The grumpy thread

[scaryoldcortina]

I commute almost a mile and a half. Some days I walk.

[alf892]

I did a 230 mile commute three times a week for ten years. I used to leave home at 4.30 am and I thought it was ok at the time.

 

I only fell asleep and crashed once too.

 

Looking back I really don't know how I stuck it. I do 34 miles a day now and that it quite enough

[tooSavvy]

My local Lloyds is getting a makeover, my branch and often in there.

 

They had one of those 'flip flap' clocks [time/day/date] up on the wall and as I passed, the other day, a shopfitter was popping it into the big skip outside.

 

I thought <nice> but resisted, on the grounds of 'skip robbinn' legality.

 

Changed my mind 1/2hr later and popped back - oil filled radiator had nuked it - arsebiskitts!

 

Notwithstanding thievery.... I see one like it on FleeBay c.£100

 

TS

[Pieman]

Everything in my bathroom is phuqed.

 

First it was the hinges on the shower screen, then the flush on the bog, and after yesterday finally fixing a leaking tap on the washbasin that was slowly getting worse, the door handle falls off.

 

I think I'll just stick a portaloo and shower cubicle in the garden, it's probably cheaper to have them maintained by someone else!

[AlabamaShrimp]

My local Lloyds is getting a makeover, my branch and often in there.

 

They had one of those 'flip flap' clocks [time/day/date] up on the wall and as I passed, the other day, a shopfitter was popping it into the big skip outside.

 

I thought <nice> but resisted, on the grounds of 'skip robbinn' legality.

 

Changed my mind 1/2hr later and popped back - oil filled radiator had nuked it - arsebiskitts!

 

Notwithstanding thievery.... I see one like it on FleeBay c.£100

 

TS

bugger on the clock. I have a friend that's got one on the wall and he paid a fortune for it.

 

Rule is you see something nice in a skip you get it. Oh and if anyone asks if you're a god, you say yes!

[jakebullet]

Hermes has successfully delivered a wet torn envelope minus contents to one of my customers. True this is a step up on last week's one where they randomly left it in an outbuilding somewhere, but couldn't remember who's outbuilding.

 

I'm away tomorrow and haven't the time to be remaking the missing items tonight, so no doubt the buyer who's been told I'll sort it when I come back will turn into a grade 1 bell end and whine to ebay tomorrow.

 

Can't wait for xmas to kick in and make this job even more of a pain in the arse.

[Pillock]

I've just come through Solihull where they've finished messing around with a junction.

Messing around seems to mean "make the pavement now jut out into the road", so there's a corner that protrudes into the nearside lane of a dual carriageway - come through with a car on your offside and it's quite easy to do what I just did, clip the kerb and get two burst sidewalls.

 

Three hours late home because I had to limp the car off the double red lines, park up a side road without knackering the alloys, and call the lease company who sent the AA out. AA man turns up with a jack but can't swap offside front onto nearside rear, so can't use his dolly, because you can't get diagonal wheels off with one jack and an axle stand. So we have to leave the car on jack and stand, take the wheels to Kwik-Fit, deal with the grumpiest Kwik-Fit manager ever because I hadn't written down the DOT code from the tyres still on the car, and then battle back to the car in rush hour.

 

I've just seen the junction as we went back, the kerb sticks out 18" past the yellow box on the junction! And has plenty of impact marks on it already, it's only been there a week.

[Timewaster]

For her dads birthday, my Mrs ordered some football memorabilia from a well known London team and the fucking idiots put a mug packaged in a thin plastic box inside a plastic bag and sent it by courier.

 

Anyone care to guess how many bits it arrived in?

 

His birthday is tomorrow. She not happy.

[dollywobbler]

I've just come through Solihull where they've finished messing around with a junction.

Messing around seems to mean "make the pavement now jut out into the road", so there's a corner that protrudes into the nearside lane of a dual carriageway - come through with a car on your offside and it's quite easy to do what I just did, clip the kerb and get two burst sidewalls.

