The grumpy thread

[DodgeRover]

UK wide cabbage shortage according to newspaper headlines this morning. Vegetable rationing in place. Panic buy now for Sunday lunch!

[hairnet]

Zzzzzz

[garbaldy]

/\ how is that a grump ?

[dave21478]

Why grump about Aldi and Lidl?

 

Just shop at your local greengrocer and butcher instead?

 

 

Excellent plan. Just let me get some plutonium for the Delorean and I'll be back with a cabbage and some fruit in time for lunch.  sports almanac that I can use to place bets and become a millionaire so I can afford to shop at the local greengrocers and butchers.

 

Fixed that for you

[LC Torana]

Fixed that for you

 

Huh?  Are local greengrocers and butchers dearer than supermarkets in the UK????

 

Whoa.  Mind blown.

[loserone]

Not here they're not.  Not until you take petrol into account anyway.

[Richard]

They are usually cheaper, not least because you don't end up buying a load of shit you'll never eat

[AMC Rebel]

My butcher is cheaper and better quality than our supermarkets - but we don't have a greengrocer except a market stall on Fridays.  They are also cheaper, better quality and have a wider choice than the supermarket.

[Pillock]

That's odd, I can get way cheaper stuff from a supermarket than a butcher or greengrocer.

 

Also you can just pick up a packet of whatever looks right. Last time I went into a butcher I had to ask for meat by weight. I don't know how much it weighs, I just want some meat.

 

The veg stall at the market also lets you see the fresh veg but then he puts stuff in a bag for you, choosing the nastiest stuff there. At Sainsburys I can deliberately pick the stuff with the longest date.

[mercrocker]

When I moved into our town 12 years ago we had three butchers, three bakeries and a couple of greengrocers.   It was around this time that Walmart bought Asda and enlarged the store.  Now there is nothing else, apart from a pound shop.   Nowhere else in the town sells milk except for Cravendale shit from the garage.    

 

This is the Asda that had no broccoli the day before Christmas Eve.....   They can shove their store up their fucking arse.   

[Timewaster]

To be fair we have 3 butchers left in our small market town. One is multi award winning and there is always a 30ft queue on a Saturday morning and around the block on Xmas eve.

 

Both Green grocers closed twenty years ago. Just a market stall once a week.

 

In that same twenty years we have "gained" 3 more supermarkets.

[DodgeRover]

I've never done the ordering by weight bit, if I go in it's, could I have a couple of those and about a handful of that, 1/2 a dozen slices of whatever etc Nobody seems to mind

Our local butcher is great, proper handmade sausages with real meat not just lips, tits and arseholes in a plastic skin..

[richardmorris]

Huh? Are local greengrocers and butchers dearer than supermarkets in the UK????

 

Whoa. Mind blown.

No, just that there aren't many left. Certainly not greengrocers. And there's only one fishmonger I know of in a twenty mile radius.

 

I've been going to Lewis's butchers in Ascot since I moved there in 2001 ( mr Lewis has a cbe for supplying to Windsor castle for forty years). At that time they did 10 chicken thighs and 10 drumsticks for £5. It's now £10.50 but still large and good quality. It's one with nothing on show though, go in and ask and they'll bring it out from the cold store.

 

I use Ascot and Windsor farmers markets and they're good for local veg. And have a fishmonger from selsey. Lovely smoked haddock last month!

 

There's a fruit n veg seller at one of the local garden centre carparks on the a30 too.

[alcyonecorporation]

No, just that there aren't many left. Certainly not greengrocers. And there's only one fishmonger I know of in a twenty mile radius.

I used to work near a Sainsbury's that a gang of kids persisted in nicking the 'er' from the fishmonger sign.

Happened seven or eight times before the sign was relocated.

 

There's........not a lot to do round there.

[Tamworthbay]

My Marshall amp went bang tonight, my electronics engineer mate is coming around tomorrow morning, I hope he can fix it.

[richardmorris]

As it's fresh in my mind, last Sunday market in Ascot, I bought a loin of cod for £7.50 at £15 a kilo. Waitrose is £20 the kilo. Why fish have loins and yet no legs I do not know!

[richardmorris]

My Marshall amp went bang tonight, my electronics engineer mate is coming around tomorrow morning, I hope he can fix it.

 

Bang as in not working, or where's the fire extinguisher?

[Tamworthbay]

Bang as in not working, or where's the fire extinguisher?

loud white noise for a second then nothing, little bit of smoke from the fuse but nothing else. Tried a new fuse and the same again.

