The grumpy thread

[artdjones]

£30-35 would be a fair price for new leather soles.I paid 35 Euros here in Ireland last year.UK seems to be the only country without cobblers because I've seen loads in Europe especially Germany.

[vulgalour]

Timpsons being the Main Dealer of the cobbling world.  That's given me a chuckle.  I always used to use Peter's in Chesterfield (and later in Sheffield) who were top notch and affordable.  It helped that I got to know one of the cobblers and when I moved so did he so I always had a reliable shoe repair person to turn to.  Not so much now.  I have no idea where to take my boots to get new soles and heels put on affordably and I'm not throwing them away because when am I ever going to find embroidered oxblood leather Italian riding boots again?

[Tamworthbay]

because when am I ever going to find embroidered oxblood leather Italian riding boots again?

Where the hell did you find them the first time around!

[fordperv]

If anyone is from Stoke or the surrounding areas, a good place for shoe repairs is longton lock supplies

[MarvinsMom]

^hey vulg, how far off Marske by the sea are you?

 

there is an olde-world cobblers there, next to Winkie's Castle.

 

Winkie's castle is a wee cottage, which is the oldest building left in the village. it was bought by Jack Anderson, who sadly has passed away, in the 1960's to stop it been knocked down for re-developement. he used to own the cobblers shop next door, 

 

he had a black cat called winkie, who basically took the cottage over as his own.... hence the cottage been called winkie's castle.

 

Jack was a proper gent, and a real local character, who was Marske born and bred, and who loved the village.me dad knoew him well, and i remember him from when i was a nipper. he is sadly missed.

 

the cottage and it contents passed to the council and has such delights as a 2 headed sheep that was born near by in the 19th century. 

 

it is open, though i dunno when exactly....

 

anyhoo, thread hijack over......

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Cool story bro

[Richard]

I think that I'm going to have to accept that my car owning days are coming to an end.

[vulgalour]

@Tamworthbay:  eBay.  I wasn't even looking for them and there they were.

 

@MarvinsMom:  Only about half an hour away from me, I'll check that out, cheers!

[chaseracer]

I think that I'm going to have to accept that my car owning days are coming to an end.

 

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[michael1703]

The price of shoes here gives me the shits. Its either 14.99 toss that falls apart in minutes or 150 sheets for designer stuff that I am too grubby to ever wear.

I just buy Karrimor lightweight walking shoes/trainers from SportsDirect.com as they are waterproof and ideal for dossing about at work.

I wear karrimor skido, they are waterproof (to a point) I walk about 6 miles a day 7 days a week in them and I'm on my feet all day.

 

I buy two pairs a year at £40 a pair, £80 a year ain't bad for something I wear continually

[HH-R]

I've had to resort to steel toecappers for work, I was killing dress shoes at a rate of a pair every three weeks. I just get them from JTF, 10 or 15 quid and they're going strong so far. I have a pair I bought from there 3 or 4 years back and they're still in one piece but they're used for gardening and DIY so a bit scruffy for work.

[Richard]

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Work taking over. It will only get worse so something has to give, and it'll probably be the car.

[eddyramrod]

I'd love to find a pair of shoes that I could afford, that wouldn't let the rain in within 30 seconds of me stepping outside.  Not going to happen though, unicorn eggs are easier to locate.

 

In other news, I'm just generally grumpy.  My back hurts, money is ridiculously tight, it's winter, I need to be up at 0500 tomorrow and telly is shit.  Oh and the Saab is in dock so I'm using Hyacinth as my daily, complete with non-functioning radio and stiletto-scored roof lining.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Took the seat for the ST to be repaired today. Went to the address on the website. Soon as me and the wife (minus the seat) walked in the door of the garage the bloke had a face like a slapped arse then was a moody twat when asked to see the seat guy (who needless to say didn't work from there anymore and hadn't bothered to change his address)

 

If you've never met potential customers and don't know why they're there, don't be a cunt until you've even spoken to them as now you can fuck right off and I'm sure to recommend* you to everyone

[gordonbennet]

I have the shoes for you Eddyramrod, well actually they is workboots with steel toe caps and a steel mid sole, but they are the most comfy and surprisingly light boots you'll ever wear from the first time you slip 'em on, they will not leak, they will never split and they are the only boot that could survive more than 12 months screwing around on stamped transporter decks without the sole ripping apart, i've been wearing them for years, black or tan, thats not the black and tans..

