The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

He wasn't an inspiration to me. I was a bit pissed off when Sid Vicious died and the passing of Amy Winehouse was a right tragic waste of a life, but all this fawning over Bowie (in the media) reminds me of when Lennon died. It's just an endless cycle of dreary music from someone that I never liked anyway. Sorry.

[castros_bro]

I liked a lot of his stuff though in da 70s I may* have smoked a funny cigarette whist being playing some of his platters on the wireless. Probably the one of his I can stand played over and over and over again is All the Young Dudes.

[rrsix]

In Birmingham some seem to drive like thier tail is on fire, others though seem fairly placid. A couple of my mates are delivery drivers who work for different companies. One is a full time driver who delivers all over the Midlands, the other is a supermarket driver who delivers locally, though he isn't always on the road so has to do other jobs within the store (stores/stacking/till work/etc...) which is probably why some drivers aren't in a hurry. I remember he picked me up once during a delivery, he wasn't aloud to arrive at the customers too early or summat.

 

I was told by a tesco delivery driver that if they finish rounds early they have to help out back at base. No idea how true that is.

[HillmanImp]

Wasn't he a nonce? Lori Maddox said he took her virginity when she was 13 and he was in his mod 20s and I am sure I read somewhere that he was once arrested with a young boy in some toilets before he was famous but might be thinking of someone else?  

[dollywobbler]

Great. Bit of something worse than stomach ache. Decided it was worth consulting a GP. Over the phone, he tried to convince me it was just a muscle pull (unlikely given that all I've been doing is sitting behind a laptop, watching snooker and trying to work) but managed to convince him to have an actual look. Now he reckons its mild appendicitis. "It might clear up, contact us again if it gets worse." Wonderful. So, I could need surgery, or it might be absolutely fine. Prace bets now!

[Bobthebeard]

Wasn't he a nonce? Lori Maddox said he took her virginity when she was 13 and he was in his mod 20s and I am sure I read somewhere that he was once arrested with a young boy in some toilets before he was famous but might be thinking of someone else?

 

No idea... Too soon though??

[sporty-shite]

the passing of Amy Winehouse... It's just an endless cycle of dreary music from someone that I never liked anyway. Sorry.

Fixed that.

[MrDuke]

No idea... Too soon though??

 

Aye, I'm sure there'll be a good few vultures throwing accusations around, now that he's not here to defend himself.

 

I'm a bit gutted too tbh, I'm not a hardcore fan or anything, but his music was a huge part of my life while growing up. I've avoided the radio though, for similar reasons - his best stuff probably won't have been played anyway. I think he was one of the very few musicians who managed to age well, still having fun and being creative without ever lapsing into self-parody or getting stuck in a rut. While Jagger et al were still prancing about in makeup and tights, and Dave Gilmore looks like a weary pub singer, Bowie remained a genuinely cool artist - and even if you didn't like his music, he never resorted to turning out the same re-hashed formulas from previous decades. Above all, he always came across as a totally unpretentious and grounded person in real life (not that I ever met him). 

[captain_70s]

I woke up this morning after a weekend off feeling knackered, good start. 

 

I lug myself to work, management have noticed my sideburns and they count as facial hair so need to be gone. Can't be having that in the food industry, don't want a stray hair getting on one of the 200,000 eggs we pack, eggs FFS.

 

News comes in of suspected bird flu outbreak in Fife, good time to work in poultry...

 

Then I load up Reddit on my awful mobile internet at break time, David Bowie has croaked. 

 

I lost my glasses a while back, phoned mum to check the Doloshite in their garage. She sent my sister to look, they're not there. I order £55 worth of new glasses, swing by my parent's place today and have a nosy at the car. Old glasses are in the glovebox.

 

Look at my bank account, will be maxing out my overdraft by the end of the month. Again.

 

Civic's exhaust is still fucked, 1300 and 1850 are both dead and not likely to live again.

 

After some comments at work today I had an investigate with a mirror and camera and can confirm I'm noticeably thin on hair at the back of my head.

 

It's my birthday today, I'm 24. Woo.

[MarvinsMom]

as a wee nipper we used to frequent the golden fleece in northallerton.

 

the jukebox had a huge number of cd's with no playlist. one of the records was the laughing gnome.

 

we found out what the number of it was, and on drunken evenings out would play it, a lot, ok a hell of a lot, cos we found it funny....

 

one evening Ron the landlord got so friggin' sick of hearing it, he turned the record player off. after trying to "reject" the record, on,.ly to fine that we had put it on again, and it was the next track waiting to be played.

