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Not a personal grump but the new all black packaging on tobacco products regardless of manufacturer is causing loads of hassle for those stocking shelves and selling the items. As the lad in my local petrol station said, it won't make the slightest but of difference to the amount of people smoking, it just makes it deliberately more awkward for the seller who is going to be selling the products regardless.

 

I can't see the logic behind this regulation. Progress?? Feckin clowns.

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The train from Peebo is crap.

There's a family sat in my seat with a shrieking baby and the woman sat across from me complains whenever I dare to move in my seat. "You're on my feet", yeah, sorry for having legs.

 

Seriously, fuck off.

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Exactly that!

 

I'd get passed by them doing about 90 & then 10miles later they'll be following a truck in Lane 1, a few miles later they scream past - repeat until bored.

 

 

Do people not understand how gearboxes work? In the Rover 214 I'm forever being held up by people who crawl around the roundabout then accerale at a snail's pace until they get to 55mph. Just drop a gear.

 

 

Add in people who dont think to change down before a corner, struggle round it tapping the brakes as they go then try to pull out of it in their turbodiesel in too high a gear and off boost.

Also people who find themselves going a little too fast on an open motorway so tap the brakes then build up speed again.

See also my brother in law and thousands like him who drive fast on the motorway, catch up with someone, sit behind them for a while then pull out and around them. 

 

And people complain they get shit MPGs from their cars. Idiots.

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Speaking of idiots, I picked up a wee diesel tractor mower today and I was fiddling with it on the trailer trying to get it start and somewhere between the trailer and the garage I have lost the filler cap for the fuel tank. Just fucking GONE. 

Looking online, obviously they are hand carved from gold plated unobtanium and its some weirdo thread pattern that means I cant find anything else that will fit it.

Rag stuffed in the hole it is, then.

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Not a personal grump but the new all black packaging on tobacco products regardless of manufacturer is causing loads of hassle for those stocking shelves and selling the items. As the lad in my local petrol station said, it won't make the slightest but of difference to the amount of people smoking, it just makes it more awkward for the seller.

 

I can't see the logic behind this regulation. Feckin clowns.

Hmm yes..............I was back in the UK over the festive period and saw this....What the fuck is that supposed to achieve. Talk about nanny state and govt. over-reach. Who is responsible for dreaming up this crap.......and more important who is it who actually listened to them and put this into law. So now all the fags are locked up and not on display, and even if they were on display they're unidentifiable to boot...........Feckin country is being run by a bunch of control freak loonies.

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.... not shown in the deliberately angled eBay photos, ....

 

 

Hhhnnng. Fucking hell, that annoys me.

How stupid are people.....do they think I wont notice the damage they have hidden when I turn up to buy it.

 

See also bell-ends who say a car interior is in excellent condition but have placed the seatbelt over the drivers bolster to hide the tears, or have the huge Map Of Africa piss stain on the back seat just out of the photo frame.

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The fag packet thing is the same here, with them all the same bland colour, massive photos of aids-riddled cancer tumours and the brand in tiny wee lettering.

 

I dont smoke so it doesnt bother me, but I hear about it all the time from those that do. Other problems include when two or more people put packets on a table or whatever and suddenly nobody knows whos was whos.

 

There is a growing market for wee plastic or metal sleeves with various designs on the front to slip the packets into as cammoflage / personalisation.

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Toy fairs. Not the event, but the blokes that attend.

 

For fucks sake - have a shower! Every time you are surrounded by blokes that smell of BO and onions and look like operation Yewtree should be interested in them.

 

Only for the fact I got a couple of bargains I would be really grumpy.

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Toy fairs. Not the event, but the blokes that attend.

 

For fucks sake - have a shower! Every time you are surrounded by blokes that smell of BO and onions and look like operation Yewtree should be interested in them.

 

Only for the fact I got a couple of bargains I would be really grumpy.

One of the reasons why I only do the large fairs now - can't stand the maft.

 

See also: comicons. My ex used to love 'em. Similar hum.

