The grumpy thread

[MrDuke]

GODDAMN EBAYERS!! Why will you not reply to my messages??!!!Just tell me WHEN I can pick up the FECKING car that I just WON from you!!! I'll even GIVE you MONIEZZZ!!!!

[chaseracer]

I don't think we'll have to wait another 5 years for the next election.

I don't think we'll have to wait another five months...

[Rusty Pelican]

The post officeSent a parcel 3 weeks ago as a return for ebay , theyve lost it , blokes refunded anyway as its happened before but still.Yesterday they tried to deliver a parcel thats too big for my letterbox , left me a little card which said i could collect anytime from 7.30am to 6pm from the sorting office , as its on the way too work and i dont start til 8 though id collect it before work , WHAT THE FUCK !!!! if the card said i could collect from 7.30 why did they not open the fucking place on time and open it at 7.45 instead . Big queue in front of me one of which had a load of recorded delivery stuff to collect which is fine if the scanner thing worked , scribbled it all down by hand in the end, next guys parcel they couldnt find , its here somewhere , we will call you , finally get to work at 10 past 8 , put the kettle on for a much needed coffee only for the kettle to short out at the switch half way through the boiling process . I hate mornings

[Claypole]

Some gimp on Ebay telling me the timing belt needs doing soon - err yeah right so they last 17,000 miles then?

[pogweasel]

GR8 - Public sector job cuts looming

It's not just you guys on the "front line"... a significant amount of work I do comes from the public sector, but it's stuff that has been subbed-out for years beacuse it's never been efficient to hold those skills 'in-house'. I had a major contract lined up for 2 weeks time, I will bet my ass it will be pulled within the next couple of days. Rail, schools, hospitals, etc, which for me are nice earners are all going to have to pull the plug on any spending whether justified or not, and there's no way that Dodgy Dave can stimulate the private sector fast enough to compensate for the swinging cuts that will be made. CU @ DA JOBCENTRE PPL.

[Guest]

[warren t claim]

To be honest I think this would of been a "Good election to lose".Whoever won would of had to inflict savage cuts making them unpopular with the general public. Welcome to Bankrupt Britain!

[RedSparrow]

Half my work is in the arts which labour poured money into. I am slightly worried. Still, it might spur me on to do more teaching and leave this shit country which was always the plan.I do however hope the Liberals will push through their no income tax for people who earn under £10k thing. Having been in this position, I know it will help a lot of hardworking young people. I suspect it will be forgotten about though.

[Lankytim]

Much of what has been promised will be forgotten about, thats what happens after elections!Still, onwards on upwards...

[Father Ted]

 

I wonder if Im too old to sign up at 40?

[whitevanman]

I'm stuck in the firing line as well, both my jobs are public sector as for the Cuts that are coming, this year or next year what difference?if we cut the crap we don't need ie: identity cards, middle managment, 2012 Olympics, less MP's, Less MSP's, less spending on Quango's, less spending on wastefull inititives to pretend more people are working and not on the dole, etc, etc..... then the frontline wont have to be cut and we could pay some money back....it was borrowed in our name by the Goverment we elected, it has to be paid back by us all whichever party is in Goverment, if less people from the top to the bottom accepted that fact we might get somewhere..and relax ...

[whitevanman]

Amen to geting out of this country, cant wait for our lass to finish her degree and then I can escape....

[whitevanman]

As part of the above rant I would like to add a bit more...listining to the radio for the last 5 days, a few things have struck me.....the number of people complaining that the Tories will cut their benifits !!....well stop smoking, sell your bastard LCD TV and stop buying crap that you don't need....it's what those of us that work are having to do !! why should only workers make cut backs??The Scottish Parliment !! so we are going to receive less money then? TOUGH !! make cutbacks you idle bastards.....start with your subsidised resturant, the number of you that exist, stop pissing money on things we don't need and we might even have some to spend on usefull things.....this is one area I am all in favour of frontline cutbacks lazy, idle, sponging bastards

[Lankytim]

RE- Scottish Parliament. Is it just me or is that Alex Salmond really really annoying? Aplogies if This offends any shiters north of the border but every time I see his fat face on the telly I get a bit irate.

[warren t claim]

RE- Scottish Parliament. Is it just me or is that Alex Salmond really really annoying? Aplogies if This offends any shiters north of the border but every time I see his fat face on the telly I get a bit irate.

