The grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

I've not heard someone say they're going to "mash the tea" for ages.  Ah, childhood.

[fordperv]

I've not heard someone say they're going to "mash the tea" for ages. Ah, childhood.

I get asked this by a lady at work bless her

[Ghosty]

Tyreleader have fucked something up.

After trying to ring me while my phone was broken last week I got an email from them saying the garage address where I’d had some tyres sent didn’t exist, and the order was cancelled and I’d be refunded.

No refund yet and it’s been 10 days.

[Cavcraft]

"needs salted".

 

I still struggle with this form that crops up on here and in eBay ads (needs fixed, wants washed).

 

Even if exposed to it through local dialect I can't understand how it sound natural or correct? Isn't it as grating as could of, would of, should of?

+1.

 

I think it’s just a stupid ‘new’ fad all this ‘needs restored’ and what not. I wonder if most people who type like this also put ‘alot’ a lot.

[BorniteIdentity]

0c/32f at 4 this morning.

 

I managed 50,000 miles out of the Michelin CrossClimate tyres over 2 years and have just replaced them like for like. Scrubbed in nicely over the weekend and performed well in the cold snap earlier. I do like good quality tyres. So no rant about salt here.

 

I would like to rant about my boss, who’s very keen to plaster the wall at work with motivational memes. I suggested ‘Eat well, keep fit, die anyway’ which got a laugh but didn’t make the final cut.

[Pillock]

Yorkshire is "while" instead of "until".

"I'll go down to the pub while eleven and stagger home"

 

MM... Hope you're ok, sounds like the biker will mend swiftly. One of them things, nobody's seriously injured and you're happy to accept it's your fault so hopefully won't drag on for anyone.

 

I nearly ran a bloke over in Nottingham last week. Pulled out a junction and didn't see him crossing the main road.

He was on a pedestrian crossing with green man/red lights.

It was a PCSO in full high vis.

Had my wife not yelped I'd have hit him. God knows where my eyes were pointing.... Scary really.

[anonymous user]

0c/32f at 4 this morning.

 

I managed 50,000 miles out of the Michelin CrossClimate tyres over 2 years and have just replaced them like for like. Scrubbed in nicely over the weekend and performed well in the cold snap earlier. I do like good quality tyres. So no rant about salt here.

 

I would like to rant about my boss, who’s very keen to plaster the wall at work with motivational memes. I suggested ‘Eat well, keep fit, die anyway’ which got a laugh but didn’t make the final cut.

My favourite is "We're not happy until you're not happy"

[Pillock]

 

 

I would like to rant about my boss, who’s very keen to plaster the wall at work with motivational memes. I suggested ‘Eat well, keep fit, die anyway’ which got a laugh but didn’t make the final cut.

 

https://despair.com/collections/demotivators

[RobT]

I'm irritated and need to vent.

 

I ordered some interior doors online from B&Q today.  Went through the process thinking a delivery slot will be offered at the end, but no.  So I phoned up and was told they are scheduled for delivery on Thursday, with no option to change.  It states on the web-site delivery is ‘up to’ 4 days, not ‘it will be in 4 days’ and to deal with it.  People have lives FFS.

 

Should have paid 30 quid more and gone to Wickes...

 

[eddyramrod]

 

I Should have done what eddyramrod did and gone to ebay...

 

EFA

[Lord Sterling]

It's Monday and already this week can FUCK OFF.

 

Today had a few short trips and finished early or so I thought.

 

My job tomorrow is from Long Marsden in Warwickshire. This means I get to go home but have to make my own way home from Banbury in Oxfordshire, then in the morning to Warwickshire. Thinking I'd be clever and save a bit of money, I thought I'd call up another colleague who was heading slightly further south to Kidlington then another job out heading towards Wolverhampton. Except when we arrived, his job in Kidlington had failed (vehicle was sold to another third-party). So it meant waiting around for an hour or so until the office could get their arse shifted into gear to confirm the job wasn't there and then decide where he was going after that. In thier infinate wisdom, they decided that he should make his own way home as I was supposed to have done earlier.

 

Fair enough, but upon trying to buy a discounted ticket through a train split-ticketting site, the site rejected my card, I then remembered that I've got bills coming out in a few days time and I'm already at the limit. Thinking 'FUCK this, I want to go home' I bought a ticket straight from the machine costing me £40 instead of the £16 it would have cost me splitting the ticket. It'll be another £10 to get home in a taxi as our wonderful busses stop plying their trade after 6pm.

 

Phoned up work and explained my circumstances, they said they'd help me get to my next job tomorrow. I cannot honestly see this week going well...

[Anthony]

My missus and her complete lack of understanding of traffic and how long it takes to get anywhere.

