The grumpy thread

[plasticvandan]

Bearded man gets given tat from the backroom of a charity shop,sprasys it gold and turns it into an ironic lamp.

[Parky]

Autoshite changing rooms would be

 

"yeah we did the ceiling in Limeflower, the walls in Sandglow, and Vulgalour found some purple for the skirting board which is great. Once we got the restored Kia Magentis back seat sofa in, a pile of back issues of Practical Classics and the portrait of Leepu up, we are sure the Duke of Westminster will be delighted with what we have done to his 17th century French style dining room"

[Inspector Morose]

"Can you do a backshift on Saturday?"

"Going out Sunday morning about 9am so a backshift should be okay. When's it finish?"

"Not sure, I'll check and let you know."

Job ticket just bounced through on email. 1600 sign on Saturday afternoon, finishing 0700 Sunday after which I need to clean the coach after transporting 70 ravers so I'll be lucky to be physically finished for 9am.

Rage Level: off the scale.

Not a happy busman tonight.

Feel it, I do. That's why I've avoided coaching this barren period.

[Lord Sterling]

Autoshite changing rooms would be

"yeah we did the ceiling in Limeflower, the walls in Sandglow, and Vulgalour found some purple for the skirting board which is great. Once we got the restored Kia Magentis back seat sofa in, a pile of back issues of Practical Classics and the portrait of Leepu up, we are sure the Duke of Westminster will be delighted with what we have done to his 17th century French style dining room"

Lol. Chez_Mo has a huge Rover flag in the one room, a claret Rover dealership interior sign in the living room is accompanied by a professionally taken framed picture of a Mk1 Sterling 827 and some small 1980s Lamborghini pic I found in Malvern. Oh, and crappy pic I made up of a Mk2 Rover Sterling.

 

This may change if/when Lady_Sterling gets here but I'm going to try and resist her attempts at change.

[michael1703]

Bits that hurt:

 

Left hand,left wrist,left elbow,right knee,right shoulder,right tricep,all my back,neck.

 

Body ready for scrap, 33 years to retirement.

 

I'm thinking of a career change in the next two years or I'm not going to make it.

[STUNO]

This may change if/when Lady_Sterling gets here but I'm going to try and resist her attempts at change.

 

 

Get ready to lose gracefully. 

[Inspector Morose]

Lol. Chez_Mo has a huge Rover flag in the one room, a claret Rover dealership interior sign in the livingnroom accompanied by a professionally taken framed picture of a Mk1 Sterling 827 and some small 1980s Lamborghini pic I found in Malvern. Oh, and crappy pic I made up of a Mk2 Rover Sterling.

This may change if/when Lady_Sterling gets here but I'm going to try and resist her attempts at change.

It's true, you know. And you should see his door mat.

[xtriple]

I have radiator grills all over my walls! My reasoning is thus: they are chrome and so reflect light, this flat is dark and dismal so any increase in light around is a good thing! Also got framed pictures of old BMC heaps by the front door (they hide a damp patch either side of the door) and framed pictures of the 1955 le mans races in the kitchen, framed cigarette cards, and pictures of old Bentleys in the walls.

 

Oh, and a framed big picture of a couple of my old bikes and a series of black and white road scenes from the turn of the last century complete with old chod (now worth millions I suppose - the cars, not the pictures!) so it is safe to say: I am a boring old bastard with no imagination!

[LC Torana]

It's true, you know. And you should see his door mat.

 

He'll BE the doormat when the missus arrives.

[fordperv]

Also got framed pictures of old BMC heaps by the front door (they hide a damp patch either side of the door)

They will be rotten now with the damp

[dave21478]

Cars.....whats the point?

 

Panda wont run for more than a few minutes. Needs more money poured into it for ignition components.

 

Escort needs a pair of front tyres and the clutch is juddery. Is there any point changing the clutch on a 200 euro shitter?

 

Shitlander sounds like catastrophic gearbox failure is very imminent.

 

Mazda is too rotten to go back on the road with a clear conscience. 

 

The fuggen Metro is the only car working properly at the moment and thats because I never drive it anywhere as its so horribly uncomfortable on local bumpy roads.

 

 

 

And the radio keeps bleating out an advert every 15 minutes about how I could own a new Dacia for under 5 euros a day.........

[Lukas]

All the talking about war gets on my nerves at the moment!

 

It seems that in our german language area, every expert and so many idiots on facebook and everywhere else is talking about

war and that we will have one soon. 

 

The idiots on facebook, on the regulars table and everywhere else are talking about that there will be a civil war because of 

all the immigrants soon. Poor austrian or german people will stand up and fight and all that shit. 

 

And "experts" are talking about that we will have a WWIII soon. Muslims vs the western world or so. 

 

I dont know if they want a war to "clean everyones mind", like one of the idiots said on TV or if they are just bored. 

