The grumpy thread

[xtriple]

A mate of mine named his dog  (a beautiful big GSD cross) 'Stupid and she answered to it beautifully. He did get a LOT of stick from people when he walked her.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Your mate sounds hilarious

[Negative Creep]

I think 'bent over a Biffa bin' and 'round the back of Wetherspoons in Nelson' would be accurate.

 

And sadly, yep spelt Porsha.

 

 

I know of someone called Samara. I guess that makes her an inadvertent AS hero

[chaseracer]

Only if she has a sister called Riva 

[Coprolalia]

Get lots of kids in through the hospital doors with weird names.

 

Nevaeh is getting common (Heaven backwards shit for brains).

Personal favourite: name spelt Le-a - "Naaahh it's Ledashar, Le dash a"

 

 

On the dog front, family friend doesn't use "drop it" or similar with their dog. It's "buggered". 

 

"YOU'RE BUGGERED! YOU'RE BUGGERED!" Across the beaches of Wales.

[myglaren]

Portia de Rossi (Portie DeGeneres)

 

Married to Ellen DeGeneres

[AlabamaShrimp]

Am currently sat in the theatre to see omid djalli (can't spell it) right on the front sat next to a total cunt!

 

Stupid fucker is in his 60's but is over reacting at the warm up act, being mega loud and just shouted something that might have been racist.. Needless to say me and Mrs Shrimp have swapped places. Hope he's not like this for the rest of the show

[Parky]

Hopefully Omid will realise and destroy him for the next two hours

[MarvinsMom]

bloody stupid new battery charger does not work after all, so now i've got all the hassle of trying to send it back to the ebay seller.

 

or,

 

alternatively i could just sling it straight into the bin.

 

why does everything i touch break/fuck up/burst into flames/all 3?

[scaryoldcortina]

Sure it's not the battery you are trying to charge that's faulty?

[dollywobbler]

The world of art baffles me. Apparently this is a work of art.

 

Er...

[The Moog]

 

 

 

Fucking thing, that's the suspension refresh for the puma put on hold again

Surely that is a job for K seal??

[MarvinsMom]

Sure it's not the battery you are trying to charge that's faulty?

this thing (which i've not seen) has 2 led lights, one for power and one for charge.

 

when plugged in this new paper weight new charger doesn't light up at all (from what i've been told) and usually these things buzz when they are working. thi new one doesn't make a sound....

 

but the battery that Kerry has been trying to charge up could indeed be banjaxed....

[sheffcortinacentre]

my cats name is stupid, her sister was named fatty, the previous owners other two are called wing nut (has big ears) & chicken as its scared of everything.

[wuvvum]

My current seeming inability to sell any chod is making me grumpy.  I have vehicles I don't need and bills I need to pay - it should be a simple enough equation to balance, and I like to flatter myself that I have a reasonable idea of what cars are worth, but it would appear not.

[scaryoldcortina]

this thing (which i've not seen) has 2 led lights, one for power and one for charge.

 

when plugged in this new paper weight new charger doesn't light up at all (from what i've been told) and usually these things buzz when they are working. thi new one doesn't make a sound....

 

but the battery that Kerry has been trying to charge up could indeed be banjaxed....

Smart chargers can't charge a completely flat battery because they need some voltage to tell that they are connected. This sounds dumb until you realize that a lead acid battery with 0v across the terminals is doomed anyway.

[Eddie Honda]

MarvinsMom, yer doing it wrong with this ebay/battery charger malarkey.

 

Either nash on down to Lidl when the weekly offer for battery chargers is on. Last time I saw the plastic brick smart chargers were only about £13-£15. Plus all that stuff can be shoved up their hole for a refund dead easy.

 

OR

 

Get something in a tin box. Like an old Davenset or a Selmar. I've got a couple of 6/12V Selmars like this.

 

 

I've also got this one that used to belong to my granny.

 

GP4_charger by E Honda, on Flickr

[Kiltox]

I have one of those GP4 fuckers with a slightly different gauge - borrowed* from my FiL.

 

Always think it's going to burn my unit to the ground and the wiring is shonky as fuck but it'll charge anything.

[Eddie Honda]

I think my dad still has his old Davenset Senior like this:

 

Davenset_Senior_Battery_Charger_6V_12V_002.jpg by E Honda, on Flickr

[LC Torana]

MarvinsMom, yer doing it wrong with this ebay/battery charger malarkey.

