The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

WHAT IS YOUR....

[anonymous user]

best price?

[quicksilver]

Fireworks on Halloween. WTF is that about? Not only is my grumpy solitude being disturbed by trick or treaters but we've also had people setting off bloody noisy fireworks for what seems like several hours, and I'm sure they're louder than they used to be. I thought Bonfire Night was supposed to be a completely separate event next week.

[Richard]

I had the house in Stealth Mode but one guiser got past the security. I didn't mind too much though because he didn't say anything other than mumbling "trick or treat" and then took a massive handful of the fake Milky Ways I'd bought in case of a security breach. I don't think he said thank you either. The world isn't as fucked as I thought it was.

[EssDeeWon]

Fireworks on Halloween. WTF is that about? Not only is my grumpy solitude being disturbed by trick or treaters but we've also had people setting off bloody noisy fireworks for what seems like several hours, and I'm sure they're louder than they used to be. I thought Bonfire Night was supposed to be a completely separate event next week.

 

Same here QS, fireworks galore round here but I thought next weekend would be the weekend for fireworks?

[M'coli]

The missus has done most of the door answering to the guisers here, we had one load who were accompanied by an adult on stilt leg extentions, about 8 foot tall and dressed as the grim reaper.

 

We'd just sat down to our evening meal when the doorbell sounded so I got up to see to it. A young lad wearing a skull mask was peering through the wavy glass of the front door so I chucked my fizzog behind the glass and gave a roar! Him and his mate were giggling as I opened the door! Mrs. M'coli seemed to disapprove, but 15 minutes later they came back with a mate, and had a bit of a repeat performance - then when the sweets were offered, they said, "No, we've already had!"

 

Top lads!

[HH-R]

Not had any, which is good since I would have ignored them anyway and I don't have to feel bad about doing it.

 

Plenty fireworks though, the cat keeps trying to get outside to run away from them. His logic is sound but a bit off.

[HH-R]

Has anyone tried paying for car insurance with a broken X Box, a Samsung Galaxy S2 with a smashed screen and a staffy?

[Negative Creep]

Well I didn't get any visitors, the kids were going round but didn't knock on mine. Hope that's not because the parents think I'm weird or something. On the plus side I can eat all the sweets I bought just in case.

[Cavcraft]

Say what you like about Halloween, but loads of people round here have made a good effort at enjoying themselves. My daughter and her mates have all gone in fancy dress to work (in a pub) and my lad and his mate have just gone out looking like they're zombies at a Hawaiian beach party in 1976!

[andy18s]

I've read that the comparison sites are programmed to give ever increasing quotes. I imagine the logic is that other sites must have been dearer if you come back, so they can afford to hike the price a bit.

I've heard this

It's the same if you try to book a flight apparently.....

[andy18s]

Has anyone tried paying for car insurance with a broken X Box, a Samsung Galaxy S2 with a smashed screen and a staffy?

would they bother?

[D Spares & Tyres]

Not answered the door tonight, fuck 'em

 

As I was coming home I saw a woman trick or treating with a young girl, around 4 I reckon. Seems wrong somehow

 

The one day of the year when blackmail is legal...

[sheffcortinacentre]

you forgot carol singing blackmailers

[Pillock]

Not seen much in the way of fancy dress tonight, but last night we headed off to Aylesbury where my mate had organised 30+ people to dress as zombies, hide in groups in the town centre and then stage an attack on him and his girlfriend as they left a restaurant.

He bravely fought off the zombies, saved the girl and then got down on one knee and proposed

 

(Actually, that's a grin but it fits with the conversation here).

[EssDeeWon]

Say what you like about Halloween, but loads of people round here have made a good effort at enjoying themselves. My daughter and her mates have all gone in fancy dress to work (in a pub) and my lad and his mate have just gone out looking like they're zombies at a Hawaiian beach party in 1976!

 

You are forgetting we are all grumpy bastards sitting in on a Saturday night reading the Grumpy Thread and waiting for a Rover to be raffled.

[LC Torana]

you forgot carol singing blackmailers

Don't know any Halloween carols.

[Cheggers]

So much for spending the day on the boat...it's a tad misty this morning

 

 

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[Aston Martin]

It's bad times and my car tax was due (Yesterday, but fuck them) Today I set up a direct debit, normally I pay by card. I've gotten the confirmation email and a PDF, but dvla website checker says i'm untaxed. First payment doesn't go out until the 15th.

 

I'm taxed right?

[Cheggers]

Yes, you're taxed from the day you set up the DD IIRC.

[Aston Martin]

Yes, you're taxed from the day you set up the DD IIRC.

 

 

Not showing up on my halifax account, i'm guessing because it's a sunday. I don't need to go out today.

[Cheggers]

As long as you have the confirmation email from doovla you should be OK

 

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[bub2006]

Yes you will be taxed,I've had enough cats in 8 months to know......

Regards trick or treaters,I was delivering last night,so many adults knocking on doors is unreal,I mean late teens early twenty dressed in tracksuits. Something strangely erotica about the groups of 20/30 something year old women around town dressed as zombies,devil's etc. Yes I'm a wrong un I know.

[xtriple]

I was a proper grumpy twat about Halloween, I handed out random £1 coins to a few kids and set the dogs on everyone else!

[daveb47]

Fuckin guvmint are putting up tax on car insurance from 5% to 9.5% next month.

Yet another stealth tax on motorists....

[cros]

What do you think, are cars too fast? All my own vehicles are fitted with speed limiters, the A35 has its 948cc A series engine, once again ahead of its time.

[richardmorris]

Even the 2cv can break the speed limit. Given the number of dawdlers I found myself behind this morning, in cars twenty years younger than the one I was in, no - cars aren't too fast, but people don't drive well.

 

Edit-I'm sure this was a separate thread when I replied to it.

[richardmorris]

What is it with people driving around in thick, albeit patchy, fog with no lights on at all? Mostly in silver or grey cars this morning too. Along with the people just using drls who are a complete menace it turned a nice early morning drive to hydon hill into a stressful experience. I bet these are the same people who will have their fog lights on all next week.

[burraston2006]

Even the 2cv can break the speed limit.

 

Don't I know it. Got my first speeding ticket in one of those. I was screaming down the M5 and trying/praying to keep it in lane  at 78 when the Rozzers cruised along side me and pulled my over. They said they didn't believe that they went that fast. The bxstards still gave me a ticket! This was over 10 years ago but I'm still pissed off about it ( I know I was speeding though)!

[anonymous user]

I have been to Basingstoke and back today, although I nearly didn't get there. On M4 past Bristol heading east I was in the inner lane with vehicles alongside in the middle and offside lane. I had noticed the car on the hard shoulder, what I hadn't expected was that he would just pull out into traffic, having made no attempt to get up to speed. Luckily my lightening quick reactions decent brakes and no-one behind me saved the day.

 

It may also have helped safety if a few more people had their lights on as well due to the og. Slight delay on the way back by Bristol, due to someone running up the arse of another car between the M32 and M5 junctions