The grumpy thread

[Tayne]

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[wuvvum]

Water-based paint. Mate of mine gave me half a tin of silver paint - he did warn me it wasn't very good, but I only wanted to tart up the wheels on the 104 so I wasn't overly bothered about getting a spotless finish. And the tin said "exterior metal paint" - the wheels are made of metal, and they are outside, so it should be fine right?Was it bollocks. My offside front wheel now looks like somebody has spoffed all over it. Fugging hopeless. If this is the future of paint we're all screwed. Mind you, at least it should wash off the brush easily...

[myglaren]

Being stuck behind the only Toyota Yaris in the world with a correctly functioning throttle pedal.I swear that if it went any slower it would go backwards.

Just followed a Corsa doing <10mph over a series of speedbumps. Didn't go any faster after clearing them then turned right, right in front of another Corsa approaching from the opposite direction.He probably shouldn't have been turning into a pub car park at all

[FredTransit]

Water-based paint. Mate of mine gave me half a tin of silver paint - he did warn me it wasn't very good, but I only wanted to tart up the wheels on the 104 so I wasn't overly bothered about getting a spotless finish. And the tin said "exterior metal paint" - the wheels are made of metal, and they are outside, so it should be fine right?Was it bollocks. My offside front wheel now looks like somebody has spoffed all over it. Fugging hopeless. If this is the future of paint we're all screwed. Mind you, at least it should wash off the brush easily...

Have you tried wheel silver or Hammeright?

[brammy777]

Stupid college has marked our coursework wrong, meaning I have to edit a piece for external verification for tomorrow. Ugh its such a joke! I dont even get taught these things, they just expect us to know. Oh well, its going pretty well so far, but its still a massive letdown.

[Albert Ross]

That patronising ShatWest advert, where the peroxide bint asks the kids what a Standing Order is..... One kid says "Is it where money goes into your account?" She says "You're nearly right".............. FUCK OFF!!! You're WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. It boils my piss. Like the "deferred success" instead of losing, school sports day cancelled in case "Mummy's little darling" can't handle actaually NOT winning the prize. IT'S LIFE. Get used to chronic disappointment and failure. You may well have been "Head Boy", but you're going to end your days sweeping the foyer in an office block you festering spoilt little turd of a child.Aaah..... nice now.

[Cavcraft]

And on that note anyone fancy finding out where they film the Halifax bank commercials? I'm just thinking it would make the world a lot better if someone marched into their 'radio station' and wiped those smug fucking smiles off their twatting faces with a machete.

[M'coli]

And on that note anyone fancy finding out where they film the Halifax bank commercials? I'm just thinking it would make the world a lot better if someone marched into their 'radio station' and wiped those smug fucking smiles off their twatting faces with a machete.

Bring back the singing black guy with the specs, he was much less patronising.

[CortinaDave]

There's a facebook group - which I joined - entitled "I'd resign from the radio industry immediately if it was even slightly like the Halifax advert"That ad makes me want to hurl my TV out the window.

[j-j]

Halifax in general makes me want to bite a garden spade

[Guest]

I hate those Natwest ones where they show how nice and friendly all the staff are, they are the worst. Imagine working there! I'd love one of those to go as normal but have someone like me on the staff. They're all there in their navy blue suits lending a caring ear and I'm there with stains all over my tie, pulling a load of torn papers out of the photocopier whilst sighing and swearing, drinking black coffee from a filthy mug and generally being as curt and unhelpful as possible.

 

THIS IS MY VISION OF HELL: http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA9318

[Lankytim]

Went to work last night at 10PM and did my run... fine. Got back to the yard and was asked to do another run "as a favour, as wer'e desperate" Told them id probably run my hours out but O.K.Just squeaked back at 1PM the following day and ran out of time at the gatehouse- totally maxed out my 15 hours E.U working time bollocks law thing. Its ok. I dont mind. happy to help! The thing is I have to take a minimum of 9 hours off between shifts and they kinda wanted me back in at 9PM that evening (but didnt tell me). Its ok though. Ill just take a day off unpaid. Hence im sat here at home instead of being at work. Fucktards.Thats the last time I "help out".

[Mr H Sceptre]

Alex Chilton of the Boxtops and Big Star died the other day. Now this has made me very grumpy and extremely sad as '#1 Record' by Big Star is ACE.This is 'the ballad of el goodo' off the said album. RIP.

September Girls. Perfect pop.

[Mr H Sceptre]

That patronising ShatWest advert, where the peroxide bint asks the kids what a Standing Order is..... One kid says "Is it where money goes into your account?" She says "You're nearly right".............. FUCK OFF!!! You're WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. It boils my piss. Like the "deferred success" instead of losing, school sports day cancelled in case "Mummy's little darling" can't handle actaually NOT winning the prize. IT'S LIFE. Get used to chronic disappointment and failure. You may well have been "Head Boy", but you're going to end your days sweeping the foyer in an office block you festering spoilt little turd of a child.Aaah..... nice now.

YES YES YES. I'm so glad you've brought this up. Its not nearly right at all, its the complete fucking opposite. That kid is as far from right as you can get.Its late. I'm tired, and angry.

[barrett]

The fact that I had to work last night when

were playing in Brighton. say NO to nightshifts, guys.

