The grumpy thread

[saucedoctor]

And this is silly. I got these today, with a sellby date of 03/11. Tasty though.

[brickwall]

That's a win.

[Bren]

Tired of getting stupid fucking emails about the fiesta with awful grammar - does everybody get a minimum wage education these days?

 

I swear, if anybody does come to look at it and tries to go all Mike Brewer on me i'll do a Josef Fritzel on them.

 

I mean take them hostage, but without the pregnancy.

[Lankytim]

Nah, make em pregnant. that will teach them.

[Bren]

Also got an email (another) about the vivarium - can I deliver it to Widnes? No problem.

 

He then mentions it is for a bearded dragon - I ask him to make sure it is big enough, because I am not taking it for him to turn his nose up at it.

 

He then asks how big it is ?!

 

I tell him the sizes are in the ad, and that 300mm = 1 foot.

 

I don't think there is intelligent life anywhere in the universe.

[Cavcraft]

Never take anything to a 'buyer' unless they've paid at least fuel money up front. If they're genuine, then they won't mind.

[jakebullet]

Grrr, stupid previous owner tricks. Drivers side footwell rusted out on your series land rover? Why not fix it by getting a repair panel, putting it inside the rusted out one and then putting eleventy million welds to hold it in place. Then bang some carpet down to cover it all up.

 

I wouldn't have noticed except I need to take the steering box out, and the bolts that go thru the bulkhead are nowhere to be found on the inside. They're there on the outside. Turns out they're under the footwell sandwich.

 

It's either a long session with the plasma cutter tomorrow, or another 6 months of going sod it and putting the tarp back over it.

[TimothyClaypole]

Dog sitting while my parents are on holiday, sister and dad's dog.

 

Sister has washed him today after he rolled in some dog shit.

 

10 minutes at my house and he's covered in cat shit.... great. 

 

(Neighbours cats).

 

[myglaren]

A whole lot of them will disappear when Tesco goes bust in March 2015.

 

I bought a Tesco calculator. When I input 530+300 it gives me 1200?

Been trying to buy a Motorola E from Twatsco for weeks and failed miserably every time.  

 

 

Probably just as well in the light of current events.

[beko1987]

300 miles in the meriva this weekend and all is not well, loud shake/vibration at heavy braking above 50ish. 

 

New discs and pads on the front I think to rule that out, if no better then back to matey it goes...

 

On the plus side it seems to be running better and more economical on pez after the new plugs, although SWMBO got pissed off when I said "300 miles to 3/4 a tank (probably £45-50), is that all?? I get that for £25-30 in the zx, you should get one...

[EssDeeWon]

Got dragged to the cinema yesterday, not a place I ever choose to go because I just dont those places.

 

Yesterday the GF gets tickets and says the film starts @ 4.20pm............................4.20pm my arse, nearly 5 o clock and were still sitting there watching poxy adverts and trailers of films im never going to watch, I mean FFS can they do that? Saying a film starts at X time and sticking it on 40 minutes later!! Ass ols im not going again. The film was ok though.

[chaseracer]

At the risk of causing offence with a sweeping generalisation: Audi A4 drivers.  WTaF??  Are they ALL lobotomised?

 

And breathe.

[saucedoctor]

^ yes.

[andy18s]

Hey Muller,heres an idea for when you aren't screwing every last penny out of dairy farmers.....

Employ every agency driver in the county to fetch your extorted milk from the ripped off farmer

But then tell said drivers that they Cannot go over 35mph.

Ever

A roads/B roads ? just make sure they crawl along Everywhere and cause a tailback that the M25 would be proud off

 

 

 

That is all.....

[hairnet]

Got dragged to the cinema yesterday, not a place I ever choose to go because I just dont those places.

 

Yesterday the GF gets tickets and says the film starts @ 4.20pm............................4.20pm my arse, nearly 5 o clock and were still sitting there watching poxy adverts and trailers of films im never going to watch, I mean FFS can they do that? Saying a film starts at X time and sticking it on 40 minutes later!! Ass ols im not going again. The film was ok though.

ive not been to a cinema since 2001 for this very reason

 

and the mouth breathers in the trafford centre.......

 

and thats just the staff

[inconsistant]

I hate all self service tills but the B&Q ones are the very worst.

My one man campaign of refusing to use them in the vain hope they might go away doesn't seem to be working.

I'm with you brother. Never used one, never going to.

 

A till where I serve myself?

Does that make my shopping cheaper then now that I'm doing what you don't have to employ someone to do?

No?

Oh, I'll stick with the old way of doing it then and your shareholders will just have to go without that little extra.

