The grumpy thread

[michael1703]

X men apocalypse

 

I'm not sad enough to ever watch a sci Fi film, but I wouldn't need to with the constant adverts on the radio and trailers and promo on television

 

I've seen and heard snippets of the poxy thing 20times a day

[fordperv]

The saphs speedo needle started bouncing like a 90s raver and traced it to the speedo head, I've changed it for one I bought off ebay and the needle bounces, not as bad as the one I removed but it's still annoying, i oiled the mechanism and it went smooth with no bounce, great I thought left it a few hours and it bounces again grrr

Well I've just got annoyed by the thought of the bloody thing not being right, so stripped it all down taking the speedo from the clocks so I could have a look at the mechanism, i checked and nothing looked wrong and put only the speedo in with the cable in the back, it turns out for some reason the inner cable wasn't locating in the speedo head properly and when the outer clipped over caused it to interfere causing the inner to snag, i wouldnt have noticed if I hadn't have taken it to bits because the clock binnacle almost fills the remaining space, it's very tight to get your hands in to put the cable to the clocks. It's not bouncing now so we shall see

[gm]

measure twice, cut once - you ARSEHOLE !

 

[BavarianRetro]

He's gone. Bloke walks up, passes something through the window and immediately walks away. BMW man leaves.

 

Probably nothing dodgy......

Ahh. It wasn't me. I'm still there.

[jakebullet]

Ma is having a mega flid out and doing my head in. She has an S3 phone, but it has additional software on it to make it blind old bat friendly.

 

This afternoon she's trying to send a text and it says "internet connection problem". giz it here, there you're connected to the house wifi again and it now works.

 

Tonight she appears with phone in hand, and it's really broken now. When you tap the speech recognition button to compose a text it says "sorry unable to understand" immediately. Thought in my mind is some module it uses has got upgraded in the background and broke it. Phone the supplier in the morning and they will tell you how to sort it.

 

Crazy woman would much prefer to go white as a sheet n collapse a bit, then sweat like a 70's tv personality who hasn't has their collar felt yet. She then starts doing pointless things like reading the S3 quick start guide, writing down that it wasn't connected to the internet this afternoon, mumbling about it cost £500 etc. Also I'm the most useless son ever because I can't instantly fix it.

[dave21478]

measure twice, cut once - you ARSEHOLE !

 

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Story of my life. I fuck up like this on a daily basis. Im probably not concentrating hard enough.

 

 

Longer hose tails are easy enough to get, alternatively put an in-line isolation valve on each one which will make up the missing length and simplify future tap changes when the chinese made shit inevitably shits itself in 8 months.

[gm]

I had a bit of spare pipe so managed to sort it out eventually, lucky I don't charge by the hour

[xtriple]

Finally managed to wax the bonnet and boot/bumpers and did, I must say, a truly shit job! But, while doing it, found a fucking great scratch on the bonnet, nowhere that it could be accidental.... ho hum.

 

Also went to the vets to get Phoebe her months supply of drugs and came out £134 lighter!

[AlsoMike]

Neighbour woke me at 1:30am last night playing stampy/shouty/full volume guitar, I went round to nicely ask him to shut up, and may or may not have lost my cool a little... I've not decked him or owt, but despite this being probably the 5th time I've knocked in the last 2 months he doesn't think he's doing anything wrong (see previous post about shouting/screaming/banging/drumming/winding the dog up so its barks incessantly at 12/1/2am). In fact he thinks he's 'trying to be a good neighbour', so now I am fully expecting him to take the piss and be noisy as feck regularly. yeah, he's that sort. Joys.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Have a piss through his letterbox when he's out

[strangeangel]

Neighbour woke me at 1:30am last night playing stampy/shouty/full volume guitar, I went round to nicely ask him to shut up, and may or may not have lost my cool a little... I've not decked him or owt, but despite this being probably the 5th time I've knocked in the last 2 months he doesn't think he's doing anything wrong (see previous post about shouting/screaming/banging/drumming/winding the dog up so its barks incessantly at 12/1/2am). In fact he thinks he's 'trying to be a good neighbour', so now I am fully expecting him to take the piss and be noisy as feck regularly. yeah, he's that sort. Joys.

