The grumpy thread

[Skizzer]

I fking HATE the concept of grassing people up for earning a bit on the side and I REALLY hate the way people are being made to believe this is the right thing to do whether its benefit cheats or whatever by government ad campaigns but these guys sound like they are taking the piss and have crossed the boundary between fixing a few cars for cash and running a full-scale business.

 

Council will be interested to know about whats happening - they dont like businesses being run from residential houses and I am pretty sure the inland revenue will have some kind of hotline to dob people in for undeclared income.

 

This.  Having your own old cars parked on/outside your own property is one thing, having other people's cars blocking your neighbours' access (for money) is another.

 

I'd have thought someone would be interested in how come the 4 year old child has disappeared, too 

[EssDeeWon]

I have now reached a new level of grumpiness having phoned my local council to make an official complaint after some inconsiderate council contractors bin wagon parked outside my house at 6:30 this morning with the engine running and beacon flashing.

 

He didn't apologise or even think he was doing anything wrong when I asked him at 7:30 to turn off the engine as it was disturbing people because he was broken down and waiting for a mechanic.

 

That is called 'Im up so everyone else is up' attitude.

 

There is this bellend that lives over the back from me who has one of those punch bags in the garden, I have heard him using it at 6am before. The sound of the punching and the chain rattling just echos around, especially in the summer when we have windows open, and that is what I call 'Im up so everyone else is up' attitude. Effin Winkers!

[Pillock]

Re the bloke fixing cars from home, just put an advert in the paper "Renault repairs - specialists in turbo failure, auto boxes and Avantimes. No fix, no fee" and his number. He'll be out of business in a week.

[chaseracer]

Outside Tim's, earlier...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13yMLkL1eAk

[hairnet]

on his own cars fine fixing other all the time and hassle = dob

 

spesh if its council - you have rights to be left  in peace

 

hmrc would be interested too

[dave21478]

There is a simple guy who lives a few houses up the road. I dunno what his problem is....he is just a bit Forrest Gump'd - very slow and deliberate movements and speech. Apparently he sees evil spirits and woodland sprites and naga and stuff like that...proper fruitcake style.

Anyway, when I first saw him, he was driving a breadvan style polo. He painted it - badly - with a brush and some green house paint, and stripped out the back seats to make it into a van of sorts.
It started running badly and probably just needed serviced but the guy took it to bits and couldnt get it back together again. When I say took it to bits I mean fully dismantled, dash out, wiring loom out and unravelled in his garden, half the engine dismantled..... I vaguely considered having a look at it, but a quick glance when passing by one day showed that he had snipped the wiring loom off flush with the bulkhead.....fuck that.

Stranded in the ass-end of nowhere with no wheels, he was forced to get a bicycle, which he is very wobbly on. He cant get up enough speed to balance well, so weaves all over the road.

Anyway the car disappeared, probably scrapped. He then bought a motorbike. A wee 125, nearly new from a bike dealership. He asked me to help him collect it so I took him down to town with my trailer and brought it back up home. It was a completely mint thing with only about a thousand kilometers on the clock. Within a few days he has brush-painted most of it and it looked gash.

I dunno what if anything went wrong but he was suddenly back on his bicycle. He would sometimes "tune up" the bike by revving the tits off it from 10pm till about midnight for a couple of weeks in a row. He mooches round the place talking to others in the village and would occasionally ask me if I had gasket paper or an M8 nut or something like that. He never even got four months use from the bike and now....well, there is a bare motorbike frame lying against his house.

After a winter of wobbling slowly along on his push-bike he has bought another car.

The next town along has a couple of boy-racer types and one of them sold this guy his Citroen ZX. Its very shiny, I presume recently re-sprayed, lowered with gold 205 1.9 gti wheels. Looks like a nice enough car, if thats your thing.

Forrest Gump has owned it for maybe 4 days and today I passed by and he has the drivers window taped closed, I assume due to breaking the lift mechanism and he was fiddling about under the bonnet - I expect it to be kippered by the end of the month, and if it survives any longer, its certain to get brush painted with dulux.

[inconsistant]

It's been a long time since I learned colour theory but I'm pretty sure it should be 50 Tones Of Grey. You get 'shades' when you add black to a colour. So 50 Shades Of Blue or 50 Shades Of Red would be OK, but not grey.

