The grumpy thread

[saucedoctor]

Pallets are GR9. My mate gets them free from one of his suppliers, chops em up and burns them in his wood burner stove/boiler thing. He gave me some of them, and I made some mini-decking for a mate's wee back yard from them. Sprayed the finished article with that Cuprinol stuff that's the same colour as Dale Winton and it looks grand, even if I do say so myself.

[Richard]

I can't even remember what brand these drill bits were, but half way through she said (obviously thinking it was me that was the issue in this equation) 'it's not the drill bits, these weren't cheap ones from Lidl'

 

So I googled them and the first place that came up selling them...Lidl. We did both have a laugh about that which lightened the mood temporarily..

 

Bad workman always blames his tools, in this case it was definitely both.

 

It seems to me that you'd get on a lot better if you bought tools and she used them.

[Captain Furious]

Not a bad idea that

[jakebullet]

Grade 2 listed building you say? Prime town centre plot otherwise? If only there could be some tragic accident*

 

 

This was Thursday. It's still standing, and there's still a big exclusion zone around it that is a total ballache if you want to drive anywhere.

 

It would be amusing if they made them rebuild it, but it looks very fucked. All the floors are gone, just the walls left.

[rainagain]

Bought my son a Hornby loco and some wagons from ebay. The Excellent condition' loco has the power bogie broken. Contacted seller he is denying it was like that when he posted it. He sounds genuine but I can't see how it could have gotten damaged in transit as it was well packaged. He's refusing to offer any money back saying it doesn't look like the loco he posted. Its crazy but I even though I know I can get a full refund easily through PayPal I feel bad about doing it. He sent it myHermes which might explain it.

[Captain Furious]

Grade 2 listed by the council of Chernobyl?

[saucedoctor]

8'x4'. Truckload. Job jobbed.

[Lankytim]

I've often wondered about these fires in listed buildings. Do the owners/developers allow them to get into such a state that vandals get in and set fire to them, or do they actually pay someone to go round and smash them up/burn them like in that film "batteries not included"

[Captain Furious]

I've often wondered whether fires occur in listed buildings just after they've been refused planning permission for new housing estates

 

But I'm a cynical kinda guy

[DeeJay]

I've often wondered about these fires in listed buildings. Do the owners/developers allow them to get into such a state that vandals get in and set fire to them, or do they actually pay someone to go round and smash them up/burn them like in that film "batteries not included"

That's how it seems to happens in Liverpool.

[eddyramrod]

My pay was down this month, after having half of it off-sick.  OK, fair enough.  However, I'm my own worst enemy... I've, er, managed to buy some 1/18 scale cars and some clothing items on ebay.  All goes through one of my credit cards, which are both fairly loaded.  Of course the moment the cars arrive MrsR goes bananas about me spending money we don't have.  She's correct, which makes it worse.  But that isn't even the worst thing.  All four deliveries arrived on different days, so I got it all over again.  And again, and again.

 

On the upside, I now have a Starsky Torino in one of my cabinets!

[Captain Furious]

Need to see pics of deliveries before we can pass judgement on purchase validity

[Ghosty]

I lurk on a building/planning/city development forum sometimes, and from what I've read there it does appear that you can 'accidentally' make listed buildings go away.

[Tamworthbay]

I've often wondered whether fires occur in listed buildings just after they've been refused planning permission for new housing estates

But I'm a cynical kinda guy

The old Norton pub in Brum had a big fire shortly after planning was refused to knock it down and build a supermarket, guess what it is now?

 

Make of that what you will.

[chaseracer]

There used to be a hotel in central Cannock called The Hollies.  It was a lovely listed Victorian building and was THE place to hold your posh 'do'.  Domestic Management & I had our wedding reception there.  When the proprietor retired, he couldn't find a buyer for the going concern, so the hotel - with extensive gardens - was sold for development, with the proviso that the main building should be restored and converted, not demolished.  This meant that a couple fewer properties could be squeezed onto the site.

 

No prizes for guessing what happened.

 

However, the council was having none of it.  The developer was taken to court and had to reconstruct the main building to its original outward appearance and on its existing footprint.

[cros]

Grade 2 listed building you say? Prime town centre plot otherwise? If only there could be some tragic accident*

 

 

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This was Thursday. It's still standing, and there's still a big exclusion zone around it that is a total ballache if you want to drive anywhere.

 

It would be amusing if they made them rebuild it, but it looks very fucked. All the floors are gone, just the walls left.

We keep loosing all the good stuff and replacing it with garbage. Greed rules.

[purplebargeken]

Polish family next door are normally sound. The mum who keeps everyone on a short leash has gone to Poland for a couple of weeks as of last night.

 

Now...... they have other family over from Dutchland and the expressed volume has hit the fucking stratosphere. They do not appear to be able to have a conversation at anything like a reasonable level. They are winding the two dogs up so they are barking their brains out. I have a raging headache and am tempted to play german heavy metal at them on full volume just because.

 

Not in a happy place today. 

[Tamworthbay]

Polish family next door are normally sound. The mum who keeps everyone on a short leash has gone to Poland for a couple of weeks as of last night.

