The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

I fucking hate the dentist, and my teeth show this!

 

Wish I hadnt spotted that ZX Volcane in the ebay thread, having naughty thoughts about cashing my premium bonds in, going to fetch it and drive it back to a pre booked MOT (hoping the strut doesnt break free and smash itself out of the bonnet) then swapping all the higher spec parts out into mine and scrapping/selling the rest cheap

 

Can't justify it though, wouldnt have the time to do it all and it's hundreds of miles away... If it was any lower I'd be tempted.

[tooSavvy]

Ahhh...DENTISTS

 

Mine is a real pro - no shit!

 

Scale of need to do it: 0/10

Scale of pain likely: 0/10

Scale of price£ : 100/1000

 

I have no issues with his competence, and don't mind paying him since he converted from ALDI fastestates to 'SVM choddery'.

 

 

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[Bobthebeard]

Google is missing a business opportunity IMHO.... A TooSavvy translate option. Or maybe Dave could fit one on here.....?

😀

[twosmoke300]

Don't think we have a powerful enough server

[tooSavvy]

BtB

 

[/facepalm]

 

.... there, sorted!

 

 

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[Bobthebeard]

Was woken up this morning by my dog barking at a heron. The heron was fishing in my small garden pond... Result is a punctured pond liner (sharp heron beak) and ten fish gone. Ho Hum. Herons need to eat and feed the young ones I guess. But puncturing the pond liner was annoying! Now needing to fill the pond daily to keep the three remaining fish and a thousand tadpoles alive!

[fordperv]

I was talking to my neighbour earlier and she was telling me that the person directly at the back of me who keeps pigeons had been throwing large bricks at her lovely friendly black and white cat when it's walking along my fence, she had seen the person do it and the cat came in limping a few days previous, i am angry that someone can be like that, if a cat peed me off I'd be waiting with the hose and spray it not try to intentionally hurt it

[Cavcraft]

Her next pet should be a hawk.

[myglaren]

Banks!!!! I bought a motorbike and transferred the money from the loan they gave me to the seller. All went through on my Internet banking, and I showed the bikes reg number as the payment reference. Rang the seller the day before I was going to collect it, and he says he hasn't had the money. Rang the bank. "Oh, the transaction looked fruadulant, so we blocked it". They could not understand that I had bought a bike with the loan they given me for that purpose. Anyway, they re submitted the payment and waived the "same day" fee-i should bloody well think so.

 

Six days later I check my account details on line - cheeky fuckers had deducted the payment to the seller's account TWICE. I rang the bank-"Sorry about that - could you go to his house and ask for the money back?"

 

It took THREE MONTHS for them to get the money back into my account. Plus a case of wine and a £255 goodwill payment. As to my goodwill, I closed the account immediately. Fuck you Santander.

 

When I bought the current C5 I stupidly reversed a couple of digits of the account I was supposed to be paying the money in to

So had to pay again.

explained to the bank what I had done and in 48 hours they had restored the money into my account, no hassle whatsoever.

Santander!

[chaseracer]

Santander can be very... variable...

[jakebullet]

It's twatbay stupid question night

 

Will it fit a ford fiesta 08 ? If so can I have the black 8 please

Is your fiesta a golf? No? Then plz to fuck off.

 

Can you do me 2 more knobs for a Mitsubishi animal l200 2002. Both green stripe for gear knob and spot for transfer box. I don't know the measurements.

Sure! I'll just go out and buy a 2002 L200 and measure it for you sir.

 

Add in twats playing the didn't get it mate and I'll have a refund mate, and I'm totally fucked off with the cunting bastard ebay game tonight.

[rainagain]

Paint it/tar it/wet it/spray it with mud.

 

He probably wants to keep his ball clean

I feel your pain! My old house had a retaining wall and the kid next door used to kick his ball against it. For frigging hours, dunt dunt dunt dunt dunt dunt dunt. I'm sure it passes as a form of torture. As it was a small village as well I also couldn't really say anything.

[vulgalour]

I was reminded of a house in my home town, an end-of-row that was a football target.  Epic grumpy old man skills in that the resident decided to insert nails, pointy side out, into the mortar where the footballs were hitting the wall.  I'm told his patience in this endeavour paid off, but being retired he had loads of time to devote to this.  I'm also told he got in a lot of trouble with the Council for it.

[Lord Sterling]

Bloody 'ell, football.

 

It's like a zombie thing around here. Kids play football like dead heads kicking footballs against peoples hedges/gardens and right next to parked cars. There is a small patch of field at the end of the road but they somehow treat it as it it isn't there and insist on playing on the communal grass area next to peoples houses. Its fucking annoying.

 

As I said in one of my many recent grumpy posts, this is the season where the dead heads of this street start doing thier Summer 'thing' footballs kicked up against anything static, motorcross bikes up and down the pavement, incomprehensible loud shouting and bawling as form of communicating and the occasional 'Jeremy Kyle' style fight.

