The grumpy thread

[nebuchenezer]

Don't regret, embrace! There's always a tactical chunder to get you out of a hole

Do youngs even know the benefits of a tactical?

 

Put the E46 in for an MOT yesterday, it only went and passed!

 

Grump - bastard MOT software thinks MOT due April not early Jan so rather than getting 13 months only got 12 - Arse biscuits

[Richard]

11:00 yesterday- "Everybody has worked hard this year so we'll give you Christmas Eve off."

 

Good, that gives me more time to do some last minute stuff before going to my dad's for dinner.

 

09:45 today- "There's been a call-out in Dufftown (Four hours each way, with the prospect of spending the night in the van if there's an accident on the A9. Which there will be,)"

 

I wonder if now would be a good time to discuss the call-out rota and on-call payments that were talked about but never materialised.

[chaseracer]

I wonder if now would be a good time to discuss the call-out rota and on-call payments that were talked about but never materialised.

 

Speaking in a professional capacity, I can't think of a more appropriate and potentially effective opportunity...

[jakebullet]

I thought I'd escaped the crapmass classic of selling on evilbay, but no, like that bastard slade song it's been wheeled out again:

 

Just wondering how long delivery usually takes as i ordered a while back and delivery date was stated 16th dec wanted dice for xmas day and still have not arrived.

 

Well done love. Wait till there's absolutely fuck all I can do about it short of driving 300 miles to ram your £1.50 purchase up your arse. Don't forget to leave negative feedback that I've ruined little Timmy's christmas.

[DSdriver]

Just paid a couple of cheques into the bank and was told they won't be cleared until the 4th of January. Wankers.

[michael1703]

But when you Write somebody a cheque ,it's guaranteed to clear much quicker

[daveb47]

Got petrol at my local upminster garage this morning.£1:13 per litre.

Robbing bastards.

 

Did get some poundland wiper blades though.

[doobietoo]

Got a letter from the DVLA this morning saying "last chance to tax your car" strange that as I taxed it online on the 3rd of December and have a confirmation email.... checked my bank and find they haven't set up the direct debit of taken the money.... phoned them to find they are closed until Tuesday.... muppets ..... good job I carry my confirmation email in the car.... how many people are going to lose their *untaxed cars because the DVLA cannot get even the simple things right...

 

So decided to retax the car ....once again I get a confirmation email.... lets see if they can get this one right.... now have 2 confirmation emails of me taxing the car... lol....

[HH-R]

Wasn't sure whether to put this in the grin or grumpy thread because I sat back and found it all quite funny but I suppose it was a sad state of affairs really.

 

People who can't handle their drink... they go out once/twice a year and make a royal arse of themselves. My usually quiet local had someone in who they wouldn't serve because he was so drunk at 8 o clock. Turns out he was barred anyway so got thrown out. He must have thought about it for a bit then put his head through the window! No matter how much I drank I'd never think that putting my face through a glass window was a good idea. Was half an hour of excitement though.

[Cavcraft]

(one of) My annual grump(s) is about amateur drinkers. Do us a favour, if you can't hold your ale and want to fight the world to try and impress the shiny suited gobshites from your office party, then stay at home and be a knobhead there instead, thank you. 

[HH-R]

Yep! On black eyed Friday, had someone trying to wind me and my brother up saying "I could have you both if I wanted" over and over.

 

We just ignored him, going on that basis that if he was going to do anything then he would have just done it and not told us about how he could. No doubt his mammy was holding his hair out of the way when he was bringing up his WKDs and Red Bull an hour later.

[fordperv]

(one of) My annual grump(s) is about amateur drinkers. Do us a favour, if you can't hold your ale and want to fight the world to try and impress the shiny suited gobshites from your office party, then stay at home and be a knobhead there instead, thank you.

A lad who works at the barbers I go to encountered one of these nobbers, he was out with the other lads who work there and a drunken idiot gave him a black eye for simply being out, it's a shame as well he's a good lad

[robinmasters]

In >1600 pages, it will have been mentioned before, but what with all the festivities it's been happening a lot more lately.

 

Women posting pictures of themselves don't that ridiculous pout, and men doing the same but with that gormless mouth-open faux surprise expression.

