The grumpy thread

[omegod]

Driving home from work today in mild fog, my retinas are burned out with all the rear fog lights burning away at lights and front ones coming at me, no fucking need at all, got home and moaned at the wife, apparently our new Seat Ateca gave her a bollocking for putting the fog lights on needlessly and prompted her to turn the fuckers off    must be something in the front radar system  

[chaseracer]

Anyway, he's offered me digs, and it's in a nice bit of Wolverhampton, so I may as well.

 

The AS Midlands Massiv welcomes you!

[fordperv]

you can get a set of LED christmas lights for a fiver from poundland

They are going to have to change their name if they carry on at this rate

[clayts450]

Gutted I missed out on a diesel Rover R8 for £375 due to poor health and shit weather which prevented me getting down to Hinckley to see the bloody thing. One lady owner, FSH, MoT till June, £375, 96K miles (nowt for a XUD). 218SD with the turbot. Nightfire Red. Only 17 of these SDs on the road. Right up my street.

 

Now I'm back to wading through heaps of ads for shitty 206s and Focuses, which seem to be the only fucking cars for sale around here.

[PhilA]

I've not seen a mains powered bulb set of tree lights for years, it's all LED battery ones now and generally soldered rather than replaceable because LEDs last longer than toffee pennies in a box of quality street.

 

Bought these for seven bucks. 24 lights, 7 Watts each. Pack of five replacement lights is two bucks. And a sideways picture.

 

 

Real filaments and everything. They even get hot. Same C7 light bulbs that have been in use here since the forties.

 

Just to even the balance I stood in a massive dog shit in the middle of my yard after taking that picture.

 

Phil

[wuvvum]

My fugging broadband has shat itself, just in time for Christmas. Superb. Just got off the 'phone to the helpline dude, there wasn't owt he could do, says he's escalated it and I should hear back within 72 hours. To be fair it's the first time I've lost my connection in about 4 years, but it doesn't make it any less annoying. Thank feck for 4G.

[wuvvum]

Aaaand it's working again.  No, I have no idea either.

[Ghosty]

a nice bit of Wolverhampton

Eh?

[BorniteIdentity]

The country isn't fucked, you can get a set of LED christmas lights for a fiver from poundland and they'll last ten years +. Why would any retail shop waste shelf space at this time of year on spare bulbs of various voltages and wattages for old xmas lights? They'd have to charge a few quid for a few spare bulbs to make it worth bothering, by which point it genuinely is cheaper to get a new set.

I'm sure you can get some spare bulbs off ebay, if you really want to keep the old set going. As a rule I absolutely hate all christmas decorations with a passion, but I do appreciate the glow of an old filament bulb so I can see why you might want to keep the old ones going, just don't expect an xmas retailer to help you, cos they won't.

 

My FiL has a shoebox FULL of christmas tree lights.  Various voltages and colours.  If you tell me what you're after I'll ask him to have a dig.  He's kept our early 60s set going for years - and I know we've got plenty in future for my 80s icicle lights.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

The country isn't fucked, you can get a set of LED christmas lights for a fiver from poundland and they'll last ten years +. Why would any retail shop waste shelf space at this time of year on spare bulbs of various voltages and wattages for old xmas lights? They'd have to charge a few quid for a few spare bulbs to make it worth bothering, by which point it genuinely is cheaper to get a new set.

I'm sure you can get some spare bulbs off ebay, if you really want to keep the old set going. As a rule I absolutely hate all christmas decorations with a passion, but I do appreciate the glow of an old filament bulb so I can see why you might want to keep the old ones going, just don't expect an xmas retailer to help you, cos they won't.

 

The country is a bit fucked, but I think it’s fair to say that there are a large number of other reasons more influential than the limited high-street availability of oldskool fairy light replacement hardware

[Des]

The answer to all your mains powered fairy light issues is surely to take a leaf from the upcycling brigades book.

A rather fun and educational project that can involve the whole family would be to rewire the receptacles in parallel and then provide power via one of those downlighter transformers which are falling from grace these days.

Next time a lamp fails the rest will soldier on regardless, lessening the urgency of finding a replacement.

