The grumpy thread

October 31, 2017

Today's rant is from yesterday!

Parking the Saab on my drive so I still have room to get the bike out means it's right near the house & edge of the drive, guess what happens when the front wheel falls off the drive?

Yup, I crashed into my own house FFS.

20,981 · October 31, 2017

I dislike grumping about people but there's an especially irritating guy on the CCC Facebook page who is seemingly determined to turn it into a page about himself. And he reckons his XM is worth £3k.

Yes, I know who you mean. He seems to have plenty of disposable income and spends it on crappy old Citroens so it's hard to totally dislike him but he does post a lot.

44,908 · October 31, 2017

I love Halloween, but mostly for the sexy witches and candy skulls.

12,054 · October 31, 2017

Colony of what though?

Ya nae the same as us ken!

Volvo drivers?

14,004 · October 31, 2017

My old garage stereo just ate one of my favourite cassette tapes (The B-52's - Mesopotamia + Party Mix). Now both the stereo and the tape are in the bin.

eBay replacement tape - $50!!!

6,807 · October 31, 2017

My old garage stereo just ate one of my favourite cassette tapes (The B-52's - Mesopotamia + Party Mix). Now both the stereo and the tape are in the bin.

eBay replacement tape - $50!!!

That is annoying, Amazon UK have one for £5.30 but don't know if they will ship down under.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Party-Mix-Mesopotamia-CASSETTE-B-52s/dp/B00000EYTP/ref=tmm_acs_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Maybe it is time to upgrade to those new fangled CD's that they have nowadays.

14,004 · October 31, 2017

That is annoying, Amazon UK have one for £5.30 but don't know if they will ship down under.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Party-Mix-Mesopotamia-CASSETTE-B-52s/dp/B00000EYTP/ref=tmm_acs_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Maybe it is time to upgrade to those new fangled CD's that they have nowadays.

But that would require me replacing my entire music library AND putting a new stereo in the Jag, or I could break out my vinyl now I have a proper turntable.

Also, I thought the Proton had turned you back into a tape user?

9,265 · October 31, 2017

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

I'm from Rotherham as well! My Nan used to say things like that all the time and the Tea pot was left on the gas burner all day and topped up as required, that was proper 'mashed' like liquid tannin in a hot pot!

9,574 · October 31, 2017

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE APHIDS

6,807 · October 31, 2017

But that would require me replacing my entire music library AND putting a new stereo in the Jag, or I could break out my vinyl now I have a proper turntable.

Also, I thought the Proton had turned you back into a tape user?

That is a good point, I was thinking it might it be easier to obtain that album on CD and then you could record it to tape yourself but then I guess you may as well just download it for free online somewhere if you were going to do that.

The Proton has turned me back into a bit of a tape user but only because it feels appropriate in that vehicle, the majority of my music is on CD and while physical media seems kind of pointless I still like being able to pop into a charity shop or Poundland and pick up a new CD and jam it straight into the stereo and listen to it instantly.

5,130 · October 31, 2017

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.

Except the legal system - where the Scots are more akin to Roman Law than the English - odd.

5,130 · October 31, 2017

Wanted to get a pumpkin (not the Range Rover sort) today but the fuckers have all disappeared.

5,130 · October 31, 2017

I'm from Rotherham as well! My Nan used to say things like that all the time and the Tea pot was left on the gas burner all day and topped up as required, that was proper 'mashed' like liquid tannin in a hot pot!

Wasn't the point of Louise's post the use of "while" for "until" rather than mash?

I first heard that in Hull.

I love the regional differences.

2,279 · October 31, 2017

Sorry, I can see the commercial disaster it has become (the same for any and ALL holidays now though eh?) - but my son is 7 - and he loves the dress up and horror part....... he kept the werewolf mask on all the way around shopping trying to scare (succesfully in some cases) the other kids..... it's a fun evening for them. He loves the skeleton faces I can do with the costume make-up and blooded injuries (sometimes real, from the garage!) etc..

This year he's full on werewolf and has asked me to be the joker..... the GF is Harley-Quinn - now if I'd asked her to dress up like that I'd probably be told to FRO. It's come from a 7yr old - how can she possibly say no That's my boy

It also has him researching the history of vampires and werewolves etc... learning about Vlad the impaler and various other historical figures. Not necessarily a bad thing being dragged into history and the various conquests by despots that helped shape the world as we know it.

14,004 · October 31, 2017

That is a good point, I was thinking it might it be easier to obtain that album on CD and then you could record it to tape yourself but then I guess you may as well just download it for free online somewhere if you were going to do that.

The Proton has turned me back into a bit of a tape user but only because it feels appropriate in that vehicle, the majority of my music is on CD and while physical media seems kind of pointless I still like being able to pop into a charity shop or Poundland and pick up a new CD and jam it straight into the stereo and listen to it instantly.

You have given me an idea! I have Mesopotamia and Party Mix on Vinyl, so I could use my newly acquired stereo to knock up a new cassette! Problem solved.

I have been known to trawl through the charity shop music corner for those diamonds in the rough.

(I have been known to trawl through the charity shop clothing corner for those diamonds in the rough too, but that's a story for another time )

20,578 · October 31, 2017

Wanted to get a pumpkin (not the Range Rover sort) today but the fuckers have all disappeared.

lidl had them for 59P yesterday round here

5,774 · October 31, 2017

Both but I think I have misremembered the use of while.

Never ever heard mashing tea before, had no idea what these ladies were on about.

"Oh someone's mashed for us! How lovely"

"Shall I mash?"

