The grumpy thread

[CortinaDave]

Theres a really tidy 1990 saab 900 convertible on upullit's website thats obviously scrappage. Still has the rear seat belts done up so obviously its been driven straight from an MOT to the dealer and scrapped. Bloody madness. Still at least its over soon

[pogweasel]

CATFLAPS.

[dollywobbler]

Good point Pog. I can rant about catflaps or more specifically one of the local mogs - and enormous great thing that keeps picking fights on our little cat. She's quite vicous though, so they have almighty scraps and keep breaking our cat flap. We've taken to shutting our cat in at night.

[Guest]

To the cheese head mega mong in the E60 tonight :HAVING BOTH OF YOUR FUCKING FOG LIGHTS ON DOES NOT EXCUSE THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE BOTH HEADLIGHTS OUT. STOP FUCKING TAILGATING ME AND CHANGE THE BULBS.Did you really have to go round me on to the opposite side (i.e. the oncoming side) of the A56 off the exit ramp to get round me? I wasn't exactly trundling along you know. It takes years of 'skill' and many early morning near spins to come off the exit ramp of the Lymm roundabout at 40 mph you know. But this wasn't enough for you. Least I wait until the road's straight before hoofing it. THAT WAY, THE CAR WON'T FISHTAIL BECAUSE YOU'RE PUTTING THE POWER DOWN IN A STRAIGHT LINE. SLOW IN, FAST OUT. TWAT.Still, I'd have pissed myself if you;'d have lost it and stacked it into the Irwell. Here's some pointers.1. No working dipped beams at 5.40 pm = TWAT.2. Very sharp bend off the Lymm roundabout + RWD 3 litre TD Bimmer = FAIL. Especially if your tyres are in the same state as your headlights. Which they undoubtedly will be.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Good point Pog. I can rant about catflaps or more specifically one of the local mogs - and enormous great thing that keeps picking fights on our little cat. She's quite vicous though, so they have almighty scraps and keep breaking our cat flap. We've taken to shutting our cat in at night.

My little cat Claude (and she is a very compact unit) did me proud the other night. She gave the local big bully Tomcat such a bloody great hiding she's still got a bit of his fur lodged between her claws. The funny thing was, my Tomcat, Clarence, was cowering under a car like a big ponce.

[pogweasel]

Did once awake to find a large cat sitting on the kitchen worktop in the middle of the night, getting yapped at by our small dog. Anyway, reason for catflap rage is thus: The catflap had been falling to bits for a couple of years so finally got around to replacing it. Unfortunately the useless twats at the catflap factory provided bolts with no 'notches' on the head, and which were made of cheese, plus nuts made from the hardest substance known to man. Thus after fitting 'correctly' I had to remove it all and start again with new nuts and bolts, in the process of removing the shit ones I pinched my finger with some pliers and ripped a big chunk of flesh out, I guess everyone within a quarter mile heard me shout BOLLOCKS as a result.Still, it's done now, so the small dog (with the weak bladder) can go out to do a piss rather than sneakily doing it up the washing machine.

[CIH]

My brother's jack russell use to piss on plug sockets for some reason...Anyway, as per WAT there's some crazy bitch driving round Droylsden in her Micra with FULL FAT FOGS on 24/7, presumeably because both headlights are dead. It's a 10 year old car so no excuses you lazy slag.I'm going to follow her one night and sabotage the foggies when she's catching ZZZs.

[Slaighty]

Bleeding scrapmen. That's the 3rd one this week, good job I'm at home or I'd be missing my replacement BMW 2002 bonnet that's stood in the back garden but just visable from the cab of a transit tipper...Caught one doing the knock and run as well, knock to see if you are in then nick whatever's there if there's no answer as by the time I'd got to the door he was off down the drive ffs.

We had a new washing machine recently, put the old one outside by the kitchen door, ready to to wrestle it into the Astra and take it the "Household Waste Recycling Centre" (Tip). Had to nip out somewhere, when I got back the thing was gone. Checked with a neighbour and sure enough the scrapman had been round. Didn't know whether to be pissed off or not....to get it they had to come down my drive and under a long car port to the side of my house, right to the garage door....but then they saved me a heavy job. mmmmm

[Captain Mainwaring]

Audi, for putting those stupid white LED sidelights on their latest generation of cars, for it seems to have kicked off a new trend.If I had a pound for every time I've seen a Civic fitted with cheapo aftermarket versions of said lights, I'd be fourteen quid better off.

[Polystratus]

We had a new washing machine recently, put the old one outside by the kitchen door, ready to to wrestle it into the Astra and take it the "Household Waste Recycling Centre" (Tip). Had to nip out somewhere, when I got back the thing was gone. Checked with a neighbour and sure enough the scrapman had been round. Didn't know whether to be pissed off or not....to get it they had to come down my drive and under a long car port to the side of my house, right to the garage door....but then they saved me a heavy job. mmmmm

Last month put out a 32" flat type CRT TV on the drive ready for the local council to pick up because it was too heavy to get it into the car and take it down to the recycle centre. While it was on the drive getting nice and wet, we had a couple of people come down the drive and asked if the TV was working, and could they have it ! Still if someone did decide to lug it off the driveway back home, they would have a great time trying to make it work, cos I took out the circuit board and flyback transformer.

[Father Ted]

And yet I had a gas fire (all metal) and the old steel firebox sat at the top of my drive all week and no bugger nicked it - in the end I had to cart it down the tip.

[pogweasel]

Don't get me started on this thing. After the THEFT of my radiators I have to be permanantly vigilant. They were supposed to be going back in the house, except the scrap tinks decided to help themselves. Strangely when the remaining rads were replaced and left out, no tinks touched them for days. Bastards.

[Rusty Pelican]

Nothings safe anymore leave anything lying about and its gone and since Dewalt bought out battery powered grinders , padlocks are all but useless

[Pillock]

I had a pair of Type3 doors nicked from my back garden - completely out of sight, you'd have to be on tippy-toes peering over the fence to see them. I knew who it was, it was the scrapman because I've seen him peering over other people's fences.I got my own back though. I collared him to take a Polo engine away, the one I destroyed by letting a piston eat a pair of valves. Him and his mate carried it out to the transit and yoiked it up onto the pickup bed, then let it fall over. At that point I 'remembered' I'd not drained the oil so they got a few litres of stinky goop all over the ply. Ha. Then I dobbed them in for not having a waste carriers licence.

[55bloke]

Don't get me started on this thing. After the THEFT of my radiators I have to be permanantly vigilant. They were supposed to be going back in the house, except the scrap tinks decided to help themselves.

Exactly the same thing happened to us. AND, had the original wheels from the 25 knicked. Both from a garden not easily over looked. A work collegue actually saw a scrappy helping himself to her radiators from the back garden, and "politely" asked what he thought he was doing? He said he was just passing, saw them, and thought she'd want them taking away. They were in her back garden, not visible from the street, and only accessable through a gate!! She told him to please go away! BUT, when she went out to the Supermarket a couple of days later, she returned to find them gone!! Not only that, a virtually new gas cooker, temporarily taken out whilst her kitchen was refurbed, was nicked off the drive in broad daylight whilst on a different shopping trip. What utter scum these idle, thieving bastards are! We told the police, just to make them aware of the scale of the problem, but what can they do?

[FredTransit]

You just reminded me, I have to put the chain back on the engine/gearbox/front axle out front.....

[Claypole]

I was that worried I've been outside in the frost replacing the bonnet they've been eyeing up... I've cut the old one into quarters (easier than unbolting it and having it fall on me as they are heavy without an assistant. I've propped the bits by the front gate so no doubt they'll not be round robbing for the next month, I assume the price is up again?

[Pete-M]

When I did the engine swap on my old Mk2 Golf GTi the Pikeys stole the old 1.8 from the garage I was doing the job in.This is a busy city-centre workshop, but they managed to swipe the bloody engine without anyone seeing. I was lucky I'd fitted the 2.0 block the day before or that would have gone too.

[barrett]

DVLA...... thanks for closing down your Brighton branch, but not updating your literature to reflect this. or taking down any of the signs that say 'DVLA'......nice one cheers.Post Office....Thanks for closing at such a stupidly early time on Saturdays. and closing down 5 of your Brighton branches.... ta very much.That is all (and it had been so long since i've been grumpy enough to post herer!).

[seth]

Winter.I've had enough now. We had a surprise sprinkling of snow again last night which has not all melted through the day which means it has been frickin' freezing all day again. And there's a clear sky/full moon again tonight so its colder still.Some warmth OK PLZ THKS

[Captain Mainwaring]

Couldn't agree more, it's getting pretty tiresome now. We're touching -2 down here at the minute. Roll on fucking March.

[pogweasel]

Yes, less snow, moar spring pls. And whilst you lot are snuggled up, I'll be out working. Extra hat & gloves tonight!!

[Milford Cubicle]

I like the snow, as long as it stays above about 1500ft as I'm going skiing tomorrow, down here at 700ish ft it can fuck right off.

[seth]

And whilst you lot are snuggled up, I'll be out working. Extra hat & gloves tonight!!

Yeah, well I ought to be out in the shed making new air filter bases for the Herald but I'm fed up with working out there in the cold after the last few weeks of it. Enjoy.

[Guest]

Single Status/Equal Pay/Job Evaluation.Numerous reasons why I detest it, but I'll sum up the main point without going into the details too much. Allow me to explain!Basically, it's a nationwide mechanism going across local government jobs. All jobs (except senior management, obviously) are being assessed as to whether the pay needs to go up, down or stay the same. This is to be done whilst keeping the pay pot constant, i.e. if someone gets paid more, someone else is to be paid less to counteract it. They make the decision, send you a letter telling you what's going to happen. If you're satisfied, you sign the new contract and get paid the new rate. If not, you are made redundant (with no payout), though you can apply for the "new" job at the new rate. Hobson's choice, basically.As a fairly low-paid admin clerk I figured my pay would be pretty safe so I wasn't hugely concerned - I'm already paid a bit below the market rate for my job but I knew what I was getting paid when I started, so can't complain really. But upon reading into this scheme, it seems jobs like mine are the ones which are the most ripe for selection - presumably because it's not a trendy frontline job. There could be a mass execution of backroom staff and the public wouldn't care that much - sodding penpushers.I find out next week whether I'm losing out or whatever. Further details from "the top" imply that our directorate stand to do pretty badly from this scheme so I'm not too hopeful.The question is, what should I do if I lose out? I was thinking along the usual lines of smashing up a load of stuff and wheelspinning my car around on the grass out front, though I was thinking I could be crafty. I could go off with stress and depression and then sue them. But I quite like the idea of churning up their lawn. Perhaps I could do that and claim it was as a result of the stress.

[Albert Ross]

Clingfilm over the toilet bowls.............

[M'coli]

Clingfilm over the toilet bowls.............

Black shoe polish on the seats...Dog turd in a bag below the pollen filter on pool cars...

[Cavcraft]

Seven pounds forty fucking pence for two pints of lager at a trendy 'wine bar'

[warren t claim]

96p for a regular sized packet of crisps at a motorway service station! Nearly a quid ffs! Robbing twats.

[CIH]

Back to the snows, my exmployer nailed me with £50 of deductions last month due to late arrivals after SNOW CHAOS. So I got penailised wether I bother or not. After petrol, feeding meself and tax I probably come out with about £8 that day. So anyhint of CHAOS tomorrow and I'm staying home. KAYTHNX.