I get the impression that he would love to scrap the pound in favour of the Euro and have Scotland driving on the right. Not for practical reasons but just to distance Scotland from England.

[whitevanman]

RE- Scottish Parliament. Is it just me or is that Alex Salmond really really annoying? Aplogies if This offends any shiters north of the border but every time I see his fat face on the telly I get a bit irate.

Trust me thats exactly what I thought about him years ago..I think even less off him now

[whitevanman]

RE- Scottish Parliament. Is it just me or is that Alex Salmond really really annoying? Aplogies if This offends any shiters north of the border but every time I see his fat face on the telly I get a bit irate.

I get the impression that he would love to scrap the pound in favour of the Euro and have Scotland driving on the right. Not for practical reasons but just to distance Scotland from England.

To me thats a fair appraisal of his attitude, anything to be akward, I know many like him and what he stands for....I just think he has an imature attitude to reality and politcs

[wuvvum]

Well the CBR has just fired up - I think it must have been an airlock or something in the fuel pipes to three of the carbs, as buggering about with said pipes seems to have cured the problem. It's still down on compression on one pot though - don't know whether this is something simple like a sticky valve due to standing (it does sound a bit top-endy) or something more ominous, but it doesn't smoke at all so hopefully it's not an OMG BROKEN PISTON situation. Also, the battery on the CZ has decided that it's not completely b0rked after all - it's held 4.7 volts for three days now, and while that's well below the 6.5 or so it should be putting out, it's enough to get the coil sparking, so once I've sorted out the charging issue I should have a useable bike on my hands.But it would be too much to ask for things to just stay OK for a while, wouldn't it? The bloody Renner 21 has gone and lost its brakes now. Well it's not completely lost them, but they're shite now, and it drank a whole 250ml bottle of brake fluid without the level coming back up in the reservoir. The pedal is spongy as feck for the first couple of inches of travel, with very poor braking, and then it goes completely hard, and if I heave against the pedal I get a slight improvement in stopping performance. It's almost like it's lost one of its circuits and the servo assistance at the same time. And I'm buggered if I can see where the brake fluid is going - it's not leaking out anywhere visible, there's no puddle under the car, and I don't think it's being pulled into the engine as engines smoke like feck when they're burning brake fluid. So I'm puzzled at the moment, especially since the brakes were fine when I last used the car in anger (Marham, and the drive home therefrom).Oh, and the Dodge has brake issues too. I drove it to work this morning - it's GR9 for intimidating jaywalking schoolkidz, but a bit of heavy braking when a plonker in an LDV400 (possibly the only 3.5-tonner on the road that's slower to 60 than the Dodge) pulled out on me revealed a noticeable pull to the right - coupled, bizarrely, with the steering wheel pulling to the left. Something a bit off there then...

[Cavcraft]

RE- Scottish Parliament. Is it just me or is that Alex Salmond really really annoying? Aplogies if This offends any shiters north of the border but every time I see his fat face on the telly I get a bit irate.

I'm south of the border (as you know) but would quite fancy giving that fat cunt a fucking good shoeing one day.

[mk1_4dr]

I sorry that Ive been offline for nearly a fortnight, then the first post is in here, but it will explain why I haven't been here, and why I missed both the Yorkshire meet on the 2nd and Cholmondeley last Sunday.My long term girlfriend, someone I never, ever considered being without, has left me. Ive spent a week sleeping in the car and grabbing a few hours on sofas and such, but last week I realised theres no chance of us sorting it so I now have a flat and have had a proper(ish) night sleep and started eating again.No warning, no real reason, she won't even meet me to talk. After 5years with barely a night apart this is the hardest part. I haven't seen her in 10days now....To set the scene, the house we were living in is owned by her outright (her mum has bought it for her as a gift for settling down with me after seeing her with a string of using tossers) but it means I had no option but to make myself scarce without any notice. No savings as I've been bankrolling all the bills and generally providing us with a pretty good standard of living. So I have a suitcase of clothes, a coffeetable, a few books and CD's and my harddrive with all my music and pictures from the last 5years. Oh, and EscRot and the e30.Ive had to leave what I thought was a loving and longterm realationship, all of our cats (you can't get visiting right for them), lifelong security, never having to 'worry' about money. All our plans are now meaningless.Im a broken man at the moment, I have no motivation to do anything with either car. EscRot is now SORN'd for the first time since I bought it, and its trapped on the (newly completed) back garden at her house. If anyone knows of a trailer that I could borrow around the leeds area for a couple of hours over the weekend then that could be one more thing crossed off the list of shit to sort out.Im sorry for the long rant. I know that I've only met a handfull of you chaps, but I really felt I let the side down by not coming on Sunday.

