The grumpy thread

[richardmorris]

I keep packaging from work for this reason- umbrellas and footballs and bottles of Benedictine are easy peasy!

[MarvinsMom]

pos cowin' fuggin' boiler keeps on tripping out.

 

and this is inspite (because of?) me getting the fitter out to it twice last week. cleaned it out and blown through the "oxygen sensor" into the burner thing and guess what, it works a treat when the fitter is hear, but on a night that is another matter.

 

now i know that the gas board have got a road dug up near by and it windy, BUT there is something not right with it.

 

i have been able to reset it/swear at it/coax it back into action but you know as well as i do, tomorrow it won't work at all, so i hope that the emersion heater and the gas fire will still work.

 

fuckin' Baxi what a wanky fucking turd of a thing its been, the ruddy thing is a pain in the arse from new and is only getting worse so i guess i'm going to need a new boiler in the new year too.

[FakeConcern]

Can we have a "commiserate" button for this thread please? I don't need to reply to each post, but there are loads I want to show that I'm thinking of them in in one way or another, but "like" is not appropriate.

[Eddie Honda]

Instead of a "commiserate" button, how about "Do I Not Like That" button instead?

[MrDuke]

Instead of a "commiserate" button, how about "Do I Not Like That" button instead?

Or simply copy & paste this image:

[Doctormop]

My useless fucked-up brain can actually do one, I'm sick to death of it. Had a properly nasty episode this afternoon which left me shaking uncontrollably, I actually thought I was going to fully lose it with a total stranger for absolutely no valid reason whatsoever, and had I done so I would've ended up in serious bother. The situation didn't involve me in the slightest, but an obnoxious raised voice was all it took for the red mist to come down. So now it seems that I can't even trust myself to be alone in public, fantastic.

I know that seems like a dumb thing compared to other people's real problems, but it's another step down the tunnel for me. I couldn't mention it to Mrs_Duke as she's already worried sick about me doing something awful (to myself, admittedly) and I had to put it down somewhere.

As you were.

Mr. Duke, nothing about your post and a later one that I can't be arsed quoting seems trivial compared to a recognized 'physical disability'

I remember a post of yours from years ago stating that you went home from work unwell and didn't go back, that's how I feel at the moment, I will struggle on as long as I can but, when the inevitable happens I will have given it my best shot and held out for as long as possible, I will go through changes and deal with each stage as best I can, at the moment I'm 3 weeks into a job I hate, have a seriously ill Father and a brother who is as much use as an inflatable anchor but with the help of my Wife and a worryingly small number of others who care I will do the best I can, not sure what my best is worth but please accept my sincere thanks for helping me to see that I am not alone.

Apologies for the self pitying tone above which annoys me greatly, have a riddle to take your mind of it.

What's long and thin, covered in skin, red in parts and goes in tarts?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Give up?

 

Rhubarb.

[Skut]

Arghhhh I want some bed. Wee man and g friend have nabbed it all after he decided his bed is not up to his standards.

[Eddie Honda]

LOL Skit.

 

I'm just hutting the hay in the spare bed in the wee man's room. Mrs H crashed out on top and across bed still in jacket...

[billyboy406v6]

Well that was a crap Christmas Day !

[bangernomics]

Merry Christmas

[Mr_Bo11ox]

A 'commiserate' button? Please god no. 'A forum for discussing old cars and serious illnesses/deaths of acquaintances'

[jakebullet]

Well that's an unexpected Christmas present. The shits n a bleeding arse.

[Eddie Honda]

Hence "Do I not like that".

 

"What do you think of Vauxhalls on PCP?"

 

Turniphead: "Do I not like that"

 

[MarvinsMom]

top of the pops at christmas,

 

what a load of terrible, tone deaf, talentless noise polluters.

 

now i know that at my age i'm not supposed to be down with the kids (and happily i am not for the record)

 

but even so, this is a load of crap, no wonder Top of The Pop's got cancelled,.

[jakebullet]

Bonus grumps. Had to cut short visit to kinky's cos a calliper decided to stick. N idiot sister who hates me has unexpectedly bought a present. Shame I didn't.  Ooops.

[Bucketeer]

Can we have a "commiserate" button for this thread please? I don't need to reply to each post, but there are loads I want to show that I'm thinking of them in in one way or another, but "like" is not appropriate.

 

I like the juxtaposition of the above quote and its author's username FakeConcern.

[chaseracer]

FFS - George Michael, now...?

[bub2006]

Say what now

[M'coli]

Tracey Ullman's still not funny.

[Sheefag]

FFS - George Michael, now...?

 

Someone just crashed into your house?

[dollywobbler]

Gawd. Social media ruined by another celebrity death. Did people not die in any other years? Will 2017 miraculously be free of celebrity deaths?

 

Though 53 is no age at all these days to be fair.

[chaseracer]

Though 53 is no age at all these days to be fair.

 

That was my point.  I am 51, and starting to feel just a bit mortal.

[bub2006]

I'll be lucky to see 50. I've accepted it to be fair. We all have our cards stamped from day we clocked in.

[Jon]

To buck the trend, Christmas Day was OK here, though our volunteer brigade turned out to a road accident only 10 mins before I was due to serve up dinner, so I had a bit of a wait for that. In all honesty, I've got in-laws here at the moment, so it's nice to be away a while and get away from tiny things they do that I blow out of all proportion and get mega pissed off by, like filling up a 1.7 litre kettle for two cups of tea, etc.

 

Anyway, that's a bonus grump - the main gripe is the amount of people that still find it acceptable to take photos and videos of road accidents on their phones as they drive by. One passenger took the biscuit yesterday, hanging a Go Pro on a selfie stick out of the sunroof. That said, yells of "really!?" from us garnered a reaction and ceasing of said activity, which I'm hoping led to crushing embarrassment on their behalf and a day ruined.

 

Merry Christmas!

[Craig the Princess]

Gawd. Social media ruined by another celebrity death. Did people not die in any other years? Will 2017 miraculously be free of celebrity deaths?

 

Though 53 is no age at all these days to be fair.

Just wait until QE2 goes...

[dollywobbler]

Just wait until QE2 goes...

 

I dunno. It'll make it easy to spot the royalists amongst my friends!

[Mr A Lawrence]

53 and heart failure.

 

Wonder if his liking for Colombian marching powder was a key factor??

 

I lost my brother from heart failure in 2001, he was only 44.

 

Big lad though.

[ruffgeezer]

The house move has killed the computer. Bollocks.

[Cheggers]

I'm putting this in Grump as I don't know where else it fits.

 

Last night I drove back to Ms_Cheggs in her Mam's 2013 Fiesta. While it's a perfectly pleasant thing to drive, I opened the curtains this morning and noticed the gap at the front of the bonnet. You could almost top up the washer bottle with the bonnet shut.

 

Are they all like that or does she have a Friday car (she's had it from new so we know it's not been crashed)?

 

 

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[Guest Hooli]

Well that's an unexpected Christmas present. The shits n a bleeding arse.

 

Didn't you say you'd put on weight a page or so ago?

 

That solves that anyway