 

Three hours late home because I had to limp the car off the double red lines, park up a side road without knackering the alloys, and call the lease company who sent the AA out. AA man turns up with a jack but can't swap offside front onto nearside rear, so can't use his dolly, because you can't get diagonal wheels off with one jack and an axle stand. So we have to leave the car on jack and stand, take the wheels to Kwik-Fit, deal with the grumpiest Kwik-Fit manager ever because I hadn't written down the DOT code from the tyres still on the car, and then battle back to the car in rush hour.

 

I've just seen the junction as we went back, the kerb sticks out 18" past the yellow box on the junction! And has plenty of impact marks on it already, it's only been there a week.

 

Got to be worth a claim against the council. That sounds ludicrous!

 

As for commuting - I used to commute across Birmingham. That was 45 minutes to travel 12 miles. Then I met Mrs DW and had a change of job. I was commuting for 45 minutes to travel 25 miles. In a Rover P6 V8. WINNING. I was a fool to quit that exceedingly well-paid job and an even bigger fool to sell the Rover.

 

Mind you, commuting is now done entirely within the walls of my own house these days. It's truly blissful. 

 

Oh shit. This is the grump thread. Er, er, ah, the windows on the wood burner need cleaning again. I hate that job. Oh for one of those fancy wood burners with airflow across the doors to stop the windows mucking up. Mind you, like the Volvo, this one was free so I probably shouldn't complain...

[MarvinsMom]

dianne fuckin' abbot....

 

just what is the point of that dreadful woman?

 

i just want to stamp on the smug pointless bitches face.

 

again

 

and again

 

and again

 

(TBH i doubt i'd get tired of doing it)

[eddyramrod]

Would you care to dance, my dear?

[MarvinsMom]

so you have seen me dancing?

 

like, really dancing?

 

think an elephant, having an epileptic fit, after several, no many, slurps....

[eddyramrod]

Given our mutual choice of dance floor, I don't think that will matter.  Bring stilettoes...

[richardmorris]

Commuting round here is a pain because of the constant roadworks on the a30 and m3. I am sure they plan them to make the Most chaos.

 

My commute to work by car is 7 miles and by bicycle 8.5 ( I don't use the a319 until I have to). It takes 20mins now by car on a good day and up to 1 hour on a bad day. By bike it's 32mins to 40 mins so I'm trying to cycle as much as possible as I hate sitting in traffic in the car.

 

A recent item in the get Surrey site said that the average car commuting speed in Surrey in 2014 was 22mph. The average speed on my bike is 18mph so not much slower!

 

My longest commute was from Wrexham to Llandudno which I did daily by 2cv for 10 months. Best ever time was 50mins -it's 55 miles. Ironically, the week after I made the move and started renting a room (with four lovely girls) in the town centre I was made redundant. Next job was in Holywell which was only half the distance.

[MarvinsMom]

the three stupid twerps have been filming new episodes of twat gear, or what ever they are going to call it today in that london, driving reliant robin;s.

 

3 real nice looking ones by the looks of the cars in the pictures.

 

no doubt by the end of the day they will have smashed them all up cos its funny innit?

 

wankers.

[Lacquer Peel]

Oh shit. This is the grump thread. Er, er, ah, the windows on the wood burner need cleaning again. I hate that job. Oh for one of those fancy wood burners with airflow across the doors to stop the windows mucking up. Mind you, like the Volvo, this one was free so I probably shouldn't complain...

 

Burning wet firewood?

[LC Torana]

the three stupid twerps have been filming new episodes of twat gear, or what ever they are going to call it today in that london, driving reliant robin;s.

 

3 real nice looking ones by the looks of the cars in the pictures.

 

no doubt by the end of the day they will have smashed them all up cos its funny innit?

 

wankers.

 

Excellent.

 

Sorry, but I am the target market.  I love what they do and think they're hilarious.

[purplebargeken]

Commute = M25 = twats = Grrrrr, murder, death, kill

[nebuchenezer]

My current commute is 2.5 hours each way using a combination of trains and underground with an eleven mile drive at the start and the end of the day. It's not to bad to be fair as I can kip in the morning and watch a CD on the way home.

