The grumpy thread

[Cheggers]

when ever we have trades men around at home we always, ALWAYS will offer them a brew, with sugar as requested and even a biscuit if we have got an in the house. i have also been know to pop off to the shop for said sweet treats if there are none in the cupboard.

 

my late grand father worked as a jobbing painter/decorator type and it used to annoy him something terrible to be out working on a job all day and not even be offered a drink.

 

this used to happen all the time at the big, posh houses.

 

i used to find something similar when i used to collect pools coupons as a nipper.

 

the houses who had next to bugger all would always give me a couple of quid for a drink around xmas time, which sometimes i used to feel really bad about taking the money as i knew that they had bugger all to start with. the big posh houses, you would never, ever get a damn thing out of them.

I always give tradesmen tea & biccies as my Dad was a chippy.

 

However, now I know I'm being fleeced for making a success of myself I may think twice...

 

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[MarvinsMom]

I always give tradesmen tea & biccies as my Dad was a chippy.

 

However, now I know I'm being fleeced for making a success of myself I may think twice...

 

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i don't have a drive, my house is a mid=terrace, and since usuually there will be either my old 75 estate. or the other halfs well crusty suzi vitara parked outside it is quiet obvious that we are not a success, and therefore we won't be fleeced by anyone working at our gaff!

[AlabamaShrimp]

I've no idea what they're worth and, as we've established recently, big car panels get fucked in the post.

 

I'd want to palletise but they must be 1500-1600mm long so we're up to silly stillage money.

 

I seem to recall they were dirt cheap at the time as collect only from Turra.

Well I'm not too bothered if they get a small bit banged up and from the look of ebay it's about £15 to send one and the prices of them (like a lot of Ford bits) are all over the place.

 

I'll leave it with you to decide what you'd like to do just remember I'm interested in them if you feel like chucking them out.

[Richard]

It's a shame this wasn't discussed yesterday, there was a nice big BMW going from near Aberdeen to Somerset.

[Guest Hooli]

Fucking ebay & paypal!

 

I ordered ONE set of bulbs at £12 for the ACC controls in my new Saab. Today I wonder where all my money has gone & find out their fucking system has ordered ELEVEN sets at £132! Just contacted the seller but rather fucked off, I ordered them on my phone so I didn't even type the quantity, it's pre-filled ffs!

[Timewaster]

I guess you put 1 which it helpfully put next to the 1 that was already there?

[Guest Hooli]

No. That's exactly what I didn't & can't do on the mobile app. It's a scrolling box preset to '1'. I'd have to have scrolled down past all the other numbers to get to '11' which I didn't do.

[xtriple]

I always make tea/coffee for anyone who comes round, I give gifts to the postie, bin men, chemist bloke who delivers and any others who regularly drop stuff off at my gaff at Christmas. It is common decency in my opinion.

 

When the guys came round to paint my disabled sign in the road (parking bay thing) I made them coffee and we had a good old chat (poor buggers are getting shat on by the council as usual) and when they had finished, offered them a tenner. Would NOT accept it!  Apparently decent people they won't take the cash offered but they will from arseholes... but arseholes never offer!

[rainagain]

Re addressing this is the solution:

http://what3words.com/

They have divided the whole world in 3m x 3m squares, each square has a unique name consisting of just three words. So you could tell someone where you are in the middle of forest and they could find you. House halfway down a dirt track no problem.

 

My grump with my address is Google maps has my postcode wrong. Even though I've told them three times. This makes deliveries a pita if the driver is using Google maps.

[scaryoldcortina]

That's way too funny for the grumpy thread. It's a shame I can't tell you the three words my location gave me, but the middle one is "giggles"

 

 

edit - the gate to my garage is called intelligible.scouted.wonderful

[Cheggers]

Brilliant!! - My living room balcony is at avoid.swung.loaf. Sound life advice for all of us.

 

Before anyone points out I may have given my address away, it's a very secure block and what3words is only 2 dimensional.