 

But when I think of it, I get angry and frightened. Not only because I´ve got a 6 month old boy and I dont want him to grow up

in WWIII, but I dont want all that shit talking about a war at all. 

 

[Alexg]

There's similar rumblings on Far Right Facebook pages in the UK. I wouldn't be too concerned; despite many of these groups having tens of thousands of likes and illiterate cries of 'revolution', when they do have a demonstration march only 2 men and a dog seem to bother showing up.

[Lord Sterling]

All the talking about war gets on my nerves at the moment!

 

It seems that in our german language area, every expert and so many idiots on facebook and everywhere else is talking about

war and that we will have one soon.

 

The idiots on facebook, on the regulars table and everywhere else are talking about that there will be a civil war because of

all the immigrants soon. Poor austrian or german people will stand up and fight and all that shit.

 

And "experts" are talking about that we will have a WWIII soon. Muslims vs the western world or so.

 

I dont know if they want a war to "clean everyones mind", like one of the idiots said on TV or if they are just bored.

 

But when I think of it, I get angry and frightened. Not only because I´ve got a 6 month old boy and I dont want him to grow up

in WWIII, but I dont want all that shit talking about a war at all.

 

Yo Lukas, just ignore it man. What you have to understand is that like everywhere else in the world we have stupid people who have no lives sitting on the internet trying to stir up racial/religious hatred because they don't like a particular people.

 

These people have no lives, they sit on thier arse and not bother to actually learn about thier own neighbours. Yet they feel they have the right to hold extreme views without actually learning about thier perceived "enemies/threats".

 

Usually these people are what we call "all mouth, no trousers" they want to create a "war" without actually getting involved, yet they still want to be the mysterious mouth piece who tell people what to think about people from certain background because they want everyone to think like them. So just ignore it.

[320touring]

Cars.....whats the point?

 

Panda wont run for more than a few minutes. Needs more money poured into it for ignition components.

 

Escort needs a pair of front tyres and the clutch is juddery. Is there any point changing the clutch on a 200 euro shitter?

 

Shitlander sounds like catastrophic gearbox failure is very imminent.

 

Mazda is too rotten to go back on the road with a clear conscience.

 

The fuggen Metro is the only car working properly at the moment and thats because I never drive it anywhere as its so horribly uncomfortable on local bumpy roads.

 

 

 

And the radio keeps bleating out an advert every 15 minutes about how I could own a new Dacia for under 5 euros a day.........

13 of the fuckers here needing attention. .

 

I just look at a Juke and my faith is restored!

 

(sorry cort16)

[Negative Creep]

Work have lost one of their three contracts so are going to lay off a 1/4 of the staff. Now I don't want to be there, but I need to be since I have a house to single-handedly pay for and will be several months before I'm qualified enough to look elsewhere. Joy.

[taxi paul]

100% agree with Lord sterling.Sadly the far right target a certain demographic supporter. Like my dad who I have lots of friendly* dicusions with regarding "foreigners" living here. This coming from the man who spends six months a year in Spain, but that's different apparently 😊

[jakebullet]

I still haz DEATHFLU. This may have made me rather impolite to ebay knob jockeys.

 

Jockey A thinks it's a good idea to email me every 3 hours to ask when am I going to send his shit out. It's been 2 whole days.

 

Jockey B purchased: Pool Ball Gear Knob for VW T2 Empi / Hurst Trigger Shifter ONLY

Message from buyer
 Hi,i want the blue Number ten.it it's in a talbot horizon from 1983?thanks

 

Just on the off chance jockey B from Switzerland is reading this, sorry.

 

Ma is also trying to make me more ill. For reasons unknown she thinks it's a good idea to empty out all the paracetamol tabs into an old sweetie jar. So if we ever get any children visiting they can OD on funny sweets. Except shes grabbed what she thinks are paracetamol and banged them all in the jar. Half of them are actually ibuprofen. I'm allergic to ibuprofen. Thanks Ma.

[chaseracer]

There's similar rumblings on Far Right Facebook pages in the UK. I wouldn't be too concerned; despite many of these groups having tens of thousands of likes and illiterate cries of 'revolution', when they do have a demonstration march only 2 men and a dog seem to bother showing up.

 

And the dog's got more brains...

[ruffgeezer]

And the dog's got shat out more brains...

 

FTFY...

[Cavcraft]

The Brit Awards. I don't know who most of the fucking British 'artists' are, never mind all the others.

Now sitting through what seems like 17 hours of sycophancy about David Bowie.

Crock of bollocks.

[chaseracer]

Aye.

 

Was funny though, when the 'Mary Whitehouse button' operator wasn't quick enough to catch on of Adele's drunken shouts of FAAAAARRRRRRKKKKK!!!!!!

[Sloth in a bowl]

Cars.....whats the point?

 

Panda wont run for more than a few minutes. Needs more money poured into it for ignition components.