[Rusty Pelican]

So sorry for your loss mr duke , we have two cats ATM but have lost a few due to old age , they are family and it breaks my heart when this happens or they just die 

[chaseracer]

It's been a long time since I learned colour theory but I'm pretty sure it should be 50 Tones Of Grey. You get 'shades' when you add black to a colour. So 50 Shades Of Blue or 50 Shades Of Red would be OK, but not grey.

 

While not disagreeing with your hypothesis in any way, I should draw your attention to the slight possibility that you may have entirely missed the point...

 

[angle]

My friend, under pressure from his girlfriend, is getting rid of his S2000 for a diesel VW Tiguan. This is because they've just bought a dog which, at most, is 18 inches long. Still, at least I managed to persuade him that the amount of piss taking he'd get if he bought a Range Rover Evoque meant he needed to get something else...

[UmBongo]

I'm now unable to park anywhere my house thanks to the Romanian driveway mechanic 2 doors down parking 12 of his customers fucked old bangers all over the place. It's a regular occurrence for the wife to get home with the kids and be unable to get on the drive thanks to some shitty old Slovakian registered skoda felicia or similar being parked in the middle of the road with all the doors and bonnet open and a couple of disinterested looking fellas stood next to it picking their noses.

 

The road is littered with oil slicks and oily rags. 

 

Apart from setting fire to the cars Bickle style, is there realistically anything which can be done? They're pissing off the whole neighbourhood. Ideally I'd like them all to just die of aids. 

 

Send 'em back.

 

But seriously, send 'em back, with or without AIDS.

[Cavcraft]

My friend, under pressure from his girlfriend, is getting rid of his S2000 for a diesel VW Tiguan. This is because they've just bought a dog which, at most, is 18 inches long. Still, at least I managed to persuade him that the amount of piss taking he'd get if he bought a Range Rover Evoque meant he needed to get something else...

 

Your friend should be under pressure to find a new girlfriend, not a new car.

[chaseracer]

 

“Those who surrender a revvy Honda for a Golf on stilts will not have, nor do they deserve, either one”, as Franklin might have suggested.

[MrDuke]

My friend, under pressure from his girlfriend, is getting rid of his S2000 for a diesel VW Tiguan. This is because they've just bought a dog which, at most, is 18 inches long. Still, at least I managed to persuade him that the amount of piss taking he'd get if he bought a Range Rover Evoque meant he needed to get something else...

 

Clearly, with an attitude (or lack thereof) like that, he doesn't deserve to own an S2000. At least now it will find its way to an owner who genuinely appreciates it. With any luck, their dog will get brutally owned by an Alsatian for good measure.

[drum]

There is a simple guy who lives a few houses up the road. I dunno what his problem is....he is just a bit Forrest Gump'd - very slow and deliberate movements and speech. Apparently he sees evil spirits and woodland sprites and naga and stuff like that...proper fruitcake style.

Anyway, when I first saw him, he was driving a breadvan style polo. He painted it - badly - with a brush and some green house paint, and stripped out the back seats to make it into a van of sorts.

It started running badly and probably just needed serviced but the guy took it to bits and couldnt get it back together again. When I say took it to bits I mean fully dismantled, dash out, wiring loom out and unravelled in his garden, half the engine dismantled..... I vaguely considered having a look at it, but a quick glance when passing by one day showed that he had snipped the wiring loom off flush with the bulkhead.....fuck that.

Stranded in the ass-end of nowhere with no wheels, he was forced to get a bicycle, which he is very wobbly on. He cant get up enough speed to balance well, so weaves all over the road.

Anyway the car disappeared, probably scrapped. He then bought a motorbike. A wee 125, nearly new from a bike dealership. He asked me to help him collect it so I took him down to town with my trailer and brought it back up home. It was a completely mint thing with only about a thousand kilometers on the clock. Within a few days he has brush-painted most of it and it looked gash.

I dunno what if anything went wrong but he was suddenly back on his bicycle. He would sometimes "tune up" the bike by revving the tits off it from 10pm till about midnight for a couple of weeks in a row. He mooches round the place talking to others in the village and would occasionally ask me if I had gasket paper or an M8 nut or something like that. He never even got four months use from the bike and now....well, there is a bare motorbike frame lying against his house.

After a winter of wobbling slowly along on his push-bike he has bought another car.

The next town along has a couple of boy-racer types and one of them sold this guy his Citroen ZX. Its very shiny, I presume recently re-sprayed, lowered with gold 205 1.9 gti wheels. Looks like a nice enough car, if thats your thing.

