The grumpy thread

[skattrd]

This is going to sound ridiculous but I'm a bit disappointed that there's only 122 Daewoo Esperos left according to "How Many Esperos did the DVLA input correctly". Funny how you miss things things you didn't notice until they're all but gone.

 

Esperooo has now been moved higher in my cars to own list ... If anyone seens one for sale (pref auto and cheap) lmk.

[Cavcraft]

The plus side of that sort of accountancy is that I probably pissed up enough money last year to have bought a budget end of the market BMW X5.

[Lankytim]

The next-door-but-two neighbours are running some sort of car repair business from their home. There's cars all over the place meaning residents can't park up anywhere. A couple look roadworthy but the rest look like scrapyard rejects. At the last count there were 9 cars belonging to one house hogging all the on street parking, that's not including the engineless wrecks they keep on their driveway. I think most are customers cars as the guy regularly goes out and tinkers with them in the street. Last night he was revving the bollocks off one at 10pm. 

 

The foreign registered ones are all "overstayers" in the U.K, meaning they haven't been registered here and so can't have MOT tax or insurance and some of the U.K reg ones are sans MOT e.t.c. (i'm a nosy bastard so I checked)

 

 

Should I grass em up for keeping/running a load of illegal shitters with bald tyres or should I stop being a nosy neighbour?

[fordperv]

I think a nudge to pc plod to do some spot checks on the cars wouldn't do any harm, i hate to think that wreck with the bald tyres attempting to do an emergency stop near a nun carrying a kitten, let alone a small child

[Danblez]

The next-door-but-two neighbours are running some sort of car repair business from their home. There's cars all over the place meaning residents can't park up anywhere. A couple look roadworthy but the rest look like scrapyard rejects. At the last count there were 9 cars belonging to one house hogging all the on street parking, that's not including the engineless wrecks they keep on their driveway. I think most are customers cars as the guy regularly goes out and tinkers with them in the street. Last night he was revving the bollocks off one at 10pm. 

 

The foreign registered ones are all "overstayers" in the U.K, meaning they haven't been registered here and so can't have MOT tax or insurance and some of the U.K reg ones are sans MOT e.t.c. (i'm a nosy bastard so I checked)

 

 

 

Should I grass em up for keeping/running a load of illegal shitters with bald tyres or should I stop being a nosy neighbour?

 

Idiots showing no consideration for anyone else I call fair game. Grass em up!

[dollywobbler]

16 months for what amounts to vehicular manslaughter is utterly ridiculous. There's no justice in that.

 

Chap who ran my my grandmother down on a zebra crossing got a fine. That was tough. He was speeding and not paying attention, though it's entirely possible that my nan also didn't look properly. 

 

But just imagine for a moment that you were locked up for 16 months. Even if you did get out in 9, your life is going to be pretty horrible. Destroyed employment prospects and living with the knowledge that you killed two people. May not seem proportionate, but sitting in prison at the taxpayer's expense is only part of the punishment.

[320touring]

A lifetime ban following a lengthy prison sentence, surely.

Bit harsh for just owning an espero, surely?

[Pillock]

I notice the BBC article on Caroline Hoy mowing down the old couple includes her name (as have I). 16 months is the start, thanks to t'interwebs I doubt she'll work anywhere other than mopping floors again. Who here hasn't googled coworkers names? Oooh look, this one's a murderer.

[doobietoo]

Grrrrrrrr it started.....

[Cavcraft]

The next-door-but-two neighbours are running some sort of car repair business from their home. There's cars all over the place meaning residents can't park up anywhere. A couple look roadworthy but the rest look like scrapyard rejects. At the last count there were 9 cars belonging to one house hogging all the on street parking, that's not including the engineless wrecks they keep on their driveway. I think most are customers cars as the guy regularly goes out and tinkers with them in the street. Last night he was revving the bollocks off one at 10pm. 

 

The foreign registered ones are all "overstayers" in the U.K, meaning they haven't been registered here and so can't have MOT tax or insurance and some of the U.K reg ones are sans MOT e.t.c. (i'm a nosy bastard so I checked)

 

 

 

Should I grass em up for keeping/running a load of illegal shitters with bald tyres or should I stop being a nosy neighbour?

 

 

Kill them.

[Asimo]

The plus side of that sort of accountancy is that I probably pissed up enough money last year to have bought a budget end of the market BMW X5.

Lucky escape there, drink on.

[Parky]

The next-door-but-two neighbours are running some sort of car repair business from their home. There's cars all over the place meaning residents can't park up anywhere. A couple look roadworthy but the rest look like scrapyard rejects. At the last count there were 9 cars belonging to one house hogging all the on street parking, that's not including the engineless wrecks they keep on their driveway. I think most are customers cars as the guy regularly goes out and tinkers with them in the street. Last night he was revving the bollocks off one at 10pm.

 

The foreign registered ones are all "overstayers" in the U.K, meaning they haven't been registered here and so can't have MOT tax or insurance and some of the U.K reg ones are sans MOT e.t.c. (i'm a nosy bastard so I checked)

 

 

Should I grass em up for keeping/running a load of illegal shitters with bald tyres or should I stop being a nosy neighbour?

One of my neighbours rented a place across the road and prepared old Mercs for export to Nigeria. There were six on the road at one point including a 190 shell on bricks. Sort of lowered the tone.

 

Unfortunately matey hadn't taxed them so one day some low loaders turned up and they mysteriously disappeared. Matey disappeared shortly afterwards having not paid any rent for four months and also deciding that the furniture that came with the house was now his. As was the carpet, wiring, and the contents of the garage.