 

Now...... they have other family over from Dutchland and the expressed volume has hit the fucking stratosphere. They do not appear to be able to have a conversation at anything like a reasonable level. They are winding the two dogs up so they are barking their brains out. I have a raging headache and am tempted to play german heavy metal at them on full volume just because.

 

Not in a happy place today.

 

Nine inch nails, Happiness in slavery off Broken should do the trick one of my faves.

[Alfamale]

Grade 2 listed by the council of Chernobyl?

Nope, Barnsley. But they are pretty much the same to the casual observer.

[cobblers]

Polish family next door are normally sound. The mum who keeps everyone on a short leash has gone to Poland for a couple of weeks as of last night.

 

Now...... they have other family over from Dutchland and the expressed volume has hit the fucking stratosphere. They do not appear to be able to have a conversation at anything like a reasonable level. They are winding the two dogs up so they are barking their brains out. I have a raging headache and am tempted to play german heavy metal at them on full volume just because.

 

Not in a happy place today. 

Aye. Fucking neighbours

 

Ours are a couple in their early 20s. Three kids all under 6. More teeth than brain cells, but less teeth between all 5 of them than in my gob.

 

Their idea of raising their kids is to just lock them in their bedroom for hours on end while they hammer on the walls and scream hysterically. Social care are there once or twice a week. We've spoke to social care about it but they won't even come out unless we say the kids are in immediate danger. They aren't in physical danger but a kid has got to be seriously fucking distressed if it'll spend 5 hours screaming continuously. This happens most days, especially now the schools are off.

 

If someone treat their dogs like these people treat their kids then the RSPCA would the round in minutes, but social care are woefully underfunded, and what can they really do? They won't take the kids away from these people who are completely unfit to be parents.

 

It's really sad because you know that these kids are going to have their own kids enough, and treat them like absolute shit too because all they know is conflict - you could probably follow this up for several generations.

[cros]

Chips served in a tiny galvanised bucket atop a piece of roofing material by a waitress on minimum wages. I wouldn't entertain a prostitute in such a place.

[purplebargeken]

Nine inch nails, Happiness in slavery off Broken should do the trick   one of my faves. 

 

Perfect!!!

[dave21478]

Chips served in a tiny galvanised bucket atop a piece of roofing material by a waitress on minimum wages. I wouldn't entertain a prostitute in such a place.

Are all these quaint* little buckets and watering cans and stuff bought from garden centres and used to serve food in nowadays rated as food safe? I would take a wild guess that the managers of Happy Chinese Manufacturing Facility No.6 arent really bothered about stuff like that on novelties they stamp out for literally a couple of pennies unit cost price.

Galvanised stuff seems particularly idiotic to me.

[Pillock]

You know the latest fad is a ChipTank yeah? A tankard of chips.

 

Yeah.

[Cavcraft]

Bit of a mixed day, really. Went to visit my sister-in-law and brother, had a sad but sort of oddly pleasant time talking through their wedding pictures and trying to stay positive. Got lost in Chesterfield coming back, had planned to go to Shropshire, but the traffic and my frame of mind meant it got sacked off. The standard of driving round there is just atrocious and some old duffer in a Honda pulled straight out on me at a roundabout, only the fact I'd judged his next move (i.e pulling out) meant me not hitting him. Some gobshite also tried to wipe himself, me and another car out in one fell swoop when he attempted the world's most stupid overtaking manoeuvre. Two miles later he comes past doing about 411mph, fifteen miles later he's in front of me in Stockport. Well worth his shit driving then.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Those fucking tin buckets with half a dozen badly cooked chips in drive me crackers. I went to a posh pub in oxford recently and paid £50-odd quid for lunch for 2. Mine was 'fish and chips' served exactly like Cros describes. It came adorned with all the flowery toss in the menu about being hand-cut, what brand of locally-grown potato and all that. It was the worst fish and chips I can remember and served by clueless kids on the minimum minimum wage, all of whom spent their time queueing up behind each other to frantically bash away on some ludicrously complicated computerised till while the pub descended into 'sunny lunchtime' chaos around them.

[Pillock]

Meanwhile, I had a £6.50 Rock and Chips on the seafront at Southend-on-Sea last weekend.

It was cooked to order, bought out by a big bloke with proper brylcreem'ed hair and a grubby teatowel tucked into his trousers, and just about finished me off with the size of it. I know not what the locality of the potatoes was, as they tasted like bloody nice chips. There was no computerised till, the bloke had just memorised the prices for every combination of fishes, sizes of chips and other fried savoury items. Oh, and they had picked eggs. Gonna bet that the £25 option didn't feature a picked egg.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Two words.......

 

KATIE FUCKING PRICE.

 

just had to watch her whining, botoxed fishface on tv because the missus wanted to see the horses.

 

Wasn't bad when the horses were on screen but she had to spoil it all with her monotone, makeup clagged face on the screen.

 

Why doesn't she just FRO

[michael1703]

Two words.......

KATIE FUCKING PRICE.

That's 3

 

Wait ten years when her plastic surgery starts falling apart and gloat

[jakebullet]

Not really a grump, but we have a thanks button now as well as like? Is it like tiger tokens, collect a billion for a set of highball glasses?