 

I told her it would take 2 hours to get to Heathrow yesterday evening given the weight of traffic heading back into London after half term. Apparently I didn't know what I was talking about as someone from work told her it'd take an hour so she could leave later. Unsurprisingly, it took 1h 57m, she missed her flight and my left ear is now a little deafer than it was.

 

Was meant to be picking her up again at 8.30pm tonight, which I only agreed to as the traffic would be quiet then. She phoned a short time ago to say she'd got on an earlier flight and that I now needed to pick her up at 6.30pm instead, when chances are traffic will still be a nightmare, which of course she had no consideration for nor thought to ask whether it was convenient to collect her that early given I'm at work. Inevitably I'll be late as there's no way I'll get there by the time I finish work, which will of course somehow be my fault.

 

I'm apparently "unreasonable" for suggesting that next time she should drive herself...

[Bren]

today we have mostly killed the lexus.

 

Kerry driving, we pulled out a junction and collected a couple on a motorbike.

 

think the rider has bust a leg, but his missus, on the pillion was ok.

 

she couldn't really see with a load of kids milling around on the footpath at the mouth of the junction. No excuse, was all our fault,we pulled out into their path and at least no one was killed.

 

hell, i didn't see them until they were sailing over the bonnet!!

 

caught us right on the indicator on the driverside of the car, so wing, bumper, bonnet and all the front of the car has been pushed over. like this

 

 

going to call insurance tomorrow to get the wreck towed away, and no, neither of us want the car back and as such we don't want to see it again.

 

i guess after our excess is paid out of the settlement we will have £10, maybe £15 out of it.

 

ah well, it was fun while it lasted........

No one was killed. We all lose concentration at some point - I am waiting for an NIP from North Wales because of a lack of concentration.

[OwdChina]

My missus and her complete lack of understanding of traffic and how long it takes to get anywhere.

 

I'm apparently "unreasonable" for suggesting that next time she should drive herself...

You have my sympathies..................I hate driving to San Diego airport for that very reason............And now flatly refuse to drive to Los Angeles airport for any reason at all................90ish mile journey took 6hours one way last time.

Everybody coming here is now told to get a connecting flight from LA to San Diego..........where I will grumpily pick them up....wife included.

[Cavcraft]

My missus and her complete lack of understanding of traffic and how long it takes to get anywhere.

 

I told her it would take 2 hours to get to Heathrow yesterday evening given the weight of traffic heading back into London after half term. Apparently I didn't know what I was talking about as someone from work told her it'd take an hour so she could leave later. Unsurprisingly, it took 1h 57m, she missed her flight and my left ear is now a little deafer than it was.

 

Was meant to be picking her up again at 8.30pm tonight, which I only agreed to as the traffic would be quiet then. She phoned a short time ago to say she'd got on an earlier flight and that I now needed to pick her up at 6.30pm instead, when chances are traffic will still be a nightmare, which of course she had no consideration for nor thought to ask whether it was convenient to collect her that early given I'm at work. Inevitably I'll be late as there's no way I'll get there by the time I finish work, which will of course somehow be my fault.

 

I'm apparently "unreasonable" for suggesting that next time she should drive herself...

 

You should have just said 'Yeah love, I'll leave now, you said it was only an hour' then rolled up at ten past nine tonight.

[eddyramrod]

NOBODY has balls that big, Billy!  Not even MrBollox!

[plasticvandan]

It's Monday and already this week can FUCK OFF.

Today had a few short trips and finished early or so I thought.

My job tomorrow is from Long Marsden I Warwickshire. This means I get to go home but have to make my own way home from Banbury in Oxfordshire. Thinking I'd be clever and save a bit of money I thought I'd call up amother driver who was heading slightly further south to Kidlington but had another job out and was heading towards Wolverhampton. Except his job in Kidlington had failed (vehicle was sold to another third-party) when we arrived. So it meant waiting around for an hour or so until the office could get their are shifted into gear, who then decided that he should make his own way home as I was supposed to.

Fair enough, but upon trying to buy a discounted ticket the site rejected my card, then I remembered that I've got bills coming out in a few days time and I'm already at the limit. Thinking 'FUCK this' I bought a ticket straight from the machine costing me £40. It'll be another £10 to get home in a taxi as our wonderful busses stop plying their trade after 6pm.

Phoned up work and explained my circumstances, they said they'd help me get to my next job tomorrow. I cannot honestly see this week going well...

Trust Ford?

[chaseracer]

+1.

 

I think it’s just a stupid ‘new’ fad all this ‘needs restored’ and what not. I wonder if most people who type like this also put ‘alot’ a lot.

 

It's SCTSH.

[wuvvum]

"needs salted".