 

Grump - got out the station and into the car last night to set off for home, proceeded approx 700m then my body decided it needed a shit - NOW! - FFS, using the will of a super hero I managed to keep control of my spasming arse and proceeded to Sainsburys to park up then do the motorways services walk to the bog. All good

 

Get back in car and set off again, get approx 500m and body sends a repeat message to brain - Arrrrggghh! - proceed to Waitrose and repeat as above with some added fire just for a laugh.

 

Expect I'll get some funny looks next time I go into a supermarket and actually do some shopping!

[beko1987]

Ive decided to fix my water leak issue a different way this year, since my stripping of the interior gave me no help last year...

 

 

 

I leave this wetvac in the boot, and every so often at lunchtime I will vac it all dry... If it gets really bad Ill cut an access slot in the carpet!

 

I might go hunting for a hole, its all wet again and its not rained much, but there's lots of surface water about

[The Moog]

What a week

 

Car had little love kiss, builder was supposed to be here at 9am and no sign of him, hot water tank has started leaking and the energy deal Installers have gone AWOL.

 

Things can only get better

[gm]

sodding Black Friday ! I've already deleted about a dozen emails offering me the deal of a lifetime - what a load of bollocks !

 

anyway, Black Friday is a term that we in the licensed trade have been using for many years to describe the Friday before Christmas when all of the arseholes take a half day, leave their manners at home and go out to the pub to make out lives a misery ! sod all to do with fighting over cheap shitty electrical goods.

 

my personal protest against this nonsense will be to purchase nothing today except for a couple of pies and a bottle of plonk for dinner - that'll show them

[Pieman]

Everything in my bathroom is phuqed.

 

First it was the hinges on the shower screen, then the flush on the bog, and after yesterday finally fixing a leaking tap on the washbasin that was slowly getting worse, the door handle falls off.

 

I think I'll just stick a portaloo and shower cubicle in the garden, it's probably cheaper to have them maintained by someone else!

 

And today the bloody toilet seat comes loose!  

[Coprolalia]

Massively shit day.

Mate remanded in custody.

Our sick cat put down.

Octavia throws up EML light on the way to vets to put cat down, having got an MOT pass yesterday.

 

FFS!

[willswitchengage]

 

Blablacar, for refusing the above photo on the following grounds:

 

FFS

 

 

 it's not the photo of a vehicle

• it shows the inside of the vehicle instead of the outside

• a driver is visible on the photo

• the car on the photo doesn't match the model entered

[fairkens]

Massively shit day.

Mate remanded in custody.

Our sick cat put down.

Octavia throws up EML light on the way to vets to put cat down, having got an MOT pass yesterday.

 

FFS!

Wodeedoo?

[eddyramrod]

November.

I'm so far behind on my writing project that I'm going to overrun into the spring.

Rain, rain and more fucking rain.

Blind woman in Honda kills my lovely MR2.

...Thus sparking a trail of destruction throughout this very forum as everyone else either falls off the road or gets planted by some numpty.

Black Fucking Friday.

Take it away!

[bub2006]

If anyone sees my third gear loitering about smack its arse and send it home.

[dugong]

If anyone sees my third gear loitering about smack its arse and send it home.

Must be the same ethereal twattocks which caused my C4 to completely shit its bottom end. I've supposed to have had the past three days off work.

 

So far, I've done even more work, had a crap (and painful) visit to the dentist, a funeral and 6 am starts because of builders coming round ripping the bathroom out of parents_dugong's gaff. Car deposited bricks five miles from home and began to sound like a DI Transit.

 

Have no inclination to buy a newer car, spend money on this one, or generally deal with modern car outlets.

 

So far, the workflow looks like this.

 

1.Currently looking at recon engines.

2 ??????

3. Cigars and Fijian maidens.

 

I've given up for tonight; I'm eating jam ryvitas and listening to eurobeat instead.

C U LATER BIZARRELY CRAP HOLIDAY.

 

I'm going to Leek tomorrow - I suggest you all avoid the area lest your car \ ice cream maker \ yucca \ child explodes through misfortune osmosis.

[bub2006]

Car was fine,just occasionally stiff going into third. Tonight it decided It wanted to jump out a couple of times then completely not engage. Will go in gear and slow car down but as soon as power is put in,even slightest touch of throttle causes it to jump out. Fucking browned off now. Don't realise how much I need it!