 

Why haven't these people been evolved out yet?

[D Spares & Tyres]

Daughter (11) tried to buy a candle for her mum for xmas

 

Not allowed as have to be eighteen apparantly....

 

So at 16 you can legally leave home,get married, have sex and ride a motorbike if want.

 

But if there's a power cut you would have to sit there in the dark as you can't buy a candle....

[DeeJay]

^^^^That'd get on my wick. 

[D Spares & Tyres]

Very drole, I'm sorry I can't match that...

[twosmoke300]

Not doubt someone will come on here and wax lyrical about purchasing laws!

[michael1703]

Daughter (11) tried to buy a candle for her mum for xmas

She must have been incensed

[D Spares & Tyres]

To be honest she was inflamed. But please don't make light of it

[captain_70s]

I've managed to lose three out of my four pairs of glasses. My last remaining pair is half of a "two for £40" Specsavers deal from half a decade ago with a prescription which is nearly not wrong. The only reason I still have them is that I shoved them in a cupboard after finding out Captain Slow had bought the exact same bloody pair and I didn't want to be associated with somebody as flamboyantly 1980s, and as thus I didn't get the chance to lose them.

 

I've ransacked both my house and my parent's place with no luck, very irritating as the latest pair cost £95 not all the long ago...

[cort16]

Fuck me, wrapping all those presents took age. Done now though. 

 

[Cavcraft]

ITV, 20.30-21.45: Various knobheads ruin Abba.

[hairnet]

ITV, 20.30-21.45: Various knobheads ruin Abba.

i was flicking over to find casino royale and caught daniel o donnell singing i have a dream..........

 

DISLIKE

 

i have a dream that id chainsaw him not quite in half then torture him............

[UmBongo]

I thought I'd escaped the crapmass classic of selling on evilbay, but no, like that bastard slade song it's been wheeled out again:

 

Just wondering how long delivery usually takes as i ordered a while back and delivery date was stated 16th dec wanted dice for xmas day and still have not arrived.

 

Well done love. Wait till there's absolutely fuck all I can do about it short of driving 300 miles to ram your £1.50 purchase up your arse. Don't forget to leave negative feedback that I've ruined little Timmy's christmas.

 

I think you need to find another way of earning a living, bud.

[jakebullet]

I think you need to find another way of earning a living, bud.

 

Suggest me up a job. No direct people interaction and I can't use a phone.

 

It's ebay, or pretending to be a horny woman answering text messages for sex chat.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Web cam

 

There's something for everyone, surely you can find a niche?

[Jimmycrackcorn]

Had my first proper drive of my new bargain (WCPGW) Jag, and I think the box is borked. Upto say 40 she's fine and you wouldn't think otherwise. I put my boot down and tried the kickdown and it felt like it was snatching gears and stuttering it also threw up a gearbox fault that cleared itself and if I took it upto 70 gently was fine. I'm hoping it's just because it's been laid up for 6 months and a change of gearbox oil will do the trick.

[The Moog]

I've managed to lose three out of my four pairs of glasses. My last remaining pair is half of a "two for £40" Specsavers deal from half a decade ago with a prescription which is nearly not wrong. The only reason I still have them is that I shoved them in a cupboard after finding out Captain Slow had bought the exact same bloody pair and I didn't want to be associated with somebody as flamboyantly 1980s, and as thus I didn't get the chance to lose them.

 

I've ransacked both my house and my parent's place with no luck, very irritating as the latest pair cost £95 not all the long ago...

Try glasses direct. Last pair cost me £30

[MarvinsMom]

Suggest me up a job. No direct people interaction and I can't use a phone.

 

It's ebay, or pretending to be a horny woman answering text messages for sex chat.

fry chef at macdoanlds?

 

a job i always fancied, submarine washer...

 

one of them fellas from the highways department what walks along the road pushing that stick with a wheel?

[Eddie Honda]

Just paid a couple of cheques into the bank and was told they won't be cleared until the 4th of January. Wankers.

Didn't even have that luxury. I was going to go to the bank early afternoon to lodge a cheque - cunts shut up shop at 1230. Next opportunity for me to get to the bank will be 5th Jan. Cock.