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Came home from lunch in a glass across the fields only to find the shooting folk have cut the track up so badly that the bike wheels wouldn't go round so had to carry the fucking thing. Instead of sleeping it off I had to hose it off which means I haven't seen a decent return on my beer investment.

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Thick fog, and fucking MORONS driving with no lights on.

 

If I were plod, I'd be having them over and giving them the good news of a court summons for driving without due care.

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Thick fog, and fucking MORONS driving with no lights on.

 

If I were plod, I'd be having them over and giving them the good news of a court summons for driving without due care.

When I went to Scotland on Friday I was overtaken by three cars in thick fog with no lights on on the way home. Also seen countless cars with day running lights on and nothing else. No rear lights at all. Thing is I was doing 50 on the bypass which I deemed as a safe speed with vision being shit so God knows how they were seeing. Divine intervention from on high maybe.
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Speaking of idiots, I picked up a wee diesel tractor mower today and I was fiddling with it on the trailer trying to get it start and somewhere between the trailer and the

garage I have lost the filler cap for the fuel tank. Just fucking GONE. 

Looking online, obviously they are hand carved from gold plated unobtanium and its some weirdo thread pattern that means I cant find anything else that will fit it.

Rag stuffed in the hole it is, then.

Pic please.

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^^^ What plod...?

There are loads at the dole office, leafy Gated estates don't need the police as they have security guards.

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(Re now all-black packaging for tobacco products).

 

There is a growing market for wee plastic or metal sleeves with various designs on the front to slip the packets into as cammoflage / personalisation.

What a great idea, not necessary for me personally but it's a wide open business opportunity. Am not a heavy smoker but enjoy a few tobaccy rollies each day with a rich coffee to take a break and maybe have a think about things and get some perspective on various day to day problems. Couldn't give a fk what colour the packet is.
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Traffic lights on roundabouts.Is it now common practice when waiting on red to watch the on coming lanes traffic lights change to amber the start to pull away,before your light change?

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Traffic lights on roundabouts.

 

FTFY.

 

 

They are one of the cuntyist ideas ever to ruin traffic flow.

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Traffic lights on roundabouts.Is it now common practice when waiting on red to watch the on coming lanes traffic lights change to amber the start to pull away,before your light change?

 

This has been going on for YEARS at traffic lights. Not just on roundabouts. I remember getting honked at in Piccadilly Circus one night because I wasn't already moving before the lights even gave a hint of flashing a bit of amber, let alone green. That was at 2am!

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Left ear is blocked up leaving me half deaf. This only happens on/off for a couple of weeks a year but I find it highly irritating.

 

Usually I get it clear with hot water but it 'aint having it today...

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Left ear is blocked up leaving me half deaf. This only happens on/off for a couple of weeks a year but I find it highly irritating.

 

Usually I get it clear with hot water but it 'aint having it today...

Try Olive oil

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Came home from lunch in a glass across the fields only to find the shooting folk have cut the track up so badly that the bike wheels wouldn't go round so had to carry the fucking thing. Instead of sleeping it off I had to hose it off which means I haven't seen a decent return on my beer investment.

 

If you send me your thumbshifters & wheels, I promise you'll feel loads better.

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Saw some dirty b*stard dump a bag full of rubbish out of their car before they left the parent and child spaces at tesco. You know, the spaces just metres away from the shop and at least 2 bins :angry:

 

 

I know I have said I don't agree with public shaming but it turns out I got it on dash cam and I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooo tempted.

 

 

I hate litter.

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If you have the reg, send the video to the council and hopefully they'll send them a letter/fine. 

 

I think I will, I just don't know if the can do owt with it being on Tesco's carpark?

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Plus I feel a bit like a busybody grass, but then again there's no excuse, they were right by the bins and didn't just drop it by accident, they quite purposefully bagged it up, opened the door put it under the car and drove off.

 

I put it in the bin, btw. And on the plus side I saw another man pick up a bottle that was on the floor in the same area and put that in the bin too. So maybe its been cancelled out by good deeds already.

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