The grumpy thread

[320touring]

A lot of new developments are designed to have 2/3 the parking spaces needed to force people to get public transport..

 

I get the train- cheaper and no parking hassles:)

 

better to leave the car at home than have a mouthbreathing slick suited coonto slam their door into it

[Lord Sterling]

better to leave the car at home than have a mouthbreathing slick suited coonto slam their door into it

I would be a lot easier, but I'm just bloody-minded, plus I pay enough in tax/insurance/MOT. I won't be "forced" by the so-called "powers" that be into public transport.

[320touring]

I would be a lot easier, but I'm just bloody-minded, plus I pay enough in tax/insurance/MOT. I won't be "forced" by the so-called "powers" that be into public transport.

work out your daily cost for mot/tax ins plus petrol +repairs..you'll be surprised at how much closer to public transport (or over) you'll be.

 

My current train ticket is 160 a month. the e30 would want £350 fuel to do the same miles

[Lord Sterling]

Maybe, but the thing is, and certainly with me, most places I've ever worked at don't have direct busses/trains. For me, as constantly penniless as I often complain to be, I'd rather have the comfort of my own space, and be able to get there directly. As I live in a city, public transportation at peak times can be expensive, over crowded and generally depressing. I did it for years before and after I had a licence, and a few times in between when I didn't have a car on the road. As I said before, I am really just bloody-minded about the whole thing.

[Inspector Morose]

Not helpful but I'll tell you a little one of my tales to cheer you up a bit.

 

About 1994 I'd passed my PSV and was the proud owner of a few buses in various stages of rebuild, one of which looked well rough but was on the road and legal - to looked, well, traveller like.

 

After our company got took over by Travel (major grump there - shafted out of a share of £260000 at 21 by a total thriving bastard of a business partner. I'm not bitter) I was seconded on a course at Perry Barr depot.

 

Well it so happened I was garage get the said bus at work temporarily so I drove to the garage and took the bus. A 33 foot long bus in every conceivable shit colour you can imagine and fresh panelling down one side.

 

I parked it inside the garage at Perry bar.

 

An hour or two passed when a fairly red faced suit barged into our training session and politely* asked who's fucking bus was parked in the garage. I answered it was mine and enquirer on what the problem was.

 

Cue a half hour discussion* with him one one side "you can't park that shit heap there" and me "well, it's my form of transport and are you discriminating me because of it?" With an added side order of "what's the problem?"

 

Unsurprisingly he won the argument so out I go with the words of "you get asked to use the bus wherever possible and this is the thanks you get" the others and the tutor thought it was most amusing (well okay, they were pissing themselves).

 

I didn't want to go on the sodding course anyway. Thanks to TOB997H I managed to shorten proceedings yet still get the certificate!

[maxpower]

A life in general grump.... streaming eyes, sneezing/runny nose... and constant cough!!... and the major grump...having to work with someone who "gawd knows how" gets to run the dept i work in and turns from an okay guy into a complete power hungry fucktard!!... this guy has been slowly boiling my pisser for the last few weeks...Today he forgot to turn the flame down...because i am only one (according to him) on a flexi-contract..this fucker thought i had turned into his little plaything that he can shift about here and there... not ask if i can change my work pattern... just assumed it would be done..came back today after 2 days off with this flu...should have stayed home.. anyway mobile rings..no..oh hello glad your back, feeling any better?...it was " I need you to come in 3hrs earlier than normal tomorrow"..that was it...i just blew a fkin fuse.... in the end i told one of the managers i was going home or sillybollox would be spending the festive season in casualty...and that i won't be back until monday..where i want a meeting held and that little twat as far away from me in work as is humanly possible..... rant over 

[cms206]

Twice this week I've found myself gazing longingly at a silver R-reg E36 BMW 323i SE estate. Why do they just look right?

[oman5]

I'm just the same about parking... and I'm getting worse! My current grump about parking is I live close to the end of our road and every bugger from the next street over parks here so we (I) can't fucking park!

 

I'm seriously considering getting a 'disabled' space but the council want £330 for the previlege and it could take up to a year to be implemented! Some days, I just don't go out in the car 'cos I'm afraid I won't be able to park when I get back, and that is just stupid!

