The grumpy thread

[jakebullet]

Also, am I the only one who hates the just £3 a month adverts?

 

Starving African child: Stop having 8 kids each in the hope a few will make it. concentrate your efforts on less.

Dirty water, teaming with parasites: Stop shitting in the water you drink then.

Snow leopard / dolphins / polar bears: Fuck 'em. People come first.

[Lacquer Peel]

The world would be a lot better without people.

[chaseracer]

Starving African child: Stop having 8 kids each in the hope a few will make it. concentrate your efforts on less.

Dirty water, teaming with parasites: Stop shitting in the water you drink then.

 

I have no words to describe the abyssal depth of your ignorance.

[jakebullet]

I have no words to describe the abyssal depth of your ignorance.

 

That's me told then. My solutions would have as much effect as giving £3 a month, given 0.000001p of it goes to Africa. The rest going on tv adverts.

[beko1987]

That did cross my mind tbh, how much of this money will actually go there, and not get swallowed up with admin, salerys, pensions etc?

[Lacquer Peel]

It's like "charity" banger rallies, it's largely an ego trip and jolly for those involved.

[Pillock]

Asking for a breakdown on how much money goes where is also a great way to stop charity muggers in their tracks and make them go and annoy someone else. "That's a nice thermal jacket branded with the charity logo. Goes well with your hat, clipboard and bag. Who bought those?"

[beko1987]

I've seen print invoices for British Red cross's unaddressed doordrop runs, 500k of those envelope packs that drop through your door costs about £120,000! Invoices for design, print, fulfilment, transport, plus £80k for delivery by royal mail, and our 7% agency fee

 

And their the first to moan when Mr postie delivers 2 to one house by accident and royal mail offer £50 as a goodwill gesture, it's never enough!

[jakebullet]

Smiley chugger other day starts her pitch with can you imagine what it's like to be blind? Well, given you're chugging my mum who's registered blind, I think we've got quite a good idea actually....

[chaseracer]

That's me told then. My solutions would have as much effect as giving £3 a month, given 0.000001p of it goes to Africa. The rest going on tv adverts.

 

 

That did cross my mind tbh, how much of this money will actually go there, and not get swallowed up with admin, salerys, pensions etc?

 

Valid points, both.  

 

However, my comment was aimed more at the colossal fallacy that those in the "developing world" who have large families due to a lack of effective birth control and state support for older people, or suffer insurmountable health problems because they have no access to effective fresh water and sewage infrastructure, actually have any real choice. 

[Alan_Green]

Yes. You missed the point. Children dont have a choice. So help them; don't be hostile towards them.

 

(Oxfam once tried to cheat me on a deal I agreed with them for a Peugeot 806. True story.)

[beko1987]

Oh I'd never question that because tbh I have no idea.

 

I just questioned the image the BBC were trying to put across by making John bishop and nigel from eastenders look like hobos and put the supposedly starving to death/ill people in suits after a shave and brush up...

[Lord Sterling]

Speaking of which...

 

 

Arsebiscuits.

That's odd, mine still hasn't been repaired, though problem has been tracked down. 2 broken Mercs on the AS forum? Surely not, unless someone else here has repaired a Merc to an extent that its rendered 2 Mercs broken?

 

Also, since when did that hoover making bloke Dyson started making recovery beds for trucks? Beko?

[The Moog]

It's like "charity" banger rallies, it's largely an ego trip and jolly for those involved.

Our first one raised £8k for 3 small local charities and second cleared £10k for 3 different charities 😊

 

Absolutely agree the first thing to do is look at charity accounts, but also remember you do have to pay people a wage. Plus good people don't come cheap although they can exponentially raise sums for organisation. They just need to be open and honest about it all.

[beko1987]

I've seen a Dyson flatbed on the m40 before too!

[meshking]

That's odd, mine still hasn't been repaired, though problem has been tracked down. 2 broken Mercs on the AS forum? Surely not, unless someone else here has repaired a Merc to an extent that its rendered 2 Mercs broken?