Keep a diary, make recordings and involve your local council's 'noise police'. Some do take this seriously, Leeds certainly did when I lived there and had problems with a pack of ferals in the next street (yep, that loud) having endless three-day benders in their garden, drunken domestics at 3am etc. They were threatened with court and subsequent eviction if they didn't STFU, which - happily - they did.

 

Failing that, Mr Bo11's advice FTW.

[ruffgeezer]

Piss Frisbees are better.

[Brodders]

Piss Frisbees are better.

What is a "Piss Frisbee"? Just for future reference.

[dugong]

Piazza? Peterborough?

 

Congratulations!

LOL.

 

318is, Trafford Park.

[richbraith]

I have to start work at 2.15pm on a Friday.

[dave21478]

What is a "Piss Frisbee"? Just for future reference.

 

piss on a dinnerplate and freeze it, then slip the disc of frozen piss under the offending persons door so it melts on their carpet.

 

Except I dont know what temperature piss freezes at, and since its not the 1840's anymore people tend not to have large gaps under their front doors.

[HillmanImp]

Whats this shit all about.

 

This chap made a hoax phone call pretending that someone was going kidnapped resulting in some police officers having to ring someone when they got home safely and got sent down for 7 years:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-36399687

 

This chap drove like a dick in a deliberate act of road rage and managed to paralyse 2 innocent children in the process and gets four and a half.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36396341

 

WTF?

 

Our country is fucked up. Stuff like this just makes me want to leave.

[nebuchenezer]

Having just returned from a relaxing* holiday on a Greek island I feel I have to pass comment on the younger generation that inhabits this sceptred isle.

 

When did it become acceptable to go on holiday and basically not give a flying fuck about the hotel owner - yay! lets piss on the stairs/any random spot other than the toilet - not give a flying fuck about other residents in the hotel - cue screaming, swearing, shouting as the pissed up twats came staggering home at 3 in the morning - and not give a fuck about the locals/history etc. - cue lines of broken and discarded bottles leading from hotel to beach and general statements when out of "this place is shit, there's no fish and chips available", "where's the fuken karaoke bar, I cant stabd this greek shit music"

 

I could go on and on but I won't

 

Suffice to say, wedding party from Hastings, thanks a bunch for embarrassing me and my once proud land - you truly epitomise the scum of the earth.

 

(Other areas of GB are available as well)

 

Also,

 

We got back yesterday just in time for my partners mum to have a stroke - GAH!

[Station]

What a complete twat. Stereotypical modern penis extension Land Rover owner road rages and attempts to chase a female and ends up paralysing two young girls by driving into their oncoming car. C U N T

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36396341

[strangeangel]

What a complete twat. Stereotypical modern penis extension Land Rover owner road rages and attempts to chase a female and ends up paralysing two young girls by driving into their oncoming car. C U N T

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36396341

 

I'm sure I heard on the radio he only got a six year driving ban - what do you have to do to get banned for life FFS??

[MarvinsMom]

and whats worse the unfit for purpose joke of a justice "system" only locked the bastard up for 4.5 years, with a 4 year driving ban!!

 

what a fuckin' joke.

[chaseracer]

The four-year ban starts AFTER he gets out - and then he has to take an extended retest.

[eddyramrod]

Marvin's Mom: Totally.

 

Meanwhile, hay fever.  Oh yeah, that was a good idea, coming on top of asthma, wasn't it?  Just breathing at all has been a challenge for 55 years!  I really don't need seasonal poisoning.