 

in the end, he moved the lp that the laughing gnome was on to another slot, and after threatening John the barman with a sacking if he reviled the new location of that record, that was the end of our fun.....

 

sad about david bowie's passing, not since freddy mercury died has a celebrity death touched me like this.

 

and this will be in the wrong thread i guess......

[HillmanImp]

No idea... Too soon though??

Point is, I don't see why its okay for him to do it as he has a good musical legacy but not these other people. This information has been known for years (and that she shagged Jimmy Page at 14) but apparently thats okay if your music was good enough.

 

If someone at your local had been banging a kid even if it was only for a bit, you wouldn't just say its okay would you

 

Oddly I had mentioned this on Facebook on Saturday when taking the piss out of a mate for listening to him.

 

 

[Timewaster]

Bloke's come to change the meters and he fuckin honks of BO, he's in the other room and I can smell him. Looks to only be in his 20's.

Report the smelly bugger. No need for that.

[fordperv]

Bloke's come to change the meters and he fuckin honks of BO, he's in the other room and I can smell him. Looks to only be in his 20's.

We've got a lad who works with us, always smells of BO someone got him a lynx set for secret santa

[mrbenn]

It's my birthday today, I'm 24. Woo.

Er, happy birthday!

[MrDuke]

Point is, I don't see why its okay for him to do it as he has a good musical legacy but not these other people. This information has been known for years (and that she shagged Jimmy Page at 14) but apparently thats okay if your music was good enough.

 

If someone at your local had been banging a kid even if it was only for a bit, you wouldn't just say its okay would you

 

I'm not suggesting that it's ever 'OK' to shag underage girls, but there's a difference between an encounter with a groupie who appears old enough to bluff her way into a club (and doubtless looks even more mature through a haze of substances), and pursuing a clearly pre- or mid-pubescent child to satisfy twisted urges. I'm not familiar with the alleged Bowie incident, but I suspect it was a one-off, if indeed it ever happened.

 

Page on the other hand, apparently knew exactly what he was (repeatedly) doing, and does come off as a sick puppy who would have benefited from a good shoeing.

[Jimmycrackcorn]

Report the smelly bugger. No need for that.

As bad as it was I'd hate for someone to be pulled up/sacked for not smelling nice. I'm just glad he said to open the window to air the room from the gas.

[Cheggers]

Great. Bit of something worse than stomach ache. Decided it was worth consulting a GP. Over the phone, he tried to convince me it was just a muscle pull (unlikely given that all I've been doing is sitting behind a laptop, watching snooker and trying to work) but managed to convince him to have an actual look. Now he reckons its mild appendicitis. "It might clear up, contact us again if it gets worse." Wonderful. So, I could need surgery, or it might be absolutely fine. Prace bets now!

First dibs on the famous hat

[richardmorris]

Got soaked twice today and it wasn't even raining. Five flooded roads on the way in, two still under water on the way back. I was fine on the bike- neoprene overshoes etc, but cars and vans not slowing down to drive through 6 inches of flood water sent huge arcs over my waist.

 

Yet again another dozy woman in a Nissan Almera doesn't know she has to give way to her right on roundabouts either. She stopped and looked directly at me and then pulled out. Luckily I'd spent my lunch hour playing with the brakes, but they're still only rim pads so not wonderful in the wet. Shoes and leggings now drip drying for the second time today!

[MrDuke]

As bad as it was I'd hate for someone to be pulled up/sacked for not smelling nice.

 

Hilarious phakt of the day: I was once actually pulled up for not smelling nice  . I was about 18 and absolutely hated the job, and especially hated the dept. manager who was doing the pulling-up. He was a comedian's dream, a perfect caricature of a fat smarmy corporate-speaking twat who seemed to think it was still 1985. He drove a 944 Turbo and occasionally a (real) Cobra, had slicked-back wet-look gelled hair, and would deliberately leave his office door open while phoning various shops to enquire loudly about their most expensive stuff, just so we knew how rich he was. I, on the other hand, used to deliberately buy the most revolting and unattractive work clothes that I could find in charity shops, just to emphasize how much I disliked the place. At the time of said pulling-up, I'd spent a week or so wearing an utterly vile-smelling and slightly mouldy leather jacket with huge collars, which set off my nylon shirts and (slightly too short) sta-prest slacks nicely. Unfortunately, I think the jacket might have infected one or two other peoples' coats, and Things were said. To my credit, I stuck the job (and the atmosphere) out for another few months before leaving.

