The grumpy thread

[EssDeeWon]

if  you own the land you can "police" the parking and clamp offenders iirc

 

Not sure you can clamp a vehicle on private property anymore. We have a clamping notice up in our private residents carpark but we have been told its no longer enforceable so the sign should come down. Its still up though, just so people get the hint not to use it has a free public carpark. 

[UmBongo]

Bought a new house on unadopted road. We are house right at the end. Just before us is what looks like a turning space. Everyone keeps parking there making getting into our house challenging

 

Looking at our land registry stuff we own that land. Not sure what we can do without pissing neighbours off...But is prime car storage land.

 

Lots of nails...wait a few days...local Shit Fit now very busy...twats stop parking there.

[vulgalour]

Install a hot pie vending shed like the one near where Bollox lives.  PROFIT.

[purplebargeken]

All cars are a pain in the arse and I'm sick of them. Oh yeah, I hate work too. Just FRO.

[Ghosty]

I don't know if I've mentioned the idiots that moved onto our road, did up a house, removed the garage, made a two car drive, and use it to store one car. Every single day there are up to four cars parked at that bastard house, two of them at least are parents of the people living there, one of which lives a 2 minute walk away. They all park up the street, opposite my house and the house one up, sometimes there's one car out of four, outside the neighbour's house, or something equally cretinous. Why can't they walk, or use the bastard drive as applicable? If they ever park outside my/our house then I'm letting all the air out of their tyres.

[bub2006]

There's an arsehole like that on our street. Old boy Has a driveway with a mouldy caravan on it and overgrown garden and a volvo s60 that he parks on driveway too. Where I live is a small street with a grass verge in middle you can drive round. We have no driveway so wife parks in front of house as she has done for 11 years and I park punto opposite our house,in front of his but make sure I'm not obstructing his or anyone else driveway. He decides to rant and rave telling me I'm not allowed to park there and now has taken to parking his volvo on the road. Funnily enough it was 2 days after his shouting that me wheel nuts where loosened on my car. His neighbour and everyone else on the admittedly narrow and small street have said he has always been like it. Just petty games

[michael1703]

Sports commentators who can't seem to grasp the difference between "double World champion" and "twice World champion". Insignificant, but really annoys.

If you're talking about Toseland, wtf was up with his Barnet?

[andy18s]

He had to make a live "statement" about how little all the twitter shit he got bothered him ...

[michael1703]

I didn't rate him as a rider initially, he was hyped to fuck by mcn in the 1990's before he achieved anything, roger Burnett was his manager and he was riding cb500's at the time, then when he got good he was just a bit ordinary to watch, I'd rather cheer on Haga than this boring British rider, I only took to him in 07 when he was on the ten Kate blade and he crashed at silverstone, got back on and rode the tits off the bike with a shagged clip on and no foot peg and he actually had ripped the top hose off the rad and the bike had lost coolant and was trying to heat seize, that's when I was impressed by him

[Cavcraft]

There's an arsehole like that on my street

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's me.

[michael1703]

TATAU

 

It's a wank programme on bbc3 my wife watches

 

A mumbo jumbo plot, involving characters I couldn't give two shits about, played by shite quality actors

 

I don't get it

[D Spares & Tyres]

There's an arsehole like that on our street. Old boy Has a driveway with a mouldy caravan on it and overgrown garden and a volvo s60 that he parks on driveway too. Where I live is a small street with a grass verge in middle you can drive round. We have no driveway so wife parks in front of house as she has done for 11 years and I park punto opposite our house,in front of his but make sure I'm not obstructing his or anyone else driveway. He decides to rant and rave telling me I'm not allowed to park there and now has taken to parking his volvo on the road. Funnily enough it was 2 days after his shouting that me wheel nuts where loosened on my car. His neighbour and everyone else on the admittedly narrow and small street have said he has always been like it. Just petty games

I used to live by some old twat like just this around 12 years ago. I went to Australia for a month but not long before I went I had aquired a long wheelbase high top Renault Master. Guess where it got parked for a month......

 

Silly old sod I bet that`s all he thought about the whole time while I was having a great time

[fred]

Had a similar problem last place I lived, mobile mechanic who had his punters cars all over the fecking place

Gladly living in a quiet close with a driveway now

[jakebullet]

Anyone know what passes for a wild day out for muslim men? A former pro pisshead mate has discovered religion, and it's making planning a day out rather tricky as everything appears to be banned.

 

Last attempt ended with a visit to A&E after he collapsed due to not eating 'cos it wasn't magic sky monkey approved.

[D Spares & Tyres]

You should start a new thread on this topic, I`m sure there will be plenty of suggestions.....

 

I`m sober so can`t possibly comment

[Richard]

Look at the front page on my local rag's website. Death, imminent death and Jim fucking Murphy. Even the weather is bad news.

 

[Lord Sterling]

Anyone know what passes for a wild day out for muslim men? A former pro pisshead mate has discovered religion, and it's making planning a day out rather tricky as everything appears to be banned.

 

Last attempt ended with a visit to A&E after he collapsed due to not eating 'cos it wasn't magic sky monkey approved.

You've ranted about this once before. If you don't like his way of life or whatever then don't invite him. It's quite simple really.

[Inspector Morose]

Mo, I think he's a bit pissed at the difference between pre Muslim mate and post Muslim mate. It's not the religion, it's the change in mate that's pissing him off. I think. How the fuck should I know, it's only my opinion and that counts for nothing as it's an opinion, not reality.

 

Don't take it personally.

 

I've had a tipple.

