The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

Got well in the mood to do some filing a d sort all our paperwork out...

 

Can I find the stapler, can I fuck. Got to go into town and get one now...

[AndyW201]

A "2/10 must try harder" grump I guess but here we go.

Driving home last night, after an 11 hour shift and a 400-odd hour slog from the Scottish highlands. Had to nip to the local supermarket to pick up a few things, suddenly two taxis in front of me pull up and a loud BANG! from the side of the car.

 

 

Turns out theres been some groundworks done outside the nearby park, and a load of local

teenage oxygen thieves have been lobbling lumps of earth and stone at passing cars.

Cunts.

I wouldnt be that bothered if it was one of my previous shitters but this has been the best and straightest 190 Ive owned. Nearly perfect paint, 99% arrow straight panels, all rust free in the usual spots. It doesnt really show in the photo but its dented where the paint is missing so there are two dents now on the door about 10p and 20p size. It shows right up on a 190 door, because theres not much actual area above the side cladding. Dabbed a bit of touch up in for now to at least hide the paint chips but its going to be a fill and spray job as its a bit messy for a smart repair guy. So effectively worked yesterday for fuck all. Cheers local shitheads!

 

Cms, all the best to you, the good lady and the in laws chap. Makes a dented car door grump look a bit pathetic admittedly...

[dollywobbler]

I know cancer is still a big killer, but I seem to know an increasingly large amount of people who have survived it, including my own mother. I hope your f-i-l is in the lucky camp CMS.

[M'coli]

Aye, sorry to hear your news cms206: good luck to you and your family.

[Cavcraft]

I'd like to echo the above, best of luck to him and people do survive it.

[Cavcraft]

Having traversed a good many miles on the motorways today, I've encountered numerous tosspots blazzing down lane 3 regardless of traffic in lane 1 or 2. Every single one without fail was driving a German car.

[fordperv]

cms cancer is a bastard, my dad had a scare 18 months ago with lung cancer, he went for a scan and a dark object was seen, but luckily was a benign tumour, the thought crushed me

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Saw a nice Mk1 Focus estate tonight on the M25, it stood out because it was driving towards me on the hard shoulder at about 30 mph. Looked like he'd got confused at j18 Chorleywood and driven down the exit slip road.

I phoned 999 ,they already knew and were sending a car and stopping all lanes, let's hope that happened before the twat decided to do a u-turn.

 

How do these wankstains on the duvet of life manage to remember to breathe?

[cms206]

Thanks guys... once again the beige pages lift the spirits - early days yet but thanks for the support.

[fred]

 My mother went through Bowl cancer 3 years ago, had the all clear 3 months ago,

Lot of research has made Ca a lot lot better to treat and cure.

all my best wishes cms 

[outlaw118]

^^ Fingers crossed for you here at Outlaw_Towers Mr CMS ^^^^^

 

Few of my chums are in the pub on the Newky Brahn tonight in memory of an amazing bird who topped herself this weekend a few years ago. NB was her bottle of choice.

 

I just can't seem to get motivated to join in. I know what it will be like, everyone laughing and joking, and just using it as an excuse to get wankered.

 

So i'm sat here, with that fucking Black Dog scratching at the door.

 

Great.

[UmBongo]

OK another stupid question. Why are some people proud that they know fuck all? Given them a map and ask where is something and they always give the same kind of answer and laugh it off....

 

[HillmanImp]

[Richard]

I hope it works out well for FiL CMS. It's a shit time all round really, all you can do is try to be there for Ms CMS, which I'm sure you're doing and will continue to do.

[dave21478]

My sisters Scenic has apparently shat its gearbox - It keeps jumping out of fifth and makes harsh whining noises. The rest of the car is straight and rust-free, but it never gets serviced, always struggles with the emissions test, has done 300k kilometers, drivers seat bolster resembles that of a builders van and the rest of the interior honks of wet dog, nicotine and children. Its probably going to get scrapped.

 

So they are looking for a replacement and asked for my input. However since her husband is French, he is genetically programmed to own a diesel car. Fair enough if they are going to pay under a grand, but they are looking to spend 3-4k on something, which puts them right into the downwards spiral of buying a car just at the point in its lifecycle where expensive shit is starting to go wrong, and investing so much means they HAVE to shell out for new injectors, and then when the clutch goes, and they spent so much on the car and so much on those injectors, they HAVE to spend out on a DMF and so on and so on.....

 

I have said my piece.....diesel is going to go up in price much faster than petrol from now on, petrol cars will easily give high 30's mpg and often more, which isnt noticeably less than this ruined Scenic, and are generally cheaper to buy in the first place, so its their choice.

 

I need to practice my "I told you so" face.

[Mr Lobster]

Shit news, CMS. Hope it works out ok.

[nigel bickle]

CMS, life can be a crock of shit sometimes.

 

Be strong tosh, you're needed right now.

[HH-R]

Hey BBC radio, why not STFU about EastEnders for five minutes? Some of us don't give a shit.

[cobblers]

I've moaned about our scumbag neighbours before, but lately their little girl (3 ish) is screaming her head off all day.

 

I would say for the last month she is literally hysterically screaming and crying 30% of the time from 6:30am to about 7pm, poor little lass. They just shut her in her bedroom when she cries and that makes her worse, so she ends up in her bedroom most of the time, occasionally banging something on the door for a while while her parents ignore her til she gets tired out.

Occasionally they will shout at her to shut up which obviously does wonders. They really are completely struggling with parenting, but neither of them work so you would think they would have plenty of time to spend with the kids. That said, in the 6 months or so they have lived here I've never seen any of the kids outside the house. You occasionally see the little lass at the bedroom window but that's all.

