The grumpy thread

[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...? 

[Junkman]

Norfolk is fantastic, especially the north of the county.

 

Talk to me about Cromer, please.

[Stanky]

Go crabbing, its brilliant! You don't have to eat them, though they are supposed to be very good - I think the done thing is to put them back for others to catch too.

 

 

Holkham has amazing beaches, Wells-next-the-sea is very nice and someone on here has a friend who has a wherry moored there.

 

Norwich is a nice city to visit too.

[Doctormop]

Talk to me about Cromer, please.

 

Stephen Fry once worked as a waiter at The Hotel de Paris in Cromer, Winston Churchill holidayed there as a 14 year old and hated it.

I really like it there, having visited a few times over many years, its a small town that's just big enough if you know what I mean, I always come back so relaxed that I'm Cromertosed!!

 

(Won't give up the day job just yet)

[Kiltox]

Modern classic?! Yeah people are really foaming at the gash for 56 reg Cat D Z4s

 

[Cavcraft]

Talk to me about Cromer, please.

 

It's quite probably the best coastal resort in Britain. Seriously.

[EssDeeWon]

Talk to me about Cromer, please.

 

[trigger]

Cromer is lovely. Keep an eye open for the big house with the Aston Martin Lagonda (1970s model) and a Rolls Royce Camargue laid up in the front yard.

[chaseracer]

It's quite probably the best coastal resort in Britain. Seriously.

 

Apart from Llandudno...  

[NorfolkNWeigh]

As today is the 1st of the month 6 different lots of road tax come out of my bank , so it's a bit annoying that I've paid £11 to use the M6 Toll road on the way to Blackpool and back this morning and £11.50 to drive about 500 yards into the congestion charge zone .

 

Just remembered my brother has come back from France and his car is on my Dart Charge account , that's another £1.67.

Oh, and whilst I'm moaning, . £7.20 for parking at Gatwick, because the traffic getting in and out meant I went over the 30 mins.

 

Glad I've got no work tomorrow, I'll save a few quid!

[HillmanImp]

Apart from Llandudno...  

Not if you stay at the Grand. This was my post from January 2015:

 

I went there last summer. Was an experience. Stayed at the Grand Hotel as that was the only one with room as we decided to travel away at the last minute. Never been before but when I got there it seemed familiar but that was only because I had seen 'Holiday on the Buses' on ITV4 and most of the surviving cast were in the same hotel.

 

I think 99% of the people there had been going there at the same weekend for the last 50yrs. We probably only got our room as someone had died leaving an unexpected vacancy.

 

We had a GR12 view out of the window:

 

 

Plus we had to buy some water as you could not drink it out of the taps as it was not safe for human consumption. Maybe if we keep going back year after year, we will get promoted to a better room as a return customer. 

 

This was the bar area:

 

 

Based upon my thoughts above, I bet these people must have been going there for so long that their rooms are probably plated in gold with mattresses you would sink in and HDTVs with a free Redtube subscription. 

 

I had this:

 

 

Aactually I reckon the girls from RedTube are actually in the room offering to fellate you. Thats the only reason I could ever see for coming back.

 

I went for breakfast in the morning and it was truly the worst thing I have ever eaten (and I love a fry up) but there were hundreds of pensioners lapping it up like it was the food of the gods. IT WAS VILE. The black pudding was half cooked, the bacon was fat and the sausages look like they were recovered from under the sea there was that much water pouring out of them.

[beko1987]

That looks nice* Reminds me of the b and b in bournemouth we used to stay at for £25 a night each when we went clubbing. They were grim, but ace! Especially since we only really stayed in them for a few hours, generally high on something