The grumpy thread

[Cheggers]

I'm on the train from Amsterdam to Den Bosch and even in 1st class there's no aircon or opening windows. I'm sweating like a glassblowers bum

 

 

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[alcyonecorporation]

I stopped at the very horrible Stansted Services for a few minutes today and my car was one of the few without its engine running. Ironic that on LPG it's least likely to kill you from 'the carbon and monoxide' (Hall and Oats was blasting out someones window but it was soon me that was gone).IMG_20170620_135733770_HDR.jpg

 

I have driven several P4s. 

 

They are so full of CLASS it's almost impossible to measure. 

I was gonna have a go in a Marauder one week for work but ended up honking my guts out with food poisoning the night before so had to cancel. 

 

Even FPB7's 60, which was so named because that's what it does flat out. 

[Bianconeri]

I'm on the train from Amsterdam to Den Bosch and even in 1st class there's no aircon or opening windows. I'm sweating like a glassblowers bum

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Interesting turn of phrase, one of Prince Phillip's?

[somewhatfoolish]

No A/C? Even the trainshite here in Scotland have A/C on non-urban services. And it's run by ClogRail anyway.

[Des]

I rent a council lockup in a block down the road, had a letter about planning application a few months ago, only surprise was that it wasn't levelled for yet more squalid overpriced housing years ago, the area's already rammed, apartments going up, houses being chopped into flats, so remove a load of parking and replace it with yet more tossers who'll be looking for somewhere to 'park' their Audis. Had a notice to quit in a Month delivered today. Just fucking marvellous, it's an old Bristol I've got stashed there so it's a long bastard, exceeds my garage at home by a foot, where the fuck do I go now? Extend the roof and build a forty five degree ramp?

Anyone know of a lockup going in the North Watford area?

No fuck it I'll get my arse out of this shitting cockwomble of a town, fucking toxic spunkdump.

Anyone want to buy a nice terrace home where vintage chic meets contemporary in a dynamic and up and coming congenial suburb with good schools, shops and leisure facilities plus a bold sense of local community to ensure the most vibrant social scene?

Not really, it's a tarted up shack in a shithole infested by subhuman garbage.

[Sigmund Fraud]

I was gonna have a go in a Marauder one week for work but ended up honking my guts out with food poisoning the night before so had to cancel. 

 

Man, the Marauder is one of the few cars I would drag myself out of an intensive care bed for !

 

Here's an XXX-rated picture of the one in Gaydon, for your viewing pleasure :

 

[cros]

I rent a council lockup in a block down the road, had a letter about planning application a few months ago, only surprise was that it wasn't levelled for yet more squalid overpriced housing years ago, the area's already rammed, apartments going up, houses being chopped into flats, so remove a load of parking and replace it with yet more tossers who'll be looking for somewhere to 'park' their Audis. Had a notice to quit in a Month delivered today. Just fucking marvellous, it's an old Bristol I've got stashed there so it's a long bastard, exceeds my garage at home by a foot, where the fuck do I go now? Extend the roof and build a forty five degree ramp?

Anyone know of a lockup going in the North Watford area?

No fuck it I'll get my arse out of this shitting cockwomble of a town, fucking toxic spunkdump.

Anyone want to buy a nice terrace home where vintage chic meets contemporary in a dynamic and up and coming congenial suburb with good schools, shops and leisure facilities plus a bold sense of local community to ensure the most vibrant social scene?

Not really, it's a tarted up shack in a shithole infested by subhuman garbage.

Bad luck, have to say it is getting a bit crowded down your way Des. How about where I am in South Lincs for more space? Some of the houses round here are getting inside bogs, electric and everything. Theres plenty of work- those sprouts don't pick themselves.

[captain_70s]

Anyone want to buy a nice terrace home where vintage chic meets contemporary in a dynamic and up and coming congenial suburb with good schools, shops and leisure facilities plus a bold sense of local community to ensure the most vibrant social scene?

Ugh, God no.

Not really, it's a tarted up shack in a shithole infested by subhuman garbage.

Ah, that sounds more like it!

 

In other grump news there is enough room on my street for the resident's cars, if one more person gets a car we're fucked. Some chump who can't park has left their gargantuan 64 plate Mercedes directly outside my block of flats and has taken up two spaces, meaning I've now had to park around the corner. That's like an extra 100 yards walk to my car and I'm a lazy fucker...

[The Moog]

Last night I made cakes for cake club (diet going well thank you for not asking ) and the coffee chocolate muffins are tasteless.

 

Reading the comments they all complain that the recipe wrong and should be

2 tbsp rather than 2 tspn of coffee.

 

I now have 15 semi tasteless muffins.

[RoadworkUK]

On the way home from dropping the Rover off for MOT, a car pulled out in front of us and then panic braked for an oncoming bus. Immediately after, the passenger dropped a McDonalds cup out of the window.