I can totally relate to that, living in a street of terraced houses like I do. I have to say the neighbours are really chilled though, no comments about parking in "their" space, everyone just parks wherever they can. I don't finish work until 3am and sometimes can't park in the street, but can't grumble too much, we do have two cars on the road. *sigh* I really miss having a driveway!

[vulgalour]

There is a mosque literally at the end of our street, converted from a pair of terrace houses.  The fact that there is a mosque there is not a grump at all, in fact it seems to have a positive effect on the local community with the problem streets not beginning until the mosque is obscured from view.  The grump is that whole place gets jammed with taxis, something that I thought was an unfounded cultural stereotype until living here, several times a week.  The grump isn't so much the excessive parking, or the difficulty of getting in or out while this particular event occurs, it's that the mosque itself is really poorly located for those wishing to attend with no dedicated parking or even pavements to utilise.  There is a small car park within walking distance, but with many of those attending having elderly and frail relatives it's hardly ideal for them to try and make the trek and navigate a main road, bus route and lack of dropped kerbs.

 

I imagine the mosque has been there long enough that everyone has got used to the situation by now and that trying to find a building better suited for the cars to park outside is no longer cost or community effective.  I can't think of a better local building that could be used to the same effect, so I guess it's a problem that will remain and possibly increase as the community grows.  I've been warned that at the end of the big fast (sorry, I don't really know the right names for the celebrations) brings the entire area to a standstill with everyone just parking wherever they fancy and in previous years sitting down to eat in the middle of the street.  I'd like to say that sounds a bit far fetched, but we shall see next time it comes around if I'm still living here.

[320touring]

Twice this week I've found myself gazing longingly at a silver R-reg E36 BMW 323i SE estate. Why do they just look right?

They're to an e30 what an 850 is to a 740..dinnae bother.

 

Or if you do, get the 2.8!

 

Let me know if you need some tips for buying/gaun like fuck;)

[purplebargeken]

General grump....... I am so very, very tired. I could just go to sleep standing up. Luckily this is my last day as I have 2 weeks of annual leave. So long suckers.

[Caffiend]

"Ohai, your test results were fine, we just asked you to call back 'cos we wanted a nice chat." Said no doctor ever. Waiting, after being given the lovely news yesterday that doctor would like to discuss said bloods results when I called to get them.

 

Trying not to fret on the basis that tests were last Fri, and rather than making me wait a week, they called me same day when I was at death's door earlier in the year, followed by a Friday at 9.30 pm emergency admission etc. Still fretting though.

[cms206]

 

 

They're to an e30 what an 850 is to a 740..dinnae bother.

 

Or if you do, get the 2.8!

 

Let me know if you need some tips for buying/gaun like fuck;)

 

Fair dos! I really rather liked the E30s I drove but never really took to the looks of the E36. Hmmm.

[cort16]

I'm dog rough today after yesterdays mass Christmas piss up. It wasn't me who made the biggest arse of myself for once. One of the other guys called the CEO a Fat Bastard. YES - GET IN.

[hairnet]

I have just lost my temper with my phone.

 

I now need a new one.

pics or else

[Noel Tidybeard]

Urgh, your car is old it must be slow. SLOW DOWN I CAN'T OVERTAKE YOU! Wankers. Xantia is surprisingly good at leaving people behind if you want it to and the occasional old-diesel-cloud-of-booting-smoke very often makes them back off, I assume because they think your ancient car is about to explode in front of them or something.

the proper word you are looking for  here angyl is CLAG

[hairnet]

the proper word you are looking for  here angyl is CLAG

self propelled smog cloud

[Caffiend]

Of the 3 serious to potentially or almost certainly fatal conditions I was being tested for the doctor wanted to talk about the blood count I didn't realise they were doing. Anaemic, still in double figures (unlike earlier in the year when count dropped to 4.2) so iron tablets, recheck Feb and no worries, everything else is green and shiny. Phew!

[beko1987]

Had awful toothache for the last few days, just hurry up and die you bastard tooth... Didn't help that I had 8 pints of Erdinger last night, felt ok this morning but been feeling more shit as the days gone on.

[saucedoctor]

MOAR beer required, Beko.

[chaseracer]

MOAR beer required, Beko.

