The grumpy thread

[bub2006]

I'm riding it out,not going back in hospital. Conversation is quiet interesting if I'm honest

[bub2006]

Struggle with left side anyway. Part of my disability. When I'm run down it gets worse.

[bub2006]

I'll go quacks. Least then can sort it

[vulgalour]

No house viewings this week, I said to Mike, because there's too much crap to sort to get moved to the new place and I have work stuff to do.  So Mike agrees to a viewing tomorrow at 2pm which I've had to call and cancel.

 

Turns out it was a good idea I sorted this too because I found out the landlord has a hand-picked tenant he wants to view the property.  Fuck that noise!  That sounds like he's getting someone to scope out the place to see what he can blame us for and I'm not having that.  I already know he's going to try and pin the blame on us for the broken drainage, the leaking roof, the worn out stairs carpet and the windows that don't open properly. Even the estate agent has admitted they don't like the guy and find him impossible to deal with and are recommending strongly to him that he switch to managed properties to make everyone's life easier.

 

Frustrating waiting on the actual move date for the new property, everything is in place, we're just waiting on the new landlord giving us the actual date we can take on the new property.  In 16 years of renting I've never had such a ballache of a move, it really is impossible.  More frustrating still is it's making working virtually impossible because I can't focus on what I'm supposed to be doing and getting nowhere.  I can't take new work on because I can't plan for the moving date so I don't know when the internet will need to be cut off, which is how I keep customers updated.

 

Trying not to be stressy about this and failing at the minute.  I just want to be in the new house and settled and put all this bollocks behind me.

[the judge]

Hang in there Vulg. Finally you will get a place where you can think straight,relax, and breathe comfortably. I thought i would always have to "put up" with something,but last 2 places I have lived(out of 6) have been bliss.

 

Think it is a good move going to a bungalow,attracts a more errrr older type of person. If all you have to be wortied about is being talk of the street and watched by silent curtain twitchers,bring it on! Difference being,they smile and are nice,just are alllways watchin Wazowski. Allllways watchin.

[Bobthebeard]

Fireworks. FFS. They scare my dog silly. So this

 

 

Means she will be mostly wearing these under a blanket on the sofa tomorrow night

 

[vulgalour]

Yeah, but, excuse for lots of doggy cuddles!  So it's not all bad.

[Bobthebeard]

Some kind person has left their tail lights in a splintered pile next to the Honda Accord. How thoughtful. Cheers for backing into our car, pushing the wing into the bonnet, cracking the bumper and buggering off. Aren't people considerate nowadays. Grrrr

[vulgalour]

FFS... doggy cuddles, STAT!

[Bren]

Feel like death. Took ill last night. Cold,hot,shivering, sweating and everything in between. Neck back and left side really weak, struggling to breathe and resorted to having spontaneous conversation with myself for no reason

Dont worry - it happens when you buy a vectra.

[fordperv]

Vulg it gets easier with time with the whole dog situation, I remember the first time after my shep passed (the big guy you drew that lovely sketch of), a shep local that looks a spit of him walked past mine when I was working on a car in the drive, I had a massive hissy fit in my head threw my tools down and went in the house and sulked for a while.

 

My grump for the day is people not taking pride in doing a good job, my mate with the cortina took his car for m.o.t left it at the test station,they rung him to tell him it failed apparently on a fuel weep from the unions on the electric pump that was fitted 2 days previous and had no leaks evident and a patch of welding so he told them to sort it for him, he rung me today after he picked it up, they had it a week, he was sounding a bit sad and peed off, he said it's come back running like an absolute sack of shit and doesn't know why as it ran perfectly when it went in to them, he's not mechanically minded so I popped up, somehow the ht leads that were secure and fastened up out of the way had managed to take themselves out of the clip and no4 lead was in contact with the exhaust manifold and burned through, so I changed it quick for him as he had a spare, i could smell fuel so I popped under the rear and the pump was leaking, i wiped around the pump and checked the pipes and I could unscrew the filter with my fingertips, my only worry is that they have wanged the filter union up that tight that they have stripped the threads on the pump and that's why it's loose, I've heard bad things about the place before, I'm going to sort it for him as a favour, he doesn't want these guys touching his car again

[Parky]

Wife driving along listening to the radio and Jamie Theakston pipes up with "hey Ladies, it's national man makes dinner day, don't forget to remind your man etc etc".

 

Anyhow I don't mind cooking except we are short on stuff so I had to go to Sainsburys. I recently worked out my main contributor to my depression is Sainsburys and I have been much happier since I stopped going.

 

Anyway not only has half an hour in there made me feel psychotic but Mrs P fell asleep while I was making the dinner and didn't bloody eat it.

 

So Jamie Theakston and the Sainburys family - Fuck you both.

[jonathan_dyane]

I can say that the job took longer than either Mr Wilkinson or myself anticipated – the cellar was quite full of other stock and the speakers turned out to be too large to pass easily so we had to move several amplifiers, a bandsaw and a large mural Mr Wilkinson was preparing for the local police station.

