The grumpy thread

[greengartside]

Oh fuck. I'm car bored.

 

Same here - I think I've scratched my itch with the Fiesta Zetec-S and I want something else now. Not sure exactly what though.

[Tamworthbay]

Oh fuck. I'm car bored.

you need a dolomite

[Lacquer Peel]

I work in a huge open plan office and there's people asking for donations/sponsorship/raffles about twice a week at least. I don't give anyone anything, otherwise I'd be about £30 a month down or accused of favouritism and I can't be bothered. If you want to go for a run, go for a bloody run.

 

There's a good sketch about this in a Souvenir Programme repeat, two minutes in.

I resent stuff like this because it's basically paying for someone's hobby or holiday, or promoting their own vanity.

[Sigmund Fraud]

you need a DAF 

 

EFA 

[kirton]

As Eddyramrod.

 

Whenever we find something ultra delicious they stop making it in short order.

Used to get some lovely coconut ice cream from somewhere possibly Safeway, like a giant pack of bounty ice cream (which i haven't seen for a while either) course they stopped it.

 

Still miss Royal Scot biscuits, and real Wagon Wheels that tasted proper in the open sleeve and were despite what they try to say a bloody sight bigger than the ones they make now.

 

We need a shiters supermarket where they sell only what we used to love, made the way we used to love them, and nowt else.

[kirton]

I worked in the factory when they stopped using the sleeves and went to sealed packages - and wagon wheels are now smaller, but they only found they had to have smaller wagon wheels when they ran the new packing machine brought from the factory in Canada on the production line. OOPS big biscuit, smaller package, result bins full of wagon wheels with the edges chopped off. This must have been about 1972.

We used to make digestive biscuits for Harrods -Golden Harvest - they were something else

[HillmanImp]

If you want to go for a run, go for a bloody run.

We got an email asking to sponsor some people in a different office last week as they were cycling 30k one day. WOW!

 

I try to ride my bike to work 3 or 4 days a week which is a 34k round trip each day dickwads WITHOUT SPONSORSHIP.

 

Unless you are paraplegics or doing it in Sumo outfits (which they aren't), riding that far really isn't that impressive.

[Cavcraft]

'The A Word' programme on BBC1. My missus has been raving about it and it's a hateful mishmash of truly appalling acting and those stupid fucking camera angles that are all over the shop.

[Urko]

We got an email asking to sponsor some people in a different office last week as they were cycling 30k one day. WOW!

 

I try to ride my bike to work 3 or 4 days a week which is a 34k round trip each day dickwads WITHOUT SPONSORSHIP.

 

Unless you are paraplegics or doing it in Sumo outfits (which they aren't), riding that far really isn't that impressive.

 

Last time I rode my bike that far in a day I had to walk the last few Kilcks - so it would impress me.

[dugong]

Went and collected FREE DIZZLE 25.

 

It got me home without issue.

Enjoyed the trip back.

 

Today, the drive belt cacked itself and snapped clean in two. An L Series has one massive poly V belt driving everything, so I lost the servo and the PAS.

 

An easy job or so I'm told; it went two seconds from the unit. Battery was man enough to drive inside, so lobbed it on charge once parked up. Belt job looks pretty easy and the engine wasn't running long enough to cook or boil its coolant.

 

Hurrah*. I still like it.

[Jazoli]

'The A Word' programme on BBC1. My missus has been raving about it and it's a hateful mishmash of truly appalling acting and those stupid fucking camera angles that are all over the shop.

 

The best thing about it is the scenery, which I see every day but never tire of seeing it, the rest is dire, although I would be the music teachers special friend.

[chaseracer]

^ It also has Foxtrot Alpha to do with autism out in the real world.

[Parky]

^^^ seconded ^^^

[Rusty_Rocket]

Went and collected FREE DIZZLE 25.

 

It got me home without issue.

Enjoyed the trip back.

 

Today, the drive belt cacked itself and snapped clean in two. An L Series has one massive poly V belt driving everything, so I lost the servo and the PAS.

 

An easy job or so I'm told; it went two seconds from the unit. Battery was man enough to drive inside, so lobbed it on charge once parked up. Belt job looks pretty easy and the engine wasn't running long enough to cook or boil its coolant.

 

Hurrah*. I still like it.

 

Check the drive belt tensioner very carefully.  A colleague has had a few L-series engined cars and this part has always failed; sometimes the bearing goes, sometimes the alloy housing wears and the pulley sits at an angle, throwing the belt.

The diesel part is expensive but the 2.0 petrol part fits if you remove the locating dowel from the back and fit it 180deg out!

[strangeangel]

'The A Word' programme on BBC1. My missus has been raving about it and it's a hateful mishmash of truly appalling acting and those stupid fucking camera angles that are all over the shop.

 

I watched it by proxy (Our Lass had it on) and wasn't much impressed either. I did raise a smile, though, when whoever wrote it managed to work one of my favourite songs ever into the dialogue, and then play a bit of it

 

[rainagain]

I work in a huge open plan office and there's people asking for donations/sponsorship/raffles about twice a week at least. I don't give anyone anything, otherwise I'd be about £30 a month down or accused of favouritism and I can't be bothered. If you want to go for a run, go for a bloody run.