[chaseracer]

Are Marshalls not infinitely rebuildable, unless engaged by nuclear warheads?  Hope so, because I have a fond interest in that big box of noise! 

[cobblers]

I used to recommend these to people who wanted to do "proper" split charge systems.

The holder is supposedly 8AWG 80A rated wire. I had a 60A fuse in there.

Bought from a somewhat reputable UK reseller.

 

Loaded to 39A on my home UPS system, the wires got hot (because they have about half the copper they claim). The fuse holder got hot because the contacts aren't anywhere near sufficiently thick, and then the fuse blew because it's basically decorative.

[omegod]

Zzzzzz

 

I'm hoping someone has dumped every single complimentary copy of that disgraceful shitrag in the bin where it belongs, I personally do so in every airport I visit and managed a record 200 + in Manchester last week 

[paulplom]

I'm a plumber. It should be illegal not to have your house number on your door. The amount of years I've spent looking for houses because they don't have a number is quite considerable. I also think the house owners are ignorant twats and I automatically stick £30 on their bill. They also get 'fined' if they drive an audi or gashguy (because of their ridiculous bright lights) and also fined if they don't offer me a coffee. Their bill could be £90 before I even get my tools out.

[Lacquer Peel]

Try being a delivery driver with some rural routes. Remote houses miles away from the postcode centre, no instructions and no signs at the end of their drives sometimes.

[garbaldy]

I'm a plumber. It should be illegal not to have your house number on your door. The amount of years I've spent looking for houses because they don't have a number is quite considerable. I also think the house owners are ignorant twats and I automatically stick £30 on their bill. They also get 'fined' if they drive an audi or gashguy (because of their ridiculous bright lights) and also fined if they don't offer me a coffee. Their bill could be £90 before I even get my tools out.

Remind me not to get you in then if that's your game.

No wonder tradesmen get a bad name.

[AMC Rebel]

I fixed an extra number on my outside wall in addition to the one on the house, have a drive full of chod with marginal headlights and you can help yourself to coffee.  Unfortunately I have the shonkiest combi boiler in the world that has hardly been improved by my "skillz" fitting a new diverter valve a couple of years ago so any discounts for house number and chod are no doubt wiped out by my being the sort of pillock who interferes with stuff they don't know much about (I don't muck about with gas obvs).

[AlabamaShrimp]

I'm a plumber. It should be illegal not to have your house number on your door. The amount of years I've spent looking for houses because they don't have a number is quite considerable. I also think the house owners are ignorant twats and I automatically stick £30 on their bill. They also get 'fined' if they drive an audi or gashguy (because of their ridiculous bright lights) and also fined if they don't offer me a coffee. Their bill could be £90 before I even get my tools out.

My favourite used to be trying to find a house in the dark. If they have a number that's too small it's extra hard to see at night. New* houses can be a nightmare as they aren't in streets as such they never build the roads straight.

 

As for odd numbering my house is 16 opposite is 126...

[dave21478]

The whole fukkin village here is just a nightmare for delivery drivers - no house numbers or names at all. The address is just persons name and village name. The postie knows who everyone is so has no problem but any non-local delivery driver is screwed.

[robinmasters]

I'm a plumber. It should be illegal not to have your house number on your door. The amount of years I've spent looking for houses because they don't have a number is quite considerable. I also think the house owners are ignorant twats and I automatically stick £30 on their bill. They also get 'fined' if they drive an audi or gashguy (because of their ridiculous bright lights) and also fined if they don't offer me a coffee. Their bill could be £90 before I even get my tools out.

 

You expect to be offered refreshments? Are you fixing these people's plumbing for free, as a favour? 

[Pillock]

I'm assuming Paul is joking, it sounds like Tradesmans Humour.

 

I had a guy come to fit a new leccy meter a while back, he was moaning as he came in that the house was hard to find. Apparently he came in from the direction where the numbering goes 103-101-99-75-73-71 etc so he'd overshot (they bulldozed a load of terraced houses and put in nice big detached bungalows, so there's spare numbers).

I gazed up above the door, his stare followed and we both looked at the 12" high bright purple house number that's been let into the glass above the door. We said nothing.

[bub2006]

I don't like doing this but I'm left with no choice. I helped someone ou, went out my way to collect something. They haven't paid for it yet from another person and I went 40 ish mile out my way to assist them with collection of an item. Not bothered replying to my messages and I'm now left with an unpaid item and no way of contacting them. Nice one. I didn't want anything for my time or diesel as it was on another job I collected it. Some folk I despair with.