 

I love this line...

[Parky]

Anonymous have a lovely big protest planned in Trafalgar Square tonight. Police are closing off various roads and potential for trouble/overcrowding at tube stations.

 

Basically my main route home and all secondary routes are no-no's. Hoping boss will let me leave early. Not optimistic though

[Slappy]

That reminds me, I need to stick V for Vendetta on tonight

[Lacquer Peel]

[AlabamaShrimp]

That picture just sums up how stupid they all are really.

 

What I mean is they have all these high ideals and we don't want this or that and globalisation is bad but they don't actually change how they live their life. In fact really they can't do much by just standing around in London shouting and eventually breaking stuff.

 

Change is either political or a revolution nothing else works

[anonymous user]

Anonymous have a lovely big protest planned in Trafalgar Square tonight. Police are closing off various roads and potential for trouble/overcrowding at tube stations.

 

Basically my main route home and all secondary routes are no-no's. Hoping boss will let me leave early. Not optimistic though

I can assure you it is not me, I have better things to do, like walking the dogs, eating chocolate and drinking cheap wine, not necessarily at the same time, but I don't rule it out as some of us like to live on the edge.

[chaseracer]

Change is either political or a revolution nothing else works

 

This.

[Bobthebeard]

Fireworks have started. Here we go.... Dog scared silly and idiots roaming the streets chucking random explosives around. Health and safety rules dictate that egg boxes need to warn us that the box 'may contain eggs',

But scrotes can freely purchase fireworks and chuck em around at will....

[dugong]

This.

And by definition, is spontaneous.

[Negative Creep]

That picture just sums up how stupid they all are really.

 

What I mean is they have all these high ideals and we don't want this or that and globalisation is bad but they don't actually change how they live their life. In fact really they can't do much by just standing around in London shouting and eventually breaking stuff.

 

Change is either political or a revolution nothing else works

 

 

I know who their poster child is

 

 

Not wanting to start one of those debates, but it's odd how it's always the left wing who riot and break things when they're unhappy

[Pillock]

Just had a letter to say that the garage who owns the row of lockups where I store the Saab has been advised to demolish them as they're crumbling and potentially dangerous.

 

Saab potentially needs to be rehomed by the end of the year unless somewhere in an overcrowded village has an empty garage. Also, the wasteland opposite my house that the owner used to allow people to park on (6-7 cars) has been sold to a developer and it being built on. So we now have half a dozen more cars on the street and it's rare I can park one car outside the house, let alone the three we own.

[MrDuke]

I know who their poster child is

 

 

Not wanting to start one of those debates, but it's odd how it's always the left wing who riot and break things when they're unhappy

 

It's got nothing whatsoever to do with political leanings - Anonymous and their ilk are no more left-wing than my arse. Half of them (at least) will turn up in stupendously expensive clothes while clutching brand new iPhones and carrying numerous credit cards. The rest of them will be wearing specially-procured combats & tie-dyes to enhance their experience of being totally, like, y'know, REAL. If they had to actually live in a world with no global commerce or western privilege, they'd be crying into their lattes.

[EssDeeWon]

PC World - Is there another highstreet brand with less knowledgeable staff?

 

Tonight I popped in to pick up a new power lead for a laptop, I walk in and ask a fella working there for the laptop lead, his response was 'eeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr' followed by looking around then walking towards the back of the store where they had lots of TV's on display, he then stopped and done a 360 in the TV area and said 'sorry dont think we sell them'

 

WTF thats like KwikFit not selling tyres!!!

 

Low and behond I looked myself and found loads of them the opposite end of the store.

[Pillock]

PC World - Is there another highstreet brand with less knowledgeable staff?

 

 

Which store, out of interest?

[Negative Creep]

It's got nothing whatsoever to do with political leanings - Anonymous and their ilk are no more left-wing than my arse. Half of them (at least) will turn up in stupendously expensive clothes while clutching brand new iPhones and carrying numerous credit cards. The rest of them will be wearing specially-procured combats & tie-dyes to enhance their experience of being totally, like, y'know, REAL. If they had to actually live in a world with no global commerce or western privilege, they'd be crying into their lattes.

 

 

There is certainly a rent-a-mob element who just want to cause a bit of trouble at whatever's popular at the time - nuclear power, road building, fracking, Dale Farm, austerity etc. Although I bet if you went into Starbucks and asked them to tweet on their iPhones where they stood on the political spectrum, it would be to the left.

[chaseracer]

Not wanting to start one of those debates, but it's odd how it's always the left wing who riot and break things when they're unhappy

 

Really?  A good start might be not making crassly ignorant generalisations like that one.

[EssDeeWon]

Which store, out of interest?

 

Tottenham Court Road.

[Pillock]

Right.

As an explanation, but not an excuse, you probably met one of their peak temps on their first week and they were probably struggling.

I shall pass your frustrations on.