[richardmorris]

Spent the weekend at my sister's house looking after my nieces with my parents while she and my BIL are enjoying themselves in the swiss alpes. Everytime I stay at "the plague house" I come away with a dreadful cold. I was fine Saturday, then sunday I had a sore throat, headache and blocked nose and a temperature. What do young children get up to at school- Germ warefare?

[beko1987]

The b&q woman is indeed evil. Have to say I go to wickes over b&q now because they have fit girls on the tills, especially during summer holidays! Homebase in maidenhead can be good too!

 

If I do have to use b&q I scan a light item, call the person over to sort the till out as it cant recgnise it on the scales, wait for him to go away and do it with a second item, and repeat until I get bored/he just stands there waiting for me to finish

[richardmorris]

God, life's too short. I have left shopping on the auto-checkout at M&S before because no-one could be bothered to authorise my bottle of wine. If my time is too cheap for them, then my money certainly is. Halfords is my real gripe though  - staff who really think that processing your payment is about 5th down on their list of things that they need to be doing.

[HH-R]

I like using the self service machines, I hate the inane chit chat on the usual checkouts about my purchases/the t-shirt I'm wearing/do you want any cashback/do you want any top up cards/do you want some vodka for those corn flakes/do you want any bags for that trolley full of shopping? Only thing that winds me up is ASDA has 5 or 6 long belt self services and about 10 small ones with one member of staff, when it invariably asks for for ID for plastic cutlery/paracetamol/vodka for corn flakes/hammer the assistant is ALWAYS standing at the other set of checkouts, GUARANTEED.

[fairkens]

I'm with you brother. Never used one, never going to.

 

A till where I serve myself?

Does that make my shopping cheaper then now that I'm doing what you don't have to employ someone to do?

No?

Oh, I'll stick with the old way of doing it then and your shareholders will just have to go without that little extra.

Sorry, not aimed at you specifically but the use of 'shareholders' as a non specific but definitely evil group of grey suited fat cats gets on my wick. Pretty much everyone in the uk is a shareholder. Got a pension? Then you are a shareholder in all these evil banks and supermarkets that are only concerned about shareholder profits (excluding those who bank with triodos ofc)

[gordonbennet]

ive not been to a cinema since 2001 for this very reason

 

and the mouth breathers in the trafford centre.......

 

and thats just the staff

 

Its been bloody donkeys years for us too.

 

Last time stinky to one side smelled like a brewery, and the mong on the other must have smoked twenty woodies thirty seconds before plonking his arse down..

 

Then besides those two, we were subjected to the all around soundtrack of cows chewing the cud, crunching munching slurping sniffing coughing, and the horrible unmistakeable stench of piggin monster munch of all shit punctuating the wafts of booze and fags.

 

Jesus wept, never again as long as i bloody live, the general public are increasingly bloody vile, probably all ebay buyers.

 

They can stick the cinema up their collective arse, over time we've bought a 50" telly and full serious separates surround sound, cuddle up on sofa, scan past the few ads that some DVD makers stick on, watch film in comfort, bliss....no neighbours to worry about annoying either.

[Cavcraft]

I think the last time I went to the pictures was to take my (then) three year old son to see The Borrowers, as his sister had just been born. Prior to that would have been one of those 'hand goes up, hand goes back down, hand goes down, hand goes back up' jobs with whatever lucky* young lady didn't succumb to my charms. 

 

Whatever happened to fingers and tops? All those good old fashioned British 'sports' seem to have disappeared these days, youngsters just seem to go straight into shagging without any thought for a bit of effort first.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I quite like going to the pictures but I always try to plan when it will be quite and sit as far away from anyone else as possible. Bit spoiled now though as cineworld have got this allocated seating thing even when it's empty.

 

Going when England play football is always good as it's utterly dead.

 

Saying that we have cut it down as me and the other half worked shifts did we really want 2/3 hours of the little time we got together sitting in a dark room not talking when we could to do something else

[Keymaster]

My old man kicked off in Tesco one sunday morning when they only had the self serve till option available. Screamed the place down about computers and customer complacency destroying real peoples jobs. He made the manager scan, pack & carry his 5 items to the car for him, ha ha! FUCK YOU TESCO!

[mat_the_cat]

 

[hairnet]

lmfao not that hard to open shirley

[Noel Tidybeard]

Saying that we have cut it down as me and the other half worked shifts did we really want 2/3 hours of the little time we got together sitting in a dark room not talking when we could do it at home for free

EFA

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^^no idea what efa means but nice edit

[Station]

Probably not of much relevance, but found out the person who wrote all these brilliant online manuals for the Starion has passed away:

 

http://starquest.i-x.net/viewforum.php?f=12

 

Just look at how amazing and detailed they are! They helped me and hundreds of other serial Starion owners!

RIP Wayne/Professor Quest! :(