 

Plus I have my tinfoil hat on

 

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[paulplom]

So was I - surprised he was getting so much stick.

Yup, Lighten up peeps.

[paulplom]

Though I'm deadly serious when it comes to house numbers!

[Guest Hooli]

Fucking ebay & paypal!

 

I ordered ONE set of bulbs at £12 for the ACC controls in my new Saab. Today I wonder where all my money has gone & find out their fucking system has ordered ELEVEN sets at £132! Just contacted the seller but rather fucked off, I ordered them on my phone so I didn't even type the quantity, it's pre-filled ffs!

 

 

Just been checking this a bit more. It gets better!

 

I actually placed the order for one set of bulbs on the 3rd, then on the 4th paypal fucked me over & ordered eleven more sets on it's own. FFS.

 

 

 

 

Just had a reply from the seller, he's sorted it. But I'm putting a complaint into paypal (which they'll ignore as always) about their system stealing money off me. Takes a week to get the money back too, good job it's not later in the month.

[bub2006]

In Birmingham. Poorly van. Oh joy

[dave21478]

Its Sunday.

Nobody told me this and it explains why when I drove for half an hour to go to the DIY shop the fucker was closed, as was literally everything else.

 

I thought it was Monday.

[richardmorris]

That's way too funny for the grumpy thread. It's a shame I can't tell you the three words my location gave me, but the middle one is "giggles"

 

 

edit - the gate to my garage is called intelligible.scouted.wonderful

The Mercedes is parked in trying.chugging.decay.

I seem to live at hobbit.deploying.shopper.

[myglaren]

As far as I can make out I live at epic.packet.lock.

Not altogether convinced though.

 

May be correct though - eldest daughter lives across the road just out of sight and has: blocks.breath.salsa

Edited February 5, 2017 by myglaren

[Skut]

Tried to do a handbrake turn in the work car park this morning and all that happened was a metallic twang and the handbrake lever went almost vertical.     Oh dear....

[dome]

Our back bedroom is collision.trombone.initiated

 

I feel I should mark this somehow.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Our street is numbered but in a stupid way.

 

We live at 22 opposit is 8 which has 7 to the left and 9 to the right.

 

We have 21 to our right and 23 to our left.

 

1 & 2 start on the left as you come in the road, 3 is on our side and 4 is next to 2 on the left.

 

Strange.

[myglaren]

And my youngest daughter is (was) at burying.taller.series which Google maps recognises and displays: The Willows which is spot on and the pizza place where I asked actually backs on to it.

 

She moved out today so it's no help anymore.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I'll get this one off my chest, and then go to be nice to Mrs TW.

I had the misfortune to accidentally find Radio 1 on the car stereo earlier, and as the MR2 stereo is pretty much impossible to see/ change stations when driving, I chose to leave it on th station until the end of the track. Now I know that current chart music is gobshite, but I'd not listened to it enough to realise just how twisted the lyrics are. Obviously every other word is removed on the radio edit, but I would imagine when the kids download the tracks to sing along to, it's the full unadulterated version.

This is popular with kids right now:

 

"Bad & Boujee

Migos

 

You know Young Rich Niggas

You know so we ain't really never had no old money

We got a whole lotta new money though

(If Young Metro don't trust you I'm gon' shoot ya)

 

Raindrops, drop tops (drop top)

Smokin' on cookie in the hotbox (cookie)

Fuckin' on your bitch she a thot, thot, thot (Thot)

Cookin' up dope in the crockpot, (pot)

We came from nothin' to somethin' nigga (hey)

I don't trust nobody, grip the trigger (nobody)

Call up the gang, they come and get you (gang)

Cry me a river, give you a tissue (hey)

My bitch is bad and boujee (bad)

Cookin' up dope with a Uzi (blaow)

My niggas is savage, ruthless (savage)

We got 30's and 100 rounds too (grrah)

My bitch is bad and boujee (bad)

Cookin' up dope with a Uzi (dope)

My niggas is savage, ruthless (hey)

We got 30's and 100 rounds too (glah)