 

Also, since when did that hoover making bloke Dyson started making recovery beds for trucks? Beko?

Hmm, I've been roped into changing a crank position sensor on a cl500 tomorrow. I'm hoping broken mercs don't come in threes.

[dome]

Hmm, I've been roped into changing a crank position sensor on a cl500 tomorrow. I'm hoping broken mercs don't come in threes.

Make that fours. My new one shat its headgasket last week.

[HillmanImp]

but also remember you do have to pay people a wage. Plus good people don't come cheap although they can exponentially raise sums for organisation. They just need to be open and honest about it all.

 

Yes but at the same time if that person is joining that charity for more than a fair wage, they don't really understand the concept of charity. In my working life I have dealt with some organizations which are small set ups, such as minibuses for sick children, who have paid people £8k a month to run them. This particular example which stuck in my mind as the person earning this money was such a bitch, was 16 years ago so would be worth even more now (just checked and if it increased by RPI probably fairer than average age index at this end of the spectrum and that would be £148,585 per annum now).

 

Okay, you may earn that charity £1m a year because of a particular skill where someone else might only be able to earn £500k but the fact that this individual seems to think that this is reason enough to take money from those who need it, just puts me off giving money to the organisation. That person could make a much more substantial contribution to the welfare of whomever or whatever they want me to donate for, by simply taking a (more than) fair living wage much less than they do.

 

Just because they could earn £150k as a director of another company doesn't mean that they should earn it at a charity. you should be rewarded by a substantial but not obscene wage and with the knowledge that you have done the right thing. You should not be rewarded in commission on the money you have liberated from those worse off than you.

 

However, if there was a law dictating a cap of salaries at charities I would suspect there would be little or no difference in their turnover. How do you think these people running the charities get appointed in the first place? The charity Trustees are probably a bunch of wives and retired gents, who appoint the son of one of their mates at the golf club who probably has about 2 brain cells due to inbreeding but has a great CV due to 6 non exec directorship posts at several failed companies.

[jakebullet]

Article in last weeks local paper. Due to a cock up with a fridge at a doctors, a few hundred kids may have to be re-vaccinated, as the vaccines they got could have been dud, but harmless.

 

Follow up in this weeks paper. Ambulance chasers are er, chasing on behalf of 150 of them for the 'distress, pain & trauma of having to be vaccinated again'.

[Junkman]

I'm increasingly pissed off by those know-it-alls on the Classic Rover Forum.

They all think they have eaten wisdom with spoons, but none of them own a haunted P6, so what the fuck do they know?

My impression is that answers to questions one posts there come from people, who have never held a spanner and keep their cars on the road

by transferring shitloads of money into Annable and Son's bank account.

 

I shit on that.

When I have diarrhea.

[wuvvum]

chaseracer, on 13 Mar 2015 - 9:57 PM, said:

my comment was aimed more at the colossal fallacy that those in the "developing world" who have large families due to a lack of effective birth control and state support for older people, or suffer insurmountable health problems because they have no access to effective fresh water and sewage infrastructure, actually have any real choice. 

Agree with you on the clean drinking water thing.  Not so much on the lack of birth control thing.  There's a very simple way to avoid excessive procreation.  I can draw you a diagram if you want.

[chaseracer]

A kind offer, but no... 

 

Sadly, like many apparently simple solutions, the reality is rather more complicated.

[Tetleysmooth]

That did cross my mind tbh, how much of this money will actually go there, and not get swallowed up with admin, salerys, pensions etc?

 

And nice shiny AK47's for the army.

 

Maybe we should have another tv ad - adopt a Boko Haram.

You get a cuddly toy, a spent bullet with real blood on it, and he writes to you every month.

[Tetleysmooth]

What a twat.

I took a double decker to Broadstairs last night. 42.5 tonnes.

Just coming up to where the sliproad from Faversham joins the M2, and saw a nice shiny white BMW curving round to join the motorway.