 

The car then set off, but something seemed odd. Its road positioning was all over the shop, it would seemingly brake for nothing and then accelerate randomly, frequently straying over the centre line and into the path of oncoming cars. I wondered if, perhaps, the driver was pissed. Then, on a clear stretch, the cause became apparent. The aroma of whatever its occupants were smoking filled our car - it was pungent enough to be drawn in by our ventilation system. When our paths diverged, I saw that the driver was a middle-aged woman, the sort that you wouldn't necessarily have pegged as that type [/stereotype].

 

I did something I've never done before, and reported it to the police via 101, no doubt adding to the backlog of things they're under-resourced to investigate.

 

Thing is, these people really are out there, and until yesterday I had never witnessed the danger that drug driving can present.

[drum]

Last night I made cakes for cake club (diet going well thank you for not asking ) and the coffee chocolate muffins are tasteless.

Reading the comments they all complain that the recipe wrong and should be

2 tbsp rather than 2 tspn of coffee.

I now have 15 semi tasteless muffins.

Sprinkle some Nescafé on top. Job jobbed.

[castros_bro]

Happier times mopedding near Figueiró dos Vinhos before I left.

 

 

What has happened over the past week.

 

 

http://www.news24.com/World/News/in-pictures-portugals-horror-forest-fire-20170620

[beko1987]

I rent a council lockup in a block down the road, had a letter about planning application a few months ago, only surprise was that it wasn't levelled for yet more squalid overpriced housing years ago, the area's already rammed, apartments going up, houses being chopped into flats, so remove a load of parking and replace it with yet more tossers who'll be looking for somewhere to 'park' their Audis. Had a notice to quit in a Month delivered today. Just fucking marvellous, it's an old Bristol I've got stashed there so it's a long bastard, exceeds my garage at home by a foot, where the fuck do I go now? Extend the roof and build a forty five degree ramp?

Anyone know of a lockup going in the North Watford area?

No fuck it I'll get my arse out of this shitting cockwomble of a town, fucking toxic spunkdump.

Anyone want to buy a nice terrace home where vintage chic meets contemporary in a dynamic and up and coming congenial suburb with good schools, shops and leisure facilities plus a bold sense of local community to ensure the most vibrant social scene?

Not really, it's a tarted up shack in a shithole infested by subhuman garbage.

House roffle? I'll take 1/4 a ticket...

[clayts450]

Work-related whinge.

 

Enforced jollity - just FRO.

 

An event where everyone has to 'get involved' and play games and dress up and bring food in and generally be 'fun'. For two solid weeks.

 

Just wanna come in to work, do my job and fuck off, not engage with such stupidity.

 

Luckily my team know my feelings on the subject and leave me the fuck alone.

[bramz7]

Called up my insurers as I'd found a really nice three door low mileage ZX diesel, without a turbo.

 

Big fat no again! What the hell is going on? They just said underwriter refused. I suspect this is down to it being a three door..

[oldcars]

Work-related whinge.

 

Enforced jollity - just FRO.

 

An event where everyone has to 'get involved' and play games and dress up and bring food in and generally be 'fun'. For two solid weeks.

 

Just wanna come in to work, do my job and fuck off, not engage with such stupidity.

 

Luckily my team know my feelings on the subject and leave me the fuck alone.

2 weeks? No chance from me.

[Guest Hooli]

Work-related whinge.

 

Enforced jollity - just FRO.

 

An event where everyone has to 'get involved' and play games and dress up and bring food in and generally be 'fun'. For two solid weeks.

 

Just wanna come in to work, do my job and fuck off, not engage with such stupidity.

 

Luckily my team know my feelings on the subject and leave me the fuck alone.

I would go sick for that.

[alcyonecorporation]

Yes. all that shit is tiresome. 

The call centre I worked in was rather like that; it expected non hotdesk folk to decorate their work spaces at their own expense (with no exceptions). 

They stopped mithering me when I sent the MD an expenses claim for six past events. They stopped, but had the cheek to mention it on one of my reviews. 

"You're constantly negative"

"There's nothing to be positive about in our office space. I also find the accusations of 'constant negativity' hurtful and counter productive."

And no, I didn't get any of the money back. It was for the same box of tinsel each time, anyway. I was trying to make a point. 

[Rod/b]

My ankle has swollen up like a tennis ball for no reason and it fucking hurts. Fucking falling apart at the moment and I'm sick of it.

[alcyonecorporation]

POLLEN AND HEAT PLEASE FUCK OFF

THANKS 

WEATHER RELATED POST COMPLETE #petulantweatherstatements

[Guest Hooli]

I can hear thunder here.

 

 

Or is this one for the grin thread?

[Kiltox]

Work-related whinge.

 

Enforced jollity - just FRO.

 

An event where everyone has to 'get involved' and play games and dress up and bring food in and generally be 'fun'. For two solid weeks.

