The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

Re snow: We've had a light dusting, probably 5mm at most. But it seems the road surface was sub-zero as it's turned to slush as it was driven over, and then frozen into a lovely sheet of ice. My road just looks slushy and only has white snow at the very edges, but is slidey as anything.

[M'coli]

All the talk of football on the "grin" thread is making me grumpy. Stop it please, it's not necessary.

[seth]

  M'coli said:

Football. It's not necessary.

[pogweasel]

+1.

[Rusty Pelican]

  seth said:

  M'coli said:

Football. It's not necessary.

Too true , forced to watch when i was a kid , I suspect Pops wanted a Footballer for a son c/w WAG probably , HATED IT EVER SINCE

[fotorabia]

Cadburys recently really fuckd up here in NZ..they replaced cocoa solids with palm oil..the stuff that flattens Indonesian rainforests and evicts orangutans outta the trees..there was a backlash and a clever marketing ploy by Whittackers who are local and make great chocolate [also ethical since day 1]..and guess what..Cadbury had to do major u turn..and now..Whittakers are doing really funny ad campaign about the 'craft' that they put into their chocolate..

[Cavcraft]

  M'coli said:

All the talk of football on the "grin" thread is making me grumpy. Stop it please, it's not necessary.

Ah, but the title is 'what makes you grin' and football does make some of us grin

[Timewaster]

  fotorabia said:

Cadburys recently really fuckd up here in NZ..they replaced cocoa solids with palm oil..the stuff that flattens Indonesian rainforests and evicts orangutans outta the trees..there was a backlash and a clever marketing ploy by Whittackers who are local and make great chocolate [also ethical since day 1]..and guess what..Cadbury had to do major u turn..and now..Whittakers are doing really funny ad campaign about the 'craft' that they put into their chocolate..

I would love to think there will be a major revolt in this country and nobody will buy Cadburys chocolate products.Although I'm sure the majority of their customers already know that the sugar lard is responsible for them being so fat and pockmarked and yet still buy it, so any hope of a social concience taking over where self preservation has failed is, frankly, unlikely.Remember, this is the spineless whingeing country that en-mass rolled over and accepted the draconian smoking ban (which incidently I was in favor of) without so much as a plackard.The french would have burnt something at least!

[Mr Lobster]

  tontops said:

The french would have burnt something at least!

Possibly a few Gitanes or somesuch?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Theres a smoking ban in France just like the english one, and they accepted it just like the English did! Thsi is a fact.

[fotorabia]

I think the smokescreen was in place earlier here than in Europe..so now everybody smokes outside..which means its easier and more relaxing to smoke the green stuff...everybody used to be so paranoid about it..now not!

[Timewaster]

  Mr_Bo11ox said:

Theres a smoking ban in France just like the english one, and they accepted it just like the English did! Thsi is a fact.

I stand corrected. I can now regard the french with the same distain as my fellow countrymen.I think the best sweetener to the ban was introducing it during a hot summer, by the time it got a bit nippy outside, the smokers were used to standing outside the pub.Now I (a non smoker) spend half the time standing outside in order to carry on a conversation or to avoid sitting in the bar on my lonesome.

[Pillock]

Grump of the day.I've just taken the dogs for a walk - stuck to the streets, because it's dark and Bad Things happen in the woods at night.Anyhow, there were these two kids on BMXs, can't have been more than 10-11. And they were messing around on the black ice, locking the back wheel and getting it sideways and wheelspinning and all the other stuff kids do on bikes when it's icy. And then it struck me - pretty much all lads do that, and they're bloody good at it. I used to do it - lock up, steer into the skid, go for yards and yards. Finish by letting it come around in a controlled fashion. Kids can even powerslide a bike on ice without falling off.SO WHY CAN NOBODY DRIVE A FOUR-WHEELED VEHICLE PROPERLY WHEN IT SNOWS? A ten year old can do it on two freakin' wheels! But nooooo, as soon as a car locks up it's DEFCON TWELVE and you hit all the pedals and close your eyes.End grump.