 

Aye.

 

 

[beko1987]

 

I got this for my secret Santa, was gonna save it for next week, but if itll help to open it now...

[Cavcraft]

Of the 3 serious to potentially or almost certainly fatal conditions I was being tested for the doctor wanted to talk about the blood count I didn't realise they were doing. Anaemic, still in double figures (unlike earlier in the year when count dropped to 4.2) so iron tablets, recheck Feb and no worries, everything else is green and shiny. Phew!

 

Thanks God for that, glad it's nothing too worrying for you.

[jakebullet]

Petrol lawnmower > powered wheelbarrow project is a fail

 

After replacing the engine and getting it running right I thought I'd best check it's up to the job before chopping it up. Simple test, can it tow me round the garden on a skateboard?

 

No Roller wheelspins and fat bloke doesn't move. So I won't be able to be lazy and just enlarge the mower. Ma then spots me, and announces she wants another petrol mower for idiot sister. So project stalled until I get another none running mower cheap off evilbay

[xtriple]

Had a truly shit day today. My poor doggy Phoebe took a fall while out on a walk - she was chasing her ball - and it looks like she's broken her ankle on front right leg, She's already got arthritus and now this. To compound it, I had to carry her for a couple of hundred yards which took me the best part of thirty minutes as I could manage about ten steps then I had to put her down and rest, all the time Chester (the other dog) is panicing about what's going on and jumping up at me to see her.

 

She's now asleep on the sofa drugged out of her mind while I'm on the floor trying to get my back to stop screaming. Every time she needs a wee, I have to carry her out again.

 

I HATE being a cripple!

 

Vets again in the morning, hope it's just a sprain or something 'cos I can't be carrying her everywhere for long - she weighs 30 kilos and my max is 10 for a short time (according to the hospital that's my limit if I want to carry on walking myself!).

[fordperv]

That is truly shit I hope she recovers soon, what breed is she?

[Stanky]

Of the 3 serious to potentially or almost certainly fatal conditions I was being tested for the doctor wanted to talk about the blood count I didn't realise they were doing. Anaemic, still in double figures (unlike earlier in the year when count dropped to 4.2) so iron tablets, recheck Feb and no worries, everything else is green and shiny. Phew!

 

Don't bother with iron tablets, see if you can get your hands on something called 'Spatone' which are little sachets of liquid iron supplement, its much more easily absorbed by the body and doesn't bung you up like iron tablets do (at least they do to me).

 

Mrs_Stanky was very anaemic after micro_Stanky was born via c-section, the iron tablets really didn't help, but after the health visitor pulled some strings and got us a box of them to try out and we never looked back - She improved more in that week than she had in the 5 weeks prior to that while we buggered about with tablets. She was on the spatone for another couple of weeks and improved massively.

 

I don't think you need a scrip for it, but if you get free scrips then ask about it. Otherwise:

 

http://www.pharmacyfirst.co.uk//health/spatone-100-natural-iron-supplement-28/prod_2924.html?utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=googleshopping&gclid=CM6i6uq01MICFYkBwwod8BAAMg

 

*puts doctors uniform away again*

[MrDuke]

You can get Spatone from most health shops. I agree they're way more effective than ferrous pills, and kick in faster as well.

[Caffiend]

Thanks Stanky/MrD - another friend has also recommended Gentle Iron by Solgar. Guess the key thing is the active ingredient. I'm going to finish off the ferrous fumerate I had last time, which worked OK and I've got it, then will look at the alternatives, cheers for the pointer.

 

I have also been told to wear Class 2 compression stockings (SEXY) which are TWENTY FUCKING QUID a go - even from US, Amazon, etc (there seems to be a conspiracy). I *could* get a prescription for 2 pairs every 3 months, like that's going to be sufficient :S - plus it would be for the old lady ones whereas the ones you can get online are semi-presentable.

[xtriple]

That is truly shit I hope she recovers soon, what breed is she?

She's a Labrador. Only just turned 7 and in a right mess. She was fine this time last year?

 

We all spent the night on the floor wrapped up in duvets, not too bad to be honest. Took her to the vets first thing and it's not broken but she's hurt her back and her leg and is refusing to even try and stand up.