The grumpy thread

[richardmorris]

I've a (32"?) working Sony crt tv with stand that's going to tip next week. Needs a Freeview box. Yours if you want it.

I'm in Liverpool.

Thanks, but it does give Father Christmas a chance to get me something I need for once and a replacement has already been ordered.

[bub2006]

Just had guests leave my villa in Florida. Got a call from my management company, the house looks like a bomb has hit it. Seemingly the family that were booked, were actually 12 American football players attending a competition. Pool and window screens damaged. Marble pool surround broken. Wardrobe doors pulled off. Carpets all stained and damaged. She wouldn't even tell me what the bathrooms were like. They used every towel and piece of bedding in the house. It has 6 bedrooms and we have 3 changes in cupboards. The laundry pile is 5 feet high, 4 feet across and 3 feet deep. Estimated clean time is 3 days. I arrive there on Thursday with 10 of my family. Estimated repair cost is £3k. If you want a laugh, google faderique hall. He is the lead booker. Not much chance of getting my money back. Trip advisor, who they booked through, don't give a flying fuck.

 

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That really sounds a shitty situation. Doesn't anyone have respect any more? Hope you get it sorted and are able to claim costs back.

[5speedracer]

Oh come on, I'm sure you could do 1mph surely..........

 

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[andy18s]

Just had guests leave my villa in Florida. Got a call from my management company, the house looks like a bomb has hit it. Seemingly the family that were booked, were actually 12 American football players attending a competition. Pool and window screens damaged. Marble pool surround broken. Wardrobe doors pulled off. Carpets all stained and damaged. She wouldn't even tell me what the bathrooms were like. They used every towel and piece of bedding in the house. It has 6 bedrooms and we have 3 changes in cupboards. The laundry pile is 5 feet high, 4 feet across and 3 feet deep. Estimated clean time is 3 days. I arrive there on Thursday with 10 of my family. Estimated repair cost is £3k. If you want a laugh, google faderique hall. He is the lead booker. Not much chance of getting my money back. Trip advisor, who they booked through, don't give a flying fuck.

 

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Did the management get pics?

I'm sure an embarrassing post onto the teams Facebook or twitter accounts may be called for.....

[bramz7]

Owning one car is so boring. But money, parking, sanity etc....

 

BAH.

[sierraman]

How do you break a marble pool surround? Surely you can claim recourse through the police for criminal damage?

[Guest Hooli]

Bloody Bentleys battery was flat. Like so flat it wouldn't illuminate a torch battery and the car needed serious help to get going. Did (and even managed to get it out of the garage without hitting anything!) and took it to Exeter to have it's £120 switch fitted (free, they buggered up the last one... so they say) and the car was still reluctant to start when there and the battery was showing 11.9 volts.

 

I'd have thought a run like that would have charged it right up?

 

Anyway, ran home (the car not me obviously) and it was starting as usual but I've taken the battery off (used my genuine Rolls Royce toolkit - it's even got a full set of spare bulbs in there, spanners, screwdrivers, pliers, tyre depth gauge, pressure gauge, allsorts) and put it on charge and it's pulling quite a bit from the charger. It was a new battery  6 months ago and it's suitably huge and the alternator is obviously working as it powered everything quite happily when started.

 

Is this going to be another fault that costs shit loads?

 

Any pylons near your garage?

 

I'm wondering if it's something like LR/RRs used to suffer. On them the alarm ECU would wake up if it thought it heard a fob & stay powered for a while just in case. Stray emissions from pylons etc caused them to not power down & that was causing flat batteries.

[mercrocker]

Fucking Christmas cards.   What is point?   Mrs Rocker has gone out leaving me a pile of the shitty things to write.   The incoming ones are stacked on the table to cross off against the "to do" list and then I have to look at the "new" list which is all the fuckers she has met this year who warrant* cards.  I have £23 worth of bloody stamps in another box and to top it off I got told off for buying cheap cards (£1.99 for 50 which is still ten more than I have, or will buy, stamps for).   

   

She has moaned that I am not taking Christmas seriously - so far today I have dunked three die cast project body shells in Nitromors, gone for a walk and taken the Minor to my friendly old car garage to do a brake job I couldn't be arsed with yesterday.   This involved a 45 minute inspection of a customer's Thames van.   Its now half past one and I ain't scrawled a single card.

 

On the other hand, my Autoshite secret santa present is already wrapped, carefully packaged and ready to go.   Maybe my priorities are a bit skewed...

[dollywobbler]

I wish I wasn't such a messy b*stard. I've just spent ten minutes searching fruitlessly for my electricians' pliers in the garage. All  that stands between me and being able to check the 2CV's vast* electrical system is the fitting of eight spade connectors. FFS. WHY CAN'T I BE TIDY?!

[Richard]

I bet Mrs Wobbler has moved them six inches to the left, rendering them invisible to you. My wife does that all the time.

[sporty-shite]

The Dugong 605 thread. No wonder he fucked off.

[95 quid Peugeot]

I'd like to nominate fridays fwit who thinks it's perfectly reasonable to fanny down the slip road at 20mph onto the crowded A1 wait until there is no more slip road left and then pull out into the fast flowing stream of sensible drivers keeping up with the flow at 50mph causing 6 cars to bomb burst into the space of 3, resulting in Hard metal central reservation +1,    Peugeot(RIP) -1

How do these people pass their test !