[outlaw118]

Agreed Mr Pillock.Just went round the corner t'chippy, nearly got taken out by a bimbo in a Ka, understeering accross the road, and an utter cock in a Focus, at 90 degrees to the kerb, wheels spinning like bastards.He had that look on his face as if to say "HELPMEIMGONNADIE!!!tAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE GAS, ARSEMONKEY!!!Some people eh!

[Polystratus]

  Pillock said:

Grump of the day.SO WHY CAN NOBODY DRIVE A FOUR-WHEELED VEHICLE PROPERLY WHEN IT SNOWS? A ten year old can do it on two freakin' wheels! But nooooo, as soon as a car locks up it's DEFCON TWELVE and you hit all the pedals and close your eyes.End grump.

Also if there is ice on the road - is it too much to slow down, and not drive at full pelt everywhere.

[M'coli]

  Cavette said:

  M'coli said:

All the talk of football on the "grin" thread is making me grumpy. Stop it please, it's not necessary.

Ah, but the title is 'what makes you grin' and football does make some of us grin

Pedant mode here, you were all bitching about how you hated other clubs and other clubs' fans! I suppose that if bitching about it makes you grin, then I apologise!!!

[Cavcraft]

  M'coli said:

  Cavette said:

  M'coli said:

All the talk of football on the "grin" thread is making me grumpy. Stop it please, it's not necessary.

Ah, but the title is 'what makes you grin' and football does make some of us grin

Pedant mode here, you were all bitching about how you hated other clubs and other clubs' fans! I suppose that if bitching about it makes you grin, then I apologise!!!

1-1 after extra time?

[dollywobbler]

I do get a little flustered when driving carefully down a lane encased in ice at 30mph (which I thought was quite fast enough when breathing on the brake pedal would cause a lock up) and some idiot in a Peugeot 4x4 (a Mitsubishi in other words) is inches from your rear bumper 'because I can haz 4x4 and its dead good on ice an snow.' After I barely slowed down for a couple of bends, twitching my way around them on the egde of grip, he did at least seem to realise that funnily enough, 4x4 does not stop your car skidding about on ice.But this ice can just get stuffed now. Not long after this, 20mph was enough to induce a skid and any sort of throttle input just resulted in wheelspin. Then, back on the treated roads, I was forced to overtake someone who was driving more slowly than I had been on the ungrippy roads!

[Station]

BBC News and their constant 'Breaking News' thing, even four hours after the story has happened.Today's Breaking News, another blind, homosexual 'fashion designer' dies. Who the fuck are these people?Another 'breaking news' story, it might snow. Get some decent reporters, you cunts.

[AlsoMike]

People who can't work out how to use the self-service tills in supermarkets. What the fuck is wrong with you?! I'm working at a local Tesco at the moment and I have to spend a lot of my day leading people through how to use the self service tills. The instructions are there on the screen in front of you, and if that isn't enough, there's the annoying voice talking you through EVERY SINGLE STEP in a soothing, condescending tone. It's not fucking rocket science. The best one is the amount of people who can't work out where their £5s and £10s in change have gone:"It's given me the wrong change.."WRONG! LISTEN AND READ, MORONS! The voice is loud and clear and the signs are BRIGHT RED! WORK IT OUT. This lot are nearly as bad as the people who refuse to use the self-serve tills, then complain to me that there aren't enough staff on to serve them when they are only buying 1 pint of milk.

[retrogeezer]

Tesco self service tills that ask for assistance just because I want to use my own bags.....Other supermarkets self serve ones just ask you before hand but not Tesco....that would be to easy.

[chester drawers]

10 PRINT "Unexpected item in the baggage area"20 WAIT (1000)30 PRINT "Please remove item from the baggage area"40 WAIT (2000) 50 PRINT "Please place item in the baggage area"50 GOTO 10I’ll stick to staffed tills thanks. Nice ladies sometimes operate them, and they can’t run away quite so easily as they can in other social situations

[Rusty Pelican]

Dentists , let me explain , about a month ago i bust a tooth off eating dinner , just lately its got annoying as the sharp bit catches my tongue , so off to the dentist for a check , said i needed two small fillings and a crown on the busted one So in i go today for some work , first off the injection , fuck did that hurt , he did this three times so much stuff went in my nose went numb as well as my lips , he decided to fix one small filling whilst the gunge did its job , didnt work on that tooth yet though , after climbing off the ceiling he was ready to prepare the broken one for its crowning glory , He was drilling at one point for so long i thought he would strike oil , which would be good as i could flog some to pay for all this pain ,oh and then theres the taste of growned tooth , im sure smoke came out at one point , left dribbling like a two year old , couldnt smoke a fag or drink my coffee and my nose tingled , back in on the first of March to have the other filling done and the crown fitted , I probably need to steal a crown just to pay for all this .

