The grumpy thread

[nebuchenezer]

Get the tiler back in and beat him with a shitty stick

[nebuchenezer]

I can't believe anyone would be thick enough to buy and build that E-type model, it's unbelievable

Long time scam, used to be all the rage in the 70's/80's

[AMC Rebel]

It's been going on for years.   I can clearly remember Esther Rantzen on That's Life reporting the case of some bloke who had got 77 deliveries of a pirate ship or some tat and then the whole thing had been stopped.   He got on telly with the compo-face on but can't remember if he ever got the bits.   Then they went back to going on about Lancias and children's playgrounds being dangerous the twats.

 

 

I liked the Not The Nine O Clock News pisstake of that with Pamela Stevenson doing Rantzen and them trying to blame random public utilities for totally unrelated issues.  

 

I remember (on the actual programme) them doing a thing on some bloke being told by his local council that he could put a flagpole on the front of his house (overhanging the pavement) but he must use non-ferrous screws.  They spent ten minutes taking the piss out of a perfectly sensible English-language requirement just because they had never heard of non-ferrous anything - as you say, twats.

[AMC Rebel]

My grump is my local airport.  I have to fly to Dublin with work quite often.  In Dublin the security staff are friendly, polite, helpful and even have a laugh with you and I have never queued for more than about 5 minutes (this isn't the grump - I love Dublin).

 

At East Midlands they are outright rude and surly as well as the queue time sometimes exceeding my short flight's actual time in the air in summer when there are a bazzillion flights to Malaga etc.

 

The car park is shagged - markings and signs all buggered and old and on my most recent trip the ANPR stopped working (again) and stranded a load of us in there.  In some ways I wouldn't mind if the car park was cheap - but it isn't.

 

T'internet is full up of bad reviews of EMA and the parking - but evidently the bosses don't care.

[Eddie Honda]

Heathrow T1 security is fine. One time a security bloke was having a wager with a another about what was odd piece coming up on the X-ray in my bag was, well done to the security bod that can identify a Sturmey Archer 7 speed hub gear.

 

Glasgow was good too when my motorcycle helmet with 1.4m chain inside. They were going to take it off me, but as they couldn't find the appropriate form so let me keep it as hand baggage and just told me not to go running up and down the aisle flailing it around my head

[Eddie Honda]

Oh and Dublin was good about my chunky bumper L brackets and duck tape I was taking over to fix a certain Volvo with to sunny Sarthend, Essexcestershire.

[Eddie Honda]

Knee update:

 

The drugs do work.

 

Knee was killing me going home, such that I had to stop four times to straighten leg out for pain relief. Wasn't helped by the fact that the front brakes were now needing help on the way home (m/c a bit low) and it was hard work doing the rear brake.

 

Got an out-of-hours GP appointment at 2130 last night. Conclusion - prob bursitis. Drugs have kicked in and the pain muted.

 

Grump? Not getting the boat this morning a forfeiting the fare.

[Eddie Honda]

I liked the Not The Nine O Clock News pisstake of that with Pamela Stevenson doing Rantzen and them trying to blame random public utilities for totally unrelated issues.

 

[Tickman]

There are people I like, and people I don't like. I understand this is normal.

 

I like to see my friends do well, and generally don't worry about those I don't like. I don't wish them any harm as that's bad karma, usually they end up ruining their own lives without my ill will being involved.

 

I have a job interview tomorrow and I really want the job. But I have read Katie Hopkins tweets about London and I am thinking about how nice it would be if something really terrible happened to her. I mean really really terrible. Have I triggered some anti Parky karma timebomb or are there circumstances where karma looks the other way??

 

Discuss....

I think you are just reminding Karma that it should pull its finger out and shit on that vile woman soon.

Good luck with the interview

[bramz7]

Fucking BX just cut out at a roundabout and loads of smoke came out of the passenger foot well.

 

I am done with this car.

 

Anyone got a 205 they want to sell me?

[Parky]

I think you are just reminding Karma that it should pull its finger out and shit on that vile woman soon.

Good luck with the interview

Cheers. Went OK I think so either Karma never noticed OR there is a Hopkins Exemption after all!