Where is it from? I haven't really made loose leaf tea much, but when I did, I didn't do anything like mashing the leaves. Might have to investigate!

10,797 · October 31, 2017

warren t claim, on 30 Oct 2017 - 10:08 PM, said:
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.

"Mischievous night", as it's known in Yorkshire, is commonly celebrated on November 4th - the reason behind this is apparently to commemorate the actions of Guy Fawkes & his cronies on the night before their attempt to blow up Parliament.

On one memorable Mischievous Night, some mates & I once moved an entire set of roadworks barriers, lights, diversion signs, etc. from a minor road onto a bus route & diverted a double-decker bus down the road the actual road repairs were on. Oh, how we laughed.

Anyway, my grump today is Hallowe'en.

Yes, I know that it has its origins in northern English / Scottish traditions, but the currrent format is a vile american bastardisation spawned by unscrupulous commercial greed and fuelled by a yank-centric entertainment industry. Nobody but a weirdo would have even considered buying a sodding pumpkin in Britain before the 1980s.

October 31, 2017

On one memorable Mischievous Night, some mates & I once moved an entire set of roadworks barriers, lights, diversion signs, etc. from a minor road onto a bus route & diverted a double-decker bus down the road the actual road repairs were on. Oh, how we laughed.

I never made the front page of the local paper in Worthing as 'an unidentified troublemaking hoodlum' (or similar phrase, I can't remember now) by blocking the A24 with 30' long plastic gas pipes after cutting the straps holding it to the crate...

2,498 · October 31, 2017

Both but I think I have misremembered the use of while.
Never ever heard mashing tea before, had no idea what these ladies were on about.
"Oh someone's mashed for us! How lovely"
"Shall I mash?"
Where is it from? I haven't really made loose leaf tea much, but when I did, I didn't do anything like mashing the leaves. Might have to investigate!

It's just a Yorkshire way of saying brew the tea.

I'm from West Yorkshire and say it often.

2,670 · October 31, 2017

"Mischievous night", as it's known in Yorkshire, is commonly celebrated on November 4th - the reason behind this is apparently to commemorate the actions of Guy Fawkes & his cronies on the night before their attempt to blow up Parliament.

On one memorable Mischievous Night, some mates & I once moved an entire set of roadworks barriers, lights, diversion signs, etc. from a minor road onto a bus route & diverted a double-decker bus down the road the actual road repairs were on. Oh, how we laughed.

Anyway, my grump today is Hallowe'en.

Yes, I know that it has its origins in northern English / Scottish traditions, but the currrent format is a vile american bastardisation spawned by unscrupulous commercial greed and fuelled by a yank-centric entertainment industry. Nobody but a weirdo would have even considered buying a sodding pumpkin in Britain before the 1980s.

Aye, Trick or Treat. No, it's Guising you over Septic influenced culturally vacuous tests!

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2,670 · October 31, 2017

Aye, Trick or Treat. No, it's Guising you over Septic influenced culturally vacuous tests!

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^^^^^

TWATS!

Effin spellcheck.

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13,467 · October 31, 2017

Wanted to get a pumpkin (not the Range Rover sort) today but the fuckers have all disappeared

Feck!! Tesco is awash with the fekkas

TS

9,265 · October 31, 2017

Fucking dollop is playing up again: clocks are going nuts, rev counter predominantly jumping around all over the place (well, it keeps adding a few hundred rpm to the display when the engine ain't goin' no faster, so I 'may' be being over dramatic... what me?) but it is annoying me. This seems to be the DIP (driver information panel) beginning to fail and will of course, cost millions. If I don't win the lottery on Wednesday (Note: I bought one ticket a few weeks ago, first time in years, and I have won 8 times on the trot! Only 2 numbers each time so a free ticket, but surely the odds on getting 2 numbers 8 times are as long as the odds on just getting 6 once?) I may be found in future down on the docks, plying for trade

15,453 · October 31, 2017

Bloody Halloween. Let's see how the trick or treaters like my toffee onions.

10,797 · October 31, 2017

Hmmm... the Gunpowder Plot was an attempt at regicide driven by sectarianism.

But whatever it is, bonfire night is OUR tradition, whereas this modern Hallowe'en nonsense is an insidious foreign import that has little in common with the local British activities that it parodies.

I'm not blaming the septics for it though, it's our own bloody fault that we've not got the spine to celebrate our own culture anymore.

3,834 · October 31, 2017

I didn't used to mind Halloween, but lately it has just become an excuse for the local cunts to egg your property and cause criminal damage.

Also, I hate the wastage of perfectly good food, even if it is pumpkins.

44,908 · October 31, 2017

I think people just like dressing up. The only one who dresses up for Bonfire Night is the guy...

I haven't seen people turning their backs on Bonfire Night. Chill out!

2,670 · October 31, 2017

Hmmm... the Gunpowder Plot was an attempt at regicide driven by sectarianism.

But whatever it is, bonfire night is OUR tradition, whereas this modern Hallowe'en nonsense is an insidious foreign import that has little in common with the local British activities that it parodies.

I'm not blaming the septics for it though, it's our own bloody fault that we've not got the spine to celebrate our own culture anymore.

Halloween is a British tradition, just depends which bit of Britain you're in. We were at it long before Columbus failed to find India.

Mind you when I was young it was Guising and you'd to do a turn, joke or song usually, for your sweets or money.

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4,697 · October 31, 2017

Glad someone else can remember what the English traditions were before Trick or treating was imported...

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