The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

Jake - I'm astonished you put up with all the crap you get via Ebay. Truly astonished.

[jakebullet]

Jake - I'm astonished you put up with all the crap you get via Ebay. Truly astonished.

 

It's the only job I can do, and most of the time it's take the money, stick it in an envelope, forget about it. Trouble is when you send out 1700 items a month it doesn't take much percent of them being knob jockeys to become irritating.

[dollywobbler]

For the sake of balance, I think you need to post about all the good transactions in the grin thread.

[DeeJay]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/diesil-leylan-sherpa-campervan-spres-r-repers-/251871677246?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3aa4b8cb3e

 

This is just painful to read.

 

It made me grumpy. 

[chaseracer]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/diesil-leylan-sherpa-campervan-spres-r-repers-/251871677246?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3aa4b8cb3e

 

This is just painful to read.

 

It made me grumpy. 

 

At least the string is hard and the boby is OK.  Thank feck for that, at least.

[DeeJay]

I'm still trying to work out what he/she/alien means by "string".

[Richard]

Steering.

[DeeJay]

Steer by string. Like my old go-cart.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Wtf? I just don't get it, why would you type such gibberish on an advert and think "yeah that makes sense, I definitely don't need to give any actual details or in fact even use English"

[Richard]

It took a while but I understood every word.

[320touring]

Hard boby means summat else up here..

[DeeJay]

It took a while but I understood every word.

How many pints?

[jakebullet]

Ma wanted some new windows and a new door. Blokes turned up this morning and started hammering, so I buggered off and left Ma in charge.

Just come back, and it's finished. It all looks very nice. But, er, Ma, why is the old door leaning against the wall? Are they coming back for it later?

 

No. I told them we wanted to keep it.

Er, why?

I thought we could use it to make a fence.

 

???? A fence. Made from a upvc door? Ma, phone them up and tell them you're no longer insane and want it collecting.

[sporty-shite]

Ma wanted some new windows and a new door. Blokes turned up this morning and started hammering, so I buggered off and left Ma in charge.

Just come back, and it's finished. It all looks very nice. But, er, Ma, why is the old door leaning against the wall? Are they coming back for it later?

 

No. I told them we wanted to keep it.

Er, why?

I thought we could use it to make a fence.

 

???? A fence. Made from a upvc door? Ma, phone them up and tell them you're no longer insane and want it collecting.

 

Put UPVC door on ebay. Make money. This should* be simple*

[NorfolkNWeigh]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/diesil-leylan-sherpa-campervan-spres-r-repers-/251871677246?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3aa4b8cb3e

 

This is just painful to read.

 

It made me grumpy.

 

Don't look at his Transit breaking or his Megane with cam stap then, or even his classis Moggy.

[DeeJay]

He is a Master Ã¢â‚¬Å“iv got new baterâ€Â

[HH-R]

My car has hesitated/misfired all day today when accelerating, and taken to starting on 3 cylinders. It's in at the garage (no idea how I'm going to work tomorrow), so if I get a phone call to say it's running OK/no fault found, I'm going to drain the oil and coolant, start it up, put a brick on the accelerator then smash the rest to bits with a massive hammer.

[hairnet]

banana in the tailpipe?

[quicksilver]

I fear I may be getting to the point of having a massive row with the Arab students myself and my project partner have to share office space with and doing something I regret as they're really winding me up. Not only do they gabble away loudly in Arabic all day every day so we have a constant background drone of incomprehensible noise that is extremely distracting, but I found out this morning some of them had the cheek to complain about us making too much noise! We speak relatively little, quietly and in the native language they can understand, but they talk a lot more than us, loudly and in a foreign language, so we should be the ones with grounds for complaint. We didn't know they had any sort of problem with us as they didn't even have the courage to speak to us directly, or even to our project supervisor, but complained straight to the head of the department who has little direct involvement with us.

 

Still, hopefully this situation will provide more ammunition for our long-promised office move to happen - this was supposed to be completed by Christmas (they never said which Christmas though!) and the space is available but the notoriously unhelpful IT department are coming up with one excuse after another for not doing it and even management pressure seems to have no effect. It's frustrating as I really enjoy the work but the working conditions are completely spoiling things for me.

[Lord Sterling]

FUCK SAKE

 

Visited Steve who has my Mercedes. So far he has pretty much ruined it. He still hasn't got it running right and to top it off, he had the bonnet in the 'engine out' position which caught a gust of wind bending it back, snapping one hinge and created 2 dents in it and generally bending the bonnet. He welded the hinge again but it isn't the same, the upright bonnet is no longer upright, its fucking bent.

 

Drove the car today, it ran like a bag of shit and nor did it feel right, for fucks sake, I only wanted him to sort out a fucking oil leak.

 

I won't be taking my car to him again, a small job has turned into a bloody nightmare with calamity after calamity happening.

[Lord Sterling]

Not only do they gabble away loudly in Arabic all day every day so we have a constant background drone of incomprehensible noise that is extremely distracting

So do I.

[inconsistant]

I've got an assignment on 'organisation' that I have to submit by the deadline of 9am tomorrow. I've just started it.