[oldcars]

I'd like to nominate fridays fwit who thinks it's perfectly reasonable to fanny down the slip road at 20mph onto the crowded A1 wait until there is no more slip road left and then pull out into the fast flowing stream of sensible drivers keeping up with the flow at 50mph causing 6 cars to bomb burst into the space of 3, resulting in Hard metal central reservation +1,    Peugeot(RIP) -1

How do these people pass their test !

 not good, hope your ok.

[Lord Sterling]

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[Bobthebeard]

The Dugong 605 thread. No wonder he fucked off.

Has he gone again?

[Richard]

Quite some time ago.

[Bren]

I wish people flogging obsolete diecast on ebay would stop restoring them, sticking them in repro boxes and then expect to get £££ for them.

[mercrocker]

Ah, you mean Atlas.....

[Guest Hooli]

Fucking Christmas cards. 

 

yeah I hate them too

[xtriple]

Had a dream last night, not one of those 'interesting' dreams either you bunch of pervs and, for a change, not about my wife. No this was about a gorgeous and amiable young lady that I got on with and we seemed to 'click' so I asked her out.

 

She said: 'No'.

 

Fuck me, I even get knocked back in my own sodding dreams!

[Sheefag]

She probably had virtual herpes. Dodged a bullet there xtriple.

[Pillock]

I'm at a work Christmas do. Team event followed by evening bash.

 

It's in fucking Cardiff, only one person out of 150+ live anywhere near. It took me 3 hours to get here, we're all wearing mandatory Christmas jumpers, and so far it's been two hours of back slapping and in jokes between one team.

 

Oh, and we were all told to get here for 9.30 (hence really early start) but nothing happened until 11.

 

Finally, they fucked up and booked a tiny hotel, and as it's in a different country everyone has to stay so they've enforced room sharing.

 

Sod that. Lemonades for me all night, nip off about 9ish and home for midnight. One lucky person gets a room to themselves.

 

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[Bobthebeard]

I'm at a work Christmas do. Team event followed by evening bash.

It's in fucking Cardiff, only one person out of 150+ live anywhere near. It took me 3 hours to get here, we're all wearing mandatory Christmas jumpers, and so far it's been two hours of back slapping and in jokes between one team.

Oh, and we were all told to get here for 9.30 (hence really early start) but nothing happened until 11.

Finally, they fucked up and booked a tiny hotel, and as it's in a different country everyone has to stay so they've enforced room sharing.

Sod that. Lemonades for me all night, nip off about 9ish and home for midnight. One lucky person gets a room to themselves.

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Take off your Christmas jumper, slip it over the back of a chair with a drink in it's 'hand' and leave.... NOW.

[Bren]

The southern rail strike makes BBC headlines.

 

If the same industrial action took place in Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool nobody would give a shit.

 

But because commuters cannot get into London it makes headline news. Many of them are raging at Southern rail.

 

My advice? Move north or buy a bastard car and stop blaming the rail companies - nobody makes you commute into London.

[Supernaut]

I'm at a work Christmas do. Team event followed by evening bash.

 

It's in fucking Cardiff, only one person out of 150+ live anywhere near. It took me 3 hours to get here, we're all wearing mandatory Christmas jumpers, and so far it's been two hours of back slapping and in jokes between one team.

 

Oh, and we were all told to get here for 9.30 (hence really early start) but nothing happened until 11.

 

Finally, they fucked up and booked a tiny hotel, and as it's in a different country everyone has to stay so they've enforced room sharing.

 

Sod that. Lemonades for me all night, nip off about 9ish and home for midnight. One lucky person gets a room to themselves.

 

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That sounds like the living embodiment of Hell.

 

Why, when told about this, didn't you just say "Sorry, but you can FRO with that idea" ?

 

 

I mean, what the fuck? Corporate-enforced joviality but it's a THREE HOUR drive away from where you normally work, with mandatory Christmas jumpers? I'm cringing just at the thought of it.

[Pillock]

I'm field based so some travel is expected, and actually 2 to 2.5hr is normal some mornings.

 

The politics and jumpers are a bunch of arse though. But since the whole team is here, if I chose not to come I'd probably have nothing else to do so I'm here.

 

Next year, I'm gonna find out the date and make sure I'm off on annual leave. Just the one day to make it obvious.

 

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[Bobthebeard]

That sounds like the living embodiment of Hell.

 

Why, when told about this, didn't you just say "Sorry, but you can FRO with that idea" ?

 

 

I mean, what the fuck? Corporate-enforced joviality but it's a THREE HOUR drive away from where you normally work, with mandatory Christmas jumpers? I'm cringing just at the thought of it.

Possibly works for the NHS... Just the kind of daft, money wasting cobblers that senior 'management' would dream up.

[Supernaut]

At my work (a university) the Christmas do is a lunch provided by Campus Services in the student canteen next Tuesday, at least that's the day they're doing it for IT Services.

 

They do a full 3-course lunch with all the trimmings, and it's in work time! It usually means the whole afternoon is gone, but I don't care.

[Captain Furious]

Work Christmas do is this Friday starting with a meal in the afternoon and then joviality and high jinks in the evening

 

In other news, I'm on holiday this Friday.  Fancy that.

[chaseracer]

1. I like the people I work with.

2. There are only seven of us.

3. The boss pays for everything.

4. This is the contract work, so 3 is not me on this occasion.

5. I fully acknowledge that I am very fortunate as regards 1-4 above.

6. I still FKN H8 XMAS M8, so roll on NYD and the traditional* ASMM get-together.