Offset, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah

Rackings on rackings, got backends on backends

I'm ridin' around in a coupe (coupe)

I take your bitch right from you (you)

Bitch I'm a dog, woof (grrr)

Beat the ho walls loose (hey)

Hop in the frog, woah (skrt)

I tell that bitch to come for me (come for me)

I swear these niggas under me (hey)

They hate and the devil keep jumpin' me (jumpin' me)

Bankrolls on me keep me company (cash)

We did the most, yeah

Pull up in Ghosts, yeah (woo)

My diamonds a choker (glah)

Holdin' the fire with no holster (blaow)

Rick The Ruler, diamonds cooler (cooler)

This a Rollie not a Mueller (hey)

Dabbin' on 'em like the usual (dab)

Magic with the brick, do voodoo (magic)

Court side with a bad bitch (bitch)

Then I send the bitch through Uber (go)

I'm young and rich and plus I'm boujee (hey)

I'm not stupid so I keep the Uzi (rrrah)

Rackings on rackings, got backends on backends

So my money makin' my back ache

You niggas got a low Act' rate (Act')

We from the Nawf, yeah dat way (Nawf)

Fat cookie blunt in the ash tray (cookie)

Two bitches, just national smash day (smash)

Hop in the Lamb', have a drag race (skrt)

I let them birds take a bath bae (brrrrr)

Raindrops, drop tops (drop top)

Smokin' on cookie in the hotbox (cookie)

Fuckin' on your bitch she a thot, thot, thot (thot)

Cookin' up dope in the crockpot, (pot)

We came from nothin' to somethin' nigga (hey)

I don't trust nobody, grip the trigger (nobody)

Call up the gang, they come and get you (gang)

Cry me a river, give you a tissue (hey)

My bitch is bad and boujee (bad)

Cookin' up dope with a Uzi (blaow)

My niggas is savage, ruthless (savage)

We got 30's and 100 rounds too (grrah)

My bitch is bad and boujee (bad)

Cookin' up dope with a Uzi (dope)

My niggas is savage, ruthless (hey)

We got 30's and 100 rounds too (glah)

 

Pour a four, I'm droppin' muddy

Outer space, KiD CuDi (drank)

Introduce me your bitch ass wifey and we know she sluttin'

Broke a brick down, nutty buddy, now that nigga duckin'

Don't move too fast I might shoot you (huh?)

Draco bad and boujee (Draco)

I'm always hangin' with shooters (brrah)

Might be posted somewhere secluded (private)

Still be playin' with pots and pans, call me Quavo Ratatouille

Run with that sack, call me Boobie (run with it)

When I'm on stage show me boobies (ay)

Ice on my neck, I'm the coolest (ice)

Hop out the suicide with the Uzi (pew-pew-pew)

I pull up, I pull up, I pull up

I hop out with all of the drugs in the cooler (skrt)

I'm cookin', I'm cookin', I'm whippin', I'm whippin' into a rock up, let it lock up (lock up)

I gave her 10 racks, I told her go shoppin' and spend it all at the pop up (ten)

These bitches they fuck and suck dick and they bustin' for Instagram, get your clout up

Uh, yeah, dat way, float on the track like a Segway (go)

Yeah, dat way, I used to trap by the subway (trappin')

Yeah, dat way, young nigga trap with the AK (rrrah)

Yeah, dat way, big dyke ho get it on, Macy Gray (hey)

Raindrops, drop tops (drop top)

Smokin' on cookie in the hotbox (cookie)

Fuckin' on your bitch she a thot, thot, thot (thot)

Cookin' up dope in the crockpot, (pot)

We came from nothin' to somethin' nigga (hey)

I don't trust nobody, grip the trigger (nobody)

Call up the gang, they come and get you (gang)

Cry me a river, give you a tissue (hey)

My bitch is bad and boujee (bad)

Cookin' up dope with a Uzi (blaow)

My niggas is savage, ruthless (savage)

We got 30's and 100 rounds too (grrah)

My bitch is bad and boujee (bad)

Cookin' up dope with a Uzi (dope)

My niggas is savage, ruthless (hey)

We got 30's and 100 rounds too (glah)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, my bitch she bad to the bone, ay

Wait, these niggas watchin', I swear to God they be my clones

Yeah, hey, huh, switchin' my hoes like my flows (what?)