[Craig the Princess]

I fear I may be getting to the point of having a massive row with the Arab students myself and my project partner have to share office space with and doing something I regret as they're really winding me up. Not only do they gabble away loudly in Arabic all day every day so we have a constant background drone of incomprehensible noise that is extremely distracting, but I found out this morning some of them had the cheek to complain about us making too much noise! We speak relatively little, quietly and in the native language they can understand, but they talk a lot more than us, loudly and in a foreign language, so we should be the ones with grounds for complaint.

 

 

While it sounds an annoying and frustrating situation, especially if they are making more noise than you, I'm not sure I would put the native language part in any complaint as a) it would look like a discriminatory complaint and b.) it is the noise of their discussion not the language that is relevant.

[chaseracer]

It took a while but I understood every word.

 

You are TooSavvy AICM£5

 

[bub2006]

Been for my 6 month checkup at hospital. Been told my hearing has got worse and now need to have an hearing aid in each ear. I'm nearly 28,left side hemi paresis,temporal lobe epilepsy and now fookin hearing aids. At least I'm not soaking it up from benefits office and still working and have my license so could be worse

[quicksilver]

While it sounds an annoying and frustrating situation, especially if they are making more noise than you, I'm not sure I would put the native language part in any complaint as a) it would look like a discriminatory complaint and b.) it is the noise of their discussion not the language that is relevant.

Wise words and I don't intend to make a formal complaint anyway as the relevant people are already aware the situation is unsatisfactory and trying their hardest to rectify it - the real villains (as usual) are the IT department for not doing the job they were asked to do. The research student population has always been virtually all Middle Eastern and I guess in the past there wasn't a problem as everyone in that room could speak Arabic - we are the outsiders really so I can understand the tension. Having been in that 'temporary' room for a year with the promise of moving going unfulfilled for so long it's really starting to wear me down, relations between us are getting strained and the news of the complaint was the last straw so I just needed to let off some steam. Our project manager has explained the situation to them and hopefully restored the balance so we can co-exist happily again until the move eventually happens (not holding my breath on that though!)

[eddyramrod]

Just been adding up my payslips for the year so far.  My average hours, which vary week by week, are down below 30.  This is not good news as 30 is the threshhold for Working Tax Credit.  When I go back to work my hours will be dropping again, I'll be averaging more like 22.  So, I'm going to lose the WTC and associated benefits, such as free prescriptions.  Which means my cost of living will effectively go up, steeply.

Fuckitty fuck.

[messerschmitt owner]

The excitement of a&e at this time of night ...

[dugong]

Had a run in with the locals tonight near UNIT_CAMBS.

 

Access is via a very rough, rutted lane that eventually dead ends. Left in convoy with a colleague whose MkII Golf is stupidly low (he bought it like that and plans to raise it).

It was comical following him - at best we were doing 15mph with the VW's splitter scraping and graunching.

 

Miles away in the distance I can see a vehicle on full beam. It began to gain on us with quite a lick, but it wasn't until the main road until they caught up with us both.

They must have been caning it to catch up so quickly - that access road is at least a mile and a half long and dead straight. I suppose you can keep your foot in if you've got the ground clearance, and a Hilux would do the job just fine.

 

Seconds later the Toyota (on a private plate of course) comes roaring up behind with its full beams raging and nearly takes me out. The driver doesn't dip his lights and because of the difference in height, the beam lights up my rear view mirror like no-mans land (along with the rest of my dashboard).

 

There's a built up area with speed humps and a width restrictor before we can hit the main drag. The good ol' boys are clearly unimpressed and try to toe it past us both before nearly collecting said width restrictor and swerving back into the nearside lane behind me at the very last minute (full beams still ablaze). I flick the driver the Vs for being so ridiculously impatient and nearly causing a massive accident- it was a 30 second hold up, if that.

 

We pick up a bit of speed and the second the road opens up, they're away in a fog of DPF smoke and self righteous anger down a side street.

Finally pulling onto the main road, we trundle pass the housing estate and my colleague passes an oddly familiar grey Hilux parked with the engine running. As I indicate to go past the Toyota suddenly pulls out without indicating. A fraction of a second later and he'd have smashed into me. Clearly he feels he has a point to make and has waited for us both by taking a short cut.

 

For the next mile and a half of built up area leading to the A1, he's in my boot with his full beams on, again. Speeding up, slowing down, always coming back to tailgate me, occasionally flipping between dipped and full like some kind of Nightbreaker spazz rave.

 

At the roundabout to the entry slip we both put some distance between these two loonies but I can see in the mirror they're following us on to the A1. I can see them catching up as we're both sat in the inside lane and for a split second I thought he was going to ram me. Nope.

 

Back again, 1/4 inch off my bumper, full beams raging. I sat at 65 behind my colleague seriously considering ringing the police on the hands-free when Hilux boy veers into the outside lane and powers past with his mate screaming abuse out of the window. WHAT IS POINT.

 

I just hope they were some visiting dickheads and not someone on a nearby plot we're going to have to deal with in the future. My colleague genuinely couldn't have gone any faster and I really don't think their behaviour was at all in the realms of sanity.

 

That said, the Grundig radiogram worked perfectly, so at least there's that.

[Cavcraft]

Best treatment for wankers like that is rear fogs on and slow down even more.