 

This reminds me of a grump I used to have when I was an agency worker and you only worked with a particular company for a couple of months. You'd always get people coming round saying we're having a collection for Bob's birthday, we know you're agency so you don't have to chip in if you don't want to, which really meant give us some money or we'll think you're cheap. Naturally when your birthday came round you were only an agency worker so got sod all. In the worst place I worked for this, the woman who went round collecting the money expected everyone to chip in £10 and she kept a spreadsheet to record who had and hadn't paid. She would then tell whoever's birthday it was who hadn't chipped in.

 

Worst work charity thing was when I worked for a Bank for a while and you were forced to take part in every charity drive they came up with, just so the Managers could get a picture in the local paper with the big cardboard cheque acting like it was them that did all the work. There was constantly something new every month and it always had to be carried out in your own time, like baking cakes, decorating an Easter bonnet and other stupid ideas. I do give to charity but only ones I want to and when I want to.

[fordperv]

It's pissing down, looks like the only constructive thing I'll be doing is clean the house

[Urko]

The prick next door has been using some kind of power tool, a sander I think, for nearly an hour now. He does noisy DIY nearly every weekend. Prick.

 

I work from home and my house is in a road of mostly retired people.  Every single flaming day of the week someone is having building work done (petrol powered block saws, jigsaws, circular saws, hammering) or garden work (mowers, chainsaws etc) I swear it's noisier than if I lived on a flippin industrial estate.

 

I can't really complain though, what with my compressor, angle grinder, noisy old V8 etc - and my 2 stroke hedge cutter is the noisiest thing I've ever used - like a pack of angry wasps with a chainsaw each.

[Urko]

I know this is very tired - but dickheads on the road this morning.

 

1) At 7am.  Some berk with an 09 Maserati.  Nice looking and sounding car (although I preferred the old banana lights version that the septics apparently killed off) .  So much so that the prick kept stopping just so he could let it rip from a standing start.  I'd seen him ahead, came around a sharp blind corner in my small town and he'd stopped dead right after the bend - no warning, no indication.  So I roll up behind him and he floors it, no doubt all the folk in the houses each side were thrilled - then he keeps on doing it - imagine being slowed down by a bleeding Maserati - it wasn't until we got out of town that he put his foot down properly and managed to actually get near to a speed limit.

 

2)The cock in a red ALDI. I'm behind a Freelander, which is being slowed by the skip lorry in front.  we are managing about 30 in a 60 limit.  Mr ALDI comes racing up to my bumper, day running lights melting my retina in the rear view and sits there weaving.  There is no way to overtake - or I would have, solid traffic the other side, 2 junctions and a 40 limit coming up anyway.  Every time he moved out the right and blinded me via the door mirror, I moved my little Puma to the right too to stop it, so then he swerved to the left - in the end I was doing a F1 tyre-warming wiggle to try and highlight the ridiculous nature of it.  Cock. 

[purplebargeken]

Eastern european bloke at the garages has about 4 cars and a couple of vans. Happily blocks everyone and everything in regardless.

 

He was working on his Vivaro van at the weekend, 2003/2004 plater. His other van had died.  I pulls in to the garage today and lo and behold, the UK reg Vivaro is now wearing the plates from his Eastern European van. Other van nowhere in sight. Hmm. That does piss me off hugely.

[Alan_Green]

I've never ever understood sponsored charity events that produce nothing.  Sponsored walks...parachute jumps...absailing...running on a treadmill 1,000 miles...driving to Mongolia.  All that effort and no end product.  Why not a sponsored litter pick? Or paint an OAPs house? Or cleaning a canal?  Anything productive. Anything.

[Norbert]

Worst work charity thing was when I worked for a Bank for a while and you were forced to take part in every charity drive they came up with, just so the Managers could get a picture in the local paper with the big cardboard cheque acting like it was them that did all the work. There was constantly something new every month and it always had to be carried out in your own time, like baking cakes, decorating an Easter bonnet and other stupid ideas. I do give to charity but only ones I want to and when I want to.

 

Ah, The mandatory 'Voluntary' event.

 

Thankfully, this hasn't reached my workplace yet, despite my company division's head office being in a part of the world famous for such things. Recently someone here has started a weird thing where there's a themed group photo in the lobby every month or so. First one was at the end of last year, the theme was Christmas Jumpers (groo) and got about 40% attendance in a 200-person building. I've been glad to see that attendance has slowly been getting smaller, to the point where last Friday's 'World Book Day' (bring your favourite book, apparently) got a grand total of 6 turn up, 2 of whom were holding engineering textbooks (of the proper-hard-sums type) and one guy had the Cromwell Tools catalogue. I predict that within 2 months the guy who's idea it was will be reduced to taking a selfie.