 

Escort needs a pair of front tyres and the clutch is juddery. Is there any point changing the clutch on a 200 euro shitter?

 

Shitlander sounds like catastrophic gearbox failure is very imminent.

 

Mazda is too rotten to go back on the road with a clear conscience. 

 

The fuggen Metro is the only car working properly at the moment and thats because I never drive it anywhere as its so horribly uncomfortable on local bumpy roads.

 

 

 

And the radio keeps bleating out an advert every 15 minutes about how I could own a new Dacia for under 5 euros a day.........

 

 

So nothing that can't be solved by buying a Renault 20 then.

[MarvinsMom]

the brits, is that still going?

 

there were 2 talentless noise polluters on newsnight last night whinging about the brits, they were apparently famous, they were on complaining about the lack of "diversity" in them what are nominated for a prize.

 

could it be that the fact that no black artists got a nomination is cos they are all crap??

 

they were showing what is, apparently the best of "urban" music(???) on as part of the piece. if that is the best then i would hate to see what the worse crappiest noise would be, just absolute garbage.

 

and i don't think its cos i'm 42, it really was the dregs. awful, just awful.

 

and i don't think i've sat through any brits show since the sam fox, mick fleetwood car crash live tv from 30 odd years ago.

 

besides its just a con to sell more toneless noise crap records, by the record companies. stick a brits sticker on some terrible lp, and then sit back and watch them fly off the shelves/downloads/whatevers, easy.....

[Split_Pin]

Had a meeting with my manager today to discuss how the last 6 months went at my job. I have noticed that a lot of people in the company are desperate to climb the ladder and to do so you need to give yourself as high a visibility as possible by selling yourself and generally jostling for attention. I'm a fucking grafter at work, polite but direct, tell it like it is and above all take absolute pride in my work. I don't think there is any chance of someone like me making any kind of impression and today's meeting confirmed this. I actually feel broken, which is something that I haven't felt in many, many years. What's worse is that I brought all this shiz home and now my wife is pissed off with me and thinks I'm a cunt, which might be true.

[Timewaster]

IanL Sounds like it's your manager that's the c***

 

What is the problem with doing your job and maintaining the status quo?

[AlabamaShrimp]

IanL Sounds like it's your manager that's the c***

 

What is the problem with doing your job and maintaining the status quo?

This is why I find it hard to find a job I'd actually like to do. 90% of managers are utter wankers that expect you to move the earth just because they say so but they treat you like shit and will fire you for the slightest thing.

 

I'd say fuck what he thinks and you just keep on doing what you want but I'm crap at work advice

[Parky]

Some research earlier suggested that turnover in companies is because of the manager 90% of the time. Not the job, or the wages, but the manager. I have wondered this for a while as I have left jobs for this very reason.

 

Makes you wonder why companies who invest money in their staff and hope for long term loyalty don't seem to realise that by putting an arsehole in charge they won't get much of a return on their investment.

 

Maybe there should be a test. Show prospective managers a picture of a 1974 Allegro and a new Audi A3 TDI Sportline in silver with optional leather trim and Bose upgrade. And 18 inch wheels natch. If they pick the Audi you probably don't want them in charge.....

[AlabamaShrimp]

This does not surprise me at all. In fact thinking about it every manager I've ever had bar one (who also had her moments) have been an utter twat that licks hugher managements arse like there's no tomorrow.

 

As you can see I'm cut out for the corporate world

[Sloth in a bowl]

Had a meeting with my manager today to discuss how the last 6 months went at my job. I have noticed that a lot of people in the company are desperate to climb the ladder and to do so you need to give yourself as high a visibility as possible by selling yourself and generally jostling for attention. I'm a fucking grafter at work, polite but direct, tell it like it is and above all take absolute pride in my work. I don't think there is any chance of someone like me making any kind of impression and today's meeting confirmed this. I actually feel broken, which is something that I haven't felt in many, many years. What's worse is that I brought all this shiz home and now my wife is pissed off with me and thinks I'm a cunt, which might be true.

 

 

Arsehole manager was the straw that broke the camel's back at my last job 3 years ago. We got rated quarterly 1 to 5 for loads of different things.

In Q1 I got a 2.9 out of 5, sub 3 so on the naughty step. No problem thinks I, all the bad marks were due to HR form filling and not my actual day job.

In Q2 I got a 3.7 out of 5, well above average (which was 3 to 3.3). Overall I still get a fail for the first half of the year as I didn't show myself as enough of a leader when I was the junior person on that project.

 

I left 2 months later having got the second job I applied for and all the delay being on them being willing to match my current salary. Me leaving left the manager in a pickle as she needed to have a least one under performer in her team at year end for the correct performance bell curve. Which meant that she needed to screw some other random unfortunate instead.

 

 

I'm now looking for a new job again but that is more to do with travel and that the position I'm now stuck in is not the one that I joined the firm to do.