I thought 'uh-oh'.

Sure enough, he's right alongside me. I couldn't move out as it's only two lanes wide there and I was being overtaken, but the geezer wasn't slowing at all, he just kept pace with me, until that is, the sliproad came to an end. He had to brake. Hard.

He came out behind me, then straight into lane two and overtook me. Sure enough, I got a furious blast on the horn. He got one back.

What's up with these thick skulled pillocks? Can't they see the bigger picture. What did he expect me to do? Brake like mad just to let him out? Just move over into lane 2 and squash the poor bastard overtaking me into the Armco?

I hate driving lorries now.

[OwdChina]

What a twat.

I took a double decker to Broadstairs last night. 42.5 tonnes.

Just coming up to where the sliproad from Faversham joins the M2, and saw a nice shiny white BMW curving round to join the motorway.

I thought 'uh-oh'.

Sure enough, he's right alongside me. I couldn't move out as it's only two lanes wide there and I was being overtaken, but the geezer wasn't slowing at all, he just kept pace with me, until that is, the sliproad came to an end. He had to brake. Hard.

He came out behind me, then straight into lane two and overtook me. Sure enough, I got a furious blast on the horn. He got one back.

What's up with these thick skulled pillocks? Can't they see the bigger picture. What did he expect me to do? Brake like mad just to let him out? Just move over into lane 2 and squash the poor bastard overtaking me into the Armco?

I hate driving lorries now.

I feel your pain TS. Similar things happen here too, and that's just towing a trailer. Some people, those joining and those overtaking at the same time, creating the sandwich effect, these people just have no road sense at all. It seems to be all age groups too.

[Cavcraft]

The worst thing about Comic Relief is those who describe Lenny Henry as a comedian. I've seen funnier multiple pile ups than that arsehole.

 

 

Back on to char-I-dee, they're not all employing high flying, mega bucks people. My brother-in-law is a director of one (sadly, I can't remember which)  is on piss poor money and living in London too.

[twosmoke300]

What a twat.

I took a double decker to Broadstairs last night. 42.5 tonnes.

Just coming up to where the sliproad from Faversham joins the M2, and saw a nice shiny white BMW curving round to join the motorway.

I thought 'uh-oh'.

Sure enough, he's right alongside me. I couldn't move out as it's only two lanes wide there and I was being overtaken, but the geezer wasn't slowing at all, he just kept pace with me, until that is, the sliproad came to an end. He had to brake. Hard.

He came out behind me, then straight into lane two and overtook me. Sure enough, I got a furious blast on the horn. He got one back.

What's up with these thick skulled pillocks? Can't they see the bigger picture. What did he expect me to do? Brake like mad just to let him out? Just move over into lane 2 and squash the poor bastard overtaking me into the Armco?

I hate driving lorries now.

People are just oblivious . I was watching one of those mega trucker things last night where some tus in a golf managed to get tangled up in a wide load with a dumper truck on the back . There was 3 of them in convoy , hi vized to fuck with escort vehicles. How did he not see that ffs

[Lankytim]

I'm on a train to London with my 5yr old daughter and the Mrs and we're sat next to a table with four foul mouthed northern kyle reject fat scumbags. Nowt I can do about it other than insist my daughter wears her headphones. Ignorant fat fuckers.

[daveb47]

I've seen print invoices for British Red cross's unaddressed doordrop runs, 500k of those envelope packs that drop through your door costs about £120,000! Invoices for design, print, fulfilment, transport, plus £80k for delivery by royal mail, and our 7% agency fee

 

And their the first to moan when Mr postie delivers 2 to one house by accident and royal mail offer £50 as a goodwill gesture, it's never enough!

Sorry but i drop many of them in an envelope and send them back stampless,same with pizza leaflets etc.

[dollywobbler]

I just ignore them...

 

Can't believe how much trouble that W124 is proving to be. Really does sound like it's time Vauxhall was let off the hook. New slogan time?