The grumpy thread

[cort16]

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[cort16]

I noticed the other day the rear wheel on Mrs c's Leon was red hot. I dropped it into my local friendly garage hoping it could be freed off but both calipers are solid and the pads and discs are destroyed . 270 quid

 

Vag shite.

[vulgalour]

Roundabouts.  Horn got a good excercise today.  Not sure why the big Peugeot decided to just pull out very slowly as I was reaching my exit with my indicators on in my bright fucking red car.  Also not sure why on the next roundabout the K11 Micra decided they had the wrong lane after exiting and started to merge into my lane.  beep!  Still merging  BEEEEEEEP!  Looks at me and CONTINUES merging.  WTF?  I have nowhere to go and you can SEE ME! BEEEEEEEP!  oh, there's your indicators, and you found how to slow down, and now you're going to follow me into the supermarket car park and park not in a parking space, but in the Taxi collection point.

 

I... urgh.

 

On the plus side I saw a really tidy Mk2 Mondeo when I got out of the shop and I've not seen one of those in ages and ages.

[richardthestag]

Give up trying to cope all by my fucking self - 10 months off the meds and I am back to square -149

 

Not going near Citilopram again, GP prescribed Sertraline. low dose to start with

 

grump because I dont like taking pills

[bub2006]

I was at docs yesterday. After some folk on here telling me to staye everything to the doctpr,i did. Had a bit of a meltdown. Upped my sertraline to 100mg a day. Gave me a counsellors nber and ive got the care coordinator ringing me tomorro to get me under social care. Apparently im not coping physically or mentally. Bills i cant afford to pay,phone and tv now cut off,not sleeping or eating. Its all good*

[Guest Hooli]

You ain't missing 'owt with no tv mate.

[bub2006]

Thats true. Its mainly on for background noise. Watch alot on phone though. No Internet stopped that sadly.

[angle]

On Uber, this is the best article I've seen about them in London:

 

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2017/understanding-uber-not-app/

 

Which led me to this on them generally (although some of which goes way over my head):

 

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver-part-one-understanding-ubers-bleak-operating-economics.html

 

There's some illuminating figures in the second article, not least the fact that Uber loses $1-2bn a year, and only recoups about 40% of their costs, despite recently cutting the amount that drivers take. Their end game (ignoring driverless cars, which are way off) is to basically price everyone else out of the market, including public transport if possible, and hike prices a la Stagecoach etc with buses...

[Captain Furious]

Meant to be a car sale going down tonight, price and everything agreed last Thursday, spoke to him on the phone and he seemed like a decent guy, long term member of both here and the blue forum. Was reasonably confident there wouldn't be an issue

 

Spent Sunday cleaning it inside and out, digging out paperwork, re-housing all my shit etc...come today, radio silence. Joys of the used car selling experience I guess. Is a text/phone call/pm/e-mail (I accept many forms of communication) saying 'soz changed my mind' really so hard?

 

Still, at least it's clean now I suppose.

[chaseracer]

...seemed like a decent guy, long term member of... here...

 

That's very disappointing, unless there's a reasonable explanation.  We don't do that to each other here...

[sierraman]

Thats true. Its mainly on for background noise. Watch alot on phone though. No Internet stopped that sadly.

Radio 4 that's where it's at. If I lived on my Todd I really wouldn't bother with the idiot box. I take inspiration from my mum, they didn't have a TV until she'd be about 15. They spent the evenings doing crafts or actually having a conversation, bizarre as that seems these days.

[Guest Hooli]

God no, I hate R4. All those people talking....

 

*screams*

 

Absolute classic rock or classic FM for me.

[MrDuke]

Sorting out train tickets for the weekend, through the National Rail site.

 

"Cheapest" option for the whole (3-stage) journey: £51.20

 

Actual price when buying the 3 tickets seperately THROUGH THE SAME ****ING SITE: £18.10

 

I know it should be a grin because it's cheaper, and it only took me an extra 10 or so minutes of faffing about, but in an age when I can have the virtual tickets sent instantly to my phone, why the hell can't I get real prices from a website without manually re-entering the exact same details that it already knows?

[bub2006]

Radio 4 that's where it's at. If I lived on my Todd I really wouldn't bother with the idiot box. I take inspiration from my mum, they didn't have a TV until she'd be about 15. They spent the evenings doing crafts or actually having a conversation, bizarre as that seems these days.

I talk to myself frequently. No one else to talk to. I always tend to use tv or somesuch to fall asleep to as well. Hate being alone,hate struggling physically and mentally. I struggle to even change my socks. Not good at all.