Switchin' my flows like my clothes (like what?)

Keep on shootin' that gun, don't reload

Oh, oh, now she won't fuck with my crew

'Cause the money come all out the roof

Drive the 'Rari, that bitch got no roof (skrt)

Wait, what kind of 'Rari? 458 (damn)

All of these niggas, they hate (they hate)

Try to hide, shoot through the gate

Look, go to the strip club, make it rain (rain)

So much money they use rakes

Count 100, 000 in your face (in your face)

Yeah, they put 300 right in the safe

Met her today, oh

She talk to me like she knew me, yah

Go to sleep in a jacuzzi, yah

Yeah, wakin' up right to a two piece, yah

Countin' that paper like loose leaf, yah

Gettin' that chicken with blue cheese, yah

Yeah, boy you so fake like my collar

You snakin', I swear to God that be that Gucci, ay

And you know we winnin' (winnin')

Yeah, we is not losin'

Try to play your song, it ain't move me (what?)

Saw your girl once now she choose me, yeah

Raindrops, drop tops (drop top)

Smokin' on cookie in the hotbox (cookie)

Fuckin' on your bitch she a thot, thot, thot (thot)

Cookin' up dope in the crockpot, (pot)

We came from nothin' to somethin' nigga (hey)

I don't trust nobody, grip the trigger (nobody)

Call up the gang, they come and get you (gang)

Cry me a river, give you a tissue (hey)

My bitch is bad and boujee (bad)

Cookin' up dope with a Uzi (blaow)

My niggas is savage, ruthless (savage)

We got 30's and 100 rounds too (grrah)

My bitch is bad and boujee (bad)

Cookin' up dope with a Uzi (dope)

My niggas is savage, ruthless (hey)

We got 30's and 100 rounds too (glah)"

 

So there you go. Aspirational? Educational? Or just plain disturbing?

It even makes Queens of the Stone Age seem lullaby-like.

[cobblers]

That song makes me piss my sides every time it comes on Spotify, but I can't help but actually like it a bit

[richardmorris]

Our street is numbered but in a stupid way.

We live at 22 opposit is 8 which has 7 to the left and 9 to the right.

We have 21 to our right and 23 to our left.

1 & 2 start on the left as you come in the road, 3 is on our side and 4 is next to 2 on the left.

Strange.

Visiting Chichester yesterday, the street I needed is labelled sequentially, i.e. 1, 2, 3, down one side and back up the other so that 12 is opposite 46. Most odd.

[Richard]

The last street I lived in had the houses numbered sequentially. The street I live in now has a load of offshoots on one side,which are all even numbers so it goes up to something like 150 in even numbers but not much over 50 in odd.

[M'coli]

Tried to do a handbrake turn in the work car park this morning and all that happened was a metallic twang and the handbrake lever went almost vertical. Oh dear....

I've always taken this to be a good thing - the only other time you're likely to grab the handbrake that hard is in an emergency

[cobblers]

I did the handbrake trick once when I was 18 pulling into my mums drive. Cable snapped and I ended up in the hedge.

No real damage done apart from to my ego. TBH it was probably the best way for teenage me to learn not to use handbrake turns as an everyday manouver.

[DVee8]

18 houses in my mothers street,but no number 13.It was decided it was unlucky.

[scaryoldcortina]

The houses over the road have the same numbers as ours - it's actually two parallel streets with different names despite only having one access road, so it starts at no1 both sides at the bottom and moves up in pairs. You get used to saying "no, over the road" to takeaway drivers and parcel deliveries.

 

Fun fact - it wasn't numbered at all until after WW2. I presume everyone just knew who lived in which house.