The grumpy thread

[M'coli]

Maybe.... I did go to the doctors last year, but by the time I got there I was breathing OK as it seems to be a lying-down thing and takes a while to develop. So effectively I got fobbed off like a garage would, "well there's nothing wrong at the minute so come back if it happens again". Without the doctor kipping on the end of the bed, that's not going to work.

 

I don't know whether they need to know what sort of things are going off to prescribe something for it, maybe "it feels like someone is strangling me" is too vague. 

I've had asthma for decades and was on blue and brown inhalers but had trouble when exercising a good 7 years ago, so rather than explaining it to the doctor, I recorded my breathing whilst I was running and played it back to them...it worked, I'm on better meds and for the first time in my life I have had blue inhalers go out of date before they're empty.

[xtriple]

My friend Betty (84 years old) is off to Derriford hospital tomorrow ready for surgery Tuesday morning... open heart job! I am worried.

[Sheefag]

Their bollocks are probably too small to get a decent loop of rope around them in order to hang 'em.

I'd enjoy trying.

[primeradoner]

Someone appears to have hit the tailgate of the Primera somehow.  It's buckled the "notchback" bit quite badly on one side, to the extent that the spoiler (which I found laying on the ground behind the car) won't fit any more.

 

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I've removed the remaining spoiler fixings and stuck gaffer tape over the holes for now - I'm probably going to fill them with wob from the inside eventually.  I don't think a boot spoiler is an aerodynamic necessity on a car with 150bhp.  It's annoyed me though - it's not the end of the world as the Primera was already a bit battered, but you don't do that kind of damage without noticing you've done it, and whoever it was obviously just fucked off.

 

I also found the driver's door mirror of the Saab had been knocked and the glass broken, but that was partly my fault for forgetting to fold the mirror in when the car was parked on a narrow road that lots of tractors drive up.

 

Final grump - I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my computer.  The new one runs on Windows 10.

 

Where are you based wuvvum? Ive got a tailgate that colour that i would swap as this car is destined for the oval. 

[beko1987]

If he's not close, where are you and I'm sure the autoshite relay service can kick into action!

[Pillock]

I believe Wuvvum is Norfolk-ish.

[beko1987]

Unless your the other side of Oxford then I can't help to bring it closer

[jakebullet]

Fuckwits have done the bus shelter again. WTF is this supposed to be? Looks like a 3 year olds picture of mummy.

 

[chaseracer]

Their bollocks are probably too small to get a decent loop of rope around them in order to hang 'em.

 

Use piano wire.

[hairnet]

Unless your the other side of Oxford then I can't help to bring it closer

you haz derv that runs veg - go daytrip

[richardmorris]

My friend Betty (84 years old) is off to Derriford hospital tomorrow ready for surgery Tuesday morning... open heart job! I am worried.

They wouldn't even think about it if she wasn't going to be ok with the anaesthetic. Hope she does well.

[wuvvum]

I am indeed in Norfolk.

[wuvvum]

Latest grump - I appear to have lost the keys to the Hyundai van.  I had them this morning as I got the pushbike out of the back of the van to cycle to the local car boot, and I still had them when I got back as I put the bike back in the van and also put the rear foglight that I'd picked up for £2 in the glovebox.  This afternoon I went to nip to Tescos in the van to buy a few bits and fill up with diesel, and I couldn't find the bloody keys anywhere.  I hadn't been anywhere in the meantime - just walked the 100 yards or so from where the van is parked to my front door.  I've searched the house and the front garden, and the path all the way down to the van - no sign.  Fuck knows what's happened to them - my only conclusion is they must've fallen out of my pocket between the van and the house (although I'm surprised I didn't hear them fall) and someone must have picked them up.

 

So now I need to ring the Hyundai dealer in the morning and see if they can cut me a new key from the VIN.  Being thankful for small mercies, at least there's no immobiliser (at least I don't think there is - there's no flashy light and the keys weren't big enough to hold a transponder chip) so a replacement shouldn't break the bank.