[Rocket88]

Policemen's uniforms. they seem to have gone from Dixon of Dock Green to something out of Mad Max in one fell swoop. What is all that kit that tote around now, what was wrong with a whistle and a bloody truncheon? And don't they just love swaggering through town looking like RobosoddingCop.............

[seth]

I normally try and keep my grumbles here vaguely car related but...Carbon Trading.I was reminded about this at the weekend. I think it is the single most ridiculous pseudo environmental money making scheme that operates world wide. From the brains of accountants/money men comes a way of making themselves very rich while industry can continue pumping fumes into the atmosphere. I think the planet is screwed while this is going on but since it is run by money men its unlikely to change.

[Mr Lobster]

Carbon Trading.

I vaguely know a bloke who has a company that does 'Carbon Offsetting' and he tried some time ago to sell me some trees in some far off land that probably don't exist to neutralise all the carbon I produce. Apparently he 'really cares' about the environment and even goes to the extent of offsetting the carbon that the BMW M5 he drives around in produces

[Rocket88]

Ref ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^. Out of interest, unless you fly out there personally and check, how the hell do you verify they've actually planted the bloody things anyway?

[garethj]

I normally try and keep my grumbles here vaguely car related but...Carbon Trading.

Apparently the carbon footprint of a pet dog is several times that of a family car. If you run over 3 dogs a year, you can be carbon neutral

[Tayne]

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[Rusty Pelican]

Tractors More specifically Tractors on MAIN ROADS , Why the fuck do these things need to trundle on and on for bloody miles and miles is beyond me ,A303 and A30 was todays joyous tailback . During lunchtime as well , I encounter 6 of the fugging things today on a 60 mile drive , just to really boil my piss on the way back got stuck behind some old giffer who insisted on doing 40 everywhere and braking at every bend and every time a car came the other way , Fuck off and walk you twat

[retrogeezer]

Yeh, they piss me off too, they are designed to drive in fields so why don't they use the bloody things in them!!I feel like driving my car very slowly in front of one while they try to do some ploughing!

[CortinaDave]

Tractors irritate the hell out of me. I get stuck behind them at 25mph on the a92 dundee road every day. Its just my luck that the only part of the a92 thats not dualled is the 30 mile stretch I have to trawl along every day. Whats worse is since my local "Safety"/Robbery Camera Pratnership are always hiding in the bushes on it these days, no one will overtake the tractors for fear of being zapped by a speed gun, so you are forced to sit at the back of a 25 car long tailback at the aforesaid 25mph.Even if you are fortunate enough to not encounter a tractor everyone sits at 35 - 40 mph on that road in fear and alarm of the camera gestapo even though the limit is 60. Gah!

[Polystratus]

Tractors More specifically Tractors on MAIN ROADS , Why the fuck do these things need to trundle on and on for bloody miles and miles is beyond me ,A303 and A30 was todays joyous tailback . During lunchtime as well , I encounter 6 of the fugging things today on a 60 mile drive

Tractors don't bother me so much but it's those JCB fork lift truck type things on motorway once and was causing quite a bit of tailback, and I'm sure it shouldn't have been on there in the first place.

[myglaren]

Ref ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^. Out of interest, unless you fly out there personally and check, how the hell do you verify they've actually planted the bloody things anyway?

And how many other people they have 'sold' them to as well

[wuvvum]

Yeh, they piss me off too, they are designed to drive in fields so why don't they use the bloody things in them!!I feel like driving my car very slowly in front of one while they try to do some ploughing!

A couple of years back I was stuck behind a tractor and some kind of weird agricultural machine grinding along the A140 at 25mph, for mile after mile. They had plenty of opportunities to pull over and let traffic past, and there must have been a good half mile queue behind them. Occasionally a car would manage to overtake and would invariably give them either a blast on the horn or the finger through the window, or both. There was an old Transit pickup which was getting rather irate, and when he finally managed to get past he pulled back in front of the machine and slowed down to 5mph. He sat there for a good couple of miles, and it had the double effect of making a point and making it far easier for following traffic to get past what was now to all intents and purposes a stationery obstacle.

[retrogeezer]

That reminds me, I was sat behind a tractor coming home from Barnstaple once on that North Devon link road with miles of single carriageway. I think I was a couple of cars back and saw we were approaching an empty lay by.I thought, great - he'll pull in now and did he?? did he fuck - tosser.Anyway, it was a long lay by so I just pulled into it and accelerated out the other end in front of him. Thing is there was still a massive queue behind the inconsiderate twat.

[55bloke]

Yeh, they piss me off too, they are designed to drive in fields so why don't they use the bloody things in them!!I feel like driving my car very slowly in front of one while they try to do some ploughing!

Tractors infuriate me too, BUT...... how are they supposed to get from one field to the next, or from the farm yard to the field? Having lived for 20odd years in an agricultural area of the country, you kinda get a bit more sympathetic to farmers, for whom life is bloody tough anyway. You want to be able to buy your bread and cakes, and your breakfast cereal, etc, then cut the poor sods trying to earn a living producing it a bit of slack!

[Cavcraft]

I have very little sympathy for farmers full stop but in fairness to some tractor drivers it's the wankers in the first couple of cars behind them who are as much to blame at times.They're the one (where possible) with the opportunity to overtake and give the rest of us a fighting chance but the dozy twats just follow blindly.