[Tickman]

Give up trying to cope all by my fucking self - 10 months off the meds and I am back to square -149

 

Not going near Citilopram again, GP prescribed Sertraline. low dose to start with

 

grump because I dont like taking pills

It is just a synthetic hormone, if you do not have enough of the hormone naturally then take it as a 'supplement' 

 

I take 8 tablets a day (used to be nearer 18) and inject myself once every two weeks as I have fucked joints, it helps (lets me actually function) and no one bats an eyelid about it.

 

Medicine is still medicine no matter what the ailment.

[MarvinsMom]

I talk to myself frequently. 

i talk to myself all the time, its the only time that i hear any sense!

[purplebargeken]

I swear at myself more than talk. 

 

Hey ho.

[Guest Hooli]

I talk to myself frequently.

 

But who wins the arguments?

[chaseracer]

^ The other bloke, if Bub's internal dialogues are anything like mine... 

[bub2006]

He's always arguing back. Like being married again. Thing is he talks sense.

[D Spares & Tyres]

That's very disappointing, unless there's a reasonable explanation.  We don't do that to each other here...

Yeah we do...

 

Took his deposit then never heard from him again. Strange.

[dave21478]

Fast food workers be like "We want 15 euros an hour"

Aye, I ordered a McChicken, not a fucking McLettuce with a little bit of chicken on it and I didnt order extra mayonnaise smeared all over the outside of it.

Every fucking time.

Cunts. Sooner they all get replaced with conveyor belts, the better.

 

 

Some fart sniffer at the supermarket has dinged and scratched the side of the MGF. Just as well I dont really care about it otherwise I would be really pissed about that.

 

 

Get home to find a letter. "Oh hai, remember all that tax money you gave us last time? well, for really, really vague reasons, we have decided it wasnt enough and need another 300 sheckles. Hugs and kisses, The Gubberment."

Cunts.

 

 

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Cyclists (I'm one) using THEIR FUGGIN PHONE!!!! This tosser was riding along, wobbling all over the place in the cycle lane (narrow enough and on the road itself anyway) while trying to read something and text or reply etc.... other cyclists were forced around him - into traffic - including a mother and child...... after the third set of lights I opened my door - he still hadn't noticed until I was out of the car........ I didn't even bother with the local lingo with a W T A F......

I cycle too - but for fuggs sake - I guarant fuckin tee if he'd been even gingerly tapped at any point it would be the tin can drivers fault........... animal-felching-jizz-fiddler

[Cavcraft]

Yes, God for bid some poor sod on shit money standing on their feet all day working for a restaurant* chain turning over billions of dollars asks for a rise. They should be made to work for free

[dave21478]

Asking for a rise is one thing, demanding higher pay than a teacher can get right to fuck.

[omegod]

Bint in a fiat 500 thought it was perfectly fine to drive on a dual carriageway whilst leaning down squinting at her phone in a dash holder and have a text conversation for at least 4 miles, she literally wasn't looking at the road for 10 secs at a time, my gasted was highly flabbered

[Supernaut]

I'm not good enough for an express visa for Canada, it seems.

 

Filled in all the online forms and submitted them, then got an automatic rejection a few minutes later.

I didn't meet requirements in several categories. One of the categories is previous work experience in Canada... They also have a grading system for jobs you have experience in. I don't seem to have enough experience in high-enough graded jobs for their liking. I also haven't already got a job offer in Canada (which was one of the questions)

I can't even register on the Canadian gov job bank without a code you only get once your application has been accepted.

 

 

So yeah. I dunno.

[MrDuke]

Marry a Canadian?

[Supernaut]

Marry a Canadian?

*fires up Tinder*

[richardmorris]

Had a visit from the accountant today -always makes me grumpy. He walked in asking why we weren't listening to our leader Jeremy Corbyn ( we didn't hit it off a few years ago when I told him I was a champagne communist who thought people should pay taxes if they want a civilised society).

 

then went off on a long speech about selling shares to our wives to give them the tax free dividends etc. Took 5 mins before we had chance to tell him that neither of us had wife nor significant other at home.

It was quite funny as I was staying shtumm, and I was sitting opposite my business partner who was getting visibly annoyed at both the accountant and me for not stopping him speaking. I liked the previous guy- very smooth guy called sha shama, who liked my fiat, but was forced out to retirement by the new guard.

 

The accountant now says, not unreasonably, that we can pay a dividend of £5k tax free to next April. But doesn't understand that this is something new and scary and we need to be shown how to dot every I and cross every T.

Also, it will mean doing a tax return which is something we've been avoiding having to do for years.

 

The decorators have been in all week ( not a euphemism) and I have a BSI audit on Friday.