 

Also, local one-man garages.  If the bloke's good, he gets lots of work.  If he's good, he gets my work.  So, by recommendation from Facebook, I found such a garage, three and a half years ago, and have been using him ever since.  But slow?  Fuck me, even I could do better with the garage he's got.  I certainly would have had my Saab sorted out by now.  I left it there on Wednesday for a couple of little jobs.  This is the umpteenth time, by the way, for the same jobs that he "hasn't had time to do" yet.  They're MoT-sensitive, and that runs out in a fortnight.  Dropped in this afternoon and it hasn't moved.  Meanwhile other cars have come and gone.  I know that because he's across the road from work, I see it happening.  FFS man, do the jobs you already have!

 

Oh and before the decorator comes on Monday to wallpaper the back room, MrsR has decided I need to repaint all the woodwork I painted white three years ago.  And rub it down first.  In a house where nobody smokes, so the white will take decades rather than minutes to go yellow.  I suppose I should be doing it now, but fuck it, I've had a frustrating day, I don't care.

 

Actually I do, that's the real trouble.

 

Grump grump grumpitty grump.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That knobhead in the Range Rover has been sacked from his job an all and JLR have publicly disowned him. What a bell end

[eddyramrod]

Oh FFS!  I just heard sandpapering noises so went down to investigate.  There's my beloved, starting to rub down some of the paintwork, with no preparation whatever, and her freshly-made cuppa between her and the job.

 

I really can't deal with that level of impatience, not after the day I've had.

[scaryoldcortina]

Some eejit drove the PRI-DAH all the way up to Scary's Yard from Newburn with not enough water in and melted the water pump seal.

 

Oh, yeah.  That was me.

 

Still, it'll be something to be proud soon.  Right?

I ordered a waterpump yesterday (on ebay because no hurry and half the price of a get-it-today pump) and it arrived today!

 

 

Spot the problem! Clue - the part number on the box is correct.

[fordperv]

Oh dear has someone put the wrong pump in the box?

[scaryoldcortina]

yes they have. I've already received a full refund and they don't want it returned, so anyone who needs it and can identify it can have the damn thing for cost of postage.

 

the picture on the listing was this

 

 

which is the correct pump.

[nebuchenezer]

Marvin's Mom: Totally.

 

Meanwhile, hay fever.  Oh yeah, that was a good idea, coming on top of asthma, wasn't it?  Just breathing at all has been a challenge for 55 years!  I really don't need seasonal poisoning.

 

Also, local one-man garages.  If the bloke's good, he gets lots of work.  If he's good, he gets my work.  So, by recommendation from Facebook, I found such a garage, three and a half years ago, and have been using him ever since.  But slow?  Fuck me, even I could do better with the garage he's got.  I certainly would have had my Saab sorted out by now.  I left it there on Wednesday for a couple of little jobs.  This is the umpteenth time, by the way, for the same jobs that he "hasn't had time to do" yet.  They're MoT-sensitive, and that runs out in a fortnight.  Dropped in this afternoon and it hasn't moved.  Meanwhile other cars have come and gone.  I know that because he's across the road from work, I see it happening.  FFS man, do the jobs you already have!

 

Oh and before the decorator comes on Monday to wallpaper the back room, MrsR has decided I need to repaint all the woodwork I painted white three years ago.  And rub it down first.  In a house where nobody smokes, so the white will take decades rather than minutes to go yellow.  I suppose I should be doing it now, but fuck it, I've had a frustrating day, I don't care.

 

Actually I do, that's the real trouble.

 

Grump grump grumpitty grump.

Modern gloss will go yelow within 5 years.

[vulgalour]

Wasn't entirely sure at first but on closer inspection tonight it looks like someone has bumped the front of the Rover.  Headlight pushed back a smidge, indicator clip broken, grille out of alignment.  It can all be realigned and even to the trained eye (mine) it's not glaringly obvious something is amiss.  It probably happened on my last trip to the shops as it was one of the rare times I couldn't park out of the way of other shoppers.  What a nuisance.