The grumpy thread

[Richard]

Steve Wright's awful Sunday Love Songs show has been pulled. Every cloud.

[vulgalour]

Well there's no point turning R2 on now is there?  It's just Jeremy Vine as far as the ears can bleed.

[vulgalour]

@Nyphur:  Another satisfied Cavcraft customer there.

[Craig the Princess]

Love the resigned "Fuck's sake" in that video Nyphur.

All Vauxhalls are shit.

[Tamworthbay]

Some of them take the piss.

Oxfam, by me charging £6 for a pair of Asda jeans, they're only £4 brand new from the shop.

£2 for paperback books that are 3 for a fiver in Asda.

(I'm not on commission, wife works there).

 

Before I start I would like to say I support several charities every month, help out personally with three and have a reasonable understanding of how charities operate and am very pro charity. I also appreciate that whilst charities rely on volunteers they do also need paid staff to exist BUT I would never ever give a penny to Oxfam, they waste so much money it's obscene. If you ever drive past their headquarters you would mistake it for a BMW, Mercedes and Jag showroom. I know they have improved over recent years but even still it's terrible how much money they waste. I much prefer to support smaller charities.

[Timewaster]

^^ I have heard that about Oxfam before from someone who's relative quit their job there in frustration.

[richardmorris]

Love the resigned "Fuck's sake" in that video Nyphur.

All Vauxhalls are shit.

A corsa did the same to me on Friday- pulled left in front causing me to emergency brake. Then he went straight over a mini roundabout without slowing and nearly t boned a transit.

[Bren]

Bastard Sinuses.

 

I am 99% certain my respiratory problems are down to my sinuses- fortunately I am off to see a respiratory specialist tomorrow.

As I type this, my sinuses are itching and my nose is pissing everywhere - much of it on my chest, the remainder out of my nostrils- my nose is like some kind of portal because you cannot quantify how much shite is coming out of a small area. I also have a cough and a temperature- I think my sinuses are making me susceptible to picking up infection.

 

I swear to christ if the specialist sends me on my way without doing anything I will be the first person ever to remove their own sinuses with a grapefruit spoon.

[The Moog]

 

 

but even still it's terrible how much money they waste. I much prefer to support smaller charities.

Having worked with loads of small charities and even sat on boards, they are experts at wasting cash! When it is a passion, common sense and logic get chucked out the window.

 

I don't think size is a factor.

 

I wouldn't judge a charity on its carpark.

 

At the end of the day if it is a multi million pound organisation you need competent people in charge. They don't work for free.

[HH-R]

That was an excellent "fuck's sake", if it's any consolation.

 

A Corsa being driven like shit? Surely not.

[chaseracer]

Steve Wright's awful Sunday Love Songs show has been pulled. Every cloud.

 

Permanently, I hope.

[Richard]

I doubt it. I'm pretty sure it's pre-recorded, so in reality it just means there's an extra episode in the can.

[Tamworthbay]

Having worked with loads of small charities and even sat on boards, they are experts at wasting cash! When it is a passion, common sense and logic get chucked out the window.

I don't think size is a factor.

I wouldn't judge a charity on its carpark.

At the end of the day if it is a multi million pound organisation you need competent people in charge. They don't work for free.

I don't expect them to work for free, as I said, but nor do I expect to see my money going to pay for an £80k car when a £12k one would do just as well. Multiply that up and there's an awful lot of money sat in those cars that could be going to those who need it.

[EssDeeWon]

Just watched Nythur's dash cam video.

 

Its amazing how people have the bollox to just pull out like that.

 

This just makes me wanna buy a beaten up Volvo and everytime the feckers pull out like that just keep going. They won't do it again...

[vulgalour]

I wish I had a dashcam today.  On a roundabout, one junction away from my exit, indicator on that I know is working, big visible fuckoffred car.  So obviously the car at the junction I'm just about to cross to reach my exit decides that's the PERFECT time to pull out in front of me.  Emergency stop.  I was a bit more angry than Nyphur's reasonable FFS and may have done a bit of a wheelspin for a few yards after venting my spleen via the medium of the horn and angry faces.

[richardmorris]

Ride a bicycle- it happens every single bloody day.

[vulgalour]

Worst experience on a cycle was getting cut up by a double decker bus.  Not an argument I stood a chance in!

[xtriple]

Oxfam were nearly stripped of their charitable status a few years ago. Their costs were 97p in every pound they were given!

 

An ex of mine worked (paid) for BHF and robbed the place blind!

 

My Mother worked for a childrens charity (paid) and robbed them blind!

 

Nicking in the shops by staff is seen as a 'perc'!!!!

 

Our local charity shop is a 'boutique' and charges like a wounded rhino - posh area means we don't mind paying through the nose... apparently!

[skattrd]

Oops, I have just realised I forgot to tax my latest purchase. I have certainly not been using it untaxed. It's quite fortunate I live in a rural area and rarely see anything with ANPR, fingers crossed nothing turns up in the post in the next couple of weeks.