 

Either nash on down to Lidl when the weekly offer for battery chargers is on. Last time I saw the plastic brick smart chargers were only about £13-£15. Plus all that stuff can be shoved up their hole for a refund dead easy.

 

OR

GP4_charger by E Honda, on Flickr

 

That's close enough to mine that I've used regularly for over 30 years.

 

All that is in the case of my Arlec is a centre-tapped transformer, two diodes and the meter.

 

Its never let me down.

[Cavcraft]

'Seen ur ad for green fiat has it got logbook and has it really got mot till novemeber'

 

 

No, I just said it for a laugh you fucking cretin.

[Cavcraft]

My current seeming inability to sell any chod is making me grumpy. I have vehicles I don't need and bills I need to pay - it should be a simple enough equation to balance, and I like to flatter myself that I have a reasonable idea of what cars are worth, but it would appear not.

You do still know what they're worth, it's just that the number of penniless morons has increased. This is the flip side of low scrap prices I'm afraid, it just makes the 'Xbox/50 tonight' lot multiply.

When you sell stuff because you have (rather than want) to, it's like putting a bloody finger into a piranha tank, I swear adverts must give off a scent that brings all the knobhead hunters out.

[cobblers]

I've contacted 8 plasterers to do my kitchen over the last 2 weeks. Not a single one has called me back or turned up to give me a quote.

 

I WANT TO PAY YOU MONEY IN EXCHANGE FOR THE SERVICES THAT YOU ADVERTISE. WHY ARE YOU MAKING THIS SUCH HARD WORK??

 

At this rate I'm going to have to skim the whole thing with filler, guide coat and DA sand it flat like you would the side of a car. It worked for the bathroom although we're still finding dust from it a year later.

[fraser.innes.3]

Fucks sake, woke up this morning and there was no power, walked into front room and squelch squelch, fishtank has cracked and there's 300 litres of water on the floor and about 50 in the tank. Rescued the fish and put them in a plastic tank then got the (thankfully industrial) Karcher wet vac out, 2 hours later the carpet is almost dry and it's 9am so off to buy a new tank and the biggest I can find is half the size and £300, had no choice really but to buy it as I've £300 quids worth of fish sat in a storage box in the garage, hopefully can get them moved into their new tank tonight.

 

 

Fucking thing, that's the suspension refresh for the puma put on hold again

Can't you just hammer a smaller tank over it?

[AlabamaShrimp]

I've contacted 8 plasterers to do my kitchen over the last 2 weeks. Not a single one has called me back or turned up to give me a quote.

 

I WANT TO PAY YOU MONEY IN EXCHANGE FOR THE SERVICES THAT YOU ADVERTISE. WHY ARE YOU MAKING THIS SUCH HARD WORK??

 

At this rate I'm going to have to skim the whole thing with filler, guide coat and DA sand it flat like you would the side of a car. It worked for the bathroom although we're still finding dust from it a year later.

We had the same with a gardener. Rung a few and none got back. Eventually found on on Facebook of all places but it still took him two weeks to come cut the grass (it was too big for a flymo) he didn't spray any weeds though.

[cobblers]

I've just found a list of "trusted traders" on the council website and phoned half a dozen of the most local plasterers. Not one has even answered the phone.

[Louise2cv]

Same for every aspect of having our kitchen fitted a few years ago. Worse still are the teases who do show up to quote the job and then disappear for evermore.

[cms206]

I know of someone called Samara. I guess that makes her an inadvertent AS hero

Me and WIFE_CMS are trying for kids and the only rule I've stipulated is that we don't name the child after a vehicle. It is surprising how many names that rules out.

 

As an aside I've had a mate since preschool (waaaaay back in 1989 - I've known him longer than my wife has been alive) called Shane and I know more Alsatians used to guard scrapyards with that name than I do people.

[cort16]

Have you tried the mybuilder type websites? Because it's rated it's slightly easier to weed out the shite hawks.

Saying that we paid 600 quid to have a fence put up with those pre-fab fence panels. It was a few weeks later I realised over half the panels had been fitted upside down.

Saying that, 4 years later and it's still all there.

[DeeJay]

Have you tried the mybuilder type websites? Because it's rated it's slightly easier to weed out the shite hawks.

Saying that we paid 600 quid to have a fence put up with those pre-fab fence panels. It was a few weeks later I realised over half the panels had been fitted upside down.

Saying that, 4 years later and it's still all there.

Have you sorted the panels?