[Urko]

Eastern european bloke at the garages has about 4 cars and a couple of vans. Happily blocks everyone and everything in regardless.

 

He was working on his Vivaro van at the weekend, 2003/2004 plater. His other van had died.  I pulls in to the garage today and lo and behold, the UK reg Vivaro is now wearing the plates from his Eastern European van. Other van nowhere in sight. Hmm. That does piss me off hugely.

There's a woman who has a daughter at my daughter's school.  She's been dropping off and collecting her child from school in LHD Range Rover Sport for 3+ years - it's had Italian plates the whole time - how can that work?

[dugong]

Overtaking on the A605.

 

Yes, you in the Punto. When you're in the RH lane, I expect you to fucking well overtake, not fart past the car in

the inside lane 0.02mph faster than they're travelling.

 

This particular lane merges after a 500 yard stretch; it took him nearly all of that to get past a lorry on the nearside.

How about not getting pissy and indignant when I've cleared three cars in that stretch and could have cleared you

too had you simply used the pedal on the right?

 

Or just stay in the left hand lane. Clearly too difficult.

 

I can't stand the A605. "I'm driving on a Sunday, no-one needs to go anywhere in a hurry on God's day, fuck you Jack, I'm alright."

[Urko]

This reminds me of a grump I used to have when I was an agency worker and you only worked with a particular company for a couple of months. You'd always get people coming round saying we're having a collection for Bob's birthday, we know you're agency so you don't have to chip in if you don't want to, which really meant give us some money or we'll think you're cheap. Naturally when your birthday came round you were only an agency worker so got sod all. In the worst place I worked for this, the woman who went round collecting the money expected everyone to chip in £10 and she kept a spreadsheet to record who had and hadn't paid. She would then tell whoever's birthday it was who hadn't chipped in.

 

Worst work charity thing was when I worked for a Bank for a while and you were forced to take part in every charity drive they came up with, just so the Managers could get a picture in the local paper with the big cardboard cheque acting like it was them that did all the work. There was constantly something new every month and it always had to be carried out in your own time, like baking cakes, decorating an Easter bonnet and other stupid ideas. I do give to charity but only ones I want to and when I want to.

 

I got accosted by the admin woman at a place I worked for 50p a month for the milk and sugar fund (in an odd way, the tea and coffee were free but milk and sugar wasn't).  I was a contract worker, but in any case, as I told her, I don't take milk or sugar, ever.  She stomped off moaning.

[rainagain]

It's probably an unpopular opinion, but I give an extremely small amount to charity and the big national ones get sod all off me. I'll put some money in at independent museum/car collection type places as I count that like an admission fee to keep something I like ticking over. Otherwise I just help out people I actually know. I don't make a fortune and it's the only way I know the cash isn't being spent in a well-meaning but inept way, or worse paying for some charity boss to have a company car.

I just treat big national charities as large companies that don't pay tax. There was a bit about one of the cancer charities in the news a while ago, the bosses had set up a separate profit making company to manage the sponsored runs, they charged a flat fee to take part in the run and made the directors a nice bit of money.

[Ghosty]

There's a woman who has a daughter at my daughter's school.  She's been dropping off and collecting her child from school in LHD Range Rover Sport for 3+ years - it's had Italian plates the whole time - how can that work?

 

Plod don't care. 

 

Someone's been knocking about my town in an eastern European registered 2007 Mondeo with a roof box for a few months, and I used to know of a purple Swedish registered Kangoo that didn't move for a couple of years, and it was parked on a main road.

 

Also re: noisy residential areas: we've lived where we do 17 years, I'm home most of the time as uni isn't demanding timewise, Old Man works from home and the mother doesn't work.

The road for about 14-15 years was just older retired couples and/or couples without children, with one or two families here and there. It was nice.

Last two years or so, all the older residents keep dying off and new money keeps coming in with their white Kia Sportages and buying the houses (Help to Buy?), making them look fucking shit, and the road's been a constant mess of noise and tradesmen's vans for the whole time.

Doesn't help that one of these families have no idea how to park outside their own house, and have an M3 with a funny exhaust that wakes everyone up at 6:50am every day. I can hear that thing clearly from the back room in my house (it's over the road and down a house) - start the A4 outside our house and I can barely tell...

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Ghosty man. You're a student so I'm guessing under 25. Stop worrying about parking in your street!!! That's reserved for old bastards who have nowt else to think about

[Guest Hooli]

There's a woman who has a daughter at my daughter's school.  She's been dropping off and collecting her child from school in LHD Range Rover Sport for 3+ years - it's had Italian plates the whole time - how can that work?

 

Provided they leave the country once every six months it's totally legal. So maybe they drive home to see the family?

 

Not of course that any records are made to prove if they have left or not...

[Urko]

Lottery bolloockspeak -  didn't answer the question I asked -

 

 

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----- Original Message ----- 
From:Urko
Date: 23 April 2016 
Subject: Lottery draw details 

You don't seem to publish the times of the draw on your website.  You are 
similarly vague about when the results are put up on the website.  Why is 
this?