[Pillock]

I like the self-serve ones if I'm in a hurry and don't want to make small-talk about my purchases. But yeah it does annoy me that EVERYTHING has to be placed into the bagging area - if I just want to buy a scotch egg (regular occurance) then I'm quite happy to hold it while I put my debit card in (cash? pah)I do like the fact that the Morrisons ones have a little change-sorter machine on top, so you can do your weekly shop then then cram in carrier bags full of 1ps and 2ps to pay for it without getting a sulky operator.

[Father Ted]

SWEARY ALERTVirgin (formerly Telewest) Twatting Cockmunching Media. Once again our interweb and telly have crapped out and gone off. No amount of "unplugging the modem and waiting 30 seconds" has helped. Several phone calls to people in India, Mongolia, Romania and Swansea have failed to get it going again. Frankly Im pissed off with the whole crappy lot of it as this is a regular occurrence. The soonest a bloke with a big hammer can get out to us?Monday next week - so 4 days without telly (not a problem to me) and broadband interweb (like my bollock has been cut off).Currently using a shitty 3 mobile dongle with sub dial up speed capabilities.Crap, utter utter crap. What exactly am I paying for again? Every time it fucking well rains it knocks the broadband out.

[Rusty Pelican]

My local B@Q hasnt got any normal person operated tills left , all self serv with bods on hand when you fuck up.

[55bloke]

  SirTainlyBarkin said:

I hate self-service (but enough about my sex life) where will it all end. You used to have a nice helpful person in the shop who asked what you wanted, went and got it, weighed it, wrapped it, told you how much, took the money (or put it on your account) and that was it; the butcher, baker and milkman all called at the house and you settled up once a week/month. Now you have to traipse to World of Tesco/Waitrose/Asda/Whatever, fight for a parking space, fight through crowds of zombies, find what you want (if it hasn't been hidden/deleted/sold out), then queue to pay for it, pack it up and schlep it home. Now you want me to work the till? I suppose the next step is to have me get it out from the warehouse or drive to the distribution depot and find it, or shall I go and milk the cow, plant the cabbages, fly my own bananas in, start my own coffee plantation? Bring back the helpful staff, they need the jobs.

Couldn't have put it better. In fact, couldn't have put it half as well, but these are my thoughts exactly. I BLOODY HATE self service tills!!

[Rusty Pelican]

  Father Ted said:

SWEARY ALERTVirgin (formerly Telewest) Twatting Cockmunching Media. Once again our interweb and telly have crapped out and gone off. No amount of "unplugging the modem and waiting 30 seconds" has helped. Several phone calls to people in India, Mongolia, Romania and Swansea have failed to get it going again. Frankly Im pissed off with the whole crappy lot of it as this is a regular occurrence. The soonest a bloke with a big hammer can get out to us?Monday next week - so 4 days without telly (not a problem to me) and broadband interweb (like my bollock has been cut off).Currently using a shitty 3 mobile dongle with sub dial up speed capabilities.Crap, utter utter crap. What exactly am I paying for again? Every time it fucking well rains it knocks the broadband out.

Not good , Im with a small Internet supplier , they are based in Exeter , very helpfull if i get a problem which is rare , an automated " sytem status " phone number so if there is a glitch i can check its them and not me , people on the phone only 50 miles away and speak english .

[RedSparrow]

I am cross that Farmville isn't loading. Tried everything, any suggestions?I am even more cross with myself for being cross about something so trivial.Massive fail.

[Guest]

Asked a girl out at [just after] work.Didn't go well.