 

Look up DeWalt Challenger, bloody dear mind and that's where it all goes tits up, circa £75 at best...its Challenger 3 now, IMHO the Challenger 2 was more comfy and they've cheapened the laces which in C2 would see the boot out, if you poke nose about and happen to be a smaller or larger than average size you might find the odd pair of 2's kicking about online, worth a look, you will never wear another boot once you've tried these.

 

As they're safety boots couldn't you get work to contribute, my workplace either supplies cheap (that isn't cheap at all, why do companies buy shit at high prices i don't get it) shit that'll cripple you or they will pay £25 towards those you'd rather wear...my old place used to pay the full amount but the usual cunts ruined that by buying shit from their dad who owned a shoe shop and getting a receipt for proper stuff, wanker.

[KruJoe]

Work taking over...something has to give, and it'll probably be the car.

 

Second piece of bad news I've read from you tonight mate. What's going on?

 

Work to live, or live to work?

[Lacquer Peel]

Work taking over. It will only get worse so something has to give, and it'll probably be the car.

 

Trusted shiter loan scheme while you can't use the car? Don't let me near it, but some other Scottish shiters are capable of looking after it I'm sure.

[Honey Badger]

Bugger me, Northants the home of the boot and shoe trade and can't find a real non chain cobblers, phone number for the little Kettering chap Munn is unobtainable.

 

I've had soles and heels done by the little chap in the corner shop cobblers near Evan Halshaw Citroen Stoke on Trent (used to deliver there at least twice a week), but that was 8 years ago at least and i bet he's bloody gone too now, not as i go past there either any more.

 

Can see this becoming a DIY crusade, am not buying shit shoes and chucking 'em when the sole's through.

 

Like most other things i'll bet they can be found in Northern or other areas where people don't think money grows on bloody trees.

Theres a chap in Wellingborough just down from the main post office who does shoe repairs, i think it's on Midland Road on the one way system going past the Swansgate towards the Magistrates court.

 

I've never used him, but he's been there years so he must be half way decent.

 

 

On car related news my Accord coupe has decided that it no longer likes 2nd gear on the autobox and will only engage it breifly after ive revved the nuts off the V6 in first which makes me wince when the car is cold in the morning, it then slams it into 3rd and takes off like a scalded cat.

 

This has made pulling out of any busy junction an exciting and educational experience.

 

Im considering swapping the ATF with the cheapo Mannol multicar stuff from ze germans on ebay, 20lts for about £50 delivered to see if i can drag it out a bit longer.

 

The mega expensive Honda dw1 aft fluid i put in the gearbox in March 2014 is now brown and smells burnt in less than 10000 miles, i think the torque converter must be fucked and it's cooking the atf.

[Noel Tidybeard]

 I have no idea where to take my boots to get new soles and heels put on affordably and I'm not throwing them away because when am I ever going to find embroidered oxblood leather Italian riding boots again?

 

shirley what with an red giffer rover and all you'll be wearing slippers 27/4

[Richard]

Second piece of bad news I've read from you tonight mate. What's going on?

 

Work to live, or live to work?

 

There's a bit of a piss-up/brewery situation at work, which has resulted in them being massively behind. They put me in for jobs that will have me doing a 14 hour day without asking if I had anything planned. Last Monday I looked at the calendar and discovered that I was helping another engineer finish an installation- then I got there and found that two of them had achieved nothing on the Friday before, so I didn't get home until 9pm, then they had put me in for a job that meant leaving early the next day. That sort of thing happens all the time, and now they are looking for more overtime to catch up.

 

There is never going to be a time when it isn't like this, even if I get another job. I'm seriously considering a career as a hermit.   

 

Trusted shiter loan scheme while you can't use the car? Don't let me near it, but some other Scottish shiters are capable of looking after it I'm sure.

 

 It's a possibility I suppose but I don't think this is a temporary situation. The other option is to pass it on to SWMBO and just accept that it's going to turn into the Father Ted raffle Rover and, even worse, have the radio tuned to Radio 2.

[andrew e]

Boots: These, but go at least one size smaller than you take, actually pretty good quality.

 

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[gordonbennet]

Theres a chap in Wellingborough just down from the main post office who does shoe repairs, i think it's on Midland Road on the one way system going past the Swansgate towards the Magistrates court.

 

I've never used him, but he's been there years so he must be half way decent.

