The grumpy thread

[cobblers]

I went to the tip 14 times today. Fourteen. 

[Timewaster]

I went to the tip 14 times today. Fourteen.

 

giving or receiving?

[jakebullet]

I was told to get some yoghurts while I was at tesco.

 

Ok, which ones do you want?

Don't know what they're called.

What flavour?

All flavours.

Round or square pot?

~Draws a vague squiggle shape in air~

Any other clues?

Last time they was on offer they was £1.25, or £1.50 at morrisons.

 

right.... this should be easy.

 

For some strange reason I came back with the wrong yoghurts. Can't think why.....

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Why did you bring any back at all when armed with such lousy information. You have brought that on yourself.

[scaryoldcortina]

Exactly. Any time I'm given vauge instructions like that I ignore them and then if asked say that they didn't have any. Works 100% HONEST

[jakebullet]

Wrong ones are better than the tantrum tomorrow when there's no yoghurt at all in the fridge.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

If you know theres going to be a yoghurt tantrum next morning, simply go out for a walk 5 mins before it starts. Come on man sharpen up.

[Lord Sterling]

Another shit day today.

 

Started yesterday actually. The route planners at work decided somehow that I could drive down to Penzance from mine to deliver a car by 9am (delivered at 11am because; 4 hour drive from mine plus they don't pay me enough to get up that early) then take a 3-hour train ride to Saltash near Plymouth to pick up a car, then drive another 2.5/3 hours to Southampton, then get to the arse end of nowhere near Salisbury to pick up a van - before 4pm - to go home - All on the same day.

 

Alas this was not done because; I'm a human being, public transport takes its time and there are speed limits on the road. By the time I got to Southampton it was well past 4pm. So I booked some accommodation (which I didn't mind as I like the 'Solent'/IoW area and I did think about popping to stay with Ma_Sterling on the IoW, but didn't have enough time) and dropped second car off (early BMW 1-series off to Cyprus) in the morning. Then I set off off to Salisbury for van, didn't get there until late morning. It really was in the middle of nowhere near Stonehenge.

 

For today's second vehicle after I dropped off the van in Accrington from Salisbury, I travelled across Yorkshire from Accrington to Batley only to find that the dealership had lost the keys to vehicle I was supposed to take (some Range Rover Sport) so I had to make my home on the train.

 

I've had enough of this new company I've been doing work for. Told them I'm jacking it in by the end of this week and moving back to my old company. Yes with my old company it means more nights away from home but at least I'll be taking home decent money and the planning was never this bad.

[strangeangel]

Phone numbers on them though, so it's time to go on a proxy and sign the bastard up for some PPI claims etc.

 

Our local council's take on abandoned vehicles is something like 'one that no-one has an interest in'; nothing specific about T&T. If the vehicles in question represented a threat to the safety of the public - say if they all had multiple broken windows, for example - then I reckon they'd get towed fairly swiftly.

 

[scaryoldcortina]

 

Wrong ones are better than the tantrum tomorrow when there's no yoghurt at all in the fridge.

 

 

If you know theres going to be a yoghurt tantrum next morning, simply go out for a walk 5 mins before it starts. Come on man sharpen up.

Anyone throwing a yoghurt tantrum in this house gets told to go buy their own bloody yoghurt. Same goes for any other food related huffs. If you don't like what I buy/cook then get off your arse and go do the fucking shopping then. So far, no-one has actually taken me up on the offer* so as far as I'm concerned they get no say in the matter.

[Barry Cade]

Isn't bukakke a Japanese yogurt tantrum? Or am I getting confused with a home market only daihatsu.

[Junkman]

If anyone in this house doesn't like the yogurt, or anything else for that matter, they'll be treated to the next yogurt truck explosion sooner than they can say shit.

[Cavcraft]

I was told to get some yoghurts while I was at tesco.

 

Ok, which ones do you want?

Don't know what they're called.

What flavour?

All flavours.

Round or square pot?

~Draws a vague squiggle shape in air~

Any other clues?

Last time they was on offer they was £1.25, or £1.50 at morrisons.

 

right.... this should be easy.

 

For some strange reason I came back with the wrong yoghurts. Can't think why.....

 

I'm a miserable old bastard at the best of times, but would it be unfair to suggest 98.7% of your posts are complaining about something? Just move out and man up or something.

[BavarianRetro]

I'm a miserable old bastard at the best of times, but would it be unfair to suggest 98.7% of your posts are complaining about something? Just move out and man up or something.

It IS unfair to suggest that. It's unfair to the other 1.3% of his posts which are also complaining about something. 100% are complaints about his life.

 

I was utterly astonished not that long ago to find out that this isn't a teenager/early 20s young man. Oh, and as far as I can see 0% have any old/shite car content.

[Dave_Q]

RE Yoghurtgate.

 

If I tried to send my wife to the motor factors to buy a rear engine mount for my Berlingo, with the instruction "its that bit of rubber down the back of the engine on the red car, last time I got one it was about £12 on eBay" she would either; tell me to do one, or bring back the wrong thing because she's not psychic.

 

Option B seems not to have gone well for you, try option A next time.

[chaseracer]

^ This.

[oldcars]

Regarding yoghurt's, i had one of the corners* from Aldi, rank was not the word. It was strawberry, tasted nothing like strawberry and looked like pollyfiller.

[purplebargeken]

I get that when shopping, buy some bread. Ok, what type. Make, seeded/non-seeded, brown/white, sliced/unsliced? Everything unsure gets a call home, then I say it's out of stock Works about 98% of the time. Don't care if it's on the website, it ain't in the shop :)

[Guest Hooli]

Our local council's take on abandoned vehicles is something like 'one that no-one has an interest in'; nothing specific about T&T. If the vehicles in question represented a threat to the safety of the public - say if they all had multiple broken windows, for example - then I reckon they'd get towed fairly swiftly.

 

Always used to be the case that if the petrol cap is missing the dumped car has to be removed within 24hours.

[vulgalour]

Yoghurt tantrums. I very nearly rofled out of my chair.

[sporty-shite]

, I travelled across Yorkshire from Accrington to Batley 

 

No you didn't. You travelled from Lancashire, into Yorkshire.

 

Bloody Southerners!

[danthecapriman]

Sodding Royal Mail!

They've managed to lose a very nice (and not cheap) 1/43 scale model of a Mercury Marquis I ordered.

 

Apparently they attempted delivery last Saturday, they didn't because I was in all day neither did anyone leave a 'sorry we missed you' card. But it appears on their tracking website that someone has signed for it as there's a weird unknown signature there!?

 

I've just had to ring them, sit there listening to the irritating recorded messages asking me to press this or that only to eventually be told it's probably lost! Thanks for that, it's kind of why I'm calling you...

 

Bastards! Now I need to try to claim my money back from them and order another one.

[overrun]

 

My fault, but considering I still left shit loads of room for prams etc, I still feel fisted.

[Ghosty]

Is that for blocking the tactile paving? If so, that's a load of shit.

[overrun]

Is that for blocking the tactile paving? If so, that's a load of shit.

 

'Parked adjacent to a dropped footway'

[Sheefag]

[Tickman]

'Parked adjacent to a dropped footway'

I would of thought you were supposed to be adjacent to it rather than blocking it!

[cobblers]

 

 

See the first 3 digits of the phone number? There's your problem. 

[Sheefag]

I know, I should be used to it after 27 years but it still pisses me off. And the fucking congestion charge as well.

[Dave_Q]

Minimum charge 20 pence, for all those times you need to park for 1 minute and 18 seconds.

 

Edit - I've done the maths wrong there, you actually get a much more reasonable 2 min 36s for 20p.