[retrogeezer]

Sorry to hear that mate, from experience things will get better. (cliche I know - but they do)I'm sure any of us here will help in any way we can....I'm a fair way away from you but just shout if you need anything and I'll try to help if I can.

[warren t claim]

I know what you are going through as I was in a similar situation myself. If I can be of any assistance let me know.

[Station]

I did the week sleeping in the car thing, was gutted! I sorted myself out though, 'time is a healer'.

[Pillock]

Pardon my french but.... fuck!It's not easy to deal with so don't think you're being weak for just shutting yourself down and concentrating on surviving. You've done the right thing by accepting that for whatever reason, you're on your own now and you need to make that work.It would obviously be nice if she'd tell you what went off in her head for that to happen - that might come at some point, it might never. What you need to understand is that whilst it seems like the world is grinding to a halt, you're at your lowest right now so it'll only get easier. As it happens, I'm currently living at my mum's with all my worldly possesions in those nice strong Tesco reusable bags. It seems I don't actually own that much stuff which is handy. My circumstances are different, but the end result is the same - you're not alone.I've not got a trailer but if you need a hand with anything (or just a beer), shout. I'm an hour down the motorway but always fancy a drive out

[Parky]

Oh Mark1, what can anyone possibly say? I sympathise entirely, as I know how you feel having gone through something similar 12 years ago. I know its no help at all but I am sure others on here have had much the same.My ex and I lived together and worked together too so there was no escape. It got especially bad when I realised she broke up with me because she had started seeing some other bloke in the office who I considered a mate. Although it gave me closure as finally I knew the reasoning behind it all (but that still hurt like fuck).Once she left the office, things became a whole lot easier. Breaking off contact as much as possible could be helpful but that doesnt work for everyone. I'd recommend doing stuff you like doing as much as possible. Or do what I did and work all hours if you can as I found an extra pot of cash made me feel better and working gave me something else to think about.I last saw her about 6 years ago at Romford Station with this bloke. He saw me and went as white as a sheet as he didnt have a posse of mates with him. I ignored the streak of piss and had a nice chat with my ex making sure I mentioned how I was married, had kids, nice house and car, and everything was hunky dory. And thank god we split up, I am so much happier now than I was when we were together, etc etc. Time is a great healer. Until then, theres your mates and family. Possibly not much comfort right now but it will come good, just takes a bit of time.

[Cavcraft]

You didn't let anybody down mate and gutted about your bad news. Easy to say but try and keep your head up and take each day as it comes.

[Mr H Sceptre]

I can't really add a great deal to what the others have already said. Was dumped out of the blue after a similar time myself a few years ago. Its not easy - you just struggle to exist & as soon as you wake up every morning a horrible feeling of utter doom descends on you.BUT, as previously stated, it does get better with time (cliches are cliches for a reason). Just try not to isolate yourself too much - see your friends and family as much as you can. Get yourself a new cat. You'll work your way through it in the end.Again, I havent got a trailer but if there's anything I can do give me a PM.

[ashmicro]

Make sure to look after yourself, mk1. A good night's sleep works wonders, and the fact that you're eating again is a good sign.keep on keepin' on, as they say!

[mk1_4dr]

Cheers chaps. I really does mean the world that someone else knows what Im talking about. All my mates just want me to go get pissed and either shag someone or fight someone. Im not a drinker, fighter or bastard though.Pillock, I wish I could stay with my parents but my dad got only out of hospital last Tuesday after being in for 2weeks following a heartattack. They found he had coronary heart disease so he's had 3 stenches (sp??) put in in his arteries to open them up and he's been diagnosed with Type2 diabeties and hight cholesterol at the same time. This all meant that staying with them and piling on the stress of me crying all the time and sleeping on the sofa wasn't going to happen. My choice not thiers, but the right choice I feel.Janie knew all this before, but obviously whatever happened in her head was more inportant than my dads pyshical health and mine and my mums mental health.

[Mr H Sceptre]

I think getting a flat is actually better than moving to your folks in some respects (taking your Dad's condition out of the equation). Moving back to your folk's could actually make you more upset, in that it can feel like more of a backwards step - if that makes sense.