The grumpy thread

[M'coli]

Sticking the "like" at the end of the sentence isn't so bad, so long as it's said with an Inverness accent...

[cort16]

Some bastard at the fruitypots factory has charged one of their pots to a vaccum of -400psi or what ever the unit of measurement for a vaccum is.

I just gingerly pulled open the corner and all of the liquid contents (of which there is a surpising amount) shot out covering me in fruit juice from my neck to my knees including one particularly embarrasing spot right on my crotch.

I'm going to write a strongly worded letter to them the starts "Dear FruityPot Wankers.."

[cort16]

Similiarly in glasgow folk refer to you as or pal even when you don't know them. I'm not your pal you fruitypot wanker!

[DVee8]

I washed both cars this morning just as the heavens opened,as i had started i continued,it stopped job done.

 

I went to pick the wife and kids up this afternoon.One of the plastic roof rail covers on the Astra was sitting high so i pushed it down,this then snapped in half fucksticks.I collected up the bits,got home and glued them together(can still see the join) and refitted,it seemed a little slack so i lifted the rear one to check the fit,which then snapped one of the little plastic hinges as i lifted it double fucksticks.

 

Out came the super glue to stick the rear one back down.I'll be off to the scrappy Friday morning for another cover.

[hairnet]

oh dear.......

 

new one ordered

 

[Jazoli]

oh dear.......

 

new one ordered

Proper shite way to fix it would be to cut the old nipple off and use a solderless nipple to shorten the cable.....

[Albert Ross]

Panda coolant issues? Take a good look at the plastic pipes on the back of the thermostat housing, bolted to the engine above the gearbox. They can crack, and eventually shear off with disastrous results. You might not notice the crack, as under pressure, the hoses and pipes sit tight. But they do allow air in eventually. Same as the 500s.....

[Angrydicky]

Just heard we've lost our dog after a short illness. RIP Roxy (Foxy)

 

[chaseracer]

Sad times, Dicky 

[Pillock]

Right. Work have emailed to say that our last team meeting of the year has seemingly turned into some sort of hellish "get to know you" event, since we've just lumped a load of completely dissimilar functions together into one team hence there are now various people with far more interest in their colleagues than I have determined to make a non-optional work event "fun".

 

We apparently have to wear a Christmas Jumper. 

 

I have a uniform, I wear my uniform to work. I do own a Christmas jumper but I definitely object to being told when to wear it and that I must be in a Christmas mood. The even is barely into December FFS. 

 

Do I a) pretend I've not read the email and thus just wear my uniform, wear a highly offensive Christmas jumper (I found one with reindeers shagging), or c) ring in sick? 

 

I'm not bah humbug, but Christmas is hell enough in retail, and so will begin when work finishes for the holidays and will be a time for family, sprouts, and turning my blackberrry off.

[EssDeeWon]

1. Long dark evenings

2. Christmas Adverts

3. Nearly my birthday so I have to do something sociable and see the family

4. Then its Christmas, more sociable things with the family (big sigh)

5. NYE, another fuckin pointless night out for no good reason

 

Roll on January.

[xtriple]

Sorry for your loss Dicky. It can be really bloody hard to lose your dog.

[purplebargeken]

Having sold the lovely MGF due to crippling leg/knee pain, I finally tottered off to have an X ray of the knee on Monday. Tonight I got a call from my GP who told me that he was very sorry to say that I have arthritis in the knee. No shit Sherlock.

 

He then went on to say that I also appear to have something metal in my knee, had I had a procedure? No. Well not one that I recall. How odd he says. No shit Sherlock thought I.

 

I would imagine it is likely to be some wire strand from the many hundred knotted wire brushes I have used over the years. Short journey from wire wheel to soft tissue at hypersonic speeds will see said things embedded into flesh. Should be entertaining seeing said GP come to terms with that.

 

 

Also very sorry to hear about your furry mate. Miss my little furball still. 

[Bobthebeard]

Right. Work have emailed to say that our last team meeting of the year has seemingly turned into some sort of hellish "get to know you" event, since we've just lumped a load of completely dissimilar functions together into one team hence there are now various people with far more interest in their colleagues than I have determined to make a non-optional work event "fun".

 

We apparently have to wear a Christmas Jumper.

 

I have a uniform, I wear my uniform to work. I do own a Christmas jumper but I definitely object to being told when to wear it and that I must be in a Christmas mood. The even is barely into December FFS.