 

Having several cars not broken is turning out to be quite expensive.

 

The Tipo should be MOT'd and for sale shortly

[jakebullet]

When women ask you a question, except it's not a question, it's a TEST to see if you agree with their batshit mental ideas.

 

EG: When are we setting off for hospital appointment in the morning?

7:20 am.

THAT'S WAY TOO EARLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Fine. 8:30 am appointment at hospital in the very centre of Sheffield where it's impossible to park, and it's 40 mins drive if there's no cars on the road at all. Why don't you tell me what time you want to set off? When we're late you can blame yourself then.

[Eddie Honda]

An ex of mine worked (paid) for BHF and robbed the place blind!

 

My Mother worked for a childrens charity (paid) and robbed them blind!

Did/do you know anyone who worked for the RNIB?

[ruffgeezer]

Somewhere, somewhen, all the music I have collected over the years has escaped my computer. The last time I actually remember looking in the folder was around the time I collected the last C15 from Warrington.

 

I am thoroughly pissed off by this turn of events.

[ruffgeezer]

When women ask you a question, except it's not a question, it's a TEST to see if you agree with their batshit mental ideas.

 

EG: When are we setting off for hospital appointment in the morning?

7:20 am.

THAT'S WAY TOO EARLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Fine. 8:30 am appointment at hospital in the very centre of Sheffield where it's impossible to park, and it's 40 mins drive if there's no cars on the road at all. Why don't you tell me what time you want to set off? When we're late you can blame yourself then.

 

 

Just tell her the car is leaving at 7.20 so she's to be in it or she can find her own way there. That hospital is a complete cuntoid to park at.

[meshking]

 

 

Had to go to the docs yesterday afternoon to have my seat surgically removed from my colon.

 

Is that Newbury? Throughly enjoyed the "fucks sake", thanks.

 

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[Craig the Princess]

How much would a taxi be Jake? Would out not be easier to sack her off by paying for a cab?

[chaseracer]

When women ask you a question, except it's not a question, it's a TEST to see if you agree with their batshit mental ideas.

 

EG: When are we setting off for hospital appointment in the morning?

7:20 am.

THAT'S WAY TOO EARLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Fine. 8:30 am appointment at hospital in the very centre of Sheffield where it's impossible to park, and it's 40 mins drive if there's no cars on the road at all. Why don't you tell me what time you want to set off? When we're late you can blame yourself then.

 

FFS, tell her to book a taxi then!  Time to MTFU.

 

 

 

EDIT: Jake, I apologise.  Craig put it so much better... 

[Pillock]

Worst experience on a cycle was getting cut up by a double decker bus. Not an argument I stood a chance in!

You say that, but he's got an emergency engine stop button and you can escape down alleyways.

[meshking]

Between Newbury and Thatcham, yeah.

Thought so, for my sins I'm a regular at Vodafone just down from there.

 

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[mercedade]

Today was a vile, soaking, miserable day - so of course, it was the perfect weather for dealing with C-Max MOT failures

 

 

First up was N/S lower wishbone - balljoint was knackered.

 

So, wheel off

 

 

And, to my enormous surprise, pretty much everything came undone without any bother whatsoever. Didn't even need a balljoint splitter, which is good news because I don't have one.

 

 

Old vs new

 

 

So, whizz it all back up eh? Except, no.

 

 

Absolutely could not get this bush to line up, until I was struck by inspiration* - "what if I manage to get something nearly the same size as the bolt in and then wiggle it around to get it lined up?"

 

 

I IZ JEENUS

 

No I'm not. Because actually I'm a massive mudeater - it turned out that by wellying this in, I could a) not move the joint anywhere b ) not get the extension bar out either. And I was absolutely fucking soaked by this point. It didn't stop raining all day.

 

FUUCK.

 

In the end, I got it all undone again, which gave me enough movement to pull it out again (fnar).

 

 

Success, finally.

 

And then I was so wet, I couldn't be arsed getting my camera out for 'man undoes wheel nut' pictures, but I found the CV boot failure wasn't split at all, but there was some grease nearby which presumably is why they just said 'OH NOES IT LEAKS'.

[captain_70s]

The Civic has developed a growl from the engine bay at low revs, parents are once again pressing the idea I should give the yellow Dolly a new shot at life as a Zanussi washing machine, green Dolly is languishing in their garage and getting wet due to a leaky garage roof.

 

I've been working 6-days a week and have no money to show for it, the weather is shit, my house is cold and my hair is falling out. To add to this my mate is trying to organise a group holiday to Europe and doesn't grasp the concept of not having money. He claims to be "poor" but as I've pointed out the reason he has no money is that he and his fiancée have brand new cars and a year old house in Aberdeen and go out and have nice meals all the time.

 

I think at this point I'm just jealous that all my mates are moving on in their careers and have nice girlfriends and I am, by any and all definitions, a miserable failure who lives alone in a hovel and sustains himself on 25p instant noodles.

 

I'm in a right grumpy mood as of late, I blame the weather.