[jakebullet]

Tired of the Bowie zomg! he was a wierdo tribute crap now. A) we all know he's dead. B ) Every 'celebrity' bastard is rushing to tell us how he inspired them to shit after a huge curry. Get him banged in a hole and move on.

[HillmanImp]

I'm not suggesting that it's ever 'OK' to shag underage girls, but there's a difference between an encounter with a groupie who appears old enough to bluff her way into a club (and doubtless looks even more mature through a haze of substances), and pursuing a clearly pre- or mid-pubescent child to satisfy twisted urges. I'm not familiar with the alleged Bowie incident, but I suspect it was a one-off, if indeed it ever happened.

 

Page on the other hand, apparently knew exactly what he was (repeatedly) doing, and does come off as a sick puppy who would have benefited from a good shoeing.

I have avoided his music for several years since I read an interview with her somewhere about it. All this outpouring of grief doesn't sit well with me after that.

 

I honestly can't see how you can mistake a 13yr old for someone above legal age (I belive this happened in America where the age of consent was 18 too).

 

Don't even get me started on Steve Tyler and Iggy Pop.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Well my job for today is my prospective employers have sent out emails asking for references today, I've already been told I have a job and starts on March 4th but not had an official letter, well the reference request is amazing.

 

It doesn't just ask did I work at a place and was i sick. No they want to know was I ever disciplined and would you employ them again. This has left one boss in a right mess as she now doesn't know weather to say yes and potentially stop me getting the job, or lie and say no. I don't see why it matters it was two years ago and I've had other jobs since.

 

But seeing as they told my current boss I had been offered a job before I could speak to him I'm sure he's going to be a shit on his reference anyway.

 

Now I don't know what to do or if I can appeal a decision if they now say no to the job

[Ghosty]

Cycling in Manchester.

On my bike today, one taxi driver cuts me up to turn left across me as I'm passing a side road. Bastard.

Two minutes later I'm in a contra-flow cycle lane. Taxi pulls out of a side road onto me and makes me have to brake pretty fucking hard. Start pinging my bell like fuck at him and he gives me the finger. In fairness there's a no entry sign that makes it look like I'm going the wrong way, but I'm not. Shouldn't have pulled out on me in any case though, look where you're going you bastard.

Both of those were white Auris estate minicabs being driven by people from countries a long way east of here. Make your own conclusions.

Also, people need to learn how to use pedestrian crossings, and that me using my bell means GET OUT OF THE FUCKING ROAD.

 

It's only Monday and my first day back on my bike in the new year.

 

Sigh...

[dollywobbler]

I honestly can't see how you can mistake a 13yr old for someone above legal age (I belive this happened in America where the age of consent was 18 too).

 

 

I managed it once with a 14 year old. What can I say? Make up, piss-poor 'moody' lighting and alcohol almost led me down a very dangerous path. She wasn't blonde either (the lighting really was poor!). (I was only 17 myself though)

[Parky]

Sitting in Basildon hospital as Parky Jr might have appendicitis or gastroenteritis.

 

Staying here isn't the grump, seeing the lad in pain and not being able to do much is very tough. This place often gets a slagging in the local press but having had kids born here, ops here, and my life pretty much saved here in the past I can't fault them.

 

Long night ahead on a camp bed. They have provided me with tea and a PS2 so might have a Tekken all nighter!

[MrDuke]

I managed it once with a 14 year old. What can I say? Make up, piss-poor 'moody' lighting and alcohol almost led me down a very dangerous path. She wasn't blonde either (the brim of my hat was slipping down over my eyes)

 

FTFY

[dollywobbler]

Sitting in Basildon hospital as Parky Jr might have appendicitis or gastroenteritis.

 

Staying here isn't the grump, seeing the lad in pain and not being able to do much is very tough. This place often gets a slagging in the local press but having had kids born here, ops here, and my life pretty much saved here in the past I can't fault them.

 

Long night ahead on a camp bed. They have provided me with tea and a PS2 so might have a Tekken all nighter!

 

You have my sympathies. Sounds like he's got it worse than I have.

[hairnet]

First dibs on the famous hat

frame dolly v5 and the beard

[Cheggers]

frame dolly v5 and the beard

You are TooSavvy AICMFP

[HillmanImp]

Anyhow, backto cars.

 

Its the suitcase engine right? 100% engine out job I'm afraid and a right shitehawk even once you do get it out. Ask SambaS - He's done the job on a Samba I think.

Sounds positively horrendous. I will speak to the Citroën guy in Keighley to see what he charges first and then the retired mechanic down the road. Its nowt I will be doing in the near future until the house is finished (not that I would be that keen even then).