was everyone when the work needed to be done? Wankers

[dollywobbler]

Committees are an entire world of stress. I did my time on a car club committee and swore I'd never do it again. Now I'm on a voluntary group committee once again starting to think that democracy is a bloody stupid idea. If a small committee can be such a time and idea thief, it makes you desperately sad about the state of our government.

[The Moog]

True, always annoying as the egos just get in the way.

 

Mind you i should have learnt my lesson from last year in Cambodia working with charities so my own fault

[chaseracer]

Set alarm for 5.15 , heat bucket full of oil to smoke point THEN "open top window, hide behind net curtains, tip bucket of something over mystery door knocker."

 

Don appropriate camouflage, stay up all night with a loaded assault rifle, pick off said fucker with a hollow-point double tap as they creep up the garden path.  It's the only language they understand...

[Caffiend]

Set alarm for 05.45, open top window, hide behind net curtains, tip bucket of something over mystery door knocker.

 

 

Set alarm for 5.15 , heat bucket full of oil to smoke point THEN "open top window, hide behind net curtains, tip bucket of something over mystery door knocker."

 

 

Don appropriate camouflage, stay up all night with a loaded assault rifle, pick off said fucker with a hollow-point double tap as they creep up the garden path.  It's the only language they understand...

 

It all sounds far too exhausting, think I'll move next week instead.

 

(OK, so I was doing that anyway.)

[chaseracer]

Aye, fairy nuff...

 

[vulgalour]

Them: Yep, that's all the paperwork done that you paid us £200 to sort out.

Us: So I can have a moving date then?  I can book a van now and pack stuff properly?

Them: Sure, just fill out this form we forgot to tell you about and post it to us.

Us: e-mail?

Them: Post.

 

¬.¬  It's getting on for two weeks now and all I want to do is stop living half-in and half-out of boxes and get a van booked.  The longer this drags on the more frustrating doing my job is becoming and the more frustrating not being able to get stuck in to my new job is becoming.  At this rate we'll end up with me trying to pack the removal van the same day the Council come to do the wiring on the house and take the scaffolding down and they will then complain at me for being in their way.

 

Sometimes I sit here and I can feel my eye twitching.  That's never a good thing.

[chaseracer]

I'd be looking for a partial refund on my 200quid...

[The Moog]

Had all that.

 

Can you pop in and sign this in our shop in Accrington?

Erm no we live Scotland as we discussed.

Oh. What if we post it to you then you post it back?

We want to move in, in 3 days.

 

Right we need your guarantor to come in with id.

He lives in London.

Can he pop into Accrington shop?

Erm no. Can we email it?

It has be signed by a solicitor which will cost xxx

 

 

I feel your pain....

[ruffgeezer]

New job offer never materialised, current job worse than ever, slowly I descend into a hollowed out, feelingless drone. Serve. Obey. Pay.

[panhard65]

Trying to get a pair of doors shipped from Toulouse to Essex best shiply quote so far is just under 200 quid. A couple of years ago I had an engine shipped the same route for 80 quid. Looks like the Juvaquatre doors will have to be bodged .

[dugong]

Them: Yep, that's all the paperwork done that you paid us £200 to sort out.

Us: So I can have a moving date then?  I can book a van now and pack stuff properly?

Them: Sure, just fill out this form we forgot to tell you about and post it to us.

Us: e-mail?

Them: Post.

 

¬.¬  It's getting on for two weeks now and all I want to do is stop living half-in and half-out of boxes and get a van booked.  The longer this drags on the more frustrating doing my job is becoming and the more frustrating not being able to get stuck in to my new job is becoming.  At this rate we'll end up with me trying to pack the removal van the same day the Council come to do the wiring on the house and take the scaffolding down and they will then complain at me for being in their way.

 

Sometimes I sit here and I can feel my eye twitching.  That's never a good thing.

 

I R VANFACE

[vulgalour]

OMG I NO RITE?  Need to arrange a SWB Transit sized van and possibly driver to do the run and the stuff up north because people have given us free stuff to help populate the kitchen.  I suspect your van will be too dinky for the duties required, awesome though it be.

[dugong]

OMG I NO RITE?  Need to arrange a SWB Transit sized van and possibly driver to do the run and the stuff up north because people have given us free stuff to help populate the kitchen.  I suspect your van will be too dinky for the duties required, awesome though it be.

 

BUT IT HAS A WOODEN GEAR KNOB

[Caffiend]

Unfortunately through no-one's fault (injury) I was let down by a potential man'n'van, and I need to move next week before I go into hospital. So far I've had 17 quotes from anyvan.com and picked the one that wasn't the cheapest, had decent feedback, and from the response had evidently actually *read* what I'd put in the request. Might be worth a shot?

[vulgalour]

DUGONGS WOODEN KNOB VAN DELIVERY SERVICE could be your solution, Caffiend.  Hope the hospital visit is nothing too serious.

[Caffiend]

I'm not sure that the van with a wooden knob would fit 2 double beds and a 3-seater sofa, tragically, or I would be delighted to cross a shiter's palm with some purple pix of Her Maj rather than a random stranger.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

What is this wooden-knobbed vehicle? MOAR INFO REQD.

[Richard]

305 Van I think.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Oh wow!!! Come on Dug tell us a bit about it!!!

[trigger]

Dugs being very shadey about it but I've seen photos and it's calendar and tissue worthy.