Be warned that there is a possibility of a difference in the brightness between the nearest and furthest lamps from the transformer, this feature could be imaginatively used to compliment your decoration experience, alternatively you risk seeing yourself fixating on this shortcoming, finding it reflects the sinister unspoken hierarchy rule that pervades all stratum of society instilling dark thoughts and aggressive outbursts.

Or you could just melt birthday cake candles to clothes pegs and clip those fuckers around your artificial tree.

[purplebargeken]

Smash the faulty short lived pieces of shit lights to molecules and rip down the tree 'cos Christmas is shit anyway.

 

Yours lovingly.

 

The Grinch

[Guest Hooli]

Smash the faulty short lived pieces of shit lights to molecules and rip down the tree 'cos Christmas is shit anyway.

 

Yours lovingly.

 

The Grinch

 

I second this post.

 

It also has the added bonus that you house looks so much better once that tacky shit has gone.

[dollywobbler]

Tacky shit? Mrs DW dragged a bit of beech hedge into the house, then covered it in ancient tinsel and lights with actual proper bulbs. That's not a bad way to do Christmas. As I step ever further from the MUST BUY TONS OF SHIT mentality of Christmas, I'm starting to enjoy it more and more. We just try to see people we like and eat lots of chocolate. It's great!

[bub2006]

My ex wife come and had a tidy up of my house the other day and devided to decorate things with tinsel. Bah humbug.

[Des]

Ex wife cleaning up for you???????

What manner of pact have you made with Satan to achieve this?

Finally among the potless weirdo losers of this site we have a winner in life.

[Sloth in a bowl]

put the xmas tree up this morning.

 

while putting up the fairy lights on said tree, i noticed that i had a couple of bulbs out.

 

this afternoon, i've been into town for some bits of food shopping, so i thought that i'd get tome more bulbs and replace the duff ones.

 

only i've failed to find anywhere selling spare bulbs, and after asking parents, it seems that on one DOES sell spare bulbs, as it is now "cheaper" to throw away old lights and go and buy some new ones...

 

FFS, this country is fucked......

 

 

Once this Christmas is over, all my old light strings are going to my sister, so that she has spare bulbs for her lights for many years to come.

[vulgalour]

 

 

They all still work, they're probably older than I am.  I've got decorations that are absolutely older than me.  *smug face*

[dollywobbler]

YES! We had that set when I was a child. Top work!

[bub2006]

Ex wife cleaning up for you???????

What manner of pact have you made with Satan to achieve this?

Finally among the potless weirdo losers of this site we have a winner in life.

We stayed friends and since my mini stroke she helps me with laundry,cooking and cleaning when im having shit days.

[fordperv]

That's nice of her to help you out bub

[bub2006]

It is yes. I repay favour by looking after our dog who she had when she on long shifts at work

[adw1977]

YES! We had that set when I was a child. 

 

Me too!

[Pillock]

Me three! My mum probably still has them but doesn't bother with a tree.

 

I seem to remember ours were in a PIFCO box

[vulgalour]

These have a blue cardboard box with a cellophane window in the outline of a candle.  I'd photograph that but it'd mean digging all the decoration storage boxes out and I CBA.

[Tamworthbay]

Me too!

And me! must have been millions of them.

[New POD]

Eh?

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[HillmanImp]

My old house sells tomorrow. Just been round for the last time to do the meter readings and get a couple of things that were left there.

 

As I was walking round to leave it was a bit like the end of a sitcom, where the main character reminisced all the great times they had with the other characters over the duration of the show. Feeling a bit sad now.

 

However, it should hopefully be better tomorrow when the money hits my account. Can pay some other mug to finish decorating my house and actually get my life back and do stuff I enjoy such as mountain biking and playing with my cars again as they have all been slowly falling to bits in various places round Yorkshire.

 

Might have to buy another one to in order to cheer myself up in the meantime.

[Timewaster]

My ex wife come and had a tidy up of my house the other day and devided to decorate things with tinsel. Bah humbug.

At the start of that post I expected to read she had cleared up the TV and all the knives and forks to her new place.

[Christine]

We have 6o year old  (made by MAZDA  !  ) Disney  lights ! 

 

 

And they work  still  

 

 

 

We've got Bambi's Mum for Boxing Day dinner....shes been hanging 4 weeks

 

 

Me dogs already scoffed Bambi ...     Jeez , look at his belly !!