The grumpy thread

[Richard]

My dad lives in a street that has a primary school at the other end and he ended up complaining to the police about the school run parents racing along it, they really don't give a fuck about anybody else's children as long as theirs are safely dropped off. The police set up a trap and the headmistress was one of the first people they caught.

[steve_earwig]

My wife's a teacher in the middle school here and, while I personally think her headmistress is a bit of an arsehole, she does a fine job of keeping everything running, despite all the changes the education authority keep foisting on them and depite the massive cuts in funding they've had to absorb year on year (my wife's wages have been cut so much she's now earning les than she did 15 years ago). Still, the thought of her getting done for speeding does amuse me, although it won't happen because she walks everywhere.

 

The kids outside the school though, they just walk about in a daze, I'm surpised none of them get suashed because they just walk straight out into the road without looking or caring. I use to pick the wife up from the school carpark but I soon gave up with that because of the amount of little kids just walking in front or behind the car even when it's moving. I've even had them just walk into the car when I'm parked up waiting because they're not looking where they're going.

[vulgalour]

Remarkably, the school (primary or infant, not sure which) at the end of our street doesn't appear to attract any parents in cars, everyone seems to walk there and back.  I didn't even know that was still something that happened.  The junior school at the nearby crossroads is a different matter, plenty of taxis and parents in cars trying to get past and/or park on a road that isn't at all suited and you end up with this.

 

 

I too have nearly skittled stupid kids on this bit of road, kids that think running full pelt is the best and safest way to cross the road rather than using the crossings with buttons that have been installed to stop the traffic for their convenience.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Kids are kids, they're always gonna run out into roads no matter how many times you tell em. its the excitement of escaping from school at 4pm, its too much

[steve_earwig]

Nah, these just walk, no excitement apparent, just like a bunch of diminutive zombies.

[HillmanImp]

I switched off my Facebook profile at the new year. My mate rings me up yesterday to see if I have just deleted him again but I explain that I was simply bored shitless of the dross being posted there and drew the line on New years Eve when I had 6 posts in a row from different people showing me pictures of their fucking food.

 

Roll on today. I have now had a stream of people sending me text messages with pictures of their fucking meals on. .Wankers.

[Richard]

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^^shit beat me to it

[the judge]

Hahahhahaa!!!!

[Angrydicky]

Genuine LOL!

[Cavcraft]

Gumtree knobhead; 'Still got bike for sale?'

 

Autoshite knobhead: 'Yes, it's for sale'

 

Gumtree knobhead 'Oh, is it definitely still for sale?'

 

Autoshite knobhead: 'No, I just said it for a fucking laugh'

 

 

I don't expect them to buy it now. Not that they probably ever were going to.

[xtriple]

Got given a new telly yesterday (in the 'grin thread' ) so had to re-organise my front room to accomadate the huge bastard. My mate installed the telly so that was all done okay but I decided to change the room around...

 

I can now barely walk! Just taking the dogs out took forever and even Phoebe (who is now allowed out for a controlled walk having had her stitches out) was faster than me! She kept looking back to see what the hold up was. Just got my mate the postie to take my prescription to the doctors for me - he's a good bloke, not even on his route. So it's gonna be a quiet couple of days while I recover enough to move without yelping every five seconds. No amount of drugs is currently helping (Fentanyl and morphine, both on prescription) unless I just lay on the floor... so guess where I am!

 

Also, while moving all the crap around, I broke my most prized possession- a solid silver 14 mm spanner in the form of a bracelet, the ring end has gorn! I did it before a few years ago and silver soldered it back together (I did a stint as a jeweler many years ago) but all my stuff is now gorn (gone) so it's fooked!

[dollywobbler]

I own a pipe wrench and at least two pairs of molegrips. Can I find them? Can I ffff...

 

This is an issue as our Calor gas bottle has a minor leak, and I'm too cheap to buy the correct spanner. However, I now have absolutely no way of tightening the nut. Fail.

[Louise2cv]

There is a van from a drainage company and for probably around 6 weeks now, if not more they have been showing up either in the car park over the road or tucked away in the "dead-end" turnaround bit at the end of our road. Initially I thought it was a case of picking up a colleague, leaving his car in either place and then dropping him back to collect it, which I think it is, BUT they seem to spend actual hours just sat in the van.  

 

Now, putting aside the assumption that they are probably being contracted by Welsh Water and we are kind of paying for the work through our rates, fair play and good luck to them, nice work if you can it get etc etc but today, having sat there for who knows how long, the car-leaver dude drives off while on his phone! WTF? Couldn't he have made that phone call in the "extended break time" ? Or sat there for an extra couple of minutes maybe? Perhaps he got bored of the view.

 

Anyway...

 

is that a proper grumpy old (wo)man post or what?

 

 

(probably I am just jealous, we had trackers in the Gas vans and they'd phone if you stopped still for long enough!).