Forrest Gump has owned it for maybe 4 days and today I passed by and he has the drivers window taped closed, I assume due to breaking the lift mechanism and he was fiddling about under the bonnet - I expect it to be kippered by the end of the month, and if it survives any longer, its certain to get brush painted with dulux.

Keep us posted Dave.

Forrest needs a thread of his own.

[Cavcraft]

Shitefest 2015 in Stoke?

[Station]

It's been a long time since I learned colour theory but I'm pretty sure it should be 50 Tones Of Grey. You get 'shades' when you add black to a colour. So 50 Shades Of Blue or 50 Shades Of Red would be OK, but not grey.

 

I think it should be '50 shades of white', or at least '50 darker shades of white'. If you consider though that there is barely any noticable difference if you divided the 50 shades of white to black, realistically it should be called '10 darker shades from white to black' as this would be more noticable. In fact, I think the title 'Grayscale (divided into 10 shades)' would be better. I will not be able to concentrate on the film with this glaring error.

[Station]

This is madness.

I have a pre paid meter for my gas and electric - I don't use it through the summer because the summer is warm. I need it through the winter as the house is freezing, and the heating really barely heats the area around the radiators at full whack, but I'm spending £40 a week on keeping warm.

The period I don't use the heating, I am still getting charged for not using the gas. The charges build up when you are not using any gas and are then taken out of each successive payment, so putting £10 in the meter, takes £7 off. It's 26p a day I'm told, so the period I didn't use any gas or the meter has cost me £60 quid. So you get a charge for using the gas, and a charge on top for nothing. Sorry, I can't get my head round it.

 

ps Fuck you if you want to argue and think this is OK and fair.

[Skizzer]

My friend, under pressure from his girlfriend, is getting rid of his S2000 for a diesel VW Tiguan. This is because they've just bought a dog which, at most, is 18 inches long. Still, at least I managed to persuade him that the amount of piss taking he'd get if he bought a Range Rover Evoque meant he needed to get something else...

 

 

Your friend should be under pressure to find a new girlfriend, not a new car.

 

Just so.  I once pulled up next to an S2000 at a petrol station, and when the bloke came back to it after paying he opened the boot and out popped a cocker spaniel.  Said spaniel then hopped up into his usual spot on the passenger seat, and away they went.

 

There was no girlfriend in this tableau, nor any bland VAG DMF muncher.  Bloke and spaniel looked entirely happy with life.  Draw your own conclusions.

[steve_earwig]

I'm afraid the conclusion my mind is coming to isn't very nice (and possibly illegal).

[inconsistant]

I think it should be '50 shades of white', or at least '50 darker shades of white'. If you consider though that there is barely any noticable difference if you divided the 50 shades of white to black, realistically it should be called '10 darker shades from white to black' as this would be more noticable. In fact, I think the title 'Grayscale (divided into 10 shades)' would be better. I will not be able to concentrate on the film with this glaring error.

 

I'm with you, and I'll be boycotting it and using my imagination instead, but my point is that you need to start with a colour to be able to get shades, and none of those shades will be grey. If you start with a colour and add white you are tinting the colour. If you start with a colour and add grey then you are getting tones. Tones of grey. The more I think about this the more livid I'm becoming. If I get any more cross I'll need tying up and beating.  

[fordperv]

Shitefest 2015 in Stoke?

Sounds a good idea, im already there

[EssDeeWon]

This is madness.

I have a pre paid meter for my gas and electric - I don't use it through the summer because the summer is warm. I need it through the winter as the house is freezing, and the heating really barely heats the area around the radiators at full whack, but I'm spending £40 a week on keeping warm.

The period I don't use the heating, I am still getting charged for not using the gas. The charges build up when you are not using any gas and are then taken out of each successive payment, so putting £10 in the meter, takes £7 off. It's 26p a day I'm told, so the period I didn't use any gas or the meter has cost me £60 quid. So you get a charge for using the gas, and a charge on top for nothing. Sorry, I can't get my head round it.

 

ps Fuck you if you want to argue and think this is OK and fair.

 

I feel your pain. I am currently getting raped by EON for £121 p/m for our leccy, as soon as the debit balance is cleared in the spring I will be switching. I have been with them 5 years so watch them beg and offer me a better tarif, well they can FRO as they could have done that months ago.

 

FWIW I was paying about £40 p/m when I first moved in my flat 5 years ago!!!

[Bren]

There is a simple guy who lives a few houses up the road. I dunno what his problem is....he is just a bit Forrest Gump'd - very slow and deliberate movements and speech. Apparently he sees evil spirits and woodland sprites and naga and stuff like that...proper fruitcake style.