 

I found an old Saab key in my stash that would open the passenger door, so at least I can get into the van.  I do now have the slight worry though that someone might have the keys and decide to do something nefarious with them - highly unlikely around here admittedly, but with what's just happened to Trig I don't want to be complacent.  So I've dug out an old Crooklock and fitted that, and disconnected the battery - that should be enough to deter any opportunistic ne'er-do-wells.  Still a PITA I could have done without though.

[Sloth in a bowl]

I had a lovely drive back through Wales from Dollywobblers place until I got to the M5, then 2 brummie Taxi drivers in the space of 2 miles, don't use their mirrors, don't indicate and try to drive me off the road.

 

Just because you're working on a Sunday night, please don't take it out on me.

[primeradoner]

I am indeed in Norfolk.

I am in Durham. Are you anywhere near Kings Lynn? Might be going there later in the month.

[Cavcraft]

Some programme on the telly yesterday featuring several biscuit arsed 'celebrities' and supposed comedians going on about the British abroad and how they're a national disgrace/embarrassing/disgraceful etc.

I'm not saying everything they do is a jolly jape, but if you go to the strip in Ibiza you're going to see people having a laugh and letting their hair down. Not only that, but this 'disgraceful behaviour' is mostly just young, exhuberant people who've slaved their bollocks off in some shit, minimum waged job for the very tests who moan about them enjoying themselves. And maybe, just maybe, these 'yobs' can't afford to go to five star hotels in Dubai sipping £80 cocktails or want to spend their time trying to impress people just by going somewhere expensive.

I'd rather have a holiday where people are genuinely having a laugh and enjoying themselves than being stuck with some snobby wankers pretending to have fun.

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^^^I agree, it's always the same rent a gob wankers that will say anything just to get their face on TV.

 

One question though, what's biscuit arsed?

[Lankytim]

Why do I have to jump through flaming rings of shit just to tax a car?

 

Why are the DVLA such cunts?

 

Why have they processed one log book but have no record of recieving another, even though they were sent in the same envelope? (plz cough up £25 for another thx)

 

No wonder people want to blow them up.

[Junkman]

NEVER EVER!!!!!!111!!1! send two V5Cs in one envelope!

[Junkman]

I am indeed in Norfolk.

 

I'm going there on my Summer holidays.

Is it safe?

[Tamworthbay]

I'm going there on my Summer holidays.

Is it safe?

Yes but remember to set your watch for a different time zone, it was still the 1970s the last time I checked.

[hairnet]

That far advanced?

[wuvvum]

I'm going there on my Summer holidays.

Is it safe?

Depends where you go.  Norwich is one of the safest cities in the UK.  Yarmouth is a scrote-infested shithole.

[wuvvum]

I am in Durham. Are you anywhere near Kings Lynn? Might be going there later in the month.

I'm on the other side of the county from Kings Lynn, but will be there on the 27th for the classic car auction - don't suppose that's the same time you'll be there???

[Mr A Lawrence]

Fucking eBay timewasting mong bastards!!

 

Sold an item which ended on Saturday, now the winning bidder has decided that "his bank is playing up" and can't pay for the item!!

 

Wanker.

 

Looks like I'll have to report him and do a next chance thing with the last bidder.

[purplebargeken]

Norwich is fine and dandy. Very safe indeed. 

[purplebargeken]

The Plod helo is flying around here again. Fucking thing must have this area typed in as a 'favourite' location in the satnav.

[Cavcraft]

Norfolk is fantastic, especially the north of the county.

[anonymous user]

The Plod helo is flying around here again. Fucking thing must have this area typed in as a 'favourite' location in the satnav.

If it's the one with the heat sensor, make sure you haven't left the immersion heater on in the loft

[chaseracer]

Norfolk is fantastic, especially the north of the county.

 

What - the Wash...?