 

Just wanna come in to work, do my job and fuck off, not engage with such stupidity.

 

Luckily my team know my feelings on the subject and leave me the fuck alone.

Contractor. Doesn't apply to me. Do one.

 

[D Spares & Tyres]

On the way home from dropping the Rover off for MOT, a car pulled out in front of us and then panic braked for an oncoming bus. Immediately after, the passenger dropped a McDonalds cup out of the window.

 

The car then set off, but something seemed odd. Its road positioning was all over the shop, it would seemingly brake for nothing and then accelerate randomly, frequently straying over the centre line and into the path of oncoming cars. I wondered if, perhaps, the driver was pissed. Then, on a clear stretch, the cause became apparent. The aroma of whatever its occupants were smoking filled our car - it was pungent enough to be drawn in by our ventilation system. When our paths diverged, I saw that the driver was a middle-aged woman, the sort that you wouldn't necessarily have pegged as that type [/stereotype].

 

I did something I've never done before, and reported it to the police via 101, no doubt adding to the backlog of things they're under-resourced to investigate.

 

Thing is, these people really are out there, and until yesterday I had never witnessed the danger that drug driving can present.

Apart from the littering and cannabis, this is how most Rovers are driven....

[chaseracer]

Even FPB7's 60, which was so named because that's what it does flat out. 

 

Though the speedo will claim it's a 90... 

[alcyonecorporation]

Especially the littering and cannabis, this is how most Rovers are driven....

 

Rochdale, blud. Rochdale's the place. For Rovers and gorld i-Phone cases. 

[MrDuke]

My head, once again, can do one.

 

In a rare episode of semi-clarity, it dawned on me today that I will probably never ever get the Dolomite road legal. The work it needs is relatively straight-forward and well within my ability in theory, but realistically I'll never have the mental stability and discipline to see it through. Cost-wise, it wouldn't be done until the end of summer, and if this autumn/winter is anything like last year then literally all my energy will be expended on getting up, working and going to bed without doing anything utterly horrible in-between. Regular car maintenance to stave off the effects of cold & damp might just as well be quantum physics. It's also a total waste of a decent car, that someone else could be using and enjoying, instead of just decorating my drive and collecting rust.

 

The problem is, I will likely never be able to afford anything remotely 'classic' again, especially not another Dolomite. I know that's a really stupid reason to hang on to something, but there it is. Also, I know that the normal response to such a dilemma would be to just give it some time, until my mojo comes back - except it isn't just a loss of mojo, it's a debilitating mental issue that's eating away at me more & more each year.

 

The only slightly positive thing about getting shot of the Dolly, is that I'd then have Domestic Clearance to get a bike, possibly even to do a test and get something respectable. And I would genuinely love to be on two wheels, it's something I've been itching to do for ages. I'd just much prefer, on balance, to be able to override my stupid mind and finish my car instead.

 

 

Tl;dr - being mentally ill sucks donkey chode.

[The Moog]

Where are you Mr D?

 

Is it something the Shite Squad can help with?

[RoadworkUK]

Apart from the littering and cannabis, this is how most Rovers are driven....

Hey, I resemble that remark!

[HillmanImp]

Everytime I do anything mechanical, I must finish off what I am doing and subconsciously throw away 13ml spanners or sockets I've used in the bin. I can never fucking find any when i need them. 12ml and 14ml are fucking everywhere, probably from all the replacement tool kits I bought from Aldi every single time I can't find a 13ml socket or spanner. Where the fuck are they all?

 

Probably in the same place as the friggin 10s actually.

 

Bunch of friggin' arse mate.

[dollywobbler]

On the way home from dropping the Rover off for MOT, a car pulled out in front of us and then panic braked for an oncoming bus. Immediately after, the passenger dropped a McDonalds cup out of the window.

 

The car then set off, but something seemed odd. Its road positioning was all over the shop, it would seemingly brake for nothing and then accelerate randomly, frequently straying over the centre line and into the path of oncoming cars. I wondered if, perhaps, the driver was pissed. Then, on a clear stretch, the cause became apparent. The aroma of whatever its occupants were smoking filled our car - it was pungent enough to be drawn in by our ventilation system. When our paths diverged, I saw that the driver was a middle-aged woman, the sort that you wouldn't necessarily have pegged as that type [/stereotype].

 

I did something I've never done before, and reported it to the police via 101, no doubt adding to the backlog of things they're under-resourced to investigate.

 

Thing is, these people really are out there, and until yesterday I had never witnessed the danger that drug driving can present.

In my experience of being a young twat, you'd have to be very, very smashed on dope for it to make you drive like that. I used to drive doped up and my mates reckon I actually drove better, because I knew I was a bit mellow, paid attention more and was far less likely to dick about. I was probably more dangerous clean.

 

Whereas I've seen pissed people driving, and it is very scary.