Anyway, when I first saw him, he was driving a breadvan style polo. He painted it - badly - with a brush and some green house paint, and stripped out the back seats to make it into a van of sorts.

It started running badly and probably just needed serviced but the guy took it to bits and couldnt get it back together again. When I say took it to bits I mean fully dismantled, dash out, wiring loom out and unravelled in his garden, half the engine dismantled..... I vaguely considered having a look at it, but a quick glance when passing by one day showed that he had snipped the wiring loom off flush with the bulkhead.....fuck that.

Stranded in the ass-end of nowhere with no wheels, he was forced to get a bicycle, which he is very wobbly on. He cant get up enough speed to balance well, so weaves all over the road.

Anyway the car disappeared, probably scrapped. He then bought a motorbike. A wee 125, nearly new from a bike dealership. He asked me to help him collect it so I took him down to town with my trailer and brought it back up home. It was a completely mint thing with only about a thousand kilometers on the clock. Within a few days he has brush-painted most of it and it looked gash.

I dunno what if anything went wrong but he was suddenly back on his bicycle. He would sometimes "tune up" the bike by revving the tits off it from 10pm till about midnight for a couple of weeks in a row. He mooches round the place talking to others in the village and would occasionally ask me if I had gasket paper or an M8 nut or something like that. He never even got four months use from the bike and now....well, there is a bare motorbike frame lying against his house.

After a winter of wobbling slowly along on his push-bike he has bought another car.

The next town along has a couple of boy-racer types and one of them sold this guy his Citroen ZX. Its very shiny, I presume recently re-sprayed, lowered with gold 205 1.9 gti wheels. Looks like a nice enough car, if thats your thing.

Forrest Gump has owned it for maybe 4 days and today I passed by and he has the drivers window taped closed, I assume due to breaking the lift mechanism and he was fiddling about under the bonnet - I expect it to be kippered by the end of the month, and if it survives any longer, its certain to get brush painted with dulux.

 

Sounds like he works for Arnold Clark.

[oldcars]

Only car that's running , and that a lose term is the rialto. The wee ones no well so i popped home at lunch to see how he is, car struggled to start, great. One the way back from parking some utter waste of humanity chucked a full bottle of juice at me, missed my head but caught my shoulder which gives me pain at the best of time. How these air stealing waste of space think they will get a job is beyond me. Stop the world i have had enough and want off please 

[The Moog]

Booked cartakeback collection for between 1-4pm. The driver turned up at 11 45 whilst I was in work 10 miles away.

 

By time I got home he had gone and not heard a thing since.

 

Added to Scottish power being a massive bunch of pricks and my arsehole of a landlord has decided to fix bits of the house(so he can sell it) has been a shit day

[Station]

I feel your pain. I am currently getting raped by EON for £121 p/m for our leccy, as soon as the debit balance is cleared in the spring I will be switching. I have been with them 5 years so watch them beg and offer me a better tarif, well they can FRO as they could have done that months ago.

 

FWIW I was paying about £40 p/m when I first moved in my flat 5 years ago!!!

 

120 quid?! How can it cost so much? Is it really using that much gas to heat a house, it doesn't seem correctly aligned. they also haven't lowered there prices yet, as it 'usually takes 3 - 4 months to realign', which is bollocks. They won't tell OFGEM why or show how much of a profit they are making in the meantime, and OFGEM are saying 'OK then'. Basically gas suppliers are telling OFGEM to do one, and they are taking it.

[messerschmitt owner]

quit whinging the lot of you - at least until you are on lpg or oil!

 

My gas is twice the cost of yours ...

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Radio 2 just played 'The devil went down to Georgia'.

 

And the bunch of limp wristed legume munching tree hugging lefty fucks at the BBC decided they'd cut the word 'bitch' from the 'you Son of a Bitch' line.

 

FUCK OFF!!!!  

[hairnet]

120 quid?! How can it cost so much? Is it really using that much gas to heat a house, it doesn't seem correctly aligned. they also haven't lowered there prices yet, as it 'usually takes 3 - 4 months to realign', which is bollocks. They won't tell OFGEM why or show how much of a profit they are making in the meantime, and OFGEM are saying 'OK then'. Basically gas suppliers are telling OFGEM to do one, and they are taking it.

thats fukkin ridiculous

 

we pay 600 a year ish for leccy and gas *faints with OMFGBBQWTF*