 

 

 

 

Thanks, i work in Welly any way but cos i'm driving past that shop at around 0350 most mornings i'd quite forgotten it existed, hopefully we'll pop in there this afternoon .

 

Much obliged to me learned fiend,.

 

oh and that Mannoil is OK i got some D3 which is doing fine work in the Scooby, don't give a bugger if its not as good as the Gucci stuff at $300 a gill, it won't be in there for ever, rather keep good medium qual for a reasonable time than convince mesen the soopa doopa stuff will last for eternity, and repair existing damage like how heavily advertised by leading dentist's toothpastes rebuilds yer teeth like the six million dollar man would have.

 

I get a lot of transmission etc oils from ''lubetchoil'' on ebay too, in Northampton apparently, seems good stuff to me.

[dave21478]

The customer is always right. Even when they want venetian blinds fitted to the outside of their windows, apparently.

 

 

I dont need a crystal ball to see how this will play out.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Is it fixed in stone that the majority of people are total cunts?

 

Passed an interview on 26th December. Got fired from my job as the boss thought it was "a conflict of interest" when someone who interviewed me to him they had offered me a job.

 

After filling out God only knows how many forms and waiting nearly 3 months with no job the fuckers have rung today and said the offers been refused.

 

Pervious boss lied to them saying I wasn't doing enough hours for him (even thought they know this is shit) and a job 2 years ago wrote on the reference I'd been dismissed even though they said they wouldn't put it on.

 

To say I'm fucked off is an understatement, just rung my wife who's really upset, not helped as she works at the place I was dismissed from.

 

Women that rang about the job was a cunt who did everything to be awkward and unhelpful, she wouldn't really go into detail and of course I can't appeal

[eddyramrod]

Is it fixed in stone that the majority of people are total cunts?

I'm afraid it is.  If you use this as your default setting in all dealings then you should be able to survive.  Sadly, I tend, even at my advanced age, to treat people as I would like them to treat me.  Therefore my life is shit quite a lot of the time.

[Slartibartfast]

Is it fixed in stone that the majority of people are total cunts?

 

Passed an interview on 26th December. Got fired from my job as the boss thought it was "a conflict of interest" when someone who interviewed me to him they had offered me a job.

 

After filling out God only knows how many forms and waiting nearly 3 months with no job the fuckers have rung today and said the offers been refused.

 

Pervious boss lied to them saying I wasn't doing enough hours for him (even thought they know this is shit) and a job 2 years ago wrote on the reference I'd been dismissed even though they said they wouldn't put it on.

 

To say I'm fucked off is an understatement, just rung my wife who's really upset, not helped as she works at the place I was dismissed from.

 

Women that rang about the job was a cunt who did everything to be awkward and unhelpful, she wouldn't really go into detail and of course I can't appeal

 

You can't appeal but you can take boss A to court for his choice to fire you and for providing a fraudulent reference.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Can you get fired from a zero hours contract? Really in the end is it all worth it or do I just add them to my list of cunts and move on?

 

You know my wife always wonders why I dislike most people, this job thing just sums it all up.

[Alexg]

When did it suddenly become acceptable to dress like this?

 

 

I don't mean when knocking about the house or doing some sort of exercise/manual labour; I mean for like going for a meal with your effort-making missus or going to your bank for a loan. It's only a very small step up from walking about in your PJs with your thinly veiled junk still flapping about. This isn't a youth thing either; I had a bloke in his mid/late 30s pop-in to look at buying a car from me wearing a similar get-up capped of with Velcro trainers! Show some fucking respect mate.

[gordonbennet]

I'm afraid it is.  If you use this as your default setting in all dealings then you should be able to survive.  Sadly, I tend, even at my advanced age, to treat people as I would like them to treat me.  Therefore my life is shit quite a lot of the time.

 

Spot on, i still assume people are basically decent and a mans word actually means something, without fail every single time the arse holes prove me wrong.

 

I imagine when with easy prediction yet another has turned me over or not paid for something they said they would i'll become a tosser like them, then reality dawns and i realise the very last person i'd want to be is one of them.

 

Yes the world is full of cunts and they're breeding like bloody rats.

[cros]

I bought a 25 litre drum of blue anti freeze from a chemical company on eBay. It looks like coloured water; all concentrated antifreeze of my acquaintance has been thicker. So I bought a tester from a motor factors, got home and on removing the protective foam around the float found it was snapped in two. In short I've been sold 5 gallons of piss and some broken glass, wonderful.