[Craig the Princess]

Sounds like every covert surveillance van from every tv cop show.

 

Put a banana in their tailpipe.

[Louise2cv]

Well I did wonder that for a bit, maybe they were PIs looking for benefits cheats or whatever, but then they came and stuck a camera up the drain, so I guess they are bona fide sewage botherers. Unless.....

[chaseracer]

Check carefully next time you go to the loo...

 

[anonymous user]

Sounds like every covert surveillance van from every tv cop show.

 

 

Either that, or they're having an affair. Do the windows get steamed up on the van?

[Bren]

Either that, or they're having an affair. Do the windows get steamed up on the van?

If it's rockin' don't come knockin'.....

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

8th January, two weeks ago. I posted on here that the boiler had broken and I was cold. Here's what happened next.

• An engineer came out and repaired the boiler.
• The boiler broke again within 12 hours.
• An engineer came out and re-repaired the boiler (after a delay waiting for parts).
• The boiler broke again within 12 hours. 
• An engineer came out and re-re-repaired the boiler.
• It started to leak, but it worked.
• An engineer came out to fix the leak. Everything is good again. 
• The boiler manages a staggering 16 hours of uninterrupted service before breaking, Ripley's Believe It Or Not informed, choose not to believe it.
• Yesterday: An engineer came out, dismantled it, has now replaced ten components at huge cost to the boiler cover people, and admitted he has no idea why it broke the last time but it's working now. 
• Today: GUESS WHAT THE BOILER DID

[purplebargeken]

Errrr, it worked perfectly and in skipped the herd of unicorns that were waitring outside for just that very moment.

 

I guess it's fucked then.

[Bobthebeard]

We had a boiler like that once...... Ended up more cost effective to sell the house and move!

[myglaren]

Sounds like every covert surveillance van from every tv cop show.

 

Put a banana in their tailpipe.

[cms206]

FATHA_IN_LAW_CMS was diagnosed with lung cancer about a fortnight ago at the age of 54. That is grump one.

 

BRUTHA_IN_LAW_CMS is taking it in his stride, MUTHA_IN_LAW_CMS much less so. FIL sparked up a fag tonight and SWMBO flipped. After shouting the odds at him, she started shouting at her mum for letting him smoke. SWMBO is now not talking to me because I pointed out that she was upsetting her mother who has had a lot more on her plate than just her husband being diagnosed with cancer.

 

I'm now on the couch, SWMBO is in bed. First fight in over two years and six Volvos. Need to keep my mouth shut in future it seems.

[Bren]

8th January, two weeks ago. I posted on here that the boiler had broken and I was cold. Here's what happened next.

 

• An engineer came out and repaired the boiler.
• The boiler broke again within 12 hours.
• An engineer came out and re-repaired the boiler (after a delay waiting for parts).
• The boiler broke again within 12 hours. 
• An engineer came out and re-re-repaired the boiler.
• It started to leak, but it worked.
• An engineer came out to fix the leak. Everything is good again. 
• The boiler manages a staggering 16 hours of uninterrupted service before breaking, Ripley's Believe It Or Not informed, choose not to believe it.
• Yesterday: An engineer came out, dismantled it, has now replaced ten components at huge cost to the boiler cover people, and admitted he has no idea why it broke the last time but it's working now. 
• Today: GUESS WHAT THE BOILER DID

Like everything else, some boiler "engineers" are shite. I had one guy who charged me £10 for resetting mine ( I could have done that you gobshite, I want you to find out why it is shutting down).

 

Next guy ummed and arrghed - displaced a wire putting it back together so no boiler, to his credit he came back and refitted the wire. At that point decided a new boiler was needed.

[Bren]

Like everything else, some boiler "engineers" are shite. I had one guy who charged me £10 for resetting mine ( I could have done that you gobshite, I want you to find out why it is shutting down).

Next guy ummed and arrghed - displaced a wire putting it back together so no boiler, to his credit he came back and refitted the wire. At that point decided a new boiler was needed.

Forgot to add too many are just fitters and hopeless at diagnosing problems - they dont have the required skill and would sooner just fit a newcone.

[Bren]

Parents -

 

When walking along the pavements with your brood try not take up the whole width of the footpath forcing me and other people into the road - I appreciate you do not want your children at risk of injury or worse but I also have no desire to get cleaned out by some fuckwit in a zafira.

[HH-R]

Is the above boiler an "Ideal" by any chance?

 

Thorn EMI Apollos all round, that's my advice.

[fordperv]

I had a boiler engineer come out due to the boiler kept shutting down and the lights indicated that it was either gas or frozen condensate pipe, what did he do, drained the water out of an elbow on the condensate pipe and reset it telling me it was frozen, it kept doing it so I checked the the pipe and it was clear, i was thinking about it and filled the elbow with water and it never did the problem again

[the judge]

As seen in runcorn. By a fake scouser no doubt.....