 

I still struggle with this form that crops up on here and in eBay ads (needs fixed, wants washed).

 

Even if exposed to it through local dialect I can't understand how it sound natural or correct? Isn't it as grating as could of, would of, should of?

I thought it was odd when I first saw it, but I've seen it so often now that I barely notice it any more.  It seems that, like most of the other legacies of the Roman occupation, the gerundive failed to make it north of the Wall.

 

Now "would of", on the other hand...

[chaseracer]

Trust Ford?

 

Never have, never will... 

[clayts450]

Driving rant. Having pored over the Highway Code after being charmed into attending a What's Driving Us course in December due to skipping a red light by 1 second, I have had my semi-retired driving brain shocked into remembering that an amber on its own means stop at a traffic light unless it's unsafe to do so. So on the way home to night, zipped through one amber on a peddy crossing as matey boy behind was right up my arse in his SUV (although TBF he pulled up).

 

Later, different matey boy takes exception to my pulling up at an amber midway round a roundabout as this time it's safe for me to do so and matey gives me a long blast of the horn. Waiting for the green light he then pulls around me, cuts me up and (naturally when the light turns red and amber together - ie still stop) dives into the left hand turn we're both taking and zooms off in his VX Knobhead.

 

He breaks the speed limit and gets a flash off the warning sign (sadly not a camera) and disappears off into the distance. Until about half a mile later when he's stuck at a roundabout and I coast safely and legally up behind him. Net gain of this bloke, 1 millisecond shaved off his journey time.

 

The expression cock rocket was thereby utilised.

[Lord Sterling]

Trust Ford?

The very same. Dickheads could've had the vehicle ready for today but decided it was booked for valeting tomorrow and they wouldn't get it ready until tomorrow. Twunts.

[warren t claim]

Fucking so called 'Mischief Night'. 

 

An excuse for the local feral tip rats to throw missiles at passing cars, mostly taxis. 

 

Not worth the risk of a smashed window so I'm at home with a bottle of Merlot.

[taxi paul]

I never worked mischief night. Left it to the settle drivers who didn't give a shit has not their cab..also the greedy drivers who would brag about making a fortune while getting the cab wrecked by knobheads.

[plasticvandan]

The very same. Dickheads could've had the vehicle ready for today but decided it was booked for valeting tomorrow and they wouldn't get it ready until tomorrow. Twunts.

I had to go up there several times over the past couple of months to fit 30 hardtops onto Ford Rangers.First time none of the trucks were ready,second time none were ready and several werent even on site,and had to fit them all outside in the rain,3rd time did them all inside but had to wait hour and half before they could find them.This despite having been emailed the list of chassis numbers needed a week in advance.useless.

[LostnotFound]

Halloween, yes it has his history in the colonies both in Scotland and America but it's just not English so can you fuck off with your tonnes and tonnes of pointless plastic shipped from China ready to go straight to landfill 24 hours later just so a few supermarkets can make a couple of bob. 

 

It irritates me we already have a decent celebration at this time of year but that gets overshadowed, and the only reason being there is no real commercial money to be made in someone collecting scrap wood,buying half a dozen sausages and a few sparklers .

 

Rant over till tomorrow where I shall moan if any adult allows their child to practice for selling the big issue by begging at strangers front doors.

[chaseracer]

I would like to rant about my boss, who’s very keen to plaster the wall at work with motivational memes. I suggested ‘Eat well, keep fit, die anyway’ which got a laugh but didn’t make the final cut.

 

I'm prepared to bet the mortgage that your employer has both a 'mission statement' and a grammatically deficient tagline below the company name for use on all marketing or correspondence... 

[5speedracer]

^^^^

I probably speak for all the Scots on here in that I object to Scotland being called a colony. Yes, we know a lot of southerners think of us that way but you don't have to bloody tell us!

 

 

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[Guest Hooli]

Halloween, yes it has his history in the colonies both in Scotland and America but it's just not English so can you fuck off with your tonnes and tonnes of pointless plastic shipped from China ready to go straight to landfill 24 hours later just so a few supermarkets can make a couple of bob. 

 

It irritates me we already have a decent celebration at this time of year but that gets overshadowed, and the only reason being there is no real commercial money to be made in someone collecting scrap wood,buying half a dozen sausages and a few sparklers .

 

Rant over till tomorrow where I shall moan if any adult allows their child to practice for selling the big issue by begging at strangers front doors.

 

Well said, I fooking hate halloween.

[Guest Hooli]

^^^^

I probably speak for all the Scots on here in that I object to Scotland being called a colony. Yes, we know a lot of southerners think of us that way but you don't have to bloody tell us!

 

 

Colony of what though?

 

Ya nae the same as us ken!