 

He also had a lot of suspicious plants in the loft, a dangerously spliced electrical system to bypass the meter and a stash of blank Natwest credit cards. I suspect he had hacked my broadband as my usage went down by 70 percent after he left.

 

He had apparently done this several times before according to the police which makes a mockery of the letting agents checks.

 

So yes, dob him in

[tooSavvy]

It's my bastard birthday. I'm tired of the 'that'll do for spacker boy' efforts of the family so told them it's cancelled this year. Don't bother.

 

They don't listen to me, I've now got five fucking chocolate oranges.

FFS... they LOVE you..

 

Ok Ok... we'll arrange a seance for the day after you die - all Chocolate Orange suppliers turn up - and send 'We all LOVE you', via Ouija board...

 

Happy now

 

some people.....

 

 

TS   

[the judge]

Depression is a shitty thing, the way it's dealt with can be even more shitty. Unlike something more immediately apparent like, say, advanced dementia, depression is an insidious thing that can take a long time of observation to truly get a feel for. It's no wonder it's often ignored as "you're having a bad day" or misdiagnosed. The only way to get treatment is to keep badgering the services until you get an answer, eventually someone has to pay attention. I'm my own worse enemy with it, when I'm depressed I haven't the motivation to get myself sorted out and when I'm not depressed I have nothing to report so don't chase it up. I'm in a really good patch overall at the moment so I'm carrying on but eventually it'll hit me and I'll be bad again, and every time it's that little bit worse. Horrible, horrible illness, it really is.

 

 

 

And to think, I only came in here to complain about how the Xantia has hurt my back bad enough for me to consider selling it. I probably won't, I've put too much into the fucker, but I'm considering it.

I know i dont know you personally vulg,but i think mike is doing you the world of good. Long may it continue bud

[DVee8]

Mrs V8 got a text from NPower this morning asking her to read the meters and text back the readings.

WTF is this the way forward? How many meter readers will this put out of a job.

[tooSavvy]

^^^ .. not me. I quit and now do something else 

 

TS

[Craig the Princess]

Not many as they will still need to check you haven't used 10x what you have put down.

[michael1703]

Bag o shite

 

Lived at a house from 2007-2014, house was band D despite a bigger house being in B on same road,contested banding,told to fuck off and since I moved out in September they've dropped it to band B

 

I paid £320 too much per year for 7 years

 

As I don't live there anymore, I don't get the cash

[tooSavvy]

^^^ This... argue - and it can go up^ as well as down v 

 

TS

[Ghosty]

KFC yesterday's given me and a mate the shits.

Told them on Twitter, said fill in this online form.

Fill in the online form and I get a default email telling me they're posting me a form to fill in. 

WTF?

[doobietoo]

^^^ .. not me. I quit and now do something else 

 

TS

Ditto saw it coming 15 years ago....

[fred]

Salesman trying to sell me a double glazed Porch, 'Your standing in one mate'

 

'Yes but ours are more energy efficient'

 

'You know its a Porch not a fucking 911 your standing in?'

 

'yes sir but......'

 

'Sod off my dinners in the Bentley and will be ruined if I stand here any longer'

[fred]

Mrs V8 got a text from NPower this morning asking her to read the meters and text back the readings.

WTF is this the way forward? How many meter readers will this put out of a job.

 

 

Yes I get these, but they still send meter readers round, because I think they have found out a hidden secret,

 

Some people have been trained in the art of lying *shock* !

[skattrd]

Salesman trying to sell me a double glazed Porch, 'You're standing in one mate'

 

Getting your and you're wrong bugs me ... almost as much as people not knowing the difference between their, there and they're.

[hairnet]

started a biking holiday in ireland on tuesday

 

a resheduled gig (t'pau) happened tonight so had to come back from dublin this afternoon

 

they got little bit thru the third song and stopped

 

mrs d had flu and even speaking you could tell something wasnt right (she also was sporting a pot on her foot cos it was broke)

 

grump is i hope i can make the next gig

[MrDuke]

Getting your and you're wrong bugs me ... almost as much as people not knowing the difference between their, there and they're.

 

Your a grammar nazi - its nothing too be proud of, pulling people up on there language.

[sporty-shite]

Your a grammar nazi - its nothing too be proud of, pulling people up on there language.

Nothing too be proud off.

 

[jakebullet]

FFS... they LOVE you..

 

Ok Ok... we'll arrange a seance for the day after you die - all Chocolate Orange suppliers turn up - and send 'We all LOVE you', via Ouija board...

 

Happy now

 

some people.....

 

 

TS   

 

No they don't. They just got a shit load of chocolate oranges cheap. Bet you can't guess what I got for christmas from the bastards?

 

The 'is there anybody there?' shite can piss right off as well. If there is anything after shuffling off I'm sure there's more interesting things to do than hang around waiting for some twat to say is there anyone called Dave? Yeah, there's billions of them. Got a national insurance number?

[cort16]

Me and my mate did a website years ago that told you how many people in the uk had the same name as you. We decided on yourenotme.com but he registered it as yournotme.com and no one noticed until we started getting bazillions of emails slagging off out grammar. . I just made it a running joke.

[Inspector Morose]

Not a grump in the big scheme of things, I suppose but I've really been feeling shit of late. Not ill shit as such but complete lack of, well, gumption. No idea and having a bit of trouble raising myself out of bed type of meh thing. Could do with a really big kick up the arse but I can't be arsed to do it.

Not a major grump but it pisses me right off.