The grumpy thread

[gm]

The cat caught a mouse and brought it into the house, I managed to rescue it but, as I was carrying it back into the garden, the little fucker bit me ! Bloody sharp teeth the little sod had, ended up bleeding in three places

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Cobblers man, I *heart* U

[ruffgeezer]

  On 19/05/2015 at 17:16, The Moog said:

All the jobs he promised he would do and didn't are getting done.

 

Thing is we have been really reasonable as he has had house on market and up for rent and have made time for viewings. No one round here likes him, seriously I have never met such a c###.

 

Did a little karma thing by popping into letting agents to tell them he is doing private viewings to avoid paying them any fees. They were most interested. Will hit him where it hurts.

 

Kippers sound a treat

 

On the last day, one of you has to top deck the bog whilst the other one does the waffle stomp in the shower.

[michael1703]

  On 19/05/2015 at 16:46, richardmorris said:

Another grump from yesterday. Our local 2cv club night and also my birthday, so I thought I'd have dinner at the pub for the meeting. A pint of youngs springtime ale £4.45, fish and chips £12. Yes, it was very nice, but over £16 for fish and chips and a pint! London prices - no wonder the place was almost empty.

Happy birthday, we share the same birthday

[gm]

waffle stomp ? please don't make me google it

[HH-R]

Was hailstoning today, and absolutely bucketing down. Terrible visibility, couple of inches of water (at least) everywhere, drains couldn't cope, wipers on full, dipped beam on and still couldn't see balls all. Mk5 Astra behind, so I hung back on the dual carriageway wanting them to get past, knowing they're the tailgater's favourite and it goes to one lane after a roundabout in about 3/4s of a mile. They're well back though and don't overtake.

 

They catch up at the roundabout and then it's NSL single carriageway, they're now sitting half a car's length behind and stay there for the next couple of miles

 

What goes through their head? They must have been able to see nothing but spray.

[gordonbennet]

  On 19/05/2015 at 19:29, HH-R said:

Was hailstoning today, and absolutely bucketing down. Terrible visibility, couple of inches of water (at least) everywhere, drains couldn't cope, wipers on full, dipped beam on and still couldn't see balls all. Mk5 Astra behind, so I hung back on the dual carriageway wanting them to get past, knowing they're the tailgater's favourite and it goes to one lane after a roundabout in about 3/4s of a mile. They're well back though and don't overtake.

 

They catch up at the roundabout and then it's NSL single carriageway, they're now sitting half a car's length behind and stay there for the next couple of miles

 

What goes through their head? They must have been able to see nothing but spray.

 

I followed a half wit like that once, he in Corsa in torrents of rain sat about 6 ft from an artics arse dead centre in that bobble of impenetrable spray, he couldn't possibly see a thing, i followed mesmerised about 100 yards behind in morbid fascination at witnessing the mind boggling stupidity of a real live lemming just prior to its demise, the twat cant possibly still be alive.

 

I did wonder which nutter at the driving test centre passed the cunt as safe to be allowed out in a car.

[ruffgeezer]

  On 19/05/2015 at 19:10, gm said:

waffle stomp ? please don't make me google it

 

 

You ought to, but it is a disgusting act.

[MarvinsMom]

i just did..... THAT IS NASTY!!!!

[eddyramrod]

I may have mentioned previously that our pay interval at the bakery has gone from weekly to four-weekly with the new financial year.  This is despite a petition from the staff pleading against it, and a series of one-to-one meetings with the boss at which he rubbished all our opinions and arguments and told us it was going ahead whatever.

 

At this level of pay, it doesn't fucking work!  I'm disgusted how little is left in my bank right now.  Thanks boss.

 

Oh and now that my hours have dropped, I don't qualify for Working Tax Credit any more.  Eh?  I'm working less hours, at Minimum Wage, but now I can afford my own prescriptions and the loss of nearly a ton a week benefit?  Fucking marvellous.

[gordonbennet]

Eddy, i can't 'like' your post mate for obvious reasons, but that's shit man.

 

How the fuck can you having less hours drop you out of WTC, quite apart from your boss is a prize bell end.

Anything else about on the job front or is it a case of finding summat part time?

[twosmoke300]

I've been on monthly pay since I started work and don't know any different I suppose . Now I work for myself I still only draw my wages at the end of the month .

 

The tax credit system is a joke tho I hear

[UmBongo]

  On 19/05/2015 at 19:29, HH-R said:

Was hailstoning today, and absolutely bucketing down. Terrible visibility, couple of inches of water (at least) everywhere, drains couldn't cope, wipers on full, dipped beam on and still couldn't see balls all. Mk5 Astra behind, so I hung back on the dual carriageway wanting them to get past, knowing they're the tailgater's favourite and it goes to one lane after a roundabout in about 3/4s of a mile. They're well back though and don't overtake.

 

They catch up at the roundabout and then it's NSL single carriageway, they're now sitting half a car's length behind and stay there for the next couple of miles

 

What goes through their head? They must have been able to see nothing but spray.

 

They have nothing in their heads at all.

 

They are truly as thick as shit.

[eddyramrod]

In my long and varied career I've been paid weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly and monthly.  The common denominator has been, I've always been low-paid.  I tried to explain to him in words of one syllable how the change would simply not work for people on our level, but he wasn't having it.  I know for a fact several others did too and met with the same stonewall.