 

They are a youngish couple, both about 23 and now shes just given birth to her third child. I've never heard the baby so I've no idea where it is.

 

Me and our lass aren't sure what we can do - We were going to report them to the authorities somehow, trying to find a way to make it not obvious it was us (they are cunts but we would rather not make enemies of them, the father is apparently quite a nasty piece of work if you get on the wrong side of him. He's only a little bloke but he could quite easily make life hard for us), but our lass works for the council and it turns out that they already have regular visits from health workers and the like, and have are already got a very active file with social care.

 

I reckon I'm just going to have to phone the council and say that I'm a concerned local resident who walks past every day to the shop and can hear her screaming from on the street or something, The best thing they could do would be to take the kids off them before they are totally broken.

 

Our lass has been considering just going round and offering to have the little lass for a few hours now and again to give her a change of scenery, but they are bound to take offence to it.

[fairkens]

I know you mean well but given that social services are already involved anything you do can only make life worse for you without having the intended effect of improving life for that little girl. It's truly shit but without something seriously nasty-evidence of intravenous drug use etc the council won't forcibly remove

[cobblers]

Aye, that's what we thought, but we do feel like we've got to do something whether it's to get someone to intervene and give them more help or monitoring or something at least.

[MrDuke]

Scatter some syringes in the garden, then call SS.

[sporty-shite]

Cobblers, just because they're already open to services doesn't mean you can't report it. Obviously whatever interventions they're having aren't enough, so someone needs to know, so that they do more or remove the kids of need be.

 

I don't want to get all melodramatic, but Victoria Climbie and Baby P were both open to services........

[dave21478]

A place I worked at years back had a horrible situation with some adjacent kids in real danger. It was surprising how little concern was shown by the authorities.

Our workplace phones had an anonymous outgoing number, so we got a load of employees on a sort of rota and just hammered every number we could find from the feds to childline to the local council with tip offs about what was going on.

[sporty-shite]

A place I worked at years back had a horrible situation with some adjacent kids in real danger. It was surprising how little concern was shown by the authorities.

Our workplace phones had an anonymous outgoing number, so we got a load of employees on a sort of rota and just hammered every number we could find from the feds to childline to the local council with tip offs about what was going on.

 

Good call. Nothing can be done if there isn't information about what's going on in that house. It's difficult for Social Services, I know, as Mrs S works for them, but they can only intervene if they know they need to. If these people are saying what they think services want to hear, and aren't getting unannounced visits, then as far as services are concerned, there's nothing more needed. Services turn up as arranged. House clean, kids "happy" all good. If services get enough calls that things are wrong, they can make unannounced visits, and the family then won't be "prepared".

 

Again, without sounding melodramatic, you'd feel bad if anything happened and you hadn't done all you could. Report, request anonymity, and keep an eye on them. If you don't get any joy with Social services, you could always phone the Police for advice. Plant a few seeds about what is going on, and they'll take an interest, too.

 

Sorry to go on about this, but it's a subject close to my heart.

[dave21478]

People is stoopid.

 

 

My sisters Scenic has apparently shat its gearbox - It keeps jumping out of fifth and makes harsh whining noises. The rest of the car is straight and rust-free, but it never gets serviced, always struggles with the emissions test, has done 300k kilometers, drivers seat bolster resembles that of a builders van and the rest of the interior honks of wet dog, nicotine and children. Its probably going to get scrapped.

 

So they are looking for a replacement and asked for my input. However since her husband is French, he is genetically programmed to own a diesel car. Fair enough if they are going to pay under a grand, but they are looking to spend 3-4k on something, which puts them right into the downwards spiral of buying a car just at the point in its lifecycle where expensive shit is starting to go wrong, and investing so much means they HAVE to shell out for new injectors, and then when the clutch goes, and they spent so much on the car and so much on those injectors, they HAVE to spend out on a DMF and so on and so on.....

 

I have said my piece.....diesel is going to go up in price much faster than petrol from now on, petrol cars will easily give high 30's mpg and often more, which isnt noticeably less than this ruined Scenic, and are generally cheaper to buy in the first place, so its their choice.

 

I need to practice my "I told you so" face.

 

So my brother in law decided that despite this, they should take the car for a family outing today with my trailer to pick up a motorbike he has bought. Errr....I wouldnt, but whatever....your call, man.

 

They had to abort part of the way there, turn round and drive about 30 miles home with only first and second gear.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Can only repeat what's above to say that you should ring. Ring everyday and for everything no matter what. The council can seem slow (and normally are) but they have a lot of hoops to jump through. Make sure they keep doing this, as without constant pressure things can be forgotten.

[alf892]

Don't turn your back. If they make your life a bit shitty it ain't nothing compared to what they seem to be doing the the girl....

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Cobblers, just to reiterate what others have said. MAKE THE CALL.

Mrs N is a Social Worker and even though she is mostly concerned with adoption these days ,she sometimes mans the duty phone and all calls are followed up. If they are service users or whatever the PC term is this week any new information will go not only to their Social Worker but a note will be made so that other more senior SW's will check with the family's SW that action has been taken.

Make sure that you give as much info as possible about who lives there and the circumstances of alleged neglect, you don't need to give your details, it will (or should) be taken just as seriously.

[cms206]

940 is on the way out... cut out twice yesterday at speed, did it again on the M8 this morning. SWMBO unimpressed. Its developed a constant misfire and it's all of a sudden started using water and oil. No visible leaks.

 

It's my birthday in three weeks... have asked for cash from SWMBO and MUTHA_CMS to effect a replacement strategy before it shuffles off altogether.