[wuvvum]

The Spacy is pissing me off at the moment.  I'm trying to work out how the hell the retractable headlight works, after it randomly retracted itself the other day after two years of not moving.  How can a 32-year-old 125cc scooter have such a fugging complicated wiring diagram?  The headlight apparently has a "timer unit".  What the fuck is a "timer unit"?  It sounds like the sort of unnecessary crap BMW would fit to one of their cars.  I'm completely fucking stumped at the moment.  I can't even work out which are the live and earth feeds to the motor.  According to the diagram the brown wire has a diode in it, so that won't be an earth, but that's as far as I've got.

 

Bloody modern motorbikes.  Give me a Raleigh Runabout any day.

 

[Lord Sterling]

Mo, I think he's a bit pissed at the difference between pre Muslim mate and post Muslim mate. It's not the religion, it's the change in mate that's pissing him off. I think. How the fuck should I know, it's only my opinion and that counts for nothing as it's an opinion, not reality.

Don't take it personally.

I've had a tipple.

Cheers, not taking it personally but it seems a bit 'so what'. How his mate chooses to live his life is up to him. Ain't got nothing to do with anyone else. Jake doesn't need to invite him on his days out.

[MarvinsMom]

Anyone know what passes for a wild day out for muslim men? A former pro pisshead mate has discovered religion, and it's making planning a day out rather tricky as everything appears to be banned.

 

Last attempt ended with a visit to A&E after he collapsed due to not eating 'cos it wasn't magic sky monkey approved

just tell him to fuck right off, then go and get completely arseholed drunk.

 

have a bacon bun, porky pie and assorted pork products and again if there is whinging, tell said acquaintance to go and fuck 'em selves, seriously.

[Inspector Morose]

True, but it will affect all around him whether they want to or not. People affect other people which affect others - it's all part of the general mish mash of things.

 

Meh.

[CHRIS1980]

There's an arsehole like that on our street. Old boy Has a driveway with a mouldy caravan on it and overgrown garden and a volvo s60 that he parks on driveway too. Where I live is a small street with a grass verge in middle you can drive round. We have no driveway so wife parks in front of house as she has done for 11 years and I park punto opposite our house,in front of his but make sure I'm not obstructing his or anyone else driveway. He decides to rant and rave telling me I'm not allowed to park there and now has taken to parking his volvo on the road. Funnily enough it was 2 days after his shouting that me wheel nuts where loosened on my car. His neighbour and everyone else on the admittedly narrow and small street have said he has always been like it. Just petty games

Stanley knife blades under his tyres,play him at his own game and he can't repair that type of damage. Plus he will be guessing as to who's done it.

[jakebullet]

Mo, I think he's a bit pissed at the difference between pre Muslim mate and post Muslim mate. It's not the religion, it's the change in mate that's pissing him off. I think. How the fuck should I know, it's only my opinion and that counts for nothing as it's an opinion, not reality.

 

Don't take it personally.

 

I've had a tipple.

 

THIS.

 

Still want to go n have a day out with the lad, but it's proving mega difficult. Specially as he doesn't say what he wants to do, just says banned or no to nearly every suggestion.

 

Other bloke who's a sikh isn't making it all about religion, n I couldn't care less what imaginary friend they both have in their private lives. It's just difficult. Last time we was taking the piss that he's bald n has to wear a hat. First thing he says is I was going to wear my prayers hat today. WTF?

[MarvinsMom]

i refer the right honourable poster to the comment i made a few moments ago.

[vulgalour]

Friends come and go for a variety of reasons, a change of lifestyle is a major one whether it's children, religion, injury, all or none of the above.  Sounds like he's still trying to figure out how the religion fits in with his life and where he needs to draw the line and he's probably having as hard a time adjusting to it as you are to him.

 

There are things you can do as a group that doesn't involve drinking and bacon but if that's not what you enjoy then there's no point doing it.  If you want to go out for a meal get him to find the restaurant that suits his needs, it shouldn't be that difficult these days.  It's possible to have fun sober, it's not as easy but it's possible.

 

Sounds like he and you don't want to compromise your lifestyles and that they're not particularly compatible.  It might just be you have to accept this and adjust the friendship accordingly.  Meet up differently, do different stuff, or move on.

[Alan_Green]

If you want a serious suggestion, go to the horse racing for the day. Had many a fun day out in mega-islamic countries (e.g. Libya) at the races. No betting obv.

[Lord Sterling]

Jake - You need to calm down a bit chap, seriously. Vulgalour has said it all to be honest, there isn't a better way to put it.

 

Why not communicate with the fella directly and see what he wants to do. As Vulgalour said, maybe he is having a hard time adjusting to his new life style. Do it in a calm way and be open minded about it. If it isn't going to work out then now might be the time to be honest.

[jakebullet]

Jake - You need to calm down a bit chap, seriously. Vulgalour has said it all to be honest, there isn't a better way to put it.

 

Why not communicate with the fella directly and see what he wants to do. As Vulgalour said, maybe he is having a hard time adjusting to his new life style. Do it in a calm way and be open minded about it. If it isn't going to work out then now might be the time to be honest.

 

That's the problem, all I can get out of him is what he doesn't want to do. Maybe I should just leave it as when you've thought of something you do want to do give me a call.

[cms206]

Bank holiday Monday.

 

5.55am sign on.

 

12 hour standby rail replacement for First Transpennine.

 

Can't find my sleeping bag.

 

Sara Cox on Radio 2 breakfast again.

 

All of those things, in any order you like.