 

Fuck him.  I will leave.  WILL.  Nothing is more certain.  The very moment I find something else.  I carry a sheaf of CVs in the pocket of my working coat just in case.

 

The WTC threshhold is 30 hours, and I'm now averaging 22-24, but that's over 6 days, on all of which I'm getting out of bed at 5am.  It shouldn't be that hard to find something that gives me 30 more reasonable hours... you'd think.  Perhaps I'm being too fussy in wanting to use my vast driving experience, at Transit level and within a few miles of home.

[fred]

Thats just a packet of crap Eddie, feel for ya

[dollywobbler]

I lost a fight with our new cat. The one who was awaiting a new home because he kept biting the children at his last place. They weren't lying then.

[Matt]

When you take photos on your film camera, see you're at 36 exposures and then discover that the film wont rewind. Then when you realise the camera didn't have any film in it the whole time.  I got a great shot today too.

 

MOTHERFUCKER.

[PhilA]

Missus wants me make tapioca. All well and good. Box front says "minute tapioca",back of box has several steps. Two of which are "wait five minutes" and "wait twenty minutes". I spent ten minutes stirring the stuff on the stove after having gotten the mixer out and all the bowls and assorted bamf that goes along with.

 

Welsh timekeeping, that is.

 

Edit :

Perhaps it's minute, as in small. The little bits of tapioca are not very big.

 

Box also states "light and fluffy". Texture of lumpy wallpaper paste. Tastes ok though.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My grandfather stayed in a hotel and has received a £100 'fine' for parking in their car park. The hotel says it was obviously a mistake since he was a guest and there shouldn't be a problem getting it revoked, but he still has to submit an appeal to the third party car park operator. 

 

WTF? If you contract out enforcement of your car park to some firm, surely you can just ring them and say "cancel ticket #12345 please"? Surely. 

[the judge]

  On 19/05/2015 at 19:10, gm said:

waffle stomp ? please don't make me google it

Do not google blue waffle either.

 

 

 

Really,dont.

[Timewaster]

Did anybody ever win a fight with a Cat?

[MarvinsMom]

no.

 

and in a battle of wills with Tomas the cat, the animal I live with, he will always win.

 

little sod...

[EssDeeWon]

  On 20/05/2015 at 01:31, MattLikesCars said:

When you take photos on your film camera, see you're at 36 exposures and then discover that the film wont rewind. Then when you realise the camera didn't have any film in it the whole time.  I got a great shot today too.

 

MOTHERFUCKER.

 

This actually made me grin. I do not remember the last time I heard someone talking about film in a camera, ahh the good old days.

[jakebullet]

Idiot sister got a parking ticket in the post from Coventry. Shame she was on the piss in Blackpool (other classy* resorts are available).

 

So either their monkey cannot type, or someone is sad enough to clone a kia shitbox. Interestingly there isn't a box on the appeal form for it wasn't me.

[Slappy]

  On 20/05/2015 at 03:36, the judge said:

gm, on 19 May 2015 - 8:10 PM, said:

  On 19/05/2015 at 19:10, gm said:

waffle stomp ? please don't make me google it

 

 

 

Do not google blue waffle either.

 

 

 

Really,dont.

 

Ah, was at a tournament with a group of friends a couple of years ago, and a female friend entirely innocently asked at a waffle stand for a blue one and couldn't understand why the rest of us, who have minds filthier than Friar Tuck's loincloth were howling with laughter behind her.

 

Because there's always new people joining the group, and we often all go camping it's 1 of the "go-to" stories of a warm summer's evening.

[Coprolalia]

The General Medical Council today informed me that the price I pay to be a doctor and be shouted at by the public has doubled this year to £420. Just in time for my pay ri.. oh right. Thanks for that. Glad I'm not a GP (£1500).

 

Well at least I earn almost the national average income for doing my 70-80 hour weeks. And I guess I'm paying the interest on my £50k uni debt at the same rate it accrues, so that's something.

[EssDeeWon]

  On 20/05/2015 at 13:20, DurtyVag said:

The General Medical Council today informed me that the price I pay to be a doctor and be shouted at by the public has doubled this year to £420. Just in time for my pay ri.. oh right. Thanks for that. Glad I'm not a GP (£1500).

 

Well at least I earn almost the national average income for doing my 70-80 hour weeks. And I guess I'm paying the interest on my £50k uni debt at the same rate it accrues, so that's something.

 

Blimey that sounds harsh mate.

[Matt]

  On 20/05/2015 at 12:24, EssDeeWon said:

This actually made me grin. I do not remember the last time I heard someone talking about film in a camera, ahh the good old days.

 

It's not as dead as you might think though, if anything it's had a resurgence in recent years. Both Boots and Tesco in my area still sell and develop the stuff although it's obviously more expensive than it once was. It's like records really, obsolete yet people still love it.

[cms206]

The dead lye at work is growing... I am once again driving a Kettle powered Rover.

 

Arses.

[Largactil]

  On 20/05/2015 at 13:20, DurtyVag said:

The General Medical Council today informed me that the price I pay to be a doctor and be shouted at by the public has doubled this year to £420. Just in time for my pay ri.. oh right. Thanks for that. Glad I'm not a GP (£1500).

 

Well at least I earn almost the national average income for doing my 70-80 hour weeks. And I guess I'm paying the interest on my £50k uni debt at the same rate it accrues, so that's something.

 

Go the AFOM route, and commence an exciting* career in Occupational Medicine, spending your time harassing malingerers