 

Do I a) pretend I've not read the email and thus just wear my uniform, wear a highly offensive Christmas jumper (I found one with reindeers shagging), or c) ring in sick?

 

I'm not bah humbug, but Christmas is hell enough in retail, and so will begin when work finishes for the holidays and will be a time for family, sprouts, and turning my blackberrry off.

Personally I would go for option c. Ring in sick, then put on the reindeer jumper and go for a 'top down' drive in the MGF.

[fordperv]

Sorry for your loss dicky, it's a heartbreaking thing, I still well up about my big lad who passed in January but it has got easier as times passed

[Cavcraft]

Turn up in your uniform and tell them you haven't got a Christmas jumper.

 

Then find out where the bosses drink and go there the following day wearing a Christmas jumper.

[Craig the Princess]

Demand an additional payment for wear and tear of your own Jumper and state if not you will wear your contractually mandated uniform. Also request to see the health and safety risk assessment of wearing Christmas jumpers (increased fire risk from the materials, risk of attack from offered religious zealous, etc).

 

I don't actually suggest this.

[M'coli]

Got an old hard drive kicking around? take one of the jumpers from the back of it, paint a red nose on it with anything red and wear that on your uniform, job jobbed.

[twosmoke300]

Can't beat a good geek joke

[Bren]

Sorry for your loss Dicky.

 

The pain of losing a companion can be considerable.

 

I still think of my cavalier (Toby) every day.

[UmBongo]

I don't think your company can force you to wear a Christmas jumper.

 

But just tell them to GTF and go in wearing this instead...

 

[Cavcraft]

One job I was at told us we HAD to come in the next day (Friday) despite the promise of deep snow. It did snow, so I rang in and said I couldn't get in and they went mental about it. I came in on Monday in my 4x4 and got the longest, strangest quietest stare ever from my boss.

[Jim Bell]

Sorry to hear of the dog passing Angrydicky.

Sour Times.

[Pillock]

Christmas balaclava is looking good.

 

I've also found a Slayer jumper in a Christmas style. It's thirty quid so naturally I'll put it through expenses.

 

Sorry to hear of your dog AD. I'm also sorry for getting in the way of your understandable grump with nonsense about jumpers....

[Lord Sterling]

Soz to hear about your dog AD.

[xtriple]

Just had a panic: e-mail from Talktalk saying I'm gonna be cut off tomorrow 'cos my bill ain't been paid! Checked and my mobile phone bill was paid as usual (direct debit) so rang them. Eventually got thru' to a human who confirms that my bill is fine and dandy oh, and I'm with Talkmobile, not Talktalk! So I ring Talktalk and speak to a human in India who hasn't got a clue and when I say 'what the hell I don't have an account with you'  (but my e-mail is with them) I really confuse the poor guy.

 

Eventually I just read the entire e-mail to the chap who then says it's a SCAM! Disregard and DON'T click on the link!

 

I am a panicy old git!

[EssDeeWon]

Eventually I just read the entire e-mail to the chap who then says it's a SCAM! Disregard and DON'T click on the link!

 

I am a panicy old git!

 

Its far better to be like that in this day and age xtriple, and not like these helmets who just say yes and click on anything they are sent, send money and provide bank details willy nilly. You know the sort of people who get on TV and complain because some guy knocked on their front door and said they were from their bank so they just handed over the debit card and pin number!!

 

I mean come on FFS, Honestly!

[mercrocker]

^^Not to mention those daft bints of certain age and waist measurement who sell their house and give some Tunisian waiter twelve grand for his mother's pancreas operation just because he kept kissing her neck on holiday....

[EssDeeWon]

^^Not to mention those daft bints of certain age and waist measurement who sell their house and give some Tunisian waiter twelve grand for his mother's pancreas operation just because he kept kissing her neck on holiday....

 

Brilliant!

 

Yes, wasn't there a programme about that recently called Holiday love rats? Should be called Stoopid gullable desperate old gilfs.

[cort16]

it's no worse than the multitude of male mid life crisis old fanny's who go out and buy a harley or a porsche convertible then spend 1000's showing off and trying to cop off with some young strumpit who just wants to string them along for their money.

Net result. They get divorced and lose all their cash, they have to live in a 1 bedroomed bed sit and their children hate them for destroying their lives.