[captain_70s]

I'm 25 and starting to get quite bald, starting at the crown of my head. Recently I've started arranging my hair into what I like to call a "reverse Trump", namely taking hair from the front where it's more prevalent and sweeping it back. That and wearing a hat, probably not aiding the whole hair loss thing but I don't think I can halt it at this point, because genetics...

 

I feel old and ugly and I get winded walking up the stairs, this is apparently me in the prime of my life...

[twosmoke300]

I was bald at 18 ! Don't have a comb over - just accept baldness .

[Negative Creep]

My Dad still has almost a full head of hair in his late 60's, but neither of my grandparent's were. So basically I just have to hope

[Captain Furious]

That ^ deffo just roll with it

 

Luckily most people who go bald tend to have quite round heads to pull it off, whereas I'm fairly sure I'd look like Kryten off Red Dwarf

[panhard65]

I was bald at 18 ! Don't have a comb over - just accept baldness .

That is good advice, get the clipper out a comb over is never a good look

[Parky]

I'm 25 and starting to get quite bald, starting at the crown of my head. Recently I've started arranging my hair into what I like to call a "reverse Trump", namely taking hair from the front where it's more prevalent and sweeping it back. That and wearing a hat, probably not aiding the whole hair loss thing but I don't think I can halt it at this point, because genetics...

 

I feel old and ugly and I get winded walking up the stairs, this is apparently me in the prime of my life...

Similar happened to me. However as the patch is at the top of my head. I can't see it so out of sight and out of mind.

[Cavcraft]

Is there anyone (except the BBC, obvs) who actually finds Catherine Tate even remotely funny? 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

No

[doobietoo]

Get the tiler back in and beat him with a shitty stick

 

This .... except I doubt he is really a proper tiler as he used your bath to wash out his grout covered sponge rather than using a grout bucket!!! That wasn't just dust blocking your drain!!!

[philibusmo]

At 25, i also feel I'm getting old, did my back in during some bedroom shenanigans last night. Now I'm feeling sorry for myself and wishing I didn't have to remove an engine, gearbox and exhaust from an audi a4 today.

[garbaldy]

My Dad still has almost a full head of hair in his late 60's, but neither of my grandparent's were. So basically I just have to hope

I wouldn't bank on it though as both my grandad and my fither had mop heads in their 70s, i was virtually kojak at 18.

[alf892]

I can't believe anyone would be thick enough to buy and build that E-type model, it's unbelievable

Yeah but come one......it strikes me there are quite a few doing that on here with real motors.......

 

Including me

[Craig the Princess]

Is there anyone (except the BBC, obvs) who actually finds Catherine Tate even remotely funny?

She has her moments, about 1000 times funnier than Mrs Fugging Brown's Boys.

[twosmoke300]

I wouldn't bank on it though as both my grandad and my fither had mop heads in their 70s, i was virtually kojak at 18.

That reminds me - dad used to call me kojak when I was a baby . I was born with no hair and it took ages to grow apparently. With that and going bald at 18 having hair is but a fleeting memory for me

[Craig the Princess]

I'm another baldy bastard, you can see it starting in my wedding photos aged 19 and at 33 I'm almost at the full Ray Wilkins.

 

[dave21478]

My hairline fucked off quite a few years ago too.

I bought cordless clippers and once a week I give it a run over without the guard. On plenty of guys, this makes them look pretty good. In my case it makes me look like a BNP thug, but fuck it.....Im not fussed.

[anonymous user]

At 25, i also feel I'm getting old, did my back in during some bedroom shenanigans last night. Now I'm feeling sorry for myself and wishing I didn't have to remove an engine, gearbox and exhaust from an audi a4 today.

No, you have an excuse; getting/being old is when you avoid any bedroom shenanigans because you already have a bad back

[beko1987]

I have lots of hair at the moment, but grandad on mums side died with a full head of thick, grey hair, dad and grandad on the other side are balding badly... Could go either way

[dave21478]

I know that standard packaging sizes are a thing to reduce stock and save time, but come on.....you couldnt have some padded jiffy bags for wee stuff?

 

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Rong part neway m9. Then I broke it while trying to make it the right part.