 

So yeah. Deep joy

[chaseracer]

When are you moving to Telford...?

 

[Lord Sterling]

When are you moving to Telford...?

 

Old_ma has finally got herself back into work so she is looking around Redditch/Worcester way, so maybe (hopefully) at some point in the next year or so. Living here will be a distant memory.

[UmBongo]

Am I wrong for wanting stupid overtakers to crash and burn so I can trundle past hooting, waving and laughing?

[beko1987]

A colleague of mine biffed her impretza up the back of a box lorry this mornibg

 

Coming round the bypass roundabout I saw another colleagues kuga up the verge with a lorry behind it so pulled over to see if he was OK, then saw our female colleague with his coat on, on the phone standing in coolant...

 

She's not having a good Friday I feel. Only had the car 7 months as well (04 plate), I think it's probably a write off, needs wings, bonnet, rad and whatever else she's smashed

 

And I imagine she's causing traffic chaos as there's hardly anyone in and she's at the top of a slip road that's queued up for 4 miles on a good day.

[nebuchenezer]

Am I wrong for wanting stupid overtakers to crash and burn so I can trundle past hooting, waving and laughing?

Nope, sounds perfectly reasonable to me

[tooSavvy]

Her next pet should be a hawk.

...ah, that Django* moment!

 

*Rango, for the laffs

 

 

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[Richard]

Slugs in mi kitchen, what am I going to do? Serious question, they come in under the sink unit kickboard. Would it discourage them if I spread salt around under the unit? I'm a live and let live kind of person but one of them found its way into the washing up bowl this morning.

[tooSavvy]

Ooh... Are yours the Spanish 'frankfurter sized' ones?

 

Nasty

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11463038/Beware-of-slug-invasion-gardeners-told.html

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[Danblez]

Slugs in mi kitchen, what am I going to do? Serious question, they come in under the sink unit kickboard. Would it discourage them if I spread salt around under the unit? I'm a live and let live kind of person but one of them found its way into the washing up bowl this morning.

Have a look outside where they are coming and bung it up and slug pellets for the ones already inside.

 

I am a live and let sort of person too but not for those slimey bastards

[daveb47]

I am a live and let sort of person too but not for those slimey bastards

 

 

I feel the same about politicians.......

Mind you i think that beween the 2 i prefer slugs

[fordperv]

Her next pet should be a hawk.

I feel like lying in wait with an air rifle for the next time the flying vermin are let out, i won't but that's how I feel

[tooSavvy]

Bloody 'ell, this is the season where the dead heads of this street start doing thier Summer 'thing' footballs kicked up against anything static, motorcross bikes up and down the pavement, incomprehensible loud shouting and bawling as form of communicating and the occasional 'Jeremy Kyle' style fight.

So yeah. Deep joy

@Wallsend

 

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[Bobthebeard]

Got a NIP today in the post. My first and hopefully my last! Doing 39mph on the A1171 Dudley Lane in Cramlington on the 9th April. Grrrr. I am usually very careful about speed limits. Especially 30/40 mph limits.

Is this a notorious '30 that looks like a 40' place to lie in wait? Can't say I remember it.

[cort16]

I have to go on a Speed Awareness course tomorrow for my 79 in a 70. Problem is it's 100 miles away in Carlisle. 4 hours of getting my wrist slapped "you're a very naughty boy" don't do it again.

I'll just need to set cruise control to 70 as sure as shite if I go above 75  I'll no doublt pickup another ticket going to the speed awareness couse.

[beko1987]

A colleague of mine biffed her impretza up the back of a box lorry this mornibg

 

Coming round the bypass roundabout I saw another colleagues kuga up the verge with a lorry behind it so pulled over to see if he was OK, then saw our female colleague with his coat on, on the phone standing in coolant...

 

She's not having a good Friday I feel. Only had the car 7 months as well (04 plate), I think it's probably a write off, needs wings, bonnet, rad and whatever else she's smashed

 

And I imagine she's causing traffic chaos as there's hardly anyone in and she's at the top of a slip road that's queued up for 4 miles on a good day.

Apparently it was her old mans mid life crisis car! He has a works van so uses that day to day, she has the scooby! Was also the only vehicle they could all go out in together (young daughter). Double oops!

 

My colleague who was with her said about 7 people gave her abuse as they crawled past in the traffic. My colleague is someone I wouldnt fuck with (ex army, ex royal mail union leader) and apparently they stopped shouting about when he went up to their open window, leant right in and asked if everything was ok.!

[vulgalour]

Slugs don't like copper and it's kinder to them than salt.  You can use copper tape or squashed copper piping around areas they're getting in.  My gran taught me